notes 2.9

Nurtureoneslife:

Attention pays attention to a lot of things,

but when attention pays attention to attention,

then there is a stillness,

and that stillness introduces you 

to your Self.

🌻 Mooji

One whose mind is turned inward is ever in bliss. Sri sri

If you can win over your mind ,you can win over whole world. Sri sri

~ Krishna (Mahabharata) :

For the atma, there is never birth nor death.Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be.He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval.He is not slain when the body is slain.

Krishna :

Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.

विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगाद्यत्तदग्रेऽमृतोपमम्।

परिणामे विषमिव तत्सुखं राजसं स्मृतम्।।18.38।।

Krishna :

You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction.

~ Krishna (Mahabharata) :

We behold what we are, and we are what we behold.

~ Krishna (Mahabharata) :

The greatest of all yoga's is Jnana yoga.

~ Misc (Miscellaneous) :

The land where books were first written and from where wisdom and knowledge sprang is India. 

   -- The Fourth Caliph, Ali bin Abi Talib (656 - 661 A.D.).

notes 2.8

 Nurtureoneslife:

Attention pays attention to a lot of things,

but when attention pays attention to attention,

then there is a stillness,

and that stillness introduces you 

to your Self.

🌻 Mooji

One whose mind is turned inward is ever in bliss. Sri sri

If you can win over your mind ,you can win over whole world. Sri sri

~ Krishna (Mahabharata) :

For the atma, there is never birth nor death.Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be.He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval.He is not slain when the body is slain.

Krishna :

Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.

विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगाद्यत्तदग्रेऽमृतोपमम्।

परिणामे विषमिव तत्सुखं राजसं स्मृतम्।।18.38।।

Krishna :

You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction.

~ Krishna (Mahabharata) :

We behold what we are, and we are what we behold.

~ Krishna (Mahabharata) :

The greatest of all yoga's is Jnana yoga.

~ Misc (Miscellaneous) :

The land where books were first written and from where wisdom and knowledge sprang is India. 

   -- The Fourth Caliph, Ali bin Abi Talib (656 - 661 A.D.).

notes 2.7

Nurtureoneslife:

When we have vikalpas (false concepts) and are trying to give them up, 

i.e. when we are still not perfected, 

but have to make conscious effort to keep the mind one-pointed or free from thought, 

it is Nirvikalpa Samadhi. 

When through practice we are always in that state, not going into samadhi and coming out again, that is the sahaja (natural) state. 

In sahaja one always sees oneself. 

He sees the jagat (world) as swarupa

(Reality) or Brahmakara (form of Brahman). 

Eventually, what was once the means becomes itself the goal, whatever method 

one follows. 

Dhyana (meditation), jnana, bhakti and samadhi are all names for ourselves, for our Real State.

Knowing one’s Self is only being one’s Self, as there is no second existence. This is Self-realization.

- GEMS from Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Chapter: Self Realisation

Actually, you are the answer. 

You without you. 

The pure consciousness 

beyond the concept of pure consciousness.

☀️ Mooji

Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to still the mind and cause it to become aware of its true relationship to the Self which supports it. 

Do not imagine that it is you who are doing the work. Think that is the underlying current which is doing it. Identify yourself with the current.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

"After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is.

Such a great soul is very rare."

Bhagavad Gita 7.19

MARCH 21st, 1953

I am reminded of the fateful day of twenty-first March, 1953. For many lives I had been working ‒ working upon myself, struggling, doing whatsoever can be done ‒ and nothing was happening.

Now I understand why nothing was happening. The very effort was the barrier, the very ladder was preventing, the very urge to seek was the obstacle. Not that one can reach without seeking. Seeking is needed, but then comes a point when seeking has to be dropped. The boat is needed to cross the river but then comes a moment when you have to get out of the boat and forget all about it and leave it behind. Effort is needed, without effort nothing is possible. And also only with effort, nothing is possible.

Just before twenty-first March, 1953, seven days before, I stopped working on myself. A moment comes when you see the whole futility of effort. You have done all that you can do and nothing is happening. You have done all that is humanly possible. Then what else can you do? In sheer helplessness one drops all search.

