Let go

WHEN FEELINGS 'LET GO'

Give up the struggle
to 'let go'
of fear, anger, sadness.

Instead, become exceedingly curious
about these 'unwanted' visitors.
Breathe into them, give them room,
let them stay, today;
bless them with non-judgemental attention.

When they feel loved enough,
when they feel safely held
in your non-resistant awareness,
when they are ready,
they will 'let go' of you.

For the more you resist your fear,
the more it controls you.

The more you try to be 'free from'
your sadness or your anger,
the more of a victim you feel.

Instead, know that you are Presence,
Life Itself, the great Field in which
fear, anger and sadness are allowed
to live, grow, and die.

You've let go of your attempts to 'let go'.
You've let feelings come,
and you've let feelings go, effortlessly,
in their own sweet time.

Feelings were only ever seeking sanctuary
in the vastness of your Heart.

Don't run; be love, instead.

- Jeff Foster

Life

"And so, instead of trying to ‘fix’ our lives, instead of trying to neatly resolve the unresolveable and quickly complete the epic story of a fictitious ‘me’, we simply relax into utter not knowing, unravelling in the warm embrace of mystery, sinking deeply into the moment, savouring it fully, in all its uniqueness and wonder.

And then, perhaps without any effort, without any struggle or stress, without ‘you’ being involved at all, the true answers will emerge in their own sweet time."

- Jeff Foster

friends

“Mind, like a crystal, is colored by its surroundings.
You are bound to reflect the qualities and shortcomings of the good or bad friends whose company you keep.

If you associate with the malevolent, the selfish, the rancorous, the intolerant, and the arrogant, their faults will affect you. You would do better to keep your distance.”

~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Being

Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in a divine manner, and he shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

The soul in which this birth is to take place must keep absolutely pure and must live in noble fashion, quite collected, and turned entirely inward: not running out through the five senses into the multiplicity of creatures, but all inturned and collected and in the purest part: there is His place; He disdains anything else.

- Meister Eckhart

Love

"Liking and loving are different, but there is no difference between ordinary love and spiritual love.

Love is spiritual. I have never come across ordinary love; the ordinary thing is liking. Love is never ordinary - it can't be, it is intrinsically extraordinary. It is not of this world.

When you say to a woman or a man 'I love you' you are simply saying 'I cannot be deceived by your body, I have seen you. Your body may become old but I have seen you, the bodiless you. I have seen your innermost core, the core that is divine.' Liking is superficial. Love penetrates and goes to the very core of the person, touches the very soul of the person.

No love is ordinary. Love cannot be ordinary, otherwise it is not love. To call love ordinary is to misunderstand the whole phenomenon of love. Love is never ordinary, love is always extraordinary, always spiritual. That is the difference between liking and love: liking is material, love is spiritual." ~ Osho

Self

Self
Really there's nothing to do, nothing to become, in order for you to find total happiness. It's not finding something new to add on to yourself. It's letting go of everything you've been holding onto, becoming virtually empty, total emptiness, becoming a no one, a nobody, a nothing. Allowing all of your preconceived ideas, your conceptual thinking, to dissolve. Letting go of everything that you've been holding onto, your desires, your emotions. Becoming a simple person. Not worrying about the future. Being your Self, absolute reality, the Self which is God, allowing that to take place. Forgetting about time and space. Not trying to change the world or anyone else, not even trying to change yourself, but rather going deep within yourself, diving deep within yourself, deeper than you've ever gone before. The deeper you dive, the more the ego disappears. Remember, the ego, the body, the mind are one. They never existed really.

~ Robert Adams

self realised person

The apparently Self-realised person does not hanker after more pleasure in daily living, nor does he resist whatever comes his way as a sense objects. Wanting some thing positively or not wanting something negatively are both aspect of volition, and in case of apparently Self-realised person there is absolutely no volition. His sensorial apparatus responds to an external stimulus without the intervention of the mind. He lives his life 'like a dry leaf in the breeze'. He knows that his life is being lived according to God's Will or the Cosmic Law, like everyone's life, and merely witnesses life happening naturally.

~ Ramesh Balsekar

Sadguru ..shishya

1. 'What are the marks of a real teacher (Sadguru)?'

Steady abidance in the Self, looking at all with an equal eye, unshakeable courage at all times, in all places and circumstances, etc.

