Know that the wondrous jnana vichara is only for those who have attained purity of mind by softening and melting within. Without this softening and melting away of the mind, brought about by thinking of the feet of the Lord, the attachment to the ‘I' that adheres to the body will not cease to be.
- Sri Ramana Jnana Bodham
Suka was the best of the four sons ofVeda Vyasa.
One was Dhritarashtra, the blind son, born through Niyoga, of Ambika, per the order of his mother Satyavati. Ambika was the widow of his step-brother Vichitravirya and by birth, the princess of Kasi. Dhritarahtra’s kingly aspirations turned him to adharma and was one of the causes of the Mahabharata war. His blindness is also seen as symbolic of his partiality to his son and blindness to his faults. His name itself is suggestive of someone who held to his kingdom firmly and there are those who wonder what his actual name was. His sons wereDuryodhana and the other Kauravas.Another was Pandu, the albino, born through Niyoga, per the order of his mother Satyavati, of Ambalika, the widow of his step-brother Vichitravirya and by birth, the princess of Kasi. He was valorous but eventually cursed and left the kingdom. His sons (through Niyoga) were the Pandavas. Again Pandu means Albino, so we are not very sure of his real name.The wise Vidura, was born of Vyasa and a maid deputed by the princesses, to avoid directly disobeying Satyavati’s order. His knowledge of law and ethics was so perfect that he was also called Dharma. Again Vidura derived of the root Vid, means the knowledgeable one. Sri Krishna preferred staying with Vidura rather than with Duryodhana. Kunthi too stayed with Vidura rather than Dhritarashtra when her sons were unfairly exiled.
But it is Vyasa’s son born in the forest of a Suka Jathi Sthri, who was his perfect and greatest son. There are many who believe that Suka’s mother was not a lady of the Suka tribe but a real parrot. Faith is faith! I have no arguments against faith. It may also be that he was the only son and student of Vyasa with a perfect memory who was able to recite without any omissions the entire Bhagavatham. The epithet Suka, may actually refer to his perfect memory. Some illustrations draw him with a green parrot head. Some puranas say that Suka was born of the Vedic fire when Vyasa was attracted to the apsara ghRtaci, who flew away in a parrot’s form.
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श्रीब्रह्मचैतन्य श्रीगोंदवलेकर महाराजांचा नामबोध
२८ सप्टेंबर
अनुसंधानात राहिल्यावर अभिमान गळून जातो.
अभिमान सोडून जो गृहस्थाश्रम पाळील तोच खरा परमार्थी. अभिमान सोडल्याने गृहस्थाश्रम चांगला होतो. 'मी म्हणेन तसे होईल,' असे कधीही म्हणू नये. अभिमान म्हणजे 'मी कर्ता' ही भावना असणे. ही भावना टाकून काम केले, तर् व्यवहारात कुठे नडते ? 'मी भगवंताचा आहे, या देहाचा नाही,' असे अखंड अनुसंधान् ठेवून, आपल्याला भगवत्स्वरूप का होता येणार नाही ? जो आतबाहेर भगवंताने भरून राहील किंवा त्या ज्ञानाने भरून राहील तोच खरा ज्ञानी होय' आणि जाणीव ज्याप्रमाणे देहाला व्यापून असते, त्याप्रमाणे भगवंताचे स्मरण ज्याचे मन व्यापून टाकील तोच खरा साधक, तोच खरा अनुसंधानी, आणि तोच खरा मुक्त समजावा.
विस्तवाजवळ तूप ठेवले की ते वितळते, तसे नामाची शेगडी ठेवली की अभिमान वितळलाच पाहिजे.
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२६ सप्टेंबर
भगवंताला विसरणे ही आत्महत्याच.
आपल्यात आणि संतांमध्ये फरक हाच की, आपण जगतासाठी देव मानतो, तर् संत देवासाठी जगत मानतात. या जगात सर्व दॄष्टीने पूर्ण असा एक भगवंतच आहे; त्याला विसरणे ही आत्महत्याच आहे. तेव्हा नेहमी त्याच्या सान्निध्यात, म्हणजेच त्याच्या नामात, राहाण्याचा प्रयत्न करावा. सर्व कीर्तनांचे सार हेच असते. फक्त मांडणी निराळी. ज्याला भगवंताच्या नामाची खूण मनापासून समजली त्याच्या जन्माचे सार्थक झाले, त्याचा परमार्थ सफल झाला, आणि त्याला जगात मिळवायचे बाकी असे काही राहिलेच नाही. मारुतिरायाची भक्ती फार मोठी. श्रीरामाला वाटले, याला आता काहीतरी 'चिरंजीव' असे दिल्याशिवाय याचे समाधान होणार नाही; म्हणून चिरंजीव असे हे आपले नाम त्याला त्याने दिले. त्यामुळे त्या नामाबरोबर मारुतीही चिरंजीव झाला.
