Ramana Maharshi Quotes

The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.

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

The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

The source of the ego is God.

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.

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

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

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

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

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.

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.

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

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Guru, God and Self are One

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

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

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

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

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

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

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

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.

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

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.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

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.

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

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.

There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.

Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

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.

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.

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.

If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.

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

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

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

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

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.