Sri Ramana Maharshi Quotes

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1. Disciple: What is the highest goal of spiritual experience for man [woman]? Maharshi:
Self-Realization.

2. Self-surrender is the same as Self-knowledge. The ego submits only when it recognizes the
Higher Power. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

3. The cosmos springs into view simultaneously with the seer. There is no creation by stages or
steps. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

4. God, Guru and the Self are identical. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

5. The ever luminous Self is one and universal. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

6. Disciple: How is one to realise the Self? Maharshi: Whose Self? Find out.

7. The purpose of worshiping the Impersonal Supreme Being is the incessant remembrance of
the truth that you are Brahman. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

8. In due course, we will know that our glory lies where we cease to exist. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

9. Do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it, but do it with the feeling ‘I am the
Lord’s tool’. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Link] begets success. If one distraction is conquered the next is conquered until all are
finally conquered. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

11. Let your standpoint become that of wisdom then the world will be found to be God. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

12. The Eternal is not born nor does it die. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

13. The Self is always Itself, and there is no such thing as realizing It. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

14. Progress is measured by the degree of removal of the obstacles to understanding that the
Self is always realized. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

15. What I have done is surely possible for all. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and
find Peace. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
16. There is no seeing. Seeing is only being. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

17. The whole Vedanta is contained in the two Biblical statements “I am that I am” and “Be still
and know that I am God.” – Sri Ramana Maharshi

18. Questioner: How am I to realize that State in which the vasanas are effectively destroyed?
Sri Ramana Maharshi: You are in that State now!

19. Let what comes come, let what goes go. Why do you worry? – Sri Ramana Maharshi

20. What is, is God. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

21. Doubter ceasing, doubts will cease. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

22. You are always that Self and nothing but that Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

23. When all goes, only the Self remains. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

24. All experiences in the enlightened as well as the ignorant state are opposed to one’s real
nature. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

25. Everything is predetermined. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

26. From the point of view of Jnana (Knowledge), the pain seen in the world is certainly a
dream, as is the world. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

27. Time and place really do not exist. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Link] is false to speak of Realization; what is there to realize? – Sri Ramana Maharshi

29. There is no happiness in worldly objects. Because of our ignorance we imagine we derive
happiness from them. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

30. The Heart is the centre of all. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

31. Dive deep in the Heart and remain as the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

32. When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

[Link] you thus reject everything, what remains is the Self alone. That is real love. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

34. The cause of misery is not in life without; it is within you as the ego. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
35. The body is itself a mere projection of the mind, and the mind is but a poor reflection of the
radiant Heart. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

36. The solution to your problem is to see who has it. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

37. The multiple differences of this world are a sportive play of Chit-Shakti, the one Whole. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

38. Everything comes out of the Self and goes Backto the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

39. We fill the mind with all sorts of impressions and then say there is no room for the Self in it. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Link] is here and now and you are that always. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Link] Self is the center of centers. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Link] essential nature is happiness. – Sri Ramana Maharshi [Link] can I go? I am here. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

44.I am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in “Be Still.” – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

45. Ever-present is the present. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

46. When you talk of love, there is duality, is there not – the person who loves and the entity
called God who is loved? – Sri Ramana Maharshi

47. All these distinctions made between the ‘I’ and ‘you’, Master and disciple etc. are merely a
sign of one’s ignorance. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

48. Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in
the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

49. Devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

50. You are not apart from being which is the same as bliss. You are unchanging and eternal. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

51. Mind and matter co-exist. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

52. You see this and that. Why not see God? – Sri Ramana Maharshi
53. When your standpoint becomes that of wisdom, you will find the world to be God. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

54. Liberation is our very nature. We are that. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

55. When your real, effortless, joyful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the
ordinary activities of life. – Ramana Maharshi

56. When there is no “I” there is no karma. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

57. Never to be heedless of one’s own all-perfect, pure Self is the acme of yoga, wisdom and all
other forms of spiritual practice. – Sri Ramana

[Link] one gains the Peace of the Self, it will spread without any effort on the part of the
individual. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

59. The Self being self-effulgent, needs no other means of knowledge. It shines of itself. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

60. You ignore what is real and hold on to that which is unreal, then try to find what it is. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

61. Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

62. What is, is the Self. It is all-pervading. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

63. To attain that natural happiness one must know oneself. For that, Selfenquiry, ‘Who am I?’ is
the chief means. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

