Bondage

"Bondage is when the mind is tangled in one of the senses, and liberation is when the mind is not tangled in any of the senses."

~ Ashtavakra Gita.

Mind is always engaged in the pursuit of pleasures of senses- be it the pleasure of greater knowledge, greater power, physical satisfaction, a new experience or any thing this clever, cunning mind can envision.

We may ask what is wrong in it? For the very simple reason that pleasure bring pain, frustration, sorrow and fear, howsoever we avoid them. Pain is the shadow of pleasure. Because when we are denied a pleasure which we desire and seek earnestly, we become anxious, envious, fearful and hateful. A inner- conflict arises, and that is the cause of our bondage.

Those who know don't talk

Those who know don't talk.
Those who talk don't know.

Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity.

Be like the Tao.
It can't be approached or withdrawn from,
benefited or harmed,
honored or brought into disgrace.
It gives itself up continually.
That is why it endures.

~ Lao Tzu

...from "Tao Te Ching" (verse 56), translation by S. Mitchell

Consciousness

You are consciousness. You are empty. You are just in this moment only. Whenever you see name and form you are sleeping. What do you see in the world without name and form?

Where is consciousness as pure, immaculate eternity, permanent happiness, love and bliss? When you look from there, from emptiness, you see everything. Nothing beyond that. Nothing to do. Only to be as you are.

We have misconceived ourselves, that we have been born and we are the body and we are suffering and we have to die. Where it comes from nobody knows; it is just a concept. It is not real. You have been trained by your family, your society, your religion. Yet this emptiness is your own nature. This is what you are, and really you need not do anything about it. You need not do penance or retire to a cave.

Screen doesn't Change

You are the screen which doesn't change.
Oceans of water cannot make you wet,
fires will not burn you and
movies of romance will not affect you.
So allow the projections of the mind
which is everything you see within and without.
Like this you must remain That which is untouched,
That which is before identification and intellectual grasps.
This is eternal Being.

Suffering

The calmest sea will be subjected to suffer ripples by the slightest wind. The mind is no different, the slightest vasanas keeps it moving and moving. Vasanas are a subset of samskaras that link together to form habit patterns or personality traits. These are associated with subtle desires hindering the knowledge that behind this moving mind is the background of Chaitanyam – Consciousness which is limitless and changeless. Hara Hara Mahadeva.

Yogi Anand Saraswati

Conscious Immortality

CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

The disciple surrenders himself to the master. That means that there is no vestige of individuality retained by the disciple, and thus no cause of misery.

Without understanding it correctly, people think that the guru teaches the disciple, 'Thou art That,' as something which will make him more powerful than anything else. The man is already vain; what will happen if the same 'I' is greatly inflated?

He will be even more foolish and ignorant! This false ‘I’ must perish. Its annihilation is the fruit of 'guru service'.

Q: Does education make a sage more useful to the world?

M: Even a learned person must bow before an illiterate sage. Education is learned ignorance.

p. 145

Love of master

Love is not poison for master...
Do that right thing and forget..
There will be no trace of desire or wants In mind..
Mind is clear as before
After doing sadhna.. he is already exhausted
And Dispassionate about worldy affairs..
One who Knows the truth ..
Never attached to such things