Quotes

No one Succeeds without effort.Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

- Sri Ramana Maharshi

Silence

Silence....

Silence of a realized person is
most powerful....
He sends out waves of spiritual influence
which draw many people towards him....
Yet he may sit in a cave and
maintain complete silence....
He never needs to go out
among the public....
If necessary he can use others
as his instrument.....

Ramana Maharshi.....

Forget about past

Forget about the past. Forget about people who have hurt you before. Drop everything, let it go. Let go of everything, everything. Hold on to nothing. Stand naked in the world without a foundation, with nothing to take refuge in. Then you'll be cleansed completely, then you'll become the ascended Master. But when you take refuge in this and you take refuge in that, this keeps you from your real Self.

As an example: In buddhism you learn to take refuge in the Buddha, take refuge in the sangha and so forth. Yet when you do this you become an idiot, for you're holding on to something. You become dull, insensitive. Hold on to nothing. Yet most of us have fear. We're afraid to do this because we won't know what will happen to us. We feel secure when we take refuge in something. The security is your downfall. As long as you feel secure you will never grow. It's like having money in the bank. You're afraid to spend it. You're afraid to be without an account. For you think this is your nest egg, you hoard it. You always look at the balance to see what you have. This keeps you from advancing spiritually.

Remember the Israelites of old. When they were in the desert for forty years they were told not to save any manna. So they would throw away the extra manna they had, not to save anything, and new manna was provided for them daily. This is the meaning. As long as you have something to hold onto, something to save you from something, you will never become free and realized. Most of us are afraid of having nothing. Yet nothing is absolute reality. Nothing is your savior. Nothing is reality. Something on the other hand, is your enemy. Something will always hold you back.

I'm not saying you have to give your possessions away;  I'm saying possess all you will but don't be possessed by your possessions. Do not believe that what you earn will be your security, it never works out this way. Your security is your Self, the faith that you have, the power that you have, the love that you have, this is your security, nothing else. Yet most of us never live this way for we have been brought up to believe that we have to have something. For if we feel that we have nothing, we haven't made it in this world and we become depressed, we compare ourselves with others.

Yet every great spiritual Master has lived from day to day, never caring at all what is going to happen the next day. But you say, "How can we do such a thing in the West?" You say, "This is for monks, nuns. For people who have given up this world." On the contrary, you'll be happier than you have ever been in your life when you stop worrying about your possessions, what you should have, what you shouldn't have, for you are not your possessions nor are you your body. It is only the mind that thinks these things.

Why not surrender right now to the power which knows the way. Make up your mind this night that you're going to give up everything, mentally. You're going to let go of the past, the future, the present, you're doing this right now this minute. You're letting go of all your fears, all of your frustrations, all of your thinking. You are no longer concerned what's going to happen to you tomorrow, where you will be, where you won't be. You're not worried about a job, income, people places and things, you have found freedom, absolute freedom.

This freedom will take care of you, will guide you, listen to it closely it'll tell you what to do at every turn. This freedom is really you.

--Robert Adams, from Transcript 248: The Silence Of The Heart, March 21, 1993

Life

I had quite an interesting day today. I received approximately fifteen phone calls from people all over the place. My door bell rang about ten times. The dog was barking and biting everyone who comes in. My daughter was playing the stereo at full blast. And yet my body responded the way it's supposed to. But I had absolutely nothing to do with it. It didn't affect me, the Self, one iota. Yet my body did what it had to do, took care of the calls and answered the door, quieted the dog, turned down the stereo, but I had absolutely nothing to do with it.

I'm bringing this point up to show you that you can be in the most horrendous situations and be at peace. It doesn't matter what you're going through, even death. It makes no difference. The real you has absolutely nothing to do with it. You are free from the whole thing. There may be wars all around you, people fighting and stabbing each other, people quiet and peaceful. Look at both those situations the same way, with even mindedness. Do not react to anything. Do not allow your mind to go out and respond. Do not think past your nose. Your body is going to do whatever it has to do, but you are not your body. Anything that you respond to is a product of your mind. It is your mind that becomes angry. It is your mind that becomes stubborn. It is your mind that wants to get even. It is your mind that is hurt. But if you subdue your mind, tell me, where is the anger? Where is the depression? Where is the response to conditions? There isn't any. When the mind is subdued there is only eternal peace and that peace is the Self, consciousness.

