Ramana Maharshi Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Ramana Maharshi:

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.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.

Ramana Maharshi

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Ramana Maharshi

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Ramana Maharshi

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

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

Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

Ramana Maharshi

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

Ramana Maharshi

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

Silence is also conversation.

Ramana Maharshi

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Ramana Maharshi

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

Ramana Maharshi

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Ramana Maharshi

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

Ramana Maharshi

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

Ramana Maharshi

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

Ramana Maharshi

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

Ramana Maharshi

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

Ramana Maharshi

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

Ramana Maharshi

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

Ramana Maharshi

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.

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

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

I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.

Ramana Maharshi

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Ramana Maharshi