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Nurtureoneslife:

If you are unhappy you need to check if one of these is lacking: Tapa (penance), Vairagya (dispassion), Sharanagati (surrender).

- Tapas is agreeing with the moment, total acceptance of pleasant or unpleasant situations.

- Vairagya means I want nothing and I am nothing.

- Sharanagati is "I am here for You, for Your joy."

If you are grumbling then these are lacking, because when you accept the situation you cannot grumble; when you take it as Tapa you will not grumble; when you come from a state dispassion ("I don't want anything") you don't grumble; and if you are surrendered you will have no complaints.

All these three (Tapas, Vairagya and surrender) purify your mind and uplift you in joy

"SUMMA IRU"

Silence is said to be the Highest teaching of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. 

For those who are not able reap the full benefit of this Silence, He prescribed "Summa Iru" which is supposed to be his highest 'Verbal Teaching'. 

This has been variously translated as "Just Be", "Simply Be", "Keep Quiet", "Be Still".

Death is not our nature. 

Our nature is eternity - to be free of death and rebirth,

of sorrow and suffering.

~ Papaji

The perceiver can never be perceived and what is perceived, cannot be the perceiver.

It is only the One, cosmic awareness, that does the perceiving through all body-mind organisms.

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Understanding can come only at the appropriate time and no one can say when.

All that can be said, is that the understanding cannot come, so long as there is expectation, so long as there is a "me" wanting it.

 

Ramesh Balsekar

3rd August