There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEven the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIExistence 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 MAHARSHIThere is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWe are in our Self. We are not in the world.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGod’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 MAHARSHIThe Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIApart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
RAMANA MAHARSHISense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAim 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 MAHARSHIRealisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
RAMANA MAHARSHI