2/27/2021
beingness
The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing. ~Mooji
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“Maintain association only with those who have reached God. Avoid the company of others. If you try to look at everyone equally at the beginning of your spiritual life, you will become worldly”
- Swami Adbhutananda / Latu Maharaj (Direct disciple of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna Dev)
2/26/2021
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Those who have destroyed ignorance by the clarity of knowledge and who are established firmly in Self-abidance, are completely dead-minded. They will survive as eternal Muktas (liberated beings), their mind having been given jiva-samadhi (the physical and Absolute are merged) at the Feet of Siva (God).
(Guru Vachaka Kovai)
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The visitor also asked, “When a man realises the Self, what will he see?”
Bhagavan replied, “There is no seeing. Seeing is only Being. The state of Self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. All that is needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true. All of us are realising, i.e., regarding as real, that which is not real. We have only to give up this practice on our part. Then we shall realise the Self as the Self, or in other words, ‘Be the Self’. At one stage one would laugh at oneself that one tried to discover the Self which is so self-evident. So, what can we say to this question? “That stage transcends the seer and the seen. There is no seer there to see anything. The seer who is seeing all this now ceases to exist and the Self alone remains.”
Day by Day with Bhagavan
2/25/2021
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Visitor. I am taught that Mantra Japam is very potent in practice.
Bhagavan: The Self is the greatest of all mantras and goes on automatically and eternally. If you are not aware of this
internal mantra, you should take to do it consciously as japam, which is attended with effort, to ward off all other thoughts.
By constant attention to it, you will eventually become aware of the internal mantra, which is the state of
Realisation and is effortless.
Firmness in this awareness will keep you continually and effortlessly in the current,
however much you may be engaged on other activities.
Listening to Veda chanting and mantras has the same result as conscious repetitions of japam – its rhythm is the japam.
- GURU RAMANA.
Chapter XI
MEDITATION
.....
The Jnani (sage) is the Self, and sees nothing apart from himself.
(Day by Day with Bhagavan)
....
“I know one (Sri Ramakrishna Dev) whom the world used to call mad, and this was his answer:
“My friends, the whole world is a lunatic asylum: some are mad after wordly love, some after name, some after fame, some after money, some after salvation and going to heaven. In this big lunatic asylum I too am mad; I am mad after God. You are mad; so am I.
I think my madness is after all the best.”
- Swami Vivekananda
....
A JNANI HAS NO BODY
Before leaving the ashram, I wrote down several questions for Guy Hague to ask Bhagavan that I had not had a chance to ask myself. I had been bothered by the fact that so many saints and enlightened people had been ill and suffering physically. I asked, “Should they not have perfect bodies and why do they not cure themselves?” In Europe, I got a letter from Guy saying he had discussed my question with Bhagavan. He wrote:
“Bhagavan told me to tell you that the spiritually perfect person need not necessarily have a perfect body. The reason, as he explained it, is very simple.
“You see, the ego, the body, and the mind are the same thing. The spiritually perfect person, like Bhagavan, is above these three things. Consequently, he has… no body to heal, neither a mind — or ego — to heal it with. He is beyond all this because it is illusion. He is living in Reality. Christian Scientists can take the mind and heal the body — for they are the same thing. American Indians heal, too, in this manner. It is faith healing.
“But if the spiritually perfect person is sick in body it is because the body is working out its karma. Bhagavan gave an illustration of karma, which he says is like an electric fan and must just run its course, only gradually ceasing even after it has been turned off.
He says the mind is born into illusion and builds a body and a world to suit it — that is, a world that it has earned and deserves (by its karma). Bhagavan, knowing the body and the mind to be illusion, cannot experience any bodily ailment or discomfort. We make him suffer pain, loss of weight, etc. It is in our minds, not his. He is actually bodiless, though you and I cannot realize this as a fact.”
- Mercedes de Acosta: Here lies the Heart
2/24/2021
2/22/2021
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Don't waste time trying
to change the changeful.
Don't waste time trying
to stabilize the relative.
Don't waste time trying
to control the mind.
Use time to observe
yourself as consciousness.
Confirm that you are not
merely that which is
observed phenomenally.
Confirm your stillness
and the movement will
not affect you.
Mooji
2/21/2021
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Master:
Only he is Self-realized who knows what is the body and who is embodied.(Verse 22)
Only he is a jnani who knows beyond doubt that all that is seen is only ephemeral like a dream.(V.45)
- The Cream of Liberation -
Kaivalya Navaneeta
2/20/2021
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‘I am’ (Self) is happiness.
Where thoughts cease, happiness reigns supreme; such is the truth
about happiness.
- Sadhu Om The Path of Sri Ramana (part one), Ch. 3 Self-enquiry
is the Only Way to Happiness.
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“The master is like a great ship for beings to cross the perilous ocean of existence, an unerring captain who guides them to the dry land of liberation, a rain that extinguishes the fire of the passions, a bright sun and moon that dispel the darkness of ignorance, a firm ground that can bear the weight of both good and bad,
a wish-fulfilling tree that bestows temporal happiness and ultimate bliss, a treasury of vast and deep instructions, a wish-fulfilling jewel granting all the qualities of realization, a father and a mother giving their love equally to all sentient beings, a great river of compassion, a mountain rising above worldly concerns unshaken by the winds of emotions, and a great cloud filled with rain to soothe the torments of the passions.
In brief, he is the equal of all the Buddhas.”
~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
post 24
"Any residue [in the mind] gradually dissolves as your identification with the sense of personhood weakens...So don't feed all these little things that come up in your mind, because that will only turn them into a story. Remember: there are no stories in the Self." ~Mooji (Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space)
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O Spirit, teach us to heal the body by recharging it with Thy cosmic energy, to heal the mind by concentration and cheerfulness, and to heal the disease of soul ignorance by the divine medicine of meditation on Thee.
