You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
RAMANA MAHARSHIBy constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEven in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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 MAHARSHITurn 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 MAHARSHISelf-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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 MAHARSHIYour duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPeace 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 MAHARSHIFor those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRemove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
RAMANA MAHARSHIKnowing the Self, God is known.
RAMANA MAHARSHI