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Nurtureoneslife:

"God is playing as me" Mooji

Brahman satyam, jagat mithya,

Jivo Brahmaiva naparah. 

Brahman is real, world is "mithya" (apparent);  

Brahman and jiva are not different.

- Adi Shankaracharya.

💛

When a man develops pure sattva, he thinks only of God. He does not enjoy anything else. Some are born with pure sattva as a result of their prarabdha karma. Through unselfish action one finally acquires pure sattva. Sattva mixed with rajas diverts the mind to various objects. From it springs the conceit of doing good to the world. To do good to the world is extremely difficult for such an insignificant creature as man. But there is no harm in doing good to others in an unselfish spirit. This is called unselfish action. It is highly beneficial for a person to try to perform such action. But by no means all succeed, for it is very difficult. Everyone must work. Only one or two can renounce action. Rarely do you find a man who has developed pure sattva. Through disinterested action sattva mixed with rajas gradually turns into pure sattva.

No sooner does a man develop pure sattva than he realizes God, through His grace.

Ramkrishna Paramhans

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Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4 Verse 18

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities.

.....

From ~~~Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 96.

M.:

The ultimate Truth is so simple.

It is nothing more than being in the pristine state.

This is all that need be said.

Still, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth

there should come into being

so many religions, creeds, methods

and disputes among them and so on!

Oh the pity! Oh the pity!

Q.:

But people will not be content with simplicity;

they want complexity.

M.:

Quite so.

Because they want something elaborate

and attractive and puzzling,

so many religions have come into existence

and each of them is so complex

and each creed in each religion

has its own adherents and antagonists.

For example,

an ordinary Christian will not be satisfied

unless he is told that God is somewhere

in the far-off Heavens not to be reached

by us unaided.

Christ alone knew Him

and Christ alone can guide us.

Worship Christ and be saved.

If told the simple truth

- “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you” -

he is not satisfied and will read complex

and far-fetched meanings in such statements.

