If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful. Ramana Maharshi More Quotes by Ramana Maharshi More Quotes From Ramana Maharshi Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God. Ramana Maharshi individualityselfage All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception. Ramana Maharshi determinedeventsbody The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are. Ramana Maharshi selfdoemoving True silence is really endless speech. Ramana Maharshi endlessspeechsilence Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it. Ramana Maharshi surrendergrace Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always. Ramana Maharshi realselfhappiness The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else. Ramana Maharshi here-and-nowselfreality Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation. Ramana Maharshi uselessgraceself By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal Ramana Maharshi dwellinghousemen You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all. Ramana Maharshi statesneedsthinking Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community. Ramana Maharshi prosperitycommunityshould The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. Ramana Maharshi goalselffun 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. Ramana Maharshi selfsearivers If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself Ramana Maharshi leavingreallong Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state. Ramana Maharshi statesnaturalmind Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'. Ramana Maharshi toolssufferingfeelings Silence is also conversation. Ramana Maharshi chaossilenceconversation All are seeing God always. But they do not know it. Ramana Maharshi seeingknows The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm. Ramana Maharshi inquiryyogamind Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized. Ramana Maharshi delusionyogarealization
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