12/31/2020
12/30/2020
प्रेम
“प्रेम दगाबाज़ है ! ” – ओशो
तुम एक प्रेम में पड़ गए। तुमने एक स्त्री को चाहा, एक पुरुष को चाहा, खूब चाहा। जब भी तुम किसी को चाहते हो, तुम चाहते हो तुम्हारी चाह शाश्वत हो जाए। जिसे तुमने प्रेम किया वह प्रेम शाश्वत हो जाए। यह हो नहीं सकता। यह वस्तुओं का स्वभाव नहीं। तुम भटकोगे। तुम रोओगे। तुम तड़पोगे। तुमने अपने विषाद के बीज बो लिए। तुमने अपनी आकांक्षा में ही अपने जीवन में जहर डाल लिया।
यह टिकने वाला नहीं है। कुछ भी नहीं टिकता यहां। यहां सब बह जाता है। आया और गया। अब तुमने यह जो आकांक्षा की है कि शाश्वत हो जाए, सदा—सदा के लिए हो जाए; यह प्रेम जो हुआ, कभी न टूटे, अटूट हो; यह श्रृंखला बनी ही रहे, यह धार कभी क्षीण न हो, यह सरिता बहती ही रहे—बस, अब तुम अड़चन में पड़े। आकांक्षा शाश्वत की और प्रेम क्षणभंगुर का; अब बेचैनी होगी, अब संताप होगा। या तो प्रेम मर जाएगा या प्रेमी मरेगा। कुछ न कुछ होगा। कुछ न कुछ विध्न पड़ेगा। कुछ न कुछ बाधा आएगी।
ऐसा ही समझो, हवा का एक झोंका आया और तुमने कहा, सदा आता रहे। तुम्हारी आकांक्षा से तो हवा के झोंके नहीं चलते। वसंत में फूल खिले तो तुमने कहा सदा खिलते रहें। तुम्हारी आकांक्षा से तो फूल नहीं खिलते। आकाश में तारे थे, तुमने कहा दिन में भी रहें। तुम्हारी आकांक्षा से तो तारे नहीं संचालित होते। जब दिन में तारे न पाओगे, दुखी हो जाओगे। जब पतझड़ में पत्ते गिरने लगेंगे, और फूलों का कहीं पता न रहेगा, और वृक्ष नग्न खड़े होंगे दिगंबर, तब तुम रोओगे, तब तुम पछताओगे। तब तुम कहोगे, कुछ धोखा दिया, किसी ने धोखा दिया।
किसी ने धोखा नहीं दिया है। जिस दिन तुम्हारा और तुम्हारी प्रेयसी के बीच प्रेम चुक जाएगा, उस दिन तुम यह मत सोचना कि प्रेयसी ने धोखा दिया है; यह मत सोचना कि प्रेमी दगाबाज निकला। नहीं, प्रेम दगाबाज है। न तो प्रेयसी दगाबाज है, न प्रेमी दगाबाज है—प्रेम दगाबाज है।
जिसे तुमने प्रेम जाना था वह क्षणभंगुर था, पानी का बबूला था। अभी—अभी बड़ा होता दिखता था। पानी के बबूले पर पड़ती सूरज की किरणें इंद्रधनुष का जाल बुनती थीं। कैसा रंगीन था! कैसा सतरंगा था! कैसे काव्य की स्फुरणा हो रही थी! और अभी गया। गया तो सब गए इंद्रधनुष! गया तो सब गए सुतरंग। गया तो गया सब काव्य! कुछ भी न बचा।
क्षणभंगुर से हमारा जो संबंध हम बना लेते हैं और शाश्वत की आकांक्षा करने लगते हैं उससे दुख पैदा होता है। शाश्वत जरूर कुछ है; नहीं है, ऐसा नहीं। शाश्वत है। तुम्हारा होना शाश्वत है। अस्तित्व शाश्वत है। आकांक्षा कोई भी शाश्वत नहीं है। दृश्य कोई भी शाश्वत नहीं है। लेकिन द्रष्टा शाश्वत है।
– ओशो
[अष्टावक्र महागीता]
12/29/2020
realization
When Realization dawns, then what happens?
You are no longer 'you'.
You remain established in the inner silence and freedom, without any concern for your welfare, content with whatever comes along -- and life goes on in perfect effortlessness.
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When you see that you have no control over the results, you stop worrying about the results and concentrate on the work that is being done.
Ramesh Balsekar
29th December
12/26/2020
activity
Any kind of activity does not affect a jnani.his mind remains ever in eternal peace.
#ramana
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Formerly I had the state of mind of a jnani: I couldn't enjoy the company of men. I would hear that a jnani or a bhakta lived at a certain place; then, a few days later, I would learn that he was dead. Everything seemed to me impermanent; so I couldn't enjoy people's company. Later the Mother brought my mind down to a lower plane; She so changed my mind that I could enjoy love of God and His devotees.
inactivity
Sri Bhagavan: The silence of solitude is forced. Restrained speech in society amounts to silence. For the man then controls his speech. The speaker must come forth before he speaks. If engaged otherwise speech is restrained. Introverted mind is otherwise active and is not anxious to speak.
Mouna(Silence) as a disciplinary measure is meant for limiting the mental activities due to speech. If the mind is otherwise controlled disciplinary mouna is unnecessary. For mouna becomes natural.
Vidyaranya has said that twelve years’ forced mouna brings about absolute mouna - that is, makes one unable to speak. It is more like a mute animal than otherwise. That is not mouna.
Mouna is constant speech. Inactivity is constant activity. ~Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
meditation
Experiencing the natural state during spiritual practice is called upasana (meditation), and when that state becomes firmly and permanently established it is called jnana.
(Ramana Gita, 1.13)
12/13/2020
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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
- Meher Baba.
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ALL THOSE WHO PROCLAIM THEIR OWN GREATNESS AND UNIQUENESS ARE NOT JNANIS.
The Jnani shows no tendency to proclaim himself to be a Jnani. He considers himself to be perfectly normal, true to his real nature. Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent deity is a clear sign of ignorance.