सर्व संतांचे सांगणे आहे की, मनापासून भगवंताचे नाम घ्या आणि आपले कर्तव्यकर्म करा.
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२७ सप्टेंबर
स्मरण ही कृती आहे.
भगवंतापासून आपल्याला जे दूर सारते ते खरे संकट होय. तोच काळ सुखात जातो की जो भगवत्स्मरणात जातो. खरोखर, स्मरण ही कृती आहे आणि विस्मरण ही वृत्ती आहे. भगवंताचे स्मरण करणे म्हणजे हवन करणे होय, आणि अभिमान नष्ट करणे म्हणजे पूर्णाहुती देणेच होय्. वृत्ती भगवंताकार झाली पाहिजे. आपल्याला ज्याची आवड असते त्याचे स्मरण आपोआप राहते. विषय अंगभूत झाले असल्याने त्यांचे स्मरण सहज राहते; पण भगवंताचे स्मरण आपण मुद्दाम करायला पाहिजे. हे करणे अगदीच सोपे नाही; परंतु ते फार कठीण देखील नाही. ते मनुष्याला करता येण्यासारखे आहे. भगवंताचे अनुसंधान हा उंबरठ्यावरचा दिवा आहे; त्याने परमार्थ आणि प्रपंच दोन्हीकडे उजेड पडेल. प्रपंचामध्ये वागताना मनाने थोडे लक्ष द्यावे लागते, याला भगवंताचे अधिष्ठान असणे म्हणजेच अनुसंधान ठेवणे म्हणतात.
भगवंताच्या इच्छेने अकर्तेपणाने कर्म करणे, हेच अनुसंधान ठेवणे किंवा भक्ती करणे होय.
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THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION
If one has experiences that one interprets as "results," either during or after meditation, do not make anything special of them, but just observe them as phenomena. Above all, do not attempt to repeat them, since this opposes the natural spontaneity of the mind.
There should be no feeling of striving to reach some exalted goal or higher state, since this simply produces something conditioned and artificial that will act as an obstruction to the free flow of the mind.
One should never think of oneself as "sinful" or worthless, but as naturally pure and perfect, lacking nothing.
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The return of attention to its source can be accomplished by taking all of our pain and personal intensity and funneling it back to where it arose from in the first place. Instead of funneling it elsewhere into relationships, work, or addiction, the only appropriate place for it is back to our innermost core.
- Sruti, The Hidden Value of Not Knowing
मुरावें मनीं आत्मतेनें भरावें
फिरावे बहु देश,ज्ञाना वरावें
बहू पुण्य क्षेत्रां पहावे रहावें
परी शेवटी ईशनामीं वसावें २३०
मनाला उपदेश करताना संत बाबामहाराज म्हणतात की, हे मना ! तू अनेक देश फिरुन ये , ज्ञान संपादन कर मात्र शेवटी तू अंतर्मुख होऊन आत्मरूप हो.
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कृपया यह ध्यान में रखे की इस लेखमाला में जो गीता के केवल आत्मज्ञानपर श्लोक है उनका ही स्पष्टीकरण दिया गया है।
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आ. नि. क्रमांक 29
आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं-समुद्रमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत्।
तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे स शान्तिमान्प्रोति न कामकामी।।२/ ७०।।
स्पष्टीकरण : भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण ने समुद्रको अचल प्रतिष्ठावाला कहा है। यहाँ पर प्रतिष्ठा यानि स्थिति ऐसा अर्थ लेना चाहिए। सर्व काल अपनी मर्यादा में स्थित होनेसे समुद्रकी प्रतिष्ठा अचल होती है। सब ओरसे नदियाँ आदिका जल निरंतर समुद्रमें आकर मिलते रहता है। फिर भी समुद्र की अचल स्थिति में कोई विकार उत्पन्न नही होता। समुद्र जैसे है वैसेहि रहता है। सभी ओरसे आनेवाला जल समुद्रमें बिना विकार निर्माण किये ही समा जाता है।
