There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego. Ramana Maharshi More Quotes by Ramana Maharshi More Quotes From Ramana Maharshi When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. Ramana Maharshi gratitude grateful real Knowing the Self, God is known. Ramana Maharshi known knowing self An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart. Ramana Maharshi light reflection heart ...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss. Ramana Maharshi ego sleep hands Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Ramana Maharshi atoms structure mind The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place. Ramana Maharshi grief sleep heart When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning. Ramana Maharshi silence mind heart 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 differences real sea The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise. Ramana Maharshi body worship men Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes. Ramana Maharshi pain self spiritual The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. Ramana Maharshi touched body spirit Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender. Ramana Maharshi surrender doubt absence 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 yoga mind reality I see only what you see, but I notice what I see. Ramana Maharshi Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose. Ramana Maharshi nothing-to-lose belief lost The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen. Ramana Maharshi light self reality Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others. Ramana Maharshi Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being. Ramana Maharshi deny consciousness knows In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by Ramana Maharshi shining self heart Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also the goal of all. The method is chosen according to one's own fitness. The goal for all is the same. Yet different names are given to the goal only to suit the process preliminary to reaching the goal. Bhakti, Yoga, Jnana are all the same. Ramana Maharshi yoga wisdom spiritual
