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That which is worth taking up is the self-enquiry that reveals jnana; that which is worth enjoying is the grandeur of the Self; that which is worth renouncing is the ego-mind; that in which it is worth taking refuge, to eliminate sorrow completely, is one's own source, the Heart. -- Ramana Maharshi
Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind. -- Ramana Maharshi
Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself. -- Ramana Maharshi
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world. -- Ramana Maharshi
If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful. -- Ramana Maharshi
Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices. -- Ramana Maharshi
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage -- Ramana Maharshi
Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community. -- Ramana Maharshi
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him. -- Ramana Maharshi
Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight. -- Ramana Maharshi
The body is the temple; the jiva is God (Siva). If one worships him with the 'I am He' thought, one will gain release. -- Ramana Maharshi
Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present. -- Ramana Maharshi
How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the 'I' first and you may afterwards speak of other matters. -- Ramana Maharshi
'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
Love is verily the heart of all religions. -- Ramana Maharshi
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over. -- Ramana Maharshi
Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted. -- Ramana Maharshi
What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known. -- Ramana Maharshi
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body? -- Ramana Maharshi
If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth. -- Ramana Maharshi
Everything in the world was my Guru. -- Ramana Maharshi
Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains. -- Ramana Maharshi
Controlling speech and breath, and diving deep within oneself - like one who, to find a thing that has fallen into water, dives deep down - one must seek out the source whence the aspiring ego springs. -- Ramana Maharshi
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. -- Ramana Maharshi
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge. -- Ramana Maharshi
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world. -- Ramana Maharshi
Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind -- Ramana Maharshi
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence. -- Ramana Maharshi
When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. -- Ramana Maharshi
The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness. -- Ramana Maharshi
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist. -- Ramana Maharshi
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. -- Ramana Maharshi
Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth. -- Ramana Maharshi
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes. -- Ramana Maharshi
Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized. -- Ramana Maharshi
Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts. -- Ramana Maharshi
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea. -- Ramana Maharshi
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless. -- Ramana Maharshi
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence. -- Ramana Maharshi
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. -- Ramana Maharshi
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid. -- Ramana Maharshi
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now? -- Ramana Maharshi
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend. -- Ramana Maharshi
Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking. -- Ramana Maharshi
Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you -- Ramana Maharshi
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later. -- Ramana Maharshi
Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known. -- Ramana Maharshi
To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result. -- Ramana Maharshi
Giving up all notions about country, caste, blemishless community,asrama (status as a bachelor, family man, ascetic or one who has renounced the world) and associated matters, hold on to and practise always meditation upon the Self, your own natural state. -- Ramana Maharshi
As the activities of the wise man exist only in the eyes of others and not in his own, although he may be accomplishing immense tasks, he really does nothing. -- Ramana Maharshi
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. -- Ramana Maharshi
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all. -- Ramana Maharshi
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation. -- Ramana Maharshi
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him. -- Ramana Maharshi
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist. -- Ramana Maharshi
The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen. -- Ramana Maharshi
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I." -- Ramana Maharshi
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is a state when words cease and silence prevails. -- Ramana Maharshi
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists. -- Ramana Maharshi
If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed
there; that is tapas. -- Ramana Maharshi
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought. -- Ramana Maharshi
We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this. -- Ramana Maharshi
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. -- Ramana Maharshi
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness -- Ramana Maharshi
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place. -- Ramana Maharshi
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. -- Ramana Maharshi
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego. -- Ramana Maharshi
Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, "To whom did this thought arise?" -- Ramana Maharshi
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it. -- Ramana Maharshi
It is beyond words or thoughts. -- Ramana Maharshi
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage. -- Ramana Maharshi
That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging. -- Ramana Maharshi
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself. -- Ramana Maharshi
Suffering is the way for Realization of God. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present. -- Ramana Maharshi
Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other
problem will solve itself. -- Ramana Maharshi
there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same. -- Ramana Maharshi
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free. -- Ramana Maharshi
Be equally indifferent to both and abide in the faith of God. That will be so only when one's faith is strong that God looks after all of us. -- Ramana Maharshi
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you. -- Ramana Maharshi
Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you? -- Ramana Maharshi
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope. -- Ramana Maharshi
One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered. -- Ramana Maharshi
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state. -- Ramana Maharshi
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise. -- Ramana Maharshi
Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self. -- Ramana Maharshi
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved. -- Ramana Maharshi
Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains. -- Ramana Maharshi
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. -- Ramana Maharshi
All that is required to realise the Self is to Be Still. -- Ramana Maharshi
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved. -- Ramana Maharshi
Although the modes of meditation may appear to be different from one another, in the end all of them become one. There is no need to doubt this. One may adopt that path which suits the maturity of one's mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord. -- Ramana Maharshi
The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire
body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe. -- Ramana Maharshi
The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner. -- Ramana Maharshi
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment. -- Ramana Maharshi
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation. -- Ramana Maharshi
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only. -- Ramana Maharshi
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
What message is needed when heart speaks to heart? -- Ramana Maharshi
All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being, -- Ramana Maharshi
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. -- Ramana Maharshi
If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful. -- Ramana Maharshi
The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower. -- Ramana Maharshi
While God sustains the burden of the world, the spurious ego assumes its burden, grimacing like an image on a tower, seeming to support it. If the traveller in a carriage, which can carry any weight, does not lay his luggage down but carries it painfully on his head, whose is the fault? -- Ramana Maharshi
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 Maharshi
Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking. -- Ramana Maharshi
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization. -- Ramana Maharshi
You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. -- Ramana Maharshi
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer. -- Ramana Maharshi
Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains. -- Ramana Maharshi
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened. -- Ramana Maharshi
Lady with fair countenance! Understand that one who is not able to realise the Truth in his Heart by this knowledge of spiritual wisdom known as Kala Jnana, can never attain it even by studying countless crores ofsastras (scriptures) spread out like the sky. -- Ramana Maharshi
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge. -- Ramana Maharshi
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
By the inquiry 'Who am I?'.