And the day the search stopped, the day I was not seeking for something, the day I was not expecting something to happen, it started happening. A new energy arose ‒ out of nowhere. It was not coming from any source. It was coming from nowhere and everywhere. It was in the trees and in the rocks and the sky and the sun and the air ‒ it was everywhere. And I was seeking so hard, and I was thinking it is very far away. And it was so near and so close.

Just because I was seeking I had become incapable of seeing the near. Seeking is always for the far, seeking is always for the distant ‒ and it was not distant. I had become far-sighted, I had lost the near-sightedness. The eyes had become focussed on the far away, the horizon, and they had lost the quality to see that which is just close, surrounding you.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

The phenomenon of the ego, of the self, is not a thing, it is a process. It is not a substance sitting there inside you; you have to create it each moment. It is like pedalling a bicycle. If you pedal it goes on and on, if you don’t pedal it stops. It may go a little because of the past momentum, but the moment you stop pedalling, in fact the bicycle starts stopping. It has no more energy, no more power to go anywhere. It is going to fall and collapse.

The ego exists because we go on pedalling desire, because we go on striving to get something, because we go on jumping ahead of ourselves. That is the very phenomenon of the ego ‒ the jump ahead of yourself, the jump in the future, the jump in the tomorrow. The jump in the non-existential creates the ego. Because it comes out of the non-existential it is like a mirage. It consists only of desire and nothing else. It consists only of thirst and nothing else. It consists only of future and nothing.

OSHO •THE DISCIPLINE OF TRANSCENDENCE

Turning one's purified awareness within on the witness as pure consciousness, one should gradually bring it to stillness and then become aware of the perfection of one's true nature.

~ Shankara, Vivekachudamani

चाह मिटी, चिंता मिटी, मनवा बेपरवाह

जिसको कुछ नही चाहिए, वो शाहेंशाह 💮

-“if your wishes ends, than your anxiety and troubles will also end, and your mind will be fearless. One who doesn't need anything, he is a real king”

-kabir saheb

notes 2.6

Nurtureoneslife:

The more you have learnt to let go, the happier you are and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you. Sri sri

You are alone, but you are alone as everything! Alone as diversity! 

🍵 🌱 Moojibaba

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True spirituality is without pride. 

It neither judges nor dismisses 

the diverse expressions of life. 

In fact, it brings you back 

into the true life of peace, 

wisdom, joy and harmony.

~Mooji

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Nurtureoneslife:

The final truth is that ultimate understanding, in which there is no comprehender, to comprehend the final truth.

 

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It is the natural polarity of interdependent opposites, that constitutes the harmony of universal manifestation.

The inevitable result of man's egoic self-determination is disharmony, conflict and self-destruction.

 

Ramesh Balsekar

17th March

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Many spiritual practices are pleasant.

They don’t challenge 

your identity and its delusion, 

therefore they are attractive 

to your mind.

There’s nothing threatening 

when someone tells you,

“We’re chanting because 

it purifies the energy

and brings you closer to God.”

If feels nice for people 

— adventurous and agreeable.

But I’m not interested in adventure,

I’m here only for liberation!

Not entertainment for your mind,

but the smelling salts that will

stun you into awakening.

💙 Mooji

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“My love, stay here.

Going in search of Self (as a goal) is illusion;

You are already the One Self.

You will purchase the map,

Only to find you are already Here.”

― Mooji

#mooji #moojibaba #moojiquotes #nonduality #nondualism #advaita

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Free movie show

The external  universe  is a cinema  show to the realised man.  It is free and the show  goes on day and night.  He lives and works  in it knowing  that the objects and bodies (persons ) are illusionary appearances  just as an ordinary  man knows the scenes and characters  on the cinema screen at a theatre are illusions,  and do not exist in real life. - Ramana Maharshi( in ". Conscious  Immortality " )

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notes 2.5

Nurtureoneslife:

You are Bhagavan. So you should know when I shall get jnana. Tell me when I shall be a jnani?

Sri Ramana Maharshi: If I am Bhagavan there is no one besides the Self- therefore no jnani or ajnani. If otherwise, I am as good as you are and know as much as yourself. Either way I cannot answer your question.

