self papaji

When one abides as the Self, 

some divine power takes charge of one´s life. 

All actions then take place spontaneously, and

are performed very efficiently, without

any mental effort or activity.

~ Papaji

renunciation

Renunciation is always in the mind, not in going to the forest or solitary places, or giving up one’s duties. The main thing is to see that the mind does not turn outward but inward. It does not really rest with a man whether he goes to this place or that, or whether he gives up his duties or not. All that happens according to destiny.

All the activities that the body is to go through are determined when it first comes into existence. It does not rest with you to accept or reject them. The only freedom you have is to turn your mind inward and renounce activities there. Nobody can say why that freedom alone and no other freedom is left to man. That is the Divine scheme.

Giving up activities means giving up attachment to activities or the fruits thereof, giving up the notion ‘I am the doer’. The activities which this body is destined to perform will have to be gone through. There is no question of giving up such activities, whether one likes it or not.

~ Sri Bhagavan

osho

silent Robert Adams

The whole idea is to be silent. Not to add affirmations or words to your garbage pail. It is already filled with garbage. By garbage, I mean preconceived ideas, dogmas, opinions, samskaras from previous lives, you're filled with these things, and you are a reacting machine, you react, that is what you do all day is react, react, react. Therefore, when you try to learn more knowledge and you read more books, all you're doing is adding on to the garbage pail. Of course, most of you realize, the highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty, there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again. 

Emptiness is realization. 

Emptiness is Brahman. 

Emptiness is the Self. 

Emptiness is your real nature.

~Robert Adams

osho

Osho Says:  "I have seen people doing just the wrong thing. From the very early morning they get out of bed complaining, gloomy, sad, depressed, miserable. Then one thing leads to another -- and for nothing they get angry... it is very bad because it will change your climate for the whole day, it will set a pattern for the whole day. 

Zen people are more sane. In their insanity they are saner than you. They start with laughter... and then the whole day you will feel laughter bubbling, welling up. There are so many ridiculous things happening all over! God must be dying of His laughter -- down the centuries, for eternity, seeing this ridiculousness of the world. 

The people that He has created, and all the absurdities -- it is really a comedy. He must be laughing. If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing -- trees and stones and stars with you. 

And the Zen monk goes to sleep in the night again with laughter. The day is over, the drama is closed again -- with laughter he says "Goodbye, and if I survive again, tomorrow morning I will greet you again with laughter." 

Try it! Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious."

OSHO

solitude

“Without solitude God cannot be found. Those who are striving to attain to the Supreme Being by meditation in silence and freedom from ties will find the Himalayas a most congenial abode. Braced by the grandeur and magnificence of nature, enve­loped in its stillness, it becomes easy to contemplate Infinity, one spontaneously dives into the depths of the Self.

Those, on the other hand, who are devotionally inclined will prefer to stay by the seashore. Inspired by the music of the rolling waves, ecstatic emotion surges up high until, engulfed in the boundless love of the Lord of Love, one is carried away straight to one's Goal.

For those who have no special line but are eager to be wayfarers on the path to Enlightenment, any beautiful, secluded spot will be suitable. Householders should set apart a corner in their homes kept sacred as a shrine for divine contemplation.

But for one who has forsaken everything for the love of God, who everywhere sees Him alone, all places are equally good.

Endeavour to control your rambling thoughts and rise above the changing circumstances of life; then the problem of having to select a suitable site for your sādhana will cease to exist.”

 ~ Anandamayi Ma

surrender

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒅, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔, ”𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕, 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆, 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍. 𝑰 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓.” 

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒂𝒚, ”𝑰 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓”, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓? 𝑰 – 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒈𝒐 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒈𝒐 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆, 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕? 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕? 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒍𝒆𝒕-𝒈𝒐. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔. 𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆; 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.

𝐓𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭. 𝐀𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞; 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫; 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 – 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫. 

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝: 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫? 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝. 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫! 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝.

𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐑𝐄, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐄, 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 – 𝐬𝐨 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝. 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲, 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭, 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭: 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭.  𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒  𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠. 

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐝: 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐱. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫.

𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞; 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧. 

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮

Once you start feeling the mothering, the fathering that surrounds you, in the air, in the sun, in the moon, in the stars, you drop caring for yourself. There is no need to be worried. 

You start flowing with existence. You drop pushing the river. And then, Sagar, you will be able to understand what Zen is. 

💓𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒐

self

**Q: Why do I never remember that I am the Self?**

**A:** People speak of memory and oblivion of the fullness of the Self. Oblivion and memory are only thought-forms. They will alternate so long as there are thoughts. But reality lies beyond these.

Memory or oblivion must be dependent on something. That something must be foreign to the Self as well, otherwise there would not be oblivion. That upon which memory and oblivion depend is the idea of the individual self. When one looks for it, this individual ‘I’ is not found because it is not real. Hence this ‘I’ is synonymous with illusion or ignorance (maya, avidya or ajnana]. To know that there never was ignorance is the goal of all the spiritual teachings. Ignorance must be of one who is aware. Awareness is jnana. Jnana is eternal and natural, ajnana is unnatural and unreal.

*Ramana Maharshi – Be As You Are – by David Godman*

Energy

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 – 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐧. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞; 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡.

We learn from chaos only if we go inwards, if we enter into the chaos consciously, deliberately, knowingly.

Close your eyes and let your mind function as a screen of a movie or a television, and whatever passes on the mind you simply remain watchful, doing nothing, not even judging.

The simplest method of meditation is just a way of witnessing. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬.

You are seeing a tree: You are there, the tree is there, but can’t you find one thing more? – that you are seeing the tree, that there is a witness in you which is seeing you seeing the tree.

𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲.  𝐄𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡.

𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬…. 

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰, 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠… 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 – 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡? – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐧.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬; 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬.

There is no need to say, “I am sad.” The fact is that you are a witness that a cloud of sadness is passing over you. There is anger – you can simply be a witness. There is no need to say, “I am angry.” You are never angry – there is no way for you to be angry – you are always a witness. The anger comes and goes; you are just a mirror. Things come, get reflected, move – and the mirror remains empty and clean, unscratched by the reflections.

Witnessing is finding your inside mirror.

And once you have found it, miracles start happening. When you are simply witnessing the thoughts, thoughts disappear. Then there is suddenly a tremendous silence you have never known. 

When you are watching the moods – anger, sadness, happiness – they suddenly disappear and an even greater silence is experienced. And when there is nothing to watch – then the revolution. 

Then the witnessing energy turns upon itself because there is nothing to prevent it; there is no object to your witnessing, it simply comes around back to yourself – to the source. And this is the point where one becomes enlightened.

Then there is no misery, no frustration, no meaninglessness; then life is no longer an accident. It becomes part of this cosmic whole – an essential part. And a tremendous bliss arises that this whole existence needs you.

Time and place are not there in being — space and time both disappear there. You will be grounded only when you come to a certain state within: where you cannot say who you are, where you cannot say where you are, where you cannot say when you are. Everything has stopped; time does not move.

The clock may be moving: tick-tock, tick-tock; it may be moving. You can listen, but time does not move — only the futile gesture of the clock. Something deep within you has stopped. That is the point I call ‘the point of no-when’. And there is no space.

You can look at space, but you are not in space; you can look at time, but you are not in time. Then you are grounded. This is what I call ‘being’; this is what Jesus calls ‘the kingdom of God’: this is what Buddha calls ‘nirvana’.

But it would be better to say, “You are already grounded. You just need awareness.”

💓𝑶𝒔𝒉𝒐

purpose

Your purpose is to be at peace,

to love all beings, and to know who you are.

This is the purpose of life.

Slowly you will know this and get through.

Q. What is peace?

See things with an open heart and you will see what peace, love and beauty are and at that moment you will forget everything.

Have you heard of Saint Kabir? He says, "If you keep quiet for an instant, for half an instant, for even half of a half of an instant, then the whole world will run after you." That is the attraction that you will become if you keep Quiet. You will be the most beautiful person in the whole universe will run after you to have peace of mind. You will become That and it is not difficult.

~ Papaji

joy

Saraha says: BE AVAILABLE TO JOY, WHEREVER IT COMES FROM. Never deny it. Don't condemn it. When it is of the body, so what? Then God is knocking at your body. When you are eating and you feel a certain joy, you enjoy your food, it is God; you are swallowing Him.

