The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMisery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
-
-
Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
RAMANA MAHARSHI