Mooji

Master Mooji Says:  "Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not."

Moksha

* * * Moksha (Liberation) * * *

A few days ago, a lady, a recent arrival,
came into the hall at about 3 p.m. and sat down.
All the time she was there,
she was trying to get up and ask something of Sri Bhagavan.

As Bhagavan appeared not to have noticed her,
and was reading a book,
she waited for a while.

As soon as Bhagavan put the book aside,
she got up,
approached the sofa and
said without any fear or hesitation,
“Swami,
I have only one desire.
May I tell you what it is?”

“Yes,” said Bhagavan, “What do you want?”

“I want moksha,” she said.

“Oh, is that so?” remarked Bhagavan.

“Yes, Swamiji,
I do not want anything else.
Is it enough if you give me moksha,” said she.

Suppressing a smile that had almost escaped his lips,
Bhagavan said, “Yes, yes,
that is all right;
that is good.”

“It will not do if you say that you will give it sometime later.
You must give it to me here and now,” she said.

“It is all right,” said Bhagavan.

“Will you give it now? I must be going,” said she.

Bhagavan nodded.

As soon as she left the hall,
Bhagavan burst out laughing and said,
turning towards us,

“She says that it is enough
if only moksha is given to her.
She does not want anything else.”

Subbalakshmamma, who was seated by my side,
took up the thread of the conversation and
quietly said,
“We have come and are staying here for the same purpose.
We do not want anything more.
It is enough if you give us moksha.”

“If you renounce,
and give up everything,
what remains is only moksha.
What is there for others to give you?
It is there always.
That is,” said Bhagavan.

“We do not know all that.
Bhagavan himself must give us moksha.”

So saying she left the hall.
Looking at the attendants who were by his side,

Bhagavan remarked,
“I should give them moksha, they say.
It is enough if moksha alone is given to them.
Is not that itself a desire?
If you give up all the desires that you have,
what remains is only moksha.
And you require sadhana to get rid of all those desires.”

The same bhava (idea) is found in Maharatnamala:

It is said that the complete destruction of vasanas is
Brahmam and moksha.

~ Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, 8th January, 1946

Spiritual quotes

"One's own thoughts is one's world. What a person thinks is what he becomes- that is the eternal mystery. If the mind dwells within the supreme Self, one enjoys undying happiness."

~ Maitraiyi Upnishad.
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Your duty is to be and not to be this or that .I  am that I am sum up the whole truth. The method to summed up in the word Be still . What does stillness means . It means destroy Your self I .. because any form or shape is cause of trouble .Give up the notion that I am so and so. #Ramana say
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"There is a power in the universe working for enlightenment and liberation. We call it Sadashiva, who is ever present in the hearts of men. It is the unifying factor. Unity - liberates. Freedom - unites. Ultimately nothing is mine or yours - everything is ours. Just be one with yourself and you will be one with all, at home in the entire universe."

~ Nisargadatt Maharaj, "I Am That" - chapter 89
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"When one’s self [ego] arises all arises; when one’s self becomes quiescent all becomes quiescent. To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent there will result good. If the mind is rendered quiescent, one may live anywhere."

(From 'Who Am I?', Q. 14)

Truth

Your Ultimate Truth is just like sky. Through which you are talking, through which you are listening, through which you are watching, through which you are doing all the activities, that Ultimate truth, that Invisible Truth, that Anonymous Truth, is shapeless there is no form. That is just like sky. Sky is everywhere. Sky does not have any knowledge of it's existence or know 'I am sky'. So there's no body at all. Where is the body? After leaving body, which body remains? We are guessing because we have read so many books. After reading so many books, after listening from various sources, we are creating some so-called spiritual concepts. We created a viscous circle and within that circle we are trying to fix ourself. 'I am somebody else. Conscious, Subconscious body', not at all. It is just for understanding, You are not body at all, You are not body, You were not body, just see.

