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"There is a power in the universe working for enlightenment and liberation. We call it Sadashiva, who is ever present in the hearts of men. It is the unifying factor. Unity - liberates. Freedom - unites. Ultimately nothing is mine or yours - everything is ours. Just be one with yourself and you will be one with all, at home in the entire universe."

~ Nisargadatt Maharaj, "I Am That" - chapter 89

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BE FULLY ALIVE

Today. 

There is no love without loss.

No heart without heart break.

No joy without tears.

The trick is 

not to annihilate 

the 'negative'

from your life.

But to hold it ALL 

in your vast and ancient heart.

Be the sky!

Hold the thunder, the snow,

the sad moon, 

the glorious Sun.

Hold it all.

And you are free!

To love.

To risk.

To fail.

To be fully alive.

Today.

- Jeff Foster

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🌿🌺ॐ नमः शिवाय! 🌿🌺

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Just quietly vanish inside yourself, disappear.

So beautiful.

Your form is still here, but inside: Nobody.

Inside: Cooked.

But don’t tell anybody that.

Just be the peace of this world,

the light and joy that shines from the indivisible Self.

~Mooji

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When the sage speaks, he is not representing a personal self

He speaks on behalf of all of us

He speaks the Truth

- Moojibaba 

Lisbon, Portugal 

2018 ❤️🙏

love

 

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As the deadly delusion of a body-bound ego faded, a flower of pure light unfolded at his holy feet. That radiance grew ever brighter with my love until I realized the flawless knowledge of the Self, manifesting as the unbroken awareness 'I-I' within my heart.

( Muruganar - Sri Ramana Anubhuti)

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God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized,

it is already your true and natural state. 

Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. 

For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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The Vedantins do not say that the world is unreal. 

That is a

misunderstanding. 

If they did, what would be the meaning of

the Vedantic text: `All this is Brahman'? They only mean that

the world is unreal as world but real as Self. If you regard the

world as non-self, it is not real.

Everything, whether you call it illusion (Maya) or Divine Play (Lila) or Energy (Shakti) must be within the Self and not apart from it.

- Day by day with Bhagavan, p.269

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"Free your mind of all attachment, and you are God itself. 

Free of desire, you are absolute. 

There is no doubt about it. 

Just get rid of desire for one second, and see how you feel. 

In this instant, you fall in love with your own Self."

~ PAPAJI

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The Heart radiates vitality to the brain and thus causes it to function. The vasanas are enclosed in the Heart in their subtlest form, and later projected on the brain, which reflects them with high magnification. This is how the world is made to go on and this is why the world is nothing more than a cinema show. 

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Talk 402

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"The Guru is the mediator. He takes man to God.

If you are in right earnest to be good and pure, God will send you the Sat Guru, the right teacher. Earnestness is the one thing necessary." 

~Sri Ramakrishna

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मन वेश्या की तरह है। किसी का नहीं है मन। आज यहां, कल वहां; आज इसका, कल उसका। मन की कोई मालकियत नहीं है। और मन की कोई ईमानदारी नहीं है। मन बहुत बेईमान है। वह वेश्या की तरह है। वह किसी एक का होकर नहीं रह सकता। और जब तक तुम एक के न हो सको, तब तक तुम एक को कैसे खोज पाओगे? न तो प्रेम में मन एक का हो सकता है; न श्रद्धा में मन एक का हो सकता है—और एक के हुए बिना तुम एक को न पा सकोगे। तो कहीं तो प्रशिक्षण लेना पड़ेगा—एक के होने का।