2. 'What are the marks of an earnest disciple (sadsisya)?'

An intense longing for the removal of sorrow and attainment of joy and an intense aversion for all kinds of mundane pleasure.

(From 'Spiritual Instruction', Ch. I: INSTRUCTION (Upadesa).)

Consciousness

Get rid of subject and object
Pure consciousness remains.. #ramana

Dispassion

Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from going outwards is called vairagya (dispassion). Fixing them in the Self is sadhana (spiritual practice) or abhyasa (practice).

Day by Day with Bhagavan

Happiness

Happiness is the very nature of the Self; happiness and the Self are not different. There is no happiness in any object of the world. We imagine through our ignorance that we derive happiness from objects. When the mind goes out, it experiences misery. In truth, when its desires are fulfilled, it returns to its own place and enjoys the happiness that is the Self. Similarly, in the states of sleep, samadhi and fainting, and when the object desired is obtained or the object disliked is removed, the mind becomes inward-turned, and enjoys pure Self-Happiness. Thus the mind moves without rest alternately going out of the Self and returning to it. Under the tree the shade is pleasant; out in the open the heat is scorching. A person who has been going about in the sun feels cool when he reaches the shade. Someone who keeps on going from the shade into the sun and then back into the shade is a fool. A wise man stays permanently in the shade. Similarly, the mind of the one who knows the truth does not leave Brahman. The mind of the ignorant, on the contrary, revolves in the world, feeling miserable, and for a little time returns to Brahman to experience happiness. In fact, what is called the world is only thought. When the world disappears, i.e. when there is no thought, the mind experiences happiness; and when the world appears, it goes through misery.
('Who Am I?', Q. 24: 'What is happiness?')

I am

I, Awareness, cannot be enlightened. I am already the light that illumines all experience. Nor can a separate self be enlightened for when the separate self faces the light, it vanishes, just as does a shadow when exposed to the sun.

~ Rupert Spira

Reality

"In reality nothing happens.  Onto the screen of the mind destiny forever projects its pictures, memories of former projections, and thus illusion constantly renews itself.  The pictures come and go--light intercepted by ignorance.  See the light and disregard the picture."

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Jnani

The internal difference that makes a soul a jnani is that he knows who he is and who you are. He knows Truth, and he knows the lie. Another difference is that he knows his way around within the inner workings of the mind. He can travel here and there with his own 747, without extraneous external conveyances. He knows the goings-on in far-off places. He is consciously conscious of his own karma, dharma and that of others. For him there is no apartness, due to his attainment within the chakras previously described. His only gift to others, to the world, would be blessings, an outpouring of energy to all beings from the higher planes where he resides. It is the jnani, the enlightened being who sees beyond duality and knows the oneness of all. He is the illumined one, filled with light, filled with love. He sees God everywhere, in all men. He is the one who simply is and who sees no differences. That is his difference.
~~ Lesson 6 from Merging with Siva

I am

No one has more or less opportunity to be himself to love and to be content within himself.

It is so much simpler to be what I am - as if I could be anything else.

Serenity is an open door.

Most people believe that the world is outside of them. They live life backward running after security and approval. As if by making enough money or getting enough praise they could be happy once and for all. But nothing outside us can give us what we are longing for.

When you don’t believe your thoughts, what is, is what you are.
There is no separation in it.
You are everything.
Only the unquestioned mind would believe that you are an ‘I’ living inside a body.

- Byron Katie

Bhagwat Geeta

Sage

You can be the poorest man in terms of material wealth
and yet be a champion of the spirit in this life.
In ancient times, it is said, even kings and emperors
would bow down at the feet of an illiterate sage.
Illiterate means unlearned, uneducated.
Now, a king doesn't bow down to anybody except God,
so he must be at least wise enough to know whose feet he is bowing down to, or be compelled by some power to put his head at the sage's feet.
Human beings search for greatness based upon human concepts, conditioning and achievements.
A sage may have nothing. He is empty, but the force of his mere presence alone will draw those to him who have even a spark of attraction to the Supreme.

The sage doesn't point you to university
—he pulls you into the Universal Heart.

