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 "Recognize that whatever manifests in consciousness is a playful, momentary and superficial expression and not a definition of What Is. It may be the playing out of age old conditioning on the body mind level, but you are pure and beyond all definitions. You are the formless witness only. The unchanging Reality behind the moving mind. Keep the attention here." Mooji

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Q. How does self-identification happen? 

M: The self by its nature knows itself only. For lack of experience whatever it perceives it takes to be itself. Battered, it learns to look out (viveka) and to live alone (vairagya). When right behavior (uparati), becomes normal, a powerful inner urge (mukmukshutva) makes it seek its source. The candle of the body is lighted and all becomes clear and bright. 

Q: What is the real cause of suffering? 

M: Self-identification with the limited (vyaktitva). Sensations as such, however strong, do not cause suffering. It is the mind bewildered by wrong ideas, addicted to thinking: 'I am this' 'I am that', that fears loss and craves gain and suffers when frustrated. 

Q: A friend of mine used to have horrible dreams night after night. Going to sleep would terrorize him. Nothing could help him. 

M: Company of the truly good (satsang) would help him.

Q: Life itself is a nightmare. 

 

M: Noble friendship (satsang) is the supreme remedy for all ills, physical and mental. 

Q: Generally, one cannot find such friendship. 

M: Seek within. Your own self is your best friend. 

- Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT ch 28, p. 91

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Love: Beyond the Beyond

Freedom is the start of something

that Nobody knows:

there is no end to Satsang,

it is always new fathomless Bliss.

The firm conviction

that one is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss

is the end of the Teaching.

Yet there is a sacred secret beyond event this.

This sacred secret must be asked for in secret

and followed sacredly.

Constantly go to the Source.

Don´t even land in the Source,

but forever go deeper.

Still beyond It Is.

You have to take the last half step

from Peace-Awareness-Bliss

into the Mystery beyond the mind.

~ Papaji

Be careful and vigilant.

You will keep the problems most dear to you

and so your old friends, your wicked habits, the asuras,

will come back and invite you to suffer again.

They are very strong and so you must be.

Break these old habits and you are free, 

so only travel with those in the same boat, 

only associate with those going in the same direction. 

Go to Truth at any cost, always keep Quiet.

When circumstances of vasanas arise so will the vasanas,

no matter how dormant they are, and especially if you are Quiet.

A bullet kills once but a vasana kills again and again.

So vigilantly inquire!

Expectations are illusions, so don´t run after them and

don´t get involved in anger, lust, and greed either. 

Just don´t involve yourself with them.

Keeping Quiet and content is the best weapon.

~ Papaji