Top 280 Ramana Maharshi Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.”

— Ramana Maharshi

152. “Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.”

— Ramana Maharshi

153. “This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.”

— Ramana Maharshi

154. “Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.”

— Ramana Maharshi

155. “God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.”

— Ramana Maharshi

156. “Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.”

— Ramana Maharshi

157. “Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God’s desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.”

— Ramana Maharshi

158. “The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.”

— Ramana Maharshi

159. “We are in our Self. We are not in the world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

160. “Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.”

— Ramana Maharshi

161. “You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.”

— Ramana Maharshi

162. “Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.”

— Ramana Maharshi

163. “Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.”

— Ramana Maharshi

164. “See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.”

— Ramana Maharshi

165. “Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.”

— Ramana Maharshi

166. “There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.”

— Ramana Maharshi

167. “Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.”

— Ramana Maharshi

168. “God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.”

— Ramana Maharshi

169. “Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.”

— Ramana Maharshi

170. “Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.”

— Ramana Maharshi

171. “Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind.”

— Ramana Maharshi

172. “There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.”

— Ramana Maharshi

173. “When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.”

— Ramana Maharshi

174. “Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?”

— Ramana Maharshi

175. “Peace is your natural state. It is your mind that destroys it.”

— Ramana Maharshi

176. “Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,“I am the do-er.””

— Ramana Maharshi

177. “The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.”

— Ramana Maharshi

178. “All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?”

— Ramana Maharshi

179. “The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.”

— Ramana Maharshi

180. “The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.”

— Ramana Maharshi

181. “What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?”

— Ramana Maharshi

182. “You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.”

— Ramana Maharshi

183. “We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.”

— Ramana Maharshi

184. “All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.”

— Ramana Maharshi

185. “He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.”

— Ramana Maharshi

186. “Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.”

— Ramana Maharshi

187. “The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.”

— Ramana Maharshi

188. “He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.”

— Ramana Maharshi

189. “There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.”

— Ramana Maharshi

190. “You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.”

— Ramana Maharshi

191. “One who knows the secret of that LOVE finds the world full of Universal Love.”

— Ramana Maharshi

192. “Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight.”

— Ramana Maharshi

193. “Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.”

— Ramana Maharshi

194. “Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.”

— Ramana Maharshi

195. “Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.”

— Ramana Maharshi

196. “Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think “I am”, and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the “I am”. Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.”

— Ramana Maharshi

197. “Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.”

— Ramana Maharshi

198. “The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.”

— Ramana Maharshi

199. “Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.”

— Ramana Maharshi

200. “If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.”

— Ramana Maharshi