It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free. Ramana Maharshi More Quotes by Ramana Maharshi More Quotes From Ramana Maharshi If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts. Ramana Maharshi thoughts you effort self That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self. Ramana Maharshi never born ego self 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 body nature truth mind 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 control place nature mind