Coming here some people do not ask about themselves. They ask: ‘Does the jivan muktas see the world? Is he affected by Karma? What is liberation after being disembodied or while alive in the body? Should the body of the sage resolve itself in light or disappear from view in any other manner? Can he be liberated though the body is left behind as a corpse?

Their questions are endless. Why worry oneself in so many ways? Does liberation consist in knowing these things? Therefore I say to them, leave liberation alone. Is there bondage? Know this. See yourself first and foremost.

-Be As You Are

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The pure state 

of being attached to grace [Self], 

which is devoid of any attachment, 

alone is one's own state of silence, 

which is devoid of any other thing. 

Know that one's ever abiding as that silence, 

having experienced it as it is, 

alone is true mental worship [manasika-puja]. 

Know that the performance of the unceasing, true and natural worship in which the mind is submissively established as the one Self, 

having installed the Lord on the Heartthrone, is silence, 

the best of all forms of worship. 

Silence, which is devoid of the assertive ego, alone is liberation. . 

- The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. 

Be as you are.

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When you can bear your own silence, you are free. ~Mooji

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"Remove all becoming, you are Being. Becoming is effort, 

Being is no effort. 

You are always That so be like the breeze that is attached to neither the garbage nor the garden that it blows over."

~ PAPAJI

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...

"Beware. To fall in love with a married woman or a married man is a disease. Look for reasons. It is not love. There is something else working behind your mind, in your unconscious.

Another thing: the married woman is not easily available. That too creates desire. Easy availability kills desire. The more unapproachable, the more inaccessible the woman is, the more the desire; you can dream about her. And, in fact, there is not much possibility that it will ever become an actuality. There is every opportunity to be romantic about a married woman: you can play with your fantasy. It is not easy to make her available to you. You are not interested in unmarried women because they will not leave much chance for romance. If you are interested, they are ready. There is no space left. There is not that long, long waiting.

Many people are interested not in love but in waiting; they say that waiting is far more beautiful than love. In a way it is so, because while you are waiting you are simply projecting, you are dreaming. Of course, your dream is your dream and you can make it as beautiful as you want.

The real woman is going to shatter all your dreams. People are afraid of the real woman. And a married woman becomes more unreal than real.

The same is the case with a married man: he is far away. There is not much possibility that he will really enter into a love-relationship with you.

I have heard... A young man went to a very wise old man, and the young man said 'I am lovesick, sir. Can you help me?' The wise man thought, and he said 'There is only one cure for love, and that is marriage. And if marriage cannot cure it, nothing can cure it! If you get married, you will be cured. Never again will you think about love!'

Yes, marriage cures it so certainly, so absolutely, that if marriage cannot cure love, then nothing can cure it. Then you are incurable. It is good to fall in love with a married woman because then there is no possibility of cure; you remain lovesick. There are people who enjoy their lovesickness tremendously: weeping. crying, waiting, fantasizing, poeticising, reading, writing poetry, painting, making music - all substitutes. 

The real woman is dangerous. The real woman only looks musical from far away. Come close, and she is a REAL woman. She is not a fairy, not a fiction. Her reality will have to be reckoned with. And when a woman comes close to you, not only is she real, but she brings you down from your ivory towers to the earth." 

💓Beloved Osho💓

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...

Just keep quiet and God

will do the rest.. Ramana..

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Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy, and love... which is the fragrance [of] your own pure heart. Keep quiet. ~Mooji

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"जगाच्या प्रवाहात उलटे पोहोणे म्हणजेच भगवंताचे अनुसंधान टिकवणे होय" श्री राम समर्थ

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God says: "Make your house into a temple of emptiness and I'll come and live there." Mooji

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There is an extremely important but subtle aspect of spiritual development, that is often lost sight of.

It is, that in each case, depending on the makeup of each psyche, the development is taking place spontaneously, according to nature and that any deliberate efforts on the part of the pseudo-entity, only create hazards and obstructions.

If this is kept in mind, one automatically evades the greatest spiritual danger, which is the uprising of the ego.

What, then, is the individual to do?

Merely to let true understanding deeply impregnate his very being, passively and patiently, so that all illusions and obstructions gradually fall off by themselves.

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True knowledge can come only when there is total vacancy.

