The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHappiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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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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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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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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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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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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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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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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