Ramana Maharshi Quotes, Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Ramana Maharshi Quotes

1. Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
2. The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
3. When you give up thinking of outward objects and prevent your mind from going outwards by turning it inwards and fixing it in the Self, the Self alone remains.
4. The world is not external. Because you identify yourself wrongly with the body you see the world outside, and its pain becomes apparent to you. But they are not real. Seek the reality and get rid of this unreal feeling.
5. The idea of time is only in your mind. It is not in the Self. There is no time for the Self. Time arises as an idea after the ego arises. But you are the Self beyond time and space. You exist even in the absence of time and space.
6. The more you get fixed in the Self the more other thoughts will drop off of themselves. The mind is nothing but a bundle of thoughts, and the `I’-thought is the root of all of them. When you see who this `I’ is and find out where it comes from all thoughts get merged in the Self.
7. The quality of food influences the mind. The mind feeds on the food consumed.
8. We imagine that we will realize that Self some time, whereas we are never anything but the Self.
9. In the proximity of a great master, the vasanas (Desires) cease to be active, the mind becomes still and samadhi results. Thus the disciple gains true knowledge and right experience in the presence of the master. To remain unshaken in it further efforts are necessary. Eventually the disciple will know it to be his real being and will thus be liberated even while alive.
10. All other knowledge are only petty and trivial knowledge; the experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
11. After the rise of the `I’-thought there is the false identification of the `I’ (Self) with the body, the senses, the mind, etc. `I’ is wrongly associated with them and the true `I’ is lost sight of.