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Siva is the ultimate and supreme reality, omniscient, omnipresent and unbound. He is Pati, the primal being and the supreme deity. Siva alone is the efficient cause of all creation, evolution, preservation, concealment and dissolution. He brings forth the worlds and their beings through his dynamic power, Shakti.

SHIVA- the infinite SPACE

ENERGY- un-manifested energy [consciousness]

MATTER-manifested energy {physical form}

Energy converts into matter and matter converts into energy,this is what we called as world (nature),SPACE the SHIVA (purusha) is the reason(mahakaarana) for it.

Can you escape from the impact of space? it's impossible,every moment space impacts energy and matter (cells, body, mind and every thing),every KARMA has its own result, one may be frequent another may be a bit late,that's all .every one should suffer the results of karma, that is why in BHAGAVATGEETA krisna tells us about NAISKARMA,

and YOGASTAHA KURU KARMANI

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ENLIGHTENED SLEEP

Before Wisdom's Eye is opened, one thinks only in terms of the finality of death. But once the Eye is opened, one sees in the eternal brightness that the changing of the body is merely like a living person changing clothes.

Before the Eye is opened, one suffers the consequences of one’s karma and has no freedom; but once the Eye is opened, one comes to enjoy eternal happiness through the great freedom and great wisdom.

Without this enlightenment, however, people in our reality, no matter how wise or brilliant they appear to be, in fact know nothing. They are asleep, their minds are dark, they are like the dead.

But those who are enlightened are constantly bright, and they know no darkness whether awake or asleep. So you can tell if one is enlightened by his sleep.

A person may think he is the most enlightened in the world and he may think that he understands the Dharma fully; but if his sleep is filled with darkness, he is not enlightened. And this is what the ancient sages were most careful about.

Ven.Tong Songchol (1912~1993), one of the great Zen masters of Korea in the last century, was also called the ‘Living Buddha’.

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Bhagavan: As often as one tries to surrender, the ego raises its head and one has to try to suppress it. Surrender is not an easy thing. Killing the ego is not an easy thing. 

It is only when God Himself by His grace draws the mind inwards that complete surrender can be achieved. But such grace comes only to those who have already, in this or previous lives, gone through all the struggles and sadhanas preparatory to the extinction of the mind and killing of the ego.

🕉️ Day by Day with Bhagavan, 27th June, 1946.

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Yogananda: Why does God permit suffering in the world? Should He not with His omnipotence do away with it at one stroke and ordain the universal realisation of God? 

Maharshi: Suffering is the way for Realisation of God. 

Yogananda: Should He not ordain it differently? 

Maharshi: It is the way. 

Yogananda: Are yoga, religion, etc., antidotes to suffering? 

Maharshi: Who suffers? What is suffering?

Talks With Ramana Maharshi

November 29th, 1935

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Anything that you respond to is a 

product of your mind. 

It is your mind that becomes angry. 

It is your mind that becomes stubborn. 

It is your mind that wants to get even. 

It is your mind that is hurt. 

But if you subdue your mind, tell me, 

where is the anger? 

Where is the depression? 

Where is the response to conditions? 

There isn't any. 

When the mind is subdued, there is only eternal peace and that peace is the self, consciousness. 

Consciousness is always peaceful, always happy. It has nothing to do with conditions. All conditioning comes from the mind. 

Therefore I say to you, 

do not try to change conditions. 

Do not try to change situations. 

Simply learn how to control the mind by 

making it passive and quiet, and then you will find that things turn out better for you than you can possibly ever hope for. 

There are no problems. 

There is nothing wrong. 

Everything is unfolding as it should. 

Everything happens in its own time. 

Space and time are illusions. 

They really do not exist. They're stationary. Causation doesn't exist either. 

No thing has a cause, therefore no thing has an effect. Cause and effects are again products of your own mind. 

When the mind is quiet, karma ceases. 

Samsaras are non-existent. 

