Knows Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

21 Knows quotes by Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi distills the pursuit of knowledge into simple, meditative statements. This collection of 21 brief teachings invites quiet contemplation, offering a calm, introspective path for anyone seeking deeper self‑awareness.

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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.

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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

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

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

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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed…

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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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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the…

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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present,…

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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.

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How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So…

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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it…

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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according…

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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge…

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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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Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how…

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Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the…

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

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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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Knowing the Self, God is known.

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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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