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Visitor:   “Jnanis generally retire from active life and do not engage in any worldly activity.”

BHAGAVAN:   “They may or may not. Some, even after realising, carry on trade or business or rule over a kingdom. 

Some retire into forests and abstain from all acts except those absolutely necessary to keep life in the body. 

So, we cannot say all jnanis give up activity and retire from life.

DAY BY DAY WITH BHAGAVAN

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"In this world of many, he who sees the One, in this ever-changing world, he who sees Him who never changes, as the Soul of his own soul, as his own Self - he is free, he is blessed, he has reached the goal."

~ Swami Vivekananda

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TEACHINGS OF BRAHMAJNA MA

Not a single jiva is the body, but the embodiment of Being-Consciousness – Bliss; still to have such an erroneous idea as ‘I am the body’ due to congenital tendencies, is Maya. 

Whatever is imagined by the mind, is Maya.

What cannot give, but holds out the promise of happiness to man,

is Maya. 

As the form reflected in a mirror, though not real, appears to be so, so the entire universe of five elements, and the happiness derived from them, are not real and do not give true peace – nevertheless in the mind of the jiva overpowered by desires, they seem to be real and conducive to happiness, just like the mirage to the thirsty deer in the desert – this is Maya.

That pacified person alone can get peace, conquer death and become Brahman, who by dint of discrimination and reasoning can penetrate into the mystery of Maya and cut asunder the meshes of Maya by realizing the existence of the Self as the sole ever-present Reality.

In spite of the presence of the body and objects of enjoyment pertaining to it, as the possessor of the body is not aware of them while asleep, remains under the sway of sleep – in the same way, forgetting his own nature under the influence of the ignorance of Maya, it is Brahman itself, who considers himself to be the possessor of the body. Owing to delusive association with the body Brahman feels the bondage, though in reality he is not bound at all.

When consciousness dawns it is realized that ‘I’ am identical with Brahma, the creator, and that the creation of the world emanates from ‘me’, the world is ‘my’ imagination, as bubbles on the sea are not distinct from the sea.

- The Life and Teachings of Brahmajna Ma p. 71

aware of screen not mind as cloud

The thinker himself cannot possibly effect the cessation of thought. Insofar as he is involved in the thought of ceasing to think, he himself is the perpetuation of thought. But if the thought process is merely watched or impartially witnessed, it will subside on its own and take the thinker with it.

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Spiritual practices are based on the false identification of the seeker with the ego and its efforts, attributing to the Self various defects and limitations conceived by the ego. But the manifestation of the universe is itself an illusion in which the same ego is included only as a helpless and finite part. So who is to make any effort, and for what? That Self which is sought through Self-enquiry is already realized because there is nothing but the Self.

Ramesh Balsekar 

7 December

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Seeking starts with the individual and ends with the total annihilation of the individual.

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Freedom is what happens when the arrogant and silly notion that we live our own lives by our own will has fallen off.

Ramesh Balsekar 

6 December

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Mr. P. Brunton, while reading Upadesa Manjari, came across the statement that the ego, the world and God are all unreal. He desired to use a different word for God or at least a qualifying adjective, e.g., the Creative Force or personal God.

Sri Bhagavan explained that God means SAMASHTI - i.e., all that is, plus the Be-ing - in the same way as ‘I’ means the individual plus the Be-ing, and the world means the variety plus Be-ing. The Be-ing is in all cases real. The all, the variety and the individual is in each case unreal. So also in the union of the real and the unreal, the mixing up or the false identifiation is wrong. It amounts to saying sad-asadvilakshan, i.e., transcending the real and the unreal - sat and asat. Reality is that which transcends all concepts, including that of God. Inasmuch as the name of God is used, it cannot be true. The Hebrew word Jehovah = (I am) expresses God correctly. Absolute Be-ing is beyond expression.

source: Talk 112

don't believe mind thought

Don't believe your thoughts... 

I am the body is a thought...  

I am the mind is a thought...

I am the doer is a thought... 

Worry is only a thought...

Fear is only a thought... 

Death is only a thought...