Paramahansa Yogananda
post 22
#Sadguru
Life is happening here (within heart). take a little time just for piece of life. if u are conscious that your are mortal every moment of you r life . Spiritual Process begun for u.
post 21
Sadhak realizes that
he is only an actor playing his role in the drama of life,
the 'leela' of the Supreme..
Ramana..
post 20
Existence or Consciousness is the only reality.
Consciousness plus waking we call waking. Consciousness plus sleep we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go.
The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
post 19
"Don't touch the idea that something or some action stops you from being what you are. Rest in your Self here and now in the very source of your Awareness, in It's silence, in It's fullness, in It's emptiness." Mooji
post 18
Existence or Consciousness is the only reality.
Consciousness plus waking we call waking. Consciousness plus sleep we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go.
The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
post 17
"Don't touch the idea that something or some action stops you from being what you are. Rest in your Self here and now in the very source of your Awareness, in It's silence, in It's fullness, in It's emptiness." Mooji
post 16
O Raghava, be outwardly active but inwardly inactive,
outwardly a doer but inwardly a non-doer, and thus play your part in the world.
O Raghava, abandon all desires inwardly,
be free from attachments and latent impressions,
do everything outwardly and thus play your part in the world.
O Raghava, adopt a comprehensive view,
characterised by the abandonment of all objects of contemplation,
live in your innate Self,
liberated even while alive (jivan-mukta), and thus play your part in the
world.
~ YOGA VASISHTA SARA
(THE ESSENCE OF YOGA VASISHTA)
CHAPTER SEVEN, VERSES 1-3.
METHOD OF PURIFICATION
post 15
"It is within your competence to think and become bound
or cease thinking and thus be free."
- Talks
post 14
STOP WAITING...
"Stop waiting for others to make you happy. They're too busy waiting for happiness themselves. You'll be waiting forever. Give everyone a break and discover the natural happiness that you are, the in-built contentment that doesn't depend on content."
- Jeff Foster
post 12
My path to Bhagavan was a long and arduous one. Having a strong atheist background, I had to undergo many years of doubts and sufferings before I could generate enough faith to accept implicitly that Bhagavan was guiding me and protecting me all the time. Other luckier
devotees had faith right from the beginning of their association with Bhagavan.
I remember in particular one devotee who had both faith and the intellectual simplicity that I lacked. He was an old Telugu man living in the Draupadi Temple about 300 meters from Sri Ramanasramam. His only
possessions were an iron pot and an axe that he used to cut firewood for cooking.
He would beg food in the town and cook it in his pot. Each day, for hours together, he could be seen standing and looking at Bhagavan. He would spend the night in the Temple, which was then dilapidated, abandoned and surrounded by jungle.
I once found him standing alone in front of the Temple. When I asked him what he was doing in such a remote spot, he told me that he slept there.
I exclaimed,
“You sleep here all alone. Are you not afraid?”
“Afraid of what?” retorted the old man: “Bhagavan throws his light on me.
All night I am surrounded by a blue radiance. So long as his light is with
me, how can I be afraid?”
This encounter made me deeply humble. Bhagavan’s love and light are given in full measure to a poor old beggar, but there are many in the Ashram like myself, who called themselves his devotees but who had
failed to receive such grace because we were too busy attending to the contents of our mind.
- Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Chalam. (49).
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" If you are aware of the Self, then you may enjoy the person...because it has no threat...it's like playing with a snake that has no teeth..."
Mooji <3
post 9
It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise?
The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space
was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will
shine alone.
<3 "Be As You Are"
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
post 8
Thoughts are like cars on the street, they don't belong to you, they are just moving on their own, and they go away.
~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Thoughts are like cars on the street, they don't belong to you, they are just moving on their own, and they go away.
~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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D: What is the use of samadhi and does thought subsist then?
M: Samadhi alone can reveal the Truth. Thoughts cast a veil over Reality, and so It is not realised as such in states other than samadhi.
In samadhi there is only the feeling ‘I AM’ and no thoughts. The experience ‘I AM’ is being still.
D: How can I repeat the experience of samadhi or the stillness that I obtain here?
M: Your present experience is due to the influence of the atmosphere in which you find yourself. Can you have it outside this atmosphere? The experience is spasmodic.
Until it becomes permanent, practice is necessary.
D: One has at times vivid flashes of a consciousness whose centre is OUTSIDE THE NORMAL SELF, and which seems to be all-inclusive. Without concerning ourselves with philosophical concepts, how would Bhagavan advise me to work towards GETTING, RETAINING and EXTENDING those rare flashes? Does ABHYASA in such experience involve RETIREMENT?
M: OUTSIDE!
For whom is the inside or outside?
These can exist only so long as there are the subject and object.
For whom are these two again?
On investigation you will find that they resolve into the subject only.
See who is the subject; and this enquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
THE NORMAL SELF is the mind. This mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation as above outlined.
GETTING: The Self is always there. You have only to remove the veil obstructing the revelation of the Self.
RETAINING: Once you realise the Self, it becomes your direct and immediate experience. It is never lost.
EXTENDING: There is no extending of the Self, for it is as ever, without contraction or expansion.
RETIREMENT: Abiding in the Self is solitude. Because there is nothing alien to the Self. Retirement must be from some one place or state to another. There is
neither the one nor the other apart from the Self. ALL being the Self, retirement is impossible and inconceivable.
ABHYASA is only the prevention of disturbance to the inherent peace. You are always in your natural State whether you do ABHYASA or not.... To remain as you
are, without question or doubt, is your natural State.
- Maharshi’s Gospel.
Chapter: Self-Realisation.
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There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say: 'be yourself', since you do not know yourself. Just be. Having seen that you are neither the 'outer' world of perceivables, nor the 'inner' world of thinkables, that you are neither body nor mind -- just be.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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🦋 ~ “Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death release you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.” 📖 • Mooji 🌻 🌙
post 2
When you are in meditation you do not need to look after yourself.
