Quotable Quotes

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The ever-present Self needs no effort to be realised. Realisation is already

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

 

Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go. The screen is

real, the pictures are mere shadows on it. ... Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

 

When the mind turns away from the objects, it beholds its source, Consciousness.

This is Self-abidance. ... Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi (Upadesa Saram 16)

 

Yatinaam Bhrahmaa Bhavati Saarathihi -- For those established in self-referral

consciousness, the infinite organising power of the Creator becomes the

charioteer of all action. ... Rigveda 1.158.6

 

The results of Karma (Action) pass away, and yet leave seeds that cast the agent

into an ocean of Karma. Karma yields no salvation. ... Bhagawan Sri Ramana

Maharshi (Upadesa Saram 2)

 

Learn first who you are. This requires no sastras (scriptures) or scholarship.

This is simple experience. This state of being is now and here all along. ...

Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

 

Great people have oneness in mind, speech and action. But the wicked have one

thing in mind, one in speech and another in action. ... Subhashita Manjari.

 

The formative thought that dominates the mind of the one who leaves the body, is

the factor that governs and contributes to the next birth of that individual.

Spiritual discipline is, therefore, imperative to one and all. The devotee of

the Lord is ever immersed in the thought of God. Being firmly fixed in it, he

reaches the Lord on giving up the body. ... Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.

 

What is the use of drinking? If you drink in the evening, the inebriating

influence will be gone by morning. Drink the liquor of Lord's Love; your life

will be transformed. ... Taken from Rishi Prasad.

 

People make many friends in this world; but those who give all their affection

to the One and the only One, are delivered from all worries. ... Kabir

 

If you go after taking food, people offer food to you. If you leave your own

house hungry, you will have no luck even outside. ... Taken from Rishi Prasad.