Happiness

MAA ANANDAMAYI

Question: How can I find happiness?
Answer: First tell me whether you are willing to do as this body bids you to do?
Questioner: Yes, I am.
Answer: Are you really? Very well. Now suppose I ask you to remain here, will you be able to do that?.
Questioner: No, I will not. (Laughter...)
Answer: You see, happiness that depends on anything outside of you, be it your wife, children, money, fame, friends or anything else, cannot last. But to find happiness in Him who is everywhere, who is all-pervading, your own Self, this is real happiness.
Question: So you say happiness lies in finding my Self?
Answer: Yes. Finding your Self, discovering who you really are, means to find God, for there is nothing outside of Him.

Self alone real

Sadguru

1.    'What are the marks of a real teacher (Sadguru)?'

Steady abidance in the Self, looking at all with an equal eye, unshakeable courage at all times, in all places and circumstances, etc.

2.    'What are the marks of an earnest disciple (sadsishya)?'

An intense longing for the removal of sorrow and attainment of joy and an intense aversion for all kinds of mundane pleasure.

(From 'Spiritual Instruction', Ch. I: 'Instruction')

Awareness of mind

You know very well that if your mind is suffering it is not at peace. You know the activities of the mind also. You know, "Now my mind is thinking or not thinking." This means that you are also aware of the activities of the mind. You are something other than the mind. You are not the mind. You are neither the mind nor the body.

~ Papaji

God's play

God was infinite omniscient Bliss; but, being alone, there was no one but Him to enjoy that Bliss. So He said, “Let Me create a universe and divide Myself into many souls that they may play with Me in my unfolding drama.” By His magical measuring power of maya He became dual: Spirit and Nature, man and woman, positive and negative.

But even though He has created the universe out of delusion, He himself is not deluded by it. He knows that everything is but a diversification of His one Cosmic Consciousness.

Experiences of the senses and emotions, the dramas of war and peace, sickness and health, life and death - are all happening in God as the Dreamer- Creator of all things, but He is unaffected by them.

One part of His infinite Being ever remains transcendent, beyond vibratory dualities: there God is inactive. When He vibrates His Consciousness with thoughts of diversity, He becomes immanent and omnipresent as the Creator in the finite vibratory realm of infinity: there He is active. Vibration brings forth objects and beings interacting in space in the motions of time - just as vibrations of man's Consciousness brings forth dreams in sleep.

God created this dream universe for entertaining Himself and us.

~Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, Journey to Self-Realization, page 32

जिंदगी संघर्ष

जिंदगी बड़ी भिन्न—भिन्न होगी। इसलिए अक्सर बहुत सुविधा—संपन्न परिवारों में संकल्पवान आत्माओं के जन्म नहीं होते। जिनको बचपन से ही सब तरह की सुरक्षा मिली हो और संघर्ष का कोई मौका न मिला हो, चुनौती न मिली हो, वहां प्रतिभाएं पैदा नहीं होतीं। वहां लय वीणा में ही पड़ी रह जाती है; कोई छेड़ता ही नहीं। और धीरे—धीरे कोई छेड़ न दे, इससे भय हो जाता है।
      तूफानों को संवारने दो। आंधियों को व्यवस्था देने दो। संघर्ष ही तुम्हारे जीवन की शांति बने तो तुम्हारी शाति का मूल्य अनिर्वचनीय होगा।
      एक ऐसी शांति भी है, जो घर के कोने में बैठकर सम्हाली जा सकती है। वह शाति मुर्दा होगी, मरघट की होगी। उसमें जीवन न होगा; उसमें हृदय की धड़कन न होगी। जीवन की अराजकता तुम्हारे भीतर एक अनुशासन लाए। जीवन ही तुम्हें अनुशासन दे। कडुवे—मीठे अनुभव, सुख—दुख के अनुभव, धूप—ताप के अनुभव, अंधड़, आंधिया, तूफान तुम्हारी नाव को मजबूत करें। तुम घबड़ाकर किनारे की छांव मत ले लेना।

ओशो
एस धम्मो सनंतनो

Who m I

D.. Who am I?

B:. Jnana is 'I' and the nature of jnana is sat-chit-ananda.

From 'Who Am I?'