surrender

Surrender to Him and abide by His will

whether he appears or vanishes;

await His pleasure.

If you ask Him to do as you please,

it is not surrender but command to Him.

You cannot have Him obey you

and yet think that you have surrendered.

He knows what is best

and when and how to do it.

Leave everything entirely to Him.

His is the burden:

you have no longer any cares.

All your cares are His.

Such is surrender.

This is bhakti.

Ramana Maharshi

life

When one is without ego, one becomes immediately free of all personal judgments and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind. Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always. ~Mooji

realization

The ultimate realization is not only that the world is unreal but that at the same time the world is real!

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In this drama of life, Consciousness plays and directs all of the roles of the billions of human beings. Every character is played by Consciousness.

Ramesh Balsekar 

1 October

effortlessness

True understanding, which is enlightenment, can happen only when there is total effortlessness - in other words, in the utter absence of any comprehender. Then there is only the witnessing of the dream of life without the least desire to change anything.

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Whatever action happens, whether you eat ice cream or meditate, at that moment you could not have done otherwise.

Ramesh Balsekar 

30 September

self inquiry

Devotee.... 

Should I say? 

I am Siva? along with the enquiry 'Who am I?'' Should I not say, ''I am not the mind, intellect, body,etc..?''

Master....  

You should not give answers to the mind 

in the course of your enquiry..... 

The reply should be allowed to come from within...

The reply of the individual 'I'  is not real...

Continue to enquire until you get the answer by the method of 'jnana marga'  [the path of knowledge]... 

This enquiry is called meditation...

The inactive, peaceful, 

full - of - knowledge experience 

that arises from this state is janana...

Ramana Maharshi....

freedom

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. 

You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence.

You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. 

Forgive yourself for not being at peace. 

The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. 

Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. 

This is the miracle of surrender.

🌝 Eckhart Tolle

divine search

No man can seek the divine because he does not have the capacity for such a search. But when somebody has become ready to disappear, has become ready to be a nobody, has become ready to become an emptiness, then the divine will certainly find him. Only the divine can seek for man, man can never seek the divine because even in seeking, the ego is present.

So a religious person is not one who sets out in search of the divine: a religious person is one who sets out in search of his " I "- and the more he goes on searching, the more he will find that his " I " is not at all there. And the day the " I " no longer remains, on that day the door which is hiding love will open for him.

So I say that the day the shadow of "I" disappears, the day neither " I " nor "you" remains, on that you will no longer have to search for divine - the divine will come searching for you.

🌸 Osho

guru-upadesa

MUKTI IS EVER-PRESENT, BONDAGE IS EVER-ABSENT

Mr. Subbaramayyah, the late Professor of English, is a frequent visitor. Whenever he comes he discusses ancient Vedantic books with the Master. Today’s talk is about Kaivalyam. Maya comes up in the middle and claims attention. Sri Bhagavan explains:

“Every plane has its own illusion, which can be destroyed only by another illusion on the same plane. For example, a man takes a full meal and goes to sleep. He dreams of being hungry in spite of the jagrat food in his stomach. To satisfy the dream hunger, he has to take dream food. A wound in dream requires dream treatment. 

A great king once dreamt that he was ill but was too poor to call a doctor. He had to beg the doctor’s fees from his friends to receive medical help. Although he had fabulous wealth in the waking state, it could be of no use to him in the dream state. Similarly, the illusion of ajnana (ignorance) can be destroyed only by the illusion of guru-upadesa (the Master’s teaching). 

Mukti (liberation) is ever-present and bondage ever-absent, yet the universal experience is the reverse.”

- GURU RAMANA

Conscious Immortality

‘IF THE GURU BELIEVES THIS, HE DOES NOT DESERVE THE NAME’

Q: Isn't grace the gift of the guru?

M: God, grace, and guru, are all synonymous and also eternal and immanent. Isn't the Self already within? Is it for the guru to bestow It by his look? If the guru believes this, then he does not deserve the name. 

The books say that there are so many initiations: hasta diksha (by hand), sparsa diksha (by touch), mental diksha etc, and that the guru performs some rites with fire, water, japa, and mantras. They call such fantastic performances an 'initiation', as if the disciple becomes ripe only after such processes!

If the individual is sought, he is nowhere to be found. Such is the guru. Such is a Dakshinamurti. What did he do? He was silent, the disciples appeared before him, he maintained silence and the disciples' doubts were dispelled — which means that they lost their individual identities. Such is the true guru and such is true initiation. That is jnana, and not the verbiage usually associated with it. 

Silence is the most potent form of work. However vast and emphatic the Sastras may be, they fail in their effect. The guru is quiet and peace prevails in all his silence, vaster and more emphatic than all the Sastras put together.

Jnana is acquired by satsang, or rather by its atmosphere.