The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts,
and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization. -- Ramana Maharshi
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others? -- Ramana Maharshi
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. -- Ramana Maharshi
By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea. -- Ramana Maharshi
Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'. -- Ramana Maharshi
No one succeeds without effort ... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. -- Ramana Maharshi
The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage. -- Ramana Maharshi
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world -- Ramana Maharshi
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation. -- Ramana Maharshi
People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition. -- Ramana Maharshi
Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state. -- Ramana Maharshi
To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state. -- Ramana Maharshi
The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity! -- Ramana Maharshi
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious. -- Ramana Maharshi
Let what comes come.
Let what goes go.
Find out what remains. -- Ramana Maharshi
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are. -- Ramana Maharshi
What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain. -- Ramana Maharshi
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world? -- Ramana Maharshi
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. -- Ramana Maharshi
Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy. -- Ramana Maharshi
Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated. -- Ramana Maharshi
Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed. -- Ramana Maharshi
The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm. -- Ramana Maharshi
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. -- Ramana Maharshi
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. -- Ramana Maharshi
The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart. -- Ramana Maharshi
Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength. -- Ramana Maharshi
A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now -- Ramana Maharshi
Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence. -- Ramana Maharshi
Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten. -- Ramana Maharshi
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. -- Ramana Maharshi
The body which is matter says not 'I'. Eternal Awareness rises not nor sets. Betwixt the two, bound by the body, rises the thought of 'I'. This is the knot of matter and Awareness. This is bondage, jiva, subtle body, ego. This is samsara, this is the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
The source of the ego is God. -- Ramana Maharshi
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts. -- Ramana Maharshi
The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching. -- Ramana Maharshi
We are so engrossed with the objects,
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light. -- Ramana Maharshi
An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart. -- Ramana Maharshi
You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this? -- Ramana Maharshi
Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal. -- Ramana Maharshi
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you. -- Ramana Maharshi
The beginningless Consciousness is unborn, whole and, residing forever in its natural home of the Heart-cave, is without form, world or impurity. It is beyond comparison and completely unattached. It cannot be comprehended by the mind nor can it be seen or felt by the senses. -- Ramana Maharshi
The Self does not move. The world moves in it. -- Ramana Maharshi
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is no seeing. Seeing is only being. -- Ramana Maharshi
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. -- Ramana Maharshi
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form. -- Ramana Maharshi
The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss. -- Ramana Maharshi
If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state. -- Ramana Maharshi
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself. -- Ramana Maharshi
He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye. -- Ramana Maharshi
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings. -- Ramana Maharshi
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender. -- Ramana Maharshi
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second. -- Ramana Maharshi
Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er." -- Ramana Maharshi
True Silence is really endless speech. -- Ramana Maharshi
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed. -- Ramana Maharshi
42. The colour of milk is one, the colours of the cows many, So is the nature of knowledge, observe the wise ones. Beings of various marks and attributes, Are like the cows, their realisation is the same; This is an example we should know. -- Ramana Maharshi
The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work. -- Ramana Maharshi
The best way to meditate is through meditation itself. -- Ramana Maharshi
You are already That which you seek. -- Ramana Maharshi
It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them. -- Ramana Maharshi
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization. -- Ramana Maharshi
God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God. -- Ramana Maharshi
You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being. -- Ramana Maharshi
So the force of the Self also travels through the psychic nerves and, pervading the entire body, imparts sentience to the senses, and that if this knot is cut, the Self will remain as it always is, without any attributes. -- Ramana Maharshi
All are gurus to us, the wicked by their evil deeds say 'do not come near me'. the good are always good, therefore all are like gurus to us. -- Ramana Maharshi
The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release, which is the state of unsurpassed bliss. The revered Gurus also have said that release is to be gained only by devotion which is of the nature of reflection on the truth of the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
All are seeing God always. But they do not know it. -- Ramana Maharshi
You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace. -- Ramana Maharshi
God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise. -- Ramana Maharshi
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
Action and knowledge are not obstacles to each other. -- Ramana Maharshi
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. -- Ramana Maharshi
In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by
restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist. -- Ramana Maharshi
Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference. -- Ramana Maharshi
We are in our Self. We are not in the world. -- Ramana Maharshi
Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God. -- Ramana Maharshi
Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual -- Ramana Maharshi
Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being. -- Ramana Maharshi