WHEN YOU HOLD THE HAND OF A WOMAN OR A MAN or a friend, or anybody, with tremendous love AND THERE IS A THRILL IN YOUR BODY ENERGY, there is a dance, a deep dance in your body energy; when you are stirred -- LIKE ELECTRICITY SOMETHING VIBRATES, something renovates, rejuvenates you, something which makes you more alive than you have ever been before -- it is joy. IT IS GOD COMING THROUGH THE BODY. When listening to music you feel tremendously happy, it is joy through the mind. 

Looking at a flower without touching it and without bringing your mind into it, A MOMENT COMES WHEN THERE IS BLISS -- subtle, silent, profound, benediction. But all are different manifestations of JOY.

—Ôshó—

The Tantra Vision

Vol 2, Ch #9: No-Mind is the door

am in Buddha Hall

(_via Bodhisattva Shree Amithaba Subhuti_❤️)

source is self

Where or how were you before being born? Were you in sleep? 

How were you? 

You exist then too without the body. 

Then the ego arises, and 

then the mind which projects the body. ‘I-am-the-body’ idea is the result. 

Because the body exists you say that it was born and that it will die, and transfer the idea to the Self saying that you are born and that you will die. 

In fact you remain without the body in sleep; but now you remain with the body. 

THE SELF CAN REMAIN WITHOUT THE BODY, BUT THE BODY CANNOT EXIST APART FROM THE SELF.

‘I-am-the-body’ thought is ignorance; that the body is not apart from the Self is knowledge. That is the difference between knowledge and ignorance.

The body is a mental projection, 

the mind is the ego; and 

the ego rises from the Self. 

So the body-thought is distracting and strays away from the Self. 

For whom is the body or the birth? 

It is not for the Self, the Spirit. 

It is for the non-self which imagines itself separate. 

So long as there is the sense of separation there will be afflicting thoughts. If the original source is regained and the sense 

of separation is put an end to, there is peace.

Consider what happens when a stone is thrown up. It leaves its source and is projected up, tries to come down and is always in motion until it regains its source, where it is at rest. So also the waters of the ocean evaporate, form clouds which are moved by winds, condense into water, fall as rain and the waters roll down the hill in streams and rivers, until they reach their original source, the ocean, reaching which they are at peace. 

Thus, you see, 

wherever there is a sense of separateness from the source there is agitation and movement until the sense of separateness 

is lost. 

So it is with yourself. 

Now that you identify yourself with the body you think that you are separate from the Spirit - the true Self. 

You must regain your source before the false identity ceases and you are happy.

Gold is not an ornament, but the ornament is nothing but gold. 

Whatever shape the ornament may assume and however different the ornaments are, there is only one reality, namely gold. 

So also with the bodies and the Self. 

The single reality is the Self. 

To identify oneself with the body and yet to seek happiness is like attempting to cross a river on the back of an alligator. The body identity is due to extroversion and the wandering of the mind. To continue in that state will only keep one in an endless tangle and there will be no peace. 

SEEK YOUR SOURCE, MERGE IN THE SELF AND REMAIN ALL ALONE.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. 

Excerpt from Talk 396.

happiness

अहोभाव 

We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for  it…

 

“Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don’t nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becomes filled with happiness. Don’t have any desire for peace, and see how the turmoil within you vanishes. Don’t beg for contentment and see how contentment showers down on you. Please try this – only then will you understand.

 

“This is the deepest experiment of life. And whatever has been discovered in regard to life, this is the most significant finding of all: don’t ask for happiness if you want to be happy, don’t ask for peace if you want to be peaceful. Whatever you ask for will be lost. Whatever you do not ask for you will get. You have asked many times and seen that you do not receive it. Now try not asking and see. There is no need to believe me; there is a need to experiment.”

 

Osho

The Voice of Silence

silence

BEING STILL  

D.: Cannot samsara be got rid of by any means other than making the mind still?

M.: Absolutely by no other means; neither the Vedas, nor the shastras nor austerities, nor karma, nor vows, nor gifts, nor recital of scriptures of mystic formulae (mantras), nor worship, nor anything else, can undo the samsara. Only stillness of mind can accomplish the end and nothing else.

D.: The scriptures declare that only Knowledge can do it. How then do you say that stillness of the mind puts an end to samsara?

M.: What is variously described as Knowledge, Liberation, etc., in the scriptures, is but stillness of mind.

D.: Has any one said so before?

M.: Sri Vasishta had said: When by practice the mind stands still, all illusions of samsara disappear, root and branch. Just as when the ocean of milk was churned for its nectar, it was all rough, but became still and clear after the churn (viz., mount Mandara) was taken out, so also the mind becoming still, the samsara falls to eternal rest.

Source: ADVAITA BODHA DEEPIKA Book

4. Is the state of ‘being still’ a state involving effort or effortless?

It is not an effortless state of indolence. All mundane activities which are ordinarily called effort are performed with the aid of a portion of the mind and with frequent breaks. But the act of communion with the Self (atma vyavahara) or remaining still inwardly is perfect effort, which is performed with the entire mind and without break.

Maya (delusion or ignorance) which cannot be destroyed by any other act is completely destroyed by this perfect effort, which is called ‘silence’ (mouna).

Spiritual Instruction, revised form by David Godman, chapter 2

power

“The power of the lord of the universe is breathing through you. You must find him or move on. When you find him, you will find the rest against your restlessness, a peace everlasting, an incomparable joy...”Mooji

awareness morning

अहोभाव 

.         Take a dive into that inner peace and you will be able to glimpse, to experience a new kind of youth. This is a youth that can never be extinguished; it is a youth that can never become old; it is a freshness that will never grow stale. It is a morning which is everlasting, a morning never followed by evening. It is a birth beyond which there is only life and more life and nothing but life; it is a birth beyond which there is no death. It is birth that is not followed by death; it is a morning that is not followed by night. And then there will be no more nights for you. Then, all of a sudden, you will begin to dance. And in that dance there will be awareness - rather, awareness itself will be the dance~The Master

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A visitor: What is the difference between meditation (dhyana) and investigation (vichara)?

Maharshi: Both amount to the same. 

Those unfit for investigation must practise 

meditation. 

In this practice the aspirant forgetting himself meditates ‘I am Brahman’ or ‘I am Siva’; thus he continues to hold to Brahman 

or Siva; this will ultimately end on the residual Being as Brahman or Siva which he will realise to be Pure Being, i.e. the Self.

He who engages in investigation starts holding on to himself, asks ‘Who am I?’ and the Self becomes clear to him.

Devotee: Will the knowledge gained by direct experience be lost afterwards?

Maharshi: Kaivalya Navanita says it may be lost. Experience gained without rooting out all the vasanas cannot remain steady. Efforts must be made to eradicate the vasanas. Otherwise rebirth after death takes place. Some say direct experience results from hearing from one’s master; others say it is from reflection; yet others say from one-pointedness and also from samadhi. Though they look different on the surface, ultimately they mean the same. 

Knowledge can remain unshaken only after all the vasanas are rooted out.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Talk 172.

meditation self inquiry

A visitor: What is the difference between meditation (dhyana) and investigation (vichara)?

Maharshi: Both amount to the same. 

Those unfit for investigation must practise 

meditation. 

In this practice the aspirant forgetting himself meditates ‘I am Brahman’ or ‘I am Siva’; thus he continues to hold to Brahman 

or Siva; this will ultimately end on the residual Being as Brahman or Siva which he will realise to be Pure Being, i.e. the Self.

He who engages in investigation starts holding on to himself, asks ‘Who am I?’ and the Self becomes clear to him.

Devotee: Will the knowledge gained by direct experience be lost afterwards?

Maharshi: Kaivalya Navanita says it may be lost. Experience gained without rooting out all the vasanas cannot remain steady. Efforts must be made to eradicate the vasanas. Otherwise rebirth after death takes place. Some say direct experience results from hearing from one’s master; others say it is from reflection; yet others say from one-pointedness and also from samadhi. Though they look different on the surface, ultimately they mean the same. 

Knowledge can remain unshaken only after all the vasanas are rooted out.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Talk 172.

knowledge

A visitor: What is the difference between meditation (dhyana) and investigation (vichara)?

