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Ramana Maharshi was an Indian Hindu sage and jivanmukta . He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is most commonly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.He was born in what is now Tiruchuli, Tamil Nadu, India. In 1895, an attraction to the sacred hill Arunachala and the 63 Nayanmars was aroused in him, and in 1896, at the age of 16, he had a "death-experience" where he became aware of a "current" or "force" which he recognised as his true "I" or "self", and which he later identified with "the personal God, or Iswara", that is, Shiva. This resulted in a state that he later described as "the state of mind of Iswara or the jnani". Six weeks later he left his uncle's home in Madurai, and journeyed to the holy mountain Arunachala, in Tiruvannamalai, where he took on the role of a sannyasin , and remained for the rest of his life.

He soon attracted devotees who regarded him as an avatar and came to him for darshan , and in later years an ashram grew up around him, where visitors received upadesa by sitting silently in his company asking questions. Since the 1930s his teachings have been popularized in the West, resulting in his worldwide recognition as an enlightened being.Ramana Maharshi approved a number of paths and practices, but recommended self-enquiry as the principal means to remove ignorance and abide in Self-awareness, together with bhakti or surrender to the Self. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. December 1879 – 14. April 1950   •   Other names Рамана Махарші, 拉瑪那·馬哈希
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Ramana Maharshi Quotes

“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 summarized in Be Still.”

Ramana Maharshi

Interview (c. 1945) in The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi (1972), p. 75

Truth

“If one watches whence the notion ‘I’ arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas.”

Ramana Maharshi

Abide as the Self

“Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.”

Ramana Maharshi

Be As You Are, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (1985) http://www.sadgurus-saints-sages.com/books/RamakrishnaParamahamsa/beasyouare.pdf

Loss , Reality

“Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non.”

Ramana Maharshi

It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
Abide as the Self

Effort

“"Knowledge itself is 'I.'”

Ramana Maharshi

The nature of (this) knowledge is existence-consciousness-bliss."
Who am I? (Nan Yar) (December 21, 2015)

Knowledge

“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.”

Ramana Maharshi

Abide as the Self

World , Idea , Knowledge

“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.”

Ramana Maharshi

Abide as the Self

Reality , Help

“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.”

Ramana Maharshi

Abide as the Self

Life , Search , Heart

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

Ramana Maharshi

The Science of the Heart

Heart

“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.”

Ramana Maharshi

Sri Ramana Gita

Feeling , Communication , Sense