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You say: ‘Sometimes when I am in the Absolute, everything is fine. I even feel to decline sleep for then the mind may creep back in by morning’. It all sounds earnest but who is speaking such things?

I know this voice. I know it very well. It is the voice of personhood. It is the voice of this world, but it is not real even though it is often accepted to be the voice of a true seeker. I cannot say these things everywhere for my audience is few.

For most, it can seem like there is little compassion unless I say, ‘Don’t worry, Just keep going, just keep trying and soon you will reach your ultimate goal.’ 

But I am saying, No! You, the Self, are already here and complete inside your own being, but not as an ego. 

One needs only turn away from ego by understanding and embracing the truth the master points out. That is all. 

Let's keep it simple, for complexities are almost always a falsehood. Only the self-portrait the Self has of itself as a 'person' can strive for freedom from the hypnosis of egoic and psychological conditioning, because this self-portrait functions in duality. The Self cannot be the outcome of any evolutionary movement, for it is eternally perfect and whole.

🌼 Mooji

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If you investigate, you will see that you cannot possibly be a human being. Human being is just a name given to an entity, for we don't know what else to call it. You're always changing, changing, changing. You're not the same person you were ten, twenty years ago. When you go to sleep and you're in deep sleep, you forget about yourself. When you dream you forget about yourself. When you're awake, like you are now, you forget about your dreams and your deep sleep. 

Therefore I ask you, what is your true state? Are you the person who dreams? Are you the person who is in deep sleep? Are you the person who exists right now? Who are you? What are you? 

You can only find out by investigation. You begin to see that your personal self is only a thought, an idea, a bad dream. You are not the person who is born, goes through the vicissitudes of life, dies, and that's it. When I tell you, “You were never born,” it sounds ludicrous. When I tell you, “You can never die,” it sounds even worse. Yet if you investigate and you trace it back, where did the first born come from? Who gave it birth? You can go into the story of creation. That will appease some people, but the thinking person knows it's a story. 

In a dream there is no story of creation. You begin to dream just where you are. It just appears. The dream comes out of you, becomes externalized. There's a sky, there are stars, there are people. All sorts of things are happening. You go through experiences in your dream. You are happy, you're sad, you're mad. But yet when you wake up, the dream is gone. 

This life is called the mortal dream. You have to catch yourself when you take life too serious, and compare it with a dream. When you take your dream serious, and you become violently upset over something, and I try to explain to you, you're dreaming, you will never believe me, because the dream world is very powerful at that time. 

The doctor has diagnosed cancer, you've got two months to live. But I tell you, "You're dreaming." Do not put your energy on that. Rather turn within. See your reality. Understand that this is a dream. Well you chase me away. You do not want to accept that, because no one else believes it. Yet you wake up in the morning, and it was just a dream. 

Think about the problems, the wonderful experiences, everything you've been through since you were born. It appears so real, doesn't it? And even now you are a product of all your samskaras, all of your preconceived ideas, your concepts, and how you were brought up and trained. This is your life. You do not know any other life but this. Yet every person seems to come from a different upbringing. Every person has their own beliefs, their own ideas, what's right, what's wrong, what is good, what is bad. 

That's how wars start. That's how man's inhumanity to man begins. When you believe I'm right and you're wrong. When you begin to see things that are not right and you want to correct them. No one has ever told us, instead of doing that, dive within yourself and see perfection. See the atman. See unlimited bliss. Begin to dwell on the reality, and soon your world will become reality. 

🌷 Robert Adams

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The world is never going to be happy, 

it has never been so, 

and it is never going to be so. 

The world is bound to remain unhappy, 

only individuals can be happy. 

It is something personal. 

It needs consciousness to be happy. 

It needs intensity to be happy. 

It needs awareness to be happy. 

The world can never be happy 

because it has no awareness.

OSHO

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“When that Supreme Being is seen, then the knot (of desires) in the Heart is cut, all doubts are dispelled, and all the effects of actions are cancelled."

( Mundaka Upanishad, 2.2.8.)

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Once the mind is quiet,

Keep it quiet.

Don't get bored with peace. 

Be in it. Go deeper into it.

 Nisargadatta Maharaj

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If you have no attachment to the objects that appear in your mind, 

then you have learned to control the mind in the natural way. 

~ Papaji

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D.: Instead of enquiring: ‘Who am I?’ can I put the question to myself: 

‘Who are you?’ so that my mind may be

fixed on you whom I consider to be God in the form of the Guru? 

Perhaps I would come nearer to the goal of my quest by that enquiry than by asking myself: ‘Who am I?’

RamanaMaharshi: Whatever form your enquiry may take, you must finally come to the one ‘I’, the Self. 

All these distinctions made between

‘I’ and ‘you’, master and disciple, are merely a sign of ignorance.

The supreme ‘I’ alone is. 

To think otherwise is to delude oneself.

Therefore, since your aim is to transcend here and now these superficialities of physical existence through self-enquiry,

where is the scope for making the distinctions of ‘you’ and ‘I’

which pertain only to the body? 

When you turn the mind inwards, seeking the source of thought, where is the ‘you’ and where the ‘I’? 

You should seek and be the Self that includes all.

D.: But, isn’t it funny that the ‘I’ should be searching for the ‘I’? 

Doesn’t the enquiry, ‘Who am I?’ turn out in the end to be an empty formula? 

Or am I to put the question to myself

endlessly, repeating it like some mantra?

RamanaMaharshi: Self-enquiry is certainly not an empty formula; it is more than the repetition of any mantra. 

If the enquiry: ‘Who am I?’ were mere mental questioning, it would not be of much value. 

The very purpose of Self-enquiry is to focus the entire mind at its source. 

It is not, therefore, a case of one ‘I’ searching for another ‘I’. 

Much less is Self-enquiry an empty formula, for it involves an intense activity of the entire mind to keep it

steadily poised in pure Self-awareness. 

Self-enquiry is the one infallible means, the only direct one, to realise the

unconditioned, absolute Being that you really are.

🪔 The Teachings of Bhagavan

Sri Ramana  Maharshi in His Own Words

Edited by Arthur Osborne.

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If you have no attachment to the objects that appear in your mind, 

then you have learned to control the mind in the natural way. 

~ Papaji