By your gradual practice of the habit of mental indifference, you reach that state of Unity, which has no beginning or end, and is beyond all other things. Oṃ Śri Gurubhyo Namaḥ Hariḥ Oṃ Maharṣi Vasiṣṭha in Yoga Vasistha Maharamayana
"Without self- knowledge, you are perpetually in a state of self- hypnosis." ~ J.Krishnamurti
Freedom is free but not cheap. In fact, it is priceless. It will cost you your world, your attachments, your life -- your own self. You will be paying this over and over until you are drained of all 'you' have and all 'you' have saved up. You will exchange all this for that which 'you' cannot have -- your eternal Being. ~ Mooji
If you abide in the ‘I am’ no desires and no karma will touch or affect you. If you remain in the ‘I am’ as ‘I am’ no harm can come to you, the main thing is not go out of it. If you take the ‘I am’ as your destiny no other destiny can befall you. Abide as ‘I am’ and you will see no world, no mind, no distinctions and no directions. - Annamalai Swami, LWB
A woman, with her necklace round her neck, imagines that it has been lost and goes about searching for it, until she is reminded of it by a friend; she has created her own sense of loss, her own anxiety of search and then her own pleasure of recovery. Similarly the Self is all along there, whether you search for it or not. Again just as the woman feels as if the lost necklace has been regained, so also the removal of ignorance and the cessation of false identification reveal the Self which is always present - here and now. This is called realisation. It is not new. It amounts to elimination of ignorance and nothing more. Sri Ramana Maharshi
The one who surrenders everything, including himself, and the one who finds nothing, including himself, discover the same Truth. #Mooji
Wednesday, 29 August 2018 at 10:43 UTC+05:30
Wednesday, 29 August 2018 at 10:43 UTC+05:30
Be careful of the I ego. we can get trapped in our own energy. We start assuming things. Brahme. Brahmas job is to generate thoughts. They create attachment if we are not mindful. Everything with name and form is maya. Be one with the pure blissful consciousness. Sadasiv. Om namah sivayah.
Maha Vishnu resting in Samadhi “When the mind is completely absorbed in one object of meditation, it is termed Samadhi. The mind identifies itself with the object of meditation. In Samadhi, there is neither Dhyana nor Dhyata (neither meditation nor meditator). The meditator and meditated, the thinker and the thought, the worshipper and the worshipped become one or identical. The Triputi (triad) vanishes. The mind loses its own consciousness and becomes identical with the object of meditation. The meditator has dissolved his personality in the sea of God, drowned and forgotten there till he becomes simply the instrument of God. When his mouth opens, it speaks God's words without effort or forethought through direct intuition and, when he raises his hand, God flows again through that to work a miracle. In Samadhi, there is neither seeing nor hearing. There is neither physical nor mental consciousness. There is only spiritual consciousness. There is only Existence (Sat). That is your real Svarupa. When the water dries up in a pool, the reflection of the sun in the water also vanishes. When the mind melts in Brahman, when the mind-lake dries up, the reflected Chaitanya (Chidabhasa) also vanishes. The Jivatman (personality) goes away. There remains Existence alone. Turiya is the spiritual condition where there is no play of mind, where the mind is dissolved in Brahman. It is the "fourth dimension," where there is infinite Brahmic bliss. It is not a condition of inertia, forgetfulness or annihilation. It is a state of absolute consciousness which baffles all attempts at description. It is the final goal of all. It is Mukti. It is Moksha. Generally, when you have what you call dreamless sleep, it is one of two things; either you do not remember what you dreamt of or you fell into absolute unconsciousness which is almost death-a taste of death. But, there is the possibility of a sleep in which you enter into an absolute silence, immortality and peace in all parts of your being and your consciousness merges into Satchidananda. You can hardly call it sleep, for there is perfect "awareness." In that condition, you can remain for a few minutes or hours or days; but, these few minutes give you more rest and refreshment than hours of ordinary sleep. You cannot have it by chance. It requires a long training. Samadhi is not a stone-like inert state as many people imagine. A life in the spirit (Atman or Divine) is not annihilation. When the self is bound down to its empirical accidents, its activities are not fully exercised and, when the limitations of the empirical existence are transcended, the universal life is intensified and you have enrichment of Self. You will have a rich inner life. You will have an expanded cosmic life and supra-cosmic life, too.” The Divine Life Society
