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Nurtureoneslife:

SADNESS IS NOT NATURAL

Sadness is always a sign that you're believing a stressful 

thought that isn't true for you. It's a constriction, and it feels bad. 

Conventional wisdom says differently, but the truth is that sadness isn't rational, it isn't a natural response, and it can't ever help you. It just indicates the loss of reality, the loss of the awareness of love. 

Sadness is the war with what IS. It's a tantrum. You can experience it only when you're arguing with God. When the mind is clear, there isn't any sadness. There can't be. 

What does compassion look like? At a funeral, just eat the cake. You don't have to know what to do. It's revealed to you. 

Someone comes into your arms, and the kind words speak 

themselves; you're not doing it. Compassion isn't a doing. 

Whether or not you're suffering over their suffering, you're standing or you're sitting. But one way you're comfortable, the other way you're not.

You don’t have to feel bad to act kindly. On the contrary:

the less you suffer the kinder you naturally become. And if compassion means wanting others to be free of suffering, how can you want for others what you won’t give yourself?

- Byron Katie, A Thousand Names for Joy

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. ~Adyashanti

Oh Arjuna, I am the Self

indwelling in the hearts of all beings.

I am thus the beginning, the middle,

as also the end of all beings.

~ Sri Krishna ,Bhagavad Gita :  X-20

According to Bhagavan Ramana,

this verse is the most important in the entire Bhagavad Gita.

In a dream, I may see several people and all of them are not only my creations (creations of my mind) but I constitute the material cause out of which all these people have been created (just as the mud is the material cause for a mud- pot).

In other words, all the dream figures are my mental imaginations. (mere thoughts.)

It is I who appear as having been born

as the various people in the dream,

I only run their lives in the dream as the Self in all those

bodies and I also appear as having died one day.

In the same way, it is the one Absolute Consciousness which appears as several beings in the world of the waking state (the

beginning) , runs the lives as individuals (the middle) and appears as subject to death (the end) one day.

In reality there is nothing but that one Consciousness

which is the absolute truth.

There is no world apart from that one Consciousness (Self).

“The Pure being is the Reality. -

The Pure Being cannot be otherwise than Consciousness. Otherwise you cannot say that you exist.

Therefore Consciousness is the reality.

When that consciousness is associated 

with upadhis you speak of Self consciousness, 

unconsciousness, human consciousness, dog consciousness,

tree consciousness and so on.

The unfaltering common factor in all of them is Consciousness.” (Talk no 591).

‘Consciousness’ means to be aware that ‘I exist’,

This awareness of our existence is consciousness.

~ from Gita Sarah book

(Commentary on the slokas of Bhagavad Gita selected

by Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi)

There is a Divine force (Chaitanya Sakti) which is the source of all things. All other qualities cannot  be discarded unless we get hold of that force. Sadhana is required to get hold of that force. Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi