Better to be God

BETTER TO BE GOD

Bhagavan remained silent for some time. Everyone
thought he might not reply. Then suddenly he started:
You want to see God. But you do not realize that God
is within yourself.

Q: I am very much confused. Kindly tell me clearly. My
friends told me that you are the greatest authority.

Bhagavan spoke slowly and emphatically:
"If you say that God is to be seen, the necessary
implication is that he cannot be seen now but only
sometime in the future. Then it would also mean that
he appears and disappears. That which appears and
disappears cannot be the truth, the eternal.

Therefore instead of seeing God it is better to be God. Isn't it?
Instead of losing the vision of God and regaining it
would it not be far better to be God? If he is a true God
he must be your inner resident."

Q: Is the natural state without thoughts essential to
become God?

Bhagavan: NO - No. It is not so. There is no becoming here.
You are already that Self. Only due to ignorance you do not
realize it. Try to remove that first. 'The body am I’-
thought must go first.

- N.N.Rajan, More Talks With Ramana Maharshi

Never forget I am

SAYINGS OF ANNAMALAI SWAMI

It is enough to never forget ‘I am’, your real Self which is
everything and all inclusive.

In every moment you only have one real choice: to be aware ‘I am’ or to identify with the body and mind.

Your responsibility in this life is only to abide as ‘I am’ and not worry about the outer events over which you have no control.

- LWB

मृत्यु पवित्रम स्नान

मृत्यु ,--------पवित्रम स्नान ।

मौत तुम्हारा अहंकार छीनेगी, तुम्हारी आत्मा नहीं। मौत तुम्हारी देह छीनेगी, तुम्हारी देह में बसे हुए को नहीं। मौत तुम्हारी पद—प्रतिष्ठा छीनेगी, तुम्हें नहीं। मौत तुम्हारी धन—दौलत छीन लेगी, तुम्हें नहीं। मौत तुम्हारा मेरा तेरा छीन लेगी, तुम्हें नहीं। पछताओगे बहुत जब मौत आकर सब छीनने लगेगी और एक—एक भवन गिरने लगेगा—जिस पर तुमने जीवन लगा दिया था, जिस पर तुमने सब गंवाया था—तब तुम बहुत पछताओगे। लेकिन तब बहुत देर हो गई होगी। जो पहले ही जाग जाता है, वह भ्रांतियां नहीं खड़ी करता है। जो भ्रांतियां खड़ी नहीं करता, उसके पास कुछ होता ही नहीं जिसको मौत छीन
ले। उसी आदमी को ज्ञानी कहते हैं जिसके पास ऐसा कुछ है जो मौत नहीं छीन सकती

*ओशो*
*का सोवै  दिन रैन-9*

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Remove all becoming, you are Being.
Becoming is effort, Being is no effort.
You are always That so be like the breeze
that is attached to neither the garbage nor the garden
that it blows over.

Do not run away from worldly activities,
only always keep in the "I am Self,"
stay as the screen on which all projected activities take place.
In all activities simply keep Quiet and know "I am home."

~ Papaji

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Consciousness wakes up

COMPLETE FAILURE

Q: I want what you wanted.
Adya: What did I want?
Q: You wanted to become enlightened.
Adya: I wanted to become enlightened. Ok. It didn’t work out.
Q: Did you at least become awake?

Adya: No. Awakeness became awake. Enlightenment becomes enlightened. The me, the little guy, little Steven Larry Gray, that meditated in his parent’s backyard for hours and hours a day, every single day, in the morning and the evening, and did nothing but do the good Buddhist thing, diligently, terribly, terribly disciplined, he didn’t get enlightened. He never made it. He never crossed the river of nirvana, it never happened to him.

What he did was, for whatever reason, maybe the seeking was necessary, is he got exhausted. It just completely exhausted itself. The little one that was trying to get awake and enlightened got so exhausted, so stricken by I can’t do this, I can’t, and I could no longer tell myself I can. That means the complete and utter destruction of denial. Because the denial is “I can”. And your experience keeps showing you “you can’t.”

And so I got so exhausted psychically, internally, emotionally, spiritually that I couldn’t keep it up anymore. And i had to see the truth. I was willing to see the truth only because I was exhausted. I can’t do it. And in that “I can’t do it,” and not as a spiritual strategy, emptiness woke up out of the seeker. The seeker didn’t wake up. Consciousness woke up from the seeker, from the personality, from the “me” that was trying so hard.

— Adyashanti
from “Big Sword Swinging”