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CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

Q: Can 't some use be made of this energy (of the Self)? What can one do with it? 

AS: Shakti is the Self and the Self is shakti. 

When you know that you are not the body or the mind, how can you do anything? 

In that state there will be no ‘I’ to instigate any activity. In that state everything will happen automatically. 

Water in a lake sustains many life forms: fish and plants inside 

the water; trees, plants and animals along the shoreline. If you are filled with the energy of the Self, that energy flows out of you and nourishes every one in your vicinity. You don't have to direct this power outwards. If you have done enough tapas this energy will flow of its own accord. 

Shakti is the shanti of the Self. If you do tapas and if you don't 

dissipate your energy through sensory indulgence you will feel the power of the Self accumulating inside you. You can also feel it radiating outwards to the people around you. 

You don't lose your power when you radiate it naturally like this because the power of the Self is infinite. You only lose it if you move your attention away from the Self and get involved in pointless mental and sensory excesses.

LWB p. 347

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Q: Bhagavan said yesterday that while one is engaged in search of God 'within', `outer' work would go on automatically. In the life of Sri Chaitanya it is said that during his lectures to students he was really seeking Krishna within and he forgot all about his body and went on talking of Krishna only. This raises a doubt as to whether work can safely be left to itself. Should one keep part of one's attention on the physical work?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

The Self is all.

Are you apart from the Self ?

Or can the work go on without the Self ?

The Self is universal so all actions will go on

whether you strain yourself to be engaged in them or not.

The work will go on of itself.

Thus Krishna told Arjuna that he need not trouble to kill the Kauravas because they were already slain by God.

It was not for him to resolve to work and worry himself about it,

but to allow his own nature to carry out the will of the higher power.

Q: But the work may suffer if I do not attend to it.

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Attending to the Self means attending to the work.

Because you identify yourself with the body,

you think that work is done by you.

But the body and its activities, including that work,

are not apart from the Self.

What does it matter whether you attend to the work or not ?

When you walk from one place to another

you do not attend to the steps you take

and yet you find yourself after a time at your goal.

You see how the business of walking goes on without your attending to it. So also with other kinds of work.

Q: If one holds the Self in remembrance, will one's actions always be right?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

They ought to be.

However, such a person is not concerned with the right or wrong of actions. His actions are God's and therefore right.

~ From Be as you are book

OSHO quotes

quotes

The longing for Him must become genuine. If He manifests as longing, He will certainly also manifest as fulfillment.

🕉 Anandamayi Ma

quotes

Whatever you may desire of this ever-changing world will bring sorrow, even though momentary happiness may be experienced at times. To seek That in which no sorrow exists, and all is found, is one's sole duty.

🕉 Anandamayi Ma

surrender

Complete surrender to God means giving up all thoughts and concentrating the mind on him....  

If we can concentrate on him, other thoughts disappear.... 

If the actions of the mind, speech and body are merged with God, all the burdens of our life will be on him.....

Sri Ramana Maharshi.....

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worldly life

Questioner: How can I go through my devotional practices when I have always to think of my daily bread?

Sri Ramakrishna: He for whom you work will supply you with your necessaries. God made provisions for your support before He sent you into this world.

quotes

There is absolutely nothing on this earth that has anything to do with your spiritual life. All of your dreams, your earthly dreams, your desires, your needs and your wants are all nonsense. They seem important, but they're total nonsense. You're not going anywhere when you attach yourself to worldly things. You're just spinning around, getting nowhere. 

It's difficult for most people to understand, that you can sit in a chair, and something will happen within you which will take care of all your needs, your wants. And everything that's going on in your life, will be taken care of in the right way. You think you have to be the doer. You think, you believe, you have to run around and make things happen. Nothing can be further from the truth than this. There is a power and a presence that will take care of everything for you. 

Your job is to relax, to take it easy, to be peaceful. To observe, to watch, to look, never to react. As you begin to go deeper within yourself, whatever you need to know will be revealed to you. Whatever you have to do will be done. Yet what you really are has absolutely nothing to do with these things. Your true nature, Brahman, absolute intelligence, pure wisdom, sat-chit-ananda, is always available. It is always there. You are that. 

To see your true Self, and to feel your true Self, and to be your true Self, you simply have to negate everything else in this world. By negate everything in this world, I mean you have to look at a situation and never react to it, and realize this is not you. Good things, bad things, whatever you call good and bad, they're all the same. They are not you. You are not that. You are absolute freedom.

Robert Adams