- Conscious Immortality

quotes of Robert adms

When I say, "All is well, and everything is unfolding as it should," most of you begin to think about your personal problems, collective problems of the world. This is exactly what you should not do. As we go through the vicissitudes of life, we find we go through much friction. This is normal. There is absolutely nothing wrong. Most of us have been brought up to believe certain things are wrong. This may appear true in the relative world, but as far as the spiritual world is concerned, all is well and everything is unfolding as it should.

Whatever you believe is wrong with your life or with someone else's life, is nothing but an unfoldment in consciousness, and it's necessary for your evolution. If you understand this, you will not react to whatever happens. You will simply smile, observe, and become the witness through each situation that comes into your life as you unfold. There is nothing in the universe that can hurt you. The substratum of this universe is divine love. It is pure consciousness. It does not know the meaning of hurt or evil or sin. Those are just words that human beings make up.

When you begin to identify with your real nature, which is love, then you sail through all the so-called calamities of life. But if you identify with the world of appearances, and as you know there are many appearances, you seem to suffer. You become angry, you become upset, you become disillusioned only because the world is not turning your way. Only because the world is not turning the way you think it should, according to your concepts, according to your preconceived ideas. Again, there is nothing wrong. Everything is right just the way it is. As you begin to understand this, you find peace.

Robert Adams

wise

The wise one does not try to control life

and is not controlled by life.

His heart is full and serene

knowing that life takes care of life.

Mooji

White Fire ~ Second Edition

sage

Reality in Forty Verses:

Supplement

Verse 1*

"In the company of sages, attachment vanishes; and with attachment, illusion. Freed from illusion, one attains stability, and thence liberation while yet alive. Seek therefore the company of sages."

*  Ramana Maharshi included this verse in the supplement to Forty Verses which was originally from the Mohamudgra Hymn by Shankaracharya. In total Ramana Maharshi included other sources for 26 verses in the Supplement, including the Invocation.

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अव्यक्तं व्यक्तिमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धयः।

परं भावमजानन्तो ममाव्ययमनुत्तमम्।। 24।।

नाहं प्रकाशः सर्वस्य योगमायासमावृतः।

मूढोऽयं नाभिजानाति लोको मामजमव्ययम्।। 25।।

बुद्धिहीन पुरुष मेरे अनुत्तम अर्थात जिससे उत्तम और कुछ भी नहीं है, ऐसे अविनाशी परम भाव को अर्थात अजन्मा अविनाशी हुआ भी अपनी माया से प्रकट होता हूं, ऐसे प्रभाव को तत्व से न जानते हुए मन-इंद्रियों से परे मुझ सच्चिदानंदघन परमात्मा को मनुष्य की भांति जन्म कर व्यक्तिभाव को प्राप्त हुआ मानते हैं।

तथा अपनी योगमाया से छिपा हुआ मैं सबके प्रत्यक्ष नहीं होता हूं। इसलिए ये अज्ञानी मनुष्य मुझ जन्मरहित अविनाशी परमात्मा को तत्व से नहीं जानते हैं।

दो बातें इस सूत्र में कृष्ण कह रहे हैं। एक, साकार शरीर में मैं खड़ा हूं, आकार लिया है। जो नहीं जानते हैं, वे सोचते हैं, मेरा आकार ही मैं हूं। वे मेरे भीतर छिपे निराकार को नहीं देख पाते हैं। रूप लिया है मैंने। जिनके पास देखने की आंखें नहीं हैं, सोचने के लिए मेधा नहीं है, वे मेरे रूप को ही देख पाते हैं। उस अरूप को, जो भीतर छिपा है, उससे अपरिचित रह जाते हैं। मेरा वह सच्चिदानंद रूप है जो, मेरा वह जो सच्चिदानंद स्वभाव है, वह उनकी आंखों से ओझल रह जाता है।

इसे थोड़ा समझ लेना जरूरी है।

पहली बात, परमात्मा जब भी प्रकट होगा, तब रूप में प्रकट होगा, आकार में प्रकट होगा। प्रकट होने का अर्थ है, रूपायित होना, टु बी इन दि फार्म। प्रकट होने का अर्थ ही होता है, रूप लेना। प्रकट होने का अर्थ ही होता है, आकार लेना। प्रकट होने का अर्थ होता है, सीमा में खड़े होना। प्रकट होने का अर्थ है, पृथ्वी पर, शरीर में, देह में अभिव्यक्त होना। लेकिन हमें बड़ी कठिनाई होती है।

कृष्ण कहते हैं, जो नासमझ हैं, वे मेरी देह को ही समझ लेते हैं कि यह मैं हूं।

इन नासमझों में दो तरह के लोग हैं। एक तो वे नासमझ, जो कृष्ण को प्रेम करने लगेंगे, लेकिन वे कृष्ण की देह को ही प्रेम करते चले जाएंगे। वे कृष्ण को, वह जो अरूपी भीतर छिपा है, उसको नहीं देख पाएंगे। और एक वे नासमझ, जो दुश्मन हो जाएंगे। वे कहते रहेंगे कि यह आदमी तो शरीरधारी है, यह भगवान कैसे हो सकता है? यह आदमी उठता है, बैठता है, सोता है, भूख लगती है, खाना खाता है। यह भगवान कैसे हो सकता है?

