Ramana Maharshi Quotes

By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal respect and have good brotherly feelings amongst themselves, great peace and harmony abound. Then all this earth shines like one house. The whole world shines like the one dwelling house of the entire human family.

It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.

… just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

21. During that time, the embodied person does not know the attainment in the heart. It is known in the Samadhi. The difference in name is due to the difference in cause.

20. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

19. This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.

18. The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

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.

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.

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.

14. Just as the sun gives light to the moon this heart bestows the effulgence on the mind.

13. It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.

12. The world is none other than the mind. The mind is none other than the heart. Therefore the entire story finishes in the heart.

11. The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.