We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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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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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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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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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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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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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.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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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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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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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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