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 MAHARSHIMind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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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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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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 pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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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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Silence is also conversation.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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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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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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