What is important for you is the Moment in which you will enter the current that is the movement of your true being, the Going Forth, in other words, the Great Pilgrimage. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma
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Only remain aware of your own self. #Ramana maharshi
When women carrying jars of water on their heads, stop to talk, they are very careful, keeping their mind on the water jars.
Similarly, when a sage engages in activity,
his mind remains fixed in the Self
and his activity does not distract him.
~ Ramana Maharshi ♥
'He, the puruSha, who remains awake
while the sense-organs are asleep,
shaping one lovely form after another,
that indeed is the Pure,
that is brahman and that alone is called the Immortal.
All worlds are contained in Him and none can pass beyond.
This, verily, is That.
~ Kathopanishad
There is no effort required to stay as the Self.
Even the idea of staying as the Self is a false idea.
It is only useful for the imagined seeker, but eventually it is found
that the seeker itself is just another idea imagined in the Self.
Its assumed reality collapses in the light of clear seeing,
revealing the unchanging One.
~ Mooji, India 2016
The glory of Krishna is not that he was Krishna, but that he was the great teacher of Vedanta. If he had not been so, his name would have died out of India ..........Thus our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons.
Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!
Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles.
~ via On going celebrations of 150th Birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda
This Atmic wisdom is not for all.
Those with agitated, uncontrolled minds
cannot even guess
that the Self is present here within.”
— Bhagavad Gita - Krishna ♥
Krishna tells Arjuna that we have a tremendous amount of attachment to this world of material and mental structure. We keeps searching happiness out there. But how can we find a thing which has never been there? That is why we live a miserable life. But when we explore it within, all the passionate energy is channeled into awakening of wisdom. That state when realized is marked by permanent happiness, a calm state, having abundant vitality and the concentration of genius.
But even this is not the end. Its goal is to return to evolution of unitary state. In that state mind is still and the consciousness rests in pure, unitary state, which is a state of permanent bliss. This is what the purpose of meditation is..
Walking joyfully
in the ultimate dimension,
walk with your feet,
not with your head.
If you walk with your head,
you'll get lost.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Mind lives in self created deceptions, deluded by maya. Mind is too easily satisfied with knowledge with its words and counter words. Mind create problems and wordy knowledge puzzle us. And we are caught in those wordy explanations because we think that unless we have the explanations, how can we live? Thus the mind keep running like a frightened ghost.
But so long as we deceive ourselves in any form- wordily or imagined, there can be no total freedom. So long as the mind is capable of creating and imposing upon itself delusion, it obviously separates itself from collective or integrated understanding and so stays imprisoned in self- centeredness.
For thousand of years man has had the illusion that one can attain freedom through knowledge, but he could not. Because no man can ever attain the state of total freedom by accumulating a knowledge which is not that about himself, the self- knowledge.
Total freedom can be realized only through self- knowledge. And self-knowledge is, seeing ourselves exactly as we actually are, undistorted by any interpretation or judgement. It is only when we attain it, our mind becomes quiet, still. And once this happens, we attain that state of miracle, known as total freedom.
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There is only Consciousness - ever remaining luminous, or from time to time dimming Itself in the endless changing ‘states’. Liberation is not a total obliteration of the individuality and its universe, but it is a state of abiding in the Reality, the Self, or pure Consciousness... the state, once reached, from which nobody ever returns.
Swami Chinmayananda
There is only #Consciousness - ever remaining luminous, or from time to time dimming Itself in the endless changing ‘states’. #Liberation is not a total obliteration of the #individuality and its universe, but it is a state of abiding in the Reality, the #Self, or pure Consciousness... the state, once reached, from which nobody ever returns.
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Seekers of Truth,
Whatever is born out of time,
you need not be concerned about.
Let life take care of that.
Let life take care of life.
Keep quiet and let your mind rest inside the heart.
Don’t worry. Right now belongs only to now.
Just be now.
There are no demands, requirements or conditions.
You are simply here.
As you confirm this and pay attention to this simple fact,
The whole world becomes a harmony right in front of you.
~ Mooji
AWARENESS WATCHING AWARENESS
Michael Langford found these verses of Guru Vachaka Kovai to be a confirmation of his approach. GVK are quotes of Bhagavan, set in verse by Muruganar and translated by Prof. Swaminathan.
