Ramana Maharshi Realization Quotations

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world

The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.