Ramana Maharshi Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light.
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.
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.
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.
By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage
Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known.
Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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 enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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 peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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.
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.
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?