Ramana Maharshi Quotes & Sayings

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

“When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.”

“It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.”

“Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.”

“Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.”

“All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.”

“Silence is also conversation.”

“The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.”

“Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.”

“All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.”