Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power,… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for… — 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
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind… — 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
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind.… — 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
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind… — 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
