1/25/2020
dont mix
Don’t mix with others too closely. Friendships do not satisfy us unless they are rooted in mutual love for the Lord. Our human wish for loving understanding from others is in reality the soul’s desire for unity with God. The more we seek to satisfy that desire ourtardly, the less likely we are to find the Divine Companion.
- Sri Sri Paramhansa Yogananda, “Sayings of Paramhansa Yogananda”
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ego
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word "water" is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
~ Alan Watts
...from "Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion"
guru
SILENT GURU: Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi has a reputation of being a Silent Guru. He is appropriately called the Silent One. Bhagavan felt that teaching denotes duality; the Guru and the disciple, while Bhagavan was the Pure Non-dual Essence. He was a self-made sage and his profound teachings are transmitted in silence. He had no guru to his credit. Swami Sadhu Om referred to Bhagavan as the Mouna Guru. Bhagavan did not even allow his true disciple, Sri Muruganar, or any-one of similar status, to consider or treat him as a guru. Those around him understood that guru is not the physical body but is the ever-living spirit; the Infinite Consciousness that exist within all of us.
But Bhagavan did not say anywhere that a guru is not necessary. The guru need not always be in human form. First a person thinks that he is an inferior and that there is a superior, all knowing powerful God who controls his own and the world’s destiny and worships him or does Bhakti. When he reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment, the same God whom he was worshipping comes as a Guru and leads him on. That Guru comes only to tell him that ‘God is within yourself. Dive within and realise. God, Guru and the Self, are the same, said Bhagavan. Contact with Jnanis is good as they will work through silence. They will leave some day. Or you might leave them. But God’s contact remains even after the physical form of the Guru vanishes.
Bhagavan extolled Lord Dakshinamurthi as his guru. The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. If one has realized, he is that which alone is, and which alone has always been. He cannot describe that state. He can only be That. Of course, we loosely talk of Self-realization for want of a better term. That which is, is peace. All that we need do is to keep quiet. Peace is our real nature. We spoil it. What is required is that we cease to spoil it.
‘Continuously enquire and seek alone that grace in the Heart’ said Bhagavan. Our guru’s form is the Reality that sleeps without sleeping in the heart; the seat of consciousness. He is self-luminous effluence that shines in the heart like a beautiful lamp that needs no kindling. Only He who unifies the individual Self, bestowing in this way the direct experience of supreme Self knowledge, is extolled by the great ones as the real form of the absolute Reality and the true Self. Accept Him alone as the Guru, the Supreme.
But how many of us could immediately hear or experience the unspoken, the unwritten word. Some of us regretfully don’t seem to hear anything in the presence of elders or gurus as the mind is always wandering! Even if we are listening, we seem to trap trivial matters like a water filter that lets pure water flow down. In Tamil we call this ‘neyari’.
Then again, how do we learn from nature? Do we need to hear the melody of the flute to learn from the bamboo? The river that flows out to the sea and the bees that collect honey have a thing or two to teach us also. The bamboo, the bee or the river did not stand in front of us on a teaching pedestal. We learn by silent observation. Out ancient rishis too heard the pranava Om in their absolute silence and gave us the vedas. Even the illumined ones who have gained jnana at the holy feet of gurus, aspire silent teachings from Him. They need their silence for contemplation and inner learning.
Bhagavan’s views are presented as an exception to the general rule of guru-sisya parampara in the Hindu tradition. Thus it is food for thought while we reflect Guru Purnima. Hari Om
mooji
In front of some intelligence,
This game of existence is being acted out.
But there is a seeing place
that is beyond every category.
It doesn't belong to any religion, political party,
spiritual discipline, race or gender; nothing at all.
Everything happens in front of it,
and this you have to find.
This recognition will shatter all your doubts
as you are being replaced with
the inseparable Self.
~Sri Mooji
now
Past is gone! Future is only in the imagination ! Stay in present ! Live in Present ! #vidya
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self
Nisargadatta Maharaj : " How long have you been wearing this garb (ochre robes)?"
V: Twenty-five years.
M: "Have you realised your Self?"
V: I am not realised. I am just wandering about, as you say, in the dark jungle, going here and there.
M:" Who is it that says this?"
V: Probably the Self.
M:" Remember that whatever is called God or Self in the body, and as long as He is there, that beingness will be also. When beingness is not there, there will be no God no Self. When a person dies it is not the Self that is turned into a corpse, it is the body."
V: It is true. You see, I understand all that theoretically, I know it as a philosophy, but to experience the void, to know the Real, I am as far off as possible.
M:" Whatever is called God or Self is because there is the beingness, the feeling that ' I Am'. That is the fundamental principle, the basis behind all knowledge, but you are identifying yourself with the body."
V: True.
M:" When there is no soul there is no God, and when you are not there, your feeling of beingness is not there, there is nothing."
divine love
Do not search and wander without attaining any [worthy] state in spite of having learnt all arts and having heard all [philosophies] that are to be heard. Simply to remain as love in Him [the Lord] who shines as love, is the state supreme!
(Guru Vachaka Kovai)
quotes
You have no need to go anywhere. Journey into yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.
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quotes
Let life unfold without identity. Leave space for the unexpected. Give up the habit of predicting, interpreting and projecting. Simply stay in the neutrality of Being so that you perceive all from the Heart-mind.
-Sri Mooji-
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