You are the One which is aware
of the awareness of objects and ideas.
You are the One which is even more silent than awereness.
You are the Life which precedes the concept of life.
Your nature is Silence and it is not attainable,
It always Is.
~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'
For him who is the Bliss of Self arising from extinction of the ego, what is there to do? He knows nothing other than this Self. How to conceive the nature of his state?
('Reality in Forty Verses', v. 31 ("Collected Works"))
M: That state which transcends speech and thought is mauna; it is meditation without mental activity. Subjugation of the mind is meditation; deep meditation is eternal speech. Silence is ever-speaking; it is the perennial flow of ‘language’. It is interrupted by speaking; for words obstruct this mute ‘language’. Lectures may entertain individuals for hours without improving them. Silence, on the other hand, is permanent and benefits the whole of humanity. . . . . . By silence, eloquence is meant. Oral lectures are not so eloquent as silence. Silence is unceasing eloquence. . . . It is the best language.
There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
(From 'Maharshi’s Gospel', Book I, Ch. 2)
Mind is duality.
You are not body.
You are not mind.
Don't control body mind.
There is space before thought comes. Be that.
Don't identify with body mind thought as non self.
Be awareness.keep silent.
Silence is your nature.
Emptiness is your nature.
Be witness.
Meditation means, no meditator and no object of meditation. Then you can do whatever you like. When the meditator is there it is ego. This is not something to be decided intellectually; it has to be directly experienced.
~ Papaji
Papaji Says: "Mind is nothing but thought. You can’t separate thought itself from the mind."
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Ramana says: "So long as the sense of doership is retained there is the desire. That is also personality. If this goes the Self is found to shine forth pure. The sense of doership is the bondage and not the actions themselves. `Be still and know that I am God.' Here stillness is total surrender without a vestige of individuality. Stillness will prevail and there will be no agitation of mind. Agitation of mind is the cause of desire, the sense of doership and personality."
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Is the state of ‘being still’ a state involving effort or effortlessness?
It is not an effortless state of indolence. All mundane activities which are ordinarily called effort are performed with the aid of a portion of the mind and with frequent breaks. But the act of communion with the Self (atma vyavahara) or remaining still inwardly is intense activity which is performed
with the entire mind and without break.
Maya (delusion or ignorance) which cannot be destroyed by any other act is completely destroyed by this intense activity which is called ‘silence’ (mauna).
What is the nature of maya?
Maya is that which makes us regard as nonexistent the Self, the Reality, which is always and everywhere present, all-
pervasive and Self-luminous, and as existent the individual soul(jiva), the world (jagat), and God (para) which have been conclusively proved to be nonexistent at all times and places.
As the Self shines fully of its own accord why is it not generally recognised like the other objects of the world by all persons?
Wherever particular objects are known it is the Self which has known itself in the form of those objects. For what is
known as knowledge or awareness is only the potency of the Self (atma shakti). The Self is the only sentient object. There is nothing apart from the Self. If there are such objects they
are all insentient and therefore cannot either know themselves or mutually know one another. It is because the Self does not know its true nature in this manner that it seems to be immersed and struggling in the ocean of birth (and death) in the form of the individual soul.
Although the Lord is all-pervasive it appears, from passages like ‘adoring him through His grace’, that He can be known only through His grace. How then can the individual soul by its own efforts attain Self-realizationin the absence of the Lord’s grace?
As the Lord denotes the Self and as grace means the Lord’s presence or revelation, there is no time when the Lord remains unknown. If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun. Similarly, can the unawareness of the Self — which is always of the nature of awareness — by the ignorant, be other than their own fault? How can it be the fault of the Self? It is because grace is of the very nature of the Lord that He is well known as ‘the
blessed grace’. Therefore the Lord, whose nature itself is grace, does not have to bestow His grace. Nor is there any particular time for bestowing His grace.
What part of the body is the abode of the Self?
The Heart on the right side of the chest is generally indicated. This is because we usually point to the right side of
the chest when we refer to ourselves. Some say that the sahasrara (the thousand-petalled lotus) is the abode of the Self. But if that were true the head should not fall forward when we go to sleep or faint.
(Collected works of Ramana Maharshi)
Bliss is not added to your nature, it is merely revealed as your true and natural state, eternal and imperishable. ~ Sri Ramana in Maharshi's Gospel.
The greatest fear that all living beings have is the fear of death. The fear of death casts a shadow over all that we do and undermines all our peace and happiness. But what is death and who is it that dies?
Actually death is the greatest of all illusions. The fear of death is the root of all ignorance. The shadow of death is not a curse but a misunderstanding of the real nature of existence. Our true being never dies. Death is only the end of one body or another, but not of the being who is embodied.
Vedanta boldly teaches us that no one dies. No one has ever died and no one will ever die. That is to say, your real being, your true Self, soul or essence never dies. In your inner being, you are not subject to birth and death, time and space, coming or going. You are eternal, immutable, pure existence, awareness and bliss. It is only the body that dies, not you as the embodied soul. You are not a material object that is subject to the disintegrating influence of time. You are a spiritual being, a conscious subject that is the witness of all time, space and action.
The Bhagavad Gita states right at its start, "Of that which exists there is no non-being. Of that which does not exist, there is not being." This is perhaps the greatest statement of spiritual knowledge ever given. Krishna tells Arjuna that the true Self never dies. The embodied soul does not die. Only the body dies, which for the soul, is like casting off one set of clothes for another. You do not weep and think that all is lost if your shirt is irreparably torn. Yet for the soul, our inner being, the physical body is but a vesture that it wears for a time. If that vesture gets worn out or irreparably damaged, the soul must get another one. There is not cause for lasting remorse.