Ramana Maharshi...

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CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

Q: We are so accustomed to maya. That is why it is so difficult for us to make progress.

AS: Again enquire ‘For whom is this difficulty?’ Don't give reality to the very thing that is causing you all your trouble. 

Q: Do we have no other function in the world other than discovering our own Self? Is it not our duty to show a little love and compassion to other people? 

AS: If you discover yourself you will be able to give love and compassion to the whole world. It will flow automatically from you.

The sun is full of light which it gives to the world without any partiality. If you become full of spiritual light by realizing the Self, that light overflows everywhere. That overflowing of your Self is love and compassion for the whole universe. 

One may try to do some good to others but not much real good will result unless you know yourself. How can a blind man help other people? 

Q: I can understand what you say: that we are not the body and the mind and that this truth has to be experienced more and more. But we have to take care of this body and this mind. Also, we must do something in the world. We cannot just sit and meditate all the time. 

If we do that we will be a burden on others. 

AS: We must take care of the body by giving it food, shelter, and clothing. This is necessary because the journey to the Self is only easy when the body is healthy. If a ship is not in need of repair, if it is in good condition, we can easily use it to go on a journey. 

But we should not forget the purpose for which we have been given this body. We should not get side-tracked by thinking too much about good health or worrying about other people’s problems. 

Our purpose in life is to realize the Self. It is an easy matter to get a little food and find somewhere congenial to live and meditate. 

Once we have achieved this we should have no further interest in the world and its problems. 

- Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p. 290

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0sho<3

If their love does not immediately start becoming friendship, sooner or later there is going to be a divorce. Friendship should grow out of love, otherwise enmity will grow - something is bound to happen. Love is an opening. Immediately start growing in friendship, otherwise enmity will grow - something is bound to grow.

Love is fertile. If you are not sowing the seeds of beautiful flowers, then weeds will grow - but something is bound to grow. When love really moves deeper, it becomes prayer. Then the whole quality is non-sexual. Then the quality is non-sensuous. Then you have a certain feeling of reverence for the other - not sexual lust at all, but some awe. In the very presence of the other you start feeling something divine, something sacred. Your beloved becomes your goddess or your god................<3

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Oh Arjuna, I am the Self

indwelling in the hearts of all beings.

I am thus the beginning, the middle,

as also the end of all beings.

~ Sri Krishna ,Bhagavad Gita : X-20

According to Bhagavan Ramana,

this verse is the most important in the entire Bhagavad Gita.

In a dream, I may see several people and all of them are not only my creations (creations of my mind) but I constitute the material cause out of which all these people have been created (just as the mud is the material cause for a mud- pot).

In other words, all the dream figures are my mental imaginations. (mere thoughts.)

It is I who appear as having been born

as the various people in the dream,

I only run their lives in the dream as the Self in all those

bodies and I also appear as having died one day.

In the same way, it is the one Absolute Consciousness which appears as several beings in the world of the waking state (the

beginning) , runs the lives as individuals (the middle) and appears as subject to death (the end) one day.

In reality there is nothing but that one Consciousness

which is the absolute truth.

There is no world apart from that one Consciousness (Self).

“The Pure being is the Reality. -

The Pure Being cannot be otherwise than Consciousness. Otherwise you cannot say that you exist.

Therefore Consciousness is the reality.

When that consciousness is associated

with upadhis you speak of Self consciousness,

unconsciousness, human consciousness, dog consciousness,

tree consciousness and so on.

The unfaltering common factor in all of them is Consciousness.” (Talk no 591).

‘Consciousness’ means to be aware that ‘I exist’,

This awareness of our existence is consciousness.

~ from Gita Sarah book

(Commentary on the slokas of Bhagavad Gita selected

by Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi)

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The goal, the Truth, is Self-awareness. Reaching it is annihilation of the painful illusion of birth.

Garland of Guru's Sayings.

love

“Love needs immense consciousness. Love is a meeting of two souls, and lust is the meeting of two bodies. Lust is animal; love is divine. But unless you know that you are a soul, you cannot understand what love is.

