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Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.Ramana Maharshi
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.Ramana Maharshi
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.Ramana Maharshi
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.Ramana Maharshi
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Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.Ramana Maharshi
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You must achieve liberation during your life time. Even if you fail to do it during your lifetime, you must think of god at least at the time of death, since one becomes what he thinks of at the time of death. But unless all your life you have been thinking of God, unless you have accustomed yourself to dhyana of 'Godalways during life, it would not at all be possible for you think of God at the time of death.Ramana Maharshi
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Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritualRamana Maharshi
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.Ramana Maharshi
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There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.Ramana Maharshi
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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 summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?Ramana Maharshi
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The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!Ramana Maharshi
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No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.Ramana Maharshi
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No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.Ramana Maharshi
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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.Ramana Maharshi
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.Ramana Maharshi
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There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.Ramana Maharshi
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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.Ramana Maharshi
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The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.Ramana Maharshi
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.Ramana Maharshi
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.Ramana Maharshi
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.Ramana Maharshi
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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.Ramana Maharshi
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It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.Ramana Maharshi
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.Ramana Maharshi
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.Ramana Maharshi
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.Ramana Maharshi
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.Ramana Maharshi
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.Ramana Maharshi
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.Ramana Maharshi
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.Ramana Maharshi