You have always existed and you will always exist. Your body, mind or the world in which you take birth may change, but your inner essence will endure forever. This proclamation of deathlessness is the greatest message of freedom possible for human beings. You do not die. Death cannot touch you. You can freely cast away all the anxiety about death. You are the deathless Self. Nor need you worry about the death of another. No one dies. Our true being stands above all such temporal and material limitations. Even outer sufferings of body and mind are transient, however painful they may feel for a time. We can always take refuge in our inner witness, the deathless Self at the core of our being, which is not affected by these.
To think that one will die is a great misunderstanding of who we really are. You are not the body or the mind. The body has birth and death. The mind has its fluctuations. But these do not relate to your real essence. They are only part of your outer manifestation. You are the being who uses the body and mind as instruments but itself is not affected by them. The body is like the car you drive, we might say. The mind is like your computer. But you are the operator of these instruments. When they break down, you do not suffer any loss of your own being or yourself come to an end.
Our inner being, the Supreme Self or Paramatman, has absolute immortality, absolute existence. Our inner being is changeless, immutable, homogenous, and pure. It can never be stained, harmed, limited or disturbed. It is the detached eternal witness of all events in the universe. It was there when the Sun first shone, when the first creatures arose on the Earth, and when the first human being looked out upon the sky. It has witnessed the beginning and end of entire universes, not to mention innumerable worlds and creatures.
Even our soul, the reincarnating entity within us, has relative immortality. It moves from body to body, birth to birth, but itself never dies. As the Supreme Self you have absolute immortality, as an individual soul you have relative immortality. Death cannot take you away in either case; it can only take you on to another level of existence. Learn to access your immortality so that your life partakes of eternity.
Why is it that we do not know our deathless Self and live in its freedom and happiness? It is because we wrongly identify our inner being with our outer body and mind. This is a mistake of judgment, a wrong perception. We see the body as the Self when it is but a vehicle for the Self. Once this misidentification is removed, there can be no more sorrow. It is like a child thinking that its toys are real and crying when they break or get lost.
Being never dies. Existence never comes to an end. And that eternal and timeless being is your being. You are not limited to this body or this particular incarnation. Your being is everywhere in the universe, in all creatures and beyond. It is beyond all fear. Death cannot reach it. Suffering cannot shake it. Rest in that deathless Self. It is your Divine right.
Take refuge in your inner being beyond the body and mind and witness their play as a Divine sport. Observe the world and all its changes from the central point of your eternal essence. And you will find beauty and wonder at every moment.
~ by Pandit Vamadeva
* * * The Unknown is the Home of the Real * * *
Questioner: Who is the Guru and who is the supreme Guru?
Maharaj: All that happens in your consciousness is your Guru.
And pure awareness beyond consciousness is the supreme Guru.
Q: My Guru is Sri Babaji. What is your opinion of him?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: What a question to ask!
The space in Bombay is asked
what is its opinion of the space in Poona.
The names differ, but not the space.
The word ‘Babaji’ is merely an address.
Who lives under the address?
You ask questions when you are in trouble.
Enquire who is giving trouble and to whom.
Q: I understand everybody is under the obligation to realize. Is it his duty, or is it his destiny?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Realization is of the fact that you are not a person.
Therefore,
it cannot be the duty of the person whose destiny is to disappear.
Its destiny is the duty of him
who imagines himself to be the person.
Find out who he is and the imagined person will dissolve.
Freedom is from something.
What are you to be free from?
Obviously, you must be free from the person,
you take yourself to be,
for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.
Q: How is the person removed?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: By determination.
Understand that it must go and wish it to go -it shall go
if you are earnest about it.
Somebody, anybody, will tell you that
you are pure consciousness, not a body-mind.
Accept it as a possibility and investigate earnestly.
You may discover that it is not so,
that you are not a person bound in space and time.
Think of the difference it would make!
Q: If I am not a person, then what am I?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Wet cloth looks, feels, smells differently as long as it is wet.
When dry it is again the normal cloth.
Water has left it and who can make out that it was wet?
Your real nature is not like what you appear to be.
Give up the idea of being a person, that is all.
You need not become what you are anyhow.
There is the identity of what you are and
there is the person superimposed on it.
All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person-
you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked yourself the crucial question - ‘Who am I’.
The identity is the witness of the person and
sadhana consists in shifting the emphasis from the superficial and changeful person
to the immutable and ever-present witness.
Q: How is it that the question ‘Who am I’ attracts me little? I prefer to spend my time in the sweet company of saints.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Abiding in your own being is also holy company.
If you have no problem of suffering and release from suffering,
you will not find the energy and persistence needed for self-enquiry.
You cannot manufacture a crisis. It must be genuine.
Q: How does a genuine crisis happen?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
It happens every moment,
but you are not alert enough.
A shadow on your neighbour’s face, the immense and
all-pervading sorrow of existence is a constant factor in your life,
but you refuse to take notice.
You suffer and see others suffer, but you don’t respond.
Q: What you say is true, but what can I do about it? Such in-deed is the situation. My helplessness and dullness are a part of it.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Good enough.
Look at yourself steadily - it is enough.
The door that locks you in, is also the door that lets you out.
The ‘I am’ is the door.
Stay at it until it opens.
As a matter of fact, it is open, only you are not at it.
You are waiting at the non-existent painted doors,
which will never open.
Q: Many of us were taking drugs at some time, and to some extent. People told us to take drugs in order to break through into higher levels of consciousness. Others advised us to have
abundant sex for the same purpose. What is your opinion in the matter?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
No doubt,
a drug that can affect your brain can also affect your mind,
and give you all the strange experiences promised.
But what are all the drugs compared to the drug
that gave you this most unusual experience of being born and living in sorrow and fear,
in search of happiness, which does not come, or does not last.
You should enquire into the nature of this drug and
find an antidote.
Birth, life, death - they are one.
Find out what had caused them.
Before you were born, you were already drugged.
What kind of drug was it?
You may cure yourself of all diseases,
but if you are still under the influence of the primordial drug,
of what use are the superficial cures?
Q: Is it not karma that causes rebirth?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
You may change the name, but the fact remains.
What is the drug which you call karma or destiny?