A power will rise which is moving the earth, which is causing the sun to shine, which is giving the moon its brilliance…
If you are attuned to that power you will have nothing to do, everything will be beautiful.
That power will look after you in a way which you cannot manage.
Satsang with Papaji - 6 December, 1991
❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
post 1
Just see, nothing is actually touching you when you just observe, when you don't say 'this should not be'.
Pay attention to this wonderful power in you.
Just witness without judgement, interference or attachment. Give it a chance.
Mooji
2/19/2021
2/17/2021
self
When one has become still, that is to say when one has become established in a state of tranquility, then the activity of nature which continues at every moment in sleep and in waking and is part of the movement of the pilgrimage from birth to death, this and the thinking mind become caught in that Stream and eternally remain floating in it. Ever to keep the mind poised in the Self, wide-awake in the current of Reality, where the Unfathomable, the One-without-end is ever revealed in His Infinity.
Anandamayi Ma
being self
To see God and not the Self that sees
is only to see a projection of the mind.
It is said that God is seen by him alone who sees the Self; but one who has lost the ego and seen the Self is none other than God.
When scriptures speak of ‘seeing the Self’ and ‘seeing God’, what is the truth they mean?
How to see the Self?
As the Self is one without a second, it is impossible to see it.
How to see God?
To see Him is to be consumed by Him.
- Reality in Forty Verses. Verses 20 &21.
2/16/2021
post 7
या देवी सर्व भूतेषु बुद्धि रूपैण संस्थिताः ,
नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः।।
ॐ श्री सरस्वतयै नमः।
बुद्धि प्रदात्री, वाग्देवी माँ सरस्वती के आराधना पर्व "वसन्त पंचमी " की आप सभी को हार्दिक बधाई और शुभकामनायें।
माँ सरस्वती की कृपा हम सब पर सदैव बनी रहे ।
#fb
post 6
मी कर्म केले' हा भ्रम टाकून दिला पाहिजे. खरा कर्ता ईश्वर असताना जीव विनाकारणच 'मी' कर्ता असे मानतो. कर्तुत्व आपल्याकडे घेतल्यामुळे जीव सुखदुःख भोगतो. तेव्हा 'मी कर्ता नसून राम कर्ता' ही भावना वाढवणे, हीच खरी उपासना होय. आपल्या आयुष्यात ज्या ज्या गोष्टी घडतात त्या सर्व भगवंताच्या इच्छेनेच घडतात अशी पूर्ण खात्री झाली की मग सुखदुःख उरत नाही. तुम्हा सर्वांना आता पुन्हा एकच सांगतो की, सदैव नामात राहण्याचा प्रयत्न करा, आणि नीतिला धरून राहा; त्यानेच तुम्हाला भगवंत भेटेल. परमार्थात नीतिला, शुद्ध आचरणाला, फार महत्व आहे. जो शुद्ध मनाने परमेश्वराचे चिंतन, नामस्मरण करतो, त्याला साहाय्य करायला परमेश्वर सदैव तयार असतो. आपण त्या परमेश्वराला शरण जाऊन त्याच्या नामाचे प्रेम मागू या.*
*श्रीमहाराज*
post 5
मी कर्म केले' हा भ्रम टाकून दिला पाहिजे. खरा कर्ता ईश्वर असताना जीव विनाकारणच 'मी' कर्ता असे मानतो. कर्तुत्व आपल्याकडे घेतल्यामुळे जीव सुखदुःख भोगतो. तेव्हा 'मी कर्ता नसून राम कर्ता' ही भावना वाढवणे, हीच खरी उपासना होय. आपल्या आयुष्यात ज्या ज्या गोष्टी घडतात त्या सर्व भगवंताच्या इच्छेनेच घडतात अशी पूर्ण खात्री झाली की मग सुखदुःख उरत नाही. तुम्हा सर्वांना आता पुन्हा एकच सांगतो की, सदैव नामात राहण्याचा प्रयत्न करा, आणि नीतिला धरून राहा; त्यानेच तुम्हाला भगवंत भेटेल. परमार्थात नीतिला, शुद्ध आचरणाला, फार महत्व आहे. जो शुद्ध मनाने परमेश्वराचे चिंतन, नामस्मरण करतो, त्याला साहाय्य करायला परमेश्वर सदैव तयार असतो. आपण त्या परमेश्वराला शरण जाऊन त्याच्या नामाचे प्रेम मागू या.*
*श्रीमहाराज*
post 4
O Raghava, be outwardly active but inwardly inactive,
outwardly a doer but inwardly a non-doer, and thus play your part in the world.
O Raghava, abandon all desires inwardly,
be free from attachments and latent impressions,
do everything outwardly and thus play your part in the world.
O Raghava, adopt a comprehensive view,
characterised by the abandonment of all objects of contemplation,
live in your innate Self,
liberated even while alive (jivan-mukta), and thus play your part in the
world.
~ YOGA VASISHTA SARA
(THE ESSENCE OF YOGA VASISHTA)
CHAPTER SEVEN, VERSES 1-3.
METHOD OF PURIFICATION
post 3
प्रेम का पार्थिव अर्थ है
किसी ऐसे की ओर खिचना,
जो तुम्हें परमात्मा से मिला दे
solutions.acharyaprashant.org
post 2
Existence or Consciousness is the only reality.
Consciousness plus waking we call waking. Consciousness plus sleep we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go.
The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
post 1
"Don't touch the idea that something or some action stops you from being what you are. Rest in your Self here and now in the very source of your Awareness, in It's silence, in It's fullness, in It's emptiness." Mooji
think
"It is within your competence to think and become bound
or cease thinking and thus be free."
- Talks
2/15/2021
death
मृत्यू...........
माणसाला त्याचा अहंकार मारतो,
पण जर आपण जिवंतपणी त्या अहंकाराला मारला
तर संपूर्ण आयुष्य हे सुंदर व्यतीत करता येते
म्हणून अगोदर अहंकार मारा नंतर वृत्ती ला.
