Ramana maharshi

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

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

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

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and...

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

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no...

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