Top 316 Quotes & Sayings by Ramana Maharshi - Page 6

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

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.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

Then all this earth shines like one house.

Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also the goal of all. The method is chosen according to one's own fitness. The goal for all is the same. Yet different names are given to the goal only to suit the process preliminary to reaching the goal. Bhakti, Yoga, Jnana are all the same.

The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.

The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.

3. It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.