Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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The 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.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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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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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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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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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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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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