All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGod illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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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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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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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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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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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.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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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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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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