Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination. Ramana Maharshi More Quotes by Ramana Maharshi More Quotes From Ramana Maharshi 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. Ramana Maharshi individuality self age All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception. Ramana Maharshi determined events body The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are. Ramana Maharshi self doe moving True silence is really endless speech. Ramana Maharshi endless speech silence Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it. Ramana Maharshi surrender grace Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always. Ramana Maharshi real self happiness The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else. Ramana Maharshi here-and-now self reality Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation. Ramana Maharshi useless grace self By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal Ramana Maharshi dwelling house men You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all. Ramana Maharshi states needs thinking Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community. Ramana Maharshi prosperity community should The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. Ramana Maharshi goal self fun He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea. Ramana Maharshi self sea rivers If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself Ramana Maharshi leaving real long Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state. Ramana Maharshi states natural mind Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'. Ramana Maharshi tools suffering feelings Silence is also conversation. Ramana Maharshi chaos silence conversation All are seeing God always. But they do not know it. Ramana Maharshi seeing knows The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm. Ramana Maharshi inquiry yoga mind Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized. Ramana Maharshi delusion yoga realization
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