Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhy should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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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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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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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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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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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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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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