12/11/2020
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All the "me’s" and "you’s" are merely the objective expression of the one subjective "I." The sudden realization of this often reduces the individual to a state of explosive, uncontrollable laughter at the primeval joke that is this whole illusion of creation.
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Our natural state, as an intrinsic part of the Totality, is one of utter relaxation. It is only the separation from this Totality (through our illusion of free-will) that brings out fear, aggression and the tension of insecurity. And it is only through surrender to this Totality that all such unnatural tensions are eliminated from our system.
Ramesh Balsekar
8 December
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Q: What is Guru's grace? How does it lead to Self-realization?
A: Guru is the Self.
Sometimes in his life a man becomes
dissatisfied and, not content with what he has, he seeks the satisfaction of his desires through prayer to God.
His mind is gradually purified until he longs to know God, more to obtain his grace than to satisfy his worldly desires.
Then,
God's grace begins to manifest.
God takes the form of a Guru and appears to the devotee,
teaches him the truth and, moreover, purifies his mind by association.
The devotee's mind gains strength and is then able to turn inward.
By meditation it is further purified and it remains still without the least ripple.
That calm expanse is the Self.
The Guru is both external and internal.
From the exterior he gives a push to the mind to turn it inwards.
From the interior he pulls the mind towards the Self and helps in the quietening of the mind.
That is Guru's grace.
There is no difference between God, Guru and the Self.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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"The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Soon he discovers that his own body he cannot be. Once the conviction: ' I am not the body' becomes so well grounded that he can no longer feel, think and act for and on behalf of the body, he will easily discover that he is the universal being, knowing, acting, that in him and through him the entire universe is real, conscious and active."
~ Sri Nisargdatt Maharaj.
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"The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all."
~ Swami Vivekanand.
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Leave everything outside and come in.
Everything you see, you must leave.
Don't want anything, not even enlightenment.
Everyone can do this.
Come right into that place before all these things were formed.
Allow yourself to be undone of all falsehood.
Then you will discover for yourself
that emptiness that has never moved.
Everything else has moved.
This is your ground. The ground of Being.
Your very Self is that.
♥️ Mooji
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True knowledge means to be empty;
empty of identity and belief in
and attachment to psychological conditioning.
There is a great space and silence
here in the emptiness.
A great intelligence looks out from that space
as the unfathomable Self.
You are one with this One.
This unity is love and Truth.
~ Mooji
realization
Blessed Birthday, OshO 🌺🙏🌺
God is not an experience. No experience as such is spiritual; all experiences are mind games. Beware of it. Whatsoever can be seen will be part of the illusory world. The seer is the truth, not the seen. You can see auras and you can see angels and you can see kundalini rising and you can see inner lights -- but they are all seen. They are not you.
The seer is the witness, and only the witness is the truth. All else is a dream. And there are worldly dreams and there are other-worldly dreams; there are materialistic dreams and there are spiritualistic dreams. One thing has to be remembered always, that whatsoever is seen is worthless -- even if it is God. The God that is seen is worthless.
When all experiences disappear and you are left utterly alone, nothing to see, only emptiness in the hands, no experience at all, then suddenly you realize yourself. Then you turn upon yourself, then you fall into your source. And that is not an experience, it is a realization. That is the difference between the words "experience" and "realization". It is not that you have seen something, experienced something. Now you know who you are.
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True knowledge means to be empty;
empty of identity and belief in
and attachment to psychological conditioning.
There is a great space and silence
here in the emptiness.
A great intelligence looks out from that space
as the unfathomable Self.
You are one with this One.
This unity is love and Truth.
~ Mooji
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Wherever the mind wanders,
restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without,
lead it within;
train it to rest in the Self.
Abiding joy comes to those who still the mind.
Freeing themselves from the taint of self-will, with their consciousness unified, they become one with Brahman.
🕉 Bhagvad Gita. Chapter 6. Verses 26 & 27.
✅ Meditation
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"The mind is like the moon, deriving its light of consciousness from the Self, which thus resembles the Sun. Hence when the Self begins to shine, the mind, like the moon, becomes useless."
~ Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
(from 'Maha Yoga')
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All the "me’s" and "you’s" are merely the objective expression of the one subjective "I." The sudden realization of this often reduces the individual to a state of explosive, uncontrollable laughter at the primeval joke that is this whole illusion of creation.
**********************
Our natural state, as an intrinsic part of the Totality, is one of utter relaxation. It is only the separation from this Totality (through our illusion of free-will) that brings out fear, aggression and the tension of insecurity. And it is only through surrender to this Totality that all such unnatural tensions are eliminated from our system.
Ramesh Balsekar
8 December
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Behind all sorts of feelings is an impersonal space of pure perceiving.. Is the presence of the natural mind..Beyond lies the unspeakable.
🌼 Mooji
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He who from the depth of his soul seeks to know God will certainly realize Him. He must. He alone who is restless for God and seeks nothing but Him will certainly realize Him.
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He who from the depth of his soul seeks to know God will certainly realize Him. He must. He alone who is restless for God and seeks nothing but Him will certainly realize Him.
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Talk 295.
Mr. Natverlal Parekh, a Gujerati gentleman who had attended the International Religious Conference as a delegate from Baroda, came here on a visit. He is a young man, well-groomed, alert, and quite conscious of his well-earned merit. He presented a note containing some questions to Sri Bhagavan.
D.: Pray help me realise Atma - Paramatma - Satchidananda.
