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1 " Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. "
― Ramana Maharshi
2 " Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. "
3 " Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten. "
4 " 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. "
5 " Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual "
6 " 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. "
― Ramana Maharshi , The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi
7 " There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing. "
8 " 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? "
9 " 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! "
10 " 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. "
11 " No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. "
12 " There is neither creation nor destruction,neither destiny nor free will, neitherpath nor achievement.This is the final truth. "
― Ramana Maharshi , Sayings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
13 " Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts. "
― Ramana Maharshi , Be As You Are
14 " The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage. "
― Ramana Maharshi , Talks with Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness
15 " Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself. Do not worry about the future. (p. 154) "
16 " It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required. (p. 27) "
17 " If you understand your own reality, then that of the rishis and Masters will be clear to you. There is only one Master and that is the Self […] The power is only one in all. (p. 110-111) "
18 " A Higher Power is leading you. Be led by the same. The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it. (p. 182) "
19 " Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage "
20 " (Ramana Maharshi's advice on depression) This depression must be traced to its origin. The origin is the wrong identification of the body with the Self. The disease is not of the Self. It is of the body. But the body does not come and tell you that it is possessed by the disease. It is you who say so. Why? Because you have wrongly identified yourself with the body. The body itself is a thought. Be as you really are. There is no reason to be depressed. (p. 360) "