Maharshi: Both amount to the same. 

Those unfit for investigation must practise 

meditation. 

In this practice the aspirant forgetting himself meditates ‘I am Brahman’ or ‘I am Siva’; thus he continues to hold to Brahman 

or Siva; this will ultimately end on the residual Being as Brahman or Siva which he will realise to be Pure Being, i.e. the Self.

He who engages in investigation starts holding on to himself, asks ‘Who am I?’ and the Self becomes clear to him.

Devotee: Will the knowledge gained by direct experience be lost afterwards?

Maharshi: Kaivalya Navanita says it may be lost. Experience gained without rooting out all the vasanas cannot remain steady. Efforts must be made to eradicate the vasanas. Otherwise rebirth after death takes place. Some say direct experience results from hearing from one’s master; others say it is from reflection; yet others say from one-pointedness and also from samadhi. Though they look different on the surface, ultimately they mean the same. 

Knowledge can remain unshaken only after all the vasanas are rooted out.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Talk 172.

all are one self

From ~~~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, T.17

D.:

Is work an obstruction to Self-realisation?

M.:

No. For a realised being the Self alone is the Reality, and actions

are only phenomenal, not affecting the Self. Even when he acts he

has no sense of being an agent. His actions are only involuntary

and he remains a witness to them without any attachment.

There is no aim for this action. Even one who is still practising

the path of Wisdom (jnana) can practise while engaged in work. It

may be difficult in the earlier stages for a beginner, but after some

practice it will soon be effective and the work will not be found a

hindrance to meditation.

D.:

What is the practice?

M.:

Constant search for ‘I’, the source of the ego. Find out ‘Who am I?’

The pure ‘I’ is the reality, the Absolute Existence-Consciousness-

Bliss. When That is forgotten, all miseries crop up; when that is

held fast, the miseries do not affect the person.

D.:

Is not brahmacharya (celibacy) necessary for realisation of the Self?

M.:

Brahmacharya is ‘living in Brahman’. It has no connection with

celibacy as commonly understood. A real brahmachari, that is one

who lives in Brahman, finds bliss in the Brahman which is the

same as the Self. Why then should you look for other sources of

happiness? In fact the emergence from the Self has been the cause

of all the misery.

D.:

Celibacy is a sine qua non for Yoga?

M.:

So it is. Celibacy is certainly an aid to realisation among so many

other aids.

D.:

Is it then not indispensable? Can a married man realise the Self?

M.:

Certainly, it is a matter of fitness of mind. Married or unmarried,

a man can realize the Self, because that is here and now. If it were

not so, but attainable by some efforts at some other time, and if it

were new and something to be acquired, it would not be worthy of

pursuit. Because what is not natural cannot be permanent either.

But what I say is that the Self is here and now and alone.

~~~~~

self

From ~~~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, T.17

D.:

Is work an obstruction to Self-realisation?

M.:

No. For a realised being the Self alone is the Reality, and actions

are only phenomenal, not affecting the Self. Even when he acts he

has no sense of being an agent. His actions are only involuntary

and he remains a witness to them without any attachment.

There is no aim for this action. Even one who is still practising

the path of Wisdom (jnana) can practise while engaged in work. It

may be difficult in the earlier stages for a beginner, but after some

practice it will soon be effective and the work will not be found a

hindrance to meditation.

D.:

What is the practice?

M.:

Constant search for ‘I’, the source of the ego. Find out ‘Who am I?’

The pure ‘I’ is the reality, the Absolute Existence-Consciousness-

Bliss. When That is forgotten, all miseries crop up; when that is

held fast, the miseries do not affect the person.

D.:

Is not brahmacharya (celibacy) necessary for realisation of the Self?

M.:

Brahmacharya is ‘living in Brahman’. It has no connection with

celibacy as commonly understood. A real brahmachari, that is one

who lives in Brahman, finds bliss in the Brahman which is the

same as the Self. Why then should you look for other sources of

happiness? In fact the emergence from the Self has been the cause

of all the misery.

D.:

Celibacy is a sine qua non for Yoga?

M.:

So it is. Celibacy is certainly an aid to realisation among so many

other aids.

D.:

Is it then not indispensable? Can a married man realise the Self?

M.:

Certainly, it is a matter of fitness of mind. Married or unmarried,

a man can realize the Self, because that is here and now. If it were

not so, but attainable by some efforts at some other time, and if it

were new and something to be acquired, it would not be worthy of

pursuit. Because what is not natural cannot be permanent either.

But what I say is that the Self is here and now and alone.

~~~~~

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I AM A MASTER WHO DOES NOT ASK YOU FOR ANY SURRENDER, ANY COMMITMENT; who does not ask anything from you, but who gives you as much as he can and is grateful that you receive his love, is grateful that you receive his silence. 

And it is absolutely your individual decision to remain my fellow traveler or to move in some other direction. 

And who knows, PERHAPS YOU MAY COME BACK TO THE CARAVAN AGAIN, or you may meet me somewhere ahead on some other crossroad. You will be welcome there. 

I ACCEPT YOU WHEN YOU ARE WITH ME, I ACCEPT YOU WHEN YOU LEAVE ME; I accept you if you never come back to me. I accept you if you want to come back to me....

I AM JUST A FRIEND. We have met on the road; we are strangers. You liked me to walk with you, I liked you to walk with me, we enjoyed being together. 

But any moment you want to say, "Now it is time to depart," I will help you to depart without tears, joyously -- because you are going to be independent, yourself. 

—Ôshó—

The Golden Future 

Ch #18: Existence is taking care 

pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

(_via Bodhisattva Shree Amithaba Subhuti _❤️)

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There are many lessons to learn, but for whom? 

For you? 

Who are you? 

As long as you believe you are a human 

being and you are part of the earth, then you do have many lessons to learn. But as soon as you give up the idea of your humanhood and start investigating the truth, that you are never born and you never die, until that time you will appear to suffer. You will appear to go through predicaments, through situations, through rebirth, through different experiences. 

But I say to you tonight that you do not have to do this. You merely have to recognize that your personal I is the culprit. It is not you. It is your idea of I. It is the I-thought that causes every problem in your life. It is the I-thought that causes you misery, unhappiness, misunderstanding and whatever. You merely have to destroy, annihilate, the I-thought. This is the reason you came back to this planet, so it appears, to find the I and destroy it. This is what you 

should have been concentrating on all the time. This is your purpose. There is no other purpose. 

Everything else doesn't matter. It appears to matter. In reality it does not matter. That's a heavy thing for me to say, for some of you appear to have serious problems in your lives, are saying to yourselves “How can he say it doesn't matter? This is about to happen, that's about to happen. How can it not matter?" If it does matter you will spend the remainder of your life rectifying things that matter. When you're finished with this, something else will come along. 

When you finish with that, something else will come along. And it will always matter to you. In other words, you will think it's very important that you change the condition.

There is really no condition to change. When that happens to you, you should immediately remember that everything is predetermined, everything. There are no mistakes. The worst thing you can do is to feel sorry for yourself. "Why does this happen to me? Why do I have to go through this experience?" It is the experience that 

makes you turn around and investigate who you are. If everything was going well in your life, 100%, you wouldn't care about this teaching. You wouldn't realize that things are going to change sooner or later. Nothing can ever remain the same. It's only when you have a so-called problem that you begin to think “Where did this problem come 

from? Who gave it to me? God? The universe? My fellow man? Who has the problem? I do? What is this I?" and 

you go right back to the I again. 

When you realize the I is only a thought, then you also realize that your problem, so called, whatever it may be, how serious they may look to you, must also be a thought. Can you see that? Because I has the problem. And I is only an idea, a thought. It doesn't exist for real. If I is only a thought, an idea, and I have the problem, there's no problem. 

This kind of thinking in itself releases you from the clutches of your mind. Things begin to ease up. Even if your situation does not necessarily change right away, you're no longer trying to change the situation. You still have become grateful for your predicament. Again this sounds strange. You're grateful for your predicament because, again, it is your predicament that has caused you to search for the ultimate truth. As you begin to see this you start 

caring less and less about your predicament. 

