Ramana Maharshi Quotes

There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual

you must achieve liberation during your life time.Even if you fail to do it during your lifetime, you must think of god at least at the time of death, since one becomes what he thinks of at the time of death. But unless all your life you have been thinking of God, unless you have accustomed yourself to dhyana of 'Godalways during life, it would not at all be possible for you think of God at the time of death.