Ramana Maharshi Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.”

“One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.”

“Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.”

“The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.”

“Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.”

“You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.”

“Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.”

“I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.”

“Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.”

“For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.”