4/07/2022
post 24
Did you find any need for knowledge a hundred years ago?
That which you do not know and cannot know, is your true state.
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Our entire life seems to be nothing, but a wasted effort to control our natural responses and reactions to events and change them, to suit, what we think are our preferred requirements.
Yet, the controller himself, is nothing more than a CONCEPT, created by thought, by memory, by the past.
Ramesh Balsekar
6th April
post 21
Q: Is not dhyana [meditation] one of the efficient processes for realization?
Sri Ramana Maharshi : Dhyana is concentration on an object.
It fulfils the purpose of keeping away diverse thoughts and
fixing the mind on a single thought,
which must also disappear before realization.
But realization is nothing new to be acquired.
It is already there,
but obstructed by a screen of thoughts.
All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realization is revealed.
If seekers are advised to meditate,
many may go away satisfied with the advice.
But someone among them may turn round and
ask, `Who am I to meditate on an object ?'
Such a one must be told to find the Self.
That is the finality.
That is vichara.
Be as you are book
post 20
Simply meditate alone.
Keep quiet, send the message of peace, 'Let there be peace,' all over the world.
'Let all beings live happily in peace.'
This wavelength has to work.
*The Beauty of No-mind - Interview by Jeff Greenwald*
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post 19
A visitor asked to Ramana Maharshi,
"I came here about a year ago and ever since I have been trying to follow Bhagavan’s instructions. I am not however succeeding very well. I try to look at all women as mothers. But I don’t succeed." Bhagavan did not reply and the visitor continued, "While I am at home, it is all right. But when I go out and see women, I am not able to control my mind and am swept off my feet. What should I do?" He also added, "I want atma sakshatkaram; what should I do? I pray for Bhagavan’s blessings."
After a pause, Bhagavan replied, "You say you are all right when at home. Be at home, at home in the mind. Don't allow it to go outwards, but turn it inwards and keep it at home there. Then all will be well and you will have atma sakshatkaram. The trouble is we think we are the mind. See if we are the mind."
The visitor said, "I am a grahasta. Still I want to practise brahmacharya even with my wife. But I am not able to succeed. What should I do?" Bhagavan replied, "That is because of age-long vasanas. The sankalpas are so powerful because they have existed so long. But they will go."
The visitor told Bhagavan, "I am going back to my place this night. I have mentioned my
difficulties."
Bhagavan: Yes. They will go gradually.
Day by day with Bhagavan book
post 18
Q: Does the guru have to have a human body?
M: Because you identify yourself with your body you ask this question. Find out if you are the body.
The Bhagavad Gita says that those who cannot understand the transcendental nature of Sri Krishna are fools, deluded by ignorance.
The master appears in order to dispel that ignorance. As Tayumanavar puts it, he appears to dispel a person's ignorance, just as a deer is used as a decoy to capture another deer in the jungle. The master has to appear with a body in order to eradicate our ignorance, the 'I am the body' idea.
Q: Theosophists meditate to seek masters.
M: The master is within. Meditation is for removing the ignorant idea that he is external. If he were a stranger whose coming you were awaiting, he would also be bound to disappear. What is the use of a transient being like that?
However, so long as you think you are an individual or the body, then the master is necessary and will appear with a body. When this wrong identification ceases, the master will be found to be the Self.
- Conscious Immortality
post 17
When you realize you don't know who's living your life, breathing your breath or thinking your thoughts, it's a shocking moment." ~ Adyashanti
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