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Shri Maharaj
अर्जुनाने जसा आपल्या रथाचा लगाम कृष्णाच्या हाती दिला तसे आपल्या जीवनाचा लगाम सद्गुरूंच्या हाती द्यावा. ते करतील ते! सद्गुरू काय भगवंत काय ते कधी वाईट करणार नाहीत. ज्याने अर्जुनाला एवढ्या रणांगणात सांभाळले त्याला तुमचा दरिद्री संसार सांभाळता येणार नाही का? पण निष्ठा पाहिजे! श्रीराम समर्थ!!!

Spiritual awakening experience share

There is an intense desire, once you have tasted something as sweet as spiritual awakening, to want to share it with people you love. Sometimes it’s so strong that you get into a proselytizing stance that awakens in them a paranoid defense, because you’re saying to them, “Who you are, just as you are, isn’t enough; if you only knew what I know, or had what I had, you could be happier than you are, and I want that for you.”

All you do is create a lot of ‘stuff’, and it takes awhile because it’s really hard to keep your hands off the people you love: “I love you, I want you to enjoy what I enjoy,” and after awhile you learn all of the karmic stuff that you create when you start to judge somebody else as doing something that is less than what they could be doing, because you don’t know why they are the way they are.

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Quotes

You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.

~ Swami Vivekananda

Heart

Verse 260 of Guru Vachaka Kovai of Muruganar

Whoso has known this Heart, will never
Suffer pain or think of bondage
Or duality. Illusion
Gone, one with the Self, he knows
Only bliss supreme.

Translated by Prof. K. Swaminathan

Peace

Peace is beyond thought and effort.
This is why Keeping Quiet is the key to the storehouse of Love and Peace.

~ Papaji

Ramana says

"If you realise your true nature and know that it is not you that does any work, you will be unaffected by the consequences of whatever work the body may be engaged in according to destiny or past karma or divine plan, however you may call it. You are always free and there is no limitation of that freedom." ~ In Day by Day with Bhagavan (3-1-46 Afternoon).

Sanskrut Quotes

स्व्भावं न जहात्येव साधुरापद्गतोऽपि सन् ।
कर्पूरः पाव्कस्पृष्टः सौरभं लभतेतराम् ॥

A good person never gives up his nature even when he is caught in calamity. Camphor caught with fire emits more frgrance.

....... ॐ .......

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Spiritual quotes

Supreme state

"When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected!"

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Understand first that you are not the person you believe yourself to be. What you think yourself to be is mere suggestion or imagination. You have no parents, you were not born, nor will you die. Either trust me when I tell you so, or arrive to it by study and investigation. The way of total faith is quick, the other is slow but steady. Both must be tested in action. Act on what you think is true -- this is the way to truth.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
...from 'I Am That', chapter 79
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Freedom

There is nothing that can interfere in your freedom.
There is no thing that can avoid your awakening.
There is nothing that can stop you.
For you are already that, be aware of this!
You are already free.
You are already bright and shining
and all is well.

~ Robert Adams

...from TS, chapter `Totally Free' - October 27, 1991

Being is bliss

GURU VACHAKA KOVAI

The Garland of Guru's Sayings,
quotes from Bhagavan,
set into verse by Muruganar,
edited by Bhagavan,
translated by Prof Swaminathan

It is true wisdom to restrain the mind
from flowing out into any of the five senses,
the home of every sorrow and pain,
and to contain and keep it still,
like a once roaring ocean, now lying calm and tranquil.

Those who, unlured by the false senses,
abide in the heart lotus in waking sleep,
enjoy the bliss of true Awareness,
which is liberation.
Others but slumber,
lost forever, in the illusive world’s dense darkness.

Being is by its nature supreme bliss.
It is the treacherous mind’s fond, eager search
all day for pleasure in alien objects
that insures the loss of our inherent bliss.

Self

What passes away is not Eternal.
Every form will pass away, and the Essence is formless.
If you are attached to the form you are making a mistake.
It is not the form which gives you light,
but something else which is deep inside your own Heart.
That is your Guru.
That Guru abides in the heart of all Beings,
not only human beings, but all the animals and plants.
You will see this when you see your own Essence within.
Then every plant and animal will speak to you as they speak to me.