Now let me make this perfectly clear. It doesn't mean you're going to give up anything. It doesn't mean you're going to give up your family, or you're going to give up your job, or you are going to not give a damn for whatever happens in your life. That's not the attitude I'm talking about. The attitude I'm talking about is simply this. You are beginning to realize that the I that you've been calling myself, is not real. 

All these years since you were born you said “I feel this and I feel that. I need this and I need that. I am this and I am that." You're now beginning to see that I is not real. 

So naturally again the I is not real. All of these years of need, of want, of desire, of belief, have been false. 

It has been like an optical illusion. 

None of these things are real because my I is not real.

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams. 

✅ There is Nothing Wrong

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From ~~~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, T.293

M.:

Meditation is sticking to one thought.

That single thought keeps away other thoughts;

distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness.

By constant meditation it gains strength, i.e., to say,

its weakness of fugitive thought

gives place to the enduring background

free from thoughts.

This expanse devoid of thought is the Self.

Mind in purity is the Self.

Sri Bhagavan continued in reply to the former questioner:

Everyone says “I am the body”.

It is the experience of the sage as also of the ignorant.

The ignorant man believes that the Self is confined

to the body only, whereas the wise man believes

that the body cannot remain apart from the Self.

The Self is infinite for him and includes the body also.

Mr. Bose said that he felt peace in His presence

which lasts some time after.

He added: “Why is it not enduring?”

M.:

That Peace is the Real nature.

Contrary ideas are only superimpositions.

This is true bhakti, true yoga, true jnana.

You may say that this peace is acquired by practice.

The wrong notions are given up by practice.

This is all.

Your true nature always persists.

These flashes are only signs

of the ensuing revelation of the Self.

In reply to the first questioner Bhagavan said:

The Heart is the Self.

It is not within or without.

The mind is Its sakti.

After the emergence of the mind,

the universe appears and the body is seen

to be contained in it.

Whereas all these are contained in the Self

and they cannot exist apart from the Self.

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Don't look here and there. 

Don't look anywhere. Stop looking. 

Stop all your imagining of the future and conceptualizing of the past. 

Keep yourself in this moment, which is no moment. Find out where this moment is rising from, where time is rising from, 

where this thought is rising from, 

and you will see you have always been at Home. You don't need anything more!

~ Papaji

osho

live here now

Forget about yesterday. Forget about the way you were brought up, what happened to you, who hurt you. Don't concern yourself with the future. It makes no difference what is going on in your life at the present time, so just drop it. Leave it alone. Live in the moment. Be spontaneous. 

~ Robert Adams.

ego

The ego is never your friend.

The ego exists only to confuse you and confound you. 

That is why it appears to exist. 

But to whom does the ego exist? 

Only to the mind.

Destroy the mind by not thinking about it. 

If you do not think about the mind it becomes weaker and weaker 

and finally it's totally annihilated. 

For everything works by itself. 

It takes care of itself, in its own time and in its own place.

That is why I emphasize so much, turn into yourself. 

Never try to solve your problems. 

You cannot do it, 

rather know yourself, 

be yourself 

and see if any problems disturb you at all. 

If you would only turn within yourself and stop trying to 

change other people or 

change conditions or 

change behavior patterns. 

Leave these things alone. 

Be yourself ! 

Love yourself ! 

Worship yourself !

And then see what happens to you.

~Robert Adams

mooji

Nothing bad happen to you. Mooji

silence

Ramana Maharshi 

Silence is a powerful tool and Ramana Maharshi understood this concept well. 

He recognized that silence is truth, bliss, peace, and the Self. 

He understood that there is a deep importance in stillness

and that it can bring one closer to their sense of self-discovery and growth.

Silence can be a form of meditation, allowing 

one to connect with the innermost parts of themselves 

while connecting with the world around them. 

Silence helps to foster strong relationships with others, 

allowing each person to be heard without judgment or criticism. 

By embracing silence, one can learn about themselves and others, 

as well as develop a heightened sense of understanding. 

Ramana Maharshi's wise words remind us of the importance of stillness

and reflection and how it can help to transform our lives.

Silence is a powerful force that can bring about truth, bliss, peace, and even self-realization. 

This was realized by the Indian sage Ramana Maharshi, 

who believed that Silence is the Self. 

He believed that by stilling the mind and engaging in silent meditation, 

one could experience the deepest levels of truth and peace.

By listening to the silence, it is possible to access higher states of consciousness

 and gain insight into the true nature of reality.

 It is by going beyond the chatter of the mind that 

we can connect with our true source of inner peace and wisdom. 

This simple yet powerful truth is espoused by Ramana Maharshi 

in his teachings on Silence as a way to find self-realization and spiritual enlightenment

intellect

Do not lend your intellect [buddhi] 

as a slave 

to the gymnastics of eloquence 

[in the form of speech and poetry] and 

to the jugglery of arguments. 

Know the truth, Self, 

by turning the pure sattvic mind within

and thereby 

destroying the illusion of otherness.

- The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Guru Vachaka Kovai. Verse 526. The Practice of the Truth. Chapter 6. The Delusion of Arguments

I am truth

THE RIGHT SOLUTION

Q: How long does one stay in other worlds between birth and death?

M: The sense of time is relative. In a dream, you may live a whole day's events in a couple of hours. In the subtle body of the death-world, you may do the same and live what seems like a thousand years, although by our time it may be only a hundred years.

Q: They say that choice is offered to us to enjoy merits or demerits after our death. Is that right?

M: Why these questions relating to after death? Why ask, 'Was I born? Am I reaping the fruits of my past karma?' and so on. They will not be raised after you have been asleep for a while. Why? Are you different from the one in sleep?

You are just the same in sleep, in dream, and in the waking state. Sleep is a natural state of happiness; there is no misery. 

The sense of want, of pain etc, arises only in the waking state. What is the change that has taken place? You are the same in both but there is a difference in happiness. Why? Because the 'mind has now arisen. This mind arises after the I'-thought. 

The ‘I’-thought arises from Consciousness; if one abides in It, one will always be happy.

- Conscious Immortality

shakti

From ~~~ Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, 115

THE SHAKTI THAT IS, IS ONE

Bhagavan.:

