Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
RAMANA MAHARSHISelf-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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