Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still. Ramana Maharshi More Quotes by Ramana Maharshi More Quotes From Ramana Maharshi As you are, so is the world. Ramana Maharshi world You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems. Ramana Maharshi minddiscoveryquiet Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. Ramana Maharshi passionateperfectmind Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective. Ramana Maharshi silenceselfdrama You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them. Ramana Maharshi limitspracticespiritual If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful. Ramana Maharshi peacefulmindworld All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free. Ramana Maharshi egotroublewould-be 'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self. Ramana Maharshi insightselfnames Let what comes come, let what goes go. Ramana Maharshi letting-goinspirationallife You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this? Ramana Maharshi strivestrangerthinking By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all' and `Thy will be done'. Ramana Maharshi donepathart If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or if the Self has any birth. He will discover that the Self always exists, that the body that is born resolves itself into thought and that the emergence of thought is the root of all mischief. Find from where thoughts emerge. Then you will be able to abide in the ever-present inmost Self and be free from the idea of birth or the fear of death. Ramana Maharshi selffearmen There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind. Ramana Maharshi sufferingspiritualmind The end of all wisdom is love, love, love. Ramana Maharshi ends From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. This is the direct path for all. The mind is merely thoughts. Of all thoughts the thought "I" is the root. Ramana Maharshi inspirationpracticeroots Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end. Ramana Maharshi toilfaith-in-godhave-faith When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation. Ramana Maharshi distractionmeditation Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth. Ramana Maharshi being-yourselfremembrancereal The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. Ramana Maharshi obstaclesenlightenmentpast Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body? Ramana Maharshi bodydoeworld