It made you believe yourself to be what you are not.
What is it, and can you be free of it?
Before you go further you must accept,
at least as a working theory,
that you are not what you appear to be,
that you are under the influence of a drug.
Then only you will have the urge and the patience to examine the symptoms and search for their common cause.
All that a Guru can tell you is:
‘My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
You are not the person you think yourself to be.’
Trust nobody, not even yourself.
Search, find out, remove and reject every assumption till you reach the living waters and the rock of truth.
Until you are free of the drug,
all your religions and sciences, prayers and Yogas
are of no use to you,for based on a mistake, they strengthen it.
But if you stay with the idea that you are not the body nor the mind,
not even their witness, but altogether beyond,
your mind will grow in clarity, your desires -in purity,
your actions - in charity and
that inner distillation will take you to another world,
a world of truth and fearless love.
Resist your old habits of feeling and thinking;
keep on telling yourself:
‘No, not so, it cannot be so; I am not like this,
I do not need it, I do not want it’,
and a day will surely come when the entire structure of error and
despair will collapse and the ground will be free for a new life.
After all, you must remember,
that all your preoccupations with yourself are only during waking hours and
partly in your dreams; in sleep all is put aside and forgotten.
It shows how little important is your waking life, even to yourself,
that merely lying down and closing the eyes can end it.
Each time you go to sleep you do so
without the least certainty of waking up and yet you accept the risk.
Q: When you sleep, are you conscious or unconscious?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: I remain conscious,
but not conscious of being a particular person.
Q: Can you give us the taste of the experience of self-realization?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Take the whole of it!
It is here for the asking.
But you do not ask.
Even when you ask, you do not take.
Find out what prevents you from taking.
Q: I know what prevents - my ego.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Then get busy with your ego - leave me alone.
As long as you are locked up within your mind,
my state is beyond your grasp.
Q: I find I have no more questions to ask.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Were you really at war with your ego,
you would have put many more questions.
You are short of questions
because you are not really interested.
At present you are moved by the pleasure-pain principle
which is the ego.
You are going along with the ego, you are not fighting it.
You are not even aware how totally you are swayed
by personal considerations.
A man should be always in revolt against himself, for the ego,
like a crooked mirror, narrows down and distorts.
It is the worst of all the tyrants, it dominates you absolutely.
Q: When there is no ‘I’ who is free?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: The world is free of a mighty nuisance. Good enough.
Q: Good for whom?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Good for everybody.
It is like a rope stretched across the street, it snarls up the traffic.
Roll up, it is there, as mere identity, useful when needed.
Freedom from the ego-self is the fruit of self-enquiry.
Q: There was a time when I was most displeased with myself. Now I have met my Guru and I am at peace, after having surrendered myself to him completely.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
If you watch your daily life you will see that
you have surrendered nothing.
You have merely added the word ‘surrender’
to your vocabulary and
made your Guru into a peg to hang your problems on.
Real surrender means doing nothing,
unless prompted by the Guru.
You step, so to say, aside and let your Guru live your life.
You merely watch and wonder
how easily he solves the problems which to you seemed insoluble.
Q: As I sit here, I see the room, the people. I see you too. How does it look at your end? What do you see?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Nothing.
I look, but I do not see in the sense of creating images clothed
with judgements.
I do not describe nor evaluate.
I look. I see you, but neither attitude nor opinion cloud my vision.
And when I turn my eyes away,
my mind does not allow memory to linger;
it is at once free and fresh for the next impression.
Q: As I am here, looking at you, I cannot locate the event in space and time. There is something eternal and universal about the transmission of wisdom that is taking place. Ten thousand years earlier, or later, make no difference — the event itself is timeless.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Man does not change much over the ages.
Human problems remain the same and call for the same answers.
Your being conscious of what you call transmission of wisdom shows that wisdom has not yet been transmitted.
When you have it, you are no longer conscious of it.
What is really your own, you are not conscious of.
What you are conscious of is neither you nor yours.
Yours is the power of perception, not what you perceive.
It is a mistake to take the conscious to be the whole of man.
Man is the unconscious, conscious and the super-conscious,
but you are not the man.
Yours is the cinema screen, the light as well as the seeing power, but the picture is not you.
Q: Must I search for the Guru, or shall I stay with whomever I have found?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
The very question shows that you have not yet found one.
As long as you have not realized, you will move from Guru to Guru,
but when you have found yourself, the search will end.
A Guru is a milestone.
When you are on the move, you pass so many milestones.
When you have reached your destination,
it is the last alone that mattered.
In realty all mattered at their own time and none matters now.
Q: You seem to give no importance to the Guru. He is merely an incident among others.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
All incidents contribute, but none is crucial.
On the road each step helps you to reach your destination, and each is as crucial as the other,
for each step must be made, you cannot skip it.
If you refuse to make it, you are stuck!
Q: Everybody sings the glories of the Guru, while you compare him to a milestone. Don’t we need a Guru?
Maharaj: Don’t we need a milestone? Yes and no.
Yes, if we are un-certain, no if we know our way.
Once we are certain in ourselves,
the Guru is no longer needed, except in a technical sense.
Your mind is an instrument, after all,
and you should know how to use it.
As you are taught the uses of your body,
so you should know how to use your mind.
Q: What do I gain by learning to use my mind?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
You gain freedom from desire and fear,
which are entirely due to wrong uses of the mind.
Mere mental knowledge is not enough.
The known is accidental, the unknown is the home of the real.
To live in the known is bondage, to live in the unknown is liberation.
Q: I have understood that all spiritual practice consists in the elimination of the personal self. Such practice demands iron de-termination and relentless application. Where to find the integrity and energy for such work?
Maharaj: You find it in the company of the wise.
Q: How do I know who is wise and who is merely clever?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
If your motives are pure, if you seek truth and nothing else,
you will find the right people.
Finding them is easy, what is difficult is to trust them and take full advantage of their advice and guidance.
