Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMisery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRemove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIn 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 MAHARSHIIf there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGod illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
RAMANA MAHARSHITrue silence is really endless speech.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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 MAHARSHISurrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEngage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIDiscover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
RAMANA MAHARSHI