Don't try pushing the clouds,
let them go by themselves.
-Sri Mooji
10/21/2020
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The only happiness there is, is of the Self.
That is the truth.
There is no happiness in worldly objects.
Because of our ignorance
we imagine we derive happiness from them.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi (Gems I)
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"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul." ~ Swami Vivekananda
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When you start to understand what "I am not the doer" means, you become free of all problems.
What does it mean when you say, "I am not the doer?" (and this is what you should do whenever you think you've got a problem). To begin with, you first realize that everything, and I mean everything, was determined before you came to this earth. Everything has been planned for you, even the day you're going to give up the body. Everything is preordained.
If you accept this and feel this, where is the problem? What's the worst thing that could ever happen to you? If you really analyze it, it's not that bad. It appears bad but it is not. And remember how the appearance works. It's like the snake and the rope. A man gets out of his bathtub in the dark and steps on a rope and thinks it's a snake. And he has a tremendous fear. When he finds out it is only a rope the fear dissipates and he is never afraid again about that problem.
So, in the same instance, when you believe, and believe, and think, and think that you have a problem, it's like the snake and the rope. It's not really a problem, it's just a preconceived idea of what's going to happen if you don't get what you want. Because you have been brought up, again, to believe that your life has to be a certain way, where in truth and reality it does not have to be anyway.
As an example, if I go home this evening and I find out somebody has robbed my house, and they have cleaned everything out of my house, is that a problem? It has all been preordained. This was determined before I came to this earth in my body. I will not react negatively. I will not react at all. Because I feel that I am the universe and all is well. There are no mistakes. Therefore I will bless the thief. No problem what so ever.
If I'm walking across the street and a car passes through a red light and hits me, it isn't the driver's fault. It has all been preordained. So why should I get angry? The point is that everything, everything that's happened to you, has been preordained.
There is nothing wrong.
Now how should you handle things? The first concept is to realize that "I am not the doer." When you realize you are not the doer it means that your body is going through the experience but not you. The next thing you do is you ask yourself, “Who is having this experience? To whom does it come? It comes to me. I'm feeling depression. I feel
hurt. I feel out of sort. I feel that I've been robbed or hit by a car. I'm angry. I'm mad.” Who is this I? How can the I be so many things, angry, mad, depressed, hurt, out of sort. You therefore hold onto the feeling of I. You hold onto that feeling and you follow it through to its source. The source of I is always consciousness or absolute awareness, when you follow it to its source.
But now, the only way you can follow it to its source is to forget about your problem, for you can't do both at once. So, you have to turn resolutely away from your problem, totally away from your problem, as if it doesn't exist, and hold on to the me. Hold onto the me who thinks it has a problem. As soon as you begin to hold onto me or I the problem will begin to dissipate all by itself, and you'll start to laugh. You will.
For it is virtually impossible for your real self to have a problem. For your real self is omnipresent, absolute. Your real self is emptiness, nirvana, pure intelligence. Your real self is omnipresent. As if two of you were present at the same time. When you understand who you are nothing will ever disturb you again.
New people ask me, "If I develop a sense of I and I follow it to its culmination, does that mean I will never have a problem again?” And I have to laugh when people ask me that, for as long as you identify with I, it is the I that has the problem. So when you say, “Will I never have a problem again, you're defeating your own purpose. For I is
filled with problems, not only from this life but from previous existences. The trick is to follow the I to the source, and then the I will disappear, totally, completely, absolutely. And when the I disappears, so does your problem.
In other words, the world doesn't change but you do. Your reaction changes. Just like the screen and it's images. When the time comes when you have transcended I you become like the screen and like the images shown on the screen. Which means the world does not change. Everything in the world will present itself to you like it always does, but it will be like water off a duck's back. It will not be attached to you anymore. You will now have identification with the screen, or with the self.
Am I clear in this? In other words, the screen and the images are the same, but the screen is aware of itself and also
of it's images, and it's not affected by the kinds of images you show. You can show a bank robbery taking place on the screen, a murder being committed, people making love, houses burning down, wars ensuing. How does that affect the screen?