A Jnani may do anything according to his

prarabdha (fate) but he remains unattached and maintains

a dignified aloofness. His shakti works in many ways but he

does not feel happy or unhappy over the success or failure

of his efforts. That is because he sees the world as full of

Brahman and so nothing appears to him to be happy or

unhappy. How can he have feelings of gratification or

sorrow when he does not feel that he is in this body, that he

is in this man or that this is the world? Accordingly it is

said: ‘dristim jnanamayeem kritva pasyeth Brahmamayam jagath’,

when a person gains the outlook of a Jnani that very moment

everything appears to be full of Brahman. Where then is

room for the feeling ‘I am doing?’ They will then realize

that everything is going on through the force of some shakti.

~~~~~~~

who i am

So what is the purpose of everything? 

Why do you exist? 

To die? Find out. 

Find out for yourself. 

Find the truth for  yourself, for no one can really give it to you. 

You are the power. 

You are the glory. 

You are the universe. 

You are not what you appear to be, but will you not find out? 

Ask yourself. 

When you truly ask yourself, 

“Who am  I?" 

the answer will eventually come. 

You will know. 

But yet most of you are concerned with your material life, and this is what keeps you back from finding yourself. You are concerned with your humanhood. You're concerned with the clothes you are going to wear. You're concerned with the people in your life. You're concerned with your job. 

You're concerned with the world situation. You're concerned with politics, and I could go on, and on and on. 

It is written in the scriptures, “Take no thought of what ye shall eat, what ye shall wear, or anything at all, but think  ye first of the kingdom of God, and all of these things shall be added unto you." 

That is a very wise statement. 

First find yourself. 

First awaken to yourself. 

Then see if you'll be concerned with your body. When you understand who  you are you will see if you'll be concerned with politics, or with the universe, or with anything else. 

Find out who you are first. 

Find yourself. 

Do not go around trying to straighten out your life. You can never straighten your life out, for that's the way life is. 

All of the things that are happening in the world today, have happened before, and before that, and before that, for millions of years. There have been many civilizations on this earth. They came and they went. And now you are here believing that you can make a difference. 

You hear that so much on TV. "I can make a difference.” What about you can make a difference? You are dust in the wind. We like to attach so much importance to ourselves. Our ego is so enlarged. We want to think we're somebody. Remember, after you die, within twenty years or so everybody will forget everything about you. You won't even be remembered. Your children will have children and they will have children, and you will not even be a 

memory. 

Therefore I ask you to find out, 

“Who am I? 

Who am I, really? 

What is my real nature? 

I couldn't possibly be this  body that changes, changes, changes all the time, and then dies. And if I look at the world, the same thing is  happening to the world. It keeps changing, changing, changing, never the same." And we go along with it. Never 

realizing what is happening, we become befuddled, confused. We're trying to make some kind of sense out of  livingness, but it has no sense, for you are not whom you appear to be. 

Consequently, you have to find out who you are by following the I-thought to the source. You have to inquire within 

yourself, 

“To whom do all the thoughts come? 

To whom does the world come? 

To whom does my ego come? 

To  whom does the universe come? 

To whom does God come? 

To whom does everything in this whole universe come?"

And you will realize very soon, 

“It comes to me. I feel it. I think it. I perceive it. I enjoy it sometimes. I fear it. But I  see and feel and think all these things." 

This now gives you an idea of what is going on. You begin to understand that the I is experiencing this world. Not you, but the I. You are not going through these experiences, but the I is. 

Who is this elusive I? 

Where did this I come from? 

Who gave it birth? 

How did it arrive? 

You ponder all these questions, and you finally ask, “But who am I? 

Where did the I come from?" 

Yet you never answer that question. You sit in the silence inquiring, “Where did the I 

come from?" And as thoughts keep coming to you, you inquire, “To whom do they come? Who is thinking these  thoughts? 

I am? Who am I?" This is really the highest way to remove all doubt and set you free. 

Let me remind you again. Do not try to change your thoughts, or to change your life style, or to work on your bad  habits, or to try to remove fear, and the rest of it. Rather you lift your vision high, to the highest, by following the I- thought to its source. And one day you will discover something interesting. Your body will appear to melt, to  dissolve. The world, the universe will appear to dissolve. Your God will appear to dissolve. Everything you stood up  for, everything you have believed in, all of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, will dissolve. And you will 

find yourself as omnipresence, all-pervading consciousness. You will discover that you've always been the ultimate  reality, ultimate oneness. You are the I am. You are free. 

You will appear the same. You will look the same. You will not be able to explain this to your friends or family, but  you will become one of the few that have transcended the world. There will no longer be an ego or mind or a thinker  left. You will know and experience unalloyed happiness, total bliss. No thing will ever disturb you again. 

Yet you will not sit still. The body will appear to move and do things. Yet you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that 

you are not the body. You have awakened. You have become free. 

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams Volume 1

self

DIALOGUE ON SELF-INQUIRY 

The following conversation comes from the diary of a devotee called Sri Yalamanchili who met Bhagavan in 1928 and had a discussion with him on self-inquiry. It was published in Arunachala Ramana in February 1982:

Question: How to realize the Atman?

Bhagavan: Whose Atman?

Question: Mine.

Bhagavan: Then you yourself have to do it.

Question: I am unable to do and know it.

Bhagavan: To whom is it not known?

Question: To myself.

Bhagavan: Try to know who is that ‘myself’.

Question: That is what you have to tell.

Bhagavan: [Smiling] It seems you have come here to test me. Will it really benefit you if I tell you what you are? Will you be satisfied if I just tell you? Ask yourself ‘Who am I?’ After questioning you will get the answer within yourself, and that will satisfy you.

Question: I have been doing sadhana for a long time but in vain.

Bhagavan: You will have to search for ‘I’ [aham]. Then, the apparent ‘I’ will vanish.

Question: Please give me the details of the process.

Bhagavan: Mind is, in reality, a bundle of thoughts. And every thought springs from the ‘I’. So, it is the first thought. Instead of dwelling on the secondary thoughts, the seeker has to concentrate on the primary thought, which is this ‘I’.

Question: What is the difference between a thought and the ‘I’?

Bhagavan: Thoughts are not independent. They have a standing only when they are associated with the ‘I’. But the ‘I’ can stand by itself. Actually, this ‘I’ is also not independent. In its turn, it is supported by the Atman.

Again and again, it rises from the Self and sinks there. It subsides in deep sleep and it comes out again in waking. We have to find out the place of its birth with an introverted vision.

Question: I have been questioning in this way but getting no answer.

Bhagavan: If you ask this question with zeal and proceed inward, the false ‘I’ disappears, and the real ‘I’ emerges.

Question: What is the real ‘I’?

Bhagavan: This is what we call ‘soul’ or ‘God’.

Question: When I start the inquiry numerous thoughts come in the way and obstruct me. When I eliminate one, another appears in its place. It seems there is no end.

Bhagavan: I am not telling you to grapple with the thoughts. There will be no end if you do it that way. Here lies the secret: there is the ‘I’, the source of all thoughts, and we have to catch it and see from where it arises. This is absolutely necessary. As a dog traces his master by following the track of his smell, you have to follow the inner development of the ‘I’ to reach its source, which is the [true] soul.

Question: From this, I understand that one can reach the source by one’s own effort.

Bhagavan: It is by the grace of God that you come to desire to know yourself. This desire to know yourself is itself a clear sign of the Atman’s grace. So, there is grace already working as the source of your effort. Grace is not an external quality of the Self but its very nature. It abides in your Heart, pulling you inward into itself. The only task you must do is turn your attention inward and search for the source of ‘I’. This is the only personal effort we have to put in. That is why [one can say that] where there is no grace, there is no desire at all for the quest for the Self.

Question: Is there no need for a Guru then?

Bhagavan: When it is necessary the Self itself will take the form of an external Guru and initiate you into the process. He will push you in and hand you over to the inner Guru who is already there. Finally, the Atman, which abides in the Heart, embraces you there.

Question: Now, may I know sir, what is the distinguishing feature of this method?

Bhagavan: The sense of ‘I’ is always present in us. So, it is relatively easy to find the Self through this ‘I’, which is an emanation of the Self. Further, if, before the ‘I’ ramifies into many forms, we put our attention via this method on the parent form of the ‘I’, this makes for the direct dissolution of the ‘I’ in its source.

Otherwise, if you begin the inquiry when the ‘I’ has already taken many forms, you will be swept away by its illusive power and never reach its source.

Question: The Self is nameless and formless. How then can we find it by the questioning of this ‘I’ that has a name and a form?

Bhagavan: The false ‘I’ or ego stands between the soul and the body, and connects them. Now, soul is conscious while the body is inert. The false ‘I’ binds them together. So, it is also called the knot between matter and spirit [chit-jada-granthi].

From this, we see that it has its feet in the Self and its head in the body. Therefore, by enquiring into the origin of the ego, we can easily proceed and reach the formless Self.

buddha

