Quotable Quotes

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While in fact the body is in the Self, he who thinks that the Self is within the

insentient body is like one who considers the cloth of the screen which supports

the picture to be contained in the picture.

 

For the noble-hearted, the ear is glorified by listening to the scriptures, not

by ear-rings; the hands by daana, not by bracelets; the body by service to

others, not by sandal-paste. ... Bhatrihari's Neeti Satakam (72)

 

He who is forgetful of the Self, mistaking the physical body for it, and goes

through innumerable births, is just like one who wanders all over he world in a

dream; and then realising the Self would only be like the waking up from the

dream wanderings. ... Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

 

One must accept sorrow just as one accepts happiness. Happiness and sorrow come

rotating one after the other, just like a rotating wheel. ..... Hitopadesha,

2.134

 

Fill thy mind with Me, be My devotee, sacrifice unto Me, bow down to Me; thus

having made thy heart steadfast in Me, taking Me as the Supreme Goal, thou shalt

come to Me. Bhagavad Gita, 9.34

 

If the enquiry is made whether mind exists, it will be found that mind does not

exist. That is control of the mind. Otherwise if the mind is taken to exist and

one seeks to control it, it amounts to the mind controlling and mind just like a

thief tur...ning out as a policeman to catch the thief, that is himself. ...

Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

 

With malice to none, Charity even unasked, and help to all creatures in thought,

word and deeds, is the pious nature of good men, always. Mahabharatam.

 

The ever-present self needs no efforts to be realised. Realisation is already

there. Illusion alone is to be removed. ... Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi.