enlightenment

Enlightenment is Knowledge Itself, not knowledge of a person, a thing or an idea. Just Knowledge Itself. Enlightenment is there when there is no imagination of the past, no imagination of the future, not even an idea of the present.

~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'

teacher

The teacher will not be recognized by the diamonds on his head or by the number of students he has. Know the Teacher to be the One whose presence gives you Peace and removes all craving, attachment, and desire.

The Teacher is one who knows the Truth and can transmit this Truth to a humble one by look, by touch, by thought, or, as Arunachala does, by Silence. This Silence is the Light that does not move.

~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'

self

"Everything in this universe comes, stays, and goes. 

What doesn't come, stay or go is your own Self."

~ PAPAJI

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 IN LOVING ARMS

If you feel sad for no reason, 

embrace the reasonless spontaneity of your sadness!

In the first light of morning, 

when you hear a bird singing her spontanous song, 

you're not pushing for reasons.  

Sadness does not arise to be healed.

It arises to be heard. 

It arises to be held, 

here, in the loving arms of awareness.

- Jeff Foster

quotes 5

 

There are many religions.

Each one believes it is the only one

but in reality there is only One,

and that One has no religion.

~Sri Mooji

quotes 4

 

To gain the deathless state, one must give up everything. Bhagavan used to say that if one renounces the ego, one gives up everything in one stroke. Such a beautiful and subtle teaching. <3

quotes 3

 Bhagavan used to say that our own Self-Realization is the best thing we can do to help the world.

quotes 2

Reject everything for a moment

and come to that which cannot be rejected,

for that alone is complete.

When you are one with this recognition,

all becomes pure and clear.

Only then are you able to exhale

the collected tensions and burdens of conceptualism.

~ Mooji

(from ‘White Fire’)

mooji.org/todaysquote/18-february-2017/

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God

 

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spiritual quotes

 

self

Devotee: A sloka is quoted which means: “I do not desire kingdoms, etc.

Only let me serve Thee for ever and there lies my highest pleasure.”Is that right?

Maharshi: Yes.There is room for kama (desire) so long as there is an object apart from the subject (i.e., duality). There can be no desire if there is no object. The state of no-desire is moksha. There is no duality in sleep and also no desire. Whereas there is duality in the waking state and desire also is there. Because of duality a desire arises for the acquisition of the object. That is the outgoing mind, which is the basis of duality and of desire. If one knows that Bliss is none other than the Self the mind becomes inward turned. If the Self is gained all the desires are fulfilled. That is the apta kamah atma kamah akamascha (fulfilment of desire) of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. That is moksha.

(Talk 502)