When a headache comes on casually, you have to get rid of it by medicine.
Just as boils and other diseases of the body are cured by a doctor's treatment, sorrows which are the result of various difficulties can be overcome by sadhana.
This body itself is a disease. The root cause of it is ignorance. If for that ignorance the medicine called jnana is administered all inherent diseases will disappear at once.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam';
In a sense, speaking of Self-realisation
is a delusion.
It is only because people have been under
the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and
the unreal the Real, that they have to be weaned
out of it by the other delusion called Self-realisation;
because actually the Self always is the Self and there
is no such thing as realising it.
Who is to realise what, and how, when all that exists
is the Self and nothing but the Self?
Bhagavan
Source: THE TEACHINGS OF RAMANA MAHARSHI
edited by Arthur Osborne
Whoever has a strong desire to attain moksha is being pulled by the Guru who is within.
BHAGAVAN
Source: Day By Day with Bhagavan
We spend too much time planning, trying to manipulate Existence and almost no time just BEING, which is your greatest power, to remain unassociated, and quickly you come into synchronicity with the Cosmos. Even beyond this, also. But, don't be too quick to speak about it because most people will not understand what you are speaking about. Just BE It. Let your life continue outwardly in whatever way it should be, but inwardly remain in that State of Serenity. And then, wherever I am in the Universe, you may come and find me. Let me look into your face.
-Sri Mooji-
India,
March 16th, 2016
“First one sees the Self as objects,
then one sees the Self as void,
then one sees the Self as Self,
only in this last there is no seeing
because seeing is being.”
BHAGAVAN
-(Day by Day with Bhagavan-- (21-7-1946)
Papaji Says: "When one abides as the Self, some divine power takes charge of one’s life. All actions then take place spontaneously, and are performed very efficiently, without any mental effort or activity."
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We all have a symbol of ourself, an image of ourself. We have an idea of what we should be and what we should not be. And our that idea about ourselves springs from our memory and is our escape from the fact of what we are. We think we should be this or that, always identifying with an ideal, a hero or an example.
So we are always living in a personal world- a purely accidental world, a world of ideation and myth and never in the world of actuality.
But to observe what is, to see it, actually be familiar with it, there must be no judgment, no evaluation, no opinion, no fear, free from all our memories and projections.
YOUR MIND WILL NEVER STOP...
Your mind will never stop. It doesn't matter how long you sit in Samadhi. It is a misreading of the teaching of Ramana Maharishi to say that the mind, when it sinks into the Heart, boom – gone! By mind something else is being understood here – you become thought-free but not mind-free, and become much, much more efficient. If you want to think, you'll think and very fast – and also very positive – and when you don't need to think, it just doesn't. It is as simple as that. Just the chatter stops, that's all; the unnecessary continuous dialogue stops, but the mind does not die. It is an instrumentality of Consciousness, it is sacred – why should it die?
– Igor Kufayev – from the video series, “Shakti - Reflections on the Sacred Energy behind all Transformative Processes”
Sundari Ma ~ Team Flowing Wakefulness
Sometimes beings come and proclaim
that they have discovered the great emptiness.
Everything feels beautiful, spontaneous, intuitive, free.
'What more to be done?' they say, 'it is finished.'
But then suddenly it is gone.
They speak in past tense and say, ‘It was so wonderful.’
But what made it ‘was’?
Are you a tourist in the emptiness, a visitor?
This one who comes into the emptiness cannot stay in emptiness.
He has to go also.
This identity that says,
‘Yes Mooji, I was there but now I feel I am not able to stay there,'
and so on, is still the person speaking.
Something is still deeply identified with personhood
and there does not seem the space nor urge to see clearly:
But this person is also phenomenal.
Even though it is felt energetically like it’s flowing in the veins, closer than intimacy,
it is still only a sensation or movement in consciousness.
Remember and observe: all comes and it goes.
As soon as it is observed from the deeper place
that the person is only imagined,
no further work needs to be done.
The power is held in the Awareness.
And all illusions evaporate.
~ Mooji, India 2016
When you truly want to be released from this earth dream, there is no power that can stop you from attaining liberation. Never doubt it! Your salvation is not to be achieved - it is already yours, because you are made in the image of God; but you have to know this.
~ Paramhansa Yogananda
Even as a small flame of light can dispel great darkness.
even so a little insight can extinguish vast ignorance.
