You simply have to watch:
Where does mind arise from?
Where does thought come from?
What is the source of this thought?
Then you will see that you have always been Free
and that everything has been a dream.
~ Papaji
You simply have to watch:
Where does mind arise from?
Where does thought come from?
What is the source of this thought?
Then you will see that you have always been Free
and that everything has been a dream.
~ Papaji
The purpose of worshipping the Impersonal Supreme Being is the incessant remembrance of the truth that you are Brahman. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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
Papaji Says: "Surrender, let Silence have you. Surrender to the source, Surrender to awareness, this is the only place of protection. Surrender your heart and you will know all. Surrender to Consciousness and Bliss. Surrender means to surrender your bondage and to simply be Freedom."
Ramana says: "If the mind subsides, the whole world subsides. Mind is the cause of all this. If that subsides, the natural state presents itself. The Self proclaims itself at all times as `I, I'. It is self- luminous. It is here. All this is that. We are in that only."
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Ramana says: "Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind."
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Ramana says: "A child and a Jnani (Self-Realized Soul) are similar in a way. Incidents interest a child only so long as they last. It ceases to think of them after they have passed away. So then, it is apparent that they do not leave any impression on the child and it is not affected by them mentally. So it is with a jnani."
In deep sleep you are not a self-conscious person, yet you are alive. When you are alive and conscious, but no longer self-conscious, you are not a person anymore.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That
86. The Unknown is the Home of the Real
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