64. The mind cannot seek the mind. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

65. Firm and disciplined inherence in the Atman constitutes self-surrender to the Supreme Lord.
– Sri Ramana Maharshi

66. Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that
arise in the mind. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

67. Be as you really are. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

68. The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Link] must realize his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness. -Sri Ramana
Maharshi
70. The deeper the humility with which we conduct ourselves, the better it is for us. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

71. Begin to seek the source of the mind, and you find the mind does not exist at all. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

72. The mind is used for seeing objects. When turned inwards, it merges into the Heart which
shines by Itself. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

73. To ask the mind to kill the mind is like making the thief the policeman. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

74. Relative knowledge requires a subject and object whereas the awareness of the Self is
absolute and requires no object. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

75. Having realized the Self, nothing remains to be known, because it is perfect Bliss, it is the
All. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

76. The Highest Form of Grace is Silence. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

77. There is no inside or outside for the Self. The Self is pure and absolute. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

78. As all living beings desire to be happy and as happiness alone is the cause for love, one
should know one’s self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

79. Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to It. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

80. The Self is the Seer seeing all else. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

81. Peace prevails only in the transcendental state, which is the true state of the Self. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

[Link] one inquires, “Who am I?”, one will see that there is no such thing as the “I.” – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

83. Be the Self. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self which is so
self-evident. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

84. Knowledge does not come gradually, little by little. It shines forth instantaneously with the
ripeness of practice. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
85. The might of God’s grace and the quest of the Self in the form of ‘Who am I?’ lead the
seeker to the Heart. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

86. Unless you give up the idea that the world is real, your mind will always be after it. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

87. That still mind which is adorned with the attainment of the limitless supreme Self, alone is
the reality of God. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

88. The realization of the Self will not be gained unless the belief that the world is real is
removed. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Link] by the enquiry, ‘Who am I?’ you understand the seer, all problems about the seen will be
completely solved. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Link] is only in your mind. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Link] is not light, not darkness. It is only as it is. It cannot be defined. The best definition is ‘I am
that I am’. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Link] my grace within the Heart. I will drive away your darkness and show you the light. This
is my responsibility. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

93. All doubts will cease only when the doubter and his source have been found.- Sri Ramana
Maharshi

94. To see God is to be God. There is no ‘all’ apart from God for Him to pervade. He alone is. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

95. What is there to be seen apart from the infinite eye? – Sri Ramana Maharshi

96.I am in the heart of all beings and am their beginning, middle and end. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

97. The seeker is advised to meditate upon his own Self because that flame which is throbbing
as I-I is the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

98. Meditation requires an object to meditate on, whereas in Self-enquiry there is only the
subject and no object. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

99. True humanity lies not in returning violence for violence, but in forgiveness. -Sri Ramana
Maharshi

100. Know that you are really the Infinite, Pure Being, the Self Absolute. -Sri Ramana Maharshi
101. If we unceasingly investigate the form of the mind, we find there is no such thing as the
mind. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

102. In the heart-lotus which is of the nature of all, the light of that self in the form ‘I’ shines. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

103. If you make your outlook that of wisdom, you will find the world to be God. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

104. See your true nature. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

105. Remain aware of yourself and all else will be known. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

106. Who am I? The Self alone. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

107. Having once gained the Self it will be understood to be Here and [Link] is never lost. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

108. Subject is alone the Reality. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

109. There are no stages in Realization or degrees in Liberation. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

110. Inner silence is self-surrender. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

111. The source of ‘I’ is the Heart – the final goal. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

112. ‘AHAM’ is the first name of God. The word [‘Aham’] means that which exists, Self-shining
and Self-evident. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

113. Without consciousness, time and space do not exist; they appear within Consciousness but
have no reality of their own. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

114. There is neither past nor future; there is only the present. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

115. There is no moment when the Self is not. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

116. The thinker is the ego, which if sought will automatically vanish. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

117. Are you not the Self? Why trouble about other matters? – Sri Ramana Maharshi

118. Whatever state one is in, the perceptions partake of that state. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

119. Let any amount of burden be laid on Him, He will bear it all. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
120. It [Reality] underlies limitations, being itself limitless. – Sri Ramana Maharishi

121. There is neither the one nor the other apart from the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

122. So long as there is the sense of doership, there is the sense of individual will. Fate is
overcome by Self-knowledge. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

123. Atman alone exists and is real. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

124. Desires are not eradicated by satisfaction. Trying to root them out that way is like pouring
spirits to quench fire. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

125. There are no levels of Reality; there are only levels of experience for the individual. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

