446 Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.

Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.

As you are, so is the world.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?