Ramana Maharshi

Passages

• A Jnani need not prostrate before anybody nor need he give his blessings to anybody
• Abhyasa consists in withdrawal within the Self every time you are disturbed by thought
• After some time, Ashtavakra Muni happened to pass that side and, while he was about to take rest und
• All effort is only for giving up the notion that we are limited
• All that is required is to be still
• Are there degrees of illusion
• Arpana offering means that the mind gets merged in the self and becomes one with it
• Arpana offering means that the mind gets merged in the self and becomes one with it Part 2
• Arunachala Ramana is the Paramatma Himself
• Arunachala means Aruna-achala being unmoved
• As for future bondages
• Awareness is the one necessary factor states without awareness do not lead to Moksha
• BHAGAVANS HANDWRITING - There is neither speaker nor thinker in that state; so that transcendental s
• Be as you are the Self is the real book life the written pages
• Becoming a reminder of human foolishness
• Bhagavan asked who is the questioner and what is the Self
• Bhagavan discoursed on the nature of the heart
• Bhagavan rarely asked anyone for anything
• Bhagavan said his state of being was beyond subject and object
• Bhagavan spoke about the nature of jnana
• Bhagavans silence was his direct teaching he taught Self Enquiry to those who could not comprehend
• Bondages of the past the future and the present
• By whatever path you go you will have to lose yourself in the One
• Can you prove one can become Realized in the time it takes to mount a horse
• Complete erasure of the ego is necessary
• Complete surrender is prescribed do that first then see for yourself
• Conquering a thousand elephants is nothing beside this Gurus power to conquer the rutting elephants
• Crying is an act of atonement
• Do not be so sorrow stricken the master takes care
• Dont believe your thoughts
• Enquiry is not the only way
• Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy
• Give up names and forms and meditate
• God has His own plans and all these go on according to that
• He could not move as the force of Bhagavans presence held him
• He is the ocean of love and sympathy
• How did the Self that ever is Awareness bliss behave as if It had forgotten
• How shall I overcome my passions
• How to gain Divine Grace
• How to know the Real I as distinct from the false I
• I exist is the only permanent self-evident experience of everyone
• I falsely imagined till now that all these which are yours
• If Love is an attribute of the Self why is the world so miserable
• If all the false ideas and impressions are swept away and thrown out what remains is a feeling of pl
• If somebody comes back from Ramanashramam and does not talk about Bhagavan
• If something appeared to one who has not attained realization
• If the ego and all its experiences are dismissed as passing shadows the ever present ultimate realit
• If the mind is turned inwards God manifests as inner consciousness
• If you read the Upanishads you will find all wisdom there
• In olden days, when we were doing the cooking during summer, we used to have a pot into which we put
• In the Vasishtam it is mentioned how to deal with premonitions
• In the deep sleep state we lay down our ego
• Is there no way of escape from the miseries of this world
• It is enough if the mind is kept one pointed in vichara dhyana japa and parayana
• It is true wisdom for the mind to turn away From outer objects and behold Its own effulgent form
• It was pointed out that Sri Bhagavan often said the whole Vedanta
• Keep the mind steady by gently turning it inward
• Kunju Swami meets Bhagavan for the first time
• Lord, which of us is the clevererIf You have given Yourself up to me, I enjoy endless bliss, but of
• Meditation depends on the strength of mind
• Meditation is possible only if the ego is kept up
• Moral nobility and not social respectability
• Mouna means continuous speech it is the speech of self
• My propositions serve as elucidations in darkness
• Non-action is unceasing activity
• Non-duality means that only the Absolute is
• Not only was the use of vichara not confined to advanced seekers
• Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya
• On the death of King George V devotees asked Bhagavan
• One may find hatha yoga suitable and another man nama japa
• Overcome passions by finding their source
• Peace is the inner nature of humankind
• Present bondages are said to be of four types
• Ramana Bhagavan attained jnana without any effort in an ordinary house in a narrow lane in the centr
• Realisation now consists in getting rid of this false idea that one is not realised