ऐसेही, जो स्थितप्रज्ञ ज्ञानी महात्मा है उसका चित्त निरंतर अविचल रहता है। संसार में रहते हुए और सभी कर्म सामान्यरूपसे करते हुए, उसके चित्त में भी अनेक विषय प्रवेश करते है। विषयोंका संग होने पर अनेक इच्छाओंका निर्माण वैसेहि होता है जैसे सामान्य मनुष्यके मन में होते रहता है। किन्तु उसकी समस्त इच्छाएँ, जल जैसे समुद्रमें लीन हो जाता है, वैसेहि बिगर कुछ विकार उत्पन्न किये आत्मा में ही लीन हो जाती है। कोई भी एक या अनेक इच्छा उस परमज्ञानी को वश में नही कर सकती। आत्मा में विलीन हो कर नष्ट हो जाती है।
ऐसे ही स्थितप्रज्ञ पुरुषको मोक्ष मिलता है जिसकी कामना पूर्णतया नष्ट हो गयी होती। जो मनुष्य भोगोंकी कामना करता है और जिसके मन में सुप्त या प्रकट कोई भी इच्छा रहे, तो उसे मोक्ष मिलना असंभव है। भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण ने ऐसे व्यक्तियोंके लिए "कामकामी" इस शब्द का प्रयोग किया है। अभिप्राय यह है कि जिनको पानेके लिए इच्छा की जाती है, उन भोगोंका नाम "काम" है। उनको (कामको) पानेकी इच्छा करना जिसका स्वभाव है वह कामकामी है। ऐसा कामकामी मनुष्य उस परमशान्ति को कभी नही पा सकता।
परमशान्तिको प्राप्त हुआ वह महापुरुष कैसे रहता है? कैसे समय बिताता है? कैसे जीता है? आदि प्रश्न इस लेखमालाके वाचकोंके मन में आये होंगे। स्थितप्रज्ञ ब्रह्मवेत्ताका बहुत ही सुंदर वर्णन भगवान् शंकराचार्यने अपने प्रकरण ग्रन्थ "विवेक चूड़ामणि" में किया हुआ है, जिसे पढ़कर आपके प्रश्नोंके उत्तर मिलेंगे!
क्कचिन्मूढो विद्वान्क्कचिदपि महाराजविभवः ।
क्कचिद्भ्रान्तः सौम्यः क्कचिदजगराचारलितः ।
क्कचित्पात्रीभूतः क्कचिदवमतः क्काप्यविदितश्र्चरत्येवं प्राज्ञः सततपरमापन्दसुखतः ।।
अर्थः निरंतर परमआनंद से सुखी ब्रम्हवेत्ता कहीं विद्वान होकर, कहीं मूढ़़ होकर, कहीं बड़े राजा का वैभव संपादन करनेवाला होकर, कहीं भ्रमिष्ट होकर, कहीं सभ्य गृहस्थ होकर, कहीं अजगर जैसे वृत्ति का होकर, कहीं सत्पात्र होकर अथवा कहीं अपमानित होकर, कहीं कोई पहचान न पाए इस तरह से संचार करता है।
निर्धंनोSपि सदा तुष्टोSप्यसहायो महाबलः।
नित्यतृप्तोSप्यभुञ्जनोS प्यसमः समदर्शनः ।।
अपि कुर्वन्नकुर्वाणश्र्चाभोक्ता फलभोग्यपि।
शरीर्यप्यशरीर्येष परिच्छिंन्नोSपि सर्वगः ।।
अर्थः ब्रह्मवेत्ता निर्धन होकर भी निरंतर संतुष्ट होता है, किसी की सहायता न होते हुए वह बड़ा सामर्थ्यवान होता है, विषयों को न भोगकर भी निरंतर तृप्त होता है, सबसे विलक्षण होकर भी सर्वत्र समदृष्टी रखनेवाला होता है, सबकुछ करते हुए भी कर्ता नही होता, फलों को भुगतते हुए भी भोक्ता नही होता, देहधारी होकर भी देहरहित होता है, और परिच्छिन्न होकर भी व्यापक होता है
प्रश्न यह है कि क्या ऐसी इच्छाशून्य स्थिति मनुष्य प्राप्त कर सकता है क्या? --इच्छाशून्य स्थिति का अर्थ यह नही की जबरदस्ती-मनके विरुद्ध- सब कर्म त्याग कर दे और एक जगह बैठ जाए। यह वो जीवनमुक्त की स्थिति है जो यथाकाल मनुष्य ज्ञानसे प्राप्त कर सकता है, और यही मोक्ष है। जो भी इच्छाएँ मन में तैयार होती है, उसका कारण अज्ञान है। इच्छा शून्य स्थिति अज्ञान नष्ट होते ही बन जाती है, और अज्ञान को ज्ञान ही नष्ट कर सकता है, कोई दूसरा मार्ग नही है।
अज्ञान मिटनेसे ज्ञान स्वयं प्रकट होता है, जो हमारे शरीर में अस्तित्व में है ही, पर अज्ञानके कारण ढक गया है। हमे कोई नया ज्ञान सीखना नही है। बस जन्म जन्मान्तर के पूर्व संस्कारोंसे तथा वर्तमान जन्म के गलत धारणाओंसे ज्ञानरूपी अग्निपर अज्ञान की राख जम गयी है, जो हमें दूर करना है। हम ज्ञान योग का अभ्यास शुरू करते ही अज्ञान दूर होनेकी प्रक्रिया शुरू होती है जो हमारे मन, बुद्धि और शरीर में निरंतर कार्य करती रहती है। यह प्रक्रिया पूर्ण हो कर मनुष्य स्थितप्रज्ञ बनता है। भगवत्प्राप्ति की इच्छा जितनी प्रबल उतने कम समय में मनुष्य ज्ञानी बनता है।
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Do everything with a mind that lets go.
