States Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

17 States quotes by Ramana Maharshi

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Maharshi’s perspective on states is filtered through inner stillness. In seventeen brief reflections he invites readers to consider how external structures intersect with inner awareness.

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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.

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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to…

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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is…

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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong…

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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but…

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The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body;…

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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there…

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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects…

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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…

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The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the…

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Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union…

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's…

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Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever…

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Knowing the Self, God is known.

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Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

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