awareness

Deepen and broaden the awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come 

to you most naturally and effortlessly.

Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.

In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.

- The Nisargadatta Path

जानकादेवी नमो नम: 🙏

train

God will bear whatever burdens we put on Him. 

All things are being carried on by the omnipotent power of a Supreme God. 

Instead of submitting ourselves to It, why should we always be planning, 

‘We should do this or that’. 

Knowing that the train carries all the load, why should we, travelling therein, suffer by carrying our small bundle on our heads, instead of leaving it on the train and being happy.

- Sri Ramana Maharshi

self

Indeed, guru is all in all, so he is essential and he alone

can give us moksha. He is however our own Self, sat-citānanda, so he gives us moksha, which is our natural state of being [sat], by means of knowledge [cit] and love [ānanda]. He makes us know and love him as our own Self.

Sadhu Om

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ओशो

_*तुम अकेले नही हो! परमात्मा सदा तुम्हारे साथ साथ ही चल रहा!!*_

_अकेला कोई भी नहीं चल रहा है।_

_तुम्हारे साथ परमात्मा चल ही रहा है।_

_तुम्हारे भीतर ही बैठा है,__

_साथ चल रहा है यह कहना भी ठीक नहीं है।_

_अकेले तो तुम चल भी न सकोगे_

 _अकेले तो तुम्हारा होना भी नहीं है।_

_अकेले तो श्वास भी न ले सकोगे,_

_हृदय भी न धड़केगा।_

 _उसके सहारे धड़क रहा है_, 

_वही धड़का रहा है। वही धड़कन है।_

_वही श्वास ले रहा है, वही श्वास है।_

_नाम उसे कुछ भी दो।_

__परमात्मा दो, आत्मा दो,_

 _या जो चाहो कहना, कहो।_

 _लेकिन तुम्हारे भीतर मौजूद है._

     _*ओशो*_

happiness

“That which 

is called happiness is only the nature of the Self; Self is not other 

than perfect happiness. That which is called happiness alone exists. 

Knowing that fact and abiding in the Self, enjoy Bliss eternally.”

- Guru Vāchaka Kovai, v.1029.

action

Devotee: “It (the story of the only lie Bhagavan ever told his aunt in order that he could depart to Arunachala) means that for doing a great thing, sometimes a lie has to be told!”

Bhagavan: “Yes. When it is for the welfare of the world and when the exigencies of the situation demand it, it has to be done. It can’t be helped. Where is the question of telling a lie? Some force makes one say so. So long as there is a purpose, there is need of action. When there is no purpose, no action is needed. In this case, we can avoid action in the same way as was done by the sage in “The Sage and Hunter” story in the Yoga Vasishtam.”

Devotee: “What is that story?”

Bhagavan: “In a forest, a sage sat motionless and in silence. His eyes however were open. A hunter hit a deer and as it was running away, he began pursuing it and when he saw the sage, he stopped. The deer had run in front of the sage, and hidden itself in a bush nearby. The hunter could not see it and so asked the sage: ‘Swami, my deer has come running this way. Please tell me where exactly it has gone.’ The sage said he did not know. The hunter said, ‘It ran in front of you. Your eyes were open. How could you say you do not know?’ To that the sage replied, ‘Oh my friend! We are in the forest with universal equality. We do not have ahankara (the 'I'-sense, ego-self). Unless you have ahankara, you cannot do things in this world. That Ahankara is the mind. That mind does all things. It also makes all the sense organs work. We certainly have no mind; it disappeared long ago. We do not have the three states, the states of waking, dream and deep sleep. We are always in the fourth or Turiya state. In that state nothing is seen by us. That being so, what can we say about your deer?’ Unable to understand what the sage was saying, the hunter went his way thinking they were all the words of a mad man.”

(From 'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam' 230)

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“As for future bondages, they arise from acts done without anyone knowing they are sinful. How can this be discovered? A seeker should recognize it as a future bondage when some action presents itself which makes him feel that he wishes to do it because the doing of it is an act of human kindness and sympathy; and so he is tempted into doing it. He does not realise that the act will be the cause of future bondage. If he thinks that, by being a non-doer (akarta) and worldly-detached (asanga), the fulfilment of the desire will not affect him and he can therefore do the act, he will become bound all the same and will be freed from the bondage only after several more births. That future bondages result in re-births is authoritatively stated in the Scriptures (srutis and smritis). Vasudeva, for instance, had one more birth, Bharata had two more, and others many more."

(Bhagavan in 'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam' 148; pictures are from 'Lessons of King Bharat', http://www.agt-gems.com/mysticarticles/bharata.html.)

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Let the flower of life blossoms in the rays of  true self  ! #quotes #vidya

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"You become a witness to those feelings. And you watch those feelings. And then after you ask yourself, "To whom do they come? Who has these feelings? To whom do they come?" "To me. I feel this." "Who am I? Who is the I that feels dejected?" and keep still, but hang on to the I. Hold on to the I with all your might. Like holding on to a rope and then let go and when you let go there's silence."

OBSERVE AND PRACTICE

SF: Robert, what about the recourse of sadhana there are these periods when one that's doing sadhana may feel dry a little bit dejected, a little bit disappointed like he's going nowhere. What would you have to say to him? There are periods like that in the course of sadhana. What would you have to say to that to give him support?

R: Then you observe. You become a witness to those feelings. And you watch those feelings. And then after you ask yourself, "To whom do they come? Who has these feelings? To whom do they come?" "To me. I feel this." "Who am I? Who is the I that feels dejected?" and keep still, but hang on to the I. Hold on to the I with all your might. Like holding on to a rope and then let go and when you let go there's silence. 

Then you will feel that those feelings disappear and they don't come back anymore. But you have to keep going back again and again until it happens.

It's like studying to be a doctor. You have to go to class, after class, after class. Study, study, study. Sometimes you think you're going to fail so you try again, you study harder until you finally make it. This is the same thing. 

But no practice is in vain, everything is accounted for. And if you die in your attempt, you carry it with you and you have another chance. You'd be ahead of the game. Do not worry about anything, be happy, be free. Love your Self, not your ego but your Self.

- Robert Adams, CW, Ts 23

aware of self

why worry ?

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