Ramana Maharshi

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

“The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural...”

“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 be...”

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

“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.”

“Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpfu...”

“If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need fo...”

“God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.”

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

“The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.”

“Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itsel...”

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

“Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.”

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

“Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? E...”

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

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

“Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us tr...”

“The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.”

“Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?”