862. ‘Losing the false ego in awareness, and firm abidance as awareness, is true clarity.’
1068. ‘In that flawless state of Being, the Self, without a sense of ‘I’ or ‘mine,’ the still abidance in and as pure Awareness, this is the noblest victory worth winning.’
1039. ‘That which unaided shines within as ‘I AM, I AM’ without a break, the strong, true Being free from all adjuncts, this pure Awareness, is our firm, authentic nature.’
1038. ‘Awareness is not a quality of the Self. The Self is without qualities. Awareness is not an action of the Self. The Self does nothing. The Self, our Being, IS Awareness.’
Ignoring thoughts:
921. ‘None can confront and overcome the mind. Ignore it, then, as something false, unreal. Know the Self as the real ground and stand firm-rooted in it.’
1192. ‘The ego image moves reflected in the mind’s waves. How to stop this movement, how to regain the state of stillness? Don’t observe these movements, seek the Self, instead. It is wisdom to gain and abide in silence.’
1193. ‘The seers declare that pure silence is firm abidance in egoless, true Awareness. For such thought free silence, the means is clinging to the Self within the Heart.’
917. ‘As in the sky covered with thick clouds no eye can see the glorious sun, one fails to see one’s own Self when the mind firmament is darkened by the dense cloud of thoughts.’
918. ‘Only He who has vanquished thought, sits like an emperor, on the neck of the majestic elephant Knowledge. Know for certain that the mind’s movements alone give rise to birth and every cruel pain and sorrow.’
CHADWICK ABOUT BHAGAVAN
As regards the period of his life, during which it is recorded that he kept Mownam or a vow of silence, I questioned him. He told me that there was never any such vow, but while living in temple at one time he found himself seated for a while by a Sadhu who was observing such a vow and saw how convenient it was as the crowds did not worry the Sadhu in the same way as they worried him. So for convenience he pretended to copy him. “There was no vow, I just kept quiet, I spoke when it was necessary,” he explained. I asked him how long this had continued. “For about two years,” he replied.
People talk about the intense Tapas he performed, but such Tapas is as mythical as his Mownam. He never performed Tapas, there was no need. His Self-realization, attained in the upstairs room of his uncle’s house in Madurai was final, there was no more to be done. He was only a boy and it took him time to fit this all-embracing realization into his day-to-day life. It embraces that as it embraces everything else. It is perfection, Purna. So he just sought out quiet places where he thought that he would not be disturbed and where he might enjoy Bliss.
Actually he had reached that state where nothing could any longer disturb him, he was beyond such things. Boys threw stones at him and teased him, but he was quite indifferent. He was, however, not unconscious. Bhagavan’s realization was not some featureless blank. Appearance continued for him but he knew it as appearance and was no longer deceived into thinking it was Reality. And here, I presume, lay his complete indifference to the world. It was all a dream anyhow, so why do anything about it? Just sit somewhere and enjoy the Self. What did teaching others and helping the world signify? There were no others.
Major Chadwick, A Sadhu’s Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi
226. All the activities that the body is to go through are determined when it first comes into existence. It does not rest with you to accept or reject them. The only freedom you have is to turn your mind inward and renounce activities there.
Quotable Quotes from 'Day by Day with Bhagavan'
There is no such thing as a Self-realised person. When there is no "person" the Self is realised. When there is no "person" the question of coming and going cannot arise. The body is an appearance in the Self. When the body disappears the Self remains as it always was and is. Realisation is the understanding "I am not this body which comes and goes, I am that permanent, unchanging reality in which the body and all else appears".
~ Papaji
In the Ashram we saw at one end of the hall a silent, motionless figure reclining on a low couch, lost in deep meditation, oblivious, it would seem, of everybody and everything. We slipped in quietly and seated ourselves on the ground amongst the crowd. I took in slowly the strange, unforgettable scene, my whole attention fixed on that central figure whose calm majesty, serene strength and perfect poise seemed to fill the whole place with unutterable peace. To look into his eyes, shining like stars, was perhaps for the first time to know the meaning of Eternity and to be caught up into bliss that passeth understanding.