I cannot tell you what love is, but I can tell you how to find your soul. That's my whole work: to help you meditate, to help you become more aware, alert, so that slowly, slowly you start seeing that you are not just the body, that you are not just even the mind, that there is something else hidden behind it all, which is your real life. And once you become aware of your real life, your being, you will know that the joy of being is so overflowing that one wants to share it with someone who is receptive, someone who is available, with someone who is ready to open his heart. 

The meeting of two consciousnesses is love.

Discover your consciousness and you will find what love is. It is an experience, and there is no way to say anything about it, more than that which I have said. The meeting of two consciousnesses merging into each other brings the greatest orgasm the universe allows. 

But before that, you have to move away from the body and the mind and the heart, and reach to the very center of your being.

Once you have reached to the center of your being, you will find love radiating from you. It is not something to be done by you. It will be just as if the sun has risen and the flowers have opened, and the air has become filled with their fragrance.

Love is a by-product of meditation.

Only meditators know what love is.”

Osho, The Razor’s Edge, Talk #15 💜

#Osho #oshoecstacy

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Mr. P. Brunton, while reading Upadesa Manjari, came across the statement that the ego, the world and God are all unreal. He desired to use a different word for God or at least a qualifying adjective, e.g., the Creative Force or personal God.

Sri Bhagavan explained that God means SAMASHTI - i.e., all that is, plus the Be-ing - in the same way as ‘I’ means the individual plus the Be-ing, and the world means the variety plus Be-ing. The Be-ing is in all cases real. The all, the variety and the individual is in each case unreal. So also in the union of the real and the unreal, the mixing up or the false identifiation is wrong. It amounts to saying sad-asadvilakshan, i.e., transcending the real and the unreal - sat and asat. Reality is that which transcends all concepts, including that of God. Inasmuch as the name of God is used, it cannot be true. The Hebrew word Jehovah = (I am) expresses God correctly. Absolute Be-ing is beyond expression.

source: Talk 112

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9. Dualities and trinities are only the one Reality 

The duality of subject and object and trinity of seer, sight,  and seen can exist only if supported by the One. 

If one turns inward in search of that One Reality they fall away. 

Those who see this are those who see Wisdom. They are never in doubt.

Comment: 

The Self is the substratum on which dualities and trinities exist. 

They seem to obscure, to cover, the Self, 

like clouds cover the sun. 

When the clouds part the sun shines, unabated. 

So it is with the Self. 

Remove the  obscurations and the Self shines, by itself. 

When this is known directly, 

doubts and misconceptions can stand no 

longer. 

Practice Note: 

When you look deep within, how many do 

you find? 

How many existences do you have? 

Are there two  of you, one to know and the other to be known? 

These are  examples of the common experience that at our heart, we 

are just one.

✅ Forty Verses on Reality

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"When the face of the mind is washed away, the face of God shines in you." Mooji

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He, who has no fear

He, who is not care about status

He, who have courage to speak truth on face of King of Kings. 

He, doesn't care about future

He, who doesn't accumulate wealth

He, Who believe in direct relation with Lord & devotee himself for truth. 

He is "Sadhu". 

#BackToYourRoots

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🍁🍀🍁🌻🌺🌼🌽🌾🌿🌹🌸🌷हम वही सुनते हैं जहां हमारा मन लगा 🌷🌸🌹🍃🍂🍁🍀🌺🌻🌼🌽🌿🌾

