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Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi Quotations
- Work performed with attachment is a shackle, whereas work
performed with detachment does not affect the doer. One who works
like this is, even while working, in solitude.
- The world is not external. Because you identify yourself wrongly
with the body you see the world outside, and its pain becomes
apparent to you. But they are not real. Seek the reality and get rid
of this unreal feeling.
- The Guru (Master) is absolutely necessary. The Upanishads say
that none but a Guru can take a man out of the jungle of intellect
and sense-perceptions. So there must be a Guru.
- Self-enquiry is the one infallible means, the only direct one,
to realize the unconditioned, absolute being that you really are.
- Greedily begging for worthless occult powers [siddhis] from God,
who will readily give himself, who is everything, is like begging
for worthless stale gruel from a gene rous-natured philanthropist
who will readily give everything.
- If you give up `I' and `mine' instead, all are given up at a
stroke. The very seed of possession is lost. Thus the evil is nipped
in the bud or crushed in the germ itself. Dispassion [vairagya] must
be very strong to do this. Eagerness to do it must be equal to that
of a man kept under water trying to rise up to the surface for his
life.
- Existence or consciousness is the only reality. Consciousness
plus waking, we call waking. Consciousness plus sleep, we call
sleep. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness is the
screen on which all the pictures come and go. The screen is real,
the pictures are mere shadows on it.
- The fact is, you are ignorant of your blissful state. Ignorance
supervenes and draws a veil over the pure Self which is bliss.
Attempts are directed only to remove this veil of ignorance which is
merely wrong knowledge. The wrong knowledge is the false
identification of the Self with the body and the mind. This false
identification must go, and then the Self alone remains.
- The more you get fixed in the Self the more other thoughts will
drop off of themselves. The mind is nothing but a bundle of
thoughts, and the `I'-thought is the root of all of them. When you
see who this `I' is and find out where it comes from all thoughts
get merged in the Self.
- If you are not the body and do not have the idea `I am the
doer', the consequences of your good or bad actions will not affect
you. Why do you say about the actions the body performs `I do this'
or `I did that'? As long as you identify yourself with the body like
that you are affected by the consequences of the actions, that is to
say, while you identify with the body you accumulate good and bad
karma.
- Seeing is only being. 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 that which you always are and which you
always have been. All that is needed is that you give up your
realization of the not-true as true. All of us are regarding as real
that which is not real. We have only to give up this practice on our
part. Then we shall realize the Self as the Self; in other words,
`Be the Self'
- Regulation of life, such as getting up at a fixed hour, bathing,
doing mantra, japa, observing ritual, all this is for people who do
not feel drawn to self-enquiry or are not capable of it. But for
those who can practise this method all rules and discipline are
unnecessary.
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