They are mistaking some unusual development for realisation.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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N.MAHARAJ: " Have you brought any questions?"
V: Last year I came to India to find a Guru who could lead me to Self -Realisation. I came with the idea of finding a form who would give me detailed instructions, step by step.
When I met Maharaj, instead of finding a Guru with a form, all I walked away with was an empty frame or a mirror. I found I didn't have any form, anything. Just pure space that changes all the time. When I think of Maharaj, sometime I see him as myself, sometimes I see him as nothing. the person that I see in front of me changes all the time. There is nothing I can point at and say, ' That is he'. It is frightening, and the fear has been growing.
M:"What you have said is quite appropriate, quite correct. Whatever you observe is nothing else but your Self only. Get rid of the body image as yourself. Whatever you have seen is your Self.:
V: Often the concepts, the ideas that are in the books, or that are discussed here, come to my mind, or his image comes to my mind. Immediately after, not before, the feeling comes that there is nothing here, that what I'm hearing is not what it is, but it's only after thinking of him that I feel the space.
M:" Who realises that nothing is, that everything is gone" And when everything is gone, what remains?"
V: That's what is frightening.
M:" When everything goes, you are the Real."
V: As a concept I understand that. For a second I realise, and then I go back to the unreal. I attach myself to my family, my wife, my children. It's habit, I go back.
M:" You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again. That is the meeting point of that immanent principle and the Eternal, the borderland. Why is the intellect puzzled then? That beingness which you are experiencing is melting away. When that concept of ' I Am goes, intellect also goes. So the intellect gets that frightening experience of ' I Am going."
V: How to overcome the fright?
M:" Just watch that moment. One who feels ' I Am dying' is not a Jnani. Your true state is beyond the primary concept of ' I Am'. Consciousness is the primary concept, but this ' I Amness' or Consciousness is the product of the food body. You, the Absolute are not that.
Death comes to the quality of I Amness' which is a product of the food, but the Absolute prevails always. This is the Ultimate knowledge. This knowledge was expounded by Lord Krishna to Arjuna on the battlefield, the horses poised, on the point of battle. He never advocated to Arjuna that he should shave his head and go into the forest and perform tapas. Nothing of the sort. Once you understand this ultimate knowledge, then do what you like. Lord Krishna said, ' With true dynamism you fight this battle'; and I say, once you understand this, you carry out your worldly life with full enthusiasm, full of zest, but understand that your true identity is beyond this quality of ' I Amness'.
For a Jnani, the moment of so-called death is the most blissful, because he is going to the very source of bliss. Eternity is bliss, the very ocean of nectar, immortal."
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Silence is the most powerful medium for transmission of this knowledge — for this knowledge to arrive intuitively.
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The basis of spirituality is not guilt or burden. The basis of spirituality is relaxed freedom.
Ramesh Balsekar
12 December
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the 'I'.
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" When you realize that you are one with the Self, everything you do benefits the world, and this is the life.
Don’t prioritize serving your person, it's the easiest habit to continue.
I give you the master key...stay as the Is-ness, and everything begins to automatically flow in your life.
Allow your intuitive energies to open up more.
I bless you on this, that you come to respect it and value it.
We are too much into the outer, but the power of a human being is the Spirit of a human being.
Research yourself, you go inside...you are a pioneer in the spirit.
What you find here illumines the whole world..."
~Mooji <3
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The 'I am' in movement
creates the world.
The 'I am' at peace
becomes the Absolute.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The bliss of God-Consciousness always exits in you. It is only hidden by the veiling and projecting power of maya. The less you are attached to the world, the more you love God.
- Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
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“Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God, who can bind me?', free you shall be.”
- Sri Ramakrishna
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ACCEPTANCE...
When we don't accept an undesired event,
It becomes Anger;...
When we accept it,
It becomes Tolerance....
When we don't accept uncertainty,
It becomes Fear;...
When we accept it,
It becomes Adventure....
When we don't accept other's bad behaviour towards us,
It becomes Hatred;...
When we accept it,
It becomes Forgiveness....
When we don't accept other's Success,
It becomes Jealousy;...
When we accept it,
It becomes Inspiration....
Acceptance is the key for handling life well...
~ Beloved Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji
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Everyone has gone through many experiences in their lives. These experiences are good no matter how they may appear to you. I don't care if it's the most horrendous, horrible experience on earth. There is nothing wrong in the universe. Whatever you're going through is necessary for your next step of unfoldment. If you believe it's bad, or there's something wrong, then you continue in that state, and you never grow out of it.
Then it appears as if you leave your body, when it's time to leave your body, and you go through it again somewhere else. You go through the experience again and again until you give up your attachment to it. It makes no difference what the experience is. The only thing that matters is how you react to the experience. The experience is very necessary or you would not be going through it. When you understand this, you can only be happy.
Do not compare yourself with anyone. Do not believe that fate has dealt you a bad card and that you're suffering mentally, or physically, or financially, or otherwise, and saying "Why did this happen to me?" You are not to blame. You're identifying with the world, with the body, with the mind. This is the only reason you believe you're suffering. No one really suffers.
If you really understood who you were, you would never believe that anything was wrong with your life. To believe something is wrong with your life is blasphemy.That is the only blasphemy that exists. When you believe you're not in your right place. When you want to change. When you think somebody is doing something to you. When you have fears, that's blasphemy. For what you are saying is this thing called God does not exist.
I use God synonymously with consciousness. You think God, consciousness, does not exist and that you have to struggle for yourself. You have to overcome burdens and you have to pay the price. Even the belief that it's karmic is wrong. The best thing you can do is not react to anything, but to act from your heart with love, compassion, peace, and let the chips fall where they may.
Robert Adams
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Talk 520.
An Australian gentleman (Mr. Lowman) is on a visit here. He seems to be studying the Hindu system of Philosophy. He started saying that he believed in unity, the jiva is yet in illusion and so on.
M.: What is the unity you believe in?
How can the jiva find a place in it?
D.: The Unity is the Absolute.
M.: The jiva cannot find a place in Unity.