There never was a cause for anything. But if you feel that in a previous life you did something wrong and now you are paying the price, or if you think that you did something wrong in this life and you’re paying the price, then you'll pay the price, because that's what you think. 

There is virtually no price to pay, because nothing ever happened. If it appears to have happened to you then you have to go through the consequences of having the effect return, or karma will come back to you, because that's what you feel, that's what you believe. It's all in your feelings and your belief system. 

But if you feel as if you're born at every moment, every moment becomes brand new. 

Where is the effect? 

There is no time for any effect. 

There is no space in which to have the effect. Space and time and causation become one, the present moment. And if you feel like that then you can look into the future, which doesn't exist, and see what's happening. It all has to do with your mind. As long as you feel situations, you know it's your mind that's doing it. 

🌷 The Collected Works of Robert Adams.

surrender

Swami Sambuddhananda of the Ramakrishna Mission remarked, “The bhakta requires a God to whom he can do bhakti. Is he to be taught that there is only the Self, not a worshipper and the worshipped?”

Bhagavan: Of course, God is required for sadhana. But the end of the sadhana, even in bhakti marga, is attained only after complete surrender. What does it mean, except that effacement of ego results in Self remaining as it always has been? Whatever path one may choose, the ‘I’ is inescapable, the ‘I’ that does the nishkama karma, the ‘I’ that pines for joining the Lord from whom it feels it has been separated, the ‘I’ that feels it has slipped from its real nature, and so on. The source of this ‘I’ must be found out. Then all questions will be solved. Whereas all paths are approved in the Bhagavad Gita, it says that the jnani is the best karma yogi, the best devotee or bhakta, the highest yogi and so on.”

The Swami still persisted, “It is all right to say Selfanalysis is the best thing to do. But in practice, we find a God is necessary for most people.”

Bhagavan: God is of course necessary, for most people. They can go on with one, till they find out that they and God are not different.

dispassion

What you need will come to you, if you do not ask for what you do not need. 

Yet only few people reach this state of complete dispassion and detachment. 

It is a very high state, the very threshold of liberation. 

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Doer

As long as a man is the doer, he also reaps the fruit of his deeds, but, as soon as he realizes the Self through enquiry as to who is the doer his sense of being the doer falls away and the triple karma is ended. This is the state of eternal liberation.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

egoless state

THE EGOLESS STATE 

The Sage is often loosely described as ‘one that knows the Self’. But this is not intended to be taken in a literal sense. It is a tentative description, intended for those that believe ignorance to be something that exists; they are told that this ignorance is to be got rid of by winning ‘Knowledge of the Self’. There are two misconceptions in this. One is that the Self is an object of knowledge. The other is that the Self is unknown, and needs to be known. The Self being the sole Reality, He cannot become an object of knowledge. Also being the Self, He is never unknown. The ancient lore tells us that He is neither known nor unknown, and the Sage confirms it. 

How can this be? The Self is the pure ‘I AM’, the only thing that is self-manifest; by Its light all the world is lighted up. But It seems to be unknown, and to need to be known, because It is obscured by the world and the ego. What is needed is to remove these. The Sage explains this by the analogy of a room that is encumbered with unwanted lumber. If space be wanted, all that is needful is to clear out the lumber; no space has to be brought in from outside. So too, the ego-mind and its creations have to be emptied out, and then the Self alone would remain, shining without hindrance. What is loosely called ‘knowing the Self’ is really being egoless, and the Self. Thus the Sage does not know the Self; he is the Self. 

Maha Yoga Chapter 8

by K. Lakshmana Sarma

sky

O mind, my friend

"O mind, my friend, of what use is all this talk?

O mind, my friend, it is all nonsense.

I have told you that which is the essence:

you are Reality, like the sky."