M.: Atma - Paramatma - Satchidananda mean one and the same thing, i.e., the Self. The Self is eternally realised.
Otherwise there will be no pleasure in it.
If it is not eternal it must have a beginning;
what begins will also end;
so that it is only transient.
There is no use seeking for a temporary state of affairs. The fact is that it is the
state of effortless, ever alert Peace. Effortlessness while remaining
aware is the state of Bliss, and that is Realisation.
D.: I do not want intellectual answers. I want them to be practical.
M.: Yes.
Direct knowledge does not require intellectual discourses.
Since the Self is directly experienced by everyone, they are not at all necessary. Everyone says “I am”.
Is there anything more to realise?
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"When I'm busy in mind people see a reflection of that mind in me. When I'm empty they see a reflection of their Being, their Soul in me." Mooji
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Leave everything outside and come in.
Everything you see, you must leave.
Don't want anything, not even enlightenment.
Everyone can do this.
Come right into that place before all these things were formed.
Allow yourself to be undone of all falsehood.
Then you will discover for yourself
that emptiness that has never moved.
Everything else has moved.
This is your ground. The ground of Being.
Your very Self is that.
❤ Mooji
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(153) EXISTENCE AFTER REALIZATION
This morning after Veda Parayana, a gentleman who came a few days ago, enquired of Bhagavan, “Swami, it is said that though a Jnani (a realised soul) appears to be doing all the routine things, he really does nothing. How can that be explained?”
Bhagavan: “How? There is a story about it. Two friends while travelling on business slept the night somewhere, and one of them had a dream that he and his companion had gone together to several places and had done various things.
On rising in the morning, the other man had nothing to say, for he had slept soundly. But the first man asked his friend about the various places they had seen together during the night, but the second man could say nothing about them, having had no dream like the other. He merely said, ‘I have
gone nowhere; I have been here only’.
As a matter of fact, neither had gone anywhere; but the first man had only an
illusion of having gone. Similarly, to those who look upon this body as real, and not unreal as in a dream, it may appear real, but, strictly speaking, nothing affects the Jnani.”
Remarked some other person: “It is said that the eyes of a Jnani appear to look at things, but in reality they see nothing.”
Bhagavan: “Yes, the eyes of the Jnani are likened to the eyes of a dead goat, they are always open, never closed. They.glitter but they see nothing, though it seems to others that they see everything. But what is the point?”
The devotee continued: “It is also said that for such adepts, siddhas, there is no conditioning or limitation (upadhi)
of space and time.”
Bhagavan: “That is right. It is true that there is no such thing as conditioning or limitation, but the doubt then arises as to how the day-to-day work is done. It has therefore to be said that they have limitation. It is also stated that the limitation will be there in a subtle way until there is
deliverance from the body (videha mukti). It is like a line drawn on water; the line appears while it is being drawn, but is not
there immediately after.”
The devotee: “If that is so for emancipated souls (siddha purushas), there will be no upadhi (support) after their mortal body falls away. But Bhagavan himself has said that there are several emancipated souls on this hill. If they have no support (upadhi) how could they remain in existence?”
Bhagavan:
Those who have attained complete emancipation (jnana.siddhi) merge with the universe after their bodies fall off, just as milk merges with milk, oil with oil, water with water.
In the case of lower souls, because of some samskaras or latent tendencies remaining unexpired, they stay in this world, taking whatever form they please, and ultimately
become merged.
Viveka Chudamani, verse 567
The devotee: “Why does that difference arise?”
Bhagavan: “It arises because of the strength of their desires (samkalpas).”
_______Letters from Sri Ramanasramam
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Don’t touch any thought, concept or feeling.
Don’t touch any intention.
Don’t touch past, present or future.
Leave everything aside.
Whatever you perceive or experience
are like clouds passing.
Observe them, but don’t log in to their energy.
If you look but don’t touch or identify
with anything you perceive,
can you be distracted from what you are?
Simply stay empty as you naturally are.
If everything that you perceive
would be taken out or erased, to the very last thing,
is there not something remaining that cannot
be touched or removed?
Bring your attention to this right now and you
will perceive and know the most natural thing in you,
that which you can never not be
—pure, unchanging awareness.
Enjoy proving this to yourself again and again
to your heart’s delight.
~ Mooji
From Whire Fire - Second Edition
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Devotee: Why then is samsara - creation and manifestation as finitised - so full of sorrow and evil?
Ramana Maharishi: God’s will!
Devotee: Why does God will it so?
Ramana Maharishi: It is inscrutable. No motive can be attributed to that Power - no desire, no end to achieve can be asserted of that one Infinite, All-wise and All-powerful Being. God is untouched by activities, which take place in His presence; compare the sun and the world activities. There is no meaning in attributing responsibility and motive to the One before it becomes many. But God’s will for the prescribed course of events is a good solution of the free-will problem (vexata quaestio). If the mind is restless on account of a sense of the imperfect and unsatisfactory character of what befalls us or what is committed or omitted by us, then it is wise to drop the sense of responsibility and free-will by regarding ourselves as the ordained instruments of the All-wise and All-powerful, to do and suffer as He pleases. He carries all burdens and gives us peace.
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Everyone says “I am the body”.
It is the experience of the sage as also of the ignorant.
The ignorant man believes that the Self is confined to the body only,
whereas the wise man believes that the body cannot remain apart from the Self.
The Self is infinite for him and includes the body also.
~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
✅ Talk 293.
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