Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe source of the ego is God.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
-
-
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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 Universe.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
True silence is really endless speech.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
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?”
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
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 -
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
RAMANA MAHARSHI