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Nurtureoneslife:

It is false to speak of Realisation. 

What is there to realise? 

The real is as it is, ever. 

How to real-ise it? 

All that is required is this. 

We have real-ised the unreal, i.e., regarded as real what is unreal. We have to give up this attitude. 

That is all that is required for us to attain jnana. 

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 akasa [space] in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the akasa there. 

The akasa was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras which are inside us, and when all of them have been given up, the Self will shine, alone.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi 

From ‘Day by Day with Bhagavan', 9-1-46 Afternoon ❤️

There is no entity by the name mind. Because of the emergence of thoughts we surmise something from which they start. That we term mind. When we probe to see what it is, there is nothing like it. After it has vanished, Peace will be found to remain eternal.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

Verse 22  Upadēśa Undiyār by Ramana Maharshi 

Since body, mind, intellect, life and darkness are all jaḍa and asat, they are not ‘I’, which is sat.

Michael James notes: Since [the five sheaths, namely] body, life, mind, intellect and darkness [consisting of viṣaya-vāsanās, inclinations or desires to be aware of things other than oneself] are all jaḍa [non-aware] and asat [unreal or non-existent], they are not ‘I’, which is [cit, what is aware, and] sat [what actually exists].

A person begins with dissatisfaction. 

Not content with the world.

he seeks satisfaction of desires by prayers to God; 

his mind is purified; 

he longs to know God more than to satisfy his carnal desires. 

Then God's Grace begins to manifest. 

God takes the form of a Guru and appears to the devotee; teaches him the Truth; 

purifies the mind by his teachings and contact; 

the mind gains strength, is able to turn inward; 

with meditation it is purified yet further, 

and eventually remains still without the least ripple. 

That stillness is the Self. 

The Guru is both exterior and interior.

 From the exterior he gives a push to the mind to turn inward; from the interior he pulls the mind towards the Self 

and helps the mind to achieve quietness. 

That is Grace. 

Hence there is no difference between God, Guru and Self.

 ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi ~ Talk 198

Devotee: Is the Universal Soul (Paramatma) always different from us?

Maharshi: That is the common belief, but it is wrong. Think of Him as not different from you, and then you achieve identity of Self with God.

(Talk 31)

God self is here and now. Witness it.

“Meditation is not a conditioning; it is simply sitting silently, doing nothing, just enjoying the silence -- the silence of the night, the silence of the early morning... And slowly, slowly you become acquainted with the silence that pervades your inner being. Then the moment you close your eyes you fall into the pool of a silent lake, which is fathomless. 

And out of that silence you are rejuvenated every moment.Out of that silence comes your love, comes your beauty, comes a special depth to your eyes, and a self-respect.”

OSHO|"Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries"

There is no need to avoid false thoughts or seek true ones, because ALL thought is spontaneous, involuntary and without substance.

It is neither to be accepted nor rejected but IGNORED, so that it disappears as spontaneously as it appeared.

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For the sage, there is no illusion of the manifest universe at all and there is therefore no question of the duality called relationship, male/female, good/bad or otherwise.

He moves through life as if it is real, but never gets involved because his mind is always whole.

 

Ramesh Balsekar

17th May