Top 49 Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

About Ramana Maharshi

These are some quotes by Indian author Ramana Maharshi Philosopher, who lived between December 20, 1879 and April 14, 1950.

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

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

Ramana Maharshi

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

Ramana Maharshi

Silence is also conversation.

Silence is also conversation.

Ramana Maharshi

Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

Ramana Maharshi

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

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

Ramana Maharshi

Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

Ramana Maharshi

The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

Ramana Maharshi

God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.

God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.

Ramana Maharshi

There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.

Ramana Maharshi

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.

Ramana Maharshi

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