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अगर है शौक मिलने का, तो हरदम लौ लगाता जा,
जलाकर ख़ुदनुमाई को, भसम तन पर लगाता जा।

पकड़कर इश्क की झाड़ू, सफा कर हिज्र-ए-दिल को,
दुई की धूल को लेकर, मुसल्ले पर उड़ाता जा।

मुसल्ला छोड़, तसवी तोड़, किताबें डाल पानी में,
पकड़ तू दस्त फरिश्तों का, गुलाम उनका कहाता जा।

न मर भूखा, न रख रोज़ा, न जा मस्जिद, न कर सज्दा,
वजू का  तोड़  दे  कूजा, शराबे  शौक  पीता  जा।

हमेशा खा, हमेशा पी, न गफलत से रहो एकदम
नशे में सैर कर अपनी, ख़ुदी को तू जलाता जा।

न हो मुल्ला, न हो बह्मन, दुई की छोड़कर पूजा,
हुकुम शाहे कलंदर का, अनल हक तू कहाता जा।

कहे ‘मंसूर‘ मस्ताना, ये मैंने दिल में पहचाना,
वही मस्तों का मयख़ाना, उसी के बीच आता जा।

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Awareness during sleep

AWARENESS DURING SLEEP

Q: How can sadhana become uninterrupted since it is necessary to sleep?

Anandamayi Ma: When one becomes established in ceaseless practice it continues also during sleep.

Question: How can one know this?

Ma: If one meditates before retiring and wakes up in the same kind of state with which one fell asleep one can presume that it has gone on throughout the sleep.

Question: But during sleep, one does not know.

Ma: No, not in this case. Although there is a much higher state when one is conscious even in sleep.

- Death Must Die, p. 521

Quotes

We must realize that whatsoever the situation is, whatsoever the case is with you, you are responsible, no one else.

If you are responsible, then something is possible. If someone else is responsible, then nothing is possible. This is a basic conflict between the religious mind and the non-religious mind. The nonreligious mind always thinks that something else is responsible. Change the society, change the circumstances, change economic conditions, change the political situation, change something, and everything will be okay.

We have changed everything so many times, and nothing is okay. The religious mind says that whatsoever the situation, if this is your mind, then you will be in hell, you will be in misery. You won't be able to attain silence.

Put the responsibility on yourself. Be responsible, because then something can be done. You can only do something with yourself. You cannot change anyone in this world: you can only change yourself. That is the only revolution possible.

The only transformation possible is one's own, but that can be considered only when we feel that we are responsible.

~ Osho

...from: The Ultimate Alchemy Volume 2, Chapter 12, "Silence is the Prayer"

Never mind neti neti

CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

Bhagavan once told a story about a man who wanted to bury his own shadow in a deep pit. He dug the pit and stood in such a position that his shadow was on the bottom of it. The man then tried to bury it by covering it with earth. Each time he threw some soil in the hole the shadow appeared on top of it. Of course, he never succeeded in burying the shadow.

Many people behave like this when they meditate. They take the mind to be real, try to fight it and kill it, and always fail. These fights against the mind are all mental activities which strengthen the mind instead of weakening it.

If you want to get rid of the mind, all you have to do is understand that it is 'not me’. Cultivate the awareness 'I am the immanent consciousness’.

When that understanding becomes firm, the non-existent mind will not trouble you.

- LWB, p. 266

Self is beloved by all

D.: How will the sexual impulse cease to be?

M.: When differentiation ceases.

D.: How can it be effected?

M.: The other sex and its relation are only mental concepts. The Upanishad says that all are dear because the Self is beloved of all. One’s happiness is within; the love is of the Self only. It is only within; do not think it to be without: then differentiation ceases to operate.

('Talks with Sri Ramana Maharishi', Talk 335)

Little self

CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

Question: What is the easiest way to be free of the 'little self?

Annamalai Swami: Stop identifying with it. If you can convince yourself This "little self” is not really me’ it will just disappear.

Q: But how to do this?
AS: The 'little self’ is something which only appears to be real. If
you understand that it has no real existence it will disappear,
leaving behind it the experience of the real and only Self.
Understand that it has no real existence and it will stop troubling you.

Consciousness is universal. There is no limitation or 'little self’
in it. It is only when we identify with and limit ourselves to the body and the mind that this false self is ‘born’. If through enquiry, you go to the source of this 'little self’, you find that it dissolves into nothingness.
Q: But I am very accustomed to feel ‘I am this "little self”’.
I cannot break this habit merely by thinking ‘I am not this "little self “’.

AS: This 'little self will only give way to the real Self if you meditate constantly. You cannot wish it away with a few stray thoughts. Try to remember the analogy of the rope which looks like a snake in the twilight. If you see the rope as a snake, the real nature of the rope is hidden from you. If you only see the rope, the snake is not there. Not only that, you know that there never was a snake there. When you have that clear and correct perception that the snake never at any time existed, the question of how to kill the snake disappears.

- LWB p 264

Consciousness

Q. Is the state of unconsciousness close to Infinite Being?

A. Consciousness alone exists.

He who knows the Self has nothing more to do. Henceforth the Infinite Power will do all further actions that may be necessary through him. Nor has he any more thoughts.

During meditation that is directed towards the Self, the thoughts actually die down of their own accord. Meditation can be directed to different objects, but when directed to the true Self, it is sent to the highest object, or rather the Subject.

Thoughts are our enemy. When we are free of thoughts we are naturally blissful. The gap between two thoughts is our true state, it is the real Self. Get rid of thoughts, be empty of them, be in a state of perpetual thoughtlessness. Then you are consciously Self-Existent. Thoughts, desires and all qualities are alien to our true nature. The West may praise a man as a great thinker. But what is that? True greatness is to be free of thoughts.

The true answer to the question 'Who Am I?' does not come in thoughts. All thoughts disappear — even the thinker himself disappears.

- Conscious Immortality