Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the… — 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… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical… — 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
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and… — 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
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad… — 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 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
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
Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for… — 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
Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart.… — 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
It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not… — 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
Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
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 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.… — 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
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
