51 Great Quotes By Ramana Maharshi That Will Give New Perspective To Life
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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.
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.
All are gurus to us, the wicked by their evil deeds say 'do not come near me'. the good are always good, therefore all are like gurus to us.
It will come all right in the end.
Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.
If 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
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of silence.
There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.
Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the ‘I’ first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.
Everything in the world was my Guru.
Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.
Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God’s desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.
Finally there comes a stage when a person feels helpless notwithstanding the sadhanas. He is unable to pursue the much-cherished sadhana also. It is then that Gods power is realized. The self reveals itself.
To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God.
Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind
If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.