जगदंब............... जगदंब.......... जगदंब............!
Unknown
Be mad for God
"If you must be mad, why should you be mad for the things of the world? If you must be mad, be mad for God alone."
... Shri Ramakrishna
"अगर पागल ही होना है, तो संसार की चीज लेकर क्यों पागल होते हो ? पागल होना है, तो ईश्वर के लिए पागल बनो।"
... श्रीरामकृष्ण
Remember I am
If you can only understand the deep power you have. It will always take care of you and watch you and look over you and protect you. You have to learn to feel this in your heart. This is what Ramana meant when he said, "Always be aware of the I Am."
Under all conditions be aware of I-am.
Not I am this or I am that, just I am. The first name of god.
- Robert Adams
2/14/2021
2/12/2021
jnani
"However much a jnani (Self realized sage) might talk, he is still a silent one. However much he might work, he is still a quiet one. His voice is the incorporeal voice. His walk is not on the earth, it is like measuring the sky with the sky."
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
("Timeless In Time")
Why worry surrender to God
He who gives himself up to the Self that is God is the most excellent devotee. Giving one’s self up to God means remaining constantly in the Self without giving room for the rise of any thoughts other than that of the Self.
Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He bears them. Since the supreme power
of God makes all things move, why should we, without submitting ourselves to it, constantly worry ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not?
We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?
- Sri Ramana Maharshi.
2/11/2021
sanyas
If u can simply live your life not running behind money, status, fame..
If you can live just for today without plans, goals...
If you can just live your life for nothing, then , your ultimate flowering and inner peace will be realised... That is what sanyas is.
Truths of Sanyas..
Aruna s
2/08/2021
knowledge
Daily Sutra—->>>Knowledge should lead you to a point where you feel 'I don't know'. If knowledge leads you to a point where you feel 'I know', then it has not completed its journey. It has left you somewhere halfway.
2/06/2021
happiness Robert
There’s always happiness. There’s always peace. There’s always love. It’s not something you have to acquire. It is
your real nature.
Until you experience your real nature, you practice things like self-inquiry.
I said something on Sunday that apparently has clicked with some of you. I received three calls about it.
What I said was simply this
“When you follow the I to its source, then all of your troubles, your problems, your life, your world, become dissolved in the source. Until that happens, realize that you are not the I that has problems."
That's the point I made. And it clicked with some of you. It is the I that sometimes feels depressed, or worried, or hurried, or upset,
or fearful. It is the personal I that feels that way, yet that's not you. You are not the personal I. Even though you are following the I, you are following a mirage, an optical illusion, for you are not the I. You are absolute reality, nirvana, sat-chit-ananda. You are not the I.
If you are not the I then who has the problems?
Who has the sickness?
Who has the doubt?
Who has the suspicions?
Who has all these worldly problems that most human beings have?
I do, but I am not the I.
Yet I has the problem.
Do you see what I mean?
I has the problem. Not me, but I.
In this case me is absolute reality, pure awareness, consciousness.
Therefore this is the best psycho-therapy that's ever been invented, for you can step back and watch the I having the problems. You can understand, realize, intelligently, that the real me, the real self, can never have a problem. It's impossible.
Yet I feel the problem.
You immediately catch yourself and realize “Yes, I feels the problem." You see, not me, but I, feels the problem.
Then you forget for a while and you say “I feel depressed." And you catch yourself
and you laugh. You say “I feels depressed. I feels out of sort. Not me, but I." Then after a little while you forget again, and you say “I feel sick.” Then you remember. You say “I feels sick. Not me, but I."
You do this all day long. Finally what will happen is that you will separate your self from I. You will no longer look at your body as I. You will no longer look at your mind as I. When you realize that I is everything in the universe, I must also be the body and the mind.
You then realize that you are not the body and you are not the mind, but I is. I is
the body and I is the mind. I is all the problems. You separate yourself. You watch. You observe I having all these
problems, and pretty soon you're having a good laugh at yourself.
You will feel freedom.
If you practice this, I can assure you that you will feel a freedom that you never felt before.
You will feel omnipresent.
You will feel an indwelling bliss.
You will come to see that the body does not exist, as a body. You will look at yourself and see the body, but you will laugh. You will know it's not your body. There is no body. It is like the water in the mirage. There is no water. It only appears so. That's the way the body is. You appear to have a body, but you don't really. I has the body. And I doesn't really exist.
Do you see this revelation now?
There’s no I, there's no body. Then what gets old and dies? What gets sick? What
has mental anguish? What becomes depressed? And the answer is “Nothing." There’s no one to get depressed.
There’s no one to die. There’s no one to have mental anguish. There’s no one left to do anything. You're home free.
When you feel this way, there’s nowhere to go, because everywhere you go, you are the self. No thing makes you happier than another thing. It's all the same. You no longer differentiate between objects. All the objects become like a piece of clay that you’ve taken to make objects out of, but you realize it all comes from the same piece of clay.
That's how it is with your life. There’s no one doing anything. There’s absolutely nothing to do. When I say there's absolutely nothing to do, I do not necessarily mean you're going to sit still and sit in one chair all day long. This appears paradoxical. Your body will appear to be doing things, and yet you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt
that there’s no one doing anything.
Think about that. That’s a very important point. You will appear to go to the movies, if you have a job to go to work, to come home, to get married, to get divorced, to go swimming, to do whatever you do. Yet you will know, no one is doing anything.
How can that be?
How can you appear to be doing something, yet nothing is being done.
The sky appears blue, and yet upon investigation there's no sky and there’s no blue. So you appear to be doing something, but there’s no doer. There is really no one who needs to do anything, or does anything. Space and time have been eliminated. You are in an entirely different dimension, where you appear as if you are moving, working,
experiencing, and there’s nothing being done.
