Bliss

You are the Self (Atman), and that is the "Essence of Bliss."
Happiness is the nature of our own Inner Being. If your mind is
content, then that contentment will be present in all outward
circumstances.

However, we get deluded when we think that we get
happiness from sense objects. This is a mistake that all are making.
How can you have sorrow if you are convinced that you are not a
body but only the Self? What will happen? No matter what you say or do, only that which is destined to happen will happen.
So, why should we worry?

Sadguru Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

Be calm

Ramana Maharshi said to me...

"The only spiritual life you need is not to react."

To be calm is the greatest asset in the world.
It's the greatest siddhi, the greatest power you can have.
If you can only learn to be calm you will solve every problem.
This is something you must remember.
When you are perfectly calm, time stops.
There is no time, karma stops, samskaras stop.
Everything becomes null and void.
For when you are calm you are one with the entire energy of the universe
and everything will go well with you.
To be calm means you are in control.
You're not worried about the situation, the outcome.
What is going to happen tomorrow.
To be calm means everything is alright.
There is nothing to worry about, nothing to fret over.
This is also the meaning of the biblical saying,
"Be still and know that I am God."

To be calm is to be still.

Robert Adams

Life

SRI SRI

Life is waiting for you to smile

Our body has the capacity to sustain the vibrations of bliss and peace much longer than negative emotions. That is because positivity is in the centre of our existence.

The self

The Self

"When the person in the eye resides in the body,
he resides where the organ of sight
has entered into the Akasa (i.e. the pupil of the eye);
the eye is the instrument of seeing.
He who is aware of the thought:
Let me smell this,’ he is the Self;
the nose is the instrument of smelling.
He who is aware of the thought:
Let me speak,’ he is the Self;
the tongue is the instrument of speaking.
He who is aware of the thought:
Let me hear,’ he is the Self;
the ear is the instrument of hearing.
He who is aware of the thought:
‘Let me think this,’ he is the Self; the mind is his divine eye.
He, the Self sees all these desires in the World of Brahman through the divine eye, the mind and rejoices.
The gods meditate on that Self.
Therefore all worlds belong to them and all desires.
He who knows that Self and understands It
obtains all worlds and all desires."
Thus said Prajapati, yea, thus said Prajapati.
~ Chandogya Upanishad : 8:12:1-6
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Ramana quotes

Sri Bhagavan: There is no karma without a karta (doer). On seeking for the doer he disappears. Where is Karma then?

(From 'Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi' 628)

Light

We are so engrossed with the objects,
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light.

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The thing to do is to concentrate
on the seer and not on the seen,
not on the objects,
but on the Light which reveals them.
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~ Ramana Maharshi _/\_

Realization

Realisation is not attained by going far,
but only by staying still;
not by thought,
but by cessation of thought.

~ Tripura Rahasya, Chapter IX, v.81

Silence

Silence is the wine in which you will be drunk forever.
In this Silence you know and love all Beings.
With that wine you can drink anywhere,
and when you drink you cannot speak.
Stay in the experience, surrender to It.
To taste bliss forget all other tastes
and drink the wine served within.

- Papaji

Eternal now

Future and Past only seems to exist if we compare it to eternal NOW; But neither there is future nor past, they're only thoughts  and memories perceived in NOW......Mooji

Realization , Parabhakti , Vasanas

Ramana says

Speaking of realization, it implies two selves - the one to realize, the other to be realized. What is not already realized is sought to be realized. Once we admit our existence, how is it that we do not know our Self? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Ramana says:

"Sri Bhagavan read out, from the Prabuddha Bharata, Kabir's saying that all know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. This is para bhakti, said he."
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Ramana says:

Because of vasanas. But really it is easy, since we are the Self.All we have to do is to remember that. We keep on forgetting it, and thus think we are this body, or this ego. If the will and desire to remember Self are strong enough, they will eventually overcome vasanas. There must be a great battle going on inwardly all the time until Self is realised. This battle is symbolically spoken of in scriptural writings as the fight between God and Satan. In our sruti [revealed scripture] it is a Mahabharata war, where the asuras represent our bad thoughts and the devas our elevating ones."

Surrender

surrender to what is.. say yes to the truth..

Neti Neti ...

I am not body...Not intellect... not mind...

"I am One Pure Consciousness"

#squote

Grace

Except through the exalted Divine Light, which is the Grace of Consciousness, it is impossible to transcend the conceptualising power of the mind. Other than through Grace of the Mother, who is Chit-Parashakti; Consciousness; the Supreme Power, no one attains the reality of Shiva Chaitanyam - the experience of Shivam. Om Shiva Shakti.

Yogi Anand Saraswati

God

To know the true God you have to be totally empty.
In fact the opportunity in this life is to discover the God-Self
and to observe how He lives in this body.
He is the true landlord of this house and this Universe.
And when He alone is there, strangely, you find you are there also
as a single wholeness, a oneness—not a mere object.
~ Mooji

Infinite eye

Sri Bhagavan Ramana sometimes used the phrase, the “Infinite Eye” to describe the way in which the Jnani is aware of himself and the world appearance. When suttarivu – objective knowledge of the undivided Consciousness operates, there is an “I” who creates and sees an external world, and who then processes the information about it through the physical eyes. In Jnana, one sees and knows the world to be an appearance in one’s own Self. This ‘Infinite Eye” sees and knows nothing other than itself, and it accomplishes this without the false division of seer and seen. Sri Bhagavan explains the apparent paradox of this state in Aksharaannamalai, V15: “Eye of the Eye you are, and without eyes you see. Who can see You?” Hara Hara Mahadeva.

Quotes

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself. Do not worry about the future. ~ Sri Ramana.

True friendship

“Sooner or later, you will have to part from even your dearest friends. But one friend will never leave you, even though you may never be aware of its existence. It is the Buddha-nature, pure awareness. You begin to discover it by listening to the teachings of a spiritual master.

The ties will deepen as you cultivate sustained mental calm and profound insight into reality. In the end, you will discover that it has always been near you and will always be with you. This is the truest friendship you can ever cultivate.”

~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Mind

Q: Yes, I still understand only theoretically. Yet the answers are simple, beautiful and convincing.

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Even the thought `I do not realize' is a hindrance.
In fact, the Self alone is.
Our real nature is mukti.
But we are imagining we are bound and are making various, strenuous attempts to become free,
while we are all the while free.
This will be understood only when we reach that stage.

We will be surprised that we were frantically trying to attain something which we have always been and are.

An illustration will make this clear.
A man goes to sleep in this hall.
He dreams he has gone on a world tour,
is roaming over hill and dale, forest and country,
desert and sea, across various continents and
after many years of weary and strenuous travel,
returns to this country, reaches Tiruvannamalai,
enters the ashram and walks into the hall.
Just at that moment he wakes up and
finds he has not moved an inch
but was sleeping where he lay down.

He has not returned after great effort to this hall,
but is and always has been in the hall.

It is exactly like that;
If it is asked, `Why being free do we imagine that we are bound?'

I answer,
`Why being in the hall did you imagine you were on a world adventure, crossing hill and dale, desert and sea?

It is all mind or maya [illusion].

~ Be as you are

Jnana

When jnana (enlightenment) comes, all ajnana (ignorance) goes and all daivic (godly) qualities come automatically.

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