one pointed

Devotee.: A number of asanas are mentioned. Which of them is the best?

Maharshi: One-pointedness of mind is the best posture.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.

sage

"A sage who has realised the Atman beholds that all objects and all beings are not distant from his own Self and that his Atman is the Atman of all. The Atman is the common consciousness in all beings"

🕉 Isavasya Upanishad

don't move your mind

Don't move, don't move, 

don't move your mind. 

That is all.

Keeping QUIET is the Highest Tapas, 

the Greatest Yoga,

and the most beautiful Devotion.

This is BEING. 

* Papaji - The Truth Is *

🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏🔥🙏

past

Never think much about the past. That which is gone, is gone; you cannot undo it. If you constantly think about it, you destroy your present and your future too, because that guilt will always be a barrier on love. Nothing can be done about it, so guilt is absurd. 

What can you do? All that you can do is, please don’t repeat the same pattern again -that’s all.Whatsoever has happened had to happen. The situation was such that it had to happen; it was impossible to avoid it. If it were possible to avoid it, it would have been avoided.

This feeling of guilt is also part of the egoistic mind; it is nothing spiritual. Religions have been exploiting it, but it has nothing to do with spirituality. It simply says that you could have done otherwise. It is an ego feeling; as if you are not helpless, as if you were in control, as if it were your decision that you do this, as if it were in your hands not to do this and to do otherwise.

Nothing is in your hands. You yourself are not in your hands. Things are happening; nothing is being done. Once you understand this, guilt disappears. Sometimes you can cry and weep for something, but deep down you know it had to happen because you are helpless, a part of such a great totality - and you are such a tiny part. It is like when there is a leaf on a tree, and a strong wind comes and the leaf is separated from the tree. Now the leaf thinks a thousand and one things -that it could have been that way and not this way; that this separation could have been avoided. What can a leaf do? The wind was too strong.

The guilt goes on giving you the wrong notion that you are powerful, that you are capable of doing something. Guilt is the shadow of the ego: you could not change it, and now you are feeling guilty for it. If you look deep into it you will see that you were helpless, and the whole experience will help you become less egoistic.

If you go on watching the shape things take, and the forms that arise, and the happenings that happen, by and by you drop your ego. Love happens - separation too. In fact man cannot do anything. The very notion that we can do is wrong, and out of that wrong concept many more wrong concepts arise. So look at the base. And this I call a spiritual attitude - when you understand that nothing can be done; when  you understand that you are just a tiny part of such a tremendous vastness.such a tiny part of such a vast mechanism...

OSHO | Above All, Don’t Dobble

life of that

One day, Major Chadwick who had settled down at the Ashram and had never even thought of going back to England, called Sri K Natesan and requested him to show Sri Bhagavan a piece of paper, in which he had given a definition for Self-Realisation. Sri Bhagavan read it and appreciated it very much. 

The slip of paper contained the words: "Self-realization: It is the death while yet alive of that which lives after death." 

Moments Remembered by Sri V Ganesan

संत वाणी

जागृत होई आत्मयरामा ।

अनामा सच्चितसुखघनधामा ।।

गुरु साक्षात परब्रम्ह ।

अखिल व्यापूनी उरलासी ।। धृ ।।

आरतीच्या या ध्रुवपदात सद्गुरू पिठले महाराज प्रत्येकाचे अंतस्थ आत्मारामाला जागृत करण्याचे आवाहन करत आहेत. 

प्रत्येक जण स्वतःला शरीर व मन समजत आहे, हे अज्ञान आहे, ही आत्मस्वरुपाप्रति निद्रा आहे. उठा, जागे व्हा म्हणजे तुम्ही शरीर-मन नसुन प्रत्यक्ष परब्रम्ह, आत्माराम आहात हे समजुन घ्या ! इश्वराचा शोध तुमच्या आत घ्या बाहेर नाही. येशु ख्रिस्त म्हणतात स्वर्गाचे राज्य तुमच्या आत आहे, बुद्ध सांगतात तटस्थ राहून मनातील भाव-भावनांचे निरीक्षण करा, जैन धर्मात महावीरही आत वळायलाच सांगताहेत ! 

स्वामी सतत म्हणायचे-अरे कस्तुरी मृग बेभान होवुन फीरतोय पण स्वतःच्या आतुन सुगंध येतोय हे जाणत नाही ! त्याप्रमाणे तुम्ही-आम्ही स्वतःच्या आतील इश्वराला विसरून त्याला बाहेर शोधतोय ! तेंव्हा इश्वराचा शोध आपापल्या आत घ्या कारण तुम्हीच स्वतः परब्रम्ह आहात! 

पुढे आपल्या सर्वांच्या आत्मरुपाचे वर्णन ते करतात-त्या स्वरूपाला कुठलेही नाव, रंग, आकार, रुप, जात-धर्म-लिंग काही नाहीये. परंतु सत् म्हणजे ते आहे, चित् म्हणजे ते चैतन्यच आहे आणि ते घनदाट सुखाने भरलेले एकमेव असे आश्रयाचे धाम आहे आणि तेथेच आपल्याला आराम मिळेल! 

गुरु साक्षात परब्रम्ह याचा अर्थ आपण जाणतो, तो अर्थ आहेच, परंतु पिठले महाराजांनी हे शब्द आपल्या अंतस्थ आत्मारामाचे वर्णन करण्यासाठी काढले आहेत, कोणत्या गुरु साठी नाही ! येथे थोडा विचार करावा, जर गुरु साक्षात परब्रम्ह आहे आणि तो समस्त चराचराला व्यापुन उरलाय तर मग आपण सर्व चराचरामध्ये सामील आहोतच, तर तोच परब्रम्ह गुरु तुम्हा-आम्हाला अंतर्बाह्य व्यापुन आहे म्हणजे आपण सर्वं परब्रम्हस्वरूपच आहोत हे पिठले महाराजाना या ध्रुवपदात सुचवावयाचे आहे !

