Kanthopnishad

'He, the puruSha, who remains awake
while the sense-organs are asleep,
shaping one lovely form after another,
that indeed is the Pure,
that is brahman and that alone is called the Immortal.
All worlds are contained in Him and none can pass beyond.
This, verily, is That.
~ Kathopanishad

Staying as a self

There is no effort required to stay as the Self.
Even the idea of staying as the Self is a false idea.
It is only useful for the imagined seeker, but eventually it is found
that the seeker itself is just another idea imagined in the Self.
Its assumed reality collapses in the light of clear seeing,
revealing the unchanging One.

~ Mooji, India 2016

Krishna

The glory of Krishna is not that he was Krishna, but that he was the great teacher of Vedanta. If he had not been so, his name would have died out of India ..........Thus our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons.
Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!
Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles.

~ via On going celebrations of 150th Birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda

Wisdom

This Atmic wisdom is not for all.
Those with agitated, uncontrolled minds
cannot even guess
that the Self is present here within.”

— Bhagavad Gita - Krishna ♥

Attachment

Krishna tells Arjuna that we have a tremendous amount of attachment to this world of material and mental structure. We keeps searching happiness out there. But how can we find a thing which has never been there? That is why we live a miserable life. But when we explore it within, all the passionate energy is channeled into awakening of wisdom. That state when realized is marked by permanent happiness, a calm state, having abundant vitality and the concentration of genius.

But even this is not the end. Its goal is to return to evolution of unitary state. In that state mind is still and the consciousness rests in pure, unitary state, which is a state of permanent bliss. This is what the purpose of meditation is..

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