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Those who have destroyed ignorance by the clarity of knowledge and who are established firmly in Self-abidance, are completely dead-minded. They will survive as eternal Muktas (liberated beings), their mind having been given jiva-samadhi (the physical and Absolute are merged) at the Feet of Siva (God).

(Guru Vachaka Kovai)

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The more you read,

the more knowledge you gain...

And who profits by this?

The ego, every book that you read gives you more intelligence... 

Who has intelligence?

The ego...

Every time you think you have to mediate,

it is the ego that is meditating...

Does the Self have to mediate? 

Does reality have to meditate on reality? 

All of the gurus you've seen, 

everything that you've done has 

actually put you back in time, 

not forward but back....

Robert Adams....

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Do you want to believe this lie,  

that you die, that you get old, 

that there are problems in this world? 

This is all a lie. It's the mortal dream...  

Do not identify with the mortal dream... 

Know who you are once and for all... 

You are that which was never born, which does not prevail, and can never die...

You are that which is beyond all concepts,  

all reasoning, all thoughts... 

You are that which has always existed 

as pure awareness....

You are that which is neither female or male, which is neither good nor bad,   

which is neither right or wrong, which just is...

Beauty, joy, love, harmony, peace, bliss,  

this is your real nature, this is who you are... 

Why not accept this and become free, 

right now?

Robert Adams...

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Leave everything outside and come in.

Everything you see, you must leave.

Don't want anything, not even enlightenment.

Everyone can do this.

Come right into that place before all these things were formed.

Allow yourself to be undone of all falsehood.

Then you will discover for yourself 

that emptiness that has never moved.

Everything else has moved.

This is your ground. The ground of Being.

Your very Self is that.

🌺 Mooji

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"The jnani’s state is one which transcends the mind. It cannot be described by the mind. Only Silence can correctly describe this state and its characteristics. Silence is more effective than speech. From Silence came the ego, from the ego came thought, and from thought came speech. So if speech is effective, how much more effective must be its original source?"

~ Ramana Maharshi

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Nothing touches you. What is there to renounce? Let it all go, the body and the mind. Let yourself dissolve.

You see the world. But like the snake in the rope, it is not really there. You are pure. Let yourself dissolve.

You are one and the same in joy and sorrow, hope and despair, life and death. You are already fulfilled. Let yourself dissolve.

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CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

In the peace of the Self, there are no vasanas. If you can establish yourself in the Self, all vasanas will be destroyed. 

Witness the vasanas as they arise but don't identify with them or act on them. If you want to get rid of your vasanas you must learn to practice non-involvement. 

If you feel yourself identifying with a vasana when it starts to rise, remind yourself. 'This vasana is not me' and withdraw into the Self. If you learn to ignore your vasanas in this way they will eventually stop rising.

- Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p. 346

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Don't be so quick to believe in the mind’s projections.

You are not the mind.

Don't come under its spell.

The mind is a great magician.

It has hypnotised 7 billion human beings.

In the realm of personhood, it is full of tricks and has the power to make a lot of mischief, confusion, distortion and delusion. 

But yours is a greater power. It is the power of the pure Self. 

The power to observe with detachment, to recognise that all phenomena are transient appearances and that oneself is the formless witness—timeless and ever-perfect.

💙 Mooji

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Sometimes you’re not entirely sure where to fit in, just how to be, or exactly where you belong. It’s so hard to squeeze inside all their tight spaces at just the right intervals. You’re ahead of your time and too pure for the future, yet in this moment unrestricted you find the innermost place that is true to your very being and where you shine unforgettably. So keep becoming who you are, timeless being…for this momentary world needs such endless beauty that is in you.

~ Susan Frybort

Photography: Dominic Liam

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There is no one on this earth who does anything. 

The whole universe is a puppet show. 

We're dancing the dance of Shiva. 

We think we're something important. But we're really nothing as we appear. 

Your job is to observe, to watch, to see what's going on and not to react to anything that is happening but to stay separate from the happenings. To separate yourself from what is happening. 

What's happening is happening to the 'I', to the ego, not to you.

~ Robert Adams

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Ashtavakra Gita.... 

Ashtavakra said.....

Give up contemplating anything 

and hold nothing in your heart.... 

You are verily the Self and therefore free.... What will you do by thinking!!!

Arunachala Shiva!!

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Ashtavakra Gita.... 

Ashtavakra said....

One who knows for certain 

that this universe is but 

an illusion and a nothing, 

becomes desire less 

and pure Intelligence, 

and finds peace as if nothing exists....

Arunachala Shiva...