सखे मनः किं बहुजल्पितेन सखे मनः सर्वमिदं वितर्क्यम् ।

यत्सारभूतं कथितं मया ते त्वमेव तत्त्वं गगनोपमोऽसि ।।

sakhe manaḥ kim bahu-jalpitena sakhe manaḥ sarvam idam vitarkyam

yat sāra-bhūtam kathitam mayā te tvam eva tattvam gaganopamo’si

Dattātreya

Avadhūta-Gita 1.68

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nothing

I am nothing.nothing is everything.everything is nothing.

Nisarg datta maharaj

being

What we truly ARE is the everlasting, unchanging moment which merely witnesses the play of changing relationships that we call life.

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How can you find true happiness? For happiness, no positive action is necessary or even possible. Turn yourself inward as the pure, impersonal witness, and you will rest in your true BEINGNESS in utter peace and tranquility. Happiness will become irrelevant.

Ramesh Balsekar 

4 October

Destiny

Q: I can understand that the outstanding events in a man's life, such as his country, nationality, family, career or profession, marriage, death, etc., are all predestined by his karma, but can it be that all the details of his life, down to the minutest, have already been determined? Now, for instance, I put this fan that is in my hand down on the floor here. Can it be that it was already decided that on such and such a day, at such and such an hour, I should move the fan like this and put it down here?

Sri Ramana Maharshi : Certainly.

Whatever this body is to do and

whatever experiences it is to pass through

was already decided when it came into existence.

Q: What becomes then of man's freedom and responsibility for his actions?

Sri Ramana Maharshi:

The only freedom man has is to strive for and

acquire the jnana

which will enable him not to identify himself with the body.

The body will go through the actions

rendered inevitable by prarabdha and

a man is free either to identify himself with the body and

be attached to the fruits of its actions,

or to be detached from it and

be a mere witness of its activities.

Q: So free will is a myth?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Free will holds the field in association with individuality.

As long as individuality lasts there is free will.

All the scriptures are based on this fact and they advise directing the free will in the right channel.

Find out to whom free will or destiny matters.

Find out where they come from, and abide in their source.

If you do this, both of them are transcended.

That is the only purpose of discussing these questions.

To whom do these questions arise?

Find out and be at peace.

~ From Be as you are book

wisdom

The inherent wisdom is within.

With the urge for truth you will discover it.

It will destroy all delusion.

But in order for it to blossom and bloom, you must place your head at the feet of God, or dissolve your identity in unmixed consciousness. Your heart has to become wide and open, and filled with devotion, surrender and the urge for freedom.

Then that mighty power will arise. 

It does not destroy; just in its presence all delusions disappear.

🌻 Mooji

self

“Until you know who you are, all your knowledge is learned ignorance. 

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.”

~ Ramana Maharshi

beyond mind and body

“Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.”

~ Sadhguru

child

“Enlightenment means becoming unconditioned again, becoming a child again.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed – borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.”

~ Osho

free

To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.”

~ Mooji

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“To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.”

~ Mooji

“Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.”

~ Eckhart Tolle

"Are you aware that you are conditioned?

Most people are second-hand human beings.

The truly religious man is he who, realizing his conditioning, is breaking through that conditioning.

As long as you remain within that field of the culture, of society, of greed, of envy, of achievement, you are not a free human being. You may think you have free will, but you are just part of this monstrous society, a conditioned human being."

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Enlightenment means becoming unconditioned again, becoming a child again.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed – borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.”

~ Osho

“Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.

The belief that we were born, that we change, evolve, grow old and die is simply a belief to which the vast majority of humanity subscribes without realizing that they are doing so. It is the religion of our culture.

We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.”

~ Rupert Spira

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

~ Albert Einstein

“The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see it in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind. Wipe away and dissolve all its experience and be "born afresh".

The unconditioned mind intuits truth.”

~ Bruce Lee

“When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.”

~ Alan Watts

“Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.”

~ U. G. Krishnamurti

“Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.”

~ Sadhguru

“Until you know who you are, all your knowledge is learned ignorance. 

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.”

