3/09/2020
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PREACHING FROM SILENCE
D.: Why doesn’t Sri Bhagavan go about preaching the truth to the people at large?
B.: How do you know that I don’t? Does preaching consist in mounting a platform and haranguing the people around?
Preaching is simple communication of knowledge and can be done in silence too. What do you think of a man listening to a harangue for an hour and going away without being impressed by it so as to change his life? Compare him with another who sits in a holy presence and leaves after some time with his outlook on life totally changed. Which is better: to preach loudly without effect or to sit silently sending forth intuitive force to act on others?
Again, how does speech arise? First, there is abstract knowledge (unmanifest). From this there arises the ego which gives rise to thoughts and words successively. So then:
Abstract Knowledge
↓
Ego
↓
Thoughts
↓
Words
Words therefore are the great-grandsons of the original source. If words can produce an effect, consider how much more powerful preaching through silence must be.
Bhagavan answered those who doubted its utility that Realisation was the greatest help they could possibly render to others. Indeed, Bhagavan himself was the standing proof of this, as one saw from the numbers of people helped to the very depth of their being, lifted out of confusion and sorrow on to a firm path of peace and understanding, by the silent influence of his grace. And yet, at the same time, he reminded them that, from the point of view of knowledge, there are no others to help.
TEACHINGS OF RAMANA MAHARSHI IN HIS OWN WORDS
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Dr. Emile Gatheir, S. J., Professor of Philosophy at the Sacred Heart College, Shembaganur, Kodaikanal, asked:
“Can you kindly give me a summary of your teachings?”
Sri Ramana Maharshi .: They are found in small booklets, particularly Who am l?
Q.: I shall read them. But may I have the central point of your
teachings from your lips?
Sri Ramana Maharshi.: The central point is the thing.
Q: It is not clear.
Sri Ramana Maharshi .: Find the Centre.
Q.: I am from God. Is not God distinct from me?
Sri Ramana Maharshi.: Who asks this question?
God does not ask it.
You ask it.
So find who you are and
then you may find if God is distinct from you.
Q.: But God is Perfect and I am imperfect. How can I ever know
Him fully?
Sri Ramana Maharshi.: God does not say so.
The question is for you.
After finding who you are you may see what God is.
Q.: But you have found your Self. Please let us know if God is distinct from you.
Sri Ramana Maharshi.: It is a matter of experience.
Each one must experience it himself.
Q.: Oh! I see. But God is Infinite and I am finite. I have a personality which can never merge into God. Is it not so?
Sri Ramana Maharshi.: Infinity and Perfection do not admit of parts. If a finite being comes out of infinity the perfection of infinity is marred. Thus your statement is a contradiction in terms.
Q.: No. I see both God and creation.
Sri Ramana Maharshi.: How are you aware of your personality?
D.: I have a soul. I know it by its activities.
Sri Ramana Maharshi.: Did you know it in deep sleep?
D.: The activities are suspended in deep sleep.
Sri Ramana Maharshi .: But you exist in sleep.
So do you now too.
Which of these two is your real state?
~ From Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi : 602.
“ Who I am ?“ soft pdf copy book freely available in worlds 26 nos language on Sri Ramanaashram website as follows,
www.sriramanamaharshi.org/resource_centre/publications
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The 'lazy' state of just being and shining is the state of the Self, and that is the highest state that one can attain. Revere as the most virtuous those who have attained that 'lazy' state which cannot be attained except by very great and rare tapas'.
- GVK 774
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'Is it not possible for God and the Guru to effect the release of a soul?'
God and the Guru will only show the way to release; they will not by themselves take the soul to the state of release. In truth, God and the Guru are not different. Just as the prey which has fallen into the jaws of a tiger has no escape, so those who have come within the ambit of the Guru’s gracious look will be saved by the Guru and will not get lost; yet, each one should by his own effort pursue the path shown by God or Guru and gain release. One can know oneself only with one’s own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else’s. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?
('Who Am I?', Q. 20)
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Living and dying must go together. Dying every moment means dying to past, dying to all the projections of mind. It means ending all which we have accumulated in our mind as memory and projections as desires. It is only when there is an ending, complete ending, without causation, then there is a beginning without end, that is immortality. That is a state of timelessness.
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Q : Should I abide as the pure “I" and have faith that purity will come?
Sri Papaji :
Don't waste your time in the purity of mind
because mind cannot be pure.
Even the desire to be pure is the trick of the mind.
You will spend many lives purifying the mind,
but it will never be pure.
Look at the story of Vishwamitra and Manika.
After purifying his mind for 10,000 years
he still falls for her instantly.
It is better to just allow your desires to arise and
not let them touch you.
Let them arise and let them be fullfilled.
You simply stay Quiet.
Don't try to become anything,
don't go anywhere
and
don't do anything
and
don't undo anything.
Find the source of these concepts and stay there.
This is bliss, nothing else.
This knowledge is bliss.
