Ramana Maharshi Quotes

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

3. 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.

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual

There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.

No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.