Consciousness is always peaceful, always happy. It has nothing to do with conditions. All conditioning comes from the mind. Therefore I say to you, do not try to change conditions. Do not try to change situations. Simply learn how to control the mind by making it passive and quiet, and then you will find that things turn out better for you than you can possibly ever hope for. There are no problems. There is nothing wrong. Everything is unfolding as it should. Everything happens in its own time. Space and time are illusions. They really do not exist. They're stationary. Causation does not exist either. No thing has a cause therefore no thing has an effect. Cause and effect are again products of your own mind. When the mind is quiet, karma ceases, samskaras are non-existent. There never was a cause for anything.

Sri Robert Adams

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कृष्ण

हंसते हुए धर्म के प्रतीक हैं कृष्ण :

कृष्ण का व्यक्तित्व बहुत अनूठा है। अनूठेपन की पहली बात यह है कि कृष्ण हुए तो अतीत में, लेकिन हैं भविष्य के। कृष्ण मनुष्य की समझ से बाहर हैं। भविष्य में ही यह संभव हो पाएगा कि कृष्ण को हम समझ पाएं। इसके कुछ कारण हैं।

सबसे बड़ा कारण तो यह है कि कृष्ण अकेले ऐसे व्यक्ति हैं, जो धर्म की ऊंचाइयों पर होकर भी गंभीर नहीं हैं, उदास नहीं हैं, रोते हुए नहीं हैं। साधारणत: संत का लक्षण ही रोता हुआ होना है। जिंदगी से उदास, हारा हुआ, भागा हुआ। कृष्ण अकेले ही नाचते हुए व्यक्ति हैं, हंसते हुए, गीत गाते हुए।

कृष्ण अकेले इस समग्र जीवन को पूरा ही स्वीकार कर लेते हैं। इसलिए इस देश ने और सभी अवतारों को आंशिक अवतार कहा है, कृष्ण को पूर्ण अवतार कहा है। राम भी अंश ही हैं परमात्मा के, लेकिन कृष्ण पूरे ही परमात्मा हैं।

राम के जीवन को हम चरित्र कहते हैं। राम बड़े गंभीर हैं। उनकी जीवन लीला नहीं है, चरित्र ही है। लेकिन कृष्ण गंभीर नहीं है। कृष्ण का चरित्र नहीं है वह, कृष्ण की लीला है। राम मर्यादाओं से बंधे हुए व्यक्ति हैं, मर्यादाओं के बाहर वे एक कदम न बढ़ेंगे। कृष्ण के जीवन में मर्यादा जैसी कोई चीज ही नहीं है। अमर्यादा। पूर्ण स्वतंत्र।

कृष्ण को समझना बड़ा कठिन है। आसान है यह समझना कि एक आदमी संसार को छोड़कर चला जाए और शांत हो जाए। कठिन है इस बात को समझना कि संसार के संघर्ष में, बीच में खड़ा होकर और शांत हो। आसान है यह बात समझनी कि आदमी विरक्त हो जाए और उसमें पवित्रता का जन्म हो। कठिन है यह बात समझनी कि जीवन के सारे उपद्रव के बीच, जीवन के सारे धूल-धवांस के कोहरे और आंधियों में खड़ा हुआ दिया हिलता न हो, उसकी लौ कांपती न हो।