~ Mooji

The Jnani

THE JNANI
Question: How then does the Aham-Vritti (‘I’ thought, the sense of individuality) function in the jnani?
Sri Ramana Maharshi: It does not function in him at all. The jnani’s real nature is the Heart itself, because he is one and identical with the undifferentiated, pure consciousness referred to by the Upanishads as the Prajnana (full consciousness). Prajnana is truly Brahman, the absolute, and there is no Brahman other than Prajnana.
- The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Edited by David Godman

The State Of The Jnani

THE STATE OF THE JNANI
Maharaj: The world is but a show, glittering and empty.
It is, and yet is not. It is there as long as I want to see it and take part in it. When I cease caring, it dissolves.
It has no cause and serves no purpose. It just happens when we are absent-minded. It appears exactly as it looks, but there is no depth in it, nor meaning.
Only the onlooker is real. Call him Self or Atma. To the Self the world is but a colorful show, which he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter, yet all the time he is aware that it is but a show. Without desire or fear he enjoys it, as it happens.
Questioner: The person immersed in the world has a life of many flavors. He weeps, he laughs, loves and hates, desires and fears, suffers and rejoices. The desireless and fearless jnani, what life has he? Is he not left high and dry in his aloofness?
M: His state is not so desolate. It tastes of the pure, uncaused, undiluted bliss. He is happy and fully aware that happiness is his very nature and that he need not do anything, nor strive for anything to secure it. It follows him, more real than the body, nearer than the mind itself.
You imagine that without cause there can be no happiness. To me dependence on anything for happiness is utter misery. Pleasure and pain have causes, while my state is my own, totally uncaused, independent, unassailable.
- I AM THAT ch. 40

You are here

You cannot speak about this.
You cannot show it,
and yet when you come to this place inside your
heart, you will know, 'I am nothing but this,'
and many will somehow recognise you.
They will see you, they will feel your presence.
You don't have to speak anything,
because it is not your words.
Out of the pores in your body
the evidence of Truth will shine.
You are Here, you are Here, you are Here.

"White Fire" ~ Mooji

नाम

श्रीब्रह्मचैतन्य श्रीगोंदवलेकर महाराजांचा नामबोध
२० डिसेंबर
नामीं ठेवावें चित्त । तेंच मानावें सत्य ॥

प्रारब्धानुसार देहाची गति । तेथे न गुंतवावी आपली वृत्ति ॥
प्रारब्धाने देहाची स्थिति । आपण न पालटूं द्यावी वृत्ति ॥
पांडव परमात्म्याचे सखे झाले । तरी वनवासांतून मुक्त नाहीं झाले ॥ म्हणून देह प्रारब्धावर टाकावा । जें होईल तो आनंद मानावा ॥
चित्त ठेवावें भगवंतापायीं । प्रारब्ध आड येऊं शकत नाहीं ॥
देहाचे भोग देहाचे माथां । कष्ट न होती रघुनाथ स्मरतां ॥
प्रारब्धानें आलेले कर्म करीत जावें । त्याचे फळ भगवंताकडे सोपवावे ॥ मुखीं असावें एक नाम । याहून दुजें पुण्य नसे जाण ॥
नामीं ठेवावें चित्त । तेंच मानावे सत्य । अखंड राखावें समाधान ।
हीच परमार्थाची खरी खूण जाण ॥
परमार्थाला एकच उपाय जाण । अखंड असावें अनुसंधान ॥
देह सोपवावा प्रारब्धावर । मन गुंतवावे रामावर ॥
||हरये नम:| हरये नम:| हरये नम:||

दत्त

‘त्रिगुणात्मक त्रैमूर्ति दत्त हा जाणा ।’ श्री गुरु देव दत्त   त्रिगुणात्मक आहे, त्रैमूर्ती आहे. श्री दत्तात्रेयांचा जन्म ब्रह्मा, विष्णु आणि महेश यांच्या अंशापासून झालेला आहे. हे तीन देव उत्पत्ती, स्थिती आणि लय यांच्याशी संबंधित असल्यामुळे हे देव वस्तुतः त्रिगुणातीत असूनही कार्यानुसार गुणाश्रयी आहेत, म्हणजे अनुक्रमे रज, सत्त्व आणि तम या त्रिगुणांना ते आश्रय देतात.

