Seeker of truth

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

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

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