Ramana Maharshi Quotes

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

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  Feelings, Comes And Goes, Feelings Come And Go

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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.

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  Answers, Really Mean

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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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• 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.

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  Mean, Light, Giving

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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.

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  Past, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

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  Doubt, Surrender, Absence

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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.

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  Attitude, Practice, Strange

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• God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized,
  it is already your true and natural state.
  Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward,
  and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being.
  For this to be your own presently lived experience,
  Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Sacrifice, Self

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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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• 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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• Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Drama, Self, Silence

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• 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.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Meditation Practice, Self Realization, Method

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

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• All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

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

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  Past, Enlightenment, Obstacles

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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.

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  Higher Power, Higher, Knows

  "Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi".

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

  Ramana Maharshi

  Perseverance, Effort, Succeed

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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.

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  Giving Up, Self, Names

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• The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Ends

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• 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.

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  Spring, Heart, Sky

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