Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
RAMANA MAHARSHILet what comes come, let what goes go.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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As you are, so is the world.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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