Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi Quotes

• Until realization there will be karma, that is action and reaction. After realization there will be no karma and no world.
   

• If you are not the body and do not have the idea `I am the doer', the consequences of your good or bad actions will not affect you. Why do you say about the actions the body performs `I do this' or `I did that'? As long as you identify yourself with the body like that you are affected by the consequences of the actions, that is to say, while you identify with the body you accumulate good and bad karma.
   

• So long as the feeling `I am doing' is there, one must experience the result of one's acts, whether they are good or bad. How is it possible to wipe out one act with another ? When the feeling that `I am doing' is lost, nothing affects a man. Unless one realizes the Self, the feeling `I am doing' will never vanish.
   

• We are wrongly persisting in unreality, that is, attachment to thoughts and worldly activities. Cessation of these will reveal the truth.
   

• A strong conviction is necessary that `I am the Self, transcending the mind and the phenomena.'
   

• Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
   

• You may experience anything, but you should never rest content with that. Whether you feel pleasure or fear, ask yourself who feels the pleasure or the fear and so carry on the sadhana until pleasure and fear are both transcended, till all duality ceases and till the reality alone remains.
   

• What is fear ? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees things separate from the Self ? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is nothing external. For anything external to oneself implies the existence of the seer within. Seeking it there will eliminate doubt and fear. Not only fear, all other thoughts centred round the ego will disappear along with it.