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
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. -- Ramana Maharshi
I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form. -- Ramana Maharshi
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see. -- Ramana Maharshi
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. -- Ramana Maharshi
The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint. -- Ramana Maharshi
We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required. -- Ramana Maharshi
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. -- Ramana Maharshi
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion. -- Ramana Maharshi
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. -- Ramana Maharshi
3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart. -- Ramana Maharshi
To know one's Self is to be blissful always. -- Ramana Maharshi
Silence is also conversation. -- Ramana Maharshi
See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject. -- Ramana Maharshi
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action. -- Ramana Maharshi
Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is nothing like 'within' or 'without.' Both mean either the same thing or nothing. -- Ramana Maharshi
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination. -- Ramana Maharshi
Let what comes come, let what goes go. -- Ramana Maharshi
As you are, so is the world. -- Ramana Maharshi
The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful. -- Ramana Maharshi
The enquiry 'Who am I?' is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss. -- Ramana Maharshi
Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required. -- Ramana Maharshi
The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you. -- Ramana Maharshi
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births. -- Ramana Maharshi
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. -- Ramana Maharshi
Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God's desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own. -- Ramana Maharshi
Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world. -- Ramana Maharshi
Then all this earth shines like one house. -- Ramana Maharshi
The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body; one should understand that true death is the extinction of the ideas "I" and "mine." -- Ramana Maharshi
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit. -- Ramana Maharshi
Suffering turns men towards their creator. -- Ramana Maharshi
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent. -- Ramana Maharshi
There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor achievement.
This is the final truth. -- Ramana Maharshi
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things. -- Ramana Maharshi
Apart from thought, there is no independent entity called "world." Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and then withdraws it, likewise, the mind projects the world out of itself and then withdraws it back into itself. -- Ramana Maharshi
Guru, God and Self are One -- Ramana Maharshi
There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all. -- Ramana Maharshi
You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it. -- Ramana Maharshi
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end. -- Ramana Maharshi
Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it. -- Ramana Maharshi
Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction. -- Ramana Maharshi
The solution to your problem is to see who has it. -- Ramana Maharshi
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation. -- Ramana Maharshi
It will come all right in the end. -- Ramana Maharshi
I do not consider anyone to be my disciple. I have never sought upadesh from anyone nor do I give ceremonial upadesh. If the people call themselves my disciples I do not approve or disapprove. -- Ramana Maharshi
Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose. -- Ramana Maharshi
Of all yogins, only he who rests his unwavering mind and love in me is dear to me. -- Ramana Maharshi
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made. -- Ramana Maharshi
The man who prays, the prayer, and the God to whom he prays all have reality only as manifestations of the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception. -- Ramana Maharshi
The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker's mind towards the one Reality underlying them all. -- Ramana Maharshi
Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language. -- Ramana Maharshi
Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace. -- Ramana Maharshi
The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into. -- Ramana Maharshi
The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real -- Ramana Maharshi
If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside. -- Ramana Maharshi
When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness. -- Ramana Maharshi
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere. -- Ramana Maharshi
The search "Who am I" ... ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand. -- Ramana Maharshi
Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills. -- Ramana Maharshi
All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others? -- Ramana Maharshi
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love. -- Ramana Maharshi
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti. -- Ramana Maharshi
God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him. -- Ramana Maharshi
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized. -- Ramana Maharshi
If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun. -- Ramana Maharshi
Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit. -- Ramana Maharshi
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
I see only what you see, but I notice what I see. -- Ramana Maharshi
The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it. -- Ramana Maharshi
The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters. -- Ramana Maharshi
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. -- Ramana Maharshi
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self. -- Ramana Maharshi
It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free. -- Ramana Maharshi
You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge. -- Ramana Maharshi
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. -- Ramana Maharshi
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform. -- Ramana Maharshi
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still. -- Ramana Maharshi
Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others. -- Ramana Maharshi
The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it. -- Ramana Maharshi
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze. -- Ramana Maharshi
Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart. -- Ramana Maharshi
The world is not outside you. -- Ramana Maharshi
One can know oneself only with one's own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else's. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama? -- Ramana Maharshi
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else. -- Ramana Maharshi
Knowing the Self, God is known. -- Ramana Maharshi
