“Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”
— Ramana Maharshi
“The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.”
“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
“Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.”
“Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.”
“Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.”
“As you are, so is the world.”
“If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.”
“You are already that which you seek.”
“Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.”
“Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.”
“How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.”
“Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.”
“If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.”
“Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.”
“The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.”
“The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.”
“When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.”
“You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.”
“Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.”
“Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.”
“Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.”
“Silence is also conversation.”
“He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.”
“The world is not outside you.”
“That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.”
“The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.”
“Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.”
“The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.”
“Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.”
“The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.”
“The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.”
“Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.”
“You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.”
“There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.”
“When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.”
“To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.”
“Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.”
“In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.”
“I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.”
“When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.”
“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.”
“The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.”
“There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.”
“Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.”
“True Silence is really endless speech.”
“The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.”
“Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.”
“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.”
“Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.”
“Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.”
“Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit.”
“The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.”
“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.”
“Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.”
“Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.”
“The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.”
“Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.”
“Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.”
“All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.”
“There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.”
“Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.”
“The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.”
“Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.”
“Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.”
“Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.”
“If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.”
“Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.”
“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.”
“It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.”
“Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.”
“To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.”
“Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.”
“Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.”
“Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?”
“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.”
“Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.”
“There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.”
“Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.”
“The solution to your problem is to see who has it.”
“When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.”
“One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.”
“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.”
“The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world.”
“See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.”
“An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.”
“Then all this earth shines like one house.”
“Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.”
“The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.”
“Suffering is the way for Realization of God.”
“Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.”
“You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?”
“Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.”
“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.”
“Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.”
“There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.”
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