Top 280 Ramana Maharshi Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.”

— Ramana Maharshi

102. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

103. “The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it.”

— Ramana Maharshi

104. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

105. “You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?”

— Ramana Maharshi

106. “By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.”

— Ramana Maharshi

107. “The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.”

— Ramana Maharshi

108. “You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.”

— Ramana Maharshi

109. “All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.”

— Ramana Maharshi

110. “Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.”

— Ramana Maharshi

111. “Knowing the Self, God is known.”

— Ramana Maharshi

112. “Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.”

— Ramana Maharshi

113. “You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.”

— Ramana Maharshi

114. “There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.”

— Ramana Maharshi

115. “Guru, God and Self are One.”

— Ramana Maharshi

116. “Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.”

— Ramana Maharshi

117. “Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.”

— Ramana Maharshi

118. “The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.”

— Ramana Maharshi

119. “You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?”

— Ramana Maharshi

120. “The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.”

— Ramana Maharshi

121. “Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.”

— Ramana Maharshi

122. “What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.”

— Ramana Maharshi

123. “Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

124. “You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.”

— Ramana Maharshi

125. “The Self does not move. The world moves in it.”

— Ramana Maharshi

126. “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.”

— Ramana Maharshi

127. “The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.”

— Ramana Maharshi

128. “The source of the ego is God.”

— Ramana Maharshi

129. “Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.”

— Ramana Maharshi

130. “When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.”

— Ramana Maharshi

131. “If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.”

— Ramana Maharshi

132. “The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.”

— Ramana Maharshi

133. “If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.”

— Ramana Maharshi

134. “The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.”

— Ramana Maharshi

135. “Real peace is happiness. Pleasures do not form happiness.”

— Ramana Maharshi

136. “Love is verily the heart of all religions.”

— Ramana Maharshi

137. “When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.”

— Ramana Maharshi

138. “We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.”

— Ramana Maharshi

139. “Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.”

— Ramana Maharshi

140. “Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?””

— Ramana Maharshi

141. “Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.”

— Ramana Maharshi

142. “The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.”

— Ramana Maharshi

143. “Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?”

— Ramana Maharshi

144. “If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.”

— Ramana Maharshi

145. “There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.”

— Ramana Maharshi

146. “The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.”

— Ramana Maharshi

147. “The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.”

— Ramana Maharshi

148. “The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Ramana Maharshi

150. “If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.”

— Ramana Maharshi