Ramesh Balsekar

19th March

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What is Vairagya

A young man from Trichy asked Sri Bhagavan on the mention in Upadesa Manjari of atyanta vairagyam (total dispassion) as the qualification of a ripe disciple. He continued: "What is vairagya? Detachment from worldly pursuits and desire for salvation. Is it not so?"

Maharshi: Who has not got it?

Each one seeks happiness but is misled into thinking of pain-associated pleasures as happiness. Such happiness is transient. His mistaken activity gives him short-lived pleasure. Pain and pleasure alternate with one another in the world. To discriminate between the pain-producing and pleasure-producing matters and to confine oneself to the happiness-producing pursuit only is vairagya. What is it that will not be followed by pain? He seeks it and engages in it. Otherwise, the man has one foot in the world and another foot in the spiritual pursuit (without progressing satisfactorily in either field).

— Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshii, No. 302

~ THE  MAHARSHI

Nov / Dec 2006

Vol.16 No.6

notes 2.4

Nurtureoneslife:

That which is worth taking up is the self-enquiry that reveals jnana; that which is worth enjoying is the grandeur of the Self; that which is worth renouncing is the ego-mind; that in which it is worth taking refuge, to eliminate sorrow completely, is one’s own source, the Heart.

(Guru Vachaka Kovai)

There is no bondage...only consciousness,

Consciousness is the only reality, and only

The thought 'I am imprisoned' keeps you in prison.

There is no liberation because you are already the liberator.

~ Ribhu Gita

Every experience you are destined to have

you must go through.

But with the Master’s Grace,

everything becomes light and smooth, 

and a power stays with you everywhere you go.

Sometimes He goes ahead of you. 

Sometimes you notice He is beside you. 

Sometimes He moves inside you. 

He never leaves you.

💕 Mooji

To avoid being lost in the bewildering diversity of the play of maya, it is necessary to remember the essential unity between the Absolute and the relative, between the Unmanifest and the manifested.

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The understanding of Truth is not a matter of time.

Indeed, it is prior to the concept of time.

When it takes place, it happens suddenly, almost as a shock of timeless apprehension.

It means a sudden cessation of the process of duration, a split-second when the functioning of time itself is suspended and integration takes place, with what is prior to relativity ----direct apprehension of the Absolute.

Ramesh Balsekar

15th March

The Seer is most important.

You are. That is most important. Concentrate on the Seer, not on the seen.

All that you see is false and the Seer alone is true.

All knowledge you gather is useless, until you hold on to your Self.

You are the Truth, not what is being told to you, not what you see.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

(Face To Face)

D: Is it possible to enjoy samadhi while busy in worldly work?

M: The feeling ‘I work’ is the hindrance. Ask yourself ‘who works?’ Remember who you are. Then the work will not bind you; it will go on automatically. Make no effort either to work or to renounce; your effort is the bondage. 

What is destined to happen will happen.

If you are destined not to work, work cannot be had even if you hunt for it; if you are destined to work, you will not be able to avoid it; you will be forced to engage yourself in it. So, leave it to the higher power; you cannot renounce or retain as you choose.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

notes 2.3

Nurtureoneslife:

A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are. This is your highest possibility.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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"When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, 

then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. 

It's only ever Self."

~ Master Mooji

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It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'

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Questioner: How can I go through my devotional practices when I have always to think of my daily bread?

Sri Ramakrishna: He for whom you work will supply you with your necessaries. God made provisions for your support before He sent you into this world.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover. Mooji

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No eyes can see  

nor can any word convey  

that which you truly are. 

And yet you undeniably exist.  

Always.

~ Mooji

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notes 2.2

notes 2.1

What is the nature of Awareness?

The nature of Awareness is existence-consciousness-bliss

When will the realization of the Self be gained?

When the world which is what-is-seen has been removed, there will be realization of the Self which is the seer.

Will there not be realization of the Self even while the world is there (taken as real)?

There will not be.

Why?

The seer and the object seen are like the rope and the snake. 

Just as the knowledge of the rope which is the substrate will not arise unless the false knowledge of the illusory serpent goes, 

so the realization of the Self which is the substrate will not be gained unless the belief that the world is real is removed.