I admit that state is difficult to think of, yet it is the truth. No one has ever done anything. There’s only one, and that one is all-pervading and omnipresent. There’s only one. If that one is all-pervading and omnipresent, where is there room to do anything?
Think of it this way. Look at it this way. If you were the only one in the universe, and you were the size of the universe, all of the planets, the stars, the moon, the earth, people, places and things would be within you. You would have no space to do anything. Yet everything is being done within yourself. It's the same thing. This is really the truth about you.
You are the microcosm and the macrocosm. When you are working in duality, in ignorance, you appear to be a
small human being, and you look around you, and you see billions of human beings just like you. You argue with them. You fight with them. You love them. You do all kinds of activities with fellow human beings. But as you work on yourself, and as you begin to rise in consciousness, something tells you that there’s only one. There is not you and I. There's only the I, and the I doesn't exist.
Therefore there is no thing that you can comprehend that exists.
There’s no such thing as existence.
There is no God that creates the universe. There is no being that causes anything
to happen.
The highest truth is, nothing is happening.
~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams
✅ You Are Not I
trust life mooji
If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it. ~Mooji
Yogi
A yogi has no particular path;
he simply renounces imagining things.
His mind then ceases of its own accord,
and the perfect state just naturally occurs.
Avadhuta Gita
nothing
When you are absolutely nothing,
you find galaxies of love,
oceans of joy, worlds of peace.
It is a paradox that you have to give
everything up to find everything.
That is what Christ means when he says:
‘He who loses everything, finds everything.’
The one who gives up his life for Truth,
finds everlasting Life.
Now you have to solve some of these
ancient paradoxes.
🌺 Mooji
witness thought
You have been told for thousands of years that the journey to God is very long.
The journey is not long. God is not far away. God is in your breath, God is in your heartbeat, God is in your blood, in your bones, in your marrow -- just a single step of closing your eyes and entering within yourself.
It may take a little time, because old habits die hard. Even if you close your eyes, thoughts will go on crowding you. Those thoughts are from the outside and the simple method, which has been followed by all the great seers of the world, is just to watch your thoughts -- just be a witness to them. Don't condemn them, don't justify them, don't rationalize them.
Remain aloof, remain indifferent, let them pass -- they will be gone.
And the day your mind is absolutely silent, with no disturbance, you have taken the first step that takes you to the temple of God.
The temple of God is made of your consciousness. You cannot go there with your friends, with your children, with your wife, with your parents.
Everybody has to go there alone.
🌷 OSHO
mind life
Live life as it comes, but don't be involved in it.
Let it come, don't reject it.
If nothing comes keep contented and sit quiet
This is a true Teaching.
Still some doubts and notions and unworthiness seem to arise.
Doubts and notions belong to the past. Now no more doubts or notions will touch you. Just laugh at them when they arise! Grace knows nothing about unworthiness or worthiness. Throw a flower or spit into the ocean and it responds the same. Unworthiness is just mind baggage. Unworthiness is only your ego postponing its own destruction.
The Self doesn't mind that the mind goes to Europe because Europe is in the Self. Go anywhere and you will be taken care of. The problems arise when the ego takes the burden of controlling itself. Identify with the Self and the mind will go nowhere.
🌹 Papaji
life
#Quotes
When you have life , you have to do something with it. When you are life what do you have to do ? It is simply unfolding.
#Mooji
thought
Where the first thought has left and the other is not arisen, that is Consciousness, that is Freedom, that is your own place, your own abode. You are always there, you see.
Shift attention, change the gestalt. Don't look at the figure, look at the background! If I put a big blackboard the size of a wall here and mark it with a white point and ask you, "What do you see?" Ninety-nine percent of you will not see the blackboard! (Laughs) You will say, "I see a little white spot." Such a big blackboard and its not seen, and only a little white spot, which is almost invisible is seen! Why? Because this is the fixed pattern of the mind. To look at the figure , not the blackboard, to look at the cloud , not at the sky; to look at the thought and not Consciousness.
That's all the teaching is. Always look to Consciousness. Always look to Consciousness and know this is what you are! This is your own place, your own abode, Stay Here. No one can touch you. Who can enter Here where you are? Even your mind cannot enter.
🌸 Papaji
knowledge self
When the eye of knowledge is opened,
a person realizes that he remains
ever in his own Self....
Ramana Maharshi....
Work
THE WORK WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF
While sleeping and meditation, the mind becomes silent. When we are awake, the mind will come out and thoughts will start emanating. It is not enough to silence the mind, but it shall be destroyed. We shall understand that mind is a stranger to us. The mind does not have a permanent status. Only the Soul is permanent. Mind is an illusion built over the Soul. We are not the working mind. If we understand this truth, then we need not worry about our work. It will happen automatically.
Note: Once we understand that we are not the mind and we are the Soul, then we can understand the great planning for the various activities of this world. Then we can understand that we, all of us, will be used as tools to carry out the various tasks. The planner and executer are the Soul and we are mere tools in their hand. Once we understand this, then we need not worry about, what is happening and what is not happening too.
(The Testament of Sri Ramana Maharishi)
2/04/2021
Quotes
#Quotes
When you have life , you have to do something with it. When you are life what do you have to do ? It is simply unfolding.
#Mooji
happiness
There’s always happiness. There’s always peace. There’s always love. It’s not something you have to acquire. It is
your real nature.
Until you experience your real nature, you practice things like self-inquiry.
I said something on Sunday that apparently has clicked with some of you. I received three calls about it.
What I said was simply this
“When you follow the I to its source, then all of your troubles, your problems, your life, your world, become dissolved in the source. Until that happens, realize that you are not the I that has problems."
That's the point I made. And it clicked with some of you. It is the I that sometimes feels depressed, or worried, or hurried, or upset,
or fearful. It is the personal I that feels that way, yet that's not you. You are not the personal I. Even though you are following the I, you are following a mirage, an optical illusion, for you are not the I. You are absolute reality, nirvana, sat-chit-ananda. You are not the I.