इसी कारण पूरब के मुल्कों ने एक पत्नीव्रत को या एक पतिव्रत को बड़ा बहुमूल्य स्थान दिया। उसका कारण है। उसका कारण सांसारिक व्यवस्था नहीं है। उसका कारण एक गहन समझ है। वह समझ यह है कि अगर कोई व्यक्ति एक ही स्त्री को प्रेम करे, और एक ही स्त्री का हो जाए, तो शिक्षण हो रहा है एक के होने का। एक स्त्री अगर एक ही पुरुष को प्रेम करे और समग्र—भाव से उसकी हो रहे कि दूसरे का विचार भी न उठे, तो प्रशिक्षण हो रहा है; तो घर मंदिर के लिए शिक्षा दे रहा है; तो गृहस्थी में संन्यास की दीक्षा चल रही है। अगर कोई व्यक्त्ति एक स्त्री का न हो सके, एक पुरुष का न हो सके, फिर एक गुरु का भी न हो सकेगा; क्योंकि उसका कोई प्रशिक्षण न हुआ। जो व्यक्ति एक का होने की कला सीख गया है संसार में, वह गुरु के साथ भी एक का हो सकेगा। और एक गुरु के साथ तुम न जुड़ पाओ तो तुम जुड़ ही न पाओगे। वेश्या किसी से भी तो नहीं जुड़ पाती। और बड़ी, आश्चर्य की बात तो यह है कि वेश्या इतने पुरुषों को प्रेम करती है, फिर भी प्रेम को कभी नहीं जान पाती।

अभी एक युवती ने संन्यास लिया। वह आस्ट्रेलिया में वेश्या का काम करती रही। उसने कभी प्रेम नहीं जाना। यहां आकर वह एक युवक के प्रेम में पड़ गई, और पहली दफा उसने प्रेम जाना। और उसने मुझे आकर कहा कि इस प्रेम ने ही मुझे तृप्त कर दिया; अब मुझे किसी की भी कोई जरूरत नहीं है। और उसने कहा कि आश्चर्यों का आश्चर्य तो यह है कि मैं तो बहुत पुरुषों के संबंध में रही; लेकिन मुझे प्रेम का कभी अनुभव ही नहीं हुआ। प्रेम का अनुभव हो ही नहीं सकता बहुतों के साथ। बहुतों के साथ केवल ज्यादा से ज्यादा शरीर का भोग, उसका अनुभव हो सकता है। एक के साथ आत्मा का अनुभव होना शुरू होता है; क्योंकि एक में उस परम एक की झलक है। छोटी झलक है, बहुत छोटी; लेकिन झलक उसी की है।-ओशो - सुन भई साधो–(प्रवचन–17)

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The Universal Body of the Lord comprises all things--trees, flowers, leaves, hills, mountains, rivers, oceans, and so forth. A time will come, must come, when one actually perceives this all--pervading Universal Form of the One. The variety of His shapes and guises is infinite, uncountable, without end. 

Just as ice is nothing but water, so the Beloved is without form, without quality, and the question of manifestation does not arise. When this is realized, one has realized one’s Self. For, to find the Beloved is to find one’s Self, to discover that God is one’s very own, wholly identical with one’s self, the innermost Self, the Self of the self. 

~Sri Ma Anandamayi

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Questioner: How does one reach the Supreme State?

Nisargadatta Maharaj: By renouncing all lesser desires. As long as you are pleased with the lesser, you cannot have the highest. Whatever pleases you, keeps you back. Until you realise the unsatisfactoriness of everything, its transiency and limitation, and collect your energies in one great longing, even the first step is not made. On the other hand, the integrity of the desire for the Supreme is by itself a call from the Supreme. Nothing, physical or mental, can give you freedom. You are free once you understand that your bondage is of your own making and you cease forging the chains that bind you.

~ from "I Am That", chapter 64

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A lover breathes for the Beloved and cares not for what society says...

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Bhagwat Geeta

BG 11.48: Not by study of the Vedas, nor by the performance of sacrifice, rituals, or charity, nor even by practicing severe austerities, has any mortal ever seen what you have seen, O best of the Kuru warriors.

Commentary

Shree Krishna declares that no amount of self-effort—the study of the Vedic texts, performance of ritualistic ceremonies, undertaking of severe austerities, abstinence from food, or generous acts of charity—is sufficient to bestow a vision of the cosmic form of God. This is only possible by his divine grace. This has been repeatedly stated in the Vedas as well.