--- title: "6 True nature Quotes By Ramana Maharshi" description: "6 True nature quotes by Ramana Maharshi. Plus more from Ramana Maharshi and more True nature sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38d/ramana-maharshi-915_creatures_you-impose-limits-on-your-true-nature-of_1467674.jpg" --- > [You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/you-impose-limits-on-your-true-nature-of-infinite-being-then-you-get/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38d/ramana-maharshi-915_creatures_you-impose-limits-on-your-true-nature-of_1467674.jpg) > [Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/realization-is-our-true-nature-it-is-nothing-new-to-be-gained-what-is/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2d/ramana-maharshi-915_doubt_realization-is-our-true-nature-it-is-not_1689305.jpg) > [Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/jnana-is-given-neither-from-outside-nor-from-another-person-it-can-be/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cd/ramana-maharshi-915_awareness_jnana-is-given-neither-from-outside-nor_2294493.jpg) > [Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/experiences-such-as-i-went-i-came-i-was-i-did-come-naturally-to/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/ramana-maharshi-915_come_experiences-such-as-i-went-i-came-i-was_2538254.jpg) > [Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/realisation-is-our-nature-it-is-nothing-new-to-be-gained-what-is-new/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/836/ramana-maharshi-915_doubt_realisation-is-our-nature-it-is-nothing_2556763.jpg) > [Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/your-true-nature-is-that-of-infinite-spirit-the-feeling-of-limitation/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49e/ramana-maharshi-915_feeling_your-true-nature-is-that-of-infinite-spi_2890451.jpg) ## Other authors on True nature - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-eckhart-tolle-31242.jpg) Eckhart Tolle 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/eckhart-tolle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sogyal-rinpoche-86038.jpg) Sogyal Rinpoche 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/sogyal-rinpoche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-b-b-king-1507543-16033.jpg) Joseph P. 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Speech is always less powerful than silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/silence-is-most-powerful-speech-is-always-less-powerful-than-silence/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/meditation-is-sticking-to-one-thought-that-single-thought-keeps-away/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-more-you-prune-a-plant-the-more-it-grows-so-too-the-more-you-seek/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/think-of-god-attachments-will-gradually-drop-away-if-you-wait-till/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/that-which-rises-and-sinks-is-made-up-of-what-it-rises-from-the/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/food-affects-the-mind-for-the-practice-of-any-kind-of-yoga/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-mind-of-one-meditating-on-a-single-object-becomes-one-pointed-and/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/eating-bathing-going-to-the-toilet-talking-thinking-and-many-other/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Knowing the Self, God is known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/knowing-the-self-god-is-known/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/every-moment-there-is-creation-every-moment-destruction-there-is-no/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-entire-universe-is-condensed-in-the-body-and-the-entire-body-in/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-state-of-self-realization-as-we-call-it-is-not-attaining/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/god-illumines-the-mind-and-shines-within-it-one-cannot-know-god-by/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/we-are-so-engrossed-with-the-objects-or-appearances-revealed-by-the/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/true-nature/ramana-maharshi/#itemlist", "name": "6 True nature Quotes By Ramana Maharshi", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. 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