Do not expect any praise or reward.
If you let go a little,
you will have a little peace.
If you let go a lot,
you will have a lot of peace.
If you let go completely,
you will know complete peace and freedom.
Your struggles with the world will have come to an end.
- Ajahn Chah
"We are the open, empty allowing presence of awareness, in which the objects of the body, mind and world appear and disappear with which they are known and ultimately out of which they are made. Just notice that and be that knowingly."
~ Rupert Spira.
There is a stage in the beginning, when you identify yourself with the body, when you are still having the body-consciousness. At that stage, you have the feeling you are different from the reality or God, and then it is, you think of yourself as a devotee of God or as a servant or lover of God. This is the first stage. The second stage is when you think of yourself as a spark of the divine fire or a ray from the divine Sun. Even then there is still that sense of difference and the body-consciousness. The third stage will come when all such difference ceases to exist, and you realise that the Self alone exists.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
...from 'Day by Day with Bhagavan', 24-11-46
Unless one looks upon death as
a thing that is very near and might happen at any moment,
one will not be aware of the Self. This means that the ego
must die, must vanish, along with the inherent vasanas. If
the ego vanishes thus, the Self will shine as the luminous
Self. Such people will be on a high spiritual plane, free from
births and deaths.”
With that Bhagavan stopped his discourse.
"RELAX, YOU ARE NOT THE DOER"
What is stress?
Stress is the tension between this moment and your mental image of how this moment 'should be'.
Stress is your narrow focus on a mental list of 'things to do', the imaginary burden of 'all the things that haven't been done yet'.
Stress always involves future-thinking, a forgetting of your true Ground - this moment, here, now.
When your focus shifts from what is NOT present, to what IS present, from 'lack' to what is abundantly here, and instead of trying to complete a list of a thousand things, you simply do the next thing, the one thing that presents itself now, with your full attention and passion and presence, lists get completed effortlessly - and even if they don't, creative solutions are found, without stress.
Relax. You are not the doer.
- Jeff Foster
"Unless one looks upon death as a thing that is very near and might happen at any moment, one will not be aware of the Self. This means that the ego must die, must vanish, along with the inherent vasanas. If the ego vanishes thus, the Self will shine as the luminous Self. Such people will be on a high spiritual plane, free from births and deaths.”
(Bhagavan in 'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam' 141)
Only that person who does not carry the previous moment to this moment, is free from everything.
The more importance we give our personality, the more we shackle ourselves to the influence of the past. Sadhguru tells us if we can leave this burden aside, we can pass through life and death effortlessly.
Sadhguru: Right now, whatever you call as “myself” is simply a certain type of information in your mind that you have collected. When you say, “I’m a good person,” “I’m a bad person,” “I am haughty,” “I am meek,” or whatever, these are simply certain formations of the mind. In other words, this is past accumulation – you are simply living through your past. If the past is taken away, most people are just lost. Everything depends on the past for them. The personality belongs to the past. So as long as the personality is important, it simply means the previous moment rules everything. The present moment is no longer important.
The personality that you carry is a dead thing. You cannot walk very far when you carry a dead body over your shoulders. And you can only head towards the burial ground. If you carry a dead body for too long, you will have to bear with terrible smells. The stronger your personality is, the more odoriferous it is.
Leaving the Past Behind
You can go far in life only when you can leave your past. This is like a snake shedding its skin. One moment it is a part of the body, the next moment it is shed and the snake goes on without turning back. If every moment, one is like a snake leaving the skin behind, only then there is growth. When a person does not carry the burden of the past, he is a truly sinless person. Being sinless does not mean that he did not do anything with his life. That would mean being a dead person. He did everything a person could possibly do to know life, but his actions never left any residue, nor did he build a personality out of the actions he performed.
Have you heard of Suka? He was Vyasa’s son. Suka was a pure being, a truly sinless being. There was a particular incident that happened in his life. One day, he was walking by himself in the forest, naked. As he was walking by, there was a lake where a few jala kanyas or nymphs were bathing. As they were by themselves in the forest, all the women were bathing together naked and playing in the water. Suka came upon the lake, looked at them, and just walked by. The women were not ashamed, nor did they try to hide themselves. They just continued their play. Suka walked off.