Q: Is waking state more important for spiritual practice than sleep?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
On the whole we attach too much importance, to the waking state.
Without sleep the waking state would be impossible;
without sleep one goes mad or dies; why attach so much importance to waking consciousness,
which is obviously dependent on the unconscious?
Not only the conscious but the unconscious as well should be taken care of in our spiritual practice.
Q: How does one attend to the unconscious?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Keep the ‘I am’ in the focus of awareness,
remember that you are,
watch yourself ceaselessly and the unconscious will flow into the conscious without any special effort on your part.
Wrong desires and fears, false ideas, social inhibitions are blocking and preventing its free interplay with the conscious.
Once free to mingle, the two become one and
the one becomes all.
The person merges into the witness, the witness into awareness, awareness into pure being, yet identity is not lost,
only its limitations are lost. It is transfigured, and becomes the real Self, the sadguru,
the eternal friend and guide.
You cannot approach it in worship.
No external activity can reach the inner self; worship and prayers remain on the surface only;
to go deeper medi-tation is essential, the striving to go beyond the states of sleep, dream and waking.
In the beginning the attempts are irregular,
then they recur more often, become regular,
then continuous and intense, until all obstacles are conquered.
Q: Obstacles to what?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: To self-forgetting.
Q: If worship and prayers are ineffectual why do you worship daily, with songs and music, the image of your Guru!
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Those who want it, do it.
I see no purpose in interfering.
Q: But you take part in it.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Yes, it appears so.
But why be so concerned with me?
Give all your attention to the question:
‘What is it that makes me conscious?’,
until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of anything else.
Q: All and sundry are urging me to meditate. I find no zest in meditation, but I am interested in many others things; some I want very much and my mind goes to them; my attempts at meditation are so half-hearted, what am I to do?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Ask yourself: ‘to whom it all happens?’
Use everything as an opportunity to go within.
Light your way by burning up obstacles in the intensity of awareness.
When you happen to desire or fear,
it is not the desire or fear that are wrong and must go,
but the person who desires and fears.
There is no point in fighting desires and fears
which may be perfectly natural and justified;
it is the person,
who is swayed by them,
that is the cause of mistakes, past and future.
This person should be carefully examined and its falseness seen;
then its power over you will end.
After all, it subsides each time you go to sleep.
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 any more.
During the waking hours you are, as if,
on the stage, playing a role,
but what are you when the play is over?
You are what you are;
what you were before the play began you remain when it is over.
Look at yourself as performing on the stage of life.
The performance may be splendid or clumsy, but you are not in it,
you merely watch it; with interest and sympathy, of course,
but keeping in mind all the time that you are only watching while the play life is going on.
Q: You are always stressing the cognition aspect of reality. You hardly ever mention affection, and will — never?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Will, affection, bliss, striving and enjoying are
so deeply tainted with the personal, that they cannot be trusted.
The clarification and purification needed at the very start of the journey, only awareness can give.
Love and will shall have their turn,
but the ground must be prepared.
The sun of awareness must rise first all else will follow.
~ from I AM THAT book
निर्वाण-षट्कम
मनो बुद्धि अहंकार चित्तानि नाहं
न च श्रोत्र जिव्हे न च घ्राण नेत्रे |
न च व्योम भूमि न तेजो न वायु:
चिदानंद रूपः शिवोहम शिवोहम ||1||
[मैं मन, बुद्धि, अहंकार और स्मृति नहीं हूँ, न मैं कान, जिह्वा, नाक और आँख हूँ। न मैं आकाश, भूमि, तेज और वायु ही हूँ, मैं चैतन्य रूप हूँ, आनंद हूँ, शिव हूँ, शिव हूँ...]
I am not mind, nor intellect, nor ego, nor the reflections of inner self (chitta).
I am not the five senses.
I am beyond that.
I am not the ether, nor the earth, nor the fire, nor the wind (the five elements).
I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, the auspicious (Shivam), love and pure consciousness.
न च प्राण संज्ञो न वै पञ्चवायुः
न वा सप्तधातु: न वा पञ्चकोशः |
न वाक्पाणिपादौ न च उपस्थ पायु
चिदानंदरूप: शिवोहम शिवोहम ||2||
[न मैं मुख्य प्राण हूँ और न ही मैं पञ्च प्राणों (प्राण, उदान, अपान, व्यान, समान) में कोई हूँ, न मैं सप्त धातुओं (त्वचा, मांस, मेद, रक्त, पेशी, अस्थि, मज्जा) में कोई हूँ और न पञ्च कोशों (अन्नमय, मनोमय, प्राणमय, विज्ञानमय, आनंदमय) में से कोई, न मैं वाणी, हाथ, पैर हूँ और न मैं जननेंद्रिय या गुदा हूँ, मैं चैतन्य रूप हूँ, आनंद हूँ, शिव हूँ, शिव हूँ...]
Neither can I be termed as energy (prana),
nor five types of breath (vayus),
nor the seven material essences,
nor the five coverings (pancha-kosha).
Neither am I the five instruments of elimination, procreation, motion, grasping, or speaking.
I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, the auspicious (Shivam), love and pure consciousness.
न मे द्वेषरागौ न मे लोभ मोहौ
मदों नैव मे नैव मात्सर्यभावः |
न धर्मो नचार्थो न कामो न मोक्षः
चिदानंदरूप: शिवोहम शिवोहम ||3||
[न मुझमें राग और द्वेष हैं, न ही लोभ और मोह, न ही मुझमें मद है न ही ईर्ष्या की भावना, न मुझमें धर्म, अर्थ, काम और मोक्ष ही हैं, मैं चैतन्य रूप हूँ, आनंद हूँ, शिव हूँ, शिव हूँ...]
I have no hatred or dislike, nor affiliation or liking, nor greed, nor delusion, nor pride or
haughtiness, nor feelings of envy or jealousy.
I have no duty (dharma), nor any money, nor any desire (kama), nor even liberation
(moksha).