‘नेति नेति शब्द न ये अनुमाना ।’  वेदांनी श्री दत्ताचे स्वरूप वर्णन करण्याचा प्रयत्न केला; परंतु त्यांना काहीच अनुमान न करता आल्याने ‘नेति, नेति’ म्हणजे ‘असे नाही, असे (ही) नाही’, एवढेच ते सांगू शकले.

‘सबाह्य अभ्यंतरी तू एक दत्त ।’  आत-बाहेर पूर्णपणे तू एक दत्त केवळ गुरुतत्त्वरूप, ईश्वरतत्त्व असलेला आहेस.

‘अभाग्यासी कैंची कळेल ही मात ।’ म्हणजे आम्हा अभागी, दुर्दैवी लोकांना तुझे माहात्म्य कसे कळणार ?

‘पराही परतली तेथे कैंचा हेत ।’  श्री दत्ताचे वर्णन करायला गेलेली परावाणीही परत फिरली त्यात कोणता हेतू असावा बरे ? दत्ताचे स्वरूप तुर्यावस्थेच्या पलीकडे असल्याने परावाणीही तिथे पोहोचू शकत नाही. यामुळे ती काही न बोलताच परत फिरली.

‘जन्ममरणाचा पुरलासे अंत ।’  श्री दत्ताचे स्वरूप नित्य आणि अनादी-अनंत असे आहे. तिथे जन्ममरण हे शब्दच संपतात.

‘जन्ममरणाचा फेरा चुकविला ।’  जन्ममरणाच्या फेर्‍यातून माझी सुटका केली.
मला मोक्ष दिला.

‘मीतूपणाची झाली बोळवण ।’ याचा भावार्थ आहे, अद्वैतावस्था प्राप्त झाल्याने मी-तू हा आपपरभाव संपला आहे.

दिगंबरा दिगंबरा श्री पाद वल्लभ दिगंबरा ....
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Ramana says

Death

Q: Are you not afraid of death?

M: I am dead already.

Q: In what sense?

M: I am double dead. Not only am I dead to my body, but to my mind too.

Q: Well, you do not look dead at all!

M: That’s what you say! You seem to know my state better than I do!

Q: Sorry. But I just do not understand. You say you are bodyless and mindless, while I see you very much alive and articulate.

M: A tremendously complex work is going on all the time in your brain and body, are you conscious of it? Not at all. Yet for an outsider all seems to be going on intelligently and purposefully. Why not admit that one’s entire personal life may sink largely below the threshold of consciousness and yet proceed sanely and smoothly?

Q: Is it normal?

M: What is normal? Is your life -- obsessed by desires and fears, full of strife and struggle, meaningless and joyless -- normal? To be acutely conscious of your body id it normal? To be torn by feelings, tortured by thoughts: is it normal?

A healthy body, a healthy mind live largely unperceived by their owner; only occasionally, through pain or suffering they call for attention and insight.

Why not extend the same to the entire personal life? One can function rightly, responding well and fully to whatever happens, without having to bring it into the focus of awareness. When self- control becomes second nature, awareness shifts its focus to deeper levels of existence and action.

- I AM THAT ch. 12

Surrender thoughts

SURRENDERING THOUGHTS.

DROPS from the OCEAN
57- By V Ganesan.
No " I" ..NO ME....NO MINE.

Devotee: How can the rebellious mind be brought under control?
Bhagavan: Either you seek its source so that it may disappear, or surrender so that it may be struck down. Thoughts are eliminated by the either holding on to the root-thought „I‟, or by surrendering one self unconditionally to the higher power. These are the only two ways for Self- realization.
Raise the question “Who am I?” inwardly, and reach the source of all thoughts – one‟s own Self – and be the Self which is the ultimate Truth. This is jnana marga, the path of wisdom. Or surrender unconditionally to the higher power. This is bhakti marga, the path of surrender. According to tradition, this is the accepted method of these two royal ways. Usually, it is taken for granted that the latter is the easier of the two paths. But is it so? This is a serious question every sincere seeker has to ponder over.
When thought, a vibratory movement, involves itself with happening, persons and things that have already taken place, it is called the past or memory. Based on that acquired knowledge, when thoughts project themselves through desires and plans to be fulfilled, it is called the future. In short, both past and future are merely thoughts, unreal and non-existent. This constant movement from the past to the future, creates an illusion as if it takes place in the present. If pointed attention is paid to the present, we will realize that no movement at all takes place in the NOW!
To be in the NOW, actually and factually, is to not manufacture thoughts of the past and future. This means we should remain without any form of mental, vibratory movement. Vibratory movements are noises echoed in the mind. The present, the NOW, is total stillness and silence.
Giving up thoughts of the past and future is surrender. To remain in the NOW is thus, true surrender.Burning off of all movements towards the past and the future, in the flame of the  motionless NOW, can take place only in the silence of the Self. The silence of the Self, absorbing the noises of the mind into its silence, is surrender.
Surrender is the supreme state where past and future, the two unreal states, dissolve into the one totality.Jnana marga, the path of wisdom, is where there is no „I‟. Bhakti marga, the path of surrender, is where there is no „me‟ and „mine‟.
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Bliss

