Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego. — Ramana Maharshi Ego Copy Share Image
Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization. — Ramana Maharshi Bad thoughts Copy Share Image
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present. — Ramana Maharshi Future 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 Body Copy Share Image
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge. — Ramana Maharshi Awareness Copy Share Image
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence. — Ramana Maharshi Language Copy Share Image
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady… — Ramana Maharshi Bliss Copy Share Image
You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth;… — Ramana Maharshi Duty Copy Share Image
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more… — Ramana Maharshi Food Copy Share Image
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains… — Ramana Maharshi Alone 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
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and… — Ramana Maharshi Inspirational Copy Share Image
The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry… — Ramana Maharshi Action Copy Share Image
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All… — Ramana Maharshi Giving Copy Share Image
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!'… — Ramana Maharshi Accidents Copy Share Image
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. — Ramana Maharshi Clock Copy Share Image
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved. — Ramana Maharshi Energy Copy Share Image
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same. — Ramana Maharshi Consciousness Copy Share Image
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world? — Ramana Maharshi Learning Copy Share Image
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else. — Ramana Maharshi Here and now Copy Share Image
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment. — Ramana Maharshi Impediments Copy Share Image
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. — Ramana Maharshi Facts Copy Share Image
Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it. — Ramana Maharshi Grace Copy Share Image