एक फकीर अपने एक साथी के साथ एक बाजार से गुजरता था। पास ही की पहाड़ी पर खड़े चर्च की संध्या की प्रार्थना की घंटियां बजने लगीं। उस फकीर ने कहा, सुनते हो उस युवक को कितना मधुर रव है! कैसा प्यारा संगीत है! पहाड़ पर खड़े चर्च की घंटियों की आवाज सुनी? उस युवक ने कहा, इस बाजार के शोरगुल में कहां का पहाड़, कहां का चर्च, कहां की घंटियां! मुझे कुछ सुनाई नहीं पड़ता। यहां इतना शोरगुल मचा है, सांझ का वक्त है, लोग अपनी दुकानें उठा रहे हैं, ग्राहक आखिरी खरीद फरोख्त कर रहे हैं, बेचने वाले भी कोशिश में हैं कि कुछ कम दाम में ही सही, जल्दी बिक जाए, जो भी बिक जाए बिक जाए। सूरज ढलने ढलने को है। लोगों को अपना सामान बांधना है। लोगों को अपनी गाड़ियां तैयार करनी हैं। लोगों को भागना है अपने घरों की तरफ। यहां इतना शोरगुल मचा है! घोड़े हिनहिना रहे हैं, बैल आवाज कर रहे हैं, गाड़ियां जोती जा रही हैं। घुड़सवार हैं, आदमी हैं, भीड़ भाड़ है। कहां की घंटियां? इतनी भीड़ भाड़ में, इतने शोरगुल में मुझे कुछ सुनाई नहीं पड़ता।

उस फकीर ने अपनी जेब से एक रुपया निकाला। पुरानी कहानी है। नगद, चांदी का रुपया! जोर से उसे पास के ही पत्थर पर पटक दिया। सड़क के किनारे लगा पत्थर, खननखन की आवाज! और एक भीड़ इकट्ठी हो गई। सौ दो सौ आदमी एकदम दौड़ पड़े। कहा कि किसी का रुपया गिरा। उस फकीर ने उस युवक को कहा, देखते हो! घोड़े हिनहिना रहे हैं, गाड़ियां सजाई जा रही हैं, खरीद फरोख्त का आखिरी वक्त, सांझ हो रही है, बिसाती अपना फैलाव संवार रहे हैं; लेकिन रुपये की खननखन दो सौ आदमियों ने सुन ली! और चर्च की घंटियां गूंज रही हैं, किसी को सुनाई नहीं पड़ता!

रुपये पर जिसका मन अटका हो वह रुपये को सुन लेगा। हम वही सुनते हैं जहां हमारा मन लगा है। हम वही गुनते हैं जहां हमारा मन लगा है। हम वही देखते हैं…रास्ता तो वही होता है, लेकिन हर गुजरने वाला अलग अलग चीजें देखता है। चमार रास्ते के किनारे बैठा हुआ तुम्हारे चेहरे नहीं देखता, तुम्हारे जूते देखता है। चेहरों से उसे क्या लेना देना! उसका प्रयोजन जूतों से है। लोग वही देखते हैं जहां उनकी वासना है, जहां उनकी आकांक्षा है, अभीप्सा है।

 *काहे होत अधीर*

ओशो

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Until there is the conviction in the seeker that all phenomena, including himself, are merely appearances without any substance, there can be no true understanding.

You are the primordial state of total freedom, that fullness of pure joy, that concentration of light which is subtler than the subtlest and the witness of everything.

~ Ramesh Balsekar

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There is no need to turn round and round in endless questioning; find yourself and everything will fall into its proper place.

🌺 Nisargadatta Maharaj

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"When the face of the mind is washed away, the face of God shines in you." Mooji

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189. One’s learning to abide as the indestructible existence-consciousness 

“I am,” having known it to be different from the existence of the body, 

is  alone true learning, 

(the supreme science or paravidya). 

Abiding thus, 

having clearly known this 

existence-consciousness, and 

having thereby subsided  in Self, 

is alone the state of true knowledge (jnana). 

193. The knowledge of one’s own Self, 

“I am”, 

alone is true knowledge (jnana). 

Whatever knowledge one has acquired of anything other than one-self, 

is only ignorance (ajnana). 

Know that all that is seen by one who has first known himself, will not 

appear to him as different from himself.

~ A Light on the Teaching of Ramana Maharshi

✅ 35. The Learning That Should be Learnt

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`No want' is the greatest bliss. It can be realized only by experience. Even an emperor is no match for a man with no wants.

🕉 Ramana Maharshi

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What great fortune that in this life your heart beats for Truth. 

It does not matter how much the mind tries to disturb you. 

Ignore it. Just remind yourself, ‘This life is for freedom.’ 

