The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThis perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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