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From ~~~ Day by Day with Bhagavan, 11-1-46

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Effortless and choiceless awareness is our real nature. 

If we can attain it or be in that state, it is all right. 

But one cannot reach it without effort, 

the effort of deliberate meditation. 

All the age-long vasanas carry the mind outward

and turn it to external objects. 

All such thoughts have to be given up 

and the mind turned inward. 

For that, effort is necessary for most people. 

Of course everybody, every book says, “Be quiet or still”. 

But it is not easy. 

That is why all this effort is necessary.

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You can only find peace

when you return home

to your own Self.

~ Papaji"

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Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow."--- Mooji.

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What is bhakti?

Purified love.

What is jnaan?

Abiding as the Self.

What is karm?

Detached work.

What is yog?

Perfected concentration.

Written by Sugata Bose

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"People are suffering. Everybody, almost all the human beings of this world, are suffering because they are trying to find peace and happiness in objects. They are examining and experiencing objects one by one, but this is only resulting in pain and suffering. There is no object in the mind, no person, no thing, no concept that can return you to happiness and peace of mind. So I just tell them: 'Don’t look here, there, anywhere. Peace is within you and within the Heart of all beings. So keep quiet, don’t look anywhere, don’t allow your mind to abide anywhere, and you will see that it is peace, happiness itself.' That is the fundamental truth. Every being in the world is happiness itself."

~ Papaji

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