When Gautam Buddha was alive, he used to always sleep in the same posture; and the whole night, he would not move from side to side, he would not change his posture, not even an inch. Just nearby, in the Ajanta caves, in the last cave there is a sculpture of Gautam Buddha sleeping. That pose has become known as the ‘Lion’s pose’ because the lion also sleeps on its side without moving.

Ananda was very much troubled because every night he could see – sometimes in the middle of the night he would wake up – that Buddha was absolutely still, just as he had always been. One night, he could not resist the temptation.

He said, ”It is not good to disturb you in the night, because the whole day you have been walking and teaching, but I cannot resist. For twenty years I have been watching. You can understand how long I have waited, but now I have to ask it anyway. How do you manage to remain in the same posture that you go to sleep in, the same posture for the whole night? Do you sleep or do you simply go on keeping the posture? – because I have to move continuously.”

Gautam Buddha said, ”I have found the right posture. Now there is no need to change it. And I am as awake as anyone, even while my body is asleep. I have found the right posture for the body ... you are still searching for it. It is not simply a question of tossing and turning the body, it is because your mind is tossing and turning. I have gone beyond – there is no mind. The body simply lies down like a corpse. Have you ever seen any corpse changing its posture?”

It is your mind. Once your mind is at rest, once it disappears, your body can remain asleep but your inner eye, your inner sensitivity, your awareness, can remain burning like a small flame – not only watching your body, but also watching the silent mind, and the stillness surrounding you. The enlightened man cannot sleep in the same way that the unenlightened one sleeps. When the unenlightened man sleeps, he is simply unconscious. The enlightened man sleeps but he is not unconscious.

OSHO

happiness

HAPPINESS IS A FUNCTION OF ACCEPTING WHAT IS. If you accept what is, there is no possibility of your being unhappy.

I have been observing thousands of people, seekers, non-seekers, this-worldly, that-worldly, and every day I come across the phenomenon that I don’t see that people are really interested in being happy. Nobody seems to be interested in being happy because they are ready to sacrifice happiness for any nonsense: for jealousy, for possessiveness, for anger, for hate – for any nonsense they are ready to sacrifice happiness. But they are not ready to sacrifice anger, possessiveness, and jealousy, for happiness.                                       OSHO 

🦚🌈🌹

Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol 2

Talks on Fragments from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching .

CHAPTER 8: In existence there is no question.

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THE RIGHT SOLUTION

Q: How long does one stay in other worlds between birth and death?

M: The sense of time is relative. In a dream, you may live a whole day's events in a couple of hours. In the subtle body of the death-world, you may do the same and live what seems like a thousand years, although by our time it may be only a hundred years.

Q: They say that choice is offered to us to enjoy merits or demerits after our death. Is that right?

M: Why these questions relating to after death? Why ask, 'Was I born? Am I reaping the fruits of my past karma?' and so on. They will not be raised after you have been asleep for a while. Why? Are you different from the one in sleep?

You are just the same in sleep, in dream, and in the waking state. Sleep is a natural state of happiness; there is no misery. 

The sense of want, of pain etc, arises only in the waking state. What is the change that has taken place? You are the same in both but there is a difference in happiness. Why? Because the 'mind has now arisen. This mind arises after the I'-thought. 

The ‘I’-thought arises from Consciousness; if one abides in It, one will always be happy.

- Conscious Immortality

divine happiness

"But divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the Essence of Things and finds one's Self - this is Supreme Happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection be YOURSELF."

 ~ Anandamayi Ma

real sadhna aware of self

ANNAMALAI SWAMI – FINAL TALKS

THE REAL SADHANA

Annamalai Swami: Bhagavan watched me very closely in the years that I served him in the ashram. One time I went to the Mother's temple where many people were talking about worldly matters. 

Bhagavan called me back, saying, 'Why should you go to that crowd? Don't go to crowded places. If you move with the crowd, their vasanas will infect you.' 

Bhagavan always encouraged me to live a solitary life and not mix with other people. That was the path he picked for me. Other people got different advice that was equally good for them. 

But while he actively discouraged me from socializing, he also discouraged me from sitting quietly and meditating during the years that I was working in the ashram. In this period of my life, if Bhagavan saw me sitting with my eyes closed he would call out to me and give me some work to do. 

On one of these occasions, he told me, 

'Don't sit and meditate. It will be enough if you don't forget that you are the Self. Keep this in your mind all the time while you are working. This sadhana will be enough for you. 

The real sadhana is not to forget the Self. It is not sitting quietly with one's eyes closed. You are always the Self. Just don't forget it.' 

Bhagavan's way does not create a war between the mind and the body. He does not make people sit down and fight the mind with closed eyes. Usually, when you sit in meditation, you are struggling to achieve something, fighting to gain control over the mind. Bhagavan did not advise us to engage in this kind of fight. He told us that there is no need to engage in a war against the mind because mind does not have any real, fundamental existence. This mind, he said, is nothing but a shadow. He advised me to be continuously aware of the Self while I did the ordinary things of everyday life, and in my case, this was enough.

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Do nothing

THE POWER THAT BUDDHA IS TALKING ABOUT is the power when you don't do anything with your energy and you simply delight in its presence... A SHEER DELIGHT IN BEING FULL OF ENERGY... the sheer delight of a young, green tree... the sheer delight of a cloud, a white cloud wandering in the sky... the sheer delight of a lotus flower... the sheer delight of the sun coming out of the clouds... the sheer delight of being so full of energy... vibrant, alive, throbbing. 

WHEN YOU DON'T PUT YOUR ENERGY TO ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER, then energy itself starts moving in a vertical line. IF YOU PUT IT TO WORK, TO SOME ACTION, IT MOVES IN A HORIZONTAL LINE. Then you can make a big house, you can have more money, you can have more prestige, this and that. 

When you put energy to work, it moves in the horizontal line. WHEN YOU DON'T PUT ENERGY TO WORK, you simply delight in its presence, you are happy that it is there, THEN IT MOVES IN A VERTICAL LINE. I am not saying stop all work. I am saying find a few moments for vertical movement also. Horizontal movement is okay, but not enough. It is necessary for life -- but man cannot live by bread alone. 

You can get bread through horizontal work, but love, meditation, God, nirvana -- they exist on the vertical line. 

So sometimes just sit, do nothing. SITTING SILENTLY, DOING NOTHING, AND SOMETHING GOES ON GROWING WITHIN YOU. You become a RESERVOIR, and you start throbbing with an unknown delight. When you are full of energy, you are in contact with the whole. And when you are in contact with the whole, you are full of energy. 

—Ôshð—

The Discipline of Transcendence

Vol 2, Ch #5: A light unto yourself 

am in Buddha Hall

(_via Bodhisattva Shree Amithaba Subhuti _❤️)

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Shiva is a space of deep silence and stillness where all the activities of the mind dissolve. This space is available wherever you are. The moment you are established, centred, you see that there is Divinity present everywhere. This is what happens in meditation.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar

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23 November 1963

STUDENTS:

What are we on this earth for? 

KRISHNAMURTI: 

You are on this earth to live fully, happily, with your whole being, free of ambition, greed and fear. If you are greedy or ambitious, you cannot live fully, because greed and ambition dissipate your energy. To live fully is to live without fear, without sorrow, without asking a thing of the gods, because you would be a light unto yourself. When you live fully—a light unto yourself—you will not follow anybody, you will have no nationality, or belong to any religious or political group. As you would be a free human being it would, therefore, be possible to live in this world richly, whether you had little or much and, in that very act of living, you would beautify the earth. 

Look at all the horrors that are going on everywhere! It is because you do not know how to live that you give an artificial significance to life. If you asked ten different people what the purpose of life was, they would give you ten different answers; and then what could you do but choose an answer from among those ten and try to live according to it? You have to find out for yourself what it means to live fully. Obviously you cannot live fully if you are afraid of death, or of public opinion, or of making a mistake. If you are ambitious, seeking power, or clinging to a position, which in one form or another is what most people are doing, you cannot live fully, because you would be everlastingly in conflict, both with others and with yourself. It is most difficult to live without ambition in a world which is corrupt, a world where there are so many vested interests, so many gods who are always threatening, or offering rewards. It requires astonishing intelligence to live in such a world. And you can have intelligence only by seeing everything, and by listening to everything. Then your eyes will become alive and your ears sharp. From seeing and listening there comes self-knowledge and, in knowing yourself, you will have astounding vision. What better reason do you want for 

being on this earth than that? 

J Krishnamurti, A Timeless Spring

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The nature of jnanis and vijnanis

MASTER: "The vijnāni always sees God. That is why he is so indifferent about the world. He sees God even with his eyes open. Sometimes he comes down to the Lila from the Nitya, and sometimes he goes up to the Nitya from the Lila."

PUNDIT: "I don't understand that."

MASTER: "The Jnāni reasons about the world through the process of 'Neti, neti', and at last reaches the Eternal and Indivisible Satchidananda. He reasons in this manner: 'Brahman is not the living beings; It is neither the universe nor the twenty-four cosmic principles.' As a result of such reasoning he attains the Absolute. Then he