No matter how many times mind attacks,

‘You are not good enough, not ready. You have not been chosen.’ 

Don’t succumb to the serpent voice. You must overcome it. 

Say, ‘I am here for freedom and I am free.’

Not that you are choosing to be free, you cannot avoid being free.

God cannot deny the request of the heart.

🌼 Mooji, from the book 'White Fire'

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If you accept "I am free", then you are free.

If you accept "I am not free", you are not free.

💙 Papaji

(from WAKE UP AND ROAR)

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JAI SHREE RAM

According to karma yoga, the action one has done cannot be destroyed until it has borne its fruit; no power in nature can stop it from yielding its results. If I do an evil action, I must suffer for it; there is no power in this universe to stop it or stay it. Similarly, if I do a good action, there is no power in the universe that can stop its bearing good results. The cause must have its effect; nothing can prevent or restrain this.

-- Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)

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"There is neither disciple nor Master in the final understanding."

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Final understanding is understanding that there is nothing to understand. 

The world is a  spontaneous appearance. The one who perceives it is included in it as a character in the  dream. 

In reality, 

there is no Master, 

no disciple, 

no teaching, and 

no realization. 

That all happened in the dream. 

Final understanding means freedom from the cycle of birth and rebirth: 

the current dream continues for its allotted time, and then is over. 

There is a famous quotation from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: 

There was a door to which I found no key: 

There was a veil past which I could not see: 

Some little talk awhile of me and thee 

There seemed-

and then no more of thee and me.

~ Ranjit Maharaj

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You are perfect so abandon the idea of imperfection.

There is nothing to be destroyed. Ego is not a real thing.

It is the mind which makes the effort, and the mind is not real.

Just as it is not necessary to kill the rope which one imagines to be a snake, so also there is no need to destroy the mind.

Knowing the form of the mind makes the mind disappear.

Sri Ramana Maharshi 

(The Mountain Path)

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OM NAMO NARAYANA  

BG 9.21: When they have enjoyed the vast pleasures of heaven, the stock of their merits being exhausted, they return to the earthly plane. Thus, those who follow the Vedic rituals, desiring objects of enjoyment, repeatedly come and go in this world.      

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OM NAMO NARAYANA

The one has encompassed all; it is established upon the other. To Heaven and to Earth, which possesses all things, I have offered my worship.

Atharva Veda I, 32, 4

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“So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he cannot merge with the sea of Spirit. 

When the gross physical receptacle is destroyed by the hammer of death, the other two coverings—astral and causal—still remain to prevent the soul from consciously joining the Omnipresent Life. 

When desirelessness is attained through wisdom, its power disintegrates the two remaining vessels. The tiny human soul emerges, free at last; it is one with the Measureless Amplitude.” 

–Sri Yukteswar

Autobiography of A Yogi

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Is it an easy thing to obtain the Knowledge of Brahman? It is not possible unless the mind is annihilated. The guru said to the disciple, 'Give me your mind and I shall give you Knowledge.' In this state one enjoys only spiritual talk and the company of devotees.

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Sri Bhagavan says, 

‘For Him who enjoys the bliss of Self, 

which has risen by destroying the [individual] self [the mind or ego], 

what single thing exists to do? 

He does not know anything other than Self; [therefore] how to [or who can] conceive what His state is?’

Note: The sense of doership, the feeling ‘I am doing this action’, can exist only so long as the mind, whose form is the feeling ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’, exists. 

Therefore, when the mind is destroyed, the sense of doership is also destroyed. 

Hence the yogi whose mind is dead and who thereby abides as Self, the reality, cannot be the doer of any action. 

Whatever action He may appear to do exists only in the outlook of those who mistake Him to be the body which does the action.

~ Ulladu Narpadu, Verse31

Translation By MICHAEL JAMES.

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It appears that if someone [has] really evolved to a high state, the worst of conditions sometimes seem to befall that person. And when the worst of conditions befall you it's a blessing in disguise. It means you're growing and all these things are coming to you to prove to you and to show you that you are not that. And so you turn within and see the truth, identify with the truth. “I am the imperishable Self, the absolute reality, pure intelligence, emptiness, nirvana, ultimate oneness. I Am That.” 

