Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination. Ramana Maharshi More Quotes by Ramana Maharshi More Quotes From Ramana Maharshi Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you. Ramana Maharshi sky heart spring We are in our Self. We are not in the world. Ramana Maharshi self world There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are already That. Ramana Maharshi wisdom self mean The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand. Ramana Maharshi annihilation self hands Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss. Ramana Maharshi sacrifice silence spiritual It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free. Ramana Maharshi bounds competence thinking Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless. Ramana Maharshi grace self would-be Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that. Ramana Maharshi self-realization meditation-practice letting-go We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this. Ramana Maharshi giving-up powerful religious Speaking of Self-realizatio n is a delusion. It is only because people have been under the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and the unreal the Real that they have to be weaned out of it by the other delusion called Self-realizatio n; because actually the Self always is the Self and there is no such thing as realizing it. Ramana Maharshi real self people When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved. Ramana Maharshi rocks yoga mind You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others? Ramana Maharshi suffering animal The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything. Ramana Maharshi real self love-is Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with Ramana Maharshi worship self names The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises Ramana Maharshi existence ego source If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. Ramana Maharshi fighting struggle thinking Love is verily the heart of all religions. Ramana Maharshi heart love-is There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment. Ramana Maharshi impediments obstacles meditation We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required. Ramana Maharshi spirituality spiritual ideas There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth. Ramana Maharshi finals achievement destiny
