Ramana Maharshi
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.Collection: Self
By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.Collection: Sea
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.Collection: Adventure
The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body; one should understand that true death is the extinction of the ideas "I" and "mine."Collection: Ideas
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.Collection: Spiritual
That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.Collection: Real
The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.Collection: Real
God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.Collection: Mean
In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.Collection: Effort
The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.Collection: Two
You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and also this void. In the story of the tenth man, when each of them counted and thought they were only nine, each one forgetting to count himself, there is a stage when they think one is missing and do not know who it is; and that corresponds to the void. We are so accustomed to the notion that all that we see around us is permanent and that we are this body, that when all this ceases to exist we imagine and fear that we also have ceased to exist.Collection: Past
A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.Collection: Heart
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.Collection: Space
What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no 'I thought'. That is called 'Stillness'. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.Collection: Mother
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.Collection: Mean
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.Collection: Past
To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.Collection: Humility
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.Collection: Wisdom
The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.Collection: Heart
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.Collection: Mind
Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.Collection: Satisfaction
Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also the goal of all. The method is chosen according to one's own fitness. The goal for all is the same. Yet different names are given to the goal only to suit the process preliminary to reaching the goal. Bhakti, Yoga, Jnana are all the same.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Heart
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.Collection: Grief
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.Collection: Heart
The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.Collection: Heart
God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.Collection: Heart
It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Wisdom
An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.Collection: Heart
True silence is really endless speech.Collection: Silence
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.Collection: Spiritual
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.Collection: Roots
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.Collection: Men
The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.Collection: Self
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.Collection: Self
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.Collection: Destiny
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.Collection: Mean
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.Collection: Men
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.Collection: Hate
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.Collection: Yoga
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought risesCollection: Ego
The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.Collection: Heart
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.Collection: Self
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.Collection: Mind
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.Collection: Ends