Self

Devotee.: It is not necessary that the saints should mix with people and be helpful to them?
Maharshi.: The Self alone is the Reality; the world and the rest of it are not. The realised being does not see the world as different from himself.

source: Talk 20

Enjoy your life

Enjoy your life as much as you can and when you have enjoyed everything you will know that there must be something else beyond the transitory enjoyments of the world. All those enjoyments need bones and leather, but there is a happiness which does not depend on them. When you find this happiness you will sit Quiet and you will not go back to the cemetery which is filled with only bones. Most people stay in the cemetery everyday. Once you know this you will be attracted to the bliss which will continually pull you deeper and deeper into it. Don't worry. Simply stay Quiet here and don't let your mind go back to the previous disturbances. Whenever the mind goes out pounce on it so that it doesn't go back to the previous disturbances. Be a lion.

~ Papaji

Samadhi

SAMADHI

Q: Is silence an attribute of the real?

M: This too is of the mind. All states and conditions are of the mind.

Q: What is the place of samadhi?

M: Not making use of one's consciousness is samadhi. You just leave your mind alone. You want nothing, neither-from your body nor from your mind.

I AM THAT ch. 13