D.: But the jiva has not realised the Absolute and imagines itself separate.
M.: Jiva is separate because it must exist in order to imagine something.
D.: But it is unreal.
M.: Any unreal thing cannot produce effects. It is like saying that you killed
some animal with the horn of a hare. A hare does not grow horns.
D.: I see the absurdity. But I speak from the physical plane.
M.: You say, ‘I’. Who is that ‘I’? If that is found you can later say whose is the illusion.
A little later Sri Bhagavan asked:
You say you are in the physical plane now. In which plane are you in dreamless sleep?
D.: I think in the physical plane again.
M.: You say, “I think”. That means that you are saying it now when you are awake. Anyway you admit that you exist in deep sleep. Don’t you?
D.: Yes, but I did not function then.
M.: So then, you existed in deep sleep. You are the same one who continues to exist? Are you not?
D.: Yes.
M.: With this difference - that you did not function in your sleep.
Rather you are associated with the thinking faculty in your waking state and you are dissociated from it in sleep.
Is it not so?
D.: Yes.
M.: Which is then your real nature?
Is it to be associated with thinking or
to be dissociated?
D.: I see it now. But I was not aware of my being in sleep.
M.: You say so now. You do not say so in your sleep. Or do you deny your being
(very existence in sleep)?
D.: No.
M.: It amounts to this that you exist in both states. The Absolute Existence is the Self. You are also conscious of the Existence. That Existence is also consciousness
(Sat and Chit). That is your real nature.
D.: But thinking is necessary even for realisation.
M.: That thinking is aimed at the elimination of all thinking.
D.: Owing to my ignorance, I do not realise the Absolute Existence-Consciousness.
M.: Who is the ‘I’?
Whose is the ignorance!
Answers to these questions will alone suffice to prove that you are already realised.
Is there anyone who denies his own existence?
Or can anyone say that he did not exist in his sleep?
Pure Existence is thus admitted.
The admission also implies consciousness. Thus all men are realised.
There is no ignorant man at all.
D.: Yes, I understand. But I have a small question to ask. The state of Realisation is one of desirelessness. If a human being is desireless he ceases to be human.
M.: You admit your existence in sleep. You did not function then. You were not aware of any gross body. You did not limit yourself to this body. So you could not find anything separate from your Self.
Now in your waking state you continue to be the same Existence with the limitations of the body added. These limitations make you see other objects. Hence arises desire. But the state of desirelessness in sleep made you no less happy than now. You did not feel any want. You did not make yourself miserable by not entertaining desires. But now you entertain desires because you are limited to this human frame.
Why do you wish to retain these limitations and continue to entertain desires?
Sri Bhagavan continued:
Does the body tell you that it is there?
It is certainly something apart from the body that remains aware.
What is it?
Do you say that it is the ‘I’,
meaning the ego which arises
simultaneously with the waking of the individual from sleep?
Be it so. The body is not sentient. The Absolute does not speak. The ego does. One does not aspire for liberation in sleep. The aspiration arises only in the waking state. The functions of the waking state
are those of the ego which is synonymous with the ‘I’.
Find out who this ‘I’ is.
On doing so and abiding as ‘I’, all these doubts will be cleared up.
~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
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" When you realize that you are one with the Self, everything you do benefits the world, and this is the life.
Don’t prioritize serving your person, it's the easiest habit to continue.
I give you the master key...stay as the Is-ness, and everything begins to automatically flow in your life.
Allow your intuitive energies to open up more.
I bless you on this, that you come to respect it and value it.
We are too much into the outer, but the power of a human being is the Spirit of a human being.
Research yourself, you go inside...you are a pioneer in the spirit.
What you find here illumines the whole world..."
~Mooji <3
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The 'I am' in movement
creates the world.
The 'I am' at peace
becomes the Absolute.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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One syllable shines forever in the Heart as Self.
Who is there anywhere who can write it down?
(The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi)
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All is One...
Who is God?
He is grace...
What is grace?
Awareness without the fragmentary ego...
How can one know that there is such a state?
Only if one realizes it..
The Vedas laud such a one as having
realized God and become one with Him...
Therefore the (true) good
which one can render unto it,
is to realize this state of non differentiation...
In fact, there are no states besides this....
They appear in the state of ignorance...
For him who knows, there is one state only...
You are That...
Bhagavan Ramana...
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Give yourself up to deep meditation. Throw away all other considerations of life. The calculative life will not be crowned with spiritual success.
🕉🙏💜 Sri Ramana Maharshi
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No matter that we read the truth in holy books,
no matter how many vows we keep,
it is only with the help of the Sadguru
that we can conquer our confusion.
Although I was a sinner,
impure in mind,
he established me in his own state
and showed forbearance,
accepting my homage and becoming my Lord.
(Muruganar -Sri Ramana Anubhuti)
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What I am, cannot die.
What I am not, cannot really live -
it can only appear through the mind
as Illusion.
This is what you’re finding out.
And something is helping you,
in whatever form it takes for you.
🕊 Mooji
12/12/2020
freedom
Sages declare that freedom can be attained instantly, but in most cases all enquiry into the Self takes time to mature.
Everything is in the enquiry and the enquiry has to be ripe before freedom is attained.
Even before the creation of the universe when there was nothing else but consciousness, a will to manifest the universe rose up from consciousness.
That very will is responsible for all that you see now. Instantly, the whole universe was created by the will,
"Let me be multiplied",
and it was multiplied.
Consciousness was transmitted into this will and this will is contained in this very instant. This will is in the whole of the manifestation, including all individuals.
So what is this will which has created the universe and is responsible for everything? It is dwelling in the hearts of each being. This will to create everything has risen from consciousness and this same will can and will return to its Source. Although this will, this instant, this manifestation, this appearance rises from consciousness, it abides within consciousness for Eternity.
But because there is another strong will within the mind to indulge in the illusion of bodily and worldly affairs, it is kept hidden. The result is that you become what you will and you see what you think.
We don't like to suffer because we have already seen eternal happiness, therefore we know that we can avoid suffering.