If you are not the I then who has the problems?
Who has the sickness?
Who has the doubt?
Who has the suspicions?
Who has all these worldly problems that most human beings have?
I do, but I am not the I.
Yet I has the problem.
Do you see what I mean?
I has the problem. Not me, but I.
In this case me is absolute reality, pure awareness, consciousness.
Therefore this is the best psycho-therapy that's ever been invented, for you can step back and watch the I having the problems. You can understand, realize, intelligently, that the real me, the real self, can never have a problem. It's impossible.
Yet I feel the problem.
You immediately catch yourself and realize “Yes, I feels the problem." You see, not me, but I, feels the problem.
Then you forget for a while and you say “I feel depressed." And you catch yourself
and you laugh. You say “I feels depressed. I feels out of sort. Not me, but I." Then after a little while you forget again, and you say “I feel sick.” Then you remember. You say “I feels sick. Not me, but I."
You do this all day long. Finally what will happen is that you will separate your self from I. You will no longer look at your body as I. You will no longer look at your mind as I. When you realize that I is everything in the universe, I must also be the body and the mind.
You then realize that you are not the body and you are not the mind, but I is. I is
the body and I is the mind. I is all the problems. You separate yourself. You watch. You observe I having all these
problems, and pretty soon you're having a good laugh at yourself.
You will feel freedom.
If you practice this, I can assure you that you will feel a freedom that you never felt before.
You will feel omnipresent.
You will feel an indwelling bliss.
You will come to see that the body does not exist, as a body. You will look at yourself and see the body, but you will laugh. You will know it's not your body. There is no body. It is like the water in the mirage. There is no water. It only appears so. That's the way the body is. You appear to have a body, but you don't really. I has the body. And I doesn't really exist.
Do you see this revelation now?
There’s no I, there's no body. Then what gets old and dies? What gets sick? What
has mental anguish? What becomes depressed? And the answer is “Nothing." There’s no one to get depressed.
There’s no one to die. There’s no one to have mental anguish. There’s no one left to do anything. You're home free.
When you feel this way, there’s nowhere to go, because everywhere you go, you are the self. No thing makes you happier than another thing. It's all the same. You no longer differentiate between objects. All the objects become like a piece of clay that you’ve taken to make objects out of, but you realize it all comes from the same piece of clay.
That's how it is with your life. There’s no one doing anything. There’s absolutely nothing to do. When I say there's absolutely nothing to do, I do not necessarily mean you're going to sit still and sit in one chair all day long. This appears paradoxical. Your body will appear to be doing things, and yet you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt
that there’s no one doing anything.
Think about that. That’s a very important point. You will appear to go to the movies, if you have a job to go to work, to come home, to get married, to get divorced, to go swimming, to do whatever you do. Yet you will know, no one is doing anything.
How can that be?
How can you appear to be doing something, yet nothing is being done.
The sky appears blue, and yet upon investigation there's no sky and there’s no blue. So you appear to be doing something, but there’s no doer. There is really no one who needs to do anything, or does anything. Space and time have been eliminated. You are in an entirely different dimension, where you appear as if you are moving, working,
experiencing, and there’s nothing being done.
I admit that state is difficult to think of, yet it is the truth. No one has ever done anything. There’s only one, and that one is all-pervading and omnipresent. There’s only one. If that one is all-pervading and omnipresent, where is there room to do anything?
Think of it this way. Look at it this way. If you were the only one in the universe, and you were the size of the universe, all of the planets, the stars, the moon, the earth, people, places and things would be within you. You would have no space to do anything. Yet everything is being done within yourself. It's the same thing. This is really the truth about you.
You are the microcosm and the macrocosm. When you are working in duality, in ignorance, you appear to be a
small human being, and you look around you, and you see billions of human beings just like you. You argue with them. You fight with them. You love them. You do all kinds of activities with fellow human beings. But as you work on yourself, and as you begin to rise in consciousness, something tells you that there’s only one. There is not you and I. There's only the I, and the I doesn't exist.
Therefore there is no thing that you can comprehend that exists.
There’s no such thing as existence.
There is no God that creates the universe. There is no being that causes anything
to happen.
The highest truth is, nothing is happening.
~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams
✅ You Are Not I
enjoy
In knowing Reality you can easily enjoy the illusory world. Inside you abide alone, and yet you play in the outside lila [illusory world]. The world is here to enjoy!
H.W.L. Poonja
relax
"Just relax more, and leave everything in the hands of existence.
A total trust and a complete passivity.
Your absence is the presence of godliness.
The moment you are not, the miracle has happened." - Osho 💜
think
Don't think you must run away from conditioning or you must run away from your job or you must leave your family or you must do anything like this .
Never concern yourself with the body . Mentally learn to let go ; to think less. Cut down on your thinking and your thoughts.
Some of you still believe that if you do not think about something, it will never happen. This is not true. As a matter of fact it is reverse. If you do not think, then the true nature of yourself will be revealed, and the true nature of the universe will be revealed.
Robert Adams
शब्द १
श्री गुरू ची सत्य माता पिता
अनका जन्मीचा पाता त्राता
तो ची हरी हर आणि विधाता
कर्ता करवीता ही तोच।।
2/02/2021
truth
You ask me: What happened when you became enlightened?
I laughed, a real uproarious laugh, seeing the whole absurdity of trying to be enlightened. The whole thing is ridiculous because we are born enlightened, and to try for something that is already the case is the most absurd thing. If you already have it, you cannot achieve it; only those things can be achieved which you don’t have, which are not intrinsic parts of your being. But enlightenment is your very nature.
I laughed, a real uproarious laugh, seeing the whole absurdity of trying to be enlightened. The whole thing is ridiculous because we are born enlightened, and to try for something that is already the case is the most absurd thing. If you already have it, you cannot achieve it; only those things can be achieved which you don’t have, which are not intrinsic parts of your being. But enlightenment is your very nature.
