‘I am’ (Self) is happiness.
Where thoughts cease, happiness reigns supreme; such is the truth
about happiness.
- Sadhu Om The Path of Sri Ramana (part one), Ch. 3 Self-enquiry
is the Only Way to Happiness.
2/20/2021
post 25
“The master is like a great ship for beings to cross the perilous ocean of existence, an unerring captain who guides them to the dry land of liberation, a rain that extinguishes the fire of the passions, a bright sun and moon that dispel the darkness of ignorance, a firm ground that can bear the weight of both good and bad,
a wish-fulfilling tree that bestows temporal happiness and ultimate bliss, a treasury of vast and deep instructions, a wish-fulfilling jewel granting all the qualities of realization, a father and a mother giving their love equally to all sentient beings, a great river of compassion, a mountain rising above worldly concerns unshaken by the winds of emotions, and a great cloud filled with rain to soothe the torments of the passions.
In brief, he is the equal of all the Buddhas.”
~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
post 24
"Any residue [in the mind] gradually dissolves as your identification with the sense of personhood weakens...So don't feed all these little things that come up in your mind, because that will only turn them into a story. Remember: there are no stories in the Self." ~Mooji (Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space)
post 23
O Spirit, teach us to heal the body by recharging it with Thy cosmic energy, to heal the mind by concentration and cheerfulness, and to heal the disease of soul ignorance by the divine medicine of meditation on Thee.
Paramahansa Yogananda
post 22
#Sadguru
Life is happening here (within heart). take a little time just for piece of life. if u are conscious that your are mortal every moment of you r life . Spiritual Process begun for u.
post 21
Sadhak realizes that
he is only an actor playing his role in the drama of life,
the 'leela' of the Supreme..
Ramana..
post 20
Existence or Consciousness is the only reality.
Consciousness plus waking we call waking. Consciousness plus sleep we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go.
The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
post 19
"Don't touch the idea that something or some action stops you from being what you are. Rest in your Self here and now in the very source of your Awareness, in It's silence, in It's fullness, in It's emptiness." Mooji
post 18
Existence or Consciousness is the only reality.
Consciousness plus waking we call waking. Consciousness plus sleep we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go.
The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
post 17
"Don't touch the idea that something or some action stops you from being what you are. Rest in your Self here and now in the very source of your Awareness, in It's silence, in It's fullness, in It's emptiness." Mooji
post 16
O Raghava, be outwardly active but inwardly inactive,
outwardly a doer but inwardly a non-doer, and thus play your part in the world.
O Raghava, abandon all desires inwardly,
be free from attachments and latent impressions,
do everything outwardly and thus play your part in the world.
O Raghava, adopt a comprehensive view,
characterised by the abandonment of all objects of contemplation,
live in your innate Self,
liberated even while alive (jivan-mukta), and thus play your part in the
world.
~ YOGA VASISHTA SARA
(THE ESSENCE OF YOGA VASISHTA)
CHAPTER SEVEN, VERSES 1-3.
METHOD OF PURIFICATION
post 15
"It is within your competence to think and become bound
or cease thinking and thus be free."
- Talks
post 14
STOP WAITING...
"Stop waiting for others to make you happy. They're too busy waiting for happiness themselves. You'll be waiting forever. Give everyone a break and discover the natural happiness that you are, the in-built contentment that doesn't depend on content."
- Jeff Foster
post 12
My path to Bhagavan was a long and arduous one. Having a strong atheist background, I had to undergo many years of doubts and sufferings before I could generate enough faith to accept implicitly that Bhagavan was guiding me and protecting me all the time. Other luckier
devotees had faith right from the beginning of their association with Bhagavan.
I remember in particular one devotee who had both faith and the intellectual simplicity that I lacked. He was an old Telugu man living in the Draupadi Temple about 300 meters from Sri Ramanasramam. His only
possessions were an iron pot and an axe that he used to cut firewood for cooking.
He would beg food in the town and cook it in his pot. Each day, for hours together, he could be seen standing and looking at Bhagavan. He would spend the night in the Temple, which was then dilapidated, abandoned and surrounded by jungle.