~ Sri Papaji , from The Truth Is book
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YOUR LIFE CANNOT GO WRONG
In reality, your world is set up so that nothing happens to you, but everything happens for you - for your awakening, for your growth, for your inspiration, for your exploration - even if you forget that, or sometimes cannot see it, or sometimes fall into distraction and despair.
When there is no fixed destination, you cannot ever lose your destination, so you cannot ever lose your path, so nothing that happens in your life can take you off your path. Your path IS what happens, and what happens IS your path. There is no other.
Everything is a gift on this unbreakable path that you call your life - the laughter, the tears, the times of great sorrow, the experiences of profound loss, the pain, the confusion, the times you believe you'll never make it, even the overwhelming heartbreak of love - even if you forget that sometimes, or cannot see that sometimes, or lose faith absolutely in the entire show sometimes.
But even the loss of faith in the show is part of the show, and even the scene where 'something goes wrong' is not indicative of the show going wrong, and so you are always exactly where you need to be, believe it or not, even if you are not.
Life can be trusted absolutely, even when trust seems a million light-years away, and life cannot go wrong, for all is life, and life is all. Understand this, know it in your heart, and spirituality is profoundly simple, as simple as breathing, as natural as gazing up at the stars at night and falling into silent wonder.
The universe is more beautiful than you could ever imagine.
- Jeff Foster
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GOD
I don´t see that there is any God who created the world. I certainly experience a quality of godliness in existence, but it is a quality, not a person. It is more like love, more like silence, more like joy – less like a person. You are never going to meet God and say hello to him, how are you? I have been looking for you for thousands of years; where have you been hiding?
God is not a person but only a presence.
And when I say "presence," be very attentive, because you can go on listening according to your own conditioning. You can even make "presence" something objective – you have again fallen into the same trap. God is a presence at the innermost core of your being: it is your own presence. It is not a meeting with somebody else.
Osho, The Goose is Out, Talk #7
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Ordinarily speaking we say we are happy when we get the thing we are longing for. At the time when we desire something, our mind is in a state of unrest; but when we get that thing, the state of unrest is replaced by a sense of peace. Therefore, happiness follows when a preceding state of unrest is ended. Happiness is identical with the feeling of rest or peace. - Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamigal
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Jnani
A jnani has attained Liberation even while alive, here and now. It is immaterial to him as to how, where and when he leaves the body. Some jnanis may appear to suffer, others may be in samadhi; still others may disappear from sight before death. But that makes no difference to their jnana. Such suffering is apparent, seems real to the onlooker, but not felt by the jnani, for he has already transcended the mistaken identity of the Self with the body.
The jnani does not think he is the body. He does not even see the body. He sees only the Self in the body. If the body is not there, but only the Self, the question of its disappearing in any form does not arise.
- Gems from Bhagavan (Chapter 12)
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JNANI
Question: I am trying to understand the jnani’s point of view about the world. Is the world perceived after Self-realisation?
Sri Ramana Maharshi: Why worry about the world and what happens to it after Self-realisation? First realise the Self. What does it matter if the world is perceived or not? Do you gain anything to help you in your quest by the non-perception of the world during sleep? Conversely, what would you lose now by the perception of the world? It is quite immaterial to the jnani or ajnani if he perceives the world or not. It is seen by both, but their view-points differ.
Question: If the jnani and the ajnani perceive the world in like manner, where is the difference between them?
Sri Ramana Maharshi: Seeing the world, the jnani sees the Self which is the substratum of all that is seen; the ajnani, whether he sees the world or not, is ignorant of his true being, the Self.
Take the instance of moving pictures on the screen in the cinema-show. What is there in front of you before the play begins? Merely the screen. On that screen you see the entire show, and for all appearances the pictures are real. But go and try to take hold of them. What do you take hold of? Merely the screen on which the pictures appeared. After the play, when the pictures disappear, what remains? The screen again.
So with the Self. That alone exists, the pictures come and go. If you hold on to the Self, you will not be deceived by the appearance of the pictures. Nor does it matter at all if the pictures appear or disappear. Ignoring the Self the ajnani thinks the world is real, just as ignoring the screen he sees merely the pictures, as if they existed apart from it. If one knows that without the seer there is nothing to be seen, just as there are no pictures without the screen, one is not deluded. The jnani knows that the screen and the pictures are only the Self. With the pictures the Self is in its manifest form; without the pictures it remains in the unmanifest form. To the jnani it is quite immaterial if the Self is in the one form or the other. He is always the Self. But the ajnani seeing the jnani active gets confounded.
- The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, edited by David Godman
Photo is by Bernd Kalidas Flory
post 1
As the self is filled by the Self,
so is all filled continuously by you.
There is no meditator or meditation.
Why does your mind meditate shamelessly?
~ Avadhuta Gita (1.26) [*]
Comment by Swami Ashokananda: "Shamelessly" - One should be ashamed to meditate, because meditation pre-supposes a shameful forgetfulness of one's true nature. If one does not know The Self meditation is the way to realization. After realization one will cease to meditate.
[*] Translation by Swami Ashokananda https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Avadhuta_Gita/Chapter_1
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