who m i

Who Am I is not a mantra. 

It means that you must find out 

where in you arises 

the I - thought 

which is the source of 

all other thoughts. 

🕉 Ramana Maharshi 

Be As You Are

I

Why objectify God? Subjectify That!! Go straight to the Light, immediately jump into It and don't write an article about it on the way. Keep Quiet, entertain no doubt, raise no desire. Remove all objects and remain as That!

All pain belongs to objectification. Do not let ego own Freedom, so do not objectify the Truth. Do not call it a gain or an acquisition, simply identify with it as you do when you see your face in a mirror. Forget this visitor called mind and just identify as That!

You can only experience what you are not.

Only transience can be experienced because the experiencer itself is transient. So give up the notions of experience, name and form. Don’t touch name and form, Just Watch! 

Utter “I” and all objects are there. 

Look at the “I” and everything dissolves.

Let the “I” look at the “I.”

🌼 Papaji

ans

❓ Neighbour: "Why has God created wicked people?"

🌺 Master: "That is His will, His Play. In His Maya there exists Avidya as well as Vidya. Darkness is needed too. It reveals all the more the glory of Light. There is no doubt, that anger, lust, and greed are evils. Why, then, has God created them? In order to create saints. A man becomes a saint by conquering the senses. Is there anything impossible for a man, who has subdued his passions? He can even realize God, through His grace. Again, see how His whole Play of Creation is perpetuated through lust. Wicked people are needed too. 

At one time the tenants of an estate became unruly. The landlord had to send Golak Choudhury, who was a ruffian. He was such a harsh administrator, that the tenants trembled at the very mention of his name. There is need of everything”.

Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna

(“The Gospel of Ramakrishna” translated by Swami Nikhilananda, Ch. 2, In The Company Of Devotees, Sunday, April 9, 1882)

quotes 1.3

Surrender yourself unreservedly and 

the Higher Power will reveal itself....

Either the thoughts are eliminated by 

holding on to the root thought 'I' or 

one surrenders oneself unconditionally 

to the Higher Power...

These are the only two ways for realisation....

Sri Ramana Maharshi.....I

....

The mind: 

If once it finds its inner happiness 

it will not wander outward. 

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

~ Talk 213

....

Look....

The Self is only Be - ing.....

not being this or that.....

It is simple Being....

Be - and there is the end of ignorance....

Talk...46...

Ramana Maharshi.....

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Everything in the universe comes, stays, and goes. 

What doesn't come, stay, or go is your own Self. 

~ Papaji

self

Everything in the universe comes, stays, and goes. 

What doesn't come, stay, or go is your own Self. 

~ Papaji

energy

Give life to things which are beautiful. Don't give life to ugly things. You don't have much time, much energy to waste. With such a small life, with such a small energy source, it is simply stupid to waste it in sadness, in anger, in hatred, in jealousy.

Use it in love, use it in some creative act, use it in friendship, use it in meditation: Do something with your energy which takes you higher. 

And the higher you go, the more energy sources become available to you. It is in your hands.

💙 OshO

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Guru

He is my teacher, the supreme Godhead,

whilst, as for me,

I am not worthy of sitting at the feet of such a Master.

And yet through the power of his gracious gaze

I was able to offer him my devotion

and remain in unbroken communion with him.

(Muruganar -Sri Ramana Anubhuti)

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