black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

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 increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Direct Heart Life Mindset Movement Search Shine Universe
If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Awake Fall Mindset Quiet Reach Reality Sleep Start Wander Yourself
If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Rise Spirituality Wisdom
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Evil Goodness Subject
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

Adopt Oneself Return
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Presence Yourself
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

Heart Mindset Moon Science Sun
To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Goodness Himself Humility Result
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

Known Seek Wisdom Yourself
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Degree Focus Freedom Measurement Progress Spiritual
To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Happiness Oneself
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Focus Light Object Reveal
Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Communication Deep End Language Medium Silence Speech Talk
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Fake Idea Oneself Realize
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Achievement Beyond Difference Goal Sea Sight Storm Yourself

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ramana Maharshi Quotes