Few Quotes Of Ramana Maharshi

The Self - 1

In the Transcendent state, identity with Brahman places the man in harmony with everything, and there is nothing apart from the Self.

The Self - 2

The conclusion is that happiness is inherent in man and is not due to external causes. One must realize his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

The Self - 3

You see the objects on forgetting your own Self. If you keep hold of your Self you will not see the objective world.

The Self - 4

The Self is ever there, there is nothing without it. Be the Self and the desires and doubts will disappear.

The Self - 5

The thought is projected out from your Self. Find out wherefrom it rises. Thoughts will cease to rise and the Self alone will remain.

The Self - 6

If you see the Self, the same will be found to be all, everywhere and always. Nothing but the Self exists.

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The One Reality is the Self from whom has sprung the ego which contains within itself the seeds of predispositions acquired in previous births.

The Self - 8

Qs: Loss of lives is wrong. Are wars justified?
As: For a realized man, the one who remains ever in the Self, the loss of one or several or all lives either in this world or in all the three worlds makes no difference.

The Self - 9

Realization of the Self is the greatest help that can be rendered to humanity.

The Self - 10

Maharshi: A saint helps the whole of humanity, unknown to the latter.
Devotee: Would it not be better if he mixed with others?
Maharshi: There are no others to mix with. The Self is the one and only reality.


The Self - 11

Who is a Master? He is the Self after all. According to the stages of the development of the mind the Self manifests as the Master externally.

The Self - 12

The `I' has no location. Everything is the Self. There is nothing but that. So the Heart must be said to be entire body of ourselves and of the entire universe.

The Self - 13

Investigate and the thoughts cease. What is, namely the Self, will be revealed as the inescapable residue.

The Self - 14

The sea is not aware of its wave. Similarly the Self is not aware of its ego.

The Self - 15

Let the man find out his undying Self and die and be immortal and happy.

The Self - 16

Everyone is aware of the eternal Self. He sees so many dying but still believes himself eternal because it is the Truth.

The Self - 17

Let activities go on. They do not affect the pure Self.

The Self - 18

Self remains veiled by vasanas and reveals itself when there are no vasanas. Owing to the fluctuation of the vasanas, jnana takes time to steady itself. Unsteady jnana is not enough to check rebirths.

The Self - 19

Wandering higher and higher you must return to the Self only. Then, why not abide in the Self even here and now.

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Those who have discovered great Truths have done so in the still depths of the Self.

The Self - 21

The Self is only one. If limited it is the ego. If unlimited it is Infinite.

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Hold the Self and the world will not appear

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Devotee: A man on realizing the Self, can help the world more effectively. Is it not so?

Maharshi: If the world be apart from the Self.


The Self – 24

Those unfit for investigation must practice meditation. In this practice the aspirant forgetting himself meditates `I am Brahman' or `I am Siva'; thus he continues to hold to Brahman or Siva; this will ultimately end on the residual Being as Brahman or Siva which he will realize to be Pure Being i.e., the Self.

The Self – 25

Those unfit for investigation must practice meditation. In this practice the aspirant forgetting himself meditates `I am Brahman' or `I am Siva'; thus he continues to hold to Brahman or Siva; this will ultimately end on the residual Being as Brahman or Siva which he will realize to be Pure Being i.e., the Self.

The Self - 26

Sahaja jnani remains unawares of his bodily activities because his mind is dead- having been resolved in the ecstasy of `Chid-Ananda' or Self.

THE SELF - 27

One has only to remove the transitory happenings in order to realize the ever present Self.

THE SELF - 28

When the mind is examined, its activities cease automatically. This is the method of Jnana. The pure mind is the Self.

The Self – 29

Contemplation helps one to overcome that the Self must be visual. In truth, there is nothing visual. How do you feel the `I' now? Do you hold a mirror before you to know your own being? The awareness is the `I'.

The Self – 30

The Self is that to which we surrender our ego and let the Supreme Power, i.e., the Self, do what it pleases. The ego is already the Self's. We have no right over the ego, even as it is. However, supposing we had, we must surrender them.