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Once Bhagavan was asked whether it was true that by the grace of the guru the highest state is reached in a moment. Bhagavan replied,

“Yes. If the disciple is in a ripe state, the ajnana (ignorance) will be removed only by the avalokana (look) of the guru.” 

He added, 

“The kripa (grace) flows towards one in proportion to one’s merit. If the vessel is small, the kripa received will be small; if the vessel is big, the kripa will be proportionately more.”

Once, going through an English daily as usual, Bhagavan read somewhat aloud a sensational report of a new invention and smiled. After a pause he gently remarked, “One may acquire any number of powers, but without realising the yathartha (truth) one cannot acquire mano shanti

(peace of mind). 

When someone asked, 

“What is yathartha?” 

Bhagavan replied, 

“That which exists always,” 

and added after a pause, 

“Peace is our swabhava (nature). Just as a person who keeps a number of things in a

room and complains that there is no space in the room, we say there is no peace. Is not the space obtained automatically when the things are removed?”

- Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi Selected Excerpts from K.R.K. Murthi(140)

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Self-Enquiry 

When the mind is divested of the qualities of darkness and activity by constant meditation, the Bliss of the Self will clearly

manifest within the subtle mind. 

Yogis gain omniscience by means of such mind-expanse. 

He alone who has achieved such subtlety of mind and has gained Realization of the Self is Liberated while still alive. 

The same state has been described in

Rama Gita as the Brahman beyond attributes, the one universal undifferentiated Spirit. 

He who has attained the unbroken eternal State beyond even that, transcending mind and speech, is called videhamukta; that is, when even the aforesaid subtle mind is destroyed, the experience of Bliss as such also ceases.

He is drowned and dissolved in the fathomless Ocean of Bliss and is unaware of anything apart. This is videhamukti. 

There is nothing beyond it. It is the end of all.

🕉 Words of Grace from Sri Ramana Maharshi

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A young Mysorean asked:

D.: How did I get this body?

M.: You speak of ‘I’ and the ‘body’. There is the relationship between the two. You are not therefore the body. The question does not occur to the body because it is inert. There is an occasion when you are not aware of the body - namely, in deep sleep. The question does not arise then. Nevertheless you are there in sleep. To whom does the question arise now?

D.: The ego.

M.: Yes. The body and the ego rise up together and sink together. There is an occasion when you are not associated with the ego in deep sleep. 

Now you are associated with the ego. Of these two states which is your real state? You are present in sleep and the same “You” is present now too. 

Why should the doubt arise now and not then? 

You are right in saying that it is for the ego. You are not the ego. The ego is intermediate between the Self and the body. You are the Self. 

Find out the origin of the ego and see if the doubt persists.

Sri Bhagavan added after a few minutes: The answer, according to sastras, will be that the body is due to karma. 

The question will be how did karma arise? We must say “from a previous body” and so on without end. The direct method of attack is not to depend on invisible hypotheses but to ask 

“Whose Karma is it? 

Or whose body?” 

Hence I answered in this manner. This is more purposeful.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Talk 501.

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" When the false notion "I am the body" dies, what abides is what's worth having, the vast, bright, silent void, the Self. Why is it so? Because in truth the only state free from all pain and all desire is pure Self-Being."

Garland of Guru's Sayings

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शरीर के तल पर सुख नहीं होता, सिर्फ कष्ट होते हैं या कष्ट का अभाव होता है। 

मन के तल पर सुख होता है, कष्ट नहीं होता, या सुख का अभाव होता है, जिसे हम कष्ट समझते हैं।

आत्मा के तल पर होता है दुख और या होता है आनंद। 

दुख गया कि फिर जो शेष रह जाता है वह आनंद है। उस आनंद की तलाश ही धर्म है। 

उस परमात्मा नाम के भोजन की खोज, उस खोज का विज्ञान ही धर्म है।

ओशो

व्यस्त जीवन में ईश्वर की खोज

(प्रवचन-01)

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In a cinema show, the Jnani sees only the screen, the substratum.

The ajnani sees only the names and forms in the cinema 

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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A jnani identifies with the universal consciousness and so there is a perfect adaptation to everything and every place. Only witnessing is taking place. This psychosomatic apparatus is there both for the jnani and the ignorant, but the ignorant one who identifies with the body, is happy or unhappy, as the situation changes. The jnani only witnesses, he is not individually concerned with what happens.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. 

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"You  should not talk to others about your sacred feelings. Keep them in your heart. Use your nights for talking with God. Don't worry about  tomorrow. Don't be afraid to work hard and meditate all the time. While  you are working, ever be thinking, 'Lord, I must not forget Thee.'  Cry for Him. Don't watch the clock. Don't care whether He does or does not  answer, for that puts a condition on your love. He is aware of your  every cry; and when your heart's full surrender has been made, He burns  up karma for you. . . Where is death? where is old age? where is sorrow?  Nothing remains but His light. This is the truth."

