Quotes About Truth

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

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 summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.

You are already that which you seek

The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!

What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known.

A dreamer dreams that everyone else in his dream must awaken before he can awaken.

there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.

The Self is the only Reality. (p. 38)

Lady with fair countenance! Understand that one who is not able to realise the Truth in his Heart by this knowledge of spiritual wisdom known as Kala Jnana, can never attain it even by studying countless crores ofsastras (scriptures) spread out like the sky.

Be as you are. (p. 118)

All that is needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true.

Ramana Maharshi's advice on depression) This depression must be traced to its origin. The origin is the wrong identification of the body with the Self. The disease is not of the Self. It is of the body. But the body does not come and tell you that it is possessed by the disease. It is you who say so. Why? Because you have wrongly identified yourself with the body. The body itself is a thought. Be as you really are. There is no reason to be depressed. (p. 360)

If you take the appearance to be real you will never know the Real itself, although it is the Real alone that exists. This point is illustrated by the analogy of the 'snake in the rope'. As long as you see the snake you cannot see the rope as such. The non-existent snake becomes real to you, while the real rope seems wholly non-existent as such.

The Master is the same as God and not different from him. (p. 27)

The intricate maze of philosophy of the various schools is said to clarify matters and to reveal the Truth, but in fact it creates confusion where none need exist. To understand anything there must be the Self. The Self is obvious, so why not remain as the Self? What need to explain the non-self?

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

Inquiring into the nature of one's self that is in bondage, and realising one's true nature is liberation.

Questioner: Is an intellectual understanding of the Truth necessary? Maharshi: Yes. Otherwise why does not the person realise God or the Self at once, ie. as soon as he is told that God is all or the Self is all? That shows some wavering on his part. He must argue with himself and gradually convince himself of the Truth before his faith becomes firm.

Therefore, when the world appears (to be real), the Self does not appear; and when the Self appears (shines) the world does not appear.