Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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A member of the community should conduct himself always by word, mind and body in such a fashion that it results in help to the society. He should also make his own men understand this.
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… just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.
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The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self. On the contrary, hold the Self and the world will not appear.
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Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
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17. The Jnanin present in the heart sees the mind merged in the light of the heart, like moonlight in the presence of the sun during the day.
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Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
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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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I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i.e., into the Heart.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
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Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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2. That, from where all the activities of the embodied beings emerge, is mentioned as the heart. The description of its form is conceptual.
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3. 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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11. 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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It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Who Am I?
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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10. Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.