Identity Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

Guru, God and Self are One

— Ramana Maharshi

Knowing the Self, God is known.

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.

— Ramana Maharshi

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

— Ramana Maharshi

All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

— Ramana Maharshi

'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

— Ramana Maharshi

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

— Ramana Maharshi

He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord,…

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no…

— Ramana Maharshi

The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and…

— Ramana Maharshi

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

All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad…

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely…

— Ramana Maharshi

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

— Ramana Maharshi

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it…

— Ramana Maharshi

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but…

— Ramana Maharshi

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and…

— Ramana Maharshi

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong…

— Ramana Maharshi

Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need…

— Ramana Maharshi

That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness -…

— Ramana Maharshi

Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

— Ramana Maharshi