Ramana Maharshi

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and…

— Ramana Maharshi

See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.

— Ramana Maharshi

Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.

— Ramana Maharshi

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

— Ramana Maharshi

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

— Ramana Maharshi

Let what comes come, let what goes go.

— Ramana Maharshi

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

— Ramana Maharshi

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

— Ramana Maharshi

We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script…

— Ramana Maharshi

Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can…

— Ramana Maharshi

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present,…

— Ramana Maharshi

It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.

— Ramana Maharshi

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot…

— Ramana Maharshi

The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry…

— Ramana Maharshi

Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also…

— Ramana Maharshi

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

— Ramana Maharshi

The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.

— Ramana Maharshi

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

— Ramana Maharshi

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

— Ramana Maharshi

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

— Ramana Maharshi

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

— Ramana Maharshi

The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body;…

— Ramana Maharshi

God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.

— Ramana Maharshi

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working…

— Ramana Maharshi

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge…

— Ramana Maharshi