While looking for Suka, his father Vyasa came after him. He was over seventy years of age, an old man, and a great saint. He also came by the lake while following Suka. When the women saw him, they immediately rushed for their clothes. Vyasa asked them, “I am an old person, and I am dressed properly. Whereas my son is young and naked at that. When he came near you, you were not disturbed, but when I came, you are acting like this. Why?” They said, “He carries no sexual identification. We did not feel anything. He is just like a child.”
Only that person who does not carry the previous moment to this moment, is free from everything. And that quality will be felt everywhere. Within a few moments of meeting you, people will trust you to the extent that they would not even trust their parents, husbands or wives, simply because you don’t carry the burden of the past with you.
Odor Begone!
If you carry the past with you, then you also smell like anybody else. The whole world stinks with personalities. Everybody has his own strong smell or personality. These are the various stenches in the world, and they keep clashing all the time. All your anger, hatred, jealousy, fear – everything is based in the past. The moment you carry the past and future, you become a real ass, because the burden is such. There is no way anybody can live his life intelligently carrying that burden.
When one does not carry this odor, one can cross over this existence. This person crosses the ocean of samsara without any effort. What looks like a great effort for somebody else will be happening for this person without any effort. One not only passes through this world effortlessly, one will pass through the very process of life and death effortlessly.
- See more at: http://www.sadhguruonline.com/blog/shedding-the-burden-of-the-past#sthash.PF1EAIz7.dpuf
How long should I meditate to get enlightened?
There is no limit. Time will do it. Your job is to keep the window open, but time will bring the sunlight in. You can’t make sunlight come into your home just because you have opened the window. You can’t say, “I opened the window, but the sunlight has not come yet.” If you keep your shutters on, even if the sun has risen, you will remain in darkness. So your effort is needed.
Can married couples also attain enlightenment?
See, the example of Ramakrishna Paramahamsaji. He was married, Sharada Devi was his wife. There are many such examples like this. So even couples can attain enlightenment. Enlightenment is not something that just drops from somewhere. It is present in all of us.
If the purpose of life is to attain liberation, is there any value for all the time we spend on our education, profession and career?
Each one has its own place. You need to do both. To make a living, you need to work, and to grow on the spiritual path, you need to meditate. Both go together, they do not oppose each other.
Often, we think that only when we leave everything will we be able to meditate here, that is not the case. We see many people who have left everything and sit here, but they take up something else to occupy their mind.
It is not necessary that you have to leave everything, and then meditate.
If you have taken up some responsibility, fulfill it.
Gurudev, Is enlightenment just a realization?
Yes, that is why it’s called Pratya Bhigya which means Realizing.
See the elephant that is here does not know its power. With great love, he holds your hand with his trunk and pulls you. He doesn’t know that he can break the person’s hand whom he is pulling. For him it’s a play. In the same way, we do not realize our inner potential. We think we are just this body mind complex with a few emotions, some little thoughts, little likes and dislikes. The truth is that we are much beyond these things, and that is why enlightenment is like the peeling of it.
The word enlightenment is used so many times, that is why it is so confusing. Enlightenment is simply the peeling off layers and becoming hollow and empty. Get to that spot where you feel absolute comfort and absolute freedom. That is liberation, that isnirvana, that is self-realization, that is yoga, and that is unity. You can call it by so many names. And too much reading also confuses you about it. That’s why I say be natural, be simple
We are all on the path towards enlightenment. If we do not achieve it this lifetime, do we pick up from where we left off?
Yes, correct.
What is enlightenment? How does a regular person find out if someone is enlightened?
It cannot be said in words, it has to be felt. You cannot describe love. You can’t say that love is endorphins or oxytocin getting produced in your body, it is something that only the heart can know; your existence can feel something different. The funniest thing is that it is in everybody, it is in the original nature of our being and everybody has it, but it has not been uncovered.
Have you seen anyone in The Art of Living get enlightenment?
Yes, there are many who have this experience — they feel something and it starts happening. They have the ability to love everyone and be a nobody.
You don’t have to label yourself that ‘I am enlightened, I am enlightened’, not at all! If you want enlightenment, the first thing you need to remember is total detachment from all that you see, good or bad. Do you still want enlightenment? Are you ready for it? For enlightenment you need to have total detachment because it is your desire which is the only thing that blocks you from enlightenment. The moment you drop all that and say, “I want nothing and I am nothing”, that moment you realize that all the forms and names are nothing, they are all like waves in the ocean; the wave is nothing but the ocean. This conviction is enlightenment. The sea is there, the sun is there, the moon is there and like that I too am here, that is it. Going beyond time is enlightenment. Not being constrained by space is enlightenment. Realizing you are love, everything else is love, that is enlightenment. Being so natural and feeling at home with everyone because there is no other, is enlightenment.
Site :
www.wisdom.srisriravishankar.org/7-questions-enlightenment-answered-sri-sri-ravi-shankar/
If you feel trapped it is through your mind.
If you feel free it is through your mind.
