Emptiness

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

Liberation

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

Quotes

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."

Advaita

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.

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