Consciousness

Recognize the power of mind,
respect the power of mind.
And also recognize the power behind the power,
the ocean holding the wave.
Recognize yourself as the ocean,
with your stories, your feelings, as waves.
Waves can be beautiful or terrifying,
always they return to the ocean.
Every wave always is made up of the ocean.
No wave can ever be separate from the ocean.
Waves of thoughts, waves of emotions,
waves of sensations, waves of events,
are all made up of consciousness.
And all return to consciousness,
while never being separate from consciousness.

And if this becomes another story,
let this go, and see what is true.

~ Gangaji

Papaji says

Papaji Says:  "The fear of vanishing which may arise with inquiry,
is the old sensation: "I am the body." This is not a fear of the new, but of leaving the old. Have no fear and plunge into your own Being.

When "you" disappear, all fear will also. Stay Quiet, be Still, Here you are. Stay as presence in your Heart.
Do not fear meeting the Self, it is what you always been. Nothing can be lost, have no fear. There can also be fear of "losing it." Only when you possess something does the fear of losing arise.

Only Self cannot be held, so only Self cannot be lost.
The only way to avoid fear is to return to the inner beauty, the Self, the Heart on the right."
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Vasanas

VASANAS

The nature of thoughts that arise in the mind will be in accordance with the old vasanas.

Vasanas themselves are the mind. If there are no vasanas there is no mind. That which Is, is sat.

The disturbing agitation of mind that occurs when one attempts to get firmly established in sadhana is a normal occurrence that is prompted by the rising of vasanas.

If at that time you hold tightly to the power of the grace of the parasakti that has possessed you (the inner feeling for the ‘I’-am) the vasanas that agitate your mind and distress you will be completely destroyed.

Unless the destruction of all vasanas is accomplished, it will not be possible even for Ishwara to bestow the state of liberation.

- Padamalai

Life

During all activities of life
is to accept whatever comes
and not care about what does not come.
Things will come so enjoy them and be happy
Let the play happen by the Supreme Power;
you will be taken care of.
Be free to be happy, love has no traps.

After awakening

Four or five days back, a notebook of Madhavaswami was found. As Bhagavan was looking into it, he saw a Tamil verse in it written by him, long ago. It was in Malayalam script, and while transcribing it into Tamil he told us its meaning: “When a man attains jnana, he will not have any regard for this body. Just as, after taking food, the leaf on which it was taken is thrown away however nice it may be, so also after attaining jnana one will be waiting eagerly for the time when it can be thrown away. This is the essence of what is stated in this verse.”

(From 'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam' 123)

Self Devotee

CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

Q: Why is it written in one of the Upanishads, 'Those whom the Atman chooses, to them alone does It reveal Itself, not to others'? Isn't this rather arbitrary?

M: No. It is correct. It chooses only those who devote them selves to It, who become Its devotees. Such It draws inwards to Itself. One must turn inwards to find the Atman. Whoever thinks of It, It will draw to Itself.

All thoughts such as, 'Attainment is hard,' or 'Self-realization is far from me,' or 'I have to overcome many difficulties to know Reality,' should be given up, as they are obstacles and are created by this false self, ego.

They are untrue.

Do not doubt that you are the Reality; live in that understanding. Never question it by deferring your realization of it to some future time. It is because people are victimized and hypnotized by such false thoughts that the Gita says that few out of millions realize the Self.

The order of ashramas was established as a general principle to regulate the gradual development of the ordinary run of humanity, but in the case of one highly mature and fully ripe for atma vichara there is no graduated development. In this case jnana vichara, i.e.Self-enquiry, and the blooming of jnana, are immediate and quick.

p. 158

Conscious Immortality

CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self.
The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

The enquiry should be where the 'I' is. After the rise of the 'I' -thought, there is false identification of the 'I' with the body, the senses, and the mind. Self is wrongly associated with them; one has lost sight of the true Self.

In order to sift the pure 'I' from the contaminated I', this discarding (of the koshas or sheaths referred to in the Shastras) is mentioned. It does not mean exactly the discarding of the non-self, but more the find ing of the real Self.

The real Self is the infinite 'I-I' in perfection. It is eternal. It has no origin and no end. The other 'I' is born and dies. It is impermanent. See to whom the changing thoughts occur. They will be found to arise after the 'I'-thought. Hold onto the 'I'-thought and they will subside. The Self alone will remain.

- p 157