Don’t give it to your mind to assess how good the day has been.
Just be present.
Be like space—it never gets old, it has no mood.
Be like a clear mirror—it has no opinions or preferences.
It doesn’t say, ‘I like to reflect flowers, but not beards.’
Whatever shows up, it reflects perfectly.
So don't give up. By following these simple guidances
your mind is going to become light, open and clear. Why?
Because it is natural for it to be like this.
Only bad education, bad culture, bad habits distort
your perception and recognition of the Real.
Just be very open and present
and accept that every day is your best day,
every moment is your moment.
Are you open for this?
~ Mooji
Recognize the power of mind,
respect the power of mind.
And also recognize the power behind the power,
the ocean holding the wave.
Recognize yourself as the ocean,
with your stories, your feelings, as waves.
Waves can be beautiful or terrifying,
always they return to the ocean.
Every wave always is made up of the ocean.
No wave can ever be separate from the ocean.
Waves of thoughts, waves of emotions,
waves of sensations, waves of events,
are all made up of consciousness.
And all return to consciousness,
while never being separate from consciousness.
And if this becomes another story,
let this go, and see what is true.
~ Gangaji
Papaji Says: "The fear of vanishing which may arise with inquiry,
is the old sensation: "I am the body." This is not a fear of the new, but of leaving the old. Have no fear and plunge into your own Being.
When "you" disappear, all fear will also. Stay Quiet, be Still, Here you are. Stay as presence in your Heart.
Do not fear meeting the Self, it is what you always been. Nothing can be lost, have no fear. There can also be fear of "losing it." Only when you possess something does the fear of losing arise.
Only Self cannot be held, so only Self cannot be lost.
The only way to avoid fear is to return to the inner beauty, the Self, the Heart on the right."
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VASANAS
The nature of thoughts that arise in the mind will be in accordance with the old vasanas.
Vasanas themselves are the mind. If there are no vasanas there is no mind. That which Is, is sat.
The disturbing agitation of mind that occurs when one attempts to get firmly established in sadhana is a normal occurrence that is prompted by the rising of vasanas.
If at that time you hold tightly to the power of the grace of the parasakti that has possessed you (the inner feeling for the ‘I’-am) the vasanas that agitate your mind and distress you will be completely destroyed.
Unless the destruction of all vasanas is accomplished, it will not be possible even for Ishwara to bestow the state of liberation.
- Padamalai
During all activities of life
is to accept whatever comes
and not care about what does not come.
Things will come so enjoy them and be happy
Let the play happen by the Supreme Power;
you will be taken care of.
Be free to be happy, love has no traps.
Four or five days back, a notebook of Madhavaswami was found. As Bhagavan was looking into it, he saw a Tamil verse in it written by him, long ago. It was in Malayalam script, and while transcribing it into Tamil he told us its meaning: “When a man attains jnana, he will not have any regard for this body. Just as, after taking food, the leaf on which it was taken is thrown away however nice it may be, so also after attaining jnana one will be waiting eagerly for the time when it can be thrown away. This is the essence of what is stated in this verse.”
(From 'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam' 123)
CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY
Q: Why is it written in one of the Upanishads, 'Those whom the Atman chooses, to them alone does It reveal Itself, not to others'? Isn't this rather arbitrary?
M: No. It is correct. It chooses only those who devote them selves to It, who become Its devotees. Such It draws inwards to Itself. One must turn inwards to find the Atman. Whoever thinks of It, It will draw to Itself.
All thoughts such as, 'Attainment is hard,' or 'Self-realization is far from me,' or 'I have to overcome many difficulties to know Reality,' should be given up, as they are obstacles and are created by this false self, ego.
They are untrue.
Do not doubt that you are the Reality; live in that understanding. Never question it by deferring your realization of it to some future time. It is because people are victimized and hypnotized by such false thoughts that the Gita says that few out of millions realize the Self.
The order of ashramas was established as a general principle to regulate the gradual development of the ordinary run of humanity, but in the case of one highly mature and fully ripe for atma vichara there is no graduated development. In this case jnana vichara, i.e.Self-enquiry, and the blooming of jnana, are immediate and quick.
p. 158
CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY
There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self.
The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
The enquiry should be where the 'I' is. After the rise of the 'I' -thought, there is false identification of the 'I' with the body, the senses, and the mind. Self is wrongly associated with them; one has lost sight of the true Self.
In order to sift the pure 'I' from the contaminated I', this discarding (of the koshas or sheaths referred to in the Shastras) is mentioned. It does not mean exactly the discarding of the non-self, but more the find ing of the real Self.
The real Self is the infinite 'I-I' in perfection. It is eternal. It has no origin and no end. The other 'I' is born and dies. It is impermanent. See to whom the changing thoughts occur. They will be found to arise after the 'I'-thought. Hold onto the 'I'-thought and they will subside. The Self alone will remain.