realizes that it is the Absolute that has become all this-the universe, its living beings, and the twenty-four cosmic principles.

"Milk sets into curd, and the curd is churned into butter. After extracting the butter one realizes that butter is not essentially different from buttermilk and buttermilk not essentially different from butter. The bark of a tree goes with the pith and the pith goes with the bark."

PUNDIT (smiling, to Bhudar): "Did you understand that? It is very difficult."

MASTER: "If there is butter, there must be buttermilk also. If you think of butter, you must also think of buttermilk along with it; for there cannot be any butter without buttermilk. Just so, if you accept the Nitya,

you must also accept the Lila. It is the process of negation and affirmation. You realize the Nitya by negating the Lila. 

Then you affirm the Lila, seeing in it the manifestation of the Nitya. One attains this state after realizing Reality in both aspects: Personal and Impersonal. 

The Personal is the embodiment of Chit,

Consciousness; and the Impersonal is the Indivisible Satchidananda.

"Brahman alone has become everything. Therefore to the vijnāni this world is a 'mansion of myrth'. But to the

Jnāni it is a 'framework of illusion'.

- The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.

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"Name and form are neither in you nor in me." 

"Neither unity nor separation exist in you nor in me. 

All is Self alone. 

"I" and "you" and the "world" have no real being."

"Good and evil are in the mind, and not in you. 

Beloved, why do you cry?"

- Avadhut Gita.  Chapter 1. The Self.

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What exists in truth is the Self alone. 

The world, the individual soul, and God are appearances in it, like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time, and disappear at the same time. 

The Self is that where there is absolutely no “I” thought. 

That is called “Silence”. 

The Self itself is the world; 

the Self itself is “I”; 

the Self itself is God; 

all is Siva, the Self.

What actually exists is only ātma-svarūpa [our own essential self]. 

The world, soul and God are kalpanaigal [imaginations, fabrications, mental creations or illusory superimpositions] in it, like [the imaginary] silver [seen] in a shell. These three appear simultaneously and disappear simultaneously. 

Svarūpa [our ‘own form’ or actual self] alone is the world; 

svarūpa alone is ‘I’ [our ego, soul or individual self]; 

svarūpa alone is God; 

everything is śiva-svarūpa[our actual self, which is śiva, the absolute and only truly existing reality] 

- Translation by  Michael James

~ Who Am I?

The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi.

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CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

THIS PRECIOUS HUMAN BIRTH

AS: Bhagavan once said, ‘To correct oneself is to correct the whole world'. When one has corrected oneself completely one finds that there is no one other than oneself to correct. One becomes quiet and peaceful within and one spontaneously radiates happiness to all beings. 

If a powerful light is shining it need not say to the darkness 'Please go away'. In the presence of such a powerful light, all darkness immediately vanishes. Similarly, the jnani spontaneously radiates a spiritual light which automatically dispels the darkness of spiritual ignorance. 

Q: Why did God make this world so imperfectly? What is the purpose of a world in which everyone is continually suffering? 

Why is there darkness for the jnani to dispel?

AS: The ultimate purpose of life is to inquire about the nature of the Self and to stabilize firmly there. 

Of all births, this human birth is the most precious because in this birth we have been given the faculty of inquiry. Through this faculty, we are able to inquire about the true nature of the Self. 

This precious birth is not given to us to be wasted in sensual pleasures. It is given to us only to know our true Self. 

Saint Tayumanuvar sang in one verse: 

“I came to this world just to realize myself 

but I forgot the purpose for which I came. 

My mind became deluded 

by accumulating riches and by indulging in sensual pleasures. 

I was deluded, lost in this maya, searching for the transient pleasures of wealth and women. 

To kill this delusion 

my Guru gave me the beautiful sword of jnana.”

- Living by the Words of Bhagavan p. 281

Beyond Right and wrong

BEYOND RIGHT AND WRONG

Q: What does it mean to fail in Yoga? Who is a failure in Yoga (yoga bhrashta)? 

Maharaj: It is only a question of incompletion. He who could not complete his Yoga for some reason is called failed in Yoga. Such failure is only temporary, for there can be no defeat in Yoga. This battle is always won, for it is a battle between the true and the false. The false has no chance.

Q: Who fails? The person (vyakti) or the self (vyakta)? 

M: The question is wrongly put. There is no question of failure, neither in the short run nor in the long. 

It is like traveling a long and arduous road in an unknown country. Of all the innumerable steps there is only the last which brings you to your destination. Yet you will not consider all previous steps as failures. Each brought you nearer to your goal, even when you had to turn back to by-pass an obstacle. In reality, each step brings you to your goal, because to be always on the move, learning, discovering, unfolding, is your eternal destiny. 

Living is life's only purpose. The Self does not identify itself with success or failure -- the very idea of becoming this or that is unthinkable. The Self understands that success and failure are relative and related, that they are the very warp and weft of life. Learn from both and go beyond. If you have not learned, repeat. 

- Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT ch 29, P. 93

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"Do not be afraid. There is no thing in the universe that can possibly hurt you. Everything is all right. If you believe in a God, see that God as omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. Realize that that God is your true nature, that God is you, no one else, but not as your ego, not as your body, not as your mind, but as you. 

You are That. Understand the true meaning of the Self; unalloyed happiness, pure intelligence, ultimate oneness. You are That. You focus your mind on God, by realizing 'I am.' I am not this nor that, just I am. I have always been and I will always be. 

Do not pray for things. Spend your time identifying with your Self. Praying for things is a waste of time. You may get the things, but you'll be sorry afterwards."

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

🙏💛💛❤️❤️

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Just before waking up from sleep, there is a very brief state, free from thought. 

That should be made permanent.

In dreamless sleep there is no world, no ego and no unhappiness, but the Self remains.

In the waking state there are all of these. 

Yet there is the Self. 

One has only to remove the transitory happenings in order to realize the ever-present beatitude of the Self.

Your nature is bliss. Find that on which all the rest are imposed and you then remain as the pure Self.

In sleep there is no space or time. They are concepts, which arise after the ‘I-thought’ has arisen. You are beyond time and space. The ‘I-thought’ is the limited ‘I’. The real ‘I’ 

is unlimited, universal, beyond time and space. 

Just while rising from sleep and before seeing the objective world, there is a state of awareness which is your Pure Self. That must be known.

- Sri Ramana Maharishi.  Gems.

God

One cannot see God and yet retain individuality. The seer and the seen unite into one Being. There is no cogniser, nor cognition, nor the cognised. All merge into One Supreme Siva only!

(Talk 450)

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It is good to proceed towards Him. Pray that you may be liberated from your shackles. Sit daily in contemplation of the One. He is the Life of your life, the Heart of your heart. To realise God means to realise your Self and to realise your Self is the same to find God. One must become entirely engrossed in sadhana. If you really yearn for God restlessly your yearning will be fulfilled. Try your utmost to find Him. The actual truth is, if you cry out to Him in earnest this prayer will be fulfilled.

- Ma Anandmayi

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Running away is never the answer. Changing yourself is the answer.

Take a look at your own life and see if it is not true what I'm saying. The changes you've gone through in your life. I know so many people who have left their home and family and gone to India to meditate, to find gurus, teachers. They have come back very depressed, even suicidal. For they've given up everything. Remember, there's nothing you have to give up. Only mentally do you give up attachment.

Always look at the world as a reflection of you. You are the world. The world can be nothing without your approval. It sounds strange, but true. You have to stop identifying conditions apart from yourself. I know it seems hard to do. When you see the riots we've just had, the murders, the looting, it seems really difficult to realize you are one with this. But think about this. Why should you only think you are one with the good things? If you are One, you are One with everything. Never just the good things that you enjoy and you like and bring into your life. 

You are All-Pervading, Omnipresent, and you are One with all there is.

The correct way to observe this is to look at everything in the world intelligently without any comments, without any reactions. Do not be for or against anything. Train yourself to observe, to watch, to look without any reaction. You may start training yourself with the small things. Work on the small things first. As an example, if you go outside and you have a ticket on your car for over-parking, catch yourself reacting to this by not reacting at all. Simply see the situation look at the situation, have no comment, no reaction. Pay the ticket and forget it. Do not think this is good, this is bad, this is outrageous, this is wrong, I don't deserve it. If you didn't deserve it, it wouldn't happen. 

Say you stub your toe. Instead of cursing the chair, getting upset, feel the pain, observe it, watch it, and let it go. Everything that takes place in your life, this is the way you should react. Someone cheats you, and you're thinking of taking them to court to sue them. Think about this carefully. 

Is this what I really want to do? And then your ego will say, of course you do, you were cheated. 