तुमचे-आमचे अंतस्थ स्वरुप हेच सद्गुरू आहे आणि तेच परब्रम्ह आहे, प्रत्येकाने आपल्या आत्मारामाचीच भक्ती करावी, भक्ती म्हणजे जो विभक्त नाही तो-इश्वरापासुन स्वतःला वेगळा न मानणे- तीच गुरूची, परब्रम्हाची खरी भक्ती आहे, हे पिठले महाराजांना सुचवायचे आहे 

इराकमधील सुफी संत राबिया एके दिवशी गल्लीमध्ये काहीतरी शोधू लागली, सर्व गल्ली तीच्या शोधात सामील झाली. खूप वेळाने एकाने विचारले, राबीया, तु काय शोधते आहेस? राबीया म्हणाली सुई शोधते आहे, त्याने परत विचारले, सुई हरवली कोठे आहे? राबीया म्हणाली घरामध्ये ! यावर सर्वजण राबीयाच्या वेडेपणाबद्दल हसु लागले. मग राबीया त्यानां म्हणाली-अरे वा तुम्ही सर्व शहाणे दिसताय, मग आत असलेला परमात्मा बाहेर का शोधतायरे वेड्यासारखा ? यावर सर्व जण चूप झाले !

मुख्य दिशा चार, उपदीशा चार, वर आणि खाली दोन अश्शा दहाच दिशा आपल्याला माहीत आहेत, कोणत्याही धार्मिक विधीमध्ये आपण या दहा दिशांना अक्षता टाकून नमस्कार करतो परंतु स्वतःच्या आत म्हणजे अकरावी दिशा आपण कधीच विचारात घेत नाही ! कदाचित त्यामुळेच वारकरी संप्रदायात एकादशी करण्याची प्रथा असेल कारण एकादशी म्हणजे अकरावी तिथी, अकरावी दिशा-आत शोधा ! त्या दिशेकडे फक्त खरे सद्गुरूच तुम्हाला आम्हाला वळवु शकतात, आणि ती आत्मारामाची दिशाच पिठले महाराज दाखवत आहेत जी अंधाराकडून प्रकाशाकडे आणि मृत्यु कडून अमरत्त्वाकडे नेते.

#श्रीस्वामी_समर्थ 

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Pleased God

"Spit on public opinion, look towards God and try to please him.

If the God is pleased, then the whole world is pleased."

- Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa dev.

The Three Vehicles of Self-Realization

The Three Vehicles of Self-Realization

After you learn the four principles, and they become a living embodiment within yourself, then you learn about the three vehicles, which carry you over the ocean of samsara, into the land of Self-realization of Noble Wisdom. That's why they're called vehicles. But you can only feel these vehicles when you've mastered the previous.

The first one is this: You have a deep feeling...now remember, this is before Self-realization, afterwards it doesn't matter what you do...you have a deep longing, a deep feeling, to be by yourself. Now, in the West they tell you this is antisocial behavior, but you have a feeling. In other words, you don't mentally say to yourself, "I want to be alone," like Greta Garbo. It's not a mental game you're playing. Because of your inquiry and your feeling and knowing the four principles, you have a feeling to be by yourself, so you are not pulled down by the world, to give you an opportunity to make the four principles and Self-inquiry work for you. So you enjoy being alone. You want to be by yourself. You look for times that you can be by yourself, so you can work on yourself, and that becomes a total joy for you. It's like total heaven to be by yourself, not all the time, but most of the time. It's only when you're by yourself that you can argue with yourself, and you can tell off your mind, and you can scream a little, if you like, and do what ever you have to do to get rid of the ego and the mind. That's the first vehicle.

The second vehicle is: You have a deep feeling, a deep desire, to always be at satsang. Now, satsang is not just a 

spiritual meeting, as most of you know. It's not a gathering of people when they hear a lecture. Who can explain what satsang is? How about you, Narada? What is satsang to you?

Well, ultimately, I suppose it can't really be put into words, so to realize that. I understand what the essence of satsang is, that it can't be put into words. Satsang is like the embodiment of the teaching. So I think that there's a growth in satsang, that takes place, a growth that does not take place in the words. OK, that's a good explanation. Anybody else like to say what satsang is?

Abiding in the Self

Yes, exactly. Being together with people who abide in the Self; the realization that there is one Self, and you are That. So being in satsang is being at the feet of God. That's what it literally means. Sitting at the feet of God. And God is none other than your Self. So you want to be with your Self when you come together with us. And you're still alone. You're still by your Self. Because all the people with you are your Self.

Doesn't it usually involve the presence of a sage?

Yes. But remember, the sage, the guru, and God are your Self. It's all the same. What I mean by that is, I don't want you to look at me as being a sage, or being anything at all. When you see me, as I mentioned in the beginning, I am a mirror. 

You see yourself. And when you see yourself as divinity, you will also see everyone else here as divinity. We're all one. 

There's no difference 

Number three: You will have a deep feeling, and a deep desire, to be around people like yourself. In other words your old relatives, your old friends, your old cronies that you used to drink with, and get high with, or whatever you did with them; they don't turn you on any more. You want to be with spiritual people like yourself. You're not putting it on. 

You're not intellectualizing it. You're not imagining that you want to do that because I told you to. From your practice you become like that. It's an inner feeling, a deep inner feeling. Those are the three vehicles.

- ROBERT ADAMS 

T. 006 × The Three Vehicles of Self Realization - August 26, 1990