Beauty ＆ Pure 194

The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit.

Beauty ＆ Pure 193

You are now thinking that you are the mind or the body
which are both changing and transient.
But you are unchanging and eternal.
That is what you should know.


~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Beauty ＆ Pure 192

This body itself is a disease. The root cause of it is ignorance. If for that ignorance the medicine called Jnana is administered all inherent diseases will disappear at once.”

Beauty ＆ Pure 191

The ego in its purity is experienced in intervals between two states
or two thoughts. Ego is like that caterpillar which leaves its hold
only after catching another. Its true nature can be found when it is
out of contact with objects or thoughts.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Beauty ＆ Pure 190

Visitor: “In actual practice I find I am not able to succeed in my efforts. Unless Bhagavan’s grace descends on me I cannot succeed.”

Bhagavan: “Guru’s grace is always there. You imagine it is something, somewhere high up in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart, and the moment (by any of the methods) you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its source, the grace rushes forth, spouting as from a spring, from within you.”

(From 'Day by Day with Bhagavan', 19‐10‐45 Morning)

Beauty ＆ Pure 189

Bhagavan: “If you know your reality first, you will be able to know the reality of the world. It is a strange thing that most people do not care to know about their own reality, but are very anxious to know about the reality of the world. You realise your own Self first and then see if the world exists independently of you and is able to come and assert before you its reality or existence.”

Beauty ＆ Pure 188

Although Guru Ramana taught various doctrines according to the level of understanding of those who came to Him, we heard from Him that ‘Ajata’ alone is truly His own experience. Thus should you know.

('Guru Vachaka Kovai' 100)

[Sadhu Om: ‘Ajata’ is the knowledge that nothing – neither the world, soul nor God – ever comes into existence, and that ‘That Which Is’ ever exists as IT is.]