I once found him standing alone in front of the Temple. When I asked him what he was doing in such a remote spot, he told me that he slept there.
I exclaimed,
“You sleep here all alone. Are you not afraid?”
“Afraid of what?” retorted the old man: “Bhagavan throws his light on me.
All night I am surrounded by a blue radiance. So long as his light is with
me, how can I be afraid?”
This encounter made me deeply humble. Bhagavan’s love and light are given in full measure to a poor old beggar, but there are many in the Ashram like myself, who called themselves his devotees but who had
failed to receive such grace because we were too busy attending to the contents of our mind.
- Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Chalam. (49).
post 11
" If you are aware of the Self, then you may enjoy the person...because it has no threat...it's like playing with a snake that has no teeth..."
Mooji <3
post 9
It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise?
The real is as it is always. 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 space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space
was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will
shine alone.
<3 "Be As You Are"
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
post 8
Thoughts are like cars on the street, they don't belong to you, they are just moving on their own, and they go away.
~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
post 7
Thoughts are like cars on the street, they don't belong to you, they are just moving on their own, and they go away.
~ Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
post 6
D: What is the use of samadhi and does thought subsist then?
M: Samadhi alone can reveal the Truth. Thoughts cast a veil over Reality, and so It is not realised as such in states other than samadhi.
In samadhi there is only the feeling ‘I AM’ and no thoughts. The experience ‘I AM’ is being still.
D: How can I repeat the experience of samadhi or the stillness that I obtain here?
M: Your present experience is due to the influence of the atmosphere in which you find yourself. Can you have it outside this atmosphere? The experience is spasmodic.
Until it becomes permanent, practice is necessary.
D: One has at times vivid flashes of a consciousness whose centre is OUTSIDE THE NORMAL SELF, and which seems to be all-inclusive. Without concerning ourselves with philosophical concepts, how would Bhagavan advise me to work towards GETTING, RETAINING and EXTENDING those rare flashes? Does ABHYASA in such experience involve RETIREMENT?
M: OUTSIDE!
For whom is the inside or outside?
These can exist only so long as there are the subject and object.
For whom are these two again?
On investigation you will find that they resolve into the subject only.
See who is the subject; and this enquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
THE NORMAL SELF is the mind. This mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation as above outlined.
GETTING: The Self is always there. You have only to remove the veil obstructing the revelation of the Self.
RETAINING: Once you realise the Self, it becomes your direct and immediate experience. It is never lost.
EXTENDING: There is no extending of the Self, for it is as ever, without contraction or expansion.
RETIREMENT: Abiding in the Self is solitude. Because there is nothing alien to the Self. Retirement must be from some one place or state to another. There is
neither the one nor the other apart from the Self. ALL being the Self, retirement is impossible and inconceivable.
ABHYASA is only the prevention of disturbance to the inherent peace. You are always in your natural State whether you do ABHYASA or not.... To remain as you
are, without question or doubt, is your natural State.
- Maharshi’s Gospel.
Chapter: Self-Realisation.
post 5
There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say: 'be yourself', since you do not know yourself. Just be. Having seen that you are neither the 'outer' world of perceivables, nor the 'inner' world of thinkables, that you are neither body nor mind -- just be.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
post 3
ЁЯжЛ ~ “Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death release you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.” ЁЯУЦ • Mooji ЁЯМ╗ ЁЯМЩ
post 2
When you are in meditation you do not need to look after yourself.
A power will rise which is moving the earth, which is causing the sun to shine, which is giving the moon its brilliance…
If you are attuned to that power you will have nothing to do, everything will be beautiful.
That power will look after you in a way which you cannot manage.
Satsang with Papaji - 6 December, 1991
❤️ЁЯЩП❤️ЁЯЩП❤️ЁЯЩП❤️ЁЯЩП❤️ЁЯЩП❤️
post 1
Just see, nothing is actually touching you when you just observe, when you don't say 'this should not be'.
Pay attention to this wonderful power in you.
Just witness without judgement, interference or attachment. Give it a chance.
Mooji
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