Ramana Maharshi quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Ramana Maharshi

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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.

We are so engrossed with the objects,
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light.

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

Everything in the world was my Guru.

Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.

Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

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.

It is beyond words or thoughts.

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.

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.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.

Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

All that is required to realise the Self is to Be Still.

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

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

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.

The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

It will come all right in the end.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.

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

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

You are already That which you seek.

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it.

It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.

He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.

Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.

What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known.

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er."

Silence is also conversation.

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

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.

The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.

The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.

The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.

The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.

Guru, God and Self are One

We are in our Self. We are not in the world.

The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

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

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker's mind towards the one Reality underlying them all.

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

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.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

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.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

As you are, so is the world.

The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world

An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.