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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12/13/2020
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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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N.MAHARAJ: " Have you brought any questions?"
V: Last year I came to India to find a Guru who could lead me to Self -Realisation. I came with the idea of finding a form who would give me detailed instructions, step by step.
When I met Maharaj, instead of finding a Guru with a form, all I walked away with was an empty frame or a mirror. I found I didn't have any form, anything. Just pure space that changes all the time. When I think of Maharaj, sometime I see him as myself, sometimes I see him as nothing. the person that I see in front of me changes all the time. There is nothing I can point at and say, ' That is he'. It is frightening, and the fear has been growing.
M:"What you have said is quite appropriate, quite correct. Whatever you observe is nothing else but your Self only. Get rid of the body image as yourself. Whatever you have seen is your Self.:
V: Often the concepts, the ideas that are in the books, or that are discussed here, come to my mind, or his image comes to my mind. Immediately after, not before, the feeling comes that there is nothing here, that what I'm hearing is not what it is, but it's only after thinking of him that I feel the space.
M:" Who realises that nothing is, that everything is gone" And when everything is gone, what remains?"
V: That's what is frightening.
M:" When everything goes, you are the Real."
V: As a concept I understand that. For a second I realise, and then I go back to the unreal. I attach myself to my family, my wife, my children. It's habit, I go back.
M:" You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again. That is the meeting point of that immanent principle and the Eternal, the borderland. Why is the intellect puzzled then? That beingness which you are experiencing is melting away. When that concept of ' I Am goes, intellect also goes. So the intellect gets that frightening experience of ' I Am going."
V: How to overcome the fright?
M:" Just watch that moment. One who feels ' I Am dying' is not a Jnani. Your true state is beyond the primary concept of ' I Am'. Consciousness is the primary concept, but this ' I Amness' or Consciousness is the product of the food body. You, the Absolute are not that.
Death comes to the quality of I Amness' which is a product of the food, but the Absolute prevails always. This is the Ultimate knowledge. This knowledge was expounded by Lord Krishna to Arjuna on the battlefield, the horses poised, on the point of battle. He never advocated to Arjuna that he should shave his head and go into the forest and perform tapas. Nothing of the sort. Once you understand this ultimate knowledge, then do what you like. Lord Krishna said, ' With true dynamism you fight this battle'; and I say, once you understand this, you carry out your worldly life with full enthusiasm, full of zest, but understand that your true identity is beyond this quality of ' I Amness'.
For a Jnani, the moment of so-called death is the most blissful, because he is going to the very source of bliss. Eternity is bliss, the very ocean of nectar, immortal."
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Silence is the most powerful medium for transmission of this knowledge — for this knowledge to arrive intuitively.
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The basis of spirituality is not guilt or burden. The basis of spirituality is relaxed freedom.
Ramesh Balsekar
12 December
9
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the 'I'.
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" When you realize that you are one with the Self, everything you do benefits the world, and this is the life.
Don’t prioritize serving your person, it's the easiest habit to continue.
I give you the master key...stay as the Is-ness, and everything begins to automatically flow in your life.
Allow your intuitive energies to open up more.
I bless you on this, that you come to respect it and value it.
We are too much into the outer, but the power of a human being is the Spirit of a human being.
Research yourself, you go inside...you are a pioneer in the spirit.
What you find here illumines the whole world..."
~Mooji <3
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The 'I am' in movement
creates the world.
The 'I am' at peace
becomes the Absolute.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The bliss of God-Consciousness always exits in you. It is only hidden by the veiling and projecting power of maya. The less you are attached to the world, the more you love God.
- Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
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“Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God, who can bind me?', free you shall be.”
- Sri Ramakrishna
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ACCEPTANCE...
When we don't accept an undesired event,
It becomes Anger;...
When we accept it,
It becomes Tolerance....
When we don't accept uncertainty,
It becomes Fear;...
When we accept it,
It becomes Adventure....
When we don't accept other's bad behaviour towards us,
It becomes Hatred;...
When we accept it,
It becomes Forgiveness....
When we don't accept other's Success,
It becomes Jealousy;...
When we accept it,
It becomes Inspiration....
Acceptance is the key for handling life well...
~ Beloved Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji
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Everyone has gone through many experiences in their lives. These experiences are good no matter how they may appear to you. I don't care if it's the most horrendous, horrible experience on earth. There is nothing wrong in the universe. Whatever you're going through is necessary for your next step of unfoldment. If you believe it's bad, or there's something wrong, then you continue in that state, and you never grow out of it.
Then it appears as if you leave your body, when it's time to leave your body, and you go through it again somewhere else. You go through the experience again and again until you give up your attachment to it. It makes no difference what the experience is. The only thing that matters is how you react to the experience. The experience is very necessary or you would not be going through it. When you understand this, you can only be happy.
Do not compare yourself with anyone. Do not believe that fate has dealt you a bad card and that you're suffering mentally, or physically, or financially, or otherwise, and saying "Why did this happen to me?" You are not to blame. You're identifying with the world, with the body, with the mind. This is the only reason you believe you're suffering. No one really suffers.
If you really understood who you were, you would never believe that anything was wrong with your life. To believe something is wrong with your life is blasphemy.That is the only blasphemy that exists. When you believe you're not in your right place. When you want to change. When you think somebody is doing something to you. When you have fears, that's blasphemy. For what you are saying is this thing called God does not exist.
I use God synonymously with consciousness. You think God, consciousness, does not exist and that you have to struggle for yourself. You have to overcome burdens and you have to pay the price. Even the belief that it's karmic is wrong. The best thing you can do is not react to anything, but to act from your heart with love, compassion, peace, and let the chips fall where they may.
