“Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.”
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Famous Ramana Maharshi Quotes
Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
“Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.”
“It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.”
Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
“A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.”
“There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.”
“What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.”
“Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.”
Source: Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi
“That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real”
“Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.”
Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
“If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.”
Source: Who am I? with comments: Instructions for Self-inquiry
Source: Day by Day with Bhagavan: From a Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Covering March 16, 1945 to January 4, 1947
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
“The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world”
“Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.”
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
“One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.”
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
“All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.”
“The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.”
Source: Collected Works
“All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.”
Source: Who am I? with comments: Instructions for Self-inquiry
“He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.”
Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi
“Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.”
“To know one's Self is to be blissful always.”
Source: Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi
Source: The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi