Ramana Maharshi: Trending quotes (page 4)

“The Self itself is God.”

“Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”

“You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.”

“Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.”

“There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor achievement.
This is the final truth.”

“There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.”

“Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.”

“… just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.”

“True silence is really endless speech.”

“Relative knowledge pertains to the mind and not to the Self. It is therefore illusory and not permanent. Take a scientist, for instance. He formulates a theory that the Earth is round and goes on to prove it on an incontrovertible basis. When he falls asleep the whole idea vanishes; his mind is left a blank. What does it matter whether the world remains round or flat when he is asleep? So you see the futility of all such relative knowledge. One should go beyond relative knowledge and abide in the Self. Real knowledge is such experience, and not apprehension by the mind.”

“We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize or make real that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this. When we stop regarding the unreal as real, then Reality alone will remain, and we will be That.”

“In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.”

“2. That, from where all the activities of the embodied beings emerge, is mentioned as the heart. The description of its form is conceptual.”

“It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.”