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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
Interview (1945)
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth
Abide as the Self by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)
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.
Abide as the Self by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
Until realisation there will be Karma, that is action and reaction. After realisation there will be no Karma and no world.
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.
Abide as the Self by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)
"Knowledge itself is 'I'. The nature of (this) knowledge is existence-consciousness-bliss."
Who am I? (Nan Yar) (2015)
"Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought."
Who am I? (Nan Yar) (2015)
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Abide as the Self by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
Sri Ramana Gita (1998)
Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
Abide as the Self by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)
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.
True silence is really endless speech.
Abide as the Self by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)
There is no greater mystery than this: being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality.
Abide as the Self by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)
"The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self."
Who am I? (Nan Yar) (2015)
Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
Sri Ramana Gita (1998)
14. Just as the sun gives light to the moon this heart bestows the effulgence on 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.
17. The Jnanin present in the heart sees the mind merged in the light of the heart, like moonlight in the presence of the sun during the day.
20. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.