One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself. — 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
The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in… — 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
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
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
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
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