~ Paramahansa Yogananda, The Divine Romance,

 "Answer the Call to Christ" (1939 SRF Christmas Meditation)

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Linga is truly Siva. All is revealed by Siva who is the

very essence of Consciousness and Knowledge. Nothing

can reveal Him. Thus the Linga is the sole, Self-shining

Reality. In brief, Siva is Consciousness Unmanifest,

whereas Sivalinga is Consciousness Manifest.

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SAMADHI, NIRVIKALPA, AND SAHAJA SAMADHI,

TRANCE AND THE NATURAL STATE

D: Then what is samadhi? 

M: In Yoga, the term samadhi refers to some kind of trance and there are various kinds of samadhi. 

But the Samadhi I speak of to you is different. It is Sahaja Samadhi. For, here you have samadhana, you remain calm and composed even while you are active; you realize that you are moved by the deeper real Self within, and you do or think unaffected by what you do, speak or think. You have no worries, no anxieties, no cares. 

For here you come to realize that there is nothing belonging to you, 

the ego. And everything is done by Something with which you get into conscious union. 

D: If this is Sahaja Samadhi and the most desirable condition there is no need for nirvikalpa samadhi? 

M: The nirvikalpa samadhi of raja yoga may have its use. But in Jnana, this Sahaja sthithi, or Sahaja nishtha itself is nirvikalpa state. For in this state, the mind is free from doubts. It has no need to swing between alternatives of possibilities and probabilities. 

It has no vikalpa of any kind. It is sure of the Truth. 

It feels the presence of the Real. Even when it is active, it knows it is active in the Reality, the Self, the Supreme being. 

- Sat Darshana Bhashya and Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Contentment coming from the material world is transitory.

At death, everything will be lost.

Human Life is given you with the only aim of realizing the Self.

If you die without realizing It, your life will be waisted. 

Annamalai Swami

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This empty consciousness is the same as what is called Brahman. Some call it knowledge and others an empty vacuum. 

Some call it the spirit, and others use the term embodied spirit (puruṣa). Others call it the empty Intellect, and Shaivites give it the names of Śiva and the soul.. 

Oṃ Śri Gurubhyo Namaḥ Hariḥ Oṃ

Maharṣi Vasiṣṭha in Yoga Vasistha Maharamayana

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Once Bhagavan was asked whether it was true that by the grace of the guru the highest state is reached in a moment. Bhagavan replied,

“Yes. If the disciple is in a ripe state, the ajnana (ignorance) will be removed only by the avalokana (look) of the guru.” 

He added, 

“The kripa (grace) flows towards one in proportion to one’s merit. If the vessel is small, the kripa received will be small; if the vessel is big, the kripa will be proportionately more.”

Once, going through an English daily as usual, Bhagavan read somewhat aloud a sensational report of a new invention and smiled. After a pause he gently remarked, “One may acquire any number of powers, but without realising the yathartha (truth) one cannot acquire mano shanti

(peace of mind). 

When someone asked, 

“What is yathartha?” 

Bhagavan replied, 

“That which exists always,” 

and added after a pause, 

“Peace is our swabhava (nature). Just as a person who keeps a number of things in a

room and complains that there is no space in the room, we say there is no peace. Is not the space obtained automatically when the things are removed?”

- Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi Selected Excerpts from K.R.K. Murthi(140)

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Some people indulge in philosophical speculation and think much of themselves. Perhaps they have studied a little Vedanta. But a man cannot be egotistic if he has true knowledge. In other words, in samadhi man becomes one with God and gets rid of his egotism. True knowledge is impossible without samadhi. In samadhi man becomes one with God. Then he can have no egotism.

Do you know what it is like? Just at noon the sun is directly overhead. If you look around then, you do not see your shadow. Likewise, you will not find the 'shadow' of ego after attaining Knowledge, samadhi.

But if you see in anyone a trace of 'I-consciousness' after the attainment of true Knowledge, then know that it is either the 'ego of Knowledge' or the 'ego of Devotion' or the 'servant ego'. It is not the 'ego of ignorance'.

Again, jnana and bhakti are twin paths. Whichever you follow, it is God that you will, ultimately reach. The jnani looks on God in one way and the bhakta looks on Him in another way. The God of the jnani is full of brilliance, and the God of the bhakta full of sweetness.

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A jnani identifies with the universal consciousness and so there is a perfect adaptation to everything and every place. Only witnessing is taking place. This psychosomatic apparatus is there both for the jnani and the ignorant, but the ignorant one who identifies with the body, is happy or unhappy, as the situation changes. The jnani only witnesses, he is not individually concerned with what happens.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. 

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Q: There must be something that I can do to reach this state.

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

The conception that there is a goal and a path to it is wrong.

We are the goal or peace always.

To get rid of the notion that we are not peace 

is all that is required.

~ Be as you are

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Q: There must be something that I can do to reach this state.

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

The conception that there is a goal and a path to it is wrong.

We are the goal or peace always.

To get rid of the notion that we are not peace 

is all that is required.

~ Be as you are

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Contentment coming from the material world is transitory.

At death, everything will be lost.

Human Life is given you with the only aim of realizing the Self.

If you die without realizing It, your life will be waisted. 