So that will,
which is the Source of all creation,
is a very mature will when it wills to return home. It takes time for this will to rise up.
When you stop thinking of other things apart from returning home, you will eventually return home.
You have to be fully devoted to the Self, you have to honour the Self and you have to work for it in the beginning.
Then you will finally attain eternal rest.
It is all in your own hands.
~ Papaji
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ALL THOSE WHO PROCLAIM THEIR OWN GREATNESS AND UNIQUENESS ARE NOT JNANIS.
The Jnani shows no tendency to proclaim himself to be a Jnani. He considers himself to be perfectly normal, true to his real nature. Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent deity is a clear sign of ignorance.
They are mistaking some unusual development for realisation.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Only if one knows the truth of love, which is the real nature of Self, will the strong entangled knot of life be untied. Only if one attains the height of love will liberation be attained.
(Be As You Are)
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Devotee: Why then is samsara - creation and manifestation as finitised - so full of sorrow and evil?
Ramana Maharishi: God’s will!
Devotee: Why does God will it so?
Ramana Maharishi: It is inscrutable. No motive can be attributed to that Power - no desire, no end to achieve can be asserted of that one Infinite, All-wise and All-powerful Being. God is untouched by activities, which take place in His presence; compare the sun and the world activities. There is no meaning in attributing responsibility and motive to the One before it becomes many. But God’s will for the prescribed course of events is a good solution of the free-will problem (vexata quaestio). If the mind is restless on account of a sense of the imperfect and unsatisfactory character of what befalls us or what is committed or omitted by us, then it is wise to drop the sense of responsibility and free-will by regarding ourselves as the ordained instruments of the All-wise and All-powerful, to do and suffer as He pleases. He carries all burdens and gives us peace.
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Don’t touch any thought, concept or feeling.
Don’t touch any intention.
Don’t touch past, present or future.
Leave everything aside.
Whatever you perceive or experience
are like clouds passing.
Observe them, but don’t log in to their energy.
If you look but don’t touch or identify
with anything you perceive,
can you be distracted from what you are?
Simply stay empty as you naturally are.
If everything that you perceive
would be taken out or erased, to the very last thing,
is there not something remaining that cannot
be touched or removed?
Bring your attention to this right now and you
will perceive and know the most natural thing in you,
that which you can never not be
—pure, unchanging awareness.
Enjoy proving this to yourself again and again
to your heart’s delight.
~ Mooji
From Whire Fire - Second Edition
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Everyone says “I am the body”.
It is the experience of the sage as also of the ignorant.
The ignorant man believes that the Self is confined to the body only,
whereas the wise man believes that the body cannot remain apart from the Self.
The Self is infinite for him and includes the body also.
~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
✅ Talk 293.
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Your nature is Bliss. Ignorance is now hiding that Bliss. Remove the ignorance for Bliss to be freed.
(Talk 197)
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How can we get rid of these hindrances?
Maharshi: Discover the Self through meditation, by tracing every thought back to its origin, which is the mind. Never allow thought to continue. If it does, it will be unending; take it back to its source which is mind, and they (thoughts and mind) will die of inaction, for the mind only exists by thought; take away thought and there is no mind. As each doubt and depression arises, ask yourself, "Who is it that doubts? Who is it that is depressed?" Tear everything away until there is nothing but the source left. Live only in the present.
Realization is already here. The state free from thoughts is the one real state. There is no such action as realization.
From Conscious Immortality
Conversations between P.Brunton and Ramana Maharshi
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GIRISH: "If a man is so strongly tied hand and foot, then what is his way?"
MASTER: "He has nothing to fear if God Himself, as the guru, cuts the chain of maya."
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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
- Meher Baba.
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(153) EXISTENCE AFTER REALIZATION
This morning after Veda Parayana, a gentleman who came a few days ago, enquired of Bhagavan, “Swami, it is said that though a Jnani (a realised soul) appears to be doing all the routine things, he really does nothing. How can that be explained?”
Bhagavan: “How? There is a story about it. Two friends while travelling on business slept the night somewhere, and one of them had a dream that he and his companion had gone together to several places and had done various things.
On rising in the morning, the other man had nothing to say, for he had slept soundly. But the first man asked his friend about the various places they had seen together during the night, but the second man could say nothing about them, having had no dream like the other. He merely said, ‘I have
gone nowhere; I have been here only’.
As a matter of fact, neither had gone anywhere; but the first man had only an
illusion of having gone. Similarly, to those who look upon this body as real, and not unreal as in a dream, it may appear real, but, strictly speaking, nothing affects the Jnani.”
Remarked some other person: “It is said that the eyes of a Jnani appear to look at things, but in reality they see nothing.”
Bhagavan: “Yes, the eyes of the Jnani are likened to the eyes of a dead goat, they are always open, never closed. They.glitter but they see nothing, though it seems to others that they see everything. But what is the point?”
The devotee continued: “It is also said that for such adepts, siddhas, there is no conditioning or limitation (upadhi)
of space and time.”
Bhagavan: “That is right. It is true that there is no such thing as conditioning or limitation, but the doubt then arises as to how the day-to-day work is done. It has therefore to be said that they have limitation. It is also stated that the limitation will be there in a subtle way until there is
deliverance from the body (videha mukti). It is like a line drawn on water; the line appears while it is being drawn, but is not
there immediately after.”
The devotee: “If that is so for emancipated souls (siddha purushas), there will be no upadhi (support) after their mortal body falls away. But Bhagavan himself has said that there are several emancipated souls on this hill. If they have no support (upadhi) how could they remain in existence?”
Bhagavan:
Those who have attained complete emancipation (jnana.siddhi) merge with the universe after their bodies fall off, just as milk merges with milk, oil with oil, water with water.
In the case of lower souls, because of some samskaras or latent tendencies remaining unexpired, they stay in this world, taking whatever form they please, and ultimately
become merged.
Viveka Chudamani, verse 567
The devotee: “Why does that difference arise?”
Bhagavan: “It arises because of the strength of their desires (samkalpas).”
