“There was no mind in sleep. But YOU were there. So, mind
comes and goes, but there is no change in That which is
actually YOU. YOU, the Self, remain always.”
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
“Introversion of mind, is usually gradual. Realisation is
always sudden.”
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
“Meditation means sticking to one thought to the exclusion
of every other. One particular thought keeps away all
others.”
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
“What is your state in deep sleep? You exist in deep sleep.
You also exist now. It is the same you. But the feeling of
limitation does not arise in deep sleep.”
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Keep your Mind idle or asleep in the Beingness of the Self.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Permanently cease to believe in the existence of the personal self. Then the magic will unwind of its own accord.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
There was no mind in sleep. But YOU were there. So, mind comes and goes, but there is no change in That which is actually YOU. YOU, the Self, remain always.
Introversion of mind, is usually gradual. Realisation is always sudden.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Limitation is only a mental concept.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
The mind is a layer of thought obstructing the Real Self.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
If Self Enquiry has resulted in a state of mind wherein it abides as identical with pure Subjective Consciousness, then you have done it correctly.
Self Enquiry has been done correctly when doing it has resulted in the Self-realisation flashing forth.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
To reach the Self, one’s bodily and mental identifications must be given up.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
When thoughts present themselves, trace them back to their source.
In the absence of mind, you are THAT always.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
When thoughts arise, tackle them with the counter thought, “To whom has this thought arisen?” This arrests the further development of the thought.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Self Enquiry means effort to trace thought back to its source.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
If you incessantly hold on to the source of thought, there will come a time when emergence from such source becomes altogether impossible.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
The longing must burn brightly in the mind, burn with enough force to reduce the mind into ashes. Half-baked and half-hearted efforts are not going to get you anywhere.
Perfection in renunciation, automatically brings about Self realisation in its wake.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
God/Higher Power is the Real "I".
The mind is a phantom. In the Impersonal Essence the mind is nowhere to be found.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
There is nobody there to reach it. Thus, there is no reaching it. Subside and let the Light shine forth. Subside as the mind and shine as the Self.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
I am not here or there. I AM. There is no here or there or anywhere. I AM THAT I AM.
Evidence produced by the sensory organs is merely mental in nature. All knowledge of diversity is fictitious mental information. Your Being is Real. There is nothing else.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Whatever is believed is false only. Truth is in Being only.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Self Enquiry is the relentless pursuit of the investigation, “Who am I?”
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
For countless births your mental habits have been cherished by you. They will not go down without a fight. The fight does involve pain. Pain is inevitable.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
If illusion is still acceptable to you, will it be possible for you to Realise?
Man is led to the belief that illusion is somehow 'manageable'; for this reason he never really makes any effort to break out of it.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
That fortunate one who is earmarked for total destruction in his incumbent lifetime begins to suffer like never before.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
The secret of how Guru's Grace brings about Realisation: he does not bring about Realisation from anywhere; he merely removes the obstacles to it by hastening the devotee's absolute surrender.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
The Sadhguru takes the liberty to adopt a radical approach only in the case of those devotees who have completely placed their lives in His care.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
The one fail-proof way to obtain Liberation, is to win the grace of the Sadhguru.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
The Purpose of Life is Life
Life does not question its own purpose.It has no complaints to raise. Therefore it is in perpetual peace.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Truth is a pathless land.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Samandhi means the state of non-differentiation from Reality or THAT WHICH IS.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Any attachment is an obstacle.
All events in one’s life are preordained by the higher power.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
