The 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 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 MAHARSHIUnless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation applies the brakes to the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIBy whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHITake no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThat alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
RAMANA MAHARSHI