If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others? — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always… — 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
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… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can… — Ramana Maharshi 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 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… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.… — 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… — Ramana Maharshi 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 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
