Thoughts Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

10 Thoughts quotes by Ramana Maharshi

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Maharshi’s teachings often point toward inner silence. These ten short excerpts offer a modest entry into his contemplative wisdom.

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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.

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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys…

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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

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

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

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

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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine…

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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you…

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The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains…

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Then all this earth shines like one house.

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

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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant…

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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will…

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Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have…

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That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on…

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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and…

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The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is…

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Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the…

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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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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole…

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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 simply being…

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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards…

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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.

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