Ramana Maharshi Quotes on Knowledge
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950), the South Indian sage whose teaching life unfolded almost entirely on the slope of the sacred mountain Arunachala at Tiruvannamalai, gave modern Advaita Vedanta its most influential method of contemplative self-inquiry (ātma-vichāra). The teaching, recorded in works such as Who Am I? (Nan Yar?) and Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, presses the question "Who am I?" against every answer the seeking mind proposes, until the inquiring self-sense itself dissolves into the prior nondual awareness in which it had appeared. Knowledge for Ramana is therefore not the acquisition of new content but the recognition of the awareness that has always already been the case.
Quotes
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“Who am I?”
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Attributed to Ramana Maharshi:
“Silence is the highest form of teaching.”
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“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 .”
Interview ( c. 1945) in The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi (1972), p. 75 -
“Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.”
Be As You Are, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (1985) -
“Be As You Are, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (1985)”
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself. -
“There is no greater mystery than this: being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality.”
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“I want you to dive consciously into the Self , i.e., into the Heart.”
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“We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal--an illusion--since it rests upon paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one.”
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“In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.”
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