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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you. ~Sri Ramana Maharshi

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 For people whose madness of desire for 

the pleasures of this world has not yet subsided,  who have not become disgusted with all the efforts they have been making to obtain those pleasures, and whose minds have not therefore completely withdrawn from all such extroverted desires and ef-

forts, it will not be easy to inquire, 

“Who am I?”, 

and to know the true state of Self, 

just as a reflection of one’s face will not be formed clearly in swiftly running water. 

Know that a reflection can be seen clearly only when the water stops running and collects itself calmly together in one place. 

Note: Compare Vichara Sangraham, ch. 8, 

paragraph 3, where Sri Bhagavan says, 

“Just as it is impossible to separate the threads of a fine silk cloth with a very gross (and blunt) crow-bar, and just as it is impossible to determine the nature of very subtle objects with a lamp which is very much wavering due to the wind, so it is impossible to experience the reality with a mind which, being under the sway of 

inertia and activity (tamo- and rajo-gunas) and thus is gross and wavering, because the reality is extremely subtle and motionless”.

🕉 A Light on the Teaching of Ramana Maharshi. The Essence of Spiritual Practice.

Verse 199.

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For people whose madness of desire for 

the pleasures of this world has not yet subsided,  who have not become disgusted with all the efforts they have been making to obtain those pleasures, and whose minds have not therefore completely withdrawn from all such extroverted desires and ef-

forts, it will not be easy to inquire, 

“Who am I?”, 

and to know the true state of Self, 

just as a reflection of one’s face will not be formed clearly in swiftly running water. 

Know that a reflection can be seen clearly only when the water stops running and collects itself calmly together in one place. 

Note: Compare Vichara Sangraham, ch. 8, 

paragraph 3, where Sri Bhagavan says, 

“Just as it is impossible to separate the threads of a fine silk cloth with a very gross (and blunt) crow-bar, and just as it is impossible to determine the nature of very subtle objects with a lamp which is very much wavering due to the wind, so it is impossible to experience the reality with a mind which, being under the sway of 

inertia and activity (tamo- and rajo-gunas) and thus is gross and wavering, because the reality is extremely subtle and motionless”.

🕉 A Light on the Teaching of Ramana Maharshi. The Essence of Spiritual Practice.

Verse 199.

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Q: What is samadhi? 

A: The state in which the unbroken experience of existence-consciousness is attained by the still mind, alone is samadhi. 

That still mind which is adorned with the attainment of the limitless supreme Self, alone is the reality of God.

When the mind is in communion with the Self in darkness, it is called nidra [sleep], that is, the immersion of the mind in 

ignorance. 

Immersion in a conscious or wakeful state is called samadhi. 

Samadhi is continuous inherence in the Self in a waking state. 

Nidra or sleep is also inherence in the Self but in an unconscious state. 

In sahaja samadhi the communion is 

continuous. 

 Q: What are kevala nirvikalpa samadhi and sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi? 

A: The immersion of the mind in the Self, but without its destruction, is kevala nirvikalpa samadhi. In this state one is not 

free from vasanas and so one does not therefore attain mukti. Only after the vasanas have been destroyed can one attain liberation.

- BE AS YOU ARE. The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharishi edited by David Godman.

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 "Life is another name for insecurity"

A Cup of Tea

“When this is realized, the desire for security simply vanishes…”

Love.

Nothing in life is sure – except death,

otherwise, life is another name for insecurity.

When this is realized

the desire for security simply vanishes;

to accept insecurity is to become free of it.

Uncertainty will stay in the mind

because that is its nature;

don’t worry about it

because that will add fuel to it,

just let the mind be, where it is,

and you go into meditation.

You are not the mind

so where is the problem of the mind?

Leave the darkness where it is

and just light your lamp.

Are you going to think carefully and then

surrender?

Oh, mad one! Surrender is a leap outside thought.

Either jump or don’t jump

but for God’s sake don’t ponder about it!

Osho, A Cup of Tea, letter 132