उन दोनों की बुद्धि में बहुत भेद नहीं है। जो कृष्ण को प्रेम करेंगे, वे इस शरीर को ही भगवान मान लेंगे। फिर वे कृष्ण की मूर्ति बना लेंगे, फिर वे उस कृष्ण की मूर्ति को सुबह दातुन कराएंगे, पानी पिलाएंगे, स्नान करवाएंगे, फिर वे उस कृष्ण की मूर्ति को शयन करवाएंगे; दोपहर को द्वार बंद करके बिस्तर पर लिटाएंगे; फिर उस मूर्ति को कपड़े पहनाएंगे।

फिर यह सब चलेगा। इस बात को भूल जाएंगे कि जिस कृष्ण का हमने आविर्भाव देखा था, वह यह मूर्ति नहीं है। वह आविर्भाव तो अमूर्त का था; इस मूर्ति से हुआ था, इस रूप में हुआ था। इस मूर्ति का उपयोग किया जा सकता है। इस मूर्ति के प्रति श्रद्धा भी प्रकट की जा सकती है। लेकिन इसी मूर्ति के आस-पास जो घूमने लगे, और अमूर्त को भूल जाए, वह नासमझ है।

एक तो नासमझी यह है, जो प्रेमी कर लेता है। दूसरी नासमझी यह है कि लोग पूछेंगे कि भगवान कैसे हैं! धूप पड़ती है, तो पसीना आता है; दौड़ें, तो सांस चढ़ जाती है; थक जाते हैं, तो इन्हें भी नींद आती है। हम आदमियों जैसे ही हैं। इसलिए हम कैसे स्वीकार करें कि ये भगवान हैं? वह एक दूसरा वर्ग है जो कहेगा, हम स्वीकार नहीं कर सकते। उसकी भी नासमझी वही है, जो उस भक्त की है, जो आकार में देख रहा है। वह भी आकार में देख रहा है।

कृष्ण कहते हैं, निराकार को जो देख पाए, वही बुद्धिमान है। असल में बुद्धि की परीक्षा ही यही है कि वह निराकार को देख पाए। आकार को तो निर्बुद्धि भी देख पाता है। आकार को देखने में कोई बुद्धिमत्ता नहीं है। आकार तो सभी को दिखाई पड़ता है। वह जो नहीं दिखाई पड़ता है, वह जो पीछे छिपा खड़ा है, उसे जो देख पाए, उसे जो पहचान पाए, वही बुद्धिमान है। लेकिन कृष्ण में ही कोई निराकार को देख लेगा, यह संभव नहीं है, जब तक वह सब जगह निराकार को देखना शुरू न कर दे।

जब आप एक वृक्ष को देखते हैं, तो आपको आकार ही दिखाई पड़ता है। आपको वह जीवन ऊर्जा, जो वृक्ष के भीतर बहती है और आकार लेती है, वह आपको दिखाई नहीं पड़ती। जब एक फूल खिलता है, तो आकार ही दिखाई पड़ता है। उस फूल के भीतर जो ऊर्जा खिलती है और पंखुड़ियों में फैलती है, और जिस शक्ति के कारण पंखुड़ियां बंद थीं और खुल जाती हैं, उस शक्ति को आप नहीं देख पाते। जब एक बीज टूटता है, तो आप बीज को देखते हैं; लेकिन जो उसके भीतर भरा था और टूटना चाहता था, और तोड़ दिया बीज को और बाहर आया, वह आपको नहीं दिखाई पड़ता।

हम देखते ही आकार को हैं सब तरफ। जब हम सब तरफ आकार को देखते हैं, तो यह संभव नहीं है कि विशेष रूप से कृष्ण या क्राइस्ट या मोहम्मद के संबंध में हम आकार को न देखें और निराकार को देख लें। आकार को देखने की हमारी जड़बद्ध आदत है। हम जो चौबीस घंटे देखते हैं, वही हम कृष्ण में भी देख पाएंगे। हम दूसरी बात न देख पाएंगे।

ओशो – गीता-दर्शnभाग 3, 

अध्याय—7

OSHO

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A visitor: I don’t know what kundalini is.

BHAGAVAN : Kundalini is one name given by the yogic people for what may be called the atma sakti inside the body. 

The vichara school calls the same power jnana. 

The bhakta calls it love or bhakti. 

The yogic school says that this power is dormant in muladhara at the base of the spinal cord and that it must be roused and taken through the various chakras on to sahasrara at the top, in the brain, to attain moksha. 

The jnanis think this power is centred in the heart, and so on.