126. The Guru is the formless Self within each of us. He may appear as a body to guide us, but
that is only his disguise. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

127. To realize happiness, the enquiry, ‘Who am I?’ in quest of the Self is the best means. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

128. The universe exists within the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

129. When the mind itself is absent, there will be perfect peace. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

130. If surrender is complete, all sense of self is lost, and then there can be no misery or sorrow.
– Sri Ramana Maharshi

131. The Heart is primarily the seat of the ‘I’. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

132. The Self is only Being, not being this or that. It is simple Being. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

133. In truth we are everywhere, we are all that is, and there is nothing else. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

134. When the mind has vanished, you realize eternal Peace. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

135. The only way to be rid of your grief is to know and be the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

136. When the not-Self disappears, the Self alone remains. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

137. You alone exist, O Heart, the radiance of Awareness. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
138. The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other
things are seen. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

139. Unless a person has annihilated the mind, he cannot gain peace and be happy. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

140. He [She] that dwells immovably in that supreme state, free from delusion, is the ‘Awakened
One’ [Prabuddha]. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

141. In truth, you are Spirit. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

142. Open your heart and see the world through the eyes of the true Self. -Sri Ramana
Maharshi

143. There is no better karma or bhakti than enquiry into the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

144. Without knowing the Supreme Spirit (Brahman), how will you find His all-pervasiveness? –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

145. He [she] who abandons all that is not Real directly realizes Reality. -Sri Ramana Maharshi

146. Quintessence of OM, unrivalled, unsurpassed, who can comprehend you, Arunachala! –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

147. Self is always there. One seeks to destroy the obstacles to the revelation of the Self. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

148. The apparent subjectivity of the Self exist only on the plane of relativity and vanish in the
Absolute. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

149. Unless the cloud of the ‘I’ which covers the moon of the Divine consciousness is removed,
the lily of the heart will not open in full bloom.

150. His [the Realized One] presence is like a pure, transparent mirror. It reflects our image
exactly as we are. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

151. The sage does not ‘know’ the Self, because he is the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

152. The Self does not move, the world moves in it. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

153. God and the Guru are not really different; they are identical. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

154. If you give up all else and seek Him alone, He alone will remain as the I, the Self. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi
155. You cannot by any means escape the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

156. The sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is
full of light. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

157. The mind-free state is complete and endless happiness. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

158. If you seek the grace of God with your whole heart, then you may be assured that the
grace of God is also seeking you. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

159. Since you shine as “I” in the Heart, your name itself is Heart. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

160. If the mind subsides, the perception of the world as an objective reality ceases. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

161. If the unripe mind does not feel His Grace, it does not mean that God’s Grace is absent. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

162. It is the nature of the mind to wander. You are not the mind. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

163. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such
thing as mind. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

164. The Self is ever-present. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

165. There is no use removing doubts. If we clear one doubt, another arises, and there will be
no end of doubts. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

166. We are so engrossed with the objects or appearances revealed by the light that we pay no
attention to the light. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

167. Spoken words are of no use whatsoever if the eyes of the Guru meet the eyes of the
disciple. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

168. Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

169. We are God (Iswara). Iswara Drishti (i.e., seeing ourselves as God) is itself Divine Grace. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

170. If one meditates keenly on the state that prevails at the end of waking and just before
sleep, one attains unending happiness. – Maharshi
171. Every living being longs always to be happy, which is solely due to the fact that happiness
is his real nature. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

172. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and [Link] screen is real, the
pictures are mere shadows. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

173. The Self alone exists. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

174. The frog lives by the side of the fragrant lotus, but it is the bee that gets the honey. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

175. In samadhi there is only the feeling ‘I AM’ and no thoughts. The experience ‘I AM’ is being
still. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

176. Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

177. One should realize the Self by the Eye of Wisdom. Does Rama need a mirror to recognize
himself as Rama? – Sri Ramana Maharshi

178. This Self-awareness never decays. It is unrelated to anything. It is Self-luminous. – Sri

Ramana Maharshi

179. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it out for yourself, in yourself. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

180. Guru is none other than the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

181. The Self is the heart, self-luminous. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

182. Self-Realization is Bliss; it is realizing the Self as the limitless spiritual eye. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

183. What is the nature of Awareness? The nature of Awareness is

existence-consciousness-bliss. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

184. If the ego is present, all else will also exist. If it is absent, all else will also vanish. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

