9/30/2020
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Seekers in all relationships must make Truth their priority. You may love each other deeply,
but for each of you the first love must always be your love for the Truth, which is the same as being one with your own true Self.
Establish this universal love firmly in your heart,and other expressions of love will naturally follow and flow.
Then your relationship will find their right place in that orientation toward Truth.
~Mooji 🌷🙏🏽
Vaster Than Sky
Greater Than Space
grace
To you, Ramana, the mighty grace
who is dancing within the mind
and who makes everybody dance
who is dancing as the mind
and who stops the dancing mind
who destroys it by his powerful grace
To you, Ramana
I surrender
who are you? know this
Who are you? Know this.
One who knows oneself becomes the Self.
If lust, anger, temptation, etc., arise,
let them arise. They will eventually subside.
How do they affect you?
Know you are quite different from all these. Knowing that, "I am beyond " knowledge
and ignorance, different from all,"
remain steady, at peace like a King.
Know that God, your Self, is
without shape, without attribute.
Then you become free.
🕉 Sri SiddhaRameshwar Maharaj
Guru of Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ranjit Maharaj.
God
Q : But does God know everything?
Sri Ramana Maharshi :
The Vedas declare God to be omniscient
only to those
who ignorantly think themselves
to be people of little knowledge.
But if one attains and
knows him
as he really is,
it will be found that
God does not know anything,
because
his nature is
the ever-real whole,
other than which
nothing exists
to be known.
~ Be as you are
surrender
If you surrender yourself to the Higher Power all is well. That Power sees your affairs through. Only so long as you think that you are the worker you are obliged to reap the fruits of your actions. If on the other hand, you surrender yourself and recognise your individual self as only a tool of the Higher Power, that Power will take over your affairs along with the fruits of actions. You are no longer affected by them and the work goes on unhampered.
Whether you recognise the Power or not the scheme of things does not alter. Only there is a change of outlook.
Sri Ramana Maharshi : Talk 503
nothing
You know that you know nothing.
Find out that knowledge.
That is liberation (mukti).
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
~ Talk 12.
9/29/2020
soul
Q: What is the difference between the mind and the Self ?
Sri Ramana Maharshi :
There is no difference.
The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards,
it becomes the ego and all the world.
Cotton made into various clothes we call by various names.
Gold made into various ornaments,
we call by various names.
But all the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments gold.
The one is real, the many are mere names and forms.
But the mind does not exist apart from the Self,
that is, it has no independent existence.
The Self exists without the mind, never the mind without the Self.
Q: Brahman is said to be sat-chit-ananda. What does that mean?
Sri Ramana Maharshi :
Yes.
That is so.
That which is, is only sat.
That is called Brahman.
The luster of sat is chit and its nature is ananda.
These are not different from sat.
All the three together are known as satchit-ananda.
~ From Be as you are book
self knowledge
To purify the intellect, listen to knowledge. What is knowledge? It is the awareness that everything is temporary and I am the witness to everything that is happening.
- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar.
Quotes
By knowing for an absolute fact, that he does not live but is being lived, the man of wisdom is aware of the perfect futility, of all intentions.
For a non entity, there is no anxiety or worry, only a sense of incredible, total freedom.
Ramesh Balsekar
quotes 3
Whatever this body is to do and whatever experiences it is to pass through was already decided when it came into existence.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
surrender
"By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage ‘Thou art all’ and ‘Thy will be done’.
The state is not different from jnana. In soham [the affirmation of ‘I am he’] there is dvaita [dualism]. In surrender there is advaita [non-dualism]. In the reality there is neither dvaita nor advaita, but that which is. Surrender appears easy because people imagine that, once they say with their lips ‘I surrender’ and put their burdens on their Lord, they can be free and do what they like. But the fact is that you can have no likes or dislikes after your surrender; your will should become completely nonexistent, the Lord’s will taking its place. The death of the ego in this way brings about a state which is not different from jnana. So by whatever path you may go, you must come to jnana or oneness."
(Be As You Are)
quotes 2
No one can comprehend the perfection,
love and infinity of the Supreme Being.
While you live in the mode of a 'person'
you have no chance of understanding
the wholeness of the Absolute.
Gaining clarity and true understanding
does not come through thinking or studying books.
You have to go inside the book of your own being and merge there.
The Supreme says:
You can bring together your wisest men and women
from all the kingdoms of the earth,
and they cannot fathom one moment of my reality.
But if you love me with all your heart,
I am all Yours.
And through this Love,
I will release wisdom, joy and peace in you,
and shower countless blessings upon your life.
~ Mooji
quotes
Realizing one’s true nature requires no phenomenal efforts. Enlightenment cannot be attained or forced; it can only happen. So long as there is a pseudo-entity considering itself a seeker working toward enlightenment, for just so long will enlightenment be prevented from happening.