~ Ramana Maharshi

मन

🌼🌻मन की चाल🌻🌼

मन की चाल समझ लें, तो सब समझ लिया। मन को पहचान लिया, तो कुछ और पहचानने को बचता नहीं। मन की चाल समझते ही चेतना अपने में लीन हो जाती है। जब तक नहीं समझा है, तभी तक मन का अनुसरण चलता है। मन के पीछे चलता है आदमी यही मानकर कि मन गुरु है—जो कहता है, ठीक कहता है; जो बताता है, ठीक बताता है।

एक बार अपने मन पर संदेह आ जाए, तो जीवन में क्रांति की शुरुआत हो जाती है। और मजा यही है कि मन सभी पर संदेह करता है। और तुम कभी मन पर संदेह नहीं करते। मन पर तुम्हारी श्रद्धा अपूर्व है; उसका कोई अंत नहीं। और मन रोज तुम्हें गङ्ढे में डाले, तो भी श्रद्धा नहीं टूटती।

मेरे पास लोग आते हैं। वे कहते हैं, लोगों की श्रद्धा उठ गई है। मैं उनसे कहता हूं कि लोगों की जैसी श्रद्धा मन पर है, उसे देखकर ऐसा नहीं लगता कि लोगों की श्रद्धा उठ गई है। कितना ही भटकाए मन, कितना ही सताए मन, कितना ही भरमाए मन—श्रद्धा नहीं टूटती। श्रद्धा तो भरपूर है—गलत दिशा में है। आज तक मुझे कोई अश्रद्धालु आदमी नहीं मिला। श्रद्धा गलत दिशा में हो सकती है; जिस पर नहीं आनी चाहिए, उस पर हो सकती है—लेकिन अश्रद्धालु कोई भी नहीं है।

और दो ही श्रद्धाएं हैं; या तो मन की श्रद्धा है और या आत्मा की श्रद्धा है। या तो तुम अपने पर भरोसा करते हो—अपने का अर्थ है, जहां मन की कोई भनक भी नहीं, जहां एक विचार भी नहीं तिरता, जहां शुद्ध चेतना है—या तो उस शुद्ध चेतना का तुम्हारा भरोसा है। अगर उसका भरोसा है, तो तुम जीवन में कहीं भी गङ्ढे न पाओगे; तुम्हारा कोई पैर गलत न पड़ेगा। और या फिर आदमी भरोसा करता है मन पर। तब तुम गङ्ढे ही गङ्ढे पाओगे; तब तुम जीवन में जहां भी जाओगे, भटकोगे ही—क्योंकि मन की चाल ही ऐसी है।

मन की चाल को समझ लें।

एक, कि मन तुम्हें देखने नहीं देता। मन तुम्हें अंधा रखता है। मन तुम्हारी आंखों को धुंधला रखता है, धुएं से भरा रखता है। वह धुंआ ही विचार है। इतनी तीव्रता से मन विचारों को चलाता है कि तुम्हें जगह भी नहीं मिलती कि तुम देख पाओ, कि तुम्हारे बाहर क्या हो रहा है, कि तुम्हारे जीवन में क्या घट रहा है। मन तुम्हें विचारों में उलझाए रखता है। जैसे छोटे बच्चे को हम खिलौने दे देते हैं—फिर उसकी मां मर भी रही हो, तो भी वह अपने खिलौने से खेलता रहता है, खिलौनों में उलझा रहता है।

मन तुम्हें विचार देता है; विचार खिलौने हैं। खिलौनों में भी थोड़ा—बहुत सत्य है, विचारों में उतना भी नहीं। लेकिन एक खिलौने से तुम चुक भी नहीं पाते कि मन तत्क्षण दूसरा निर्मित कर देता है। इसके पहले कि तुम जागकर देख पाओ, मन तुम्हें नया खिलौना दे देता है। पुराने से तुम ऊब जाते हो, तो मन नई उलझनें सुझा देता है। एक उपद्रव बंद भी नहीं हो पाया कि मन दस उपद्रवों में रस जगा देता है। और यह इतनी तीव्रता से होता है कि दोनों घटनाओं के बीच खिड़की बनाने लायक भी जगह नहीं मिलती, जहां से तुम देख लो कि जिंदगी में हो क्या रहा है।

