Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body? — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body;… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
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… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
