Spiritual quotes

Q: There is more pleasure in dhyana than in sensual enjoyments. Yet the mind runs after the latter and does not seek the former. Why is it so?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Pleasure or pain are aspects of the mind only.
Our essential nature is happiness.

But we have forgotten the Self and imagine that the body
or the mind is the Self.

It is that wrong identity that gives rise to misery.
What is to be done?
This mental tendency is very ancient and has continued for innumerable past births.

Hence it has grown strong.
That must go before the essential nature, happiness, asserts itself.

~ From Be as you are book

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Nirvana - a talk by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Being without impression is liberation.

Notes

Mind is consciousness . Which interprets image .. collection of images or painting become video. Store memory ... Brain ..
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Dehbudhi real .. dual
Atma budhi .. all r one self.
Division is mere imagination of mind.

Witness of no thing ..
Manifesting consciousness/mind .. to witness brahman supreme consiousness . One true self ..  which is alone i am.
Akhandvrutti..
Waves of god .. mind ... as little self.. which is not real or ignorance.

Search the source mind
Mind dissolve in Supreme self is not separate from one brahman.

All r shiva
Shiva is within u.universe is brahman only. Asat and sat.both. bound but not bound.
Universe is mere dream in deep sleep.
Sleepless sleep mirror of supreme self. Infinite Image ... which never moves ... manifest ion is mere dream.imagination.
Moving in own domain with the power of witness.. consiousness.
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Self is a mind (limeted consiousness)source is heart (supreme consiousnes)...

another name for supreme soul is awareness ... Witness

knowning one self as body is maya.because of mind or ahankara.satv raj tam guna makes the body move ..

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Be in present
Mind or thoughts never let one to be in present.
Drop mind.
Be silent

Absence of light is darkness.
Dissolved the mind.. to kill.. merge in source.

Ego doesnt have its own existence.
Self is truth.
Be as you are.
I m this i m that is ego.
I i is real .

obstacle

Moderation ought to be the rule, as explained in the Gita, for the sadhak on the path. Sleep¹ is the first obstacle, as explained in the books, for all sadhaks. The second obstacle is said to be vikshepa or the sense objects of the world which divert one's attention. The third is said to be kashaya or thoughts in the mind about previous experiences with sense objects. The fourth, ananda, is also called an obstacle, because in that state a feeling of separation from the source of ananda, enabling the enjoyer to say `I am enjoying ananda' is present. Even this has to be surmounted and the final stage of samadhana or samadhi has to be reached, where one becomes ananda or one with the reality and the duality of enjoyer and enjoyment ceases in the ocean of sat-chit-ananda or the Self."

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM

Nobody can "make" you angry, or sad, or afraid.
Nobody can "make" you feel deficient, small, less-than-whole.
Now that you are an adult, please don't give away your power, your responsibility, your sense of agency and stability to another.
Don't make anyone into your authority. Listen, but don't devolve your power.
You are consciousness itself.
Nobody breathes for you. Nobody's heart beats for you. Others' words or actions may trigger feelings of pain, sorrow and shame (or happiness) in you, but they are only feelings that were already within you. They have not been "caused", but triggered. Feel them fully, let them flow through; they want to move.
You are innocent; feelings are not punishments, though they may be intense or uncomfortable and feel "unsafe" as first.
Watch the mind now; it wants someone or something to "blame" for these difficult feelings, somebody to make "bad" or even "evil". The mind will quickly spin a victim story, and you'll disconnect from your feelings, your breath, your precious body and its home, the present moment, seeking causes, retribution, revenge. The mind will attack others, or turn and attack your own core. Neither is necessary; but allow the urge too.
For now, please do not abandon your precious body. Do not disconnect and leapfrog over your own experience. You are not worthless. Stay grounded in the breath. Offer sanctuary to the triggered feelings, the sore place inside. Make room for the frightened one, the sad one, the disappointed one. Expand so you are an ocean, and let the waves of feeling come.
Now, you are truly responsible; able to respond to the feeling and the situation consciously and with presence, rather than reacting automatically, habitually, without awareness. From this place of presence, you can still speak your truth, say yes or no, ask for what you want, leave, stay, share your experience or not, all without guilt. But now, nobody is controlling you and you are not trying to control anybody. There is nobody to resent and nothing to be ashamed of. You are not a victim; you stand in your own power, on the Earth.
Your sense of self-worth is not dependent on what anyone else does or says or thinks or wants. You are neither worse nor better than anyone on the planet; you are the same Life, as alive as anyone, connected to what's real.
You are not a victim since you are deeply connected to yourself, welcoming your thoughts and feelings, honouring your path, bowing humbly to the place where you stand Now.
Owning the ground, lightly.
- Jeff Foster