कृष्ण को जिन्होंने पूजा है, उन्होंने भी कृष्ण के टुकड़े-टुकड़े करके किया है। सूरदास के कृष्ण बच्चे से बड़े नहीं हो पाते। कोई है, जो कृष्ण के एक रूप को चुन लेगा; कोई है, जो दूसरे को चुन लेगा। गीता को प्रेम करनेवाले भागवत की उपेक्षा कर जाएंगे, क्योंकि भागवत का कृष्ण और ही है। भागवत को प्रेम करनेवाले गीता की चर्चा में पड़ेंगे, क्योंकि कहां राग-रंग और कहां रास और कहां युद्ध का मैदान! उनके बीच ताल-मेल नहीं है। शायद कृष्ण से बड़े विरोधों को एक-साथ पी लेनेवाला कोई व्यक्तित्व ही नहीं है। इसलिए कृष्ण की एक-एक शक्ल को लोगों ने पकड़ लिया है। जो जिसे प्रीतिकर लगी है, उसे छांट लिया है।

हमने कृष्ण के उन हिस्सों का इनकार किया, जो काम की स्वीकृति है। लेकिन अब यह संभव हो जाएगा, क्योंकि अब हमें दिखाई पड़ना शुरू हुआ है कि काम की ऊर्जा, वह जो 'सेक्स एनर्जी' है, वह ऊर्ध्वगमन करके ब्रह्मचर्य के उच्चतम शिखरों को छू पाती है। जीवन में किसी से भागना नहीं है और जीवन में किसी को छोड़ना नहीं है, जीवन को पूरा ही स्वीकार करके जीना है। उसको जो समग्रता से जीता है, वह जीवन की पूर्णता को उपलब्ध होता है। इसलिए मैं कहता हूं कि भविष्य के संदर्भ में कृष्ण का बहुत मूल्य है और हमारा वर्तमान रोज उस भविष्य के करीब पहुंचता है, जहां कृष्ण की प्रतिमा निखरती जाएगी और एक हंसता हुआ धर्म, एक नाचता हुआ धर्म जल्दी निर्मित होगा।

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Ego

THE EGO IS A POWERFUL ELEPHANT

D: How is the Guru found?

M: God, who is immanent, in His grace takes pity on
the loving devotee and manifests Himself according
to the devotee’s development. The devotee thinks
that He is a man and expects a relationship as
between two physical bodies. But the Guru, who is
God or the Self incarnate, works from within, helps
the man to see the error of his ways and guides him
in the right path until he realizes the Self within.

D: What should the devotee do then?

M: He has only to act up to the words of the Master
and work within. The Master is both ‘within’ and
‘without’, so He creates conditions to drive you
inward and at the same time prepares the ‘interior’
to drag you to the Centre. Thus He gives a push
from ‘without’ and exerts a pull from ‘within’, so
that you may be fixed at the Centre.

You think that the world can be conquered by your own
efforts. When you are frustrated externally and are
driven inwards, you feel ‘Oh! there is a Power higher
than man!’

The ego is like a very powerful elephant which cannot be
brought under control by any less powerful than a
lion, which, in this instance, is no other than the
Guru, whose very look makes the elephant-like ego
tremble and die.

You will know in due course that your glory lies where
you cease to exist. In order to gain that state, you
should surrender yourself. Then the Master sees that
you are in a fit state to receive guidance, and He
guides you.

D: How can the silence of the Guru, who gives no
initiation nor does any other tangible act, be more
powerful than His word etc.? How is such silence
better than the study of scriptures?

M: Silence is the most potent form of work. However
vast and emphatic the scriptures may be, they fail in
their effect. The Guru is quiet and Grace prevails in
all. This silence is vaster and more emphatic
than all the scriptures put together.

D: But can the devotee obtain happiness?

M: The devotee surrenders himself to the Master and it
means that there is no vestige of individuality retained
by him. If the surrender is complete, all sense of self
is lost, and then there can be no misery or sorrow.
The eternal Being is nothing but happiness. That comes
as a revelation.

From Maharshi’s Gospel

Realization

When Realization dawns, then what happens?
You are no longer 'you'.
You remain established in the inner silence and freedom without any concern for your welfare, content with whatever comes along -- and life goes on in perfect effortlessness.

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When you see, that you have no control over the results, you stop worrying about the results and concentrate on the work that is being done.

Ramesh Balsekar
29th December