Then when you open your eyes you will see a different universe. You will see love, harmony, joy, bliss. You are seeing your Self.

Robert Adams

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The goal, the Truth, is Self-awareness. Reaching it is annihilation of the painful illusion of birth.

Garland of Guru's Sayings.

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Once the current of awareness of the Self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Oh Arjuna, I am the Self

indwelling in the hearts of all beings.

I am thus the beginning, the middle,

as also the end of all beings.

~ Sri Krishna ,Bhagavad Gita : X-20

According to Bhagavan Ramana,

this verse is the most important in the entire Bhagavad Gita.

In a dream, I may see several people and all of them are not only my creations (creations of my mind) but I constitute the material cause out of which all these people have been created (just as the mud is the material cause for a mud- pot).

In other words, all the dream figures are my mental imaginations. (mere thoughts.)

It is I who appear as having been born

as the various people in the dream,

I only run their lives in the dream as the Self in all those

bodies and I also appear as having died one day.

In the same way, it is the one Absolute Consciousness which appears as several beings in the world of the waking state (the

beginning) , runs the lives as individuals (the middle) and appears as subject to death (the end) one day.

In reality there is nothing but that one Consciousness

which is the absolute truth.

There is no world apart from that one Consciousness (Self).

“The Pure being is the Reality. -

The Pure Being cannot be otherwise than Consciousness. Otherwise you cannot say that you exist.

Therefore Consciousness is the reality.

When that consciousness is associated

with upadhis you speak of Self consciousness,

unconsciousness, human consciousness, dog consciousness,

tree consciousness and so on.

The unfaltering common factor in all of them is Consciousness.” (Talk no 591).

‘Consciousness’ means to be aware that ‘I exist’,

This awareness of our existence is consciousness.

~ from Gita Sarah book

(Commentary on the slokas of Bhagavad Gita selected

by Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi)

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If you abide in the first principle, that everything is an emanation of the mind and everything is preordained in your life, you would have no problems. 

Where can there be a problem when you realize that everything is preordained, 

predestined, and everything that is predestined in your life is projected through your mind? 

In other words, the world  that you are seeing, observing, is simply your movie. 

You show yourself a movie whenever you stare at the world. 

And all the things that you see, is your flick. It belongs to you, no one else, everything. 

Nothing just happens. 

Everything has already happened. 

And you appear to be going through a movie, where things appear to be happening, but you're really the projectionist, and you are projecting your fairy tale. 

The idea is to become free, to become liberated. But how can you become free and liberated, when the world affects you, when 

you're always scheming and planning and criticizing, becoming angry, reacting? 

How can you become free? 

You become deeply involved in the situations of life as if they were going to last forever. You realize by now that the only thing permanent in life is change. 

No thing ever stays the same. 

So why identify with the external world? 

The wise person leaves the external world alone. They have very little to do with the external world. They have trained themselves that when they behold a situation, there's no reaction, no identification. You become no-hurtable. 

You cannot be hurt any longer by words, by deeds, by whatever. Wherever you find yourself, you put yourself there. 

No one is responsible for what happens to you. The appearance is that people seem to be responsible, for you always seem to be involved with people. 

Yet it's all planned. 

It's as if you were an actor and you are rehearsing for a play. Then you play the part. You do not really get angry at your co-actors, for you know that it's a play. They're all playing a part. 

Life is like that. 

It's an act, act one. 

How you  come out of act one determines if you go back into act two, or you become free of the whole thing. Act two is when 

you become reborn and grow through further experiences. You're continuing the game. You have not learned to turn within, to dive deep within yourself and become free. You become attached to person, place or thing. And again you grow older, and it's time for act three. 

