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Question: For twenty five years I have been doing spiritual disciplines, mostly repeating the name of Krishna. Until now I was managing fifty thousand repetitions a day. Now my mind refuses to engage itself in thought of God. What has happened to me and what should I do?

Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi: How did you come here from Madras?

Question: By train.

Bhagwan Sri Ramana: And then what happened when you got to the station at Tiruvannamalai?

Question: Well, I got off the train, handed my tickets and engaged a bullock cart to take me to the ashram.

Bhagwan Sri Ramana: And when you reached the ashram and paid off the driver of the cart what happened to the cart?

Question: It went away, presumably back to the town.

Bhagwan Sri Ramana: The train brought you to your destination. You got off and didn't need it any more. It had brought you to the place you wanted to reach. Likewise the bullock cart. You got off when it had brought you to Sri Ramanasramam. You don't need the train or the cart anymore. They were the means for bringing you here. Now you are here, they are of no use to you.

This is what happened to your spiritual practice – your japa, your reading and your meditation have brought you to your spiritual destination. You don't need them anymore. You yourself did not give up your practices; they left you of their own accord because they have served their purpose. You have arrived.

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Question: How does the mind become still?

Sri Anandamayi Ma: By treading the path that leads to the realisation of `Who am I?’ Your body that was young and is now old with its graying hair and its teeth falling out, does not last for ever. It is not the real `I.’ Therefore man has to find out who he really is. When he tries to do this, his mind will be supplied with the right nourishment that will calm it. The right sustenance for the mind cannot be had from anything that is of this world and hence perishable, but solely from that which is Eternal. The taste (rasa) of the Eternal will still the mind.

The Universe was created out of joy and this is why you find joy in the fleeting things of the world. Without joy life is an ordeal. You must try to attain to that great Joy which has brought forth the world.

🌺 from ..As the Flower Sheds its Fragrance

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What is freedom?

It is not in anything objective. It is neither the creation, nor the creator of this universe, nor the God who is looking after preservation, nor destruction. It is none of that. It is neither the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars, nor the wind. Those are not freedom. No object is freedom. Go on rejecting everything objective from the mind. Freedom is nothing that the mind can conceive or perceive or understand. Finally you will arrive at that which cannot be rejected. Go on rejecting everything that can be rejected, all objects. Get rid of all objectification.

Finally, when you see nothing more to be rejected, the mind will be quiet. Mind will be no-mind: That cannot be described. All description belongs to the objective world only and consciousness cannot be objectified. In the beginning when there was nothing there was consciousness - total consciousness - where no objects and no subjects existed. You are this consciousness.

Starting from the beginning, before the beginning, you are this consciousness. And this consciousness became all that you see. You are this consciousness itself. There are millions of kinds of manifestation existing in consciousness and you have become all this. You are the fountain of all this creation.

For this you do not have to exert or make effort, or search for any way or method or practice. Somehow you have to arrive here. How can you do it? Through adoration of the wisdom of the Self. That’s consciousness. Adore your own consciousness with wisdom and you have achieved what you are aspiring for here and now.

🌺 Papaji

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62.  Question:  What books should I read for swadhyaya (introspection, or self-study)?

 

       Bhagavan:  The Self is the real book.  You can glance anywhere in that "book"; nobody can take it away from you.  Whenever (or since) you are free, turn towards the Self.  Thereafter you may read whatever you like.

Taken from Bhagavan Ramana answers 100 questions

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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