Ramana Maharshi Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Perfect, Mind, Passionate

• Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

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  Love, Peace, Consciousness

  Ramana Maharshi, C. G. (FRW) Jung (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, Shambhala Pubns

• Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Heart, Mind

• When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Mind, Consciousness

• The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.

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  Real, Moving, Yoga

• Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

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  Heart, Self, Names

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.116, Shambhala Publications

• See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Ego, Doubters

• See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  "The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi".

• If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Long, Leaving

• The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."

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  Self, Mind, Normal

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.194, Penguin UK

• Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Consciousness, Ultimate Truth

  Ramana Maharshi, C. G. (FRW) Jung (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, Shambhala Pubns

• That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.

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  Lying, Self, Ego

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

• The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Love Is, Self

• An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.

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  Heart, Reflection, Light

• Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Consciousness, Deny, Knows

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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