Ramana Maharshi Quotes

1879–1950 India

Ramana Maharshi (30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was a Hindu sage, and a proponent of Advaita Vedanta. He advocated self-enquiry (Atma-Vichara) as a means to Self-realization.

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Also known as: Ramana Maharishi, Raman

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Speculations about God and world avail nothing: Self-realization is the hearts cry o fall.

The triad — God, soul and world — is the creation of the ego and disappears with 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.

I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i.e., into the Heart.

Abide as the Self by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

Abide as the Self by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)

9. Even when the sensory objects to be known are in the proximity, when the difference is not taken in, the mind does not cause a break in Yoga.

The world is what the mind conceives through the senses.

13. 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.

Peace 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.

Sri Ramana Gita (1998)

19. This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

Abide as the Self by Ramana Maharshi and Ram Dass (1997)

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you.

Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, by Sri Ramana Maharshi, edited by David Godman (1988)

The world is the body inclusive of the five sheaths, for without them the world cannot be conceived (or perceived).

Form and formlessness of God depend on the ego’s conception of itself.

2. That, from where all the activities of the embodied beings emerge, is mentioned as the heart. The description of its form is conceptual.

It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.

Sri Ramana Gita (1998)

The reality which shines fully, without misery and without a body, not only when the world is known but also when the world is not known, is your real form [nija-swarupa].

Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, by Sri Ramana Maharshi, edited by David Godman (1988)

12. The world is none other than the mind. The mind is none other than the heart. Therefore the entire story finishes in the heart.

Awareness is All — the seer and seen, the real and apparent.

Any sincere worship eventually leads to Realization.

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