1/17/2020
i m that
Q: I just do not understand. You say you are bodiless and mindless, while I see you very much alive and articulate.
M: A tremendously complex work is going on all the time in your brain and body, are you conscious of it? Not at all. Yet for an outsider all seems to be going on intelligently and purposefully. Why not admit that one’s entire personal life may sink largely below the threshold of consciousness and yet proceed sanely and smoothly?
Q: Is it normal?
M: What is normal?
Is your life -- obsessed by desires and fears, full of strife and struggle, meaningless and joyless -- normal?
To be acutely conscious of your body id it normal?
To be torn by feelings, tortured by thoughts: is it normal?
A healthy body, a healthy mind live largely unperceived by their owner; only occasionally, through pain or suffering they call for attention and insight.
Why not extend the same to the entire personal life? One can function rightly, responding well and fully to whatever happens, without having to bring it into the focus of awareness. When self- control becomes second nature, awareness shifts its focus to deeper levels of existence and action.
- I AM THAT no12
silence
Silence....
Silence of a realized person is
most powerful....
He sends out waves of spiritual influence
which draw many people towards him....
Yet he may sit in a cave and
maintain complete silence....
He never needs to go out
among the public....
If necessary he can use others
as his instrument.....
Ramana Maharshi.....
love self
Love is not different from the Self. Love of an object is of an inferior order and cannot endure. Whereas the Self is Love, in other words, God is Love.
#ramanamaharshi
quotes
The highest Truth is that (pure consciousness) which realises,
“There is neither control of the mind, nor its coming into play”,
“Neither am I bound, nor am I a worshipper, neither am I a seeker after liberation, nor one-who has attained liberation”.
~ Amritabind Upanishad : 10
न निरोधो न चोत्पत्तिर्न बद्धो न च साधकः।
न मुमुक्षुर्न वै मुक्त इत्येषा परमार्थता॥ अमृतबिन्दु, १०॥
na nirodho na cotpattirna baddho na ca sādhakaḥ |
na mumukṣurna vai mukta ityeṣā paramārthatā ||
amṛtabindu : 10||
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spiritual quotes
"When you know that everything that is happening is only appearing on the screen of consciousness, and that you yourself are the screen on which it all appears, nothing can touch you, harm you or make you afraid."
🌺 Annamalai Swami
be as you are
You are already that. Time and space cannot effect the Self. They are in you. So also all that you see around you is in you.
Be As You Are
Chapter 2, Self Awareness and Self Ignorance
quotes
Jiva is relative - real to some as well as unreal to some. Its relativity springs from one's state of mind. Jiva or individuality or ego lasts only a long as conditioning (Avidya) exists. The Jiva identifies with the body, mind and senses. It becomes a slave to the senses. this is when Ego is inflates with a false sense of self and the mind is in a deluded by ignorance or Avidya. It is a state where Maya begins to control the senses and mortal pleasures become a priority. Jiva and Bramhan are no different. It is the ego which separates them. When the Jiva realixes this, the ego is annihilated. Avidya comes to an end and the individuality is lost. Samsara (Dvaita) exists due to Avidya. Advaita is about wiping out the identity either by lack of self identification or by total self identification. Bramha Gyan is not acquired by an external object. It is the state where the Guru enables the Disciple to bear higher energies. Bramha Gyan is when the Bramhan reveals itself to the Jiva; the essence of Satchitananda.
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