Truth

“All this is enveloped by the Supreme Being”
(Isavasyam idam sarvam)
#SwamiTejomayananda
(Part 1)

In the traditional language of Vedanta a student endowed with the four-fold qualifications of discrimination, dispassion, self-control and so on, along with the intense longing for liberation is considered fit for gaining the Knowledge of the Self. He is called a sadhanachatushtaya sampanna adhikari.

Such seekers who have lived life, gained experiences and understood their limitations, reach a stage where they want to know the greater Truth. They then approach a Teacher established in Self-knowledge and seek to gain such Knowledge, at any cost. That Self-knowledge is indicated by the word Upanishad. Before the teaching begins, when the teacher and the disciple come together, they first recite the peace invocation (shaantipath).

The Ishavasya Upanishad is found in the Yajurveda, based on its very first word, Isha –the Lord. Sometimes it is also called Iso Upanishad.

Some Upanishads begin with a question, but this Upanishad begins with an answer - a direct statement from the teacher. It is implied that there are one or more disciples.

The student has approached the teacher and expressed a desire to live in this world, and live happily.

He says, ‘Sukhaaya karmani karoti lokah – a man performs all actions only for gaining happiness. I too strive to be happy.From the worldly standpoint I have everything, but happiness always eludes me. Why is this so? What is the cause of this sorrow? What should I do?’

The teacher responds, ‘You have performed many actions (karma), now it is time to gain Knowledge (jnana). You have done enough, now must know.’

Osho

Awakening

“ ... You have to be aware that that Energy, that beautiful all encompassing Energy, now has been awoken, and it will do its work. It will do what needs to be done.

So this is why it’s very important to not to be afraid that somehow your lifestyle, your immediate priorities of what you need to do in a day-to-day situation, in going about earning the livelihood, engaged in your immediate relationship – it’s not going to interfere at all.  What you need to understand is that this power is simultaneously very disruptive – it overthrows everything we have thought about ourselves – yet, at the same time, when there is this acknowledgement, it’s the Supreme Intelligence Itself. 

It’s the subtlety – the subtlety of all relationships – hence you will be able to act and interact as long as you do not fight that process. Sometimes, you just let yourself be open, just catch that moment – that moment, repose. If you’re busy with people, suddenly you feel the wave is coming – speak to that Energy. Do not use it as something like – speak to that Energy! Close your eyes, or don’t close your eyes – just say, “Loving Devi, just wait for me – let me just go through this meeting – and I’ll be all yours, just give me a little bit more time.”

You’ll see what happens, just very very gently. Your attention is required.  You’re driving, you’re with little children, your grandchildren; at work, you are at the meeting with the boss, you don’t want to lose your job because suddenly you feel like a dancing kriya overcomes you, and you feel like dancing on the table of the boss – soon as there is acceptance, soon as we’ve embraced, it then finds its most beautiful way of how to do this work because there is no such thing as you without that Divine power...”

– Igor Kufayev – excerpt from video, “Working with Universal Powers”

Photo: taken by Helena Zingarella at ‘Divine Intoxication’ Immersion, Templeton, CA, May 2016

~ Prema Landbauer, Team Flowing Wakefulness

Sanyassa renunciation

Disciple: What is the real purpose of sannyasa (renunciation)?

Maharshi: Sannyasa is only the renunciation of the ‘I’ thought, and not the rejection of the external objects. He who has renounced (the “I” thought) thus remains the same whether he is alone or in the midst of the extensive samsara (empirical world). Just as when the mind is concentrated on some object, it does not observe other things even though they may be proximate, so also, although the sage may perform any number of empirical acts, in reality he performs nothing, because he makes the mind rest in the Self without letting the ‘I’ thought arise. Even as in a dream one appears to fall head downwards, while in reality one is unmoving, so also the ignorant person, i.e., the person for whom the ‘I’ thought has not ceased, although he remains alone in constant meditation, is in fact one who performs all empirical actions. Thus the wise ones have said. .~Self Enquiry (vicharasangraham) Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi.

Misery

People are talking about misery and you must think that they want to get rid of that misery -- you are wrong!

Never try to belittle their misery: they will be very angry and they will never forgive you. They are rejoicing that they have the greatest misery in the world -- and you are trying to belittle it or ignore it!

The human mind is a very strange creature. Rather than trying to understand your misery, you start glorifying it. You start feeling a kind of martyrdom -- and martyrdom is a desease, a sickness of the soul.

But the whole tradition of humanity has praised the martyrs as great human beings. They were simply masochists who wanted an opportunity to be tortured! Nobody says it is so because that means your whole history has to be written again: it is not about the sincere and the real people, it is about the sick psychopaths.

Beloved Osho
The Path of the Mystic

Self

We go round and round in search of atma [Self] saying, `Where is atma? Where is it? till at last the dawn of jnana drishti [vision of knowledge] is reached, and we say, `This is atma this is me.' ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Meditation

If you are surrounded by lots of thoughts, if the thought-process is going on continuously, if you have forgotten your being just here and now -- please make your breathing deep and deeper suddenly, and continue it; and you will feel all thoughts have been vaporized, and you will return to home to your being right now!