446 Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.

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.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

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.

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.