~ Papaji

Life

It serves no purpose to worry about the disruptions of daily life, like another child, who rejoices on building a sand castle, and cries when it collapses. See how puerile beings rush into difficulties, like a butterfly which plunges into the flame of a lamp, so as to appropriate what they covet, and get rid of what they hate. It is better to put down the burden which all these imaginary attachments bring to bear down upon one.

Ramana says

Ramana says:

"So long as the sense of doership is retained there is the desire. That is also personality. If this goes the Self is found to shine forth pure. The sense of doership is the bondage and not the actions themselves. `Be still and know that I am God.' Here stillness is total surrender without a vestige of individuality. Stillness will prevail and there will be no agitation of mind. Agitation of mind is the cause of desire, the sense of doership and personality."

Silence

...“WHEN THE OCEAN IS SURGING AND CARRYING AWAY …”

The hall was full of silence, serenity and peace. About twenty people sat on the ground, apparently in deep meditation. When the bell rang for midday meal, the Maharshi invited us all with a nod of his head and we followed him to the dining hall.

Next morning, I sat facing the Maharshi. A government officer accompanied by his retinue entered the hall and at once started telling Bhagavan how corrupt the government servants were, how they abused and misused their positions, how he had been entrusted with the task of cleaning up the government machinery and in his anxiety to make a success of himself, he had lost his peace of mind and had come to Bhagavan to make him calm and contented. It was clear that he thought of himself to be a very important person whose request must be promptly met. After he had finished his long oration, he looked expectantly at Bhagavan as if saying, ‘Now it is your turn to show what you can do.’

Bhagavan did not even look at him. The clock was striking hours, but Bhagavan was completely silent. The officer lost patience, got up and said, “You are silent, Bhagavan. Does it mean that you want me to be silent too?” “Yes, yes”, said Bhagavan, and that was all.

One day, all the delegates to the conference for which I had come to Tiruvannamalai, went in a body to the Ashram. The president of the conference said, “Bhagavan, we are all social workers and disciples of Mahatma Gandhi. We have sworn to devote ourselves to work for the removal of untouchability. Be gracious to tell your view on the subject.”

Again there was no reply. One could not even make out whether he had heard the question. Time was passing. The delegates were getting tired of sitting quietly. When the situation grew embarrassing, Yagnanarayana Iyer, principal of Pachayappa College, Madras, got up and said, “Bhagavan our question concerns worldly life. Perhaps it was improper to put it to you. Kindly forgive us.”

“There is nothing to forgive”, said Bhagavan quite readily and with a bright smile. “When the ocean is surging and carrying away everything before it, who cares what are your views or mine?” The delegates could not find much sense in the answer. Only the great events years later gave meaning to it.

Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi p 381.

Nature of mind

Thoughts manifest themselves within emptiness and are reabsorbed into it like a face appears and disappears in a mirror; the face has never been in the mirror, and when it ceases to be reflected in it, it has not really ceased to exist.
The mirror itself has never changed.

So, before departing on the spiritual path, we remain in the so-called "impure" state of samsara, which is, in appearance, governed by ignorance. When we commit ourselves to that path, we cross a state where ignorance and wisdom are mixed.

At the end, at the moment of Enlightenment, only pure wisdom exists. But all the way along this spiritual journey, although there is an appearance of transformation, the nature of the mind has never changed: it was not corrupted on entry onto the path, and it was not improved at the time of realization.

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Don't socialize

ANNAMALAI SWAMI - FINAL TALKS

Annamalai Swami: Bhagavan watched me very closely in the years that I served him in the ashram. One time I went to the Mother's temple where many people were talking about worldly matters.

Bhagavan called me back, saying, 'Why should you go to that crowd? Don't go to crowded places. If you move with the crowd, their vasanas will infect you.'

Bhagavan always encouraged me to live a solitary life and not mix with other people. That was the path he picked for me. Other people got different advice that was equally good for them.

But while he actively discouraged me from socializing, he also discouraged me from sitting quietly and meditating during the years that I was working in the ashram. In this period of my life, if Bhagavan saw me sitting with my eyes closed he would call out to me and give me some work to do.