I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, the auspicious (Shivam), love and
pure consciousness.
न पुण्यं न पापं न सौख्यं न दु:खं
न मंत्रो न तीर्थं न वेदों न यज्ञः |
अहम् भोजनं नैव भोज्यम न भोक्ता
चिदानंद रूप: शिवोहम शिवोहम ||4||
[न मैं पुण्य हूँ, न पाप, न सुख और न दुःख, न मन्त्र, न तीर्थ, न वेद और न यज्ञ, मैं न भोजन हूँ, न खाया जाने वाला हूँ और न खाने वाला हूँ, मैं चैतन्य रूप हूँ, आनंद हूँ, शिव हूँ, शिव हूँ...]
I have neither merit (virtue), nor demerit (vice). I do not commit sins or good deeds,
nor have happiness or sorrow, pain or pleasure.
I do not need mantras, holy places, scriptures (Vedas), rituals or sacrifices (yagnas).
I am none of the triad of the
observer or one who experiences, the process
of observing or experiencing, or any object being observed or experienced.
I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, the auspicious (Shivam), love and pure consciousness.
न मे मृत्युशंका न मे जातिभेद:
पिता नैव मे नैव माता न जन्म |
न बंधू: न मित्रं गुरु: नैव शिष्यं
चिदानंद रूप: शिवोहम शिवोहम ||5||
[न मुझे मृत्यु का भय है, न मुझमें जाति का कोई भेद है, न मेरा कोई पिता ही है, न कोई माता ही है, न मेरा जन्म हुआ है, न मेरा कोई भाई है, न कोई मित्र, न कोई गुरु ही है और न ही कोई शिष्य, मैं चैतन्य रूप हूँ, आनंद हूँ, शिव हूँ, शिव हूँ...]
I do not have fear of death, as I do not have death.
I have no separation from my true self, no doubt about my existence, nor have I
discrimination on the basis of birth.
I have no father or mother, nor did I have a birth.
I am not the relative, nor the friend, nor the guru, nor the disciple.
I am indeed, That eternal
knowing and bliss, the auspicious (Shivam), love and pure consciousness.
अहम् निर्विकल्पो निराकार रूपो
विभुव्याप्य सर्वत्र सर्वेन्द्रियाणाम |
सदा मे समत्वं न मुक्ति: न बंध:
चिदानंद रूप: शिवोहम शिवोहम ||6||
[मैं समस्त संदेहों से परे, बिना किसी आकार वाला, सर्वगत, सर्वव्यापक, सभी इन्द्रियों को व्याप्त करके स्थित हूँ, मैं सदैव समता में स्थित हूँ, न मुझमें मुक्ति है और न बंधन, मैं चैतन्य रूप हूँ, आनंद हूँ, शिव हूँ, शिव हूँ...]
I am all pervasive. I am without any attributes, and without any form. I have neither
attachment to the world, nor to liberation (mukti).
I have no wishes for anything because I am everything, everywhere, every time,
always in equilibrium.
I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, the auspicious (Shivam), love and pure consciousness.
इति श्रीमद जगद्गुरु शंकराचार्य विरचितं निर्वाण-षटकम सम्पूर्णं
ॐ नमः शिवाय.
As long as name and form is there there is a dream.
And before the dream, there was no name and no form,
means sleep state.
Wake up!
If you wake up from this dream, you will not sleep at all.
And not dream at all.
How to wake up? Question, "Who am I?"
You will wake up to That.
You will wake up to Awakening!
You will wake up to Awareness.
And you will never fall asleep again, any time again.
Samsara will end.
Karma will cease to function.
This is called waking, this is called waking state.
- Om Sadguru Dev -
Be as you are in whatever circumstances, just always Be. It doesn't need any practice. Whatever you get by practice you will lose, but Being will never be lost because you will not get it by any experience or practice. It simply is, Simply Be.
Don't stir your mind in Being, don't think and don't make effort. I will tell you how to be Being itself. No effort, no thinking. Avoid thinking and avoid not thinking. What is between these two?
~ Papaji
In the beginning when there was nothing there was consciousness - total consciousness - where no objects and no subjects existed. You are this consciousness.
Starting from the beginning, before the beginning, you are this consciousness. And this consciousness became all that you see. You are this consciousness itself. There are millions of kinds of manifestation existing in consciousness and you have become all this. You are the fountain of all this creation.
For this you do not have to exert or make effort, or search for any way or method or practice. Somehow you have to arrive here. How can you do it? Through adoration of the wisdom of the Self. That is consciousness. Adore your own consciousness with wisdom and you have achieved what you are aspiring for here and now.
~ Papaji
'What is the nature of the Self?'
What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time.
The Self is that where there is absolutely no ‘I-thought’. That is called ‘Silence’. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
('Who Am I?', Q. 16)
"The jiva itself is Siva; Siva Himself is the jiva. It is true that the jiva is no other than Siva. When the grain is hidden inside the husk, it is called paddy; when it is dehusked, it is called rice. Similarly, so long as one is bound by karma one remains a jiva; when the bond of ignorance is broken, one shines as Siva, the Deity."
(From Bhagavan's reply to 'Self-enquiry', Q. 37)
Ramana says: "Mukti (Liberation) is not to be gained in the future. It is there for ever, here and now.
When you are established in consciousness,
you don’t need to pick your company anymore.
Wherever you go, a garden will grow.
What does it mean?
It means wherever you go,
somehow without any effort on your part,
you will be meeting the right kind of beings,
even if they appear, initially, to be the wrong ones.
Your being will convert them into the right ones.
~ Mooji
From ‘White Fire’.
mooji.org/todaysquote/23-february-2017/
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you.
Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.
Ramana Maharshi – Be As You Are
In satsang, something gets emptied out.
All the old ideas are thinning away.
The mind itself goes into samadhi, it becomes empty.
And there is a beautiful silence in your being now.
Get used to it.
