'I' is the name of God.
It is the first and greatest of all mantras.
Even OM is second to it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Solitude is everywhere.
The individual is always solitary. Our business is to find it within, not to seek it outside ourselves.
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In the company of sages, attachment vanishes;
and with attachment, illusion.
Freed from illusion, one attains stability, and thence liberation while yet alive.
Sri Ramana
Seek therefore
the company of sages.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
There is only one state, that of
consciousness or awareness or existence.
The three states of waking, dream and sleep cannot be real. They simply come and go.
The real will always exist.
The l or existence that alone persists in all the three states is real.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The moment the ego-self tries to know itself, it changes its character; it begins to partake less and less of the Jada (inert nature) in which it is absorbed, and more and more of the Consciousness of the Self, the Atman.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
There is a class of people who want to know all about their future or their past.
They ignore the present.
The load from the past forms the present misery.
The attempt to recall the past is mere waste of time.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Deep sleep is only the state of non-duality.
Can the difference between the individual and Universal souls persist there?
Sleep implies forgetfulness of all differences: This alone constitutes happiness. See how carefully people prepare their beds to gain that happiness.
Soft cushions, pillows and all the rest are meant to induce sound sleep, that is to say to end wakefulness. And yet the soft bed, etc., are of no use in the state of deep sleep itself. The implication is that all efforts are meant only to end ignorance.
They have no use after realisation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Education
learned ignorance.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Question: I cannot say it is all clear to me. Is the world that is seen, felt and sensed by us in so many ways something like a dream, an illusion?
Sri Ramana Maharshi: There is no alternative for you but to accept the world as unreal, if you are seeking the Truth and the Truth alone.
Question: Why so?
Sri Ramana Maharshi: For the simple reason that unless you give up the idea that the world is real, your mind will always be after it. If you take the appearance to be real you will never know the Real itself, although it is the Real alone that exists. This point is illustrated by the analogy of the ‘snake in the rope’. As long as you see the snake you cannot see the rope as such. The non-existent snake becomes real to you, while the real rope seems wholly non-existent as such.
Question: It is easy to accept tentatively that the world is not ultimately real, but it is hard to have the conviction that it is really unreal.
Sri Ramana Maharshi: Even so is your dream world real while you are dreaming. So long as the dream lasts, everything you see, feel, etc., therein is real.
Question: Is then the world nothing better than a dream?
Sri Ramana Maharshi: What is wrong with the sense of reality you have while you are dreaming? You may be dreaming of something quite impossible, for instance, of having a happy chat with a dead person. Just for a moment you may doubt in the dream saying to yourself, ‘Was he not dead?’, but somehow your mind reconciles itself to the dream vision, and the person is as good as alive for the purposes of the dream.
In other words, the dream as a dream does not permit you to doubt its reality. Even so, you are unable to doubt the reality of the world of your wakeful experience. How can the mind which has itself created the world accept it as unreal? That is the significance of the comparison made between the world of wakeful experience and the dream world. Both are but creations of the mind and so long as the mind is engrossed in either, it finds itself unable to deny the reality of the dream world while dreaming and of the waking world while awake.
If, on the contrary, you withdraw your mind completely from the world and turn it within and abide thus, that is, if you keep awake always to the Self, which is the substratum of all experience, you will find the world, of which alone you are now aware, just as unreal as the world in which you lived in your dream.
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God will bear whatever burdens we put on Him.
All things are being carried on by the omnipotent power of a
Supreme God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Guru, the Lord of jnana, who is the power of the unlimited greatness of Self, is the Supreme Silence which completely defeats the worthless arguments of those who are stained with the delusion of worldly desires.
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When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
#LaoTzu
Not putting on a display, They shine forth.
Not justifying themselves, They are distinguished.
Not boasting,
They receive recognition.
Not bragging,
They never falter.
They do not quarrel,
So no one quarrels with them.
Therefore the ancients say,
'Yield and overcome.'
#LaoTzu
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
#Rumi
When someone is counting
out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold.
Look at the giver.
#Rumi
Some call You love,
I call You the King of love.
#Rumi
What you seek... is also seeking you
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
#rumi
Love and lover are eternal.
Don't give your heart to anything but love,
For all other things are artificial.
#Rumi
Someone asked,
"Is there any way to be nearer to God than prayer?"
Rumi answered,
"Yes, but it is also a prayer."
#Rumi
To love is human.
To feel pain is human.
Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
#Rumi