It does not. The screen is never affected. New images change, one after the other. In the same way, your self is like the screen. It is never affected by problems of any kind or any sort. The problems come upon the screen. They come and they go, but you remain the self forever. You never change.
How do you begin to become this way? Every time you think you have a problem you must ask yourself, "To whom does the problem come? After all, I am not the doer. I am not the body. I am not the mind.
So to whom does the problem come?"
And of course the answer will be, “To me. I feel this problem. The problem comes to me.” You hold onto the me. You abide in the me. And you go deeper, and deeper, and deeper within yourself, abiding in the I
consciousness.
As you keep doing this everyday, every time a problem appears, the day will finally come soon when you transcend your sense of I. You totally transcend it. The sense of I disappears and you will become pure
consciousness. That's it.
~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams.
# There are no problems.
self
"Whatever happens,
keep most interested in Self and see that all rises is Self rising out of Self.
Self is not interested in possessing things because Self is total.
So don't react with interest or reward or possession.
Then you will be free and your interactions will be out of compassion and life will be like sailing in the breeze of non-attachment.
This breeze comes from Self and will happen after Freedom, not before."
~ Papaji
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"Whatever happens,
keep most interested in Self and see that all rises is Self rising out of Self.
Self is not interested in possessing things because Self is total.
So don't react with interest or reward or possession.
Then you will be free and your interactions will be out of compassion and life will be like sailing in the breeze of non-attachment.
This breeze comes from Self and will happen after Freedom, not before."
~ Papaji
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Why worry about something in future?
It is here and now which are important.
You are always self realized.
But only ignorant of the fact.
#ramana
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" Mind extinct, the mighty seer
Returns to his own natural being
And has no action to perform."
~ Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi
( Upadesa Saram : Verse -15)
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Q: The Gita seems to emphasise karma yoga, for Arjuna is persuaded to fight. Sri Krishna himself set the example by an active life of great exploits.
A: The Gita starts by saying that you are not the body and that you are not therefore the karta [the doer].
Q: What is the significance?
A: It means that one should act without thinking that oneself is the actor. Actions will go on even in the egoless state. Each person has come into manifestation for a certain purpose and that purpose will
be accomplished whether he considers himself to be the actor or not.
Q: What is karma yoga? Is it non-attachment to karma [action] or its fruit?
A: Karma yoga is that yoga in which the person does not arrogate to himself the function of being the actor. All actions go on automatically.
Q: Is it non-attachment to the fruits of actions?
A: The question arises only if there is the actor. It is said in all the scriptures that you should not consider yourself to be the actor.
Q: So karma yoga is `kartritva buddhi rahita karma' - action without the sense of doership.
A: Yes. Quite so.
Q: The Gita teaches that one should have an active life from beginning to end.
A:Yes, the actorless action.
Q: If one remains quiet how is action to go on? Where is the place for karma yoga?
A: Let us first understand what karma is, whose karma it is and who is the doer. Analysing them and enquiring into their truth, one is obliged to remain as the Self in peace. Nevertheless even in that
state the actions will go on.
Q: How will the actions go on if I do not act?
A: Who asks this question?
Is it the Self or another?
Is the Self concerned with actions?
Q: No, not the Self. It is another, different from the Self.
A: So it is plain that the Self is not concerned with actions and so the question does not arise.
Q: I want to do karma yoga.
How can I help others?
A: Who is there for you to help?
Who is the `I' that is going to help
others?
First clear up that point and then everything will settle itself.
Q: That means `realize the Self.'
Does my realization help others?
A: Yes, and it is the best help that you can possibly render to others. But really there are no others to be helped. For the realized
being sees only the Self, just as the goldsmith sees only the gold while valuing it in various jewels made of gold.
When you identify yourself with the body, name and form are there. But when you
transcend the body-consciousness, the others also disappear. The realized one does not see the world as different from himself.
✅ Be as you are. The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi edited by David Godman.
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"It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it."
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi.
