The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Peace 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.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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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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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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You are already That which you seek.
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Why 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.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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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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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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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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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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