- p 157
D: How can I escape from samsara which seems to be the real cause for making the mind restless? Is not renunciation an effective means to realise tranquillity of mind?
M: Samsara is only in your mind. The world does not speak out saying, ‘Here I am, the world’. If it did so, it would be ever there, making its presence felt by you even in your sleep. Since, however, it is not there in sleep, it is impermanent. Being impermanent, it lacks substance. Having no reality apart from the Self it is easily subdued by the Self. The Self alone is permanent. Renunciation is the non-identification of the Self with the not-Self. When the ignorance which identifies the Self with not-Self is removed, not-Self ceases to exist, and that is true renunciation.
('Maharshi's Gospel': I.III)
Mr. K. Mahatani asked in continuation of the above, “If we want to succeed in any enterprise in the world, we must give our whole mind and heart to it. Otherwise we cannot succeed. So it is rather impracticable to devote one’s mind both to God and worldly activity.”
Bhagavan: If one keeps fixed in the Self, the activities will still go on and their success will not be affected. One should not have the idea that one is the doer. The activities will still go on. That force, by whatever name you may call it, which brought the body into existence will see to it that the activities which this body is meant to go through are brought about.
Mr. Mahatani was still not quite satisfied and thereupon Bhagavan referred him to read an article on renunciation which is found at the end of the Gita Press edition of Bhagavad Gita. This article mentions seven stages of renunciation and Bhagavan said, “Let Mr. Mahatani see if anything in this article appeals to him”. I read out the whole article in the hall for the benefit of all, as Bhagavan desired. It is said there that one who has reached the seventh stage of renunciation will not feel even when his body is cut by a weapon or some other suffering is inflicted on him.
Continuing this topic, I said, “It is true such things are said in the books. But we see that the jnani feels pain. Even one like Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa felt pain when he had cancer of the throat and cried out, ‘Why has mother sent this pain to me?’”
Bhagavan: It may be like that in the beginning, due to long association or habit. But afterwards it will pass off.
In this connection I must record that long ago, once when Bhagavan was suffering from some illness and I expressed concern, Bhagavan was pleased to explain to me that he felt the pain as in a dream and no more.
Day by Day, 9-10-45 Afternoon
The mind is commonly said to be strong if it can think furiously....
But here
the mind is strong if it is free from thoughts....
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A jnani has no karma [that is, a jnani performs no actions]. That is his [her] experience. Otherwise he is not a jnani. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
from Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi ~
श्रीब्रह्मचैतन्य श्रीगोंदवलेकर महाराजांचा नामबोध
२३ मे
देवाकरिता स्वतःला विसरावे.
तुम्ही स्वतःला दिवसातून एकदा तरी विसरता की नाही ? हल्ली आपण आपल्याला विसरतो, पण ते विषयाकरिता विसरतो. स्वतःला विसरावे, पण ते विषयाकरिता विसरू नये. भजन करीत असताना देहभाव विसरून भजन करावे. आपण आता तसे करतो का ? भजन म्हणत असताना कोणी ताल चुकला की लगेच आपण रागावतो; ते खरे भजन होत नाही. म्हणून भजन करावे आणि तशी सवय ठेवावी, म्हणजे देहभाव विसरता ये‍ईल. विषयाच्या अधीन न होता संसार करावा. व्यवहारात काम, क्रोध, लोभ वगैरे सर्व काही असावे, पण आपण त्यांच्या स्वाधीन न होता, त्यांना आपल्या ताब्यात ठेवून वागावे; म्हणजे देहभाव आपोआप नष्ट होऊन जाईल. हे सर्व साधायला, परमेश्वराला शरण जाणे हा एकच सोपामार्ग आहे; आणि त्याकरिता नामस्मरणात राहणे हेच साधन आहे. विषय बरोबर घेऊन गुरूकडे गेलो, तर गुरूची खरी भेट होईल का ? ती शक्य नाही. याकरिता, ते सांगतील ते साधन आधी करावे म्हणजे चित्त शुद्ध होते, आणि ते झाल्यावर त्यांची खरी भेट होते.
परमात्म्याचे स्मरण । यातच विषयाचे विस्मरण ॥
||हरये नम:|हरये नम:|हरये नम:||
Forget trying to be One with everything. Unicity will be revealed. Do not try to be One. How far will you go? You get to reach a point where you will exclude someone if you try to include everything. First be completely alone, go in the opposite direction.
~ Mooji
SAGEHOOD AS AN IDEAL
Q. Do you have thoughts?
Sri Ramana: I usually have no thoughts.
Q. But when you are reading?
A. Then I have thoughts.
Q. And when someone asks you a question?
A. Then, too, I have thoughts when replying, not
otherwise.