मैंने सुना है कि मुल्ला नसरुद्दीन जब बहुत बूढ़ा हो गया, नब्बे वर्ष का हुआ, तब उसका बड़ा भरा—पूरा परिवार था। उसका बड़ा बेटा ही सत्तर वर्ष पार कर रहा था। उसके बेटों के बेटे पचास पार रहे थे। उसके बेटों के बेटे विवाहित हो गए थे। उनके भी बच्चे हो गए थे। अचानक एक दिन बूढ़े नसरुद्दीन ने कहा कि मैंने फिर से शादी करने का तय कर लिया है। पत्नी मर चुकी थी। पहले तो लड़कों ने मजाक समझी; हंसे कि "अब इस बुढ़ापे में...। हम भी बूढ़े हो गए हैं। अब शादी! पिताजी मजाक कर रहे होंगे।' लेकिन नसरुद्दीन ने जब बार—बार दुहराया, तो उन्होंने गंभीरता से बात ली। और जब नसरुद्दीन ने एक दिन सुबह आकर घोषणा ही कर दी कि "मैंने लड़की भी तय कर ली', तब जरा सोचना पड़ा। सारा परिवार इकट्ठा हुआ। उन्होंने विचार किया कि इससे बड़ी फजीहत होगी, लोग हंसेंगे। ऐसे ही नसरुद्दीन की वजह से लोग जिंदगी भर हंसते रहे; और अब यह बुढ़ापे में आखिरी उपद्रव खड़ा कर रहे हैं। क्या कहेंगे लोग? बड़े लड़के को सबने कहा कि तुम्हीं जाकर कहो। बड़े लड़के ने जो सुना तो चकित हो गया। सुना कि सामने ही एक रंगरेज की लड़की से तय किया है नसरुद्दीन ने। लड़की की उम्र मुश्किल से सोलह साल है। उसने कहा, "यह नहीं हो सकता। पापा, यह बंद करो। यह सोच ही छोड़ दो। यह भी तो सोचो, उस लड़की की उम्र सिर्फ सोलह साल है।' नसरुद्दीन ने कहा, "अरे पागल! सोलह साल ही तो शादी की उम्र है। और जब फिर मैंने तेरी मां से शादी की थी, तब उसकी भी उम्र सोलह साल ही थी। इसमें बुरा क्या हुआ जा रहा है?'

मन तर्क दे रहा है। मन पीछे लौटकर नहीं देखता। मन अपनी तरफ नहीं देखता, मन सिर्फ दूसरे की तरफ देखता है।

लड़के बहुत परेशान हुए और बड़े बूढ़ों से सलाह ली। डॉक्टर से भी पूछा। डॉक्टर ने कहा, "यह बहुत खतरनाक है। इस उम्र में शादी जीवन के लिए खतरा हो सकती है।'

फिर बेटे को समझा—बुझाकर भेजा। बेटे ने कहा कि "हम सब सलाह—मशविरा किए हैं। डॉक्टर कहता है, जीवन के लिए खतरा हो सकता है। जीवन को दांव पर मत लगाओ।' नसरुद्दीन ने कहा, "अरे पागल, यह लड़की मर भी गई तो कोई लड़कियों की कमी है? दूसरी लड़की खोज लेंगे।'

मन कभी पीछे की तरफ देखता नहीं—अपनी तरफ नहीं देखता है। मन सदा दूसरे में खोजता है सुख, दूसरे पर थोपता है दुख; दूसरे से पाना चाहता है शांति, दूसरे से ही पाता है अशांति। सदा ही नजर दूसरे पर लगी है, जबकि नजर अपने पर लगी होनी चाहिए। तो मन के जगत का उपद्रव, मूल आधार दूसरे पर दृष्टि है।

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