Ramana Maharshi Quotes

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.

To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

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.

No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

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.