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The present difficulty is that the man thinks that he is the doer. But it is a mistake. It is the Higher Power which does everything and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position he is free from troubles; otherwise he courts them.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Atman is realised with mruta manas (dead mind), i.e., mind devoid of thoughts and turned inward. Then the mind sees its own source and becomes That. It is not as the subject perceiving an object. When the room is dark a lamp is necessary to illumine and eyes to cognise objects. But when the sun is risen there is no need of a lamp, and the objects are seen; and to see the sun no lamp is necessary, it is enough that you turn your eyes towards the self luminous sun. Similarly with the mind. To see the objects the reflected light of the mind is necessary. To see the Heart it is enough that the mind is turned towards it. Then the mind loses itself and the Heart shines forth.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Let what comes come. 

Let what goes go. 

Find out what remains.

~Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Robert Adams: "Ramana Maharshi said to me,

“The only spiritual life you need is not to react.”

To be calm is the greatest asset in the world.

It’s the greatest siddhi, the greatest power you can have.If you can only learn to be calm you will solve every problem. This is something you must remember.When you are perfectly calm, time stops.There is no time, karma stops, samskaras stop.Everything becomes null and void.For when you are calm you are one with the entire energy of the universe and everything will go well with you.To be calm means you are in control.You’re not worried about the situation, the outcome.What is going to happen tomorrow.To be calm means everything is alright.There is nothing to worry about, nothing to fret over.This is also the meaning of the biblical saying,“Be still and know that I am God.”To be calm is to be still."

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It is said one must be like in deep sleep while you are awake. It is not easy to convey this, it means that somehow your body is moving, reacting, even thoughts are moving, but you are the stillness behind them. It is already a fact actually. 

It depends on where you place your ‚I‘,  on where the ‚I’ is located. If the ‚I‘ is put as consciousness, what happens? Then you merely observe the functioning of manifestation. Including your own body. Including your own breath itself. Including your own seeing as part of the manifest functioning. But the seer is unmoving. 

It is not unmoving by effort, it’s nobody being still. There is peace, but there’s no peacekeeper. 

It is simply here. 

🕉 Mooji | Full stop is only for the one who transcended identity

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Direct experience of samadhi can also be attained by devotion (bhakti) in the form of constant meditation (dhyana).

Kevala kumbhaka* with Self-enquiry, even without control of inhalation and exhalation, is an aid to this. If that becomes natural to one, it can be practised at all times even during worldly activity and there is no need to seek a special place for it.

Whatever a person finds suitable may be practised. If the mind gradually subsides, it does not matter if other things come or

go. 

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says that the devotee is higher than the yogi and that the means to Liberation is bhakti

(devotion) in the form of continuous or prolonged meditation on the Self, which is the sole Reality. 

Therefore if, somehow or other, we get the strength to rest the mind perpetually in Him,

why worry about other things?

- Words of Grace from Sri Ramana Maharshi

* The kevala kumbhaka type of breath-control is of such nature that the breathing subsides in the Heart even without control of inhalation and exhalation.

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" Sometimes you feel you are knowing less and less, but actually something is expanding more and more.

You are experiencing more of yourself although you didn't become anything at all.

These are paradoxes that cannot be easily explained.

Trust.

You are coming to the edge of your personal existence, and are falling into the abyss of your own Self.

Say inside your heart, I am here for this alone.

In choosing freedom now, it is chosen forever..."

~ Mooji <3

atma bodha

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Ego of a Jnani

A Jnani crushes the ego at it's source. It rises up again and again, for him too,  as for the ignorant, impelled by nature i.e. prarabdha. Both in the ignorant and the Jnani, ego sprouts up but with this difference: the former's ego when it rises up is quite ignorant of its source, or is not aware of it in deep sleep, in the dream and waking states, whereas a Jnani when his ego rises up, enjoys his transcendental experience with this ego, keeping his lakshya ( vision) always on it's source. His ego is not dangerous, it is only the ash skeleton of a burnt rope; although it possesses a form it is ineffective. By constantly keeping our lakshya on our source, our ego is dissolved.- Ramana Maharshi ( from 'Conscious Immortality')