All of the time you are responsible for your actions. If you would only leave it alone, if you can only understand no one can really hurt you, no one can really do anything to you. The appearance may be that they can, but you should always hold in the deep recesses of your mind that it's only a play, an act. If you go through the play without 

reacting, you do not have to take on an acting job again. You become free. But if you insist on reacting, it makes no 

difference what the situation is. You are reacting when you have preconceived ideas, when you believe something has to be done a certain way, when you believe people want to hurt you, things are wrong somewhere. When you're always scheming and planning and you're not spontaneous, that is acting. And of course, whenever you react there 

will be a further reaction from the other side. 

It never ends. It keeps on going. This is collective and individual. No thing is as it appears, or it wouldn't change. 

The whole universe is a mirage on the screen of life. Everything is a mirage, including your body, your thoughts, 

your feelings. They're all a lie. And they do not really exist. 

When I go so far as to say that nothing really exists, I don't blame you for sort of becoming a little irritated with me, 

for I know that some of you have gone through life, and you've been hurt. Certain things have transpired in your life, so how can I sit here and say that no thing exists? Try to remember that I'm not speaking from a book I read, or what somebody else told me. This has been my direct experience. There is no world. There never was a world. And there never will be a world. All of the psychotherapy you go through, all of the karma you go through, all of the perverse 

situations in life you go through, they do not exist. They never have existed and they never will exist. Yet the mirage is so strong that you're sitting here believing you are the body. 

No matter how many times I tell you, you are not the body, you are not the mind, you are not the doer, you always identify with your self as the body. You can tell you're doing that because you're always thinking about your self. 

When you're taking a walk, what do you think about? Yourself. True? Whatever you're doing, you're thinking about yourself. You may get lost sometimes when you're watching TV, going to a movie, participating in a sport, but that doesn't last. 

When the movie is over, when the sport is over, when what you've really got involved in is over, you're back to thinking about yourself.

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams Volume 1 

✅ The World Is Your Movie

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“ ‘Who realizes or has realized the Self?’  ‘That is all a matter of words. 

The Atman cannot be reached. 

Apart from the Self, what else is there? 

Who reaches the Self, except the Self? 

Non-realisation is simply an excuse that one gives for trying to escape from the Real; and, continuing to lead with a clear conscience, a stunted life of prayers, devotions, and even asceticism, 

all no doubt very satisfying to the little ego, but in fact utterly useless. 

Has the Sun really set, merely because I have closed the shutters? 

The fundamental obstacle to Realisation is precisely the notion that this Realisation is still awaited.

~ Harilal W.L. Poonjaji (Papaji)

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0sho...

Friendliness becomes possible only when you are real, you are authentic, and you are absolutely aware of your being. And out of this awareness, if love arises it will be friendliness.

 Friendliness can never change into its opposite. 

Remember this as a criterion, that the greatest values of life are only those which cannot change into their opposite; in fact there is no opposite.

You are asking, “What is real authentic friendliness?”

It will need a great transformation in you to have a taste of friendliness. As you are, friendliness is a faraway star. You can have a look at the faraway star, you can have a certain intellectual understanding, but it will remain only an intellectual understanding, not an existential taste..

Unless you have an existential taste of friendliness, it will be very difficult, almost impossible to make a distinction between friendship and friendliness.

 Friendliness is the purest thing you can conceive about love. It is so pure that you cannot even call it a flower, you can only call it a fragrance which you can feel and experience, but you cannot catch hold of. It is there, your nostrils are full of it, your being is surrounded by it. You feel the vibe, but there is no way to catch hold of it; the experience is so big and so vast and our hands are too small.

I said to you that your question is very complex, not because of the question, but because of you. You are not yet at the point from where friendliness can become an experience.

 Be real, be authentic and you will know the purest quality of love — just a fragrance of love surrounding you always. And that quality of the purest love is friendliness. 

Friendship is addressed to someone, somebody is your friend....<3

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You know that medicine works only when it mixes with the patient's blood and becomes one with it. Likewise, in the state of Brahmajnana one sees God both within and without. One sees that it is God Himself who has become the body, mind, life, and soul.

Ramkrishna paramhansa 

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Talk 195. 

Mr. Jharka, a gentleman from the University of Benares, holding the M.A. and the M.Sc. degrees, said that he was stricken with grief due to bereavement of wife and children. He sought peace of mind and asked how to get it.