***
I had struggled for it for many lives—it had been the only target for many many lives. And I had done everything that is possible to do to attain it, but I had always failed. It was bound to be so—because it cannot be an attainment. It is your nature, so how can it be your attainment? It cannot be made an ambition.
Mind is ambitious—ambitious for money, for power, for prestige. And then one day, when it gets fed up with all these extrovert activities, it becomes ambitious for enlightenment, for liberation, for nirvana, for God. But the same ambition has come back; only the object he changed. First the object was outside, now the object is inside. But your attitude, your approach has not changed; you are the same person in the same rut, in the same routine.
Mind is ambitious—ambitious for money, for power, for prestige. And then one day, when it gets fed up with all these extrovert activities, it becomes ambitious for enlightenment, for liberation, for nirvana, for God. But the same ambition has come back; only the object he changed. First the object was outside, now the object is inside. But your attitude, your approach has not changed; you are the same person in the same rut, in the same routine.
***
“The day I became enlightened” simply means the day I realized that there is nothing to achieve, there is nowhere to go, there is nothing to be done. We are already divine and we are already perfect—as we are. No improvement is needed, no improvement at all. God never creates anybody imperfect. Even if you come across an imperfect man, you will see that his imperfection is perfect. God never creates any imperfect thing.
I have heard about a Zen Master Bokuju who was telling this truth to his disciples, that all is perfect. A man stood up—very old, a hunchback—and he said, “What about me? I am a hunchback. What do you say about me?” Bokuju said, “I have never seen such a perfect hunchback in my life.”
When I say “the day I achieved enlightenment,” I am using wrong language—because there is no other language, because our language is created by us. It consists of the words “achievement,” “attainment,” “goals,” “improvement” “progress,” “evolution.” Our languages are not created by the enlightened people; and in fact they cannot create it even if they want to because enlightenment happens in silence. How can you bring that silence into words? And whatsoever you do, the words are going to destroy something of that silence.
I have heard about a Zen Master Bokuju who was telling this truth to his disciples, that all is perfect. A man stood up—very old, a hunchback—and he said, “What about me? I am a hunchback. What do you say about me?” Bokuju said, “I have never seen such a perfect hunchback in my life.”
When I say “the day I achieved enlightenment,” I am using wrong language—because there is no other language, because our language is created by us. It consists of the words “achievement,” “attainment,” “goals,” “improvement” “progress,” “evolution.” Our languages are not created by the enlightened people; and in fact they cannot create it even if they want to because enlightenment happens in silence. How can you bring that silence into words? And whatsoever you do, the words are going to destroy something of that silence.
****
Lao Tzu says: The moment truth is asserted it becomes false. There is no way to communicate truth. But language has to be used; there is no other way. So we always have to use the language with the condition that it cannot be adequate to the experience. Hence I say “the day I achieved my enlightenment.” It is neither an achievement nor mine.
Yes, it happens like that! Out of nowhere suddenly the darkness, suddenly the light, and you cannot do anything. You can just watch.
I laughed that day because of all my stupid ridiculous efforts to attain it. I laughed on that day at myself, and I laughed on that day at the whole of humanity, because everybody is trying to achieve, everybody is trying to reach, everybody is trying to improve.
To me it happened in a state of total relaxation—it always happens in that state. I had tried everything. And then, seeing the futility of all effort, I dropped…I dropped the whole project, I forgot all about it. For seven days I lived as ordinarily as possible.
Yes, it happens like that! Out of nowhere suddenly the darkness, suddenly the light, and you cannot do anything. You can just watch.
I laughed that day because of all my stupid ridiculous efforts to attain it. I laughed on that day at myself, and I laughed on that day at the whole of humanity, because everybody is trying to achieve, everybody is trying to reach, everybody is trying to improve.
To me it happened in a state of total relaxation—it always happens in that state. I had tried everything. And then, seeing the futility of all effort, I dropped…I dropped the whole project, I forgot all about it. For seven days I lived as ordinarily as possible.
be here and now
"Be here now and grace comes of its own accord. Whenever you are here now, suddenly you will find tremendous grace, harmony, equilibrium, a melody in your being" - Osho 💜
watcher
"Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there. It is not in the sky nor in the all-pervading ether. God is all that is great and wonderful; I am nothing, have nothing, can do nothing. Yet all comes out of me - the source is me; the root, the origin is me."
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Ramana & Robert
Robert Adams also added that he did not know what to do. He could not share what was happening with anyone. Then, something strange took place. Whenever he wanted anything, whether it was a pencil, a chocolate or a violin, it would appear through someone when he uttered the word „God‟ three times. If he found that someone needed a pencil in class, he would utter „God‟ three times and the pencil would be there and he would hand over the pencil to the person who needed it. It happened during his exams too. He was not interested in studying. During his exams, he would utter „God‟ three times, and the answers would appear before him and he would write them down. This is how he passed the exams.
When writing a mathematics paper for which he was not prepared, he did the same thing. He held before him the question paper and uttered „God‟ three times. He expected the answers to appear as always, but what happened was something entirely different: “The whole room was filled with a light a thousand times more brilliant than the sun. It was a beautiful, warm and shining glow. Everything and everyone in the room was immersed in the light. All the children seemed to be mere particles of light, and I found myself melting into a radiant being of consciousness. I then merged into consciousness. It was not an out of the body experience. This was a completely different experience. I realized that I was not my body. What appeared to be my body was not real. I went beyond the light into pure radiant consciousness. I became consciousness and my individuality merged into pure and absolute bliss. I expanded and became the universe. The feeling was indescribable. It was total bliss and total joy.”
