Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi /ˈrʌmənə məhʌˈrɪʃi/was an Indian sage and jivanmukta. He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but was and is most commonly known under the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth20 December 1879
CountryIndia
animal suffering
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
heart reflection mind
Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
yoga reality mind
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.
gratitude self solitude
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
heart silence mind
When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
names self insight
'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
effort may quiet
In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
reality self here-and-now
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
heart moon mind
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
adventure land risk
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
thieves investigation made
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
thinking competence cease
It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.
self individuality age
Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
self ego perception
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.