The mind is cunning. He may say, ‘I did it!’
Don’t accept this voice. No one did anything.
Don’t identify with thoughts, words or feelings.
Simply keep quiet. This is the final cut
to the umbilical cord of the ego-mind.
Cut him loose without compassion.
Let him go and the great silence is here,
seamless and untouched.
Sit inside your undivided Self.
~ Mooji
From White Fire.
mooji.org/todaysquote/22-february-2017/
MY LIFE WITH BHAGAVAN
My life with Bhagavan taught me the value of faith, obedience and surrender. When I obeyed Bhagavan’s words, or had complete faith that he would look after all my spiritual and physical needs, everything went well. When I tried to mold my own destiny (such as the time I went to live in the cave and the time I ran away to Polur) things went badly. Life’s lessons have thus taught me the value and the necessity of complete surrender.
If one surrenders completely to Bhagavan; if one lives by his words, ignoring all others; if one has enough faith in Bhagavan to stop making plans about the future; if one can banish all doubts and worries by having faith in Bhagavan’s omnipotence – then, and only then, Bhagavan will bend and mold one’s circumstances, transforming them in such a way that one’s spiritual and physical needs are always satisfied.
- Annamalai Swami in ‘Living by the Words’
Ramana says: "Regulation of life, such as getting up at a fixed hour, bathing, doing mantra, japa, observing ritual, all this is for people who do not feel drawn to self-enquiry or are not capable of it. But for those who can practise this method all rules and discipline are unnecessary."
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For one who knows me, I am one with him;
for one who wants to know me,
I am very near to him;
and for one who does not know me,
I am a beggar before him.
~ Sri Anandamayi Ma
Enlightened Sages are often silent.
This is for a reason. The silence is a cultivation of that space of Being beyond egoic externalization. By remaining so, they are able to exist within that space with little interruption from the mind. It is also a side-effect of having few thoughts, as such, to verbalize. Just Being. Existing.
Give up the sense of doership. Karma will go on automatically. Or Karma will drop away from you. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
Q: When a person becomes awake and enlightened, does he or she also become wise and loving?
Adya: When you awaken, all becoming ceases. Being awake means that you realize by direct experience who and what you are. You do not become anything. All becoming is in time, which is mind. Awakening is outside of time: You awaken from time to that which is timeless. Wisdom and love are aspects of your own Self and as such do not need to be created or pursued. Many people try to become wiser and more loving, and they remain in a constant battle with themselves. This approach never works because it assumes a separate ‘you’ who wants to be a better person. It is the you that is the dream, a thought only. In taking yourself to be a separate entity, you blind yourself to the Truth of your being which is love and wisdom.
~ Adyashanti
The Impact of Awakening
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No one, no situation or circumstance,
nothing at all can, by itself, prevent you from
being your true Self.
Drop this foolish and costly belief
and rest fully in the house of
inexhaustible freedom, wisdom and love
—your Father’s kingdom.
~ Mooji
From White Fire
mooji.org/todaysquote/20-february-2017
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you.
Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.
Ramana Maharshi – Be As You Are
I said to the wanting-creature inside me:
What is this river you want to cross?
There are no travelers on the river-road, and no road.
Do you see anyone moving about on that bank, or nesting?
There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
There is no towrope either, and no one to pull it.
There is no ground, no sky, no time, no bank, no ford!
And there is no body, and no mind!
Do you believe there is some place that will make the
soul less thirsty?
In that great absence you will find nothing.
Be strong then, and enter into your own body;
there you have a solid place for your feet.
Think about it carefully!
Don't go off somewhere else!
Kabir says this: just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.
~ Kabir
You are pure awareness.
The world is an illusion,
Nothing more.
When you understand this fully,
Desire falls away.
You find peace.
For indeed!
There is nothing.
In the ocean of being
There is only one.
There was and there will be
Only one.
You are already fulfilled.
How can you be bound or free?
Wherever you go,
Be happy.
Never upset your mind
With yes and no.
Be quiet.
You are awareness itself.
Live in the happiness
Of your own nature,
Which is happiness itself.
~ Ashtavakra Gita
...verses 15.17-19; translation by Thomas Byrom
Master says you have not committed anything wrong, you have not committed any sin, but if you say 'No, No, I did sin.', what to do? How can Master help you? My Master says I have not done any sin, I'm not doer, there is no deed, if your not accepting that, your own mind, own concepts will be torturing you, nobody is torturing you, your own concepts are torturing you all the time.
You have done something wrong you are a sinner or something,
try to mold into the light of this spiritual knowledge, therefore strong belief in yourself and your Master is required, it's a closed situation, Master says nothing has happened, you are Ultimate Truth, but your not accepting it.
Habit of the beggars, you have a lot of money even though you are begging on the street, like that.
Sadguru Sri Ramakant Maharaj
"NOTHING nothing can stop you from Being what You ARE!!"
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When you can bear and BE your Silence, you are Free.
-Sri Mooji-
Rishikesh, 18th February, 2017
True inquiry is like a childlike wondering, ‘Is this really who I am?’ Not thinking about it, but allowing yourself to be more and more disarmed through the question. The more sincerely you experientially enter the unknown, the more you become disarmed. Have you noticed the mind doesn’t know what to do? Invite that sense of unknowing, and do not be concerned about being disarmed. Notice that right in the middle of it there is a vivid, radiant awakeness. Mysteriously, by allowing the recognition of that awakeness in, you can awaken as that.
~ Adyashanti
...from "Emptiness Dancing"
You are not your body.
Your body is not you.
You are not the doer.
You are not the enjoyer.
You are pure awareness,
The witness of all things.
You are without expectation,
Free.
Wherever you go,
Be happy!
Desire and aversion are of the mind.
The mind is never yours.
You are free of its turmoil.
You are awareness itself,
Never changing.
Wherever you go,
Be happy.
For see!
The Self is in all beings,
And all beings are in the Self.
Know you are free,
Free of "I,"
Free of "mine."