Robert Adams
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Talk 520.
An Australian gentleman (Mr. Lowman) is on a visit here. He seems to be studying the Hindu system of Philosophy. He started saying that he believed in unity, the jiva is yet in illusion and so on.
M.: What is the unity you believe in?
How can the jiva find a place in it?
D.: The Unity is the Absolute.
M.: The jiva cannot find a place in Unity.
D.: But the jiva has not realised the Absolute and imagines itself separate.
M.: Jiva is separate because it must exist in order to imagine something.
D.: But it is unreal.
M.: Any unreal thing cannot produce effects. It is like saying that you killed
some animal with the horn of a hare. A hare does not grow horns.
D.: I see the absurdity. But I speak from the physical plane.
M.: You say, ‘I’. Who is that ‘I’? If that is found you can later say whose is the illusion.
A little later Sri Bhagavan asked:
You say you are in the physical plane now. In which plane are you in dreamless sleep?
D.: I think in the physical plane again.
M.: You say, “I think”. That means that you are saying it now when you are awake. Anyway you admit that you exist in deep sleep. Don’t you?
D.: Yes, but I did not function then.
M.: So then, you existed in deep sleep. You are the same one who continues to exist? Are you not?
D.: Yes.
M.: With this difference - that you did not function in your sleep.
Rather you are associated with the thinking faculty in your waking state and you are dissociated from it in sleep.
Is it not so?
D.: Yes.
M.: Which is then your real nature?
Is it to be associated with thinking or
to be dissociated?
D.: I see it now. But I was not aware of my being in sleep.
M.: You say so now. You do not say so in your sleep. Or do you deny your being
(very existence in sleep)?
D.: No.
M.: It amounts to this that you exist in both states. The Absolute Existence is the Self. You are also conscious of the Existence. That Existence is also consciousness
(Sat and Chit). That is your real nature.
D.: But thinking is necessary even for realisation.
M.: That thinking is aimed at the elimination of all thinking.
D.: Owing to my ignorance, I do not realise the Absolute Existence-Consciousness.
M.: Who is the ‘I’?
Whose is the ignorance!
Answers to these questions will alone suffice to prove that you are already realised.
Is there anyone who denies his own existence?
Or can anyone say that he did not exist in his sleep?
Pure Existence is thus admitted.
The admission also implies consciousness. Thus all men are realised.
There is no ignorant man at all.
D.: Yes, I understand. But I have a small question to ask. The state of Realisation is one of desirelessness. If a human being is desireless he ceases to be human.
M.: You admit your existence in sleep. You did not function then. You were not aware of any gross body. You did not limit yourself to this body. So you could not find anything separate from your Self.
Now in your waking state you continue to be the same Existence with the limitations of the body added. These limitations make you see other objects. Hence arises desire. But the state of desirelessness in sleep made you no less happy than now. You did not feel any want. You did not make yourself miserable by not entertaining desires. But now you entertain desires because you are limited to this human frame.
Why do you wish to retain these limitations and continue to entertain desires?
Sri Bhagavan continued:
Does the body tell you that it is there?
It is certainly something apart from the body that remains aware.
What is it?
Do you say that it is the ‘I’,
meaning the ego which arises
simultaneously with the waking of the individual from sleep?
Be it so. The body is not sentient. The Absolute does not speak. The ego does. One does not aspire for liberation in sleep. The aspiration arises only in the waking state. The functions of the waking state
are those of the ego which is synonymous with the ‘I’.
Find out who this ‘I’ is.
On doing so and abiding as ‘I’, all these doubts will be cleared up.
~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
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" When you realize that you are one with the Self, everything you do benefits the world, and this is the life.
Don’t prioritize serving your person, it's the easiest habit to continue.
I give you the master key...stay as the Is-ness, and everything begins to automatically flow in your life.
Allow your intuitive energies to open up more.
I bless you on this, that you come to respect it and value it.
We are too much into the outer, but the power of a human being is the Spirit of a human being.
Research yourself, you go inside...you are a pioneer in the spirit.
What you find here illumines the whole world..."
~Mooji <3
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The 'I am' in movement
creates the world.
The 'I am' at peace
becomes the Absolute.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj
5
One syllable shines forever in the Heart as Self.
Who is there anywhere who can write it down?
(The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi)
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All is One...
Who is God?
He is grace...
What is grace?
Awareness without the fragmentary ego...
How can one know that there is such a state?
Only if one realizes it..
The Vedas laud such a one as having
realized God and become one with Him...
Therefore the (true) good
which one can render unto it,
is to realize this state of non differentiation...
In fact, there are no states besides this....
They appear in the state of ignorance...
For him who knows, there is one state only...
You are That...
Bhagavan Ramana...
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Give yourself up to deep meditation. Throw away all other considerations of life. The calculative life will not be crowned with spiritual success.
🕉🙏💜 Sri Ramana Maharshi
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No matter that we read the truth in holy books,
no matter how many vows we keep,
it is only with the help of the Sadguru
that we can conquer our confusion.
Although I was a sinner,
impure in mind,
he established me in his own state
and showed forbearance,
accepting my homage and becoming my Lord.
(Muruganar -Sri Ramana Anubhuti)
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What I am, cannot die.
What I am not, cannot really live -
it can only appear through the mind
as Illusion.
This is what you’re finding out.
And something is helping you,
in whatever form it takes for you.
🕊 Mooji
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