notes 2.1

What is the nature of Awareness?

The nature of Awareness is existence-consciousness-bliss

When will the realization of the Self be gained?

When the world which is what-is-seen has been removed, there will be realization of the Self which is the seer.

Will there not be realization of the Self even while the world is there (taken as real)?

There will not be.

Why?

The seer and the object seen are like the rope and the snake. 

Just as the knowledge of the rope which is the substrate will not arise unless the false knowledge of the illusory serpent goes, 

so the realization of the Self which is the substrate will not be gained unless the belief that the world is real is removed.

When will the world which is the object seen be removed?

When the mind, which is the cause of all cognition’s and of all actions, becomes quiescent, the world will disappear.

- Who Am I? (Nan Yar?) ( 3 -7 )

The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

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04)• A peaceful attitude, together with a ‘silent-flow’ of mind towards undeviating abidance in Self, Sat-Chit, is the best worship of Shiva.

165)• The real glory of Shiva Bhakti is the salvation of the devotee from the damnation caused by the delusion, “I am this filthy body”. This is the reason why Shiva accepted Kannappa’s(one of the devotee who was very proud of his beautiful eyes) eyes when he offered them.

190)• O people, not knowing that Shiva is dwelling within you, you fly about like birds from one holy place to another [seeking His Darshan]. Consciousness, when abiding still in the Heart, is the Supreme Shiva.

197)• Having eradicated the ego, which was wandering like a ghost in delusion, and having destroyed the duality of the sentient and the insentient, the soul which is thus drowned and well soaked in the light of the pure and blissful Sahaja Samadhi, is the Supreme Shiva.

 

198)• When the ego, the feeling of being separate entity, is removed, chittam remains as Shivam, the Supreme Chitta, having merged within the Heart as “I am Consciousness Itself”, and having thus destroyed all the false and dense mental conceptions.

296)• Having annihilated the delusive mind which always dwells upon worldly things, having killed the restless ego, and having completely erased the worldly vasanas, shine as Shiva, the pure Consciousness Itself.

334)• Hiding His own Form, taking another form as a human being, Lord Shiva enters the group of His enlightened devotees, who have staunch devotion to Him, as if He were one among them, taking immense pleasure in their holy company.

353)• Those who have sacrificed their mind as an offering to Shiva in the blazing fire of the supreme Jnana-Tapas [i.e. Self-enquiry], are Shiva Himself. Knowing thus, we should also perform this Sacrifice and attain the State of formless Shiva.

459)• When the triads [seer- seen- seeing, knower- known- knowing] disappear due to the destruction of the base, the foolish ego, and when the manyness [the states of waking and dream] is thus completely destroyed, the pure, broad Daylight [Self] that then shines like a hundred suns is the Night of Siva [Sivarathri].

487)• Unconditionally place your mind at the Feet of the Lord who has Sakti on His left. Then, since the tricky ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are dead, the glorious, blissful Supreme Self will shine triumphantly.

~Ramana Maharshi 

•Verses from Guru Vachaka Kovai 

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🍃🌸Wishing each and everyone of you a very auspicious Maha Shivaratri ! May on this divine day, you all be blessed with Self Knowledge and Devotion to the Shiva that resides within you.🌸🍃

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It is the human mind that creates its own difficulties and then cries for help .  #ramanamaharshi

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Nurtureoneslife:

A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are. This is your highest possibility.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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"When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, 

then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. 

It's only ever Self."

~ Master Mooji

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It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'

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Questioner: How can I go through my devotional practices when I have always to think of my daily bread?

Sri Ramakrishna: He for whom you work will supply you with your necessaries. God made provisions for your support before He sent you into this world.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover. Mooji

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No eyes can see  

nor can any word convey  

that which you truly are. 

And yet you undeniably exist.  

Always.

~ Mooji

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