Be happy.
~ Ashtavakra Gita (15.4-6; translation by Thomas Byrom)
If they ask what LOVE is,
Say "The sacrifice of will".
If you have not left your will behind
You have no will at all.
~ Rumi
The powerful One who [always] clings to the reality will never be afraid, due to mental delusion, of anything at all.
(GURU VACHAKA KOVAI: 984)
You can never not be the Self.
The only way that you can appear
to be other then the Self
is through dream.
You may call it God's dream.
~ Mooji
I'm beyond the sorrows of attachment; I'm the one Reality.
I'm beyond the sorrows of destiny; I'm the one Reality.
I'm beyond the sorrows of worldly existence; I'm the one Reality.
I'm nectarean knowledge, unchanging bliss; I'm everywhere, like space.
~ Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut (3.19)
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When the veil which does not exist is lifted,
then you will have Bliss and Love.
The veil never is, it is only your desire
which hides your true nature.
~ Papaji
...from `The Truth Is'
Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
~ Osho
Your eyes are the windows through which i can gaze into the heart of God.
My eyes are the mirror in which you can see God reflected inside your own being.
~ Mooji
The way of the saints and the sages is different very often. They are more intuitive and they speak more to the mystical Being. They speak more to your Internal Self, and this is what I want to share with you because what you study, what you learn, will not stay with you in a moment of crisis. It will leave you. It will collapse. But what you've experienced in your Heart is with you all the way.
-Sri Mooji-
Rishikesh, 17th February, 2017
The way of the saints and the sages is different very often. They are more intuitive and they speak more to the mystical Being. They speak more to your Internal Self, and this is what I want to share with you because what you study, what you learn, will not stay with you in a moment of crisis. It will leave you. It will collapse. But what you've experienced in your Heart is with you all the way.
-Sri Mooji-
Rishikesh, 17th February, 2017
Once a king was out hunting all night. He came home the next morning and his guru was waiting up for him. The king said to the guru, "First I will take a short rest"
In a little while he woke up and said, "Guruji, I have a question. I just had a wink of sleep. During this sleep I was a beggar. One day I was going to the village to beg and many other beggars were there. But they were all going in the other direction. I was going to town, but they were all leaving.
"One of these beggars said, 'Where are you going? Today is the birthday of the king. Come with us and the king will give us clothes and great food and money.' I went with them and was fed and given new clothes. I decided that today I would bathe and put on the clothes the king gave me, and today I would eat like a king.
"While I was bathing a dog ran off with my food. I chased this dog with a stick. I got the food back from the dog and then I woke up. In this instant I was a beggar who had come to beg from the king on my own birthday! Guruji, tell me which is true. In that moment, was I a king or a beggar?"
The Guru replied, "Both are dreams. In this instant we are in a sleep state as well. The entire world is sleeping. Sleeping means begging. Everybody is begging something else. Kings are begging. Everyone is begging."
Now you have to wake up, while everyone else is sleeping. Whoever stays in the Self, thinking of the Self, speaking of the Self, is in a true waking state. And when you forget it, "I am not the Self-I need something else," this is a sleep state, and then you chase the dog for food.
The jivanmukta, who is only ever aware of himself as ‘l am’ has transcended all duality. He sees no right and wrong. He remains as the witness of all happenings without judging them and without -identifying with them in any way.
ANNAMALAI SWAMI
' Living by the Words of Bhagavan '
God will bear whatever burdens we put on Him. All things are being carried on by the omnipotent power of a Supreme God. Instead of submitting ourselves to It, why should we always be planning, ‘We should do this or that’. Knowing that the train carries all the load, why should we, traveling therein, suffer by carrying our small bundle on our heads, instead of leaving it on the train and being happy.
The story of Ashtavakra teaches that in order to experience Brahma Jnana all that is necessary is to surrender yourself completely to the Guru, to give up your notion of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. If these are surrendered, what remains is the Reality.
There are two ways of achieving surrender. One is looking into the source of the ‘I’ and merging into that source. The other is feeling, ‘I am helpless myself, God alone is all powerful, and except by throwing myself completely on Him, there is no other means of safety for me’; and thus gradually developing the conviction that God alone exists and the ego does not count. Both methods lead to the same goal. Complete surrender is another name for jnana or liberation.
- Gems
"When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence."
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Although Guru Ramana taught various doctrines according to the level of understanding of those who came to Him, we heard from Him that ‘Ajata’ alone is truly His own experience. Thus should you know.
('Guru Vachaka Kovai', v. 100)
[Sadhu Om: ‘Ajata’ is the knowledge that nothing – neither the world, soul nor God – ever comes into existence, and that ‘That Which Is’ ever exists as IT is.]
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It is this same ‘Ajata’ that Sri Krishna revealed to Arjuna in an early Chapter [two] of the Gita, and know that it was only because of the latter’s bewilderment and inability to grasp the Truth, that other doctrines were then taught in the remaining sixteen chapters.
('Guru Vachaka Kovai', v. 101)
Q: Ramana proposed the fundamental question, ‘Who Am I?’ - Nanna can I ask you, ‘Who are You?’
Sri Nannagaru: I am undying spirit.
Q: Many Western seekers come to India looking for enlightenment as if it is an experience, what is enlightenment?
Sri Nannagaru: Enlightenment is truth-realization.
http://www.srinannagaru.com/articles/english/meetn/index.php
Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less. If you want to help him to correct his perception, you wait for another time. For now, you don't interrupt. You don't argue. If you do, he loses his chance. You just listen with compassion and help him to suffer less. One hour like that can bring transformation and healing.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Papaji Says: "Whatever happens keep most interested in Self and see that all rises is Self rising out of Self. Self is not interested in possessing things because Self is total. So don't react with interest or reward or possession. Then you will be free and your interactions will be out of compassion and life will be like sailing in the breeze of non-attachment. This breeze comes from Self and will happen after Freedom, not before."
