Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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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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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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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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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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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Self-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.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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The source of the ego is God.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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