9/07/2020
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शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहं । अमर आत्मा सक्चिदानन्द मैं हूँ ॥ अखिल विश्व का जो परम आत्मा है । सभी प्राणियों का वही आत्मा है । वही आत्मा सच्चिदानन्द मैं हूँ ॥ शिवोऽहम् ॥ १॥ जिसे शस्त्र काटे ना अग्नि जलावे । गलावे ना पानी न मृत्यु मिटावे... _/\_
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Being Silent is really difficult . Thanks for teaching me to be quite. yes u not talking about Osho .
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CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY
Q: If a loved one dies, grief results. Could we avoid such grief by either loving all alike or by not loving at all?
M: If one dies, there is grief for the other who lives. The way to get rid of grief is not to live. Kill the one who grieves!
Who will then remain to suffer?
The ego must die. That is the only way.
The two alternatives amount to the same state. When all is the Self, who is there to be loved or hated?
There is no kind of sorrow for those who give up seeing through their physical senses and begin to see everything as their own Self.
Further, this grief does not indicate real love. Love which one displays towards external objects and forms is not real love. Real love always has its abode in one's own Self.
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'In the ecstasy of devotion one may sing and one may dance,
but it is mouna (silence) that bestows liberation.'
- Bhagavan in Padamalai, p. 195
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“Do not try to become anything.
Do not make yourself into anything.
Do not be a meditator.
Do not become enlightened.
When you sit, let it be.
When you walk, let it be.
Grasp at nothing.
Resist nothing.”
~ Ajahn Chah
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'If everything happens according to karma (prarabdha, the result of one’s acts in the past) how is one to overcome the obstacles to meditation (dhyana)?'
Prarabdha concerns only the out-turned, not the in-turned mind. One who seeks his real Self will not be afraid of any obstacle.
('Spiritual Instruction': II.21)
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"There is no thing that wants to hurt you. It is all in your imagination. It is your imagination that causes your problems. Now do not let what I tell you make you cynical and sarcastic. While you are on the path of self-discovery, you help others. You do what has to be done. It will happen by itself. If you're supposed to feed the homeless, then feed the homeless. It will happen by itself. If you're supposed to go live on top of a mountain, and never see civilization again, it will happen by itself."
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
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Question: For twenty five years I have been doing spiritual disciplines, mostly repeating the name of Krishna. Until now I was managing fifty thousand repetitions a day. Now my mind refuses to engage itself in thought of God. What has happened to me and what should I do?
Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi: How did you come here from Madras?
Question: By train.
Bhagwan Sri Ramana: And then what happened when you got to the station at Tiruvannamalai?
Question: Well, I got off the train, handed my tickets and engaged a bullock cart to take me to the ashram.
Bhagwan Sri Ramana: And when you reached the ashram and paid off the driver of the cart what happened to the cart?
Question: It went away, presumably back to the town.
Bhagwan Sri Ramana: The train brought you to your destination. You got off and didn't need it any more. It had brought you to the place you wanted to reach. Likewise the bullock cart. You got off when it had brought you to Sri Ramanasramam. You don't need the train or the cart anymore. They were the means for bringing you here. Now you are here, they are of no use to you.
This is what happened to your spiritual practice – your japa, your reading and your meditation have brought you to your spiritual destination. You don't need them anymore. You yourself did not give up your practices; they left you of their own accord because they have served their purpose. You have arrived.
🕉
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Question: How does the mind become still?
Sri Anandamayi Ma: By treading the path that leads to the realisation of `Who am I?’ Your body that was young and is now old with its graying hair and its teeth falling out, does not last for ever. It is not the real `I.’ Therefore man has to find out who he really is. When he tries to do this, his mind will be supplied with the right nourishment that will calm it. The right sustenance for the mind cannot be had from anything that is of this world and hence perishable, but solely from that which is Eternal. The taste (rasa) of the Eternal will still the mind.
