Ramana Maharshi There Are No Others Quotes

#1. There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

Ramana Maharshi

#2. Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

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#3. We are so engrossed with the objects,
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light.

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#4. Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

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#5. He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.

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#6. Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

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#7. Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.

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#8. The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

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#9. Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

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#10. If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.

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#11. The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.

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#12. there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.

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#13. When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

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#14. Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

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#15. D.: There are six centres in the body and there are corresponding
centres in the world.
M.: Yes. What is in the world is in the body; and what is in the body
is in the world also.

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#16. Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the 'I' first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.

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#17. The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

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#18. See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

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#19. The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

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#20. The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world

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#21. The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.

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#22. 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
It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

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#23. The source of the ego is God.

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#24. When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

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#25. The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker's mind towards the one Reality underlying them all.

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#26. Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

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#27. Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.

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#28. Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

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#29. Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

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#30. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

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