Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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20. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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If one watches whence the notion ‘I’ arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas.
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Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Who Am I?
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i.e., into the Heart.