_______Letters from Sri Ramanasramam
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Mooji - STAY NEUTRAL
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Imagine you are standing on a platform at the railway station. One by one the trains come, they stop, doors open, doors close, they move on. You don’t have to get on. Like this, simply observe the thought activity appearing on the screen of consciousness without connecting up. Don’t log on. Thoughts and sensations will be seen to move on by themselves, without being forced.
Stay neutral. Be with the awareness as awareness itself. Feel the breath moving effortlessly, without will or strain. Observe the senses func- tioning, the sense of outer and inner; any movement is just happening by itself, unplanned and unforced.
Whatever arises as thought, feeling, movement or sen- sation is quietly observed, only now there is less interest, less pull. All is arising; your self is not aroused. All this is smoothly observed. Even the sense of self, the feeling ‘I am’, is appearing inside the awareness. Make no greater effort than is required. You are here.
That which is neither doing nor undoing, neither directing activity nor being affected by activity, which is effortlessly aware yet unconcerned, that is your real self. Not behind nor in front, nor above nor beneath, for it is not another phenomenon. It is unplaced, unborn, boundless awareness-self.
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#mooji #nondualism #nonduality #nondual #advaitavedanta #advaita
12/11/2020
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All the "me’s" and "you’s" are merely the objective expression of the one subjective "I." The sudden realization of this often reduces the individual to a state of explosive, uncontrollable laughter at the primeval joke that is this whole illusion of creation.
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Our natural state, as an intrinsic part of the Totality, is one of utter relaxation. It is only the separation from this Totality (through our illusion of free-will) that brings out fear, aggression and the tension of insecurity. And it is only through surrender to this Totality that all such unnatural tensions are eliminated from our system.
Ramesh Balsekar
8 December
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Q: What is Guru's grace? How does it lead to Self-realization?
A: Guru is the Self.
Sometimes in his life a man becomes
dissatisfied and, not content with what he has, he seeks the satisfaction of his desires through prayer to God.
His mind is gradually purified until he longs to know God, more to obtain his grace than to satisfy his worldly desires.
Then,
God's grace begins to manifest.
God takes the form of a Guru and appears to the devotee,
teaches him the truth and, moreover, purifies his mind by association.
The devotee's mind gains strength and is then able to turn inward.
By meditation it is further purified and it remains still without the least ripple.
That calm expanse is the Self.
The Guru is both external and internal.
From the exterior he gives a push to the mind to turn it inwards.
From the interior he pulls the mind towards the Self and helps in the quietening of the mind.
That is Guru's grace.
There is no difference between God, Guru and the Self.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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"The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Soon he discovers that his own body he cannot be. Once the conviction: ' I am not the body' becomes so well grounded that he can no longer feel, think and act for and on behalf of the body, he will easily discover that he is the universal being, knowing, acting, that in him and through him the entire universe is real, conscious and active."
~ Sri Nisargdatt Maharaj.
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"The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all."
~ Swami Vivekanand.
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Leave everything outside and come in.
Everything you see, you must leave.
Don't want anything, not even enlightenment.
Everyone can do this.
Come right into that place before all these things were formed.
Allow yourself to be undone of all falsehood.
Then you will discover for yourself
that emptiness that has never moved.
Everything else has moved.
This is your ground. The ground of Being.
Your very Self is that.
♥️ Mooji
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True knowledge means to be empty;
empty of identity and belief in
and attachment to psychological conditioning.
There is a great space and silence
here in the emptiness.
A great intelligence looks out from that space
as the unfathomable Self.
You are one with this One.
This unity is love and Truth.
~ Mooji
realization
Blessed Birthday, OshO 🌺🙏🌺
God is not an experience. No experience as such is spiritual; all experiences are mind games. Beware of it. Whatsoever can be seen will be part of the illusory world. The seer is the truth, not the seen. You can see auras and you can see angels and you can see kundalini rising and you can see inner lights -- but they are all seen. They are not you.
The seer is the witness, and only the witness is the truth. All else is a dream. And there are worldly dreams and there are other-worldly dreams; there are materialistic dreams and there are spiritualistic dreams. One thing has to be remembered always, that whatsoever is seen is worthless -- even if it is God. The God that is seen is worthless.
When all experiences disappear and you are left utterly alone, nothing to see, only emptiness in the hands, no experience at all, then suddenly you realize yourself. Then you turn upon yourself, then you fall into your source. And that is not an experience, it is a realization. That is the difference between the words "experience" and "realization". It is not that you have seen something, experienced something. Now you know who you are.
🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
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True knowledge means to be empty;
empty of identity and belief in
and attachment to psychological conditioning.
There is a great space and silence
here in the emptiness.
A great intelligence looks out from that space
as the unfathomable Self.
You are one with this One.
This unity is love and Truth.
~ Mooji
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Wherever the mind wanders,
restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without,
lead it within;
train it to rest in the Self.
Abiding joy comes to those who still the mind.
Freeing themselves from the taint of self-will, with their consciousness unified, they become one with Brahman.
🕉 Bhagvad Gita. Chapter 6. Verses 26 & 27.
✅ Meditation
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"The mind is like the moon, deriving its light of consciousness from the Self, which thus resembles the Sun. Hence when the Self begins to shine, the mind, like the moon, becomes useless."
~ Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
(from 'Maha Yoga')
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All the "me’s" and "you’s" are merely the objective expression of the one subjective "I." The sudden realization of this often reduces the individual to a state of explosive, uncontrollable laughter at the primeval joke that is this whole illusion of creation.
**********************
Our natural state, as an intrinsic part of the Totality, is one of utter relaxation. It is only the separation from this Totality (through our illusion of free-will) that brings out fear, aggression and the tension of insecurity. And it is only through surrender to this Totality that all such unnatural tensions are eliminated from our system.
Ramesh Balsekar
8 December
14
Behind all sorts of feelings is an impersonal space of pure perceiving.. Is the presence of the natural mind..Beyond lies the unspeakable.
🌼 Mooji
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He who from the depth of his soul seeks to know God will certainly realize Him. He must. He alone who is restless for God and seeks nothing but Him will certainly realize Him.
