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"I found myself without desires

  and without knowledge.

 There was nothing left but love,

 the state of witness was left behind; 

 there was only love, all pervading,

 all embracing, absolute. 

 There were no crucial experiences, 

 no soul-shattering visions.

 I just ceased imagining myself to 

 be what I never was and there was

 nothing to replace the unreal with. 

 There was no need to look for

 replacements - the nothingness 

 was the fullness of understanding, 

 love and silent peace." 

 ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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I say to people, 

"Sit quietly and watch where the mind goes." If you observe it you will see that it is always running off to enjoy or suffer experiences that belong to the past. 

So, whenever you catch it doing this, bring it back to the present moment. 

In this present moment there are no dialogues going on. In this present moment there is nothing to control or repress.

The mind is just like a thief. It is stealing your happiness by making you run after things and ideas that make you suffer all the time. 

Bring it back to the present each and every time you find that it is wandering somewhere else. This thief in your head loots your property, your happiness, every waking moment. And you allow him. You make friends with him and let him do what he wants. 

Why should you fondle and be friends with a snake that is going to bite you and make you suffer? 

Show the mind the way home and don't let it make you suffer all the time.

🕉 H. W. L.  POONJA

ETERNAL  REST ❤

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"Everything in this world is transitory. So also worldly happiness: it comes and the next moment it is gone. If permanent, abiding happiness is to be found, that which is Eternal will have to be realized. . . The ability to dwell in his true nature, in his own Self, in his own state of Being, is potentially inherent in man. The veil of ignorance is there, yet there is also a door to knowledge. By passing through that door of knowledge man returns to his own true nature, becomes established in his own state of Being. . .

Desires and cravings make up the contents of your subtle body. Just as the scent of a flower goes and comes, such are your births and deaths. Again, from another angle of vision, there is no birth or death at all. When the physical body is dead, that subtle body with those desires and cravings floats about shelterless, and then man is born again according to his Karma. The ego or 'I-ness' which is studded with desires comes and goes, while for the Atma (Self/Soul) there is no question of coming and going. Man has a gross, a subtle and a causal body: the root-cause of the same is the Atma. Until this is realized there is birth and death. The Atma is Self-effulgent. Coming and going exist only for the individual. In order to realize your Self, you have just to remove the curtain."

 ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

(Matri Vani, Vol.II, 71,141,142)

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THAT WHICH IS

Q: There is the witnessed consciousness and there is the witnessing consciousness. Is the second the supreme?

M: There are the two -- the person and the witness, the observer. When you see them as one, and go beyond, you are in the supreme state. It is not perceivable, because it is what makes perception possible. It is beyond being and not being. It is neither the mirror nor the image in the mirror. It is what is -- the timeless reality, unbelievably hard and solid.

Q: The jnani -- is he the witness or the Supreme?

M: He is the Supreme, of course, but he can also be viewed as the universal witness. 

Q: But he remains a person?

M: When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.

Identity remains, but identity is not a person, it is inherent in the Reality itself. The person has no being in itself; it is a reflection in the mind of the witness, the 'I am', which again is a mode of being.

- Nisargadatta, I AM THAT ch 13

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#quotes

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

#Rumi