• Sahaja Nishta
• Self-surrender is the same as Self-knowledge
• Spiritual perfection changes even the body
• Suppose I ask you to go and wake all those people up in the dream and tell them they are not real. W
• Tattvaraya composed a bharani in honour of his Guru Swarupananda
• That is because surrender means the Self itself
• That which IS is only one it is omnipresent and universal
• That which rises as I is the mind it is only the mind
• The Muni asked is it also stated that a Guru is necessary
• The Self alone remains after all illusion is destroyed
• The Self is not born and does not die
• The Self is not somewhere far away you are always that
• The Self is realized by a certain mental activity
• The Vedas contain the truth but the truth cannot be expressed in words
• The answers to any questions that are put to you will emerge like an echo from within and they will
• The attempts of so-called social reformers are futile
• The doctrine of Advaita Non-duality taught by the ancient Rishis
• The ego-consciousness is like the root of a plant
• The greatest form of ego for an individual is to present himself as a teacher and become a guru
• The highest form of grace is silence
• The idea of one Self being aware of another Self is absurd
• The jnani sees no one as an ajnani
• The king remained motionless like a statue
• The king said that he was at the very moment placing at the feet of the Guru his body, his mind, his
• The mind is a bundle of thoughts arising from the I-thought
• The mind is only a bundle of thoughts
• The naked light in a windless place
• The one Consciousness called the mind has become the world
• The only freedom man has is to strive for and acquire jnana
• The quest of the Self alone is the direct path to right awareness
• The real worship of him is to be in mouna (silence)
• The sage does not teach by words but by his living presence
• The sense of body is a thought the thought is of the mind
• The sleep state is free from thoughts and the Self shines
• The state of Self-realisation must be beyond triputis
• The state we call realisation is simply being oneself
• The things that keep us busy are interminable
• The world is mental and it will shine as reality only in the Light of Self
• Then from some left-overs amongst our things, he took out some limes and squeezed the juice into the
• There is no bondage no liberation no aspirant no seeker
• There is no reaching the Self it is not outside you
• There is no use removing doubts one by one
• They are reading the four Vedas and you are doing Vedanta
• Three ways to describe truth - The same truth has to be expressed in different ways to suit the capa
• Titov the Russian cosmonaut returned from space and declared there is no God
• To perform one’s duty carefully is the greatest service to God
• Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world
• Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world2
• Turn the mind inward and find out who the seer is
• Until the mind rests in God it must continue to wander
• We are the truth why should we run after it like the musk deer
• We capitulate to sleep but the Self is still there
• What exists is the one Self only
• What great tapas this Ramaneswara Maharshi is doing
• What is concentration but the absolute consciousness of reality
• What is the ego and how is it related to the Self
• When Bhagavan was in Virupaksha Cave Echamma came daily
• When I enquired what it was Bhagavan led me to see
• When I once complained to Bhagavan about Chinna Swami, he instantly corrected me and I steadily stoo
• When a person reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment
• When all these are stilled
• When the eye of knowledge is opened one realizes one remains in the Self
• Where is the mind and where are the thoughts arising from it
• Who can deny the Self of anyone
• Why is Atma vichara necessary
• Why look outward and go on explaining the phenomena which are endless
• With divine grace you can attain realisation even in an instant
• Wonder of wonders beyond understanding is your strange fear
• Yes he has come back that was my doing
• You are the constant illumination that lights up both the experiences and the void
• You who intend to celebrate the birthday
• all that one is responsible for is the purity and disinterestedness of it
• annihilation of the mind - knowledge and one-pointedness
• every species has love towards its own kind, hasn’t it_ A tiger loves a tiger, and a snake a snake
• if you COMPLETELY SURRENDER ALL your responsibilities to ME
• when dhyana becomes deep and firm it leads to sahaja sthiti