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Ramana Maharshi
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„Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.“
„The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.“
„2. That, from where all the activities of the embodied beings emerge, is mentioned as the heart. The description of its form is conceptual.“
„Relative knowledge pertains to the mind and not to the Self. It is therefore illusory and not permanent. Take a scientist, for instance. He formulates a theory that the Earth is round and goes on to prove it on an incontrovertible basis. When he falls asleep the whole idea vanishes; his mind is left a blank. What does it matter whether the world remains round or flat when he is asleep? So you see the futility of all such relative knowledge. One should go beyond relative knowledge and abide in the Self. Real knowledge is such experience, and not apprehension by the mind.“
„Truly there is no cause for you to be miserable and unhappy. You yourself impose limitations on your true nature of infinite Being and then weep that you are but a finite creature. Then you take up this or that sadhana to transcend the nonexistent limitations. But if your sadhana itself assumes the existence of the limitations, how can it help you to transcend them? Hence I say know that you are really the infinite, pure Being, the Self Absolute. You are always that Self and nothing but that Self. Therefore, you can never be really ignorant of the Self; your ignorance is merely a formal ignorance… Know then that true Knowledge does not create a new Being for you; it only removes your “ignorant ignorance.” Bliss is not added to your nature; it is merely revealed as your true and natural state, eternal and imperishable. The only way to be rid of your grief is to know and be the Self.“
„What is called mind is a wondrous power existing in Self. It projects all thoughts. If we set aside all thoughts and see, there will be no such thing as mind remaining separate; therefore, thought itself is the form of the mind. Other than thoughts, there is no such thing as the mind.“
„Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.“
„Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.“
„Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.“
„Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.“
„Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth“
„15. As in the night when the sun is not present, one sees the light in the moon, the man who is not present in the heart, sees merely the mind.“
„16. Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.“
„What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?“
„Ishta-devata and Guru are aids – very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non.“
„Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.“
„If one watches whence the notion ‘I’ arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas.“
„The Self itself is God.“
„Even if you try not to do your duty you will be perforce obliged to do it. Let the body complete the task for which it came into being. Sri Krishna also says in the Gita, whether Arjuna liked it or not he would be forced to fight. When there is work to be done by you, you cannot keep away; nor can you continue to do a thing when you are not required to do it, that is to say, when the work allotted to you has been done. In short, the work will go on and you must take your share in it — the share which is allotted to you. [Question: How can it be done? Reply:] Like an actor playing his part in a drama: free from duality.“
„There is no greater mystery than this: being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality.“
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