There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion. Ramana Maharshi More Quotes by Ramana Maharshi More Quotes From Ramana Maharshi The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. Ramana Maharshi knowinginspirationpractice Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are. Ramana Maharshi bodyselfmind You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self. Ramana Maharshi giving-upselfnames The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it. Ramana Maharshi egoplantroots What is illusion? M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown. Ramana Maharshi wanttryingpeople Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking. Ramana Maharshi toiletstalkingthinking That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real Ramana Maharshi dreamless-sleeprealsleep When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still. Ramana Maharshi stillsyogamind 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 bucketscupsocean A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness. Ramana Maharshi eyeheartmen You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace. Ramana Maharshi selfworrywind See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject. Ramana Maharshi meditationinspirationpractice By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. Ramana Maharshi inquiryburningself If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti. Ramana Maharshi selfworldthinking Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er." Ramana Maharshi bondagebeliefaction 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 nightrealitythinking God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, Ramana Maharshi sacrificeselfheart We are so engrossed with the objects, Ramana Maharshi lightpayattention Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid. Ramana Maharshi knowing Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought. Ramana Maharshi mindfirsts
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