Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
Ramana MaharshiRead
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
Interpretation
True peace comes from within, and recognizing that allows you to see it around you.
This quote emphasizes the idea that peace is not an external circumstance or something to be achieved through outside forces. Instead, it is an inherent quality of human nature that can be discovered within oneself. When individuals cultivate inner peace, they will begin to recognize and appreciate the peacefulness in their surroundings, leading to a more harmonious experience of life.
In practice
During a meditation workshop, this quote can inspire participants to explore their inner selves.
Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.
This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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