When will the world which is the object seen be removed?

When the mind, which is the cause of all cognition’s and of all actions, becomes quiescent, the world will disappear.

- Who Am I? (Nan Yar?) ( 3 -7 )

The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

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🌿SHUBH MAHASHIVARATRI🌿

04)• A peaceful attitude, together with a ‘silent-flow’ of mind towards undeviating abidance in Self, Sat-Chit, is the best worship of Shiva.

165)• The real glory of Shiva Bhakti is the salvation of the devotee from the damnation caused by the delusion, “I am this filthy body”. This is the reason why Shiva accepted Kannappa’s(one of the devotee who was very proud of his beautiful eyes) eyes when he offered them.

190)• O people, not knowing that Shiva is dwelling within you, you fly about like birds from one holy place to another [seeking His Darshan]. Consciousness, when abiding still in the Heart, is the Supreme Shiva.

197)• Having eradicated the ego, which was wandering like a ghost in delusion, and having destroyed the duality of the sentient and the insentient, the soul which is thus drowned and well soaked in the light of the pure and blissful Sahaja Samadhi, is the Supreme Shiva.

 

198)• When the ego, the feeling of being separate entity, is removed, chittam remains as Shivam, the Supreme Chitta, having merged within the Heart as “I am Consciousness Itself”, and having thus destroyed all the false and dense mental conceptions.

296)• Having annihilated the delusive mind which always dwells upon worldly things, having killed the restless ego, and having completely erased the worldly vasanas, shine as Shiva, the pure Consciousness Itself.

334)• Hiding His own Form, taking another form as a human being, Lord Shiva enters the group of His enlightened devotees, who have staunch devotion to Him, as if He were one among them, taking immense pleasure in their holy company.

353)• Those who have sacrificed their mind as an offering to Shiva in the blazing fire of the supreme Jnana-Tapas [i.e. Self-enquiry], are Shiva Himself. Knowing thus, we should also perform this Sacrifice and attain the State of formless Shiva.

459)• When the triads [seer- seen- seeing, knower- known- knowing] disappear due to the destruction of the base, the foolish ego, and when the manyness [the states of waking and dream] is thus completely destroyed, the pure, broad Daylight [Self] that then shines like a hundred suns is the Night of Siva [Sivarathri].

487)• Unconditionally place your mind at the Feet of the Lord who has Sakti on His left. Then, since the tricky ‘I’ and ‘mine’ are dead, the glorious, blissful Supreme Self will shine triumphantly.

~Ramana Maharshi 

•Verses from Guru Vachaka Kovai 

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🍃🌸Wishing each and everyone of you a very auspicious Maha Shivaratri ! May on this divine day, you all be blessed with Self Knowledge and Devotion to the Shiva that resides within you.🌸🍃

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🌷@ramanamaharishi🌷

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It is the human mind that creates its own difficulties and then cries for help .  #ramanamaharshi

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Nurtureoneslife:

A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are. This is your highest possibility.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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"When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, 

then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. 

It's only ever Self."

~ Master Mooji

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It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'

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Questioner: How can I go through my devotional practices when I have always to think of my daily bread?

Sri Ramakrishna: He for whom you work will supply you with your necessaries. God made provisions for your support before He sent you into this world.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover. Mooji

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No eyes can see  

nor can any word convey  

that which you truly are. 

And yet you undeniably exist.  

Always.

~ Mooji

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quotes

1. Great fear on the earth is opinion of others and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer the sheep ,you become a lion.A great roar arises in your heart, roar of freedom. Osho

Nurtureoneslife

2 . Who gave us this crazy idea

that we should know how to live?

Does a tree know how to grow?

Does a cloud know how to rain?

Does the wind know how to blow?

Does a road know that it is going somewhere?

Please, don’t know how to live,

let life be its own spontaneous unfolding

and let joy flood your being.

~ Mooji

3.

There is no such thing as a Self-realised person. When there is no "person" the Self is realised. When there is no "person" the question of coming and going cannot arise. The body is an appearance in the Self. When the body disappears the Self remains as it always was and is. Realisation is the understanding "I am not this body which comes and goes, I am that permanent, unchanging reality in which the body and all else appears".

~ Papaji