Top 100 Ramana Quotes
#1. Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
Coleman Barks
#2. This is the world of One Taste, with no inside and no outside, no subject and no object, no in here versus out there, without means, without path and without goal. And this, as Ramana said, is the final truth.
Ken Wilber
#3. according to Sri Ramana, something can be called real only if it satisfies three essential criteria: it must be eternal, unchanging and self-shining.
Michael James
#4. Every person I've known has had an effect on me, as have people whom I've not met in the physical in this life, but whom I've met inwardly, teachers from other eras - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna and Lao Tse.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the 'I' first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.
Ramana Maharshi
#6. There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.
Ramana Maharshi
#7. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
Ramana Maharshi
#8. Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
Ramana Maharshi
#9. Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
Ramana Maharshi
#10. Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.
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#11. Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
Ramana Maharshi
#12. The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker's mind towards the one Reality underlying them all.
Ramana Maharshi
#13. When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
Ramana Maharshi
#15. Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
Ramana Maharshi
#16. The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#17. The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
Ramana Maharshi
#18. The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
Ramana Maharshi
#19. See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
Ramana Maharshi
#20. The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
Ramana Maharshi
#21. There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
Ramana Maharshi
#22. D.: There are six centres in the body and there are corresponding
centres in the world.
M.: Yes. What is in the world is in the body; and what is in the body
is in the world also.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
#23. Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
Ramana Maharshi
#24. When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
Ramana Maharshi
#25. there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.
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#26. The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
Ramana Maharshi
#27. If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.
Ramana Maharshi
#28. Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
Ramana Maharshi
#29. The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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#30. Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.
Ramana Maharshi
#31. Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
Ramana Maharshi
#32. He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
Ramana Maharshi
#33. Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
Ramana Maharshi
#34. We are so engrossed with the objects,
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light.
Ramana Maharshi
#35. What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
Ramana Maharshi
#36. We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.
Ramana Maharshi
#37. Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other
problem will solve itself.
Ramana Maharshi
#38. Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
Ramana Maharshi
#39. Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit.
Ramana Maharshi
#40. The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.
Ramana Maharshi
#41. He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
Ramana Maharshi
#42. The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Ramana Maharshi
#43. I do not consider anyone to be my disciple. I have never sought upadesh from anyone nor do I give ceremonial upadesh. If the people call themselves my disciples I do not approve or disapprove.
Ramana Maharshi
#44. God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
Ramana Maharshi
#46. How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
#47. Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
Ramana Maharshi
#48. One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
Ramana Maharshi
#50. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
Ramana Maharshi
#51. Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#52. While God sustains the burden of the world, the spurious ego assumes its burden, grimacing like an image on a tower, seeming to support it. If the traveller in a carriage, which can carry any weight, does not lay his luggage down but carries it painfully on his head, whose is the fault?
Ramana Maharshi
#55. It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
Ramana Maharshi
#56. You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
Ramana Maharshi
#57. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
Ramana Maharshi
#58. 3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
Ramana Maharshi
#59. Controlling speech and breath, and diving deep within oneself - like one who, to find a thing that has fallen into water, dives deep down - one must seek out the source whence the aspiring ego springs.
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#60. Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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#61. There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
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#63. All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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#64. Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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#65. For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Ramana Maharshi
#66. Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness
Ramana Maharshi
#68. Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
Ramana Maharshi
#70. Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
Ramana Maharshi
#74. Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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#76. The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
Ramana Maharshi
#77. The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
Ramana Maharshi
#78. See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.
Ramana Maharshi
#79. Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God's desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.
Ramana Maharshi
#80. The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
Ramana Maharshi
#81. There is nothing like 'within' or 'without.' Both mean either the same thing or nothing.
Ramana Maharshi
#82. The body which is matter says not 'I'. Eternal Awareness rises not nor sets. Betwixt the two, bound by the body, rises the thought of 'I'. This is the knot of matter and Awareness. This is bondage, jiva, subtle body, ego. This is samsara, this is the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
#83. You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
Ramana Maharshi
#84. Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
Ramana Maharshi
#86. The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body; one should understand that true death is the extinction of the ideas "I" and "mine."
Ramana Maharshi
#87. If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
Ramana Maharshi
#88. The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
Ramana Maharshi
#89. You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
Ramana Maharshi
#90. There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
#91. Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage
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#93. 'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#94. Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
Ramana Maharshi
#95. The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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#96. The beginningless Consciousness is unborn, whole and, residing forever in its natural home of the Heart-cave, is without form, world or impurity. It is beyond comparison and completely unattached. It cannot be comprehended by the mind nor can it be seen or felt by the senses.
Ramana Maharshi
#97. Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
Ramana Maharshi
#98. Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, "To whom did this thought arise?"
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#99. We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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#100. A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now
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