When the individual soul feels renunciation towards worldly enjoyments, scriptures say it has reached its highest perfection. As the mind is freed from its choice and dislike of things, so the soul is liberated by avoiding its egoism and personality. Then it no longer is conscious of the pain that attends future birth and reincarnation. Whoever in his understanding comes to know this state of supreme and inexpressible joy, he is sure to overcome all his worldly appetites that bind him fast to this earth. But whoever labors in his mind with affections to this world, he has to wander in it continually and he destroys the supreme joy of his soul in his continuous turmoil. Maharṣi Vasiṣṭha in Yoga Vasistha Maharamayana #advaitavedanta #advaita #yoga #vasistha https://www.facebook.com/YogaVasistham/
That which results in peace is the highest perfection ( Siddhi) - Ramana Maharshi
Mind is an imaginary obstacle in the imagined self. But who perceives or imagines this? ~ Mooji
Say to yourself, "I am none of these things. I am simply awake. I am the absolute reality. Freedom itself." And remain in the silence. Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe. Watch everything be alert. Understand it all comes out of your mind. By working on your mind this way you make the mind stronger not weaker. The mind develops greater powers. The idea in Advaita Vedanta is to totally annihilate the mind. To kill the mind that thinks this way. You do not want to think this way. You do not want to think. You do not want. You do not. You do. You. And nothing. Remain in the nothing. ~ ROBERT ADAMS
Question : I see you doing things. How can you say that you never perform actions? Sri Ramana Maharshi : The radio sings and speaks, but if you open it you will find no one inside. Similarly, my existence is like the space; though this body speaks like the radio, there is no one inside as a doer.
#quotes The apparently Self-realised person does not hanker after more pleasure in daily living, nor does he resist whatever comes his way as a sense objects. Wanting some thing positively or not wanting something negatively are both aspect of volition, and in case of apparently Self-realised person there is absolutely no volition. His sensorial apparatus responds to an external stimulus without the intervention of the mind. He lives his life 'like a dry leaf in the breeze'. He knows that his life is being lived according to God's Will or the Cosmic Law, like everyone's life, and merely witnesses life happening naturally. ~ Ramesh Balsekar
'I Am' itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor the mind, and the love of the Self in you is for the Self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one. Seek unity and that is love. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. <3
There is only the limitless Self. Know that the knowledge of this and even the knower of this are only the limitless Self. Mooji
This desire to be free has arisen in a very few people. Free in this life. This year. This month. Now. This desire will decide. Like a moth who falls in love with the flame and rushes toward it without any delay. No holding on or holding back along the way. How much time to become flame itself? Going toward the flame is the decision to be free -- going toward the Atman. The Atman consumes you, giving you eternal existence, eternal consciousness, and eternal bliss. And nobody knows it. Everyone is searching outside through the senses. Whatever you see, wherever you see name and form, it is not true. These names and forms will never give you peace or love. Whatever you see, feel, or experience through pleasurable sense objects ultimately will leave you hungry. So this is the decision and the discernment. With this discernment, this discrimination, a few will decide "I want to be free." They will find a teacher. The teacher is within you. The satguru is within you. Your desire for freedom is going toward that satguru, that Brahman. 🌹Papaji; Wake Up and Roar
DO NOT WAIT … Question: We know that the pleasures of this world are useless and even painful, yet we long for them. What is the way of ending that longing? Bhagavan: Think of God and attachments will gradually drop from you. If you wait till all desires disappear to start your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait a very very long time indeed. - ‘Guru Ramana’, S.S Cohen
D.: I meditate neti-neti (not this - not this). M.: No - that is not meditation. Find the source. You must reach the source without fail. The false ‘I’ will disappear and the real ‘I’ will be realised. The former cannot exist apart from the latter.