You are the Self (Atman), and that is the "Essence of Bliss."
Happiness is the nature of our own Inner Being. If your mind is
content, then that contentment will be present in all outward
circumstances.

However, we get deluded when we think that we get
happiness from sense objects. This is a mistake that all are making.
How can you have sorrow if you are convinced that you are not a
body but only the Self? What will happen? No matter what you say or do, only that which is destined to happen will happen.
So, why should we worry?

Sadguru Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

Be calm

Ramana Maharshi said to me...

"The only spiritual life you need is not to react."

To be calm is the greatest asset in the world.
It's the greatest siddhi, the greatest power you can have.
If you can only learn to be calm you will solve every problem.
This is something you must remember.
When you are perfectly calm, time stops.
There is no time, karma stops, samskaras stop.
Everything becomes null and void.
For when you are calm you are one with the entire energy of the universe
and everything will go well with you.
To be calm means you are in control.
You're not worried about the situation, the outcome.
What is going to happen tomorrow.
To be calm means everything is alright.
There is nothing to worry about, nothing to fret over.
This is also the meaning of the biblical saying,
"Be still and know that I am God."

To be calm is to be still.

Robert Adams

Life

SRI SRI

Life is waiting for you to smile

Our body has the capacity to sustain the vibrations of bliss and peace much longer than negative emotions. That is because positivity is in the centre of our existence.

The self

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
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Ramana quotes

Sri Bhagavan: There is no karma without a karta (doer). On seeking for the doer he disappears. Where is Karma then?

(From 'Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi' 628)

Light

We are so engrossed with the objects,
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light.

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The thing to do is to concentrate
on the seer and not on the seen,
not on the objects,
but on the Light which reveals them.
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~ Ramana Maharshi _/\_

Realization

Realisation is not attained by going far,
but only by staying still;
not by thought,
but by cessation of thought.

~ Tripura Rahasya, Chapter IX, v.81

Silence

Silence is the wine in which you will be drunk forever.
In this Silence you know and love all Beings.
With that wine you can drink anywhere,
and when you drink you cannot speak.
Stay in the experience, surrender to It.
To taste bliss forget all other tastes
and drink the wine served within.

- Papaji

Eternal now

Future and Past only seems to exist if we compare it to eternal NOW; But neither there is future nor past, they're only thoughts  and memories perceived in NOW......Mooji

Realization , Parabhakti , Vasanas

Ramana says

Speaking of realization, it implies two selves - the one to realize, the other to be realized. What is not already realized is sought to be realized. Once we admit our existence, how is it that we do not know our Self? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Ramana says:

"Sri Bhagavan read out, from the Prabuddha Bharata, Kabir's saying that all know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. This is para bhakti, said he."
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Ramana says:

Because of vasanas. But really it is easy, since we are the Self.All we have to do is to remember that. We keep on forgetting it, and thus think we are this body, or this ego. If the will and desire to remember Self are strong enough, they will eventually overcome vasanas. There must be a great battle going on inwardly all the time until Self is realised. This battle is symbolically spoken of in scriptural writings as the fight between God and Satan. In our sruti [revealed scripture] it is a Mahabharata war, where the asuras represent our bad thoughts and the devas our elevating ones."

Surrender

surrender to what is.. say yes to the truth..

Neti Neti ...

I am not body...Not intellect... not mind...

"I am One Pure Consciousness"

#squote

Grace

Except through the exalted Divine Light, which is the Grace of Consciousness, it is impossible to transcend the conceptualising power of the mind. Other than through Grace of the Mother, who is Chit-Parashakti; Consciousness; the Supreme Power, no one attains the reality of Shiva Chaitanyam - the experience of Shivam. Om Shiva Shakti.