The Universe was created out of joy and this is why you find joy in the fleeting things of the world. Without joy life is an ordeal. You must try to attain to that great Joy which has brought forth the world.
🌺 from ..As the Flower Sheds its Fragrance
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What is freedom?
It is not in anything objective. It is neither the creation, nor the creator of this universe, nor the God who is looking after preservation, nor destruction. It is none of that. It is neither the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars, nor the wind. Those are not freedom. No object is freedom. Go on rejecting everything objective from the mind. Freedom is nothing that the mind can conceive or perceive or understand. Finally you will arrive at that which cannot be rejected. Go on rejecting everything that can be rejected, all objects. Get rid of all objectification.
Finally, when you see nothing more to be rejected, the mind will be quiet. Mind will be no-mind: That cannot be described. All description belongs to the objective world only and consciousness cannot be objectified. In the beginning when there was nothing there was consciousness - total consciousness - where no objects and no subjects existed. You are this consciousness.
Starting from the beginning, before the beginning, you are this consciousness. And this consciousness became all that you see. You are this consciousness itself. There are millions of kinds of manifestation existing in consciousness and you have become all this. You are the fountain of all this creation.
For this you do not have to exert or make effort, or search for any way or method or practice. Somehow you have to arrive here. How can you do it? Through adoration of the wisdom of the Self. That’s consciousness. Adore your own consciousness with wisdom and you have achieved what you are aspiring for here and now.
🌺 Papaji
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62. Question: What books should I read for swadhyaya (introspection, or self-study)?
Bhagavan: The Self is the real book. You can glance anywhere in that "book"; nobody can take it away from you. Whenever (or since) you are free, turn towards the Self. Thereafter you may read whatever you like.
Taken from Bhagavan Ramana answers 100 questions
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LAUGHTER
When laughter comes out of thinking it is ugly; it belongs to this ordinary, mundane world, it is not cosmic.Then you are laughing at somebody else, at somebody else's cost, and it's ugly and violent.
When laughter comes out of silence you are not laughing at anybody's cost, you are simply laughing at the whole cosmic joke. And it really is a joke! That's why I go on telling jokes to you... because jokes carry more than any scriptures. It is a joke because inside you have everything, and you are searching everywhere.
OSHO
A Bird on the Wing, Ch-10
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You are the screen which doesn't change.
Oceans of water cannot make you wet,
fires will not burn you and
movies of romance will not affect you.
So allow the projections of the mind
which is everything you see within and without.
Like this you must remain
That which is untouched,
That which is before identification
and intellectual grasps.
THIS IS ETERNAL BEING.
🪔 PAPAJI
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Q: What is the ego-self ? How is it related to the real Self ?
Sri Ramana Maharshi :
The ego-Self appears and disappears and is transitory, whereas the real Self is permanent.
Though you are actually the true Self you wrongly identify the real Self with the ego-self.
Q: How does the mistake come about?
Sri Ramana Maharshi : See if it has come about.
Q: One has to sublimate the ego-self into the true Self.
Sri Ramana Maharshi : The ego-self does not exist at all.
Q: Why does it give us trouble?
Sri Ramana Maharshi : To whom is the trouble ?
The trouble also is imagined.
Trouble and pleasure are only for the ego.
Q: Why is the world so wrapped up in ignorance?
Sri Ramana Maharshi :
Take care of yourself.
Let the world take care of itself.
See your Self.
If you are the body there is the gross world also.
If you are spirit all is spirit alone.
Q: It will hold good for the individual, but what of the rest?
Sri Ramana Maharshi : Do it first and then see if the question arises afterwards.
Q: Is there avidya [ignorance]?
Sri Ramana Maharshi : For whom is it?
Q: For the ego-self.
Sri Ramana Maharshi : Yes, for the ego.
Remove the ego and avidya is gone.
Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
The ego professing avidya is not to be seen.
There is no avidya in reality.
All sastras [scriptures] are meant to disprove the existence of avidya.
~ From Be as you are book
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