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He who from the depth of his soul seeks to know God will certainly realize Him. He must. He alone who is restless for God and seeks nothing but Him will certainly realize Him.
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Talk 295.
Mr. Natverlal Parekh, a Gujerati gentleman who had attended the International Religious Conference as a delegate from Baroda, came here on a visit. He is a young man, well-groomed, alert, and quite conscious of his well-earned merit. He presented a note containing some questions to Sri Bhagavan.
D.: Pray help me realise Atma - Paramatma - Satchidananda.
M.: Atma - Paramatma - Satchidananda mean one and the same thing, i.e., the Self. The Self is eternally realised.
Otherwise there will be no pleasure in it.
If it is not eternal it must have a beginning;
what begins will also end;
so that it is only transient.
There is no use seeking for a temporary state of affairs. The fact is that it is the
state of effortless, ever alert Peace. Effortlessness while remaining
aware is the state of Bliss, and that is Realisation.
D.: I do not want intellectual answers. I want them to be practical.
M.: Yes.
Direct knowledge does not require intellectual discourses.
Since the Self is directly experienced by everyone, they are not at all necessary. Everyone says “I am”.
Is there anything more to realise?
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"When I'm busy in mind people see a reflection of that mind in me. When I'm empty they see a reflection of their Being, their Soul in me." Mooji
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Leave everything outside and come in.
Everything you see, you must leave.
Don't want anything, not even enlightenment.
Everyone can do this.
Come right into that place before all these things were formed.
Allow yourself to be undone of all falsehood.
Then you will discover for yourself
that emptiness that has never moved.
Everything else has moved.
This is your ground. The ground of Being.
Your very Self is that.
❤ Mooji
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(153) EXISTENCE AFTER REALIZATION
This morning after Veda Parayana, a gentleman who came a few days ago, enquired of Bhagavan, “Swami, it is said that though a Jnani (a realised soul) appears to be doing all the routine things, he really does nothing. How can that be explained?”
Bhagavan: “How? There is a story about it. Two friends while travelling on business slept the night somewhere, and one of them had a dream that he and his companion had gone together to several places and had done various things.
On rising in the morning, the other man had nothing to say, for he had slept soundly. But the first man asked his friend about the various places they had seen together during the night, but the second man could say nothing about them, having had no dream like the other. He merely said, ‘I have
gone nowhere; I have been here only’.
As a matter of fact, neither had gone anywhere; but the first man had only an
illusion of having gone. Similarly, to those who look upon this body as real, and not unreal as in a dream, it may appear real, but, strictly speaking, nothing affects the Jnani.”
Remarked some other person: “It is said that the eyes of a Jnani appear to look at things, but in reality they see nothing.”
Bhagavan: “Yes, the eyes of the Jnani are likened to the eyes of a dead goat, they are always open, never closed. They.glitter but they see nothing, though it seems to others that they see everything. But what is the point?”
The devotee continued: “It is also said that for such adepts, siddhas, there is no conditioning or limitation (upadhi)
of space and time.”
Bhagavan: “That is right. It is true that there is no such thing as conditioning or limitation, but the doubt then arises as to how the day-to-day work is done. It has therefore to be said that they have limitation. It is also stated that the limitation will be there in a subtle way until there is
deliverance from the body (videha mukti). It is like a line drawn on water; the line appears while it is being drawn, but is not
there immediately after.”
The devotee: “If that is so for emancipated souls (siddha purushas), there will be no upadhi (support) after their mortal body falls away. But Bhagavan himself has said that there are several emancipated souls on this hill. If they have no support (upadhi) how could they remain in existence?”
Bhagavan:
Those who have attained complete emancipation (jnana.siddhi) merge with the universe after their bodies fall off, just as milk merges with milk, oil with oil, water with water.
In the case of lower souls, because of some samskaras or latent tendencies remaining unexpired, they stay in this world, taking whatever form they please, and ultimately
become merged.
Viveka Chudamani, verse 567
The devotee: “Why does that difference arise?”
Bhagavan: “It arises because of the strength of their desires (samkalpas).”
_______Letters from Sri Ramanasramam
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Don’t touch any thought, concept or feeling.
Don’t touch any intention.
Don’t touch past, present or future.
Leave everything aside.
Whatever you perceive or experience
are like clouds passing.
Observe them, but don’t log in to their energy.
If you look but don’t touch or identify
with anything you perceive,
can you be distracted from what you are?
Simply stay empty as you naturally are.
If everything that you perceive
would be taken out or erased, to the very last thing,
is there not something remaining that cannot
be touched or removed?
Bring your attention to this right now and you
will perceive and know the most natural thing in you,
that which you can never not be
—pure, unchanging awareness.
Enjoy proving this to yourself again and again
to your heart’s delight.
~ Mooji
From Whire Fire - Second Edition
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Devotee: Why then is samsara - creation and manifestation as finitised - so full of sorrow and evil?
Ramana Maharishi: God’s will!
Devotee: Why does God will it so?
Ramana Maharishi: It is inscrutable. No motive can be attributed to that Power - no desire, no end to achieve can be asserted of that one Infinite, All-wise and All-powerful Being. God is untouched by activities, which take place in His presence; compare the sun and the world activities. There is no meaning in attributing responsibility and motive to the One before it becomes many. But God’s will for the prescribed course of events is a good solution of the free-will problem (vexata quaestio). If the mind is restless on account of a sense of the imperfect and unsatisfactory character of what befalls us or what is committed or omitted by us, then it is wise to drop the sense of responsibility and free-will by regarding ourselves as the ordained instruments of the All-wise and All-powerful, to do and suffer as He pleases. He carries all burdens and gives us peace.
🕉
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Everyone says “I am the body”.
It is the experience of the sage as also of the ignorant.
The ignorant man believes that the Self is confined to the body only,
whereas the wise man believes that the body cannot remain apart from the Self.
The Self is infinite for him and includes the body also.
~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
✅ Talk 293.