Your business partner cheated you out of $50,000. So you want to take this person to court to sue them. Say you did go to court and you won the case. You think this is good. But something will happen to even it out again. You'll have to go to court again and again and again. 

Sometimes you will win, sometimes you will lose. There are people like that you know. 

I'm thinking of a particular woman right now who makes a habit of going to court at least once a month. She is always suing somebody for something. Sometimes she wins and sometimes she loses, and she's a nervous wreck. She's not a happy woman.

If you begin to understand that everything is in its right place, how can somebody do something to you? No one can hurt you. What is rightfully yours, no one can ever take away. So why worry? Why be upset? It makes life so much easier. You start to worry and you become upset because in your finite mind, in your ego mind, you're thinking, "Well I've been cheated out of $50,000, this is all the money I have. I'm going to go to the poorhouse, I'll become a homeless person," and your mind keeps playing tricks with you. Telling you all the bad things that are going to happen to you. If you can only laugh at yourself and stop thinking of those things, you will find that you have risen higher in consciousness, and you're in control of the situation, and all is well. 

Never allow your mind to play tricks on you, to play games with you, and tell you about all the things that might happen. And then fear comes in and you start running 

around, crying, trying to correct things, trying to make things good, while you keep thinking about all the bad things that are going to happen to you. These things we are talking about are very important, for it keeps you back from thinking of truth and reality. It keeps you back from moksha, from liberation, for you are spending all your time involved in the material world. I'm not saying you should give up thinking about your business, or thinking about your family, or thinking about things in your life. But make them short and sweet. Think a couple of minutes about these things, and 

leave them alone.

- Robert Adams. 

T. 155 @ This Is Your Dharma - May 21, 1992

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What will be your new name after surrender? There is no name besides yours. The Vedas laud you; the world praises you; the essence of religious teachings is yourself. Then what is your form? All forms are yours. There is no form which is not yours. What is installed in the temples of worship is you; what is described in the Vedas is you; festivities and celebrations are all for you. Now what can be your power? In your presence the world is active; each is what it is, because of you. Briefly said, all things glorify you and bear witness to your being. They are duty bound to do so. You would not have even dreamt that this will be your state. Start at once, be not self-conceited. The Universal Ego awaits you. 

Do you wish to wake up from your dream or continue in it? How long will the dream images last? Be not idle, shake off your sleep, wake up! You are witnessing your own mental images and imagining more and more. It is all in vain. Just find out who it is that sees the visions. Do not delude yourself that you are these that rise and sink in you. Wake up. The instant you wake up you will know that waking is better than this dream. Get up! The Universal Ego waits to rejoice at seeing you awake. 

Fear not the cessation of the present ego dream. Once you are awake you will enjoy the same all the more. You will no longer be deluded and will observe it with cheerful detachment, unconfused. The folly of all appearances will be understood and you will have no burdens. In dream your mental imagery assumes shapes. On waking you know the dream as just a dream. Do not mistake dream for the waking state. Know the dream as dream. For doing so, you must reach the state of "I-am-Brahman" (Universal Ego) and wake from the illusion of the ego. 

~ Ellam Ondre (All is One)_ Ch.VI. EGO

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 When attention is directed towards objects and intellect, the mind is aware only of these things. That is our present state. But when we attend to the Self within, we become conscious of It alone.  If the mind wanders, we must at once realise we are not the body and enquire, "Who am I?" and the mind must be brought back to realise the Self. Thus all evils are destroyed and happiness is realised.

Concentration is not thinking of one thing only. Rather, it is the putting off of all other thoughts which obstruct the vision of our true nature. All our efforts are only directed towards lifting the veil of ignorance. Now it appears difficult to quell the thoughts, but in the regenerated state, it will be found more difficult to activate them! Why should we think of these things? There is the Self alone. Thoughts can function only if there are objects – but there are no objects, so how can thoughts arise at all? 

The Self is like a powerful magnet hidden within us. It draws us gradually to Itself, though we imagine we are going to It of our own accord. When we are near enough, It puts an end to our other activities, makes us still, and then swallows up our own personal current, thus killing our personality. It overwhelms the intellect and floods the whole being. We think we are meditating upon It and developing towards It, whereas the truth is that we are like iron-filings and It is the Self-magnet that is pulling us towards Itself. Thus the process of finding Self is a form of divine magnetism.

~ Sri Bhagavan

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POWER OVER OTHERS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- always destructive. In a better world anybody who is ambitious, who wants to be more important than others, ahead of others, should be treated psychologically. 

ONLY HUMBLENESS, simplicity, naturalness -- no comparison with anybody... because everybody is unique, comparison is impossible.

HOW CAN YOU COMPARE a roseflower with a marigold? How can you say who is superior and who is inferior? Both have their beauty, and both have blossomed, danced in the sun, in the wind, in the rain... lived their life totally....

NOBODY IS SUPERIOR, NOBODY IS INFERIOR, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.

It is perfectly good to be powerful as a mystic. It is ugly, disgusting, stinking to have even a slight desire for having power over others.

—OSHO—

From Bondage to Freedom

Ch #20: The power of the mystic

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Running away is never the answer. Changing yourself is the answer.

Take a look at your own life and see if it is not true what I'm saying. The changes you've gone through in your life. I know so many people who have left their home and family and gone to India to meditate, to find gurus, teachers. They have come back very depressed, even suicidal. For they've given up everything. Remember, there's nothing you have to give up. Only mentally do you give up attachment.

Always look at the world as a reflection of you. You are the world. The world can be nothing without your approval. It sounds strange, but true. You have to stop identifying conditions apart from yourself. I know it seems hard to do. When you see the riots we've just had, the murders, the looting, it seems really difficult to realize you are one with this. But think about this. Why should you only think you are one with the good things? If you are One, you are One with everything. Never just the good things that you enjoy and you like and bring into your life. 

You are All-Pervading, Omnipresent, and you are One with all there is.

The correct way to observe this is to look at everything in the world intelligently without any comments, without any reactions. Do not be for or against anything. Train yourself to observe, to watch, to look without any reaction. You may start training yourself with the small things. Work on the small things first. As an example, if you go outside and you have a ticket on your car for over-parking, catch yourself reacting to this by not reacting at all. Simply see the situation look at the situation, have no comment, no reaction. Pay the ticket and forget it. Do not think this is good, this is bad, this is outrageous, this is wrong, I don't deserve it. If you didn't deserve it, it wouldn't happen. 

Say you stub your toe. Instead of cursing the chair, getting upset, feel the pain, observe it, watch it, and let it go. Everything that takes place in your life, this is the way you should react. Someone cheats you, and you're thinking of taking them to court to sue them. Think about this carefully. 

Is this what I really want to do? And then your ego will say, of course you do, you were cheated. 

Your business partner cheated you out of $50,000. So you want to take this person to court to sue them. Say you did go to court and you won the case. You think this is good. But something will happen to even it out again. You'll have to go to court again and again and again. 

Sometimes you will win, sometimes you will lose. There are people like that you know. 

I'm thinking of a particular woman right now who makes a habit of going to court at least once a month. She is always suing somebody for something. Sometimes she wins and sometimes she loses, and she's a nervous wreck. She's not a happy woman.

If you begin to understand that everything is in its right place, how can somebody do something to you? No one can hurt you. What is rightfully yours, no one can ever take away. So why worry? Why be upset? It makes life so much easier. You start to worry and you become upset because in your finite mind, in your ego mind, you're thinking, "Well I've been cheated out of $50,000, this is all the money I have. I'm going to go to the poorhouse, I'll become a homeless person," and your mind keeps playing tricks with you. Telling you all the bad things that are going to happen to you. If you can only laugh at yourself and stop thinking of those things, you will find that you have risen higher in consciousness, and you're in control of the situation, and all is well. 

Never allow your mind to play tricks on you, to play games with you, and tell you about all the things that might happen. And then fear comes in and you start running 

around, crying, trying to correct things, trying to make things good, while you keep thinking about all the bad things that are going to happen to you. These things we are talking about are very important, for it keeps you back from thinking of truth and reality. It keeps you back from moksha, from liberation, for you are spending all your time involved in the material world. I'm not saying you should give up thinking about your business, or thinking about your family, or thinking about things in your life. But make them short and sweet. Think a couple of minutes about these things, and 

leave them alone.

- Robert Adams. 

T. 155 @ This Is Your Dharma - May 21, 1992