Mauna

M: That state which transcends speech and thought is mauna; it is meditation without mental activity. Subjugation of the mind is meditation; deep meditation is eternal speech. Silence is ever-speaking; it is the perennial flow of ‘language’. It is interrupted by speaking; for words obstruct this mute ‘language’. Lectures may entertain individuals for hours without improving them. Silence, on the other hand, is permanent and benefits the whole of humanity. . . . . . By silence, eloquence is meant. Oral lectures are not so eloquent as silence. Silence is unceasing eloquence. . . . It is the best language.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

(From 'Maharshi’s Gospel', Book I, Ch. 2)

Self

For him who is the Bliss of Self arising from extinction of the ego, what is there to do? He knows nothing other than this Self. How to conceive the nature of his state?

('Reality in Forty Verses', v. 31 ("Collected Works"))

Self

You are the One which is aware
of the awareness of objects and ideas.
You are the One which is even more silent than awereness.
You are the Life which precedes the concept of life.
Your nature is Silence and it is not attainable,
It always Is.

~ Sri Poonjaji 'Papaji'

Be quite truth be still god

From: ~~~ Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi: 100.

R. Narayana Iyer did personal service to Sri Ramana.
He wrote a number of articles in The Mountain Path
under the pen name Vishnu.
When he first went to Sri Ramana as a young man,
he was a modernist and a freethinker.

M.:
“This is only the husk !
All this book learning and capacity to repeat
the scriptures by memory is absolutely of no use.

To know the Truth,
you need not undergo all this torture of learning.

Not by reading do you get the Truth.

Be Quiet that is Truth.

Be Still, that is God.”

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M.:
“All the scriptures are meant only to show you the way of Realization.
They are meant for practice and attainment.

Mere book learning and discussions are comparable
to a man shaving the image in the mirror.”

R. Narayana Iyer:
From that day onwards my long-standing sense
of inferiority vanished once for all.

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Prayer

Beloved,
Let me never imagine I am something.
Let me never forget I am nothing.
What Grace you have showered upon my being
to have filled this space with You alone.

~ Mooji

Thinker

If the thinker is sought

The thoughts will  disappear.

Being

Realize your pure being
Let there be no confusion
With the body.
Body is result of thoughts.
The thought will play as usual
But you will not Be affected
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