Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIt is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
-
-
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Realisation 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 -
If 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 MAHARSHI -
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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 -
If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
RAMANA MAHARSHI