I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form. Ramana Maharshi More Quotes by Ramana Maharshi More Quotes From Ramana Maharshi You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being. Ramana Maharshi mountainsilencespiritual Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you. Ramana Maharshi skyheartspring We are in our Self. We are not in the world. Ramana Maharshi selfworld There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are already That. Ramana Maharshi wisdomselfmean The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand. Ramana Maharshi annihilationselfhands Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss. Ramana Maharshi sacrificesilencespiritual It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free. Ramana Maharshi boundscompetencethinking Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless. Ramana Maharshi graceselfwould-be Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that. Ramana Maharshi self-realizationmeditation-practiceletting-go We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this. Ramana Maharshi giving-uppowerfulreligious Speaking of Self-realizatio n is a delusion. It is only because people have been under the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and the unreal the Real that they have to be weaned out of it by the other delusion called Self-realizatio n; because actually the Self always is the Self and there is no such thing as realizing it. Ramana Maharshi realselfpeople When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved. Ramana Maharshi rocksyogamind You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others? Ramana Maharshi sufferinganimal The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything. Ramana Maharshi realselflove-is Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with Ramana Maharshi worshipselfnames The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises Ramana Maharshi existenceegosource If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. Ramana Maharshi fightingstrugglethinking Love is verily the heart of all religions. Ramana Maharshi heartlove-is There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment. Ramana Maharshi impedimentsobstaclesmeditation We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required. Ramana Maharshi spiritualityspiritualideas