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He who gives himself up to the Self that is God is the most excellent devotee. Giving one self up to God, means constantly remembering the Self. Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He bears them all.
Since the supreme power of God makes all things move, why should we, without submitting ourselves to it, constantly worry ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not?
We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
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When the mind is relinquished, everything is forgotten, and "nothing" remains. That nothingness is the causal body (Karana-deha). This is the "Night of Ignorance." Beyond this is the kingdom of Mahadeva. If we study this forgetfulness deeply, we can experience that there is this nothing that is called the causal body. When all is forgotten, and this nothing remains, then you must also give up that very nothing. When all is gone, all is thrown aside, what remains is you, yourself. This Consciousness is Brahman. He is the knower of the three worlds; the waking state, the dream state and the deep sleep state.
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The dream comes and goes, the deep sleep comes and goes, and even the waking state comes and goes. Knowledge of things comes and goes, and Knowledge itself comes and then goes away. Every thing that comes, goes away, yet you remain. That which is changeless and eternal is "You." You witness all of these states. Any taste that comes is sure to go. Any pleasure enjoyed has gone. You may understand anything, but that which you understand does not remain. It is all in the Illusion and thereby mortal.
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Anything that is of this realm, whatever is enjoyed, whatever is experienced, even Knowledge, is not immortal.
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Only the "Man of Self-Knowledge," the Jnani, enjoys the "Nectar of Immortality."
- Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj.
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Avoid desire and aversion.
Do not engage the mind much in the affairs of the world. As far as possible do not get entangled in the affairs of others.
Giving to others is really giving to oneself. If one knows this truth, would one ever
remain without giving?
If ego rises, all will rise. If the ego merges, all will merge.
The more we are humble, the better it is for us.
- GEMS from Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Talk 244
Maharshi: Why should one think of birth and death? Are you really born? The rising of the mind is called birth. After mind the body-thought arises and the body is seen; then the thought of birth, the state before birth, death, the state after death - all these are only of the mind. Whose is the birth?
Devotee: Am I not now born?
Maharshi: So long as the body is considered, birth is real. But the body is not ‘I’. The Self is not born nor does it die. There is nothing new. The Sages see everything in and of the Self. There is no diversity in it. Therefore there is neither birth nor death.
alone
