Body Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

21 Body quotes by Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi’s 21 reflections on the body guide you toward inner stillness. He treats the flesh as a temporary home, urging a focus on the unchanging awareness that lies beneath.

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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

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

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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will…

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

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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in…

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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.

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

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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the…

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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is…

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The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body;…

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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…

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Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union…

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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is…

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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and…

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Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true…

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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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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present…

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The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger…

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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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