Yogi Anand Saraswati

God

To know the true God you have to be totally empty.
In fact the opportunity in this life is to discover the God-Self
and to observe how He lives in this body.
He is the true landlord of this house and this Universe.
And when He alone is there, strangely, you find you are there also
as a single wholeness, a oneness—not a mere object.
~ Mooji

Infinite eye

Sri Bhagavan Ramana sometimes used the phrase, the “Infinite Eye” to describe the way in which the Jnani is aware of himself and the world appearance. When suttarivu – objective knowledge of the undivided Consciousness operates, there is an “I” who creates and sees an external world, and who then processes the information about it through the physical eyes. In Jnana, one sees and knows the world to be an appearance in one’s own Self. This ‘Infinite Eye” sees and knows nothing other than itself, and it accomplishes this without the false division of seer and seen. Sri Bhagavan explains the apparent paradox of this state in Aksharaannamalai, V15: “Eye of the Eye you are, and without eyes you see. Who can see You?” Hara Hara Mahadeva.

Quotes

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself. Do not worry about the future. ~ Sri Ramana.

True friendship

“Sooner or later, you will have to part from even your dearest friends. But one friend will never leave you, even though you may never be aware of its existence. It is the Buddha-nature, pure awareness. You begin to discover it by listening to the teachings of a spiritual master.

The ties will deepen as you cultivate sustained mental calm and profound insight into reality. In the end, you will discover that it has always been near you and will always be with you. This is the truest friendship you can ever cultivate.”

~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Mind

Q: Yes, I still understand only theoretically. Yet the answers are simple, beautiful and convincing.

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Even the thought `I do not realize' is a hindrance.
In fact, the Self alone is.
Our real nature is mukti.
But we are imagining we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free,
while we are all the while free.
This will be understood only when we reach that stage.

We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something which we have always been and are.

An illustration will make this clear.
A man goes to sleep in this hall.
He dreams he has gone on a world tour,
is roaming over hill and dale, forest and country,
desert and sea, across various continents and
after many years of weary and strenuous travel,
returns to this country, reaches Tiruvannamalai,
enters the ashram and walks into the hall.
Just at that moment he wakes up and
finds he has not moved an inch
but was sleeping where he lay down.

He has not returned after great effort to this hall,
but is and always has been in the hall.

It is exactly like that;
If it is asked, `Why being free do we imagine that we are bound?'

I answer,
`Why being in the hall did you imagine you were on a world adventure, crossing hill and dale, desert and sea?

It is all mind or maya [illusion].

~ Be as you are

Jnana

When jnana (enlightenment) comes, all ajnana (ignorance) goes and all daivic (godly) qualities come automatically.

Day by Day with Bhagavan

Who r u

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

The Impact of Awakening

Quotes

Be as u r

Q: Yes, I still understand only theoretically. Yet the answers are simple, beautiful and convincing.

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Even the thought `I do not realize' is a hindrance.
In fact, the Self alone is.
Our real nature is mukti.
But we are imagining we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free,
while we are all the while free.
This will be understood only when we reach that stage.

We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something which we have always been and are.

An illustration will make this clear.
A man goes to sleep in this hall.
He dreams he has gone on a world tour,
is roaming over hill and dale, forest and country,
desert and sea, across various continents and
after many years of weary and strenuous travel,
returns to this country, reaches Tiruvannamalai,
enters the ashram and walks into the hall.
Just at that moment he wakes up and
finds he has not moved an inch
but was sleeping where he lay down.

He has not returned after great effort to this hall,
but is and always has been in the hall.

It is exactly like that;
If it is asked, `Why being free do we imagine that we are bound?'

I answer,
`Why being in the hall did you imagine you were on a world adventure, crossing hill and dale, desert and sea?

It is all mind or maya [illusion].

~ Be as you are

Emptiness

“When one destroys even the most subtle concepts and notions of subject and object, one arrives at the way things truly. But this state of emptiness is not empty like an empty pot or void space.

It is filled with the clarity of awareness. By attaining sound realization of this concentration of clear wisdom, one is able to destroy an entire mountain of negative actions and obscurations.”

~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Zurchungpa's Testament Commentaries)