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LAUGHTER

When laughter comes out of thinking it is ugly; it belongs to this ordinary, mundane world, it is not cosmic.Then you are laughing at somebody else, at somebody else's cost, and it's ugly and violent. 

When laughter comes out of silence you are not laughing at anybody's cost, you are simply laughing at the whole cosmic joke. And it really is a joke! That's why I go on telling jokes to you... because jokes carry more than any scriptures. It is a joke because inside you have everything, and you are searching everywhere.

OSHO

A Bird on the Wing, Ch-10

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You are the screen which doesn't change. 

Oceans of water cannot make you wet,

fires will not burn you and 

movies of romance will not affect you. 

So allow the projections of the mind 

which is everything you see within and without. 

Like this you must remain 

That which is untouched, 

That which is before identification 

and intellectual grasps. 

THIS IS ETERNAL BEING.

🪔 PAPAJI

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Q: What is the ego-self ? How is it related to the real Self ?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

The ego-Self appears and disappears and is transitory, whereas the real Self is permanent.

Though you are actually the true Self you wrongly identify the real Self with the ego-self.

Q: How does the mistake come about?

Sri Ramana Maharshi : See if it has come about.

Q: One has to sublimate the ego-self into the true Self.

Sri Ramana Maharshi : The ego-self does not exist at all.

Q: Why does it give us trouble?

Sri Ramana Maharshi : To whom is the trouble ?

The trouble also is imagined.

Trouble and pleasure are only for the ego.

Q: Why is the world so wrapped up in ignorance?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Take care of yourself.

Let the world take care of itself.

See your Self.

If you are the body there is the gross world also.

If you are spirit all is spirit alone.

Q: It will hold good for the individual, but what of the rest?

Sri Ramana Maharshi : Do it first and then see if the question arises afterwards.

Q: Is there avidya [ignorance]?

Sri Ramana Maharshi : For whom is it?

Q: For the ego-self.

Sri Ramana Maharshi : Yes, for the ego.

Remove the ego and avidya is gone.

Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

The ego professing avidya is not to be seen.

There is no avidya in reality.

All sastras [scriptures] are meant to disprove the existence of avidya.

~ From Be as you are book

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Q : Should I abide as the pure “I" and have faith that purity will come?

Sri Papaji :

Don't waste your time in the purity of mind

because mind cannot be pure.

Even the desire to be pure is the trick of the mind.

You will spend many lives purifying the mind,

but it will never be pure.

Look at the story of Vishwamitra and Manika.

After purifying his mind for 10,000 years

he still falls for her instantly.

It is better to just allow your desires to arise and

not let them touch you.

Let them arise and let them be fullfilled.

You simply stay Quiet.

Don't try to become anything,

don't go anywhere

and

don't do anything

and

don't undo anything.

Find the source of these concepts and stay there.

This is bliss, nothing else.

This knowledge is bliss.

~ Sri Papaji , from The Truth Is book

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From the book The Garland of Guru's Sayings

584. That which exists [sat] itself is consciousness [chit]. The consciousness itself is bliss [ananda]. Deriving pleasure from other things is mere delusion [that is, the pleasure we suppose we derive from other things is illusory, false]. Tell me, except in the clear and real Self-existence, can there be real happiness in the imaginary sense-objects?