Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body? — 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
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. — 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
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
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger whom you await, he is bound to disappear also. What is the use of a transient being like that? But so long as you think you are separate or that you are the body, an external master is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share
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
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, the Self, there is a mental vibration 'I' to which all are reduced. Tracing the source of 'I', the primal 'I-I' alone remains over, and it is inexpressible. The seat of… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