12/10/2020
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After many incarnations, there comes a time when we grow dissatisfied with mere things, when experiences of this world leave us empty.
We yearn for higher truth, a deeper understanding of life. When we begin to search sincerely for that experience, we have entered what Sri Yukteswarji calls the propelled state of the human heart. That is, we are propelled by our inner dissatisfaction to seek something more than the superficial experiences and pursuits of the senses. In this state, we eventually find a spiritual teacher or teaching that can show us the way to the infinite.
~Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
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In
the end everyone must come to
Arunachala....
As the moon derives its light from the sun,
so other holy places [.....] derive their sanctity from Arunachala....
It is the heart of the world....
Know it to be the secret and
secret Heart - center of
Lord Siva....
Path of Self - Knowledge...pp...49-50...
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If your surrender is total and complete
you need not ask anything....
Try to get rid of the thought 'I' and 'mine'....
Don't feel anything is yours....
It is all God's.....
Ramana Maharshi
.....9
Leave everything outside and come in.
Everything you see, you must leave.
Don't want anything, not even enlightenment.
Everyone can do this.
Come right into that place before all these things were formed.
Allow yourself to be undone of all falsehood.
Then you will discover for yourself
that emptiness that has never moved.
Everything else has moved.
This is your ground. The ground of Being.
Your very Self is that.
Mooji
8
Although the world and the knowledge thereof rise and set together, it is by knowledge alone that the world is made apparent. That Perfection, wherein the world and knowledge thereof rise and set, and which shines without rising and setting, is alone the Reality.
Verse 7 from Truth Revealed, 40 verses on Reality.
samadhi
Q:- What is samādhi?
Shri Ramakrishna:- It is the complete merging of the mind in God-Consciousness.
प्रश्न:- समाधि किसे कहते है ?
श्रीरामाकृष्ण:- जहाँ मन का चैतन्य में पूर्ण लय हो जाता है उसे समाधि कहते है।
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After many incarnations, there comes a time when we grow dissatisfied with mere things, when experiences of this world leave us empty.
We yearn for higher truth, a deeper understanding of life. When we begin to search sincerely for that experience, we have entered what Sri Yukteswarji calls the propelled state of the human heart. That is, we are propelled by our inner dissatisfaction to seek something more than the superficial experiences and pursuits of the senses. In this state, we eventually find a spiritual teacher or teaching that can show us the way to the infinite.
~Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
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Leave everything outside and come in.
Everything you see, you must leave.
Don't want anything, not even enlightenment.
Everyone can do this.
Come right into that place before all these things were formed.
Allow yourself to be undone of all falsehood.
Then you will discover for yourself
that emptiness that has never moved.
Everything else has moved.
This is your ground. The ground of Being.
Your very Self is that.
Mooji
12/09/2020
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Emptiness is emptiness. San Francisco or Delhi. Wherever you go, the emptiness surrounds you. Silence will follow you wherever you go.
~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'
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When there is a hurricane, at the center of the hurricane there is a peaceful spot. The center is peace. There is nothing happening in that center. When there is disharmony going on, anger, frustration, fear. At the center of the anger there is peace. At the center of the fear there is peace. If you can only dive in there long enough and dive past the external condition and dive into the peace. Then you will become one with the peace and the anger will dissipate, it will be gone, it will disappear. Due to the fact in reality the anger never existed. The fear never existed. Only the Self exists, consciousness, pure awareness. And that is at the center of yourself and the condition.
Robert Adams
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The thinker himself cannot possibly effect the cessation of thought. Insofar as he is involved in the thought of ceasing to think, he himself is the perpetuation of thought. But if the thought process is merely watched or impartially witnessed, it will subside on its own and take the thinker with it.
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Spiritual practices are based on the false identification of the seeker with the ego and its efforts, attributing to the Self various defects and limitations conceived by the ego. But the manifestation of the universe is itself an illusion in which the same ego is included only as a helpless and finite part. So who is to make any effort, and for what? That Self which is sought through Self-enquiry is already realized because there is nothing but the Self.
Ramesh Balsekar
7 December
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Seekers of Truth,
Whatever is born out of time, you need not be concerned about. Let life take care of that. Let life take care of life. Keep quiet and let your mind rest inside your heart. Don't worry. Right now belongs only to now.
Just be now. There are no demands, requirements and conditions. You are simply here. As you confirm this and pay attention to this simple fact, the whole world becomes a harmony right in front of you.
🌼 Mooji
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If you live with the conviction that God is in the closest contact with you, you will gradually discover that there is nothing but God.
- Ma Anandamayi
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The secret to happiness is to be yourself and find that inner reservoir of peace we have all been gifted with. Just be yourself!
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Wherever the mind wanders,
restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without,
lead it within;
train it to rest in the Self.
Abiding joy comes to those who still the mind.
Freeing themselves from the taint of self-will, with their consciousness unified, they become one with Brahman.
🕉 Bhagvad Gita. Chapter 6. Verses 26 & 27.
✅ Meditation
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"The mind is like the moon, deriving its light of consciousness from the Self, which thus resembles the Sun. Hence when the Self begins to shine, the mind, like the moon, becomes useless."
~ Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
(from 'Maha Yoga')
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All the "me’s" and "you’s" are merely the objective expression of the one subjective "I." The sudden realization of this often reduces the individual to a state of explosive, uncontrollable laughter at the primeval joke that is this whole illusion of creation.
**********************
Our natural state, as an intrinsic part of the Totality, is one of utter relaxation. It is only the separation from this Totality (through our illusion of free-will) that brings out fear, aggression and the tension of insecurity. And it is only through surrender to this Totality that all such unnatural tensions are eliminated from our system.
Ramesh Balsekar
8 December
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If a powerful light shines, it does not need
to tell the darkness: “please go away”.
In the presence of such a powerful light, all darkness disappears.
The jnani spontaneously radiates a spiritual light that
automatically disperses the darkness of spiritual ignorance.
Annamalai Swami
12/08/2020
life
Visitor: “Jnanis generally retire from active life and do not engage in any worldly activity.”