Mature minds alone

can grasp the simple Truth

in all its nakedness.

~~~~~~~

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Nurtureoneslife:

"There are forces working for you much more than you work for yourself." Mooji

"There is no process to become silent. 

To disturb your mind you need process, 

but to stay silent there is no process. 

Stay in satsang, stay quiet, always have love with your own Self. 

You are not to win it by any attempt or effort. 

Simply stay quiet. 

If any thought rises, simply find out where it came from."

~ Papaji

A realised one sends out waves of spiritual influence which draw many people towards him.

Ramana Maharani 'Conscious Immortality'

Know that these countless things are pictures in a dream 

and none is real apart from the beholder. 

Shun this phantom world of names and forms 

and dwell in the pure, blissful being of Awareness.

(Guru Vachaka Kovai)

Significance of Bharat

Sadhguru: What kept us together longer than any other nation on the planet is that essentially, we have always been a land of seekers – seekers of truth and liberation. In this seeking, we found oneness. When we look for sameness, we try to become a land of believers. This seeking is not something that we invented. It is the nature of human intelligence to want to know, realize, and liberate itself.

This nation was based on this foundation that we are seekers. As a seeker, you are not aligned to a particular thing on the outside but to the life process within you, and that never goes wrong. No matter how badly you contaminate human beings with belief systems and brainwash them, once their survival is taken care of, they always want to know the nature of their existence and of everything around them. Whether you call it science, spiritual process, inquiry, or quest, essentially, human intelligence wants to transcend its present limitations, wants to liberate itself from the fetters in which we exist right now. We built our nation on this longing, this seeking. Our nationhood cannot be destroyed as long as we keep this seeking alive. If we do not try to transform ourselves towards sameness, we will always be one.

Gold is not an ornament, but the ornament is nothing but gold. Whatever shape the ornament  may assume and however different the ornaments are, there is only one reality, namely gold. So also with the bodies and the Self. The single reality is the Self. 

To identify oneself with the body and yet to seek happiness is like attempting to cross a river on the back of an alligator. The body identity is due to extroversion and the wandering of the mind. To continue in that state will only keep one in an endless tangle and there will be no peace. 

Seek your source, merge in the Self and remain all alone.- Ramana Maharshi (Talks 396)

The more we control thought, activity and food, the more we will be able to control sleep. But moderation ought to be the rule for the sadhak (aspirant), as explained in the Gita. 

As explained in the Gita, sleep is the first obstacle for all sadhakas. The second obstacle is said to be vikshepa, or the sense objects of the world which divert one’s attention. The third is said to be kashaya or thoughts about previous experiences with sense objects. The fourth, ananda (bliss), is also called an obstacle, because in that state a feeling of separation from the source of ananda, making the enjoyer say, ‘I am enjoying ananda,' is present. Even this has to be surmounted, and the final stage of samadhana or samadhi has to be reached, where one becomes ananda, or One with the Reality, and the duality of enjoyer and enjoyment ceases in the ocean of Satchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss) or the Self.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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*उपासकांसाठी मार्गदर्शक अमृतवचने*

*१३३.* 

*"कृष्णाय वासुदेवाय हरये परमात्मने प्रणत क्लेशनाशाय गोविंदाय नमो नमः।"*

हा मंत्र सारखा म्हणत रहावे परिस्थिती अनुकूल होईल.

या मंत्राचा अर्थ खूपच सुंदर आहे तो असा - 

कृष्णाय - साक्षात परमात्म्याचे नाव, जो कल्याणकारी, मोक्षकारी आहे.

वासुदेवाय - या शब्दाने शरीर क्लेश जातात.

हरये - याने रोग निवृत्ति होते. 

परमात्मने - या शब्दाने महाविष्णू अर्थात आपला आत्मा याची जागृती. 

प्रणत - म्हणजे शरणागत.

क्लेशनाशाय - सर्व दुःख आणि क्लेशाचा नाश करणे.

गोविंदाय - या शब्दाने दहा इंद्रियांचे आरोग्य आणि प्रसन्नता प्राप्त होते. प्रत्येक क्षण आनंदायी राहिल. 

हा मंत्र किमान रात्री झोपायच्या आधी म्हणावा.

विवेक वृत्ति ठेवून कोणालाही दोष न देता धैर्याने आणि शांत मनाने मानसिक आणि शारिरिक दुःख भोगणे यास क्लेश म्हणतात. विवेक असल्याने या दुःखभोगात सत्व

असते. प्रार्थनेने या सत्वाचा उद्रेक होऊन दुःख निवृत्ति होते.

*श्रीधरभक्त*

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❗११ ऑगस्ट❗

‼श्री गुरुदेव दत्त‼

 #समाधान भगवंताशिवाय कोठेही नाही.

खरोखर, जे आपल्या बुद्धीला पटते आणि अनुभवाला येते, ते सत्य आहे असे धरून चालायला हरकत नाही; मग त्याच्या आड कोणीही येत असेल तरी त्याची पर्वा आपण करू नये. पण सत्य अनुभवाला यायला आपली बुद्धी स्थिर पाहिजे.

हल्ली जगात बुद्धीभेद फार झाला आहे; अशा वेळी माणसाची बुद्धी स्थिर राहाणे फार कठीण झाले आहे. अगदी अत्यंत सदाचाराने वागणाऱ्या माणसाची सुद्धा बुद्धी केव्हा फिरेल हे सांगता येणार नाही.

केवळ शास्त्र सांगते म्हणून अमुक एक सत्य आहे असे धरून चाला, असे मी म्हणत नाही; मी सांगतो तेच सत्य आहे असे तुम्ही म्हणा, असेही मी म्हणत नाही; तुम्ही आपल्या स्वतःच्या विचारानेच ठरवा की, जीवनात तुम्हाला समाधान पाहीजे ना ? ते समाधान भगवंताशिवाय दुसरे कोठेही आपल्याला मिळणार नाही हे अगदी निश्चयाने ठरवा. एकदा तुमचा निश्चय कायम झाल्यावर तुमच्या आड कुणीही येऊ शकणार नाही, निश्चय मात्र कायम पाहिजे. या निश्चयाचे बळ किती विलक्षण असते म्हणून सांगू !

एका गावात एक पन्नास-साठीच्या वयाचा बुद्धीमान पण कुत्सित वृत्तिचा माणूस राहात होता. वेडेवाकडे प्रश्न विचारून टवाळकी करण्यात त्याचा हातखंडा होता.

एकदा एका साधुचे प्रवचन अगदी रंगात आले असताना एकदम मध्येच उभा राहून तो म्हणाला, "अहो बुवा, ती तुमची भक्तीबिक्ती ती बाजूला ठेवा, देशाला स्वातंत्र्य कधी मिळेल ते सांगा  " त्यावर साधु शांतपणे बोलला, ते मी सांगतो; पण आता तुमचे उतार वय झाले. काळ केव्हा झडप घालील याचा नेम नाही, तर आता मला सांगा की प्रपंचाची उपाधी, देहाची व्याधी, आणि मृत्यूची मगरमिठी, यांतून स्वातंत्र्य मिळवायचा काही विचार, प्रयत्न, तुम्ही केला आहे का ? " हा मार्मिक प्रतिप्रश्न ऐकून टवाळखोर चूप बसला, पण त्याचे विचारचक्र सुरू झाले.

️दुसर्‍या दिवशी तो त्या साधूला भेटून म्हणाला, "आजपर्यंत मी स्वतःचा विचार केलाच नाही. पण आता मी काय करू ते मला सांगा."

🔹️साधु बोलला, "दोन वर्षे मौन धरून नामस्मरण करावे" त्या दिवसापासून त्याने दृढ निश्चयाने मौन धरले आणि नामजपाचा तडाखा लावला. मौनाचा अवधी संपल्यावर साधुची पुन्हा गाठ पडली तेव्हा तो इसम डोळ्यात पाणी आणून म्हणाला, महाराज, मला सर्व मिळाले !  मला नामाने जे समाधान मिळाले त्यापुढे इतर सर्व गोष्टी रद्द आहेत.🔹️

❄निश्चयपूर्वक नामस्मरणाचे असे विलक्षण सामर्थ्य आहे!

#बोधवचन :नामी ठेवावे चित्त । तेच मानावे सत्य ।

                  हा निश्चय ठेवा मनात। मन होईल निभ्रांत ॥

🍁#प्रवचने:श्री सद्गुरू ब्रह्मचैतन्य गोंदवलेकर महाराज🍁

             🌷श्री राम जय राम जय जय राम🌷

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In the midst of the common, the worldly, 

the mundane, is the ineffable One. 

Knowing this, one lives happily 

throughout all states. 

This is the secret 

that only the sage knows and enjoys, 

and reveals to those 

whose time has come to flower 

into divine understanding.

~ Mooji

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The highest experience is when 

everything disappears, even God. 

Until this happens you will continue 

to be reborn. 

So forget everything, 

even forgetting, 

because forgetting and remembering 

belong to the mind. 

Without mind you can't see 

your God, or Guru, or country, or parents. 

Just don't give rise to identifying 

as a body or mind or personality 

and there will be no forgetting 

or remembering. 

First forget yourself which means 

stop identifying as the body. 

You are the Essence 

which does not disappear.

Find it ! 

🕉  Papaji