On one of these occasions he told me:
'Don't sit and meditate. It will be enough if you don't forget that you are the Self. Keep this in your mind all the time while you are working. This sadhana will be enough for you.
The real sadhana is not to forget the Self. It is not sitting quietly with one's eyes closed. You are always the Self.
Just don't forget it.'

Bhagavan's way does not create a war between the mind and the body. He does not make people sit down and fight the mind with closed eyes. Usually, when you sit in meditation, you are struggling to achieve something, fighting to gain control over the mind. Bhagavan did not advise us to engage in this kind of fight. He told us that there is no need to engage in a war against the mind, because mind does not have any real, fundamental existence. This mind, he said, is nothing but a shadow. He advised me to be continuously aware of the Self while I did the ordinary things of everyday life, and in my case, this was enough.

p. 67

Meeting bhagwan

MEETING BHAGAVAN in 1903

In 1903, while wandering near the hill for gathering flowers, I saw many people walking towards the Sadguru Swami Cave. A person from the crowd told me, “There is one Brahmana Swami there who sits motionless.”

These words kindled in me a desire to see him. I bought a little sugar candy as a token offering and went to see him.

What a sight he was! For the first time I saw the magnetic Lord who draws towards him the minds of those who see him. Even though he was unwashed and covered with dust, his holy body glowed like gold.

On seeing this ascetic sannyasin with a frame so lean that it exposed his bones, my mind melted and tears welled up within me.

The young Lord than opened his eyes and graciously directed them towards me. I approached, placed the sugar candy near him and prostrated. After Bhagavan had taken a piece and eaten it, a sadhu who was nearby returned some of it to me as prasad.

-Akhilandamma,  The Power of the Presence part 1

Emptiness

Thus samsara is emptiness, nirvana is emptiness
- and so consequently, one is not "bad" nor the other "good."

The person who has realised the nature of mind is freed from the impulsion to reject samsara and obtain nirvana. He is like a young child, who contemplates the world with an innocent simplicity, without concepts of beauty or ugliness, good or evil.

He is no longer the prey of conflicting tendencies, the source of desires or aversions.

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Shiva

Shiva was not a person, who lived 5000 years ago. Shiva is an energy.

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Peace

There is no sadhana better than just staying as Peace.
If you must do any practice, then do Vichar.
Joy is also a good sadhana because
it destroys mind, so always be happy.
Always think of It and be happy:
spend the rest of your life knowing
you are Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.

Some practice is better than getting lost in samsara
and is good in that it fatigues the mind,
but typical sadhana is usually important only for the ego.
All sadhana is projected by ego so it is on a sandy foundation.
This ego projection is samsara so search only for the seeker.
"I" is ego so when this meditates there are no good results.

Choice of practice depends on the choice of results.
Brahman has no attributes and is beyond mind
so no practice will take you to that: It is self revealing.
Ramana says "Simply keep Quiet for it is Here and Now."
This is the nearest practice because
Brahman is your nature.

~ Papaji

Mind And World

14. The strongest mind [that of a jnani], which is never shaken even by chains of miseries that befall it, will melt more and more and weep when devotees and others who come to Him undergo sufferings.

[Sadhu Om: It is well know that Sri Bhagavan remained unruffled and His face was as cheerful as ever when some thieves beat Him, when hundreds of hornets stung His thigh, and finally when the tumour on His left arm gave unbearable pain continuously for eleven months. Yet there were occasions on which Sri Bhagavan melted and shed tears when some devotees came to Him grieving over the loss of their children or relatives, or when they were suffering with some incurable disease. Thus Sri Bhagavan Himself exemplified the idea expressed in this verse.]

822. The boat may remain in water, but if water enters the boat it will bring great catastrophe. [Likewise] a man may live in the world, but if the world enters [the mind of] the man the whole life will be miserable.

[Sri Muruganar: It is not the world itself but only the attachment towards the world which constitutes samsara-bandha [the bondage of mundane existence]. Attachment is caused by the mind, and not by what is outside. No harm will befall one by one’s merely living in the world; but all miseries come into existence only because of one’s desire to enjoy the world.]

-GURU VACHAKA KOVAI

Suffering

Suffering is how
Life tells you that you are resisting
or misperceiving what is real and true.

