God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole… — 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
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
In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will… — 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
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
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
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
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
