Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi

Spiritual Teacher

Ramana Maharshi was an Indian sage known for his teachings on self-realization and non-duality, particularly through the practice of self-inquiry.

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Born
December 30, 1879
Died
April 14, 1950
Quotes
285
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#537

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"The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger whom you await, he is bound to disappear also. What is the use of a transient being like that? But so long as you think you are separate or that you are the body, an external master is also necessary and he will appear to have a body. When the wrong identification of oneself with the body ceases, the master will be found to be none other than the Self."

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"How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind."

Spiritual Real Self
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"The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened."

Past Enlightenment Obstacles
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"The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end."

Real Men Self
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"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."

Spiritual Practice Limits
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"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."

Drama Self Silence
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"Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself."

Care Take Care
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"The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress."

Spiritual Progress Degrees
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"A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it."

Higher Power Higher Knows
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"Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought."

Mind Firsts
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"As you are, so is the world."

World
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"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."

Perfect Mind Passionate
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"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."

Toil Have Faith Faith In God
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"Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. It is not synonymous with certain success. Why should one's attempts always be attended by success? Success breeds arrogance and man's spiritual progress is thus arrested. Failure, on the other hand, is beneficial, inasmuch as it opens his eyes to his limitations and prepares him to surrender himself. Self surrender is synonymous with eternal happiness."

Spiritual Eye Men
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"We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light."

Light Attention Pay
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"God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state. Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way."

Heart Sacrifice Self
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"Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit."

Meditation Vision Inward
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"The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe."

Heart Body Nucleus
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"It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone."

Real Book Creating
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