BHAGAVAN: “They may or may not. Some, even after realising, carry on trade or business or rule over a kingdom.
Some retire into forests and abstain from all acts except those absolutely necessary to keep life in the body.
So, we cannot say all jnanis give up activity and retire from life.
DAY BY DAY WITH BHAGAVAN
goal
"In this world of many, he who sees the One, in this ever-changing world, he who sees Him who never changes, as the Soul of his own soul, as his own Self - he is free, he is blessed, he has reached the goal."
~ Swami Vivekananda
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TEACHINGS OF BRAHMAJNA MA
Not a single jiva is the body, but the embodiment of Being-Consciousness – Bliss; still to have such an erroneous idea as ‘I am the body’ due to congenital tendencies, is Maya.
Whatever is imagined by the mind, is Maya.
What cannot give, but holds out the promise of happiness to man,
is Maya.
As the form reflected in a mirror, though not real, appears to be so, so the entire universe of five elements, and the happiness derived from them, are not real and do not give true peace – nevertheless in the mind of the jiva overpowered by desires, they seem to be real and conducive to happiness, just like the mirage to the thirsty deer in the desert – this is Maya.
That pacified person alone can get peace, conquer death and become Brahman, who by dint of discrimination and reasoning can penetrate into the mystery of Maya and cut asunder the meshes of Maya by realizing the existence of the Self as the sole ever-present Reality.
In spite of the presence of the body and objects of enjoyment pertaining to it, as the possessor of the body is not aware of them while asleep, remains under the sway of sleep – in the same way, forgetting his own nature under the influence of the ignorance of Maya, it is Brahman itself, who considers himself to be the possessor of the body. Owing to delusive association with the body Brahman feels the bondage, though in reality he is not bound at all.
When consciousness dawns it is realized that ‘I’ am identical with Brahma, the creator, and that the creation of the world emanates from ‘me’, the world is ‘my’ imagination, as bubbles on the sea are not distinct from the sea.
- The Life and Teachings of Brahmajna Ma p. 71
aware of screen not mind as cloud
The thinker himself cannot possibly effect the cessation of thought. Insofar as he is involved in the thought of ceasing to think, he himself is the perpetuation of thought. But if the thought process is merely watched or impartially witnessed, it will subside on its own and take the thinker with it.
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Spiritual practices are based on the false identification of the seeker with the ego and its efforts, attributing to the Self various defects and limitations conceived by the ego. But the manifestation of the universe is itself an illusion in which the same ego is included only as a helpless and finite part. So who is to make any effort, and for what? That Self which is sought through Self-enquiry is already realized because there is nothing but the Self.
Ramesh Balsekar
7 December
1
Seeking starts with the individual and ends with the total annihilation of the individual.
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Freedom is what happens when the arrogant and silly notion that we live our own lives by our own will has fallen off.
Ramesh Balsekar
6 December
3
Mr. P. Brunton, while reading Upadesa Manjari, came across the statement that the ego, the world and God are all unreal. He desired to use a different word for God or at least a qualifying adjective, e.g., the Creative Force or personal God.
Sri Bhagavan explained that God means SAMASHTI - i.e., all that is, plus the Be-ing - in the same way as ‘I’ means the individual plus the Be-ing, and the world means the variety plus Be-ing. The Be-ing is in all cases real. The all, the variety and the individual is in each case unreal. So also in the union of the real and the unreal, the mixing up or the false identifiation is wrong. It amounts to saying sad-asadvilakshan, i.e., transcending the real and the unreal - sat and asat. Reality is that which transcends all concepts, including that of God. Inasmuch as the name of God is used, it cannot be true. The Hebrew word Jehovah = (I am) expresses God correctly. Absolute Be-ing is beyond expression.
source: Talk 112
don't believe mind thought
Don't believe your thoughts...
I am the body is a thought...
I am the mind is a thought...
I am the doer is a thought...
Worry is only a thought...
Fear is only a thought...
Death is only a thought...
Ramana Maharshi...
life
CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI
Q: We are so accustomed to maya. That is why it is so difficult for us to make progress.
AS: Again enquire ‘For whom is this difficulty?’ Don't give reality to the very thing that is causing you all your trouble.
Q: Do we have no other function in the world other than discovering our own Self? Is it not our duty to show a little love and compassion to other people?
AS: If you discover yourself you will be able to give love and compassion to the whole world. It will flow automatically from you.
The sun is full of light which it gives to the world without any partiality. If you become full of spiritual light by realizing the Self, that light overflows everywhere. That overflowing of your Self is love and compassion for the whole universe.
One may try to do some good to others but not much real good will result unless you know yourself. How can a blind man help other people?
Q: I can understand what you say: that we are not the body and the mind and that this truth has to be experienced more and more. But we have to take care of this body and this mind. Also, we must do something in the world. We cannot just sit and meditate all the time.
If we do that we will be a burden on others.
AS: We must take care of the body by giving it food, shelter, and clothing. This is necessary because the journey to the Self is only easy when the body is healthy. If a ship is not in need of repair, if it is in good condition, we can easily use it to go on a journey.
But we should not forget the purpose for which we have been given this body. We should not get side-tracked by thinking too much about good health or worrying about other people’s problems.
Our purpose in life is to realize the Self. It is an easy matter to get a little food and find somewhere congenial to live and meditate.
Once we have achieved this we should have no further interest in the world and its problems.
- Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p. 290
love
0sho<3
If their love does not immediately start becoming friendship, sooner or later there is going to be a divorce. Friendship should grow out of love, otherwise enmity will grow - something is bound to happen. Love is an opening. Immediately start growing in friendship, otherwise enmity will grow - something is bound to grow.
Love is fertile. If you are not sowing the seeds of beautiful flowers, then weeds will grow - but something is bound to grow. When love really moves deeper, it becomes prayer. Then the whole quality is non-sexual. Then the quality is non-sensuous. Then you have a certain feeling of reverence for the other - not sexual lust at all, but some awe. In the very presence of the other you start feeling something divine, something sacred. Your beloved becomes your goddess or your god................<3
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