Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things… — 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
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same. — 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
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong… — 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
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
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self. — 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
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
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
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and… — 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
Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains. — 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
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
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with… — 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
