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Nurtureoneslife:

If you are unhappy you need to check if one of these is lacking: Tapa (penance), Vairagya (dispassion), Sharanagati (surrender).

- Tapas is agreeing with the moment, total acceptance of pleasant or unpleasant situations.

- Vairagya means I want nothing and I am nothing.

- Sharanagati is "I am here for You, for Your joy."

If you are grumbling then these are lacking, because when you accept the situation you cannot grumble; when you take it as Tapa you will not grumble; when you come from a state dispassion ("I don't want anything") you don't grumble; and if you are surrendered you will have no complaints.

All these three (Tapas, Vairagya and surrender) purify your mind and uplift you in joy

"SUMMA IRU"

Silence is said to be the Highest teaching of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. 

For those who are not able reap the full benefit of this Silence, He prescribed "Summa Iru" which is supposed to be his highest 'Verbal Teaching'. 

This has been variously translated as "Just Be", "Simply Be", "Keep Quiet", "Be Still".

Death is not our nature. 

Our nature is eternity - to be free of death and rebirth,

of sorrow and suffering.

~ Papaji

The perceiver can never be perceived and what is perceived, cannot be the perceiver.

It is only the One, cosmic awareness, that does the perceiving through all body-mind organisms.

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Understanding can come only at the appropriate time and no one can say when.

All that can be said, is that the understanding cannot come, so long as there is expectation, so long as there is a "me" wanting it.

 

Ramesh Balsekar

3rd August

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"The Ocean cannot stay alone and 

so the notion of wave is created. 

When waves rise Ocean loses nothing and when waves fall Ocean gains nothing. 

Samsara, the illusion, Maya, the play, 

is the wave on the Ocean of Nirvana. 

Waves are not separate from the Ocean,

rays are not separate from the Sun, 

You are not separate from Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. 

This is a reflection of That."

~ Papaji

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From ~~~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - I Am That, Ch.48

Q: 

What is meditation and what are its uses?

M: 

As long as you are a beginner certain formalized meditations, 

or prayers may be good for you. But for a seeker for reality

there is only one meditation — the rigorous refusal to harbour

thoughts. To be free from thoughts is itself meditation.

Q: 

How is it done?

M: 

You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The

very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether.

Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don’t get bored with

peace, be in it, go deeper into it.

Q: 

I heard of holding on to one thought in order to keep other

thoughts away. But how to keep all thoughts away? The very

idea is also a thought.

M: 

Experiment anew, don’t go by past experience. Watch your

thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of

freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss

of it you shall recognize it.

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Sri Mooji

If you think you are a person, ...forget yourself.

If you think you are the Being, ...remember yourself.

When you know you are pure Awareness, ...there is nothing to remember or forget.

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