black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Community Establishment Growth Mindset Peace Power
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Evil Goodness Subject
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Enlightenment Greatness Obstacle
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Experience Perfection Reality Silence
Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Reality World Yourself
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Energy Person Realize Separate Thinking Trouble Willing World Yourself
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Experience Grief Mindset State Thinking Yourself
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Help Meditation Thinking Yourself
See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Beyond Consciousness Leadership Purity Subject Yourself
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

Existence Fear Object Reason
That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Alone Change Existence Forever Reality
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Mindset Sage Universe
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Mindset Spirit Spirituality Truth
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Heart Illuminate Light Mindset Oneself Reach Reflection Yourself
Meditation 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 MAHARSHI

Meditation Mindset Oneself Strength Time
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Active Impression Meditation Mindset Pursuit Thinking
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

Body Heart Science Summary
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself
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

End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Care Future Live Present Yourself
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

Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality
When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Focus Heart Learning Mindset Point Silence True
An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Awake Consciousness Heart Light Mindset Person Purity Reflection
Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Form Knowledge Name Oneself See Truth Worship
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Current Intense Oneself
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

Existence Focus Goal Knowledge Mindset Philosophy Reality Universe
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Loss Reality Shine Simplicity

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ramana Maharshi Quotes