446 Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er."

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.