2/16/2020
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The way of the saints and the sages is different very often. They are more intuitive and they speak more to the mystical Being. They speak more to your Internal Self, and this is what I want to share with you because what you study, what you learn, will not stay with you in a moment of crisis. It will leave you. It will collapse. But what you've experienced in your Heart is with you all the way.
-Sri Mooji-
Rishikesh, 17th February, 2017
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Remain in the company of spiritual and positive people and let the teachings of sages permeate your mental atmosphere. Sri Ramana and other sages have spoken highly of the benefits of Satsang.
bhagwan ramana quotes
D.: Even if I cannot realise in my lifetime, let me at least not forget on my death-bed. Let me have a glimpse of Reality at least at the moment of death, so that it may stand me in good
stead in the future.
B.: It is said in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter VIII, that whatever is a person’s last thought at death determines his next birth. But it is necessary to experience Reality now, in this life, in order to experience it at death. Consider whether this present
moment is any different from the last one at death and try to be in the desired state.
self enquiry
Self-enquiry
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D: How is one to enquire ‘Who am I?’
M: Actions such as ‘going’ and ‘coming’ belong only to the body.
And so, when one says, ‘I went, I came’, it amounts to saying that the body is ‘I’.
But, can the body be said to be
the consciousness ‘I’, since the body was not before it was born, is made up of the five elements, is nonexistent in the
state of deep sleep, and becomes a corpse when dead?
Can this body which is inert like a log of wood be said to shine as ‘I-I’?
Therefore, the ‘I-consciousness’ which at first arises in respect of the body is referred to variously as self-conceit
(tarbodham), egoity (ahankara), nescience (avidya), maya, impurity (mala), and individual soul (jiva).
Can we remain without enquiring into this?
Is it not for our redemption through enquiry that all the scriptures declare that the destruction of ‘self-conceit’ is release (mukti)?
Therefore, making the corpse-body remain as a corpse, and not even
uttering the word ‘I’, one should enquire keenly thus:
“Now, what is it that rises as ‘I’?”
Then, there would shine in theHeart a kind of wordless illumination of the form ‘I-I’.
That is, there would shine of its own accord the pure consciousness
which is unlimited and one,
the limited and the many thoughts having disappeared.
If one remains quiescent without
abandoning that (experience), the egoity, the individual sense, of the form ‘I am the body’ will be totally destroyed, and at
the end the final thought, viz., the ‘I-form’ also will be quenched like the fire that burns camphor.
The great sages and scriptures declare that this alone is release.
~ The Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi.
# Self-Enquiry.
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Is our life an illusion?...
This world is illusion (Maya) .... Whatever we see or experience is Maya.
Is it true? How do we understand it?
We can't sense any object which doesn't create any sensations in our sense organs.
In fact, we don't see the object but we see only sensations that are created in our eyes.
We don't hear sound but we sense only sensations that are created in our ears.
We don't smell the fragrance of a flower but we sense only sensations that are created in our nose.
The external objects could be source for the sensations in our sense organs but we only sense the sensations that they create.
We don't sense this world. We only sense the sensations that this world creates in our sense organs.
If any of our sense organ is damaged and non functional, we don't have the world associated to that sense organ.
There is no world of sound for the people who can't hear.
There is no world of light for the people who can't see.
We think that we see this world ... but we only see ourselves.
We are our world. We and the world are not two different things.
As far as you are concerned you are absolute within yourself.
As far as I are concerned I am absolute within myself.
no thing
Sri Mooji
History-less and happy
What you are is magnificent, what we believe we are is so limited. We don’t need to carry on this personal story. It is not contributing to the beauty and freedom of your life. Don’t be enslaved by the conditioned or indoctrinated mind. It wants you to make anniversaries out of your pain—forget about it.
You don’t have to be so loyal, so faithful to any tendency that causes suffering. Often we ruminate over the past, not in order to be free, but to strengthen the sense of ‘me’. We say we can’t change the past, but yes you can!
Did you perceive it right in the first place? Who is to say your perception is a fact? It would be a futile and unending task to search for the innumerable strands that have contributed to the person you take yourself to be, mostly they are untraceable.
Better just drop the whole thing and thus remain empty of conceptual debris. Be fresh every moment. Be as fresh as consciousness—history less and happy.
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❤️🙏🌹🌺
Keep honouring what you have seen and leave the rest to God. Leave the rest to the Supreme Self, apart from whom you have no independent existence.
-Sri Mooji- ❤️🙏🌹🌺
Rishikesh, 15th February, 2019
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