self aware

Only be aware of the self.

Why worry about these shadows ?

How do they affect the self?

guru

peace

"That which always is, is the reality. 

It is peace. Peace is another name for it." 

Day by Day with Bhagavan

guru

THE GURU IS THE GOAL

June 1937

Visitor: I have been following a certain school of thought, which completely dispenses with gurus. But after many years of deep thinking, I have now come to the conclusion that a guide is absolutely essential on the difficult path which leads to spiritual liberation. I take Bhagavan to have reached the Highest, and so I beg of him to enlighten me.

Bhagavan: All scriptures recommend spiritual teachers. The guru is none other than the goal men seek, the Self. As the seeker’s mind is bent outward, the Self takes a human shape as a guru to help driving it inward. Thayumanavar says that God, Self, or Guru appears as a man to dispel the ignorance of man, just as a deer is used as a decoy to capture a wild deer. He has to appear in a body in order to dispel the “I-am-the-body” notion of the seeker.

- Guru Ramana

leave everything alone

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Whenever your thoughts dwell on the past, do not become angry with yourself. 

Leave them alone. 

Do not observe them. 

Do not watch them. 

Do not be the witness to them. 

Just leave them alone. 

They will disappear of their own volition, 

due to the fact that they never existed. 

This is an important point. 

This is the reason why you leave everything alone. 

Now if things existed, if there were such a thing as negative thinking, karma to get rid of, then you'd have a job on your hands. You'd have to do all sorts of things to remove your karma, your past sins. You'd be working continuously. 

Practicing all kinds of japa, mantras, everything, to remove all of these thoughts of the past. But I say to you, since these 

things never existed to begin with, 

why do any work at all? 

Oh, it's OK if you like to work, but I'm very lazy myself, and the less work I have to do, the better. 

I know it's difficult for some of you to think that you have to do absolutely nothing 

to become free because you're already free. For you've been brought up that you have to work, work, work to get ahead. 

Why do you want to get ahead? 

Ahead to what? 

To whom? 

Everything must change sooner or later. Everything must dissolve and return to the elements from whence they came. And new forms are always being born, so to speak. So what 

kind of goals are you trying to achieve? Your goals will vanish when everything else vanishes, sooner or later.

Think how many civilizations we've had on this planet. Many civilizations, and they've also passed us where we are today. 

But where are they now? They're gone. Dissolved into the nothingness from whence they came.

So it is folly to try to improve yourself, or to try to achieve anything. It is folly to try to change something or to become

something. 

Just Be. You may ask, how do I just Be? 

By asking, you're not being. 

To just Be is to just Be. 

Not to be this or to be that. 

Or to try to discover how to just Be. 

Just Be, without trying to understand what that means. 

Without analyzing. 

Without pondering.

Just Be. Just Be. Just Be. Just Be.

#T. 191 @ Just Be - October 15, 1992

~ SILENCE OF THE HEART

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self

There Are No Mistakes

Most people are home watching the presidential debates. We ought to have Jnani debates, where all the Jnanis in the 

world show up. Whoever shows up loses, of course. (laughter)

If only people understood the first principle of Self-realization, which is simply this. Whatever is destined to happen is 

going to happen, no matter how you try to stop it. And whatever is destined not to happen will never happen, no matter 

how much you try to make it happen. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the politicians understood this truth? There would be 

absolutely nothing to worry about, nothing to fear, nothing to conquer, nothing to win, nothing to lose. Everything is 

unfolding the way it should. Everything is in its right place. There are no mistakes. Everything is lovely and beautiful just

the way it is.

If you can only understand this in your own personal life. What you're supposed to go through in this experience, in 

this in carnation, has already been planned for you before you came into this body. Yet you have absolutely nothing to do 

with it, because you are not the body. As long as you think you are a body, you think you're somebody, somebody 

important. Or you think you are a failure, whatever you think about yourself. If you would only turn within and see the 

one Self, then you would never worry about what is going to happen to you at all. For you would realize, there is no you 

for anything to happen to. You are total freedom right now, total liberation, complete Awareness. Yet, you do not believe 

me. You still feel inclined to be a body, a doer. Think of the experiences you went through today, and see if you do not 

believe that you are a doer. How many times did you become angry today? How many times did you feel slighted today? 

How many times did you feel fear, or something is wrong somewhere, or you're not in your right place? This shows you 

that you believe that you are a body. And as long as you believe that you are a body, why not just let go and stop fretting 

and worrying about your body.

The Power that knows the way will take care of you. The One who makes the sun shine, the grass grow, the apples 

grow perfectly on apple trees. The food that sustains us, nourishes us, everything has been lovingly provided for us. 

Have faith.

Trust the Power that knows the way. This is a first step. To have total faith and total trust in the Infinite, the One. You 

may call this God if you want to. Makes no difference what you call it. It is within you. It is without you. It is everywhere.

T. 191 @ Just Be - October 15, 1992

~ SILENCE OF THE HEART

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