Who was this Great one? On what rung of the ladder of human or superhuman evolution did he stand? Such questions have but little value. When the sun shines does one need to know why and how it shines? I opened my heart to the Spiritual Life which radiated so intensely in Silence. I had the impression of being as it were, surrounded by a sea of fiery Power, welding all present into a great Flame rising Heavenwards. Not once did the silent figure turn or move or show any sign of interest in the proceedings, that is, the recitation of the Vedas conducted as evening prayers in the Ashram. It was as if he had been living in a sphere beyond the limitations of time and space.
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♥ The Self ♥
"When the person in the eye resides in the body,
he resides where the organ of sight
has entered into the Akasa (i.e. the pupil of the eye);
the eye is the instrument of seeing.
He who is aware of the thought:
‘Let me smell this,’ he is the Self;
the nose is the instrument of smelling.
He who is aware of the thought:
‘Let me speak,’ he is the Self;
the tongue is the instrument of speaking.
He who is aware of the thought:
‘Let me hear,’ he is the Self;
the ear is the instrument of hearing.
"He who is aware of the thought:
‘Let me think this,’ he is the Self; the mind is his divine eye.
He, the Self sees all these desires in the World of Brahman through the divine eye, the mind and rejoices.
"The gods meditate on that Self.
Therefore all worlds belong to them and all desires.
He who knows that Self and understands It
obtains all worlds and all desires."
Thus said Prajapati, yea, thus said Prajapati.
~ Chandogya Upanishad : 8:12:1-6
"The chief characteristic of a sant is that he is always intent in looking at the vision of God, whatever may be his condition or activity while he is in society. He becomes as fearless as Brahman and devoid of blemishes like anger, jealousy, sensuous desires and so on."
-Sri Samartha Ramdas, Dasbodh
WHO ARE YOU?
“You are…
beyond the body-mind and personality,
beyond all the experience and the experiencer thereof,
beyond the world and its perceiver,
beyond existence and its absence,
beyond all assertions and denials.
Be still and awaken to the realization of who you are.
In this realization of no separate self,
the supreme Reality which you are shines unobscured
in all things, as all things, and beyond all things.
Having returned to the formless source
and transcended all separateness,
do not stop or cling even to this source,
but go beyond to the supreme realization
which transcends all dualities,
yet does not deny even a speck of dust.
The enlightened sage abides,
as the eternal witness,
wholly unconcerned, yet intimately engaged,
resting beyond all definitions,
neither clinging to transcendent freedom,
nor entangled by the dualistic world
therefore, one with all life.
Living in the perfect trust of supreme realization,
the enlightened sage has nothing to gain or lose
and naturally manifests love, wisdom, and compassion
without any personal sense of being the doer of deeds.
Having abandoned all concepts and ideas,
the enlightened sage lives as ever-present consciousness,
manifested and manifesting in the world of time and space
that which is eternal, ever new, and whole.
In this unobscured realization,
supreme Reality shines consciously
in all things, as all things, and beyond all things.
Shining unobscured, it penetrates the entire universe.
Penetrating the entire universe,
it knows itself as Self.”
~ Adyashanti
Fear not on seeing this empty world, which appears as a dream in the sleep of Self-forgetfulness. This imaginary and bondage-causing world-picture, [projected on the background] of the dark, dense mind, will not stand in the light of Supreme Knowledge, Sat-Chit-Ananda.
('Guru Vachaka Kovai': 27)
Sometimes the presence of the Lord is too much.
You try to go to bed but the bed rejects you.
Sleep rejects you.
Sleep says, 'Go. I don't want you now.
Go and stay with Him.
Go and be with your Lord.
Keep the Lord's company. This night you will not sleep.'
Sometimes we are on fire like this
and no water can quench this fire.
You find yourself leaving your house.
You step out under the moonlight,
under the stars to try and cool off
and it is not happening.
It even gets more intense.
You are full of the brightness of the spirit.
This body is made for the holy spirit.
You have to drink God's 'Rum Punch'.
When you are drunk in the holy spirit you will forget
everything except him. This is freedom itself.
The house of sorrow is burning
and only the clear space of God is left.
Only that cannot be burnt.
~ Mooji, from the book 'White Fire'
You are walking on the earth as in a dream.
Our world is a dream within a dream,
You must realize that to find God is the only goal, the only purpose, for which you are here.
For Him alone you exist. Him you must find.
And Him you can know "
~ Paramahansa Yogananda from the book The Divine Romance