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Personal identity and enlightenment cannot go together. Indeed, there is actually no such thing as either personal identity or enlightenment, and the apperception of this fact is itself enlightenment.
Ramesh Balsekar
26 September
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CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI
Q: Swami, is it good to go on fasts?
AS: I once asked Bhagavan what food a sadhaka should take.
He replied, 'If you put too much food in the stomach your energy and your ability to remain aware of consciousness will diminish. But if the amount of food in the stomach is less, your awareness will be good.'
It is not necessary to keep the stomach completely empty.
Small quantities of sattvic food are best if you want to meditate well.
There is a passage in the spinal cord no thicker than a thread.
Through this channel, light passes up and goes through the sushumna (a channel in the subtle body]. If you put too much food in the stomach, this light is covered.
LWB p. 323.
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The tranquil clarity devoid of mental turmoil is the samadhi (absorption in the Self) which is essential for Liberation. [Therefore] try earnestly to experience the peaceful consciousness, the clarity of heart, by destroying the deceptive turmoil [of mind].
(Guru Vachaka Kovai)
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CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI
SICKNESS OF JNANIS
Q: In order to have realized the Self, jnanis must have done a lot of punyas (merit) and tapas (practice) in their previous lives. If jnanis experience the fruits of all their previous punyas in their last life, they all ought to have very enjoyable last lives. This does not appear to be the case. Many of them get very sick. They often have to put up with a lot of body problems.
AS: There are several reasons for this. Sometimes Self-realization makes the body very weak. Bhagavan's body used to shake a lot. When he was asked about this he would sometimes say, 'If an elephant enters a weak hut, what will happen to the hut?' The elephant was Self-realization and the weak hut was his body.
Some jnanis take on the karma of some of their disciples and experience it themselves in the form of sickness. In such cases, the sickness cannot be attributed to anything that happened in the jnanis previous lives.
Most jnanis have got rid of most of their karma, both good and bad before they even start on their last life. They have all done tapas in their previous lives. By the time their last life starts they often have very little karma left. Only a few, like Vidyaranya Swami, have a lot of punya as left to enjoy.
Vidyaranya Swami lived several centuries ago. In one lifetime, when he was very poor and hungry, one of his gurus initiated him and told him to do upasana [meditation] on the Goddess Lakshmi [the goddess of wealth]. He did that upasana for years, hoping to get rich, but no wealth came to him in that lifetime.
In one of his subsequent births, he received initiation from a
jnani, did a lot of meditation and finally realized the Self. After realization, he was established in a state of total desirelessness. It was only after his realization that his previous upasana on Lakshmi started to bear fruit.
Sometime after his realization, gold started to fall from the sky into the city where he was living. Vidyaranya Swami realized that this was happening because of his previous meditations, but because he no longer had any desires, he no longer had any interest in accumulating money or gold. He told the king that the golden rain was falling on account of his previous tapas. He also made it clear that he didn't want any of gold for himself. The king announced that the people in the city could keep any gold which had fallen on their own property. He reserved the gold which had fallen on public property for his own use. The king later used his own share of the gold to build new temples and tanks.
The king took the gold which had fallen on the streets and made gold bricks out of it. In order to test whether Vidyaranya Swami was really desireless, the king put some of these bricks outside Vidyaranya Swami's house. Then he and his wife secretly watched to see what he would do with them. Vidyaranya Swami eventually came out of his house, saw the bricks and squatted on while he defecated. Because he no longer had any interest in money, that was the only useful thing he could do with them.
- Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p. 276
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Question: in the moments when you feel bad, it seems that we fall into oblivion of what we really are.
Yolande: it is impossible to forget the moment in which this invisible space was discovered. Just like when we are in love as people, our beloved is constantly in us even if he is not present physically, you cannot forget this space of silence, love and peace that is constantly here.
- Yolande Duran
ego
The mind is only the aggregate of all thoughts....
Thoughts cannot exist but for the ego,
the 'I' - thought...
So all the thoughts are pervaded by ego....
Ramana Maharshi...
happiness
My dear friend, happiness is not an experience, it is your nature so you need to do nothing for it. Only self knowledge brings happiness because happiness is the nature of Self.
~ Papaji
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Past and future are only the present
when they occur,
thus the present alone exists....
Ramana Maharshi...
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The body does not say ‘I’.
The Atman is not born.
In between, the feeling ‘I’ is born in the whole body.
