WORDS OF WISDOM - RAMANA MAHARSHI

D.: If a person whom we love dies, grief results. Shall we avoid such grief by either loving all alike or by not loving at all?

M.: If one dies, it results in grief for the other who lives. The way to get rid of grief is not to live. Kill the one who grieves. Who will remain then to suffer? The ego must die. That is the only way.

The two alternatives amount to the same state. When all have become the one Self, who is there to be loved or hated?

(From Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi' 252)

WORDS OF WISDOM - RAMANA MAHARSHI

• M.: It is in the mind that birth and death, pleasure and pain, in short the world and ego exist. If the mind is destroyed all these are destroyed too. Note that it should be annihilated, not just made latent. For the mind is dormant in sleep. It does not know anything. Still, on waking up, you are as you were before. There is no end of grief. But if the mind be destroyed the grief will have no background and will disappear along with the mind.
• D.: How to destroy the mind?
• M.: Seek the mind. On being sought, it will disappear.
• (From 'Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi' 195)

WORDS OF WISDOM - Ramana Maharshi

• M.: The birth of the ‘I-thought’ is one’s own birth, its death is the person’s death. After the ‘I-thought’ has arisen the wrong identity with the body arises. Thinking yourself the body, you give false values to others and identify them with bodies. Just as your body has been born, grows and will perish, so also you think the other was born, grew up and died. Did you think of your son before his birth? The thought came after his birth and persists even after his death. Inasmuch as you are thinking of him he is your son. Where has he gone? He has gone to the source from which he sprang. He is one with you. So long as you are, he is there too. If you cease to identify yourself with the body, but see the real Self, this confusion will vanish. You are eternal. The others also will similarly be found to be eternal. Until this truth is realised there will always be this grief due to false values arising from wrong knowledge and wrong identity.
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• She: Let me have true knowledge by Sri Bhagavan’s Grace.
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• M.: Get rid of the ‘I-thought’. So long as ‘I’ is alive, there is grief. When
• ‘I’ ceases to exist, there is no grief. Consider the state of sleep!
• (From Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi' 276)

Words of Wisdom - Ramana Maharshi

“If a man considers he is born he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or if the Self has any birth. He will discover that the Self always exists, that the body which is born resolves itself into thought andthat the emergence of thought is the root of all mischief. Find wherefrom thoughts emerge. Then you will abide in the ever-present inmost Self and be free from the idea of birth or the fear of death.”

(Bhagavan in 'Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi' 80)

"You are not the mind" - Ramana Maharshi

Giving to others is really giving to oneself ~ Sri Ramana

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