446 Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

In the middle of the Heart-cave the pure Brahman is directly manifest as the Self in the form of ‘I-I’.

Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

To perform one’s duty is the greatest service to God.

By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.

The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.

Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.