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Self Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

94 Self quotes by Ramana Maharshi

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Maharshi teaches that trying to cut the ego often makes it grow, while quiet meditation focuses the mind and reveals the true self. He describes self‑realization as simply remembering who you already are, not as achieving something new. The verses also link personal transformation to wider social change.

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The Self does not move. The world moves in it.

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Guru, God and Self are One

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

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I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

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

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Knowing the Self, God is known.

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The world is not outside you.

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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

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

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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.

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Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

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

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

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

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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and…

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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised…

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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical…

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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the…

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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more…

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God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace…

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

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

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The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real…

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How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So…

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By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for…

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Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth.…

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

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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it…

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's…

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A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always…

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Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can…

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It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not…

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If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has…

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Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart.…

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The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do…

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Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity.…

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How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the…

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Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of…

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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…

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Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the…

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Knowing the Self, God is known.

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Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole…

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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…

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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards…

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

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