Be still and know that I am God.

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The sense of doership is the bondage and not the actions themselves. “Be still and know that I am God.” Here stillness is total surrender without a vestige of individuality. Stillness will prevail and there will be no agitation of mind. Agitation of mind is the cause of desire, the sense of doership and personality. If that is stopped there is quiet.

Source Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 354, §3 · 📖 Read the full text on his ashram’s website

✨ To meditate on today

According to Ramana Maharshi, who quotes Psalm 46, it is not actions that bind us but the sense of being the doer; true stillness is total surrender, where the agitation of the mind ceases and peace settles in. Today, before starting a task, pause for a few seconds, repeat inwardly “Be still and know that I am God”, then act without tensing up over the idea that everything depends on you.

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