185. Happiness is the nature of the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

186. Surrender itself is a mighty prayer. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

187. All that is required is to cease regarding as real that which is unreal. That is all we need to
attain wisdom. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
188. Real pradakshina is the meditation that thousands of universes are revolving around the
unmoving center of all forms. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

189. You yourself impose limitations on your true nature of Infinite Being & then weep that you
are but a finite creature. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

190. Let any amount of burden be laid on Him [Her/The Supreme], He will bear it all. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

191. That bliss of the Self is always with you, and you will find it for yourself, if you would seek it
earnestly. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

192. The false ego is associated with objects; this ego itself is its own object. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

193. Thoughts must cease and reason disappear for ‘I-I’ to rise up and be felt. Feeling is the
prime factor and not reason. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

194. What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

195. If the mind, which is the basis of all activity, subsides, the perception of the world as an
objective reality ceases. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

196. One must realise his [her] Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

197. When the thieves, the five senses, intrude into my heart, are you not in my heart
Arunachala! – Sri Ramana Maharshi

198. The body itself is a thought. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

199. Is it the world that says “I am real”, or is it you? – Sri Ramana Maharshi

200. That silent Self alone is God. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

201. The emergence and disappearance of the world are like the spider producing a gossamer
web and then withdrawing it. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

202. Heart is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit, because He is in all hearts. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

203. Existence or consciousness is the only reality. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

204. If there be the mind. A search for it discloses its non-existence. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

205. Give the mind to studies and the heart to God. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

206. Mind your business and all will be well. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

207. In the Core of the all-comprehensive Heart, there is the self-luminous ‘I’ always shining. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

208. The mind is nothing but the thought “I”. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

209. There is Consciousness along with quietness in the mind; this is exactly the state to be
aimed at. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

210. Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
– Sri Ramana Maharshi

211. Know that union with Brahman is the real aim of all accomplishment. This is also the state
of Liberation. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

212. The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
– Sri Ramana Maharshi

213. Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all. Nothing is outside or apart from it.
That is the ultimate Truth. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

214. Complete self-surrender means that you have no further thought of ‘I’. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

215. All the people in the world will be benefited by the existence of the Jnani [Wise One]. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

216. When the mind is examined, its activities cease automatically. This is the method of jnana.
The pure mind is the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

217. All ego gone, living as That alone is penance good for growth, sings Ramana, the Self. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

218. We are the goal or peace always. To get rid of the notion that we are not peace is all that is
required. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

219. If anything can be gained, it can also be lost, whereas the Absolute is eternal, here and
now. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
220. The atma-jnani alone can be a good karma-yogi. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

221. Your nature is peace and happiness. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

222. Questioner: How can I obtain Grace? Maharshi: Grace is the Self. That also is not to be
acquired; you only need to know that it exists.

223. To bring about peace means to be free from thoughts and to abide as Pure
Consciousness. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

224. Take no notice of the ego and its activities but see only the light behind it. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

225. God illumines the mind and shines within it. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

226. Pure consciousness is beyond limitations. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

227. The Heart is the only Reality. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

228. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

229. Questioner: How many Upanishads does one have to read to understand the Self? Sri
Maharshi: How many mirrors do you need to see your face?

230. Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

231. It [the Heart] is the center of the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

232. The state we call Realization is simply being one’s self, not knowing anything or becoming
anything. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

233. An unenlightened person elected by another unenlightened one is like a blind guide to
another blind one. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

234. If all is God, are you not included in that all? Being God yourself, is it a wonder that all is
God? – Sri Ramana Maharshi

235. The Self alone is real love. One who knows the secret of that love finds the world itself full
of universal love. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

236. Questioner: “How is it, Bhagavan, we sometimes feel choked with tears in Bhagavan’s
Presence?” Bhagavan smiled and kept quiet.
237. Which is the real power? Is it to increase prosperity or bring about peace? That which
results in peace is the highest perfection. -Maharshi

238. Questioner: How to see God Who is all-pervasive? Maharshi: To see God is to be God.
There is no all apart from God to pervade. He alone is.

