Ramana Maharshi Quotes

“Differences” are a consequence of delusion.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“There can be no [ego] desire if there is no object.  The state of no-desire is enlightenment.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“We have regarded as real what is unreal.  We have to give up this attitude.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Any great “experience”—irrespective of how much bliss it may bestow—remains for some time, and then leaves.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“There are no “others”: the Self is the one and only reality.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Find the Source of this false I: then it will disappear.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“It is only the ‘individual’ mind that sees the world. When this mind disappears, the world also disappears…. The world appears when you wake up [from sleep]. So where is it? Clearly, the world [awake or dreaming] is in your thought….”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Consciousness is the source of the “mind”.  The mind functions as the link between the Self, which is pure consciousness, and the body, which is inert [when absent that link].”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“The sage’s ego has died, thus he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer; instead, like an actor playing his part in a drama—free from [emotions such as] “love” or “hate.”  Then, there is no agitation of mind, sense of doership, and personality: when all that is stopped, there is quiet, stillness.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“As a spark proceeds from fire, “individuality” emanates from the Absolute Self.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“If you realize you are without form, that you are unlimited, what is there to be seen apart [a “separate” body]?  There is no connection, during sleep, with the body, the senses, and the mind: on waking up, you identify yourself with them.  All that you have to do, hereafter, is see that you do not identify your self with them.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“When once you realize your own Self, and that there is nothing other than this Self, you will come to look upon the whole universe as the Self.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Talks With Ramana alone,”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“he does not pursue activities with the notion that he is the doer;”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Freedom from desire is the essential pre-requisite; find out the root of desires, the source from whence they proceed”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“to whom does this free will matter?”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“And after it has vanished, peace is found to remain eternal [no divisiveness].”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“So, there is really no entity by the name of [my] “mind”;”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“The sage is not unconscious; he is fully aware of the Self.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“It is thoughts that make all the difference between the stillness of sleep and the turmoil upon waking.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“thoughts have their origin in this stillness.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“The immanent Reality alone is.  It is infinite.  There arises, from it, this finite [extension of] consciousness, taking on a limited form [mind].”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“There is really no creation, and no dissolution.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Without the “seer,” there are no “objects”.  Seeing and creating are one and the same process”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“A person who desires [something “apart”], identifies with the body.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“he is that Self.  Then, only, can he view everything as a form of the Self.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Nothing more can be predicated of the Self than its existence.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“Whatever I do, or consider doing, is really God’s doing.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“The truth of one’s own real nature is that it is an undivided oneness:”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization

“The “mind” is nothing but “thoughts”; and behind every thought, there is the primary thought, which is the I-thought.”
― Robert Wolfe, Ramana Maharshi: Teachings of Self-Realization