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication. ~ Alan Watts
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication. ~ Alan Watts
The individual soul being unreal, it follows that there is no perceiver of the world. This may be surprising; but it need not be so. The seer and his spectacle are inseparable; they are like the two ends of a single stick; as a stick will always have two ends, so every perception involves the two, the seer and his spectacle. The three, namely the seer, the spectacle and the relation of seeing form a triad, of which the essential element is the seeing, which becomes possible by the light of Consciousness; by that light both the seer and the seen are manifested. It is not possible to attribute reality to the seer, while denying it to the spectacle. If we accept the view that the spectacle, namely the world, is unreal in any sense, then we must also accept the view that the seer of the world is unreal in the same sense and to the same extent. The spectator is in fact an integral part of the world; both in waking and in dream the spectator and the spectacle form one single whole, appearing and vanishing together. The Sage brings home to us the spurious nature of the ego - the individual soul - by means of a parable. On the occasion of a marriage an uninvited guest, an utter stranger to both the parties, came in pretending to be an intimate friend of the bridegroom. At first the hosts, namely the bride's party, believed him and honoured him accordingly. But after a time suspicions arose and inquiries began to be made as to who he was and what right he had to come in. The two parties met and began to question each other. The impostor saw that he was sure to be exposed and treated as he deserved if he remained; so he quietly disappeared. Just like the impostor in this parable is the ego. It is neither the real Self, nor the body; so long as no inquiry is made, the ego persists and enjoys the status of the real Self; but when an inquiry is made - when the quest of the real Self is begun and persisted in - it will vanish, leaving no trace. This is exactly what we are told by the Sage in verse -25 of 'Ulladu Narpadu. - from 'Maha Yoga' (p-94,95), under the topic 'The Soul'. - Om namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya!
One who is attracted by the beauty of Radha and Krsna cannot be attracted by the false beauty of this material world. ~Srimad Bhagavatam
The longing of the worldly-minded for God is momentary, like a drop of water on a red-hot frying-pan. The water hisses and dries up in an instant. The attention of the worldly-minded is directed to the enjoyment of worldly pleasure. Therefore they do not feel yearning and restlessness for God. #Ramkrishna
From the book The Garland of Guru's Sayings 407. If the son of God, the jiva (ego-identified one) who has forgotten his real Nature [i.e., Self], eagerly inquires within, "Who am I that is lamenting over the miseries of life?'', he will realize his greatness, namely that he is truly One with his Father -- Self.
Self-realization is the cessation of thoughts and all mental activity. Thoughts are like bubbles upon the surface of the sea (Self). The false ego is associated with objects; the subject is alone the Reality. The world is seen by the mind’s reflected light. The moon shines by the reflected light of the Sun. When the Sun has set, the moon is useful for displaying objects. But when the Sun rises no one needs the moon, even though it is visible in the sky. So it is with mind and Heart. The mind is used for seeing objects. - Conscious Immortality
Bhagavan said, ‘The greatest scripture is the silent exposition. Only if you read this scripture will all doubts cease.’ To a complaining devotee who said, ‘I do not know where the ‘I’ is,’ Bhagavan answered by saying, ‘Be where the ‘I’ is. - LWB
"Without even knowing who we are we want to attain something else. That which we want to attain is that which we already are. The experience of any state or heavenly world that comes to us will eventually go away again. That which comes and goes is not the Self. That which is always within the experience of everyone, that alone is our real Self. That is liberation, enlightenment." ~ Ramana Maharshi
Your purpose is to be at peace, to love all beings, and to know who you are. This is the purpose of life. Slowly you will know this and get through. Q. What is peace? See things with an open heart and you will see what peace, love and beauty are and at that moment you will forget everything. Have you heard of Saint Kabir? He says, "If you keep quiet for an instant, for half an instant, for even half of a half of an instant, then the whole world will run after you." That is the attraction that you will become if you keep Quiet. You will be the most beautiful person and the whole universe will run after you to have peace of mind. You will become That and it is not difficult. ~ Sri Poonjaji ´Papaji´
"Heart" is only another name for the Self. Doubts arise only when you identify it with something tangible and physical. The Heart is not a concept nor an object for meditation, but is the seat of meditation -- it is the Self and stands alone. (Conscious Immortality)
As our physical bodies awake after dreaming and desiring, so our spiritual bodies awake after we cease to think of our physical states. In deep sleep we are devoid of desires. Similarly, in the state of renunciation, even though we are awake in our physical bodies, we have the tranquility of liberation. Maharṣi Vasiṣṭha in Yoga Vasistha Maharamayana #advaitavedanta #advaita #yoga #vasistha Fb page @https://www.facebook.com/YogaVasistham/
