Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
RAMANA MAHARSHINearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
-
-
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Then all this earth shines like one house.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
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 -
You are already That which you seek.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
The 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 MAHARSHI -
He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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 -
That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
RAMANA MAHARSHI -
Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI