Self

"Find out to whom is Viyoga. That is yoga. Yoga is common to all paths. Yoga is really nothing but ceasing to think that you are different from the Self or Reality. All the yogas - karma, jnana, bhakti and raja - are just different paths to suit different natures with different modes of evolution and to get them out of the long cherished notion that they are different from the Self. There is no question of union or yoga in the sense of going and joining something that is somewhere away from us or different from us, because you never were or could be separate from the Self."

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi.
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Ramana says:

"The highest siddhi is realization of the Self, for once you realize the truth you cease to be drawn to the path of ignorance."

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Sadguru enlightenment

Sadhguru's enlightenment... in his own words: http://youtu.be/zYXlOJlhf38

Adi shankaracharya

तंतुमात्रो भवेदेव पटो यद्वद्विचारितः।आत्मतन्मात्रमेवेदं तद्वद्विश्वं विचारितम्॥2-5॥
जिस प्रकार विचार करने पर वस्त्र तंतु (-धागा) मात्र ही ज्ञात होता है, उसी प्रकार यह समस्त विश्व आत्मा मात्र ही है।
On reasoning, cloth is known to be just thread, similarly all this world is self only.॥5॥

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STATES OF SAMADHI

CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

Ananda is the bliss of not being disturbed by any mental activity or characteristics.

There is a temporary bliss and a permanent one. The former state is called kevala samadhi, the latter is sahaja nirvikalpa samadhi, i.e. the state of nirvikalpa that has become natural.

The jnani in kevala samadhi enjoys the bliss of samadhi arising from the cessation of mental activity and the disappearance of outside objects. But after a while his bliss ceases as mental activities begin and there is no  samadhi for some time.

In sahaja, however, there is no relapse into mental activity and no consequent loss of bliss. The happiness is unbroken and ever enduring. The body, senses and mind may be operative, but the person is hardly conscious of the acts of the body.

Q: It is said that one remaining in nirvikalpa samadhi for 21 days must necessarily give up the physical body.

M: Samadhi means passing beyond. Non-identification of the body Self is a foregone conclusion. There are said to be people who have been immersed in nirvikalpa samadhi for a thousand years or more.

    -   Holding on to Reality is samadhi.

-  Holding onto Reality with effort is savikalpa samadhi.

-       Merging into Reality and remaining unaware of the
         world is nirvikalpa samadhi.

-       Merging in ignorance and remaining unaware of the world is
        sleep — the head bows but not in samadhi.

-     Remaining in the primal, pure, natural state without
        effort is sahaja  nirvikalpa samadhi.

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Being

You Are an Audience to Your Own Play

"Let your dynamic life be the perfume of your being—this perfume is peace, and joy, freedom, lightness, spontaneity, wisdom.
These are not things you do, the flower does nothing to produce its perfume. When the understanding is there and is firm inside the heart, all these qualities are spontaneously present.
Don't be waiting for the mind to undergo surgery — you just keep remembering and being your Self. Regard your life as a great good fortune."

This video is also available on mooji.tv/freemedia/you-are-an-audience-to-your-own-play

Music: 'Mahadeva' by Samadhi – www.satsangshop.com

Self

Devotee.: It is not necessary that the saints should mix with people and be helpful to them?
Maharshi.: The Self alone is the Reality; the world and the rest of it are not. The realised being does not see the world as different from himself.

source: Talk 20

Enjoy your life

Enjoy your life as much as you can and when you have enjoyed everything you will know that there must be something else beyond the transitory enjoyments of the world. All those enjoyments need bones and leather, but there is a happiness which does not depend on them. When you find this happiness you will sit Quiet and you will not go back to the cemetery which is filled with only bones. Most people stay in the cemetery everyday. Once you know this you will be attracted to the bliss which will continually pull you deeper and deeper into it. Don't worry. Simply stay Quiet here and don't let your mind go back to the previous disturbances. Whenever the mind goes out pounce on it so that it doesn't go back to the previous disturbances. Be a lion.

~ Papaji