Body

"So long as you identify yourself with the body, you can never escape sex-thought and distraction. It is only when you realise that you are formless Pure Awareness that sex distinction disappears for good and that is brahmacharya, effortless and spontaneous.”
BHAGAVAN
'Surpassing Love and Grace'

Self

The presence and play of emotions are not a measure of the Pure Awareness you are. The one who has awakened to the Truth, is no longer identified with any object, thought, person or emotion. They do not suffer any disappointment for they are free from expectations. They are one with the natural flow of manifestation, with the natural dance of the cosmic energy as it appears in these bodies. Although conditioning may still manifest, there is no inner association with that. Thus, they remain naturally free. Without identifying with personal memory, all the noise of conditioning dissolves. The very concept of conditioning, itself recognised as mere thought, gradually fades away.

-Sri Mooji-

Bhagwad Geeta 1

Reality

REALITY

Understand [well] that the world-scene of empty names and forms, comprising the objects of the five senses perceived in the perfectly pure swarupa, the Supreme Self, is merely the divine sport of the mind-maya that arises as an imaginary idea in that swarupa, being-consciousness.
                                             - Guru Vachaka Kovai v. 22

Question: Are names and forms real?

Bhagavan: You won’t find them separate from adhistana [the substratum]. When you try to get at name and form, you will find reality only. Therefore attain the knowledge of that which is real in all three states [waking, dreaming and sleeping].
              -The Power of the Presence, part one, pp. 251-2

Do not get confused by abandoning the state of clarity, the swarupa perspective, and then pursue appearances, taking them to be real. That which appears will disappear, and hence it is not real, but the true nature of the one who sees never ceases to exist. Know that it alone is real.
                                              - Guru Vachaka Kovai v. 25

Guru's grace

CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

Q: Does the Guru's grace burn up karma? Can the Guru take away some of our past bad karma?

AS: I served Bhagavan for many years. By doing a lot of service to Bhagavan with all my heart and my full mind, the karmas of my previous lives were erased easily. It was all through his grace.
When this period was over Bhagavan told me, 'Your karmas are
finished'. I did not expect Bhagavan to give me such a great
blessing.

Finding a great Guru like Bhagavan depends on one's karma.
One cannot hope to find such a Gum unless one has done tapas in previous lives.

The path of jnana is for those who only have a little karma left.
Those who still have many karmas to undergo cannot follow the
path of jnana successfully because they don't have the capacity to be still and quiet. Only those who have learned how to be still can abide in the Self.

LWB, p. 306

Wisdom

Equanimity is the essence of perfection, and a man of wisdom is in perfect steadiness and balance. He craves nothing, nor does he strive to acquire anything new. To have or not have, both are equal to him, because he is beyond both, living a life of inward peace, which is totally independent of all environments.

- Swami Chinmayananda.

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