The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIn truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
RAMANA MAHARSHIActions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
RAMANA MAHARSHIFood affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
RAMANA MAHARSHIPeace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
RAMANA MAHARSHITurn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMisery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOur identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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