239. The Self is God. ‘ I AM’ is God. If God be apart from the Self, He must be a Selfless God,
which is absurd. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

240. Enlightened enquiry alone leads to Liberation. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

241. To abide in the Self you must love the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

242. Grace is within you; Grace is the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

243. The Heart is the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

244. Realization is for everyone. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

245. It is not a matter of becoming but of Being. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

246. Efforts are spasmodic and so also are their results. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

247. When the world recedes from one’s view – that is when one is free from thought – the mind
enjoys the Bliss of the Self. – Ramana Maharshi

248. The inner silence is self-surrender. And that is living without the sense of ego. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

249. Apart from thoughts, there is no such thing as mind. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

250. Self is the one reality that always exists and it is by its light all other things are seen. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

251. Heart means the very core of one’s being, the centre, without which there is nothing
whatever. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

252. Freedom is only knowing the Self within yourself. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

253. The ‘I-Supreme’ alone is. To think otherwise is to delude oneself. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

254. Silence is unceasing eloquence .It is the best language. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
255. What is it that exists now and troubles you? It is ‘I’. Get rid of it and be happy. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

256. When the world, which is what is seen, has been removed, there will be realization of the
Self which is the seer.- Sri Ramana Maharshi

257. Seek for the source of the doubter, and you find he is really nonexistent. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

258. One first creates out of his mind and then sees what his mind itself has created. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

259. Accept the world as unreal, if you are seeking the Truth and the Truth alone. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

260. The ‘I-I’ is always there. There is no knowing it. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

261. You are always in the Self and there is no reaching it. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

262. The Absolute resides as the Self in the Heart. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

263. You and I are the same. What I have done is possible for all. You are the Self now and can
never be anything else. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

264. Do not use your mind to enquire in the heart about anything other than your own real
nature. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

265. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

266. When one is not peaceful, oneself, how can one spread peace in the world? – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

267. When the Self is realized, the world ceases to appear as an objective reality. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

268. You impose limitations upon yourself and then make a vain struggle to transcend them. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

269. Questioner: How long should inquiry be practiced? Maharshi: As long as there are
impressions of objects in the mind.

270. The sea is not aware of its wave. Similarly the Self is not aware of its ego. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi
271. Seek the real, the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

272. As a spark proceeds from fire, individuality emanates from the Absolute Self. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

273. In the realized man [woman], the mind may be active or inactive; the Self alone exists. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

274. Your hands may do the work but your mind can remain still. You are that which never
moves. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

275. Be yourself and nothing more. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

276. When the mind becomes extinguished, the supreme state, in which this world once and for
all ceases to appear [as real], is won. – Sri Ramana

277. Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Time is immaterial for the Path of
Knowledge. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

278. Fearing this false world which appears to exist, is like fearing the false snake which
appears in a rope. – Muruganar, Guru Vachaka Kovai

279. The Self is ever there, there is nothing without it. Be the Self and the desires and doubts
will disappear. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

280. Questioner: Why was I born? Maharshi: Who was born? The answer is the same to all your
questions.

281. If the fruits of actions do not affect the person, he [she] is free from action. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

282. Meditation is your true nature. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

283. To be the Self that you really are is the only means to realize the bliss that is ever yours. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

284. You cannot, by any means, escape the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

285. We bother about the past and the future, not realizing the truth of the present. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

286. The Absolute Consciousness alone is our real nature. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
287. The real is ever as it is. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

288. If you see the Self, the same will be found to be all, everywhere and always. Nothing but
the Self exists. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

289. There is nothing for it [the Self] to know or to make itself known to. -Sri Ramana Maharshi

290. Just be the Self, that is all. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

291. Find out to whom free will or destiny matters. To whom do these questions arise? Find out
and be at peace. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

292. The means to abide in Self is to begin inquiring inwardly, “Who am I?”- Sri Ramana
Maharshi

293. Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.- Sri Ramana
Maharshi

294. The Self is always there. It is you. There is nothing but you. Nothing can be apart from you.
– Sri Ramana Maharshi

295. Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

296. When a pot is broken, the space within it is not, and similarly, when the body dies the Self
in it remains eternal. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

297. Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

298. Instead of holding on to that which exists, we are looking for that which does not. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

299. That which is, is peace. All that we need do is to keep quiet. Peace is our real nature. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

300. God is within you. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

301. Self-enquiry and Self-surrender are the same. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

302. Grace is always present. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

303. Whatever form your enquiry may take, you must finally come to the one I, the Self. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi
304. Look within. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

305. All that is required to realise the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

306. There is no extending of the Self, for it is as ever, without contraction or expansion. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

307. The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; train
it to look inward. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

308. We really are one with Master or Bhagavan. The Master is God; one discovers it in the
end. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

309. The individual is not separate from God. Hence love means one has love towards one’s
own Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

310. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. The best
course is to remain silent. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

311. You must certainly think of God if you want to see God all round you. -Sri Ramana
Maharshi

312. ‘I-I’ is the Self. ‘I am this’ is the ego. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

