Gems From Ramana

Sri Ramana Maharshi

• 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 hearth, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its source, the Grace gushes forth, sprouting as from a spring, from within you.
• When a devotee reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment, the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him on. The Guru comes only to tell him, 'God is within yourself. Dive within and realize.' God, Guru and the Self are the same.
• The Gita says, 'The wise man will think the senses move among the sense objects and be unattached to the activities of the sense organs.' I would go farther and say the jnani does not think even that. He is the Self and sees nothing apart from Himself. What the Gita says is for the abhyasi or practiser.

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Thus Spake Ramana