Ramana Maharshi Quotes

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• 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.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mean, Light, Giving

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• Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Contentment, Desire, Mindfulness

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• The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Answers, Really Mean

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• Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Feelings, Comes And Goes, Feelings Come And Go

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  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

  Trying, May, Silent

  Sri Ramana Maharshi, Nome (2009). “Saddarsanam and an Inquiry Into the Revelation of Truth and Oneself”, p.218, Society of Abidance in Truth

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• 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.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Care, Trouble, Should

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Feelings, Mind, Spirit

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Silence, Bliss

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

  Ramana Maharshi

  Humankind, Ifs

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• 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

  Past, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• 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

  Attitude, Practice, Strange

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• You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Giving Up, Self, Names

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• Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Letting Go, Meditation Practice, Self Realization

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Words Of Wisdom, Problem, Solutions

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• 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

  Toil, Have Faith, Faith In God

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

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Enlightenment, Obstacles

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  No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Perseverance, Effort, Succeed

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• Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Life, Inspiring, Self

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Higher Power, Higher, Knows

  "Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi".

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• 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

  Spiritual, Practice, Limits

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• From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. This is the direct path for all. The mind is merely thoughts. Of all thoughts the thought "I" is the root.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Practice, Roots

  Ramana (Maharshi) (1959). “Collected Works”

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• 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

  Thinking, Stranger, Strive

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• Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don't worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Past, Feet

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• We are so engrossed with the objects,
  or appearances revealed by the light,
  that we pay no attention to the light.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Light, Attention, Pay

  A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Maharshi Ramana (1968). “Day by Day with Bhagavan: From a Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Covering March 16, 1945 to January 4, 1947”

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• If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Peaceful, Mind, World

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