japa

Q: Are our attempts sure to succeed?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Realization is our nature.

It is nothing new to be gained.

What is new cannot be eternal.

Therefore there is no need for doubting whether one could lose or gain the Self.

Q: Is it good to do japa when we know that enquiry into the Self is the real thing?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

All methods are good since they will lead to the enquiry eventually.

Japa is our real nature.

When we realize the Self then japa goes on without effort.

What is the means at one stage becomes the goal at another.

When effortless constant japa goes on, it is realization.

~ From Be as you are book

love

Love is the most healing force in the world. 

Nothing goes deeper than love:

 it heals not only the body, 

not only the mind,

 but also the soul.

If one can love, then all one`s wounds disappear. 

Than one becomes whole - and to be whole is to be holy.

0sho

self knowledge

Quite mind is not the goal.goal is self knowledge. I thought is first.then You and he .

Ramana

experience

“Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.”

- Swami Vivekananda.

ramana

"We will never get at Reality, If we take the appearance to be Real.

The dream world appears all too Real to us, so long as we are in it; but as soon as we are Awake, we Realize its unsubstantiality."

~Sri Ramana Maharshi

watch mind don't mind

hurt