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Nurtureoneslife:

"There are forces working for you much more than you work for yourself." Mooji

"There is no process to become silent. 

To disturb your mind you need process, 

but to stay silent there is no process. 

Stay in satsang, stay quiet, always have love with your own Self. 

You are not to win it by any attempt or effort. 

Simply stay quiet. 

If any thought rises, simply find out where it came from."

~ Papaji

A realised one sends out waves of spiritual influence which draw many people towards him.

Ramana Maharani 'Conscious Immortality'

Know that these countless things are pictures in a dream 

and none is real apart from the beholder. 

Shun this phantom world of names and forms 

and dwell in the pure, blissful being of Awareness.

(Guru Vachaka Kovai)

Significance of Bharat

Sadhguru: What kept us together longer than any other nation on the planet is that essentially, we have always been a land of seekers – seekers of truth and liberation. In this seeking, we found oneness. When we look for sameness, we try to become a land of believers. This seeking is not something that we invented. It is the nature of human intelligence to want to know, realize, and liberate itself.

This nation was based on this foundation that we are seekers. As a seeker, you are not aligned to a particular thing on the outside but to the life process within you, and that never goes wrong. No matter how badly you contaminate human beings with belief systems and brainwash them, once their survival is taken care of, they always want to know the nature of their existence and of everything around them. Whether you call it science, spiritual process, inquiry, or quest, essentially, human intelligence wants to transcend its present limitations, wants to liberate itself from the fetters in which we exist right now. We built our nation on this longing, this seeking. Our nationhood cannot be destroyed as long as we keep this seeking alive. If we do not try to transform ourselves towards sameness, we will always be one.

Gold is not an ornament, but the ornament is nothing but gold. Whatever shape the ornament  may assume and however different the ornaments are, there is only one reality, namely gold. So also with the bodies and the Self. The single reality is the Self. 

To identify oneself with the body and yet to seek happiness is like attempting to cross a river on the back of an alligator. The body identity is due to extroversion and the wandering of the mind. To continue in that state will only keep one in an endless tangle and there will be no peace. 

Seek your source, merge in the Self and remain all alone.- Ramana Maharshi (Talks 396)

The more we control thought, activity and food, the more we will be able to control sleep. But moderation ought to be the rule for the sadhak (aspirant), as explained in the Gita. 

As explained in the Gita, sleep is the first obstacle for all sadhakas. The second obstacle is said to be vikshepa, or the sense objects of the world which divert one’s attention. The third is said to be kashaya or thoughts about previous experiences with sense objects. The fourth, ananda (bliss), is also called an obstacle, because in that state a feeling of separation from the source of ananda, making the enjoyer say, ‘I am enjoying ananda,' is present. Even this has to be surmounted, and the final stage of samadhana or samadhi has to be reached, where one becomes ananda, or One with the Reality, and the duality of enjoyer and enjoyment ceases in the ocean of Satchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss) or the Self.

Sri Ramana Maharshi