Ramana Maharshi Short Quotes

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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?

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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being,

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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

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I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i. e., into the Heart.

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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.

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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth

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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.

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The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.

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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

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Just as the sun gives light to the moon this heart bestows the effulgence on the mind.

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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

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There is no greater mystery than this: being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality.

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Knowledge itself is 'I'. The nature of (this) knowledge is existence-consciousness-bliss.

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

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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 state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

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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 ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the I'-thought rises

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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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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

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All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

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