आदमी अकेला है। और इस अकेलेपन के कारण दो यात्राओं पर आदमी जा सकता है। एक यात्रा है समाज की और एक यात्रा है संन्यास की। दोनों पैदा होते हैं अकेलेपन से, तनहाई से। अकेला आदमी या तो अपने को भुलाने के लिए दूसरों का साथ खोजे, भीड़ खोजे, संबंध खोजे, संग खोजे नाता—रिश्ता खोजे—पत्नी में, पति में, बच्चों में, मित्रों में, परिवार में अपने को डुबा ले, भूल जाए कि मैं अकेला हूं तो समाज की यात्रा शुरू हुई।
लेकिन ऐसे कोई कभी भूल नहीं पाता। बार—बार तनहाई उभर—उभरकर निकलती रहती है। जगह—जगह से छेद हो जाते हैं और जगह—जगह से दिखायी पड़ता है वह सत्य, जिसे हमने झुठलाने की कोशिश की है। लाख पत्नी हो, पति हो, मित्र हों, प्रियजन हों, फिर भी तुम होते तो अकेले ही हो।
अकेलेपन को इतने जल्दी मिटा देने का कोई उपाय नहीं। इतने सस्ते में अकेलापन जाता होता तो आदमी सुखी हो गया होता। नहीं जाता है। अक्सर तो ऐसा होता है कि भीड़ तुम्हें और भी अकेला कर जाती है। भीड़ और अकेलेपन को उभार—उभारकर बताने लगती है। जितना तुम भुलाने की चेष्टा करते हो, उतनी और याद आती है।
तो एक तो समाज, संग—साथ, इनके द्वारा आदमी अपने को भुलाने की कोशिश करता है। और दूसरा, संन्यास। संन्यास का अर्थ है, अकेलेपन को किसी के संग—साथ में भुलाना नहीं है, बल्कि अकेलेपन को जानना है कि क्या है। अकेलेपन में उतरना है, सीढ़िया लगानी हैं। पहचानना है अपने को कि मैं कौन जो अकेला है। और पहचानना है कि यह क्या है जो अकेलापन है।
जो आदमी इस अकेलेपन को पहचानने चलता है, एक दिन पाता है, यह अकेलापन कैवल्य है। यह अकेला होना हमारा स्वभाव है। और इस अकेले होने में कोई पीड़ा नहीं है, कोई दुख नहीं है। यह अकेला होना आनंद है। यह अकेला होना हमारी स्वतंत्रता है, मुक्ति है, मोक्ष है।
तो समाज और संन्यास, दोनों पैदा होते हैं एक ही तथ्य से। और वह तथ्य है—तनहाई, अकेलापन, एकाकीपन। अगर भुलाने की कोशिश की तो भीड़ में खो जाओगे। और अपने से दूर और दूर निकलते जाओगे। और जितने दूर निकलोगे उतनी पीड़ा बढ़ जाएगी, क्योंकि अपने से दूर जाना ही पीड़ा है। अगर संन्यास में उतरे, अपने स्वात को ध्यान बनाया; स्वात स्वात है, अकेलापन नहीं; एकांत का सौदर्य है, एकांत में कोई पीड़ा नहीं, ऐसी तुमने व्याख्या बदली और तुम धीरे—धीरे अपने रस में डूबे, अपने होने में डूबे, तुमने अपने में मजा लिया...।
दूसरे में मजा लेना समाज। मिलता कभी नहीं, लगता है मिलेगा, मिलेगा—
कोई आता है आ रहा है आएगा शायद खूबसूरत ये हमें भ्रम है और तनहाई
कोई कभी आता नहीं। द्वार खोले तुम बैठे रहते हो, कोई कभी आता नहीं। आएगा शायद, इस आशा में आखें थक जाती हैं, फूटी हो जाती हैं। इस आशा में जीवन चुक जाता है, मौत आ जाती है और कोई नहीं आता। और इस आशा में वह परम अवसर चूक जाता है जिसमें तुम अपने भीतर जा सकते थे।
खयाल करो, अगर तुम्हें अपने साथ आनंद नहीं मिल रहा है तो किसके साथ आनंद मिल सकेगा! अगर अपने साथ भी तुम मौज में नहीं हो सकते तो किसके साथ मौज में हो सकोगे! और दूसरा जो तुमसे संबंध बनाने आएगा, वह भी इसीलिए संबंध बनाने आया है, कि वह भी अकेलेपन से घबड़ा रहा है। वह भी अकेले में भानदित नहीं है, तुम भी अकेले में आनंदित नहीं हो। दो दुखी आदमी अपने—अपने से घबड़ाकर एक—दूसरे में डूबने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं, दुख दुगुना हो जाएगा। गगना नहीं अनेक गुना हो जाएगा—गुणनफल हो जाएगा। दो दुखी आदमी जुड़कर कैसे सुख पैदा कर सकते हैं! दो दुख मिलकर सुख बनते हैं, ऐसा तुमने कहा पढ़ा? किस गणित में पढ़ा? तुमने गणित ही गलत पढ़ लिया है। मगर यह हमारे जीवन, गणित है, ऐसे ही हम सोचते हैं।
तुम अकेले हो तो सोचते हो, विवाह कर लो। फिर भी दुख। तो सोचते हो, एक बेटा पैदा हो जाए। फिर भी दुख। तो सोचते हो, एक बहू बेटे को मिल जाए। फर भी दुख। सोचते हो, अब बेटे को बेटा पैदा हो जाए। ऐसे चलता है। दुख घटता नहीं, बढ़ता है। क्योंकि ये जितने लोग बढ़ते जा रहे हैं, ये सब अकेले में दुखी हैं। संन्यास का अर्थ होता है, अगर आनंद घट सकता है तो अपने में घट सकता है, और कहीं भी नहीं घटेगा। ये आज के सूत्र इस संबंध में हैं।
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