313. Knowledge is the very nature [of Self]. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

314. Knowledge of the Self, which knows all, is Knowledge in perfection. -Sri Ramana Maharshi

315. Knowing one’s own Self is knowing God. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

316. The real state must be effortless. It is permanent. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

317. ‘No want’ is the greatest bliss. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

318. The lotus blossoms, water evaporates, and people attend to their various duties in life. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

319. We are in our Self. We are not in the world. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

320. The Infinite Expanse is the Reality known as the Supreme or the Self,which shines as the
One in all individuals. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
321. God is within yourself. Dive within and realize. God, Guru and the Self are the same. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

322. The teaching of the Guru is just the dwelling in the Heart, through the Experience of the
One Reality. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

323. You speak as if you are here and the Self is somewhere else, but the Self is here and now,
and you are always It. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

324. Cease to be a knower, then there is perfection. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

325. True silence is really endless speech. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

326. You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

327. “Heart” is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit, because He is in all hearts. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

328. It is only if bondage is real that liberation and the nature of its experiences have to be
considered. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

329. If one turns inward in search of that One Reality they fall away. Those who see this are
those who see Wisdom. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

330. To remain as you are, without question or doubt, is your natural State. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

331. The Self is the only Reality. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

332. Indeed, at some time, one will have to forget everything that has been learnt. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

333. The Divine never forsakes one who has surrendered. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

334. Who am I? After negating all as ‘not this’, ‘not this’, that Awareness which alone remains –
that I am. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

335. You see the objects on forgetting your own Self. If you keep hold of your Self, you will not
see the objective world. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

336. The Self alone is permanent. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

337. Be the Self that includes all. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

338. Realize your pure Being. Thoughts will play as usual, but you will not be affected. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

339. Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

340. As you consider yourself to be the body, you see the world as external and the
imperfections appear to you. God is perfection. – Maharshi

341. If the body falls away there is no loss for the ‘ I’. ‘ I’ remains the same. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

342. Creation is found to be only your thoughts. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

343. That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal
and unchanging. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

344. Meditation on the Self, which is oneself, is the greatest of all meditations. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

345. The path of Knowledge which leads to Self-Realization through realization that the
Supreme is One and Indivisible. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

346. Thoughts arise because of the thinker. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

347. In no single one of the countless objects of the mundane world is there anything that can
be called happiness. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

348. Even the thought, “I do not realize” is a hindrance. In fact, the Self alone is. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

349. You cannot deny yourself at any time. The Self is ever there and continues in all states. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

350. When the sun rises, does the darkness go gradually or all at once? -Sri Ramana Maharshi

351. Samadhi is another name for ourselves, for our real state. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

352. What is there to attain? A thing remains to be attained if it is not already attained. But here,
one’s very being is THAT. – Ramana Maharshi

353. Guru is the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

354. You are the Self. Was there ever a time when you were not aware of that Self? – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

355. Bliss is not added to your nature, it is merely revealed as your true and natural state,
eternal and imperishable. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

356. The Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

357. The Self that is Awareness, that alone is true. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

358. By silence, eloquence is meant. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

359. We are bliss. Bliss is another name for us. It is our nature. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

360. Questioner: How can I control the mind. Ramana Maharshi: There is no mind to control if
the Self is realized.

361. The mind, body, and world are not separate from the Self; and they cannot remain apart
from the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

362. There is only one Master, and that is the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

363. You think you are the mind and, therefore, ask how it is to be controlled. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

364. The Self is all shining and only pure jnana. So there is no ajnana in his sight. – Sri Ramana
Maharshi

365. The mind is only a transient phase. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

366. Without the eye, can there be sight or spectacle? The Self, the real Eye, is infinite. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

367. When one turns within and searches whence this ‘I’ thought arises, the shamed ‘I’ vanishes
and wisdom’s quest begins. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

368. Truly the sage is not other than God. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

369. Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

370. Concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which
reveals them. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
371. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? – Sri
RamanaMaharshi

372. All want to rush out. There is no limit to going out. Happiness lies within and not without. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

373. Preaching is simple communication of Knowledge; it can really be done in silence only. –
Sri Ramana Maharshi

374. Stillness or peace is Realization. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

375. We are peace always. To get rid of the notion that we are not peace is all that is required. –
Ramana Maharshi

376. The Self you seek to know is verily yourself. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

377. You are ever existent. The Self can never be lost. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

378. The pure Consciousness that alone finally remains is God. This is Liberation. – Sri
Ramana Maharshi

379. The ‘I’ has no location. Everything is the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi