No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
RAMANA MAHARSHINo one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHe 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 MAHARSHIKnowing the Self, God is known.
RAMANA MAHARSHIDoes one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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 MAHARSHIEven 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 MAHARSHIFood affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
RAMANA MAHARSHILet knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
RAMANA MAHARSHISee who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
RAMANA MAHARSHISurrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHe 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 MAHARSHIWe 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 MAHARSHIWe are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThat is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRemove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
RAMANA MAHARSHI