After this experience, Robert Adams could no longer carry on all his activities as usual. Being a teenager, he wanted someone to guide him. At that time, people regarded Joel Goldsmith as a true Christian mystic. Many people suggested that he approach Joel Goldsmith and therefore he went there. (Years later, Joel Goldsmith kept constant contact with Arthur Osborne and me. He contributed some original and brilliant articles to almost every issue of The Mountain Path.) Joel Goldsmith listened to Robert Adams and suggested, “Go to Paramahamsa Yogananda in Encinitas. He will guide you.” Robert Adams went to Encinitas in a state of excitement and ecstasy.
A strange thing happened. There were many people in the presence of Paramahamsa Yogananda. Robert, however, was standing outside. Paramahamsa told his secretary, “There is a boy outside. Call him in.” Robert Adams prostrated before the great man and said, “You are my guru.” Paramahamsa answered, “No, I am not your guru. Your guru is Sri Ramana Maharshi. The Maharshi is not well, go to him immediately.” After coming out, Robert felt the need to read a book in the library. He was browsing through the philosophy section, when the book, Who am I?, caught his attention. When he saw the picture of Ramana Maharshi on the book, his hair stood on end, because this was the very person who used to appear before his crib and speak to him. So, with the strong recommendation of Paramahamsa Yogananda, he reached Arunachala in 1947.
Here is an account of what happened in the presence of Ramana Maharshi: “I arrived in Arunachala at the age of eighteen. I took with me some flowers and a bag full of fruits and offered them at the feet of the Maharshi. He looked at me and smiled; I returned the smile. The very first look of the Maharshi engulfed me in a flood of light, peace, quietude and bliss and it opened my inner eye and I instantly recognized the meaning and purpose of all my experiences - that I was never the body and that I was ever the unborn Self, the eternal silence. The Maharshi exuded compassion, love and bliss on the very first day. He looked at me and asked whether I had eaten breakfast, and when I said, „No‟, he asked the attendant to bring fruits and porridge and told me to eat. I lay down and went to sleep in the Old Hall itself, and when I woke up, the Maharshi guided me to a shack and asked me to take rest. In the evening too, he sent me food. I ate and again went to sleep. The Maharshi himself paid great attention to what was needed for my body to rest and relax.”
The next morning, Robert went to the Old Hall to meet Bhagavan. What happened in the presence of the Maharshi guided him deep within, while the silence and quietude of Bhagavan engulfed him. When he entered the hall, he saw Bhagavan‟s attendant, Krishnaswami, approaching Bhagavan again and again to complain about some people. After some time, Bhagavan looked sternly at Krishnaswami and said, “Remember the purpose for which you have come here. Attend to it. Keep quiet!‟” Robert took this as his very first upadesa, or instruction, from Bhagavan. He did not take it as an instruction given to Krishnaswami. From then on, every moment of the three years he stayed there was precious. He dived within, and remained in a state of silence; he neither interfered in anyone‟s personal affairs, nor in the ashram management. Inwardly, he was established in truth and outwardly he was a recluse. There was no need for him to talk to anyone, not even to Bhagavan.
This is why nobody knew Robert Adams, even though he stayed for three years in Arunachala. Later, when I went to verify, one or two old devotees said that there was a young fellow who was possibly mad. His name was, perhaps, Robert Adams. They also said that he followed Bhagavan‟s teachings and did not have anything to do with others. He never spoke, for all the time he was doing sadhana, remaining in that state. Robert himself shared with me the fact that even Bhagavan dropping his body did not affect him because he saw Bhagavan only as the Self. Even when Bhagavan was present physically, he experienced Bhagavan only as the Self. So, he felt no sorrow or loss now as he plunged deeper and deeper into the Self.
Once, Bhagavan appeared in Robert Adam‟s dream and said, “Go to Benares. There is an old swami there. Stay with him.” The swami was ninety years old. Robert went to Benares and sat in his presence every day. No conversation was necessary. One day, the swami informed people who had gathered before him, “I know my end is approaching in three days. I have not completed my mission. The moment I drop my body, a youth on the road will also die for no reason whatsoever. I will reside in his body and continue my mission.” On the third day, just after the swami dropped his body, a young boy around fourteen or fifteen years of age was crossing the road. He suddenly had fits and died. After around twenty minutes, the boy woke up and disappeared into the forest. This gave further meaning to Robert‟s belief in the Self. The appearance or the disappearance of the body did not in any way concern him.
Robert wandered around India, meeting with sages and saints. He did this for a few years. Then, Bhagavan appeared once again in his dream and said, “Go back to your country and spread the teaching of Self Enquiry, how to attain Self realization and how to stay in the state of „I AM‟ to seekers in America.”
Bhagavan very specifically stated, “Do not start an institution. Do not be a guru. No publicity! If more than fifteen people gather around you, go away from that town and continue to spread the teaching elsewhere.” Robert Adams travelled, but there were no articles about him and no publicity. None except a select few knew about him. On reaching Hollywood, he was afflicted by Parkinson‟s disease and was forced to remain there. A beautiful woman named Mary, along with her friends, attended on him. They also helped him disseminate the teachings of Bhagavan‟s Self Enquiry. He conducted satsangs and had small gatherings. His presence was very powerful. He would sit in the hall in silence for twenty minutes and everyone around him would become absolutely silent. It did not matter how many people were gathered there, or who was there. Ultimately, after the period of silence, Robert would speak for a few minutes. When I wrote to Robert Adams asking for permission to meet him, he replied, “You can meet me in Los Angeles.”
~ from Ramana Periya Puranam book
2/01/2021
after realising self
Even after realising the Self, don't be surprised if your mind sends thoughts like: `Now, you are boring!’ or `You are always going to be alone,’ or, `It cannot be this simple,’ whatever might catch your attention, it will try. In fact, it will keep sending little messages to see which key works to break your resolve so that you return to the old false identity; such is the game of existence.
The fire of the mind may go out, but its smoke lingers on awhile. Don't panic, at a certain point you may even see the humor in it. Simply, remain as the unchanging, imageless Self you are.
🌻 Mooji
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