Q. How can I keep the idea of that real state always
before me?
A. Because you think you are a body you are not able to keep that single idea, you are not firm!
The idea that you must go to Tiruvannamalai and see Maharshi is only a function of the intellect.
Really no help is required. You are already in your original state; how can anyone help you to arrive where you already are? The help given is only to clear out your wrong notions. The great men, the gurus can help only by removing the obstacles in your way.
A child and Jnani are in some ways similar. The child ceases to think of incidents after they have passed off. Thus
it shows that they do not leave deep impressions on the child's mind. So too with a Jnani.
Conscious Immortality
A man was worried because he could not succeed in concentrating the mind.
Sri Ramana: Is it not only One even now? It always remains One only. Diversity lies in your imagination only. Unitary Being need not be acquired.
- Talk 167.
The jnani knows all is of the Self, or all this is Brahman. If there be pain let it be. It is also part of the Self. The Self is poorna [perfect]. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
from Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi ~
The idea that you must go to Tiruvannamalai and see Maharshi is only a function of the intellect.
Really no help is required.
You are already in your original state; how can anyone help you to arrive where you already are? The help given is only to clear out your wrong notions. The great men, the gurus can help only by removing the obstacles in your way.
- Bhagavan in Conscious Immortality
COMPLETE FAILURE
Q: I want what you wanted.
Adya: What did I want?
Q: You wanted to become enlightened.
Adya: I wanted to become enlightened. Ok. It didn’t work out.
Q: Did you at least become awake?
Adya: No. Awakeness became awake. Enlightenment becomes enlightened. The me, the little guy, little Steven Larry Gray, that meditated in his parent’s backyard for hours and hours a day, every single day, in the morning and the evening, and did nothing but do the good Buddhist thing, diligently, terribly, terribly disciplined, he didn’t get enlightened. He never made it. He never crossed the river of nirvana, it never happened to him.
What he did was, for whatever reason, maybe the seeking was necessary, is he got exhausted. It just completely exhausted itself. The little one that was trying to get awake and enlightened got so exhausted, so stricken by I can’t do this, I can’t, and I could no longer tell myself I can. That means the complete and utter destruction of denial. Because the denial is “I can”. And your experience keeps showing you “you can’t.”
And so I got so exhausted psychically, internally, emotionally, spiritually that I couldn’t keep it up anymore. And i had to see the truth. I was willing to see the truth only because I was exhausted. I can’t do it. And in that “I can’t do it,” and not as a spiritual strategy, emptiness woke up out of the seeker. The seeker didn’t wake up. Consciousness woke up from the seeker, from the personality, from the “me” that was trying so hard.
— Adyashanti
from “Big Sword Swinging”
LIBERATION
Questioner: Kindly tell us how you realized.
Maharaj: I met my Guru when I was 34 and realized by 37.
Q: What happened? What was the change?
M: Pleasure and pain lost their sway over me. I was free from desire and fear. I found myself full, needing nothing. I saw that in the ocean of pure awareness, on the surface of the universal consciousness, the numberless waves of the phenomenal worlds arise and subside beginninglessly and endlessly. As consciousness, they are all me. As events they are all mine.
There is a mysterious power that looks after them. That power is awareness, Self, Life, God, whatever name you give it. It is the foundation, the ultimate support of all that is, just like gold is the basis for all gold jewellery. And it is so intimately ours! Abstract the name and shape from the jewellery and the gold becomes obvious. Be free of name and form and of the desires and fears they create, then what remains?
Q: Nothingness.
M: Yes, the void remains. But the void is full to the brim. It is the eternal potential as consciousness is the eternal actual.
- I AM THAT ch 12
Question: In my present state, is there sufficient faith, humility and surrender in me? If not, how to make them complete?
Ramana: You are perfect and complete, so abandon the idea of incompleteness. There is nothing to be destroyed. Ahankara, the individual "I", is not a real thing. It is the mind that makes the effort and the mind is not real. Just as it is not necessary to kill a rope that one imagines to be a snake, so also there is no need to kill the mind. Knowing the form of the mind makes the mind disappear. That which is forever non-existent is already removed.
Fixing the mind firmly on Brahman , the point of concentration, restraining sense organ in their respective centers. Holding the body steady and giving up all thoughts for it's maintenance . Attaining identity with Brahman and being one with it . Continuously drink the bliss of Brahman in your own self. Of what use of other things? They are entirely false. Empty illusion.
~ vivekchudamani
Adi shakaracharya
That place that you discover, that effortless place,
you must fall in love with it completely.
It is the easiest love. It’s the easiest love, but it’s not a love affair.
It’s the easiest love. This is the one love that will not betray you.
It is full of goodness and joy.
So easy to love and to appreciate and to feel so totally fulfilled.
Look only at that love. Be only with that love.