M.: It is in the mind that birth and death, pleasure and pain, 

in short the world and ego exist. 

If the mind is destroyed all these are destroyed too. 

Note that it should be annihilated, 

not just made latent. 

For the mind is dormant in sleep. 

It does not know anything. 

Still, on waking up, 

you are as you were before. 

There is no end of grief. 

But if the mind be destroyed the grief will have no background and will disappear along with the mind.

D.: How to destroy the mind?

M.: Seek the mind. 

On being sought, it will disappear.

D.: I do not understand.

M.: The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is the thinker. 

The thinker is the ego. 

The ego, if sought, will vanish automatically. The ego and the mind are the same. 

The ego is the root-thought from which all other thoughts arise.

D.: How to seek the mind?

M.: Dive within. You are now aware that the mind rises up from within. 

So sink within and seek.

D.: I do not yet understand how it is to be done.

M.: You are practising breath-control. Mechanical breath-control will not lead one to the goal. It is only an aid. While doing it mechanically take care to be alert in mind and remember the ‘I’ thought and seek its 

source. Then you will find that where breath sinks, there ‘I-thought’ arises. 

They sink and rise together. 

The ‘I-thought’ also will sink along with breath. 

Simultaneously, 

another luminous and infinite ‘I-I’ will become manifest, 

which will be continuous and unbroken. 

That is the goal. 

It goes by different names - God, Self, Kundalini Sakti, Consciousness, Yoga, Bhakti, Jnana, etc.

D.: Not clear yet.

M.: When the attempt is made, it will of itself take you to the goal.

~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

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From this absolute standpoint, the Heart, Self or Consciousness can have no particular place assigned to it in the physical body. What is the reason? The body is itself a mere projection of the mind, and the mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart. How can That in which everything is contained, be itself confined as a tiny part within the physical body which is but an infinitesimal, phenomenal manifestation of the one Reality?

But people do not understand this. They cannot help thinking in terms of physical body and the world. For instance, you say "I have come to this Asramam all the way from my country beyond the Himalayas''. But that is not the truth. Where [is there] a “coming” or “going” or any movement whatever, for the one, all-pervading Spirit which you really are? You are where you have always been. It is your body that moved or was conveyed from place to place till it reached this Asramam.

This is the simple truth, but to a person who considers himself a subject living in an objective world, it appears as something altogether visionary!

It is by coming down to the level of the ordinary understanding that a place is assigned to the Heart in the physical body. 

Heart is the seat of Jnanam as well as of the granthi (knot of ignorance). It is represented in the physical body by a hole smaller than the smallest pin-point, which is always shut. When the mind drops down in Kevalya Nirvikalpa [Samadhi], it opens but shuts again after it. When sahaja [Nirvikalpa Samadhi] is attained it opens for good. The granthi is the knot which ties the insentient body to the consciousness which functions in it; that is why when it is loosened temporarily in Kevalya Nirvikalpa there is no body consciousness. 

God is said to reside in the Heart in the same way as you are said to reside in your body. Yet Heart is not a place. Some place must be named as the dwelling of God for those who take their bodies for themselves and who comprehend only relative knowledge. The fact is neither God nor we occupy any space. We are bodiless and spaceless in deep sleep, yet in the waking state we appear to be the opposite. 

Do we not reside in one place? Do you not say you are in your body? Similarly, God is said to reside in the Heart. The Heart is not one place. Some name is mentioned for the place of God because we think we are in the body. This kind of instruction is meant for those who can appreciate only relative knowledge. Being immanent everywhere, there is no place for God. Because we think we are in the body, we also believe that we are born. However, we do not think of the body, of God, or of a method of realization in our deep sleep. Yet in our waking state, we hold onto the body and think we are in it. Paramatmanis that from which the body is born, in which it lives and unto which it revolves. We, however, think that we reside within the body, hence such instruction is given. The instruction means, “Look within.” The Heart is not physical. Meditation should not be on the right or the left. 

Ramana Maharshi

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