- Adi-Shankaracharya
स्वल्पाSपि दीपकणिका बहुलं नाशयेत्तमः ।
स्वल्पोSपि बोधो महतीमविद्यां शमयेत्तथा ।।
svalpā’pi dīpa-kaņikā bahulam nāśayet tamah
svalpo’pi bodho mahatīm avidyām śamayet tathā
Svātmaprakāśikā, Illumination of the own self, Verse 50
~ Daily Vedanta - दैनिक वेदान्त
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SELF-REMEMBRANCE
Remembering the Self, one’s real nature, without faltering even slightly,
is the eminent victory of true jnana.
With your consciousness hold fast to and never abandon the substratum, your real nature, the Supreme that can neither be held nor relinquished.
Is the Self something far away that you have to touch? The higher Self exists as one but it is only your thoughts that make you feel it is not.
You can neither think about it nor forget it.
Other than the thought of the Self, any other thought you may associate with, is a mere mental construct, foreign to that Self.
Thinking of the Self is to abide as that tranquil consciousness. Padam, the true swarupa, can neither be remembered nor forgotten.
The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or that.
All such thoughts would only end in bondage. The purport of meditation on the Self is to make the mind take the ‘form’ of the Self. In the middle of the heart-cave is the pure Brahman directly manifest as the Self in the form of ‘I-I’. Can there be greater ignorance than to think of It in manifold ways, without knowing it as aforementioned?
-Padamalai p 76, 77
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Ramana says:
"Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind."
247. Advaita (no-otherness) does not mean that you must always sit in samadhi (meditative trance) and never engage in action. Many things are necessary to keep up the life of the body, and action can never be avoided. Nor is bhakti (devotion) ruled out in advaita.
Quotable Quotes from 'Day by Day with Bhagavan'
“Once you have the view, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear, it’s not particularly disappointed either.
There is a deep sense of contentment. You chuckle from inside as you see the facade of samsara and nirvana; the view will keep you constantly amused, with a little inner smile bubbling away all the time.”
~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY
You who slept, are also now awake. There was no unhappiness in your sleep, whereas it is present now.
What is it that has happened now, that this difference is experienced?
There was no ‘I’-thought in your sleep whereas it is present now. The true 'I' is not apparent and the false 'I' is parading. This false I'
is the obstacle to your right knowledge. Find out from where
this false 'I' arises. It will disappear. You will be only what you
are — i.e. absolute Being.
Search for the source of the ‘I’-thought.
That is all one has to do. The Universe is on account of the 'I'-thought. If that ends, misery will also end.
Q: Can the soul remain without a body?
M: It will do so during the next deep sleep. The Self is then bodiless. But even now it is so.
In deep sleep you exist without ego; then you are free of doubts. Only now, in the waking state, ego rises and you have doubts.
ln deep sleep you are happy, in the waking state you are unhappy. Find out what that state of deep sleep is, from which you have come.
- p. 102
CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI
Q: You talk a lot about effort but rarely speak about grace. Don't you attach much importance to grace?
AS: Grace is important; in fact it is essential. It is even more
important than effort. Realization of the Self comes about through both effort and grace. When one makes a steady effort to abide in the Self one receives the Guru's grace in abundance. The grace comes not only through the form of one's Guru. When you meditate earnestly all the jivanmuktas of the past and present respond to your efforts by sending you blessings of light.
Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p. 294.
The State we call Realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. ~ Sri Ramana.
If one has realized, he is That which alone is, and which alone has always been. He cannot describe that state. He can only be That. (Gems from Bhagavan, VIII).
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CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY
Q: Is it possible to be conscious without thought?
M: Yes. There is only one Consciousness. In sleep there is no 'I'. The ‘I’-thought arises on waking and then the world appears. Where was this ‘I’ in sleep? Was it there or not? It must have been there, yet not in the way you feel now.
The present is only the 'I'-thought, whereas the sleeping ‘I’ is the real 'I'. That subsists throughout. That is Consciousness. If that is known you will see that it is beyond thoughts. Thoughts can be like other activities, not disturbing the supreme Consciousness.
- p. 99
Who gave us this crazy idea that we should know how to live? Does a tree know how to grow? Does a cloud know how to float? Does the wind know where it is blowing? Does a road know that it is going somewhere? Don't know how to live, just recognise that you are life, and life just is.
~ Mooji
"Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself."
~ Paramhans Yoganand.
By remembering I-AM, I-AM is the first name of God. When you think of I-AM you're invoking the name of God and you're focusing your attention on God. So, when you have some kind of problem or something is disturbing you, if you feel out of sorts, if you believe something is wrong, if the war affects you, you do not have to turn off your television, or change your environment, or change your circumstances. You simply turn your attention within and invoke the name of God by saying, "I-AM."
What happens when you do this?
You're really saying, "I-AM absolute reality, I-AM pure awareness, I-AM nirvana, Emptiness, Ultimate Oneness, I AM sat-chit-ananda.
R.A
