Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to… — 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
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no… — 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
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
By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need… — 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
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely… — 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
