Ramana Maharshi Quotes - Page 6

Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.

He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.

If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.

Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.

Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, the Self, there is a mental vibration 'I' to which all are reduced. Tracing the source of 'I', the primal 'I-I' alone remains over, and it is inexpressible. The seat of Realisation 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. The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

The world is not outside you.

Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true self in order to open the store of happiness. That true self is the reality, the Supreme Truth, which is the self of all the world you now see, the self of all the selves, the One real, the Supreme, the Eternal self - as distinct from the ego or the bodily idea for the self.

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.