Whatever name you give it that is Chit-jada-granthi (the knot between the consciousness and the inert), and also bondage.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
(“Unnathi Nalubadhi”)
9/28/2020
मौत की जिसे याद आई, वह साक्षी बन जाता है
🌹 तुम मौत को याद रखो 🌹
〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️
जिस शरीर के लिए तुम सारी दौड़-धूप कर रहे हो, जिस धन के लिए सारा जीवन अपना समाप्त कर रहे हो, अमूल्य समय को नष्ट कर रहे हो, अवसर को खो रहे हो, जब मौत द्वार पर आ जायेगी तो तुम्हारा लाभ, लाभ सिद्ध न होगा; तुम्हारा धन, धन सिद्ध न होगा। तब कितना बैंक में बैलेंस है इसका कोई मूल्य न होगा, तब अचानक तुम्हारे सामने सारे जीवन का भ्रम टूट जायेगा। तब तुम पाओगे व्यर्थ ही दौड़ते रहे। खिलौने इकट्ठे किए, कागज की नावें चलाईं, सब सपने टूट गये; सब इंद्रधनुष गिर गये। तब तुम अपने को दीन हीन पाओगे; बड़े से बड़े सम्राट भी उसी दीन हीनता में अपने को पाते हैं।
इसके पहले सम्हल जाओ। इसके पहले जाग जाओ। और जगाने वाली एक ही चीज है जगत में, और वह इस निश्चय से भर जाओ कि तुम जो भी हो, जैसे हो अभी, यह अमृत नहीं है; यह मरणधर्मा है। तुम जैसे हो, यह तुम्हारा जो अहंकार और व्यक्तित्व है, यह खो जायेगा। पानी का बबूला है। यह फूटने को ही है। कितनी देर टिकेगा, इससे कोई फर्क नहीं पड़ता। सात साल कि सत्तर साल, क्या करोगे? यह बबूला टूटेगा, यह फूटने ही वाला है। कितने बबूले फूटते रहे। तुम भी उन्हीं बबूलों की संतति हो, तुम भी खो जाओगे।
इसके पहले कि यह बबूला टूटे, तुम उसकी खोज कर लो जो कभी नष्ट नहीं होता।
तुम मरणधर्मा के भीतर हो, लेकिन अमृत का स्वर तुम्हारे केंद्र पर बज रहा है। तुम परिधि को थोड़ा छोड़ो, और केंद्र की थोड़ी सुध लो। तुम थोड़ा आंख बंद करो, बाहर कम देखो, और भीतर देखो। तुम थोड़ा भीतर सुनो, वह अनाहत नाद वहां बज रहा है।
तुम मौत को याद रखो, वही तुम्हारा ध्यान बन जाये। तुम पाओगे जीवन बदलने लगा। क्रोध मुश्किल हो जायेगा, किस पर क्रोध करना है? शोषण मुश्किल हो जायेगा, किसका शोषण करना है? किसके लिए शोषण करना है? हानि-लाभ बच्चों की बातें हो जायेंगी।
तुम जीओगे यहीं, लेकिन अगर मौत तुम्हें याद रहे, तो तुम चारों तरफ पाओगे कि एक बड़ा सपना है। लंबा चलता है, लेकिन है सपना। तुम्हारे भीतर द्रष्टा धीरे धीरे जगने लगेगा। मौत की जिसे याद आई, वह साक्षी बन जाता है। मौत को जो भूला, वह कर्ता बन जाता है। मौत की जिसे याद आई, वह असली लाभ की तरफ लग जाता है; मौत जिसे भूली, वह व्यर्थ के लाभ में उलझा रह जाता है। और मौत के पीछे छिपा है अमृत का द्वार। वह तुम्हें याद आ जाये तो अमृत ज्यादा दूर नहीं है ।
❣️ओशो ❣️
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No one can comprehend the perfection,
love and infinity of the Supreme Being.
While you live in the mode of a 'person'
you have no chance of understanding
the wholeness of the Absolute.
Gaining clarity and true understanding
does not come through thinking or studying books.
You have to go inside the book of your own being and merge there.
The Supreme says:
You can bring together your wisest men and women
from all the kingdoms of the earth,
and they cannot fathom one moment of my reality.
But if you love me with all your heart,
I am all Yours.
And through this Love,
I will release wisdom, joy and peace in you,
and shower countless blessings upon your life.
~ Mooji
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Surrender is not a weakness. It is strength. It takes tremendous strength to surrender to life, to the Supreme, to the Cosmic Unfolding. ~Mooji
La rendición no es una debilidad. Es fuerza. Se necesita una tremenda fuerza para rendirse a la vida, al Supremo, al Desplegamiento Cósmico. Mooji
♥
egoless state
THE EGOLESS STATE
The ego-ridden person sees the variety and is curious to know how it came about. He is told that God made it all, and also that He made it all out of Himself. By thinking on this he comes to see that all this multiplicity is a unity in something, which is called God. He next wants to know about God. He is persuaded that God must be a person, like himself, though different in size, power and qualities. In the beginning, therefore, he has to be allowed to go his own way. But there comes a time when he can bear to be told that God is not a person at all. Then the Sage tells him, that God is egoless. The meaning is that He is the One Reality that is the Self in all. The description that God is egoless may seem to be a poor one. It conveys no sense to the ego-ridden mind. People want to be told that God dwells somewhere in the sky, in a world of great splendour, surrounded by wonderful beings, called gods or angels. Even to understand that God dwells in their own hearts men take time.
