Rama Swami quotes

If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way. (Rama Swami)
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. View quote
Rama Swami
God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been someone who came before them. Therefore God is only One - One Final Absolute Existence. Everything else is a manifestation of Him. View quote
Rama Swami
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking. View quote
Rama Swami
Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain. View quote
Rama Swami
The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility. View quote
Rama Swami
If you really want to examine your strength, see how many times a day you are disturbed. View quote
Rama Swami
To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts. View quote
Rama Swami
Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns. View quote
Rama Swami
The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward. View quote
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It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present. (Rama Swami)
The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning. View quote
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What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self. View quote
Rama Swami
One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.' View quote
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He is never born, never dies, without beginning or end, eternal and infinite. Through all times, past, present and future, He remains the same. The origin and dissolution of the Universe is all within him. Nothing exists without his existence. He is everything. View quote
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What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die. View quote
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Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence. View quote
Rama Swami

Rama Swami

Born: 1925
Died: 1996
Quotes count: 17

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