It is the way
Life suggests that you are
not in harmony with what Is.

- Adyashanti

Quotes

Being empty does not mean merely
being empty of thoughts, feelings, desires,
but more to be free from ego and its influence.
Ego identity is the main cause of suffering.
Only when one is free from ego and its delusions,
will he discover his innate wisdom
true harmony, peace, unbound joy and life eternal
– his true Being.

~ Mooji 2016

Sadguru quotes

If what is happening in the world is not the way you want it, at least what is happening within you must be the way you want it.

Quotes

Emptiness, the ultimate nature of Dharmakaya, the Absolute Body, is not a simple nothingness. It possesses intrinsically the faculty of knowing all phenomena. This faculty is the luminous or cognitive aspect of the Dharmakaya, whose expression is spontaneous. The Dharmakaya is not the product of causes and conditions; it is the original nature of mind.

- Dilgo Khyenste Rinpoche

Quotes

"Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything.  The giving up is the first step.  But the real giving up is in realizing that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own. It is like deep sleep--you do not give up your bed when you fall asleep, you just forget about it"

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Self

"Find out to whom is Viyoga. That is yoga. Yoga is common to all paths. Yoga is really nothing but ceasing to think that you are different from the Self or Reality. All the yogas - karma, jnana, bhakti and raja - are just different paths to suit different natures with different modes of evolution and to get them out of the long cherished notion that they are different from the Self. There is no question of union or yoga in the sense of going and joining something that is somewhere away from us or different from us, because you never were or could be separate from the Self."

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi.
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Ramana says:

"The highest siddhi is realization of the Self, for once you realize the truth you cease to be drawn to the path of ignorance."

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Sadguru enlightenment

Sadhguru's enlightenment... in his own words: http://youtu.be/zYXlOJlhf38

Adi shankaracharya

तंतुमात्रो भवेदेव पटो यद्वद्विचारितः।आत्मतन्मात्रमेवेदं तद्वद्विश्वं विचारितम्॥2-5॥
जिस प्रकार विचार करने पर वस्त्र तंतु (-धागा) मात्र ही ज्ञात होता है, उसी प्रकार यह समस्त विश्व आत्मा मात्र ही है।
On reasoning, cloth is known to be just thread, similarly all this world is self only.॥5॥

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STATES OF SAMADHI

CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

Ananda is the bliss of not being disturbed by any mental activity or characteristics.

There is a temporary bliss and a permanent one. The former state is called kevala samadhi, the latter is sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi, i.e. the state of nirvikalpa that has become natural.

The jnani in kevala samadhi enjoys the bliss of samadhi arising from the cessation of mental activity and the disappearance of outside objects. But after a while his bliss ceases as mental activities begin and there is no  samadhi for some time.

In sahaja, however, there is no relapse into mental activity and no consequent loss of bliss. The happiness is unbroken and ever enduring. The body, senses and mind may be operative, but the person is hardly conscious of the acts of the body.

Q: It is said that one remaining in nirvikalpa samadhi for 21 days must necessarily give up the physical body.

M: Samadhi means passing beyond. Non-identification of the body Self is a foregone conclusion. There are said to be people who have been immersed in nirvikalpa samadhi for a thousand years or more.

    -   Holding on to Reality is samadhi.

-  Holding onto Reality with effort is savikalpa samadhi.

-       Merging into Reality and remaining unaware of the
         world is nirvikalpa samadhi.

-       Merging in ignorance and remaining unaware of the world is
        sleep — the head bows but not in samadhi.

-     Remaining in the primal, pure, natural state without
        effort is sahaja  nirvikalpa samadhi.

P. 72

Being

You Are an Audience to Your Own Play

"Let your dynamic life be the perfume of your being—this perfume is peace, and joy, freedom, lightness, spontaneity, wisdom.
These are not things you do, the flower does nothing to produce its perfume. When the understanding is there and is firm inside the heart, all these qualities are spontaneously present.
Don't be waiting for the mind to undergo surgery — you just keep remembering and being your Self. Regard your life as a great good fortune."

This video is also available on mooji.tv/freemedia/you-are-an-audience-to-your-own-play

Music: 'Mahadeva' by Samadhi – www.satsangshop.com