Annamalai Swami

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❓ Mahimacharan: “What must we do to attain God?”

🧡 Sri Ramakrishna: “It’s not that you can attain Him by doing this and not by doing that. It depends on His grace. Yet you have to take to some action with a yearning heart. Longing for Him brings His grace.

One needs the opportunity – the company of holy people, discrimination, finding a true preceptor (Sadguru). Perhaps one’s elder brother takes up the responsibility of the household, or the wife is spiritual (Vidya Shakti) and very virtuous; or maybe one is not married and has not become entangled in household life. It comes about, when there are situations such as these.

A person was very ill in a man’s house, in critical condition. Someone said: “When it begins to rain, when the Svati star is in the ascendant and the rainwater falls into a skull, and if a poisonous snake, while chasing a frog, pounces upon it and, in the process, the frog jumps away and the snake’s poison falls into the skull, then if a medicine prepared with this poison is given to the patient, the patient can be cured”. Now, after astrological consultation on the right day, time, and conjunction of the stars, a member of the family of the patient set out with a yearning heart to look for the above conditions. He prayed to God in his heart: “Lord, only if You let me procure all these, will my objective be fulfilled”. Roaming around in this way, he actually saw a human skull, and then, in no time, a rain shower came. The man then said: “Oh Lord, I have found the skull of a dead person, and it has also rained during the ascendancy of Svati, and the rainwater has also fallen into the skull. Now, Oh Lord, bestow Your grace and procure the rest of the articles”. He was reflecting with a longing heart, when he saw a poisonous snake approach. The man was extremely happy. He was so excited that his heart began to thump. He said: “Oh Lord, now the snake has come and so many articles have been procured. Please get me the remaining articles too!”

While he was praying thus, lo! there came a frog. And the snake began to chase it. As soon as it approached the skull to pounce on the frog, the frog jumped over the skull and and the snake’s poison fell into the skull. The man then began to clap his hands and dance in joy.

So, I say that anything can happen if one has the longing for it”.

("Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita" word to word translation by Sri Dharm Pal Gupta, V1, Section XIII, Chapter III, “With Devotees At Dakshineswar”, 26 October 1884, pp. 313-5)

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"When the attention is outward, mind is shopping through the senses for sense objects to get the juice from them.  Stand at zero. Be empty." Mooji

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Sannyas is nothing but an effort to wake you, 

an effort to shake you, 

an effort to shock you into awareness. 

Sannyas is nothing but an alarm.

0sho

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A young Mysorean asked:

D.: How did I get this body?

M.: You speak of ‘I’ and the ‘body’. There is the relationship between the two. You are not therefore the body. The question does not occur to the body because it is inert. There is an occasion when you are not aware of the body - namely, in deep sleep. The question does not arise then. Nevertheless you are there in sleep. To whom does the question arise now?

D.: The ego.

M.: Yes. The body and the ego rise up together and sink together. There is an occasion when you are not associated with the ego in deep sleep. 

Now you are associated with the ego. Of these two states which is your real state? You are present in sleep and the same “You” is present now too. 

Why should the doubt arise now and not then? 

You are right in saying that it is for the ego. You are not the ego. The ego is intermediate between the Self and the body. You are the Self. 

Find out the origin of the ego and see if the doubt persists.

Sri Bhagavan added after a few minutes: The answer, according to sastras, will be that the body is due to karma. 

The question will be how did karma arise? We must say “from a previous body” and so on without end. The direct method of attack is not to depend on invisible hypotheses but to ask 

“Whose Karma is it? 

Or whose body?” 

Hence I answered in this manner. This is more purposeful.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Talk 501.

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Q: How is 'I-I' consciousness felt?

M: As an unbroken awareness of 'I'. It is simply Consciousness. You are That even now. There will be no mistaking It, when pure.

Q: Can that Consciousness give any pleasure?

M: Its nature is pleasure. Pleasure alone is. There is no one to enjoy the pleasure: both the enjoyer and the pleasure are merged

in it. Pleasure is turning and keeping the mind within; pain is sending it outward. 

Absence of pleasure is called pain. 

One' s nature is pleasure, i.e. Bliss. It is not the soul which yearns for realization, as the latter is always there. Do you deny yourself? No. 

Then the Self exists. It is only the ego which seeks.

- CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

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Talk 498. 

People often say that a mukta purusha should go out and preach his message to the people. 

They argue, how can anyone be a mukta so long as there is misery by his side? 

True. 

But who is a mukta? 

Does he see misery beside him? 

They want to determine the state of a 

mukta without themselves realising the state. 

From the standpoint of the mukta their contention amounts to this: a man dreams a dream in which he finds several persons. On waking up, he asks, “Have the dream individuals also wakened?” It is ridiculous.

Again, a good man says, “It does not matter even if I do not get mukti. 

Or let me be the last man to get it so that I shall help all others to be muktas before I am one.” It is all very good. 

Imagine a dreamer saying, “May all these wake up before I do”. The dreamer is no more absurd than the amiable philosopher aforesaid.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi