Top 280 Ramana Maharshi Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

52. “The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.”

— Ramana Maharshi

53. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

54. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

55. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

56. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

57. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

58. “Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.”

— Ramana Maharshi

59. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

60. “Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.”

— Ramana Maharshi

61. “Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit.”

— Ramana Maharshi

62. “All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.”

— Ramana Maharshi

63. “Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.”

— Ramana Maharshi

64. “Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.”

— Ramana Maharshi

65. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

66. “Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.”

— Ramana Maharshi

67. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

68. “Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

70. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

71. “Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.”

— Ramana Maharshi

72. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

73. “The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.”

— Ramana Maharshi

74. “If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.”

— Ramana Maharshi

75. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

76. “Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.”

— Ramana Maharshi

77. “Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.”

— Ramana Maharshi

78. “It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.”

— Ramana Maharshi

79. “One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.”

— Ramana Maharshi

80. “Suffering is the way for Realization of God.”

— Ramana Maharshi

81. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

83. “Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.”

— Ramana Maharshi

84. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

85. “Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?”

— Ramana Maharshi

86. “Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.”

— Ramana Maharshi

87. “See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.”

— Ramana Maharshi

88. “Let what comes come, let what goes go.”

— Ramana Maharshi

89. “Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.”

— Ramana Maharshi

90. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

91. “There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

93. “An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.”

— Ramana Maharshi

94. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

95. “Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.”

— Ramana Maharshi

96. “Then all this earth shines like one house.”

— Ramana Maharshi

97. “The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.”

— Ramana Maharshi

98. “One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.”

— Ramana Maharshi

99. “There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.”

— Ramana Maharshi

100. “If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.”

— Ramana Maharshi