Ramana Maharshi Quotes

I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

To me, the soul is a part of us that never dies. It's what we come in with.

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

At the core, we're all spiritual beings.

I don't like to think of myself as just a person. I don't think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I'll exist again after I die here, so I don't exactly know what I am. I don't think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I'm not like you.

I want people to realize that they aren't their bodies. They are something more than their bodies.

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

Man is not mind, he is soul.