Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi /ˈrʌmənə məhʌˈrɪʃi/was an Indian sage and jivanmukta. He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but was and is most commonly known under the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth20 December 1879
CountryIndia
Ramana Maharshi quotes about
spiritual self world
The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
heart body emotion
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.
peace mind reign
Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
simple truth-is natural
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
self inquiry burning
By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.
meditation helping method
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
god self guru
Guru, God and Self are One
heart eye men
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.
real book self
It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. 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. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.
yoga realization disappear
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
yoga self awareness
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
yoga self doubt
Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.
meditation distraction
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
yoga self mind
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.