Sri Ramakant Maharaj

Mind

Papaji Says:  "You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble."
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Emptiness

Nothing does everything better than something.
I say this because we have a fear that
‘If I am empty of me as a person, how can I live?
I have rent to pay. I have children to look after.
If I am empty, how I can do these things?’
But you merely think it is you who is doing all these things.
This is a very difficult thing to convey to the immature mind
because the mind won't accept these words.
The Supreme Being is doing everything.
Through all the bodies it is doing all this as the vital force.
But also the personal mind has an influence.
Now you must judge whether the influence of the mind,
if the involvement or so called help of the personal mind,
is needed by the Absolute.

~ Mooji

Eight verses to Arunachala Shiva

Eight Stanzas to Sri Arunachala

1. Look, there it stands as if insentient. Mysterious is the way it works, beyond all human understanding. From my unthinking childhood, the immensity of Arunachala had shone in my awareness. But even when I learnt from someone that it was only Tiruvannamalai, I did not realize its meaning. When it stilled my mind and drew me to itself and I came near, I saw that it was stillness absolute.

2. Enquiring within “Who is the seer?” I saw the seer disappearing and That alone which stands for ever. No thought arose to say “I saw”. How then could the thought arise to say “I did not see?” Who has the power to explain all this in words, when even You (as Dakshinamurti) conveyed this of yore in silence only? And in order to reveal by silence, Your state transcendent, now You stand here, a Hill resplendent soaring to the sky.

3. When I approach You thinking You have form, You stand here as a Hill on earth. If one regarding You as formless wants yet to see You, he is like one wandering through the world to have a look at the ether (ubiquitous, invisible). Meditating without thought on Your formless Being, my form (my separate entity) dissolves like a sugar-doll in the sea. And when I realize who I am, what being have I apart from You, O, You who stand as the mighty Aruna Hill?

4. To search for God ignoring You who stand as Being and shine as Awareness is like looking, lamp in hand, for darkness. In order to reveal Yourself atlast as Being and Awareness, You dwell in various forms in all religions. If still there are people who fail to see You whose Being is Awareness, they are no better than the blind who do not know the Sun. O mighty mountain Aruna, peerless Jewel, stand and shine, One without a second, the Self within my Heart.

5. Like the string that holds together the gems, in a necklace, You it is that penetrate and bind all beings and the various religions. If, like a gem that is cut and polished, the separate mind is whetted on the grindstone of the pure, universal Mind, it will acquire the light of your Grace and shine like a ruby whose brightness is not flawed by any other object.When once the light of the Sun has fallen on a sensitive plate, will the plateregister another picture? Apart from you, O Aruna Mountain bright, auspicious does any other thing exist?

6. You alone exist, O Heart, the radiance of Awareness. In You a power mysterious dwells, a power which without You is nothing. From it (this power of manifestation) there proceeds, along with a perceiver, a series of subtle shadowy thoughts which, lit by the reflected light of mind amid the whirl of prarabdha, appear within as a shadowy spectacle of the world and appear without as the world perceived by the five senses as a film is projected through a lens. Whether perceived or unperceived, these (thoughts) are nothing apart from you, O Hill of Grace.

7. Until there is the I thought there can be no other thought. When other thoughts arise, ask “To whom? To me? Where does this ‘I’ arise?” Thus diving inwards, if one traces the source of the mind and reaches the Heart, one becomes the Sovereign Lord of the Universe. There is no more dreaming of such as in and out, right and wrong, birth and death, pleasure and pain, light and darkness, O boundless ocean of Grace and Light, Arunachala dancing the dance of stillness in the dancing Hall of the Heart.

8.The raindrops showered down by the clouds, risen from the sea cannot rest until they reach, despite all hindrance, once again their ocean home. The embodied soul from You proceeding may through various ways self-chosen wander aimless for a while, but cannot rest till it rejoins You, the source. A bird may hover here and there and cannot in mid-heaven stay. It must come back the way it went to find at last on earth alone its resting place. Even so the soul must turn to You O, Aruna Hill, and merge again in You alone, Ocean of bliss.