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My Master Ramana Maharshi, said to me,
"God is not an object to be seen. He is the subject.
He cannot be seen, He is the seer, find this Seer."
My Heart was opened.
"Find the Seer." This is the teaching
If u can simply live your life not running behind money, status, fame..
If you can live just for today without plans, goals...
If you can just live your life for nothing, then , your ultimate flowering and inner peace will be realised... That is what sanyas is.
Truths of Sanyas..
Aruna Maheshwari
He whose mind is not attached to any desires, does no
action in reality, though his body may act.
He is like one who is hearing a story with his mind elsewhere. Similarly, the man whose mind is full of desires is really acting though his body may be actionless. A man may be sleeping here with his body inert, and yet he may be climbing hills and falling from them in dream at the same time.
It is all the same to one who is fast asleep in a cart, whether
the cart moves or stops, with the bulls left yoked or unyoked.
Similarly for the Jnani who has gone to sleep in the cart of
His physical body, it does not matter whether He works or is
in deep meditation (samadhi), or is asleep.
The non-action of the Sage is really unceasing activity. His
characteristic is eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like
the apparent stillness of a very fast-rotating top. Its extreme
speed cannot be followed by the eye and so it appears to be
still. This must be explained, as people generally mistake the
stillness of the Sage for inertness.
Gems from Bhagavan
Chapter XII
Though the world and mind rise and fade together, the world shines by the light of the mind. The ground whence the world and mind arise, and wherein they set, that Perfection rises not nor sets but ever shines. That is Reality.
('Reality in Forty Verses', v. 7 ["Collected Works"])
Thoughts are not interesting.
It is you who become interested in thoughts.
A thought is not interesting of its own accord.
If a thought was interesting,
that same thought would be interesting for everybody.
We would have no defence against it,
‘This is just an interesting thought!’
It would be a fact.
The Truth is: no thought is interesting;
it is you who have become interested.
Thoughts are only interesting for the ego.
Once embraced as real they move in
and become a member of your house.
Neither the house nor its tenant are real.
Once a thought gets inside, it is hard to get him out.
The one who looks with a clear and even mind
conquers the mind and is free for all time.
~ Mooji
Papaji Says: "The world is like a tail of a dog, its nature is to curl.
The best you can do is to stay Quiet and not let anything bother you.
Visitors will come and go, don't interfere with these waves."
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Ramana says: "Liberation is not anywhere outside you. It is only within. If a man is anxious for deliverance, the internal Guru (Master) pulls him in and the external Guru pushes him into the Self. This is the grace of the Guru."
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Papaji Says: "You are Happiness. You are Peace. You are Freedom.
Do not entertain any notions that you are in trouble.
Be Kind to Yourself.
Open to your Heart and Simply Be."
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Ramana says: "Pain or pleasure is the result of past Karma and not of the present Karma. Pain and pleasure alternate with each other. One must suffer or enjoy them patiently without being carried away by them. One must always try to hold on to the Self. When one is active one should not care for the results and must not be swayed by the pain or pleasure met with occasionally. He who is indifferent to pain or pleasure can alone be happy."
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When one abides as the Self,
some divine power takes charge of one´s life.
All actions then take place spontaneously, and
are performed very efficiently, without
any mental effort or activity.
~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'
From ~~~ Ramana Smrti, P.53.
THE SILENT INITIATION OF BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA
By Maha Krishna Swami.
IN 1938, I was taken to Bhagavan.
His face radiated serenity and endless love.
I prostrated myself before him and then he said to me,
“It seems you have been called”.
After thus greeting me,
he became deeply absorbed.
Without looking at anyone or anything,
he was penetrating into my innermost Self.
Suddenly, he turned to me and,
with a look that acquired an indescribable intensity,
aroused in me quietness, deep peace
and a great compassion for all the beings of the universe.
From that day on, I knew that Bhagavan
was not an ordinary master but a Universal Sadguru.
I then began to tune myself to his upadesa,
which I perceived was vitalizing
and transforming me in every way.
I knew that what I could absorb of the light of initiation
would be according to my own efforts.
I was to develop more and more control of my thoughts,
to calm my mind for receiving
the subtle vibrations radiated by Bhagavan.
One day He told me,
“Silence is the most powerful form of teaching
transmitted from master to adept.
The soundless voice is pure intuition.
It is the voice of spiritual sound
speaking in our innermost being.
Self-enquiry is the only path we have
in order to eliminate spiritual unconsciousness,
which is widespread.
Self-enquiry brings the consciousness of the divine,
the universal truth and the light that governs the universe.
All this must be known, felt, lived and realized.
In order to realize this truth,
we need to eliminate the thinking mind,
to dissolve it in the Universal Self ”.
To forget the ego and discover the universal Being,
not as one being discovering another,
but through the Self consciousness of this Being itself,
is the direct path taught by Bhagavan.
After practising Self-enquiry for a period of time
one awakens a current of consciousness,
the supreme consciousness,
that is never affected by the destruction of the body.
Bhagavan recommends,
“Effort is necessary to move oneself
deeper and deeper in the practice of Self-enquiry,
not philosophising on the subject.
Firm determination is necessary to achieve experience,
not trying to find it at one particular point.
This is to be done until the ego is consumed
and only the Self remains”.
The Self is eternal kindness
and boundless love, the sole reality.
It shines like the sun and reveals itself
as soon as the false thought is destroyed
and no residue remains,
for this thought is the cause
of the appearance of false forms.
Diving into the right side of the chest,
the adept enters into the attitude of silence.
Thoughts disappear
and the state of consciousness,
‘I am that I am’, arises.
Bhagavan spoke very little,
and showed the world
how much could be transmitted by silence.
With his attitude of serene benevolence he set all at ease,
removing all criticism and surrounding everyone
with the most pure universal love.
I felt with absolute certainty
that all the knowledge to be gained
would be simply assimilated from his holy presence,
for I had caught the truth
that he is the link to the formless Being.
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