Maha Yoga Chapter 8
by K. Lakshmana Sarma
perfect
PURNA
Being perfect, why do you feel yourself imperfect? Such is the teaching of all the religions.
Whatever may be the experiences, the experiencer is one and the same.
'I' is purna - perfection.
~Sri Ramana Maharshi
thy will be done
"By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage ‘Thou art all’ and ‘Thy will be done’.
The state is not different from jnana. In soham [the affirmation of ‘I am he’] there is dvaita [dualism]. In surrender there is advaita [non-dualism]. In the reality there is neither dvaita nor advaita, but that which is. Surrender appears easy because people imagine that, once they say with their lips ‘I surrender’ and put their burdens on their Lord, they can be free and do what they like. But the fact is that you can have no likes or dislikes after your surrender; your will should become completely nonexistent, the Lord’s will taking its place. The death of the ego in this way brings about a state which is not different from jnana. So by whatever path you may go, you must come to jnana or oneness."
(Be As You Are)
fear
From ~~~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 58.
Bhagavan.:
One should hold on to the single Atman
and not swerve therefrom.
There will be no distraction
and no fear.
Troubles arise only
when there is a second to oneself.
If the Atman be realised to be only unitary,
there is no second and therefore
no cause for fear.
~~~~~~
self
"The current of Kundalini is ourselves. Mind is the real Kundalini. The representation of Kundalini as a serpent is merely to assist duller minds. The forms of representation of the chakras are also illusory. We are not concerned with anything less than the Self. Kundalini and chakras exist for those who practice that path of yoga but not for those who practice Self-enquiry. "
Conscious Immortality,
🪔 Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
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By knowing for an absolute fact, that he does not live but is being lived, the man of wisdom is aware of the perfect futility, of all intentions.
For a non entity, there is no anxiety or worry, only a sense of incredible, total freedom.
Ramesh Balsekar
9/27/2020
quotes
Realizing one’s true nature requires no phenomenal efforts. Enlightenment cannot be attained or forced; it can only happen. So long as there is a pseudo-entity considering itself a seeker working toward enlightenment, for just so long will enlightenment be prevented from happening.
**********************
Personal identity and enlightenment cannot go together. Indeed, there is actually no such thing as either personal identity or enlightenment, and the apperception of this fact is itself enlightenment.
Ramesh Balsekar
26 September
osho
मैं अपने संन्यासियों को इससे ज्यादा और कुछ भी नहीं सिखाता हूं--मात्र देखते रहो। जीवन एक लीला है। तुम दर्शक बनो, द्रष्टा बनो। जैसे कोई फिल्म देखता है, नाटक देखता है--बस ऐसे। खुद का जीवन भी यूं देखो, जैसे यह भी एक अभिनय है। यह पत्नी, ये बच्चे, यह परिवार, यह धन दौलत, छोड़ कर भागनी की कोई जरूरत नहीं, सिर्फ इतना जानो--अभिनय है। चलो तुम्हें यह अभिनय करना रहा है। यह बड़ी मंच है पृथ्वी की, इस पर सब अभिनेता हैं। और जिसने अपने को समझा कि मैं कर्ता हूं वही चूक गया। और जिसने अपने को अभिनेता जाना वही पा गया है। पाने की बात दूर नहीं है।
यूं तो वो मेरी रगेजां से भी थे नजदीकतर
ज्यो मछली बिन नीर-8
ओशो
9/26/2020
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Whatever this body is to do and whatever experiences it is to pass through was already decided when it came into existence.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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To tell another, 'I Love You', is false until you realize the truth: 'God as the love in me is in love with His love in you'
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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"She is the seed of the universe and its pervader. If she becomes gracious, She brings about our final liberation from all worldly bondages."
-Chandi XI, 5
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D..
This is what I feared..I am gagged...
M..
No.. I am coming to the rescue....
Suppose I give you an answer,
would it set at rest all your doubts?
You said you are the body,
the mind and so on....
What is this mind, which, you say, is your self? You say,
it is all thoughts including so many faculties....
Sri Ramana Maharshi...
knowledge
A visitor quoted verse 33 of Ch. 3 in Bhagavad Gita and asked Bhagavan, “Are we then to do nothing and simply allow the senses to go their own way?”
Bhagavan: It only means actions will go on, according to the gunas or prakriti of the man. They cannot be prevented. But, that is the very reason why man should acquire jnana and thus become unaffected by the consequences of such action. The verse says, “Acquire jnana and be unattached to the actions and their consequences.”
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