12/12/2020
freedom
Sages declare that freedom can be attained instantly, but in most cases all enquiry into the Self takes time to mature.
Everything is in the enquiry and the enquiry has to be ripe before freedom is attained.
Even before the creation of the universe when there was nothing else but consciousness, a will to manifest the universe rose up from consciousness.
That very will is responsible for all that you see now. Instantly, the whole universe was created by the will,
"Let me be multiplied",
and it was multiplied.
Consciousness was transmitted into this will and this will is contained in this very instant. This will is in the whole of the manifestation, including all individuals.
So what is this will which has created the universe and is responsible for everything? It is dwelling in the hearts of each being. This will to create everything has risen from consciousness and this same will can and will return to its Source. Although this will, this instant, this manifestation, this appearance rises from consciousness, it abides within consciousness for Eternity.
But because there is another strong will within the mind to indulge in the illusion of bodily and worldly affairs, it is kept hidden. The result is that you become what you will and you see what you think.
We don't like to suffer because we have already seen eternal happiness, therefore we know that we can avoid suffering.
So that will,
which is the Source of all creation,
is a very mature will when it wills to return home. It takes time for this will to rise up.
When you stop thinking of other things apart from returning home, you will eventually return home.
You have to be fully devoted to the Self, you have to honour the Self and you have to work for it in the beginning.
Then you will finally attain eternal rest.
It is all in your own hands.
~ Papaji
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ALL THOSE WHO PROCLAIM THEIR OWN GREATNESS AND UNIQUENESS ARE NOT JNANIS.
The Jnani shows no tendency to proclaim himself to be a Jnani. He considers himself to be perfectly normal, true to his real nature. Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent deity is a clear sign of ignorance.
They are mistaking some unusual development for realisation.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Only if one knows the truth of love, which is the real nature of Self, will the strong entangled knot of life be untied. Only if one attains the height of love will liberation be attained.
(Be As You Are)
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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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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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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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Your nature is Bliss. Ignorance is now hiding that Bliss. Remove the ignorance for Bliss to be freed.
(Talk 197)
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How can we get rid of these hindrances?
Maharshi: Discover the Self through meditation, by tracing every thought back to its origin, which is the mind. Never allow thought to continue. If it does, it will be unending; take it back to its source which is mind, and they (thoughts and mind) will die of inaction, for the mind only exists by thought; take away thought and there is no mind. As each doubt and depression arises, ask yourself, "Who is it that doubts? Who is it that is depressed?" Tear everything away until there is nothing but the source left. Live only in the present.
Realization is already here. The state free from thoughts is the one real state. There is no such action as realization.
From Conscious Immortality
Conversations between P.Brunton and Ramana Maharshi
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GIRISH: "If a man is so strongly tied hand and foot, then what is his way?"
MASTER: "He has nothing to fear if God Himself, as the guru, cuts the chain of maya."
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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
- Meher Baba.
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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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Mooji - STAY NEUTRAL
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Imagine you are standing on a platform at the railway station. One by one the trains come, they stop, doors open, doors close, they move on. You don’t have to get on. Like this, simply observe the thought activity appearing on the screen of consciousness without connecting up. Don’t log on. Thoughts and sensations will be seen to move on by themselves, without being forced.
Stay neutral. Be with the awareness as awareness itself. Feel the breath moving effortlessly, without will or strain. Observe the senses func- tioning, the sense of outer and inner; any movement is just happening by itself, unplanned and unforced.
Whatever arises as thought, feeling, movement or sen- sation is quietly observed, only now there is less interest, less pull. All is arising; your self is not aroused. All this is smoothly observed. Even the sense of self, the feeling ‘I am’, is appearing inside the awareness. Make no greater effort than is required. You are here.
That which is neither doing nor undoing, neither directing activity nor being affected by activity, which is effortlessly aware yet unconcerned, that is your real self. Not behind nor in front, nor above nor beneath, for it is not another phenomenon. It is unplaced, unborn, boundless awareness-self.
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