Everyone runs after happiness and enjoyment. Yet, supreme happiness and bliss are ever There and nowhere else. That which is eternal must be revealed, and then the question of going in search of anything does not arise.
~ Sri Anandamayi Ma
...from 'Matri Vani' http://www.anandamayi.org/books/Matrivani.htm
“Now the funny thing about the Truth, or enlightenment, or awakening, is that we miss it even though it’s not hidden. It’s not far away waiting for a moment where we deserve it. It is hard to find because it is right here. This openness has always been here. If it had a voice, it would have been saying something like, ‘For Pete’s sake, I wonder how long this image thing is going to go on!’ This imageless Self -- call it awakeness or awareness or openness, whatever word might trigger the remembrance for you -- is very quiet. But don’t believe me. Take the words inside. Discover for yourself. You are the authority. I’m just the messenger.”
~ Adyashanti
Emptiness Dancing
The jnani gives up his identification with worldly things, discriminating, 'Not this, not this'. Only then can he realize Brahman. It is like reaching the roof of a house by leaving the steps behind, one by one. But the vijnani, who is more intimately acquainted with Brahman, realizes something more. He realizes that the steps are made of the same materials as the roof: bricks, lime, and brick-dust. That which is realized intuitively as Brahman, through the eliminating process of 'Not this, not this', is then found to have become the universe and all its living beings. The vijnani sees that the Reality which is nirguna, without attributes, is also saguna, with attributes.
A man cannot live on the roof a long time. He comes down again. Those who realize Brahman in samadhi come down also and find that it is Brahman that has become the universe and its living beings. In the musical scale there are the notes sa, re ga, ma, pa, dha, and ni; but one cannot keep one's voice on 'ni' a long time. The ego does not vanish altogether. The man coming down from samadhi perceives that it is Brahman that has become the ego, the universe, and all living beings. This is known as vijnana."
http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/forum/index.php?topic=7540.0
Vairāgya (Devanagari: वैराग्य, also spelt Vairagya) is a Sanskrit term used in Hindu philosophy that roughly translates as dispassion, detachment, or renunciation, in particular renunciation from the pains and pleasures in the material world (Maya). The Hindu philosophers who advocated vairāgya told their followers that it is a means to achieve moksha. True vairagya refers to an internal state of mind rather than to external lifestyle and can be practiced equally well by one engaged in family life and career as it can be by a renunciate. Vairagya does not mean suppression or developing repulsion for material objects. By the application of vivek (spiritual discrimination or discernment) to life experience, the aspirant gradually develops a strong attraction for the inner spiritual source of fulfillment and happiness and limited attachments fall away naturally. Balance is maintained between the inner spiritual state and one's external life through the practice of seeing all limited entities as expressions of the one Cosmic Consciousness or Brahman.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vairagya
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
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 ।
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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