Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOur identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
RAMANA MAHARSHITime is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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 MAHARSHIEven 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 MAHARSHIWhatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
RAMANA MAHARSHITrue silence is really endless speech.
RAMANA MAHARSHISee who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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 MAHARSHIThat is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGuru, God and Self are One.
RAMANA MAHARSHI