Saint

"The chief characteristic of a sant is that he is always intent in looking at the vision of God, whatever may be his condition or activity while he is in society. He becomes as fearless as Brahman and devoid of blemishes like anger, jealousy, sensuous desires and so on."
-Sri Samartha Ramdas, Dasbodh

Who are you?

WHO ARE YOU?

“You are…

beyond the body-mind and personality,
beyond all the experience and the experiencer thereof,
beyond the world and its perceiver,
beyond existence and its absence,
beyond all assertions and denials.
Be still and awaken to the realization of who you are.
In this realization of no separate self,
the supreme Reality which you are shines unobscured
in all things, as all things, and beyond all things.
Having returned to the formless source
and transcended all separateness,
do not stop or cling even to this source,
but go beyond to the supreme realization
which transcends all dualities,
yet does not deny even a speck of dust.
The enlightened sage abides,
as the eternal witness,
wholly unconcerned, yet intimately engaged,
resting beyond all definitions,
neither clinging to transcendent freedom,
nor entangled by the dualistic world
therefore, one with all life.
Living in the perfect trust of supreme realization,
the enlightened sage has nothing to gain or lose
and naturally manifests love, wisdom, and compassion
without any personal sense of being the doer of deeds.
Having abandoned all concepts and ideas,
the enlightened sage lives as ever-present consciousness,
manifested and manifesting in the world of time and space
that which is eternal, ever new, and whole.
In this unobscured realization,
supreme Reality shines consciously
in all things, as all things, and beyond all things.
Shining unobscured, it penetrates the entire universe.
Penetrating the entire universe,
it knows itself as Self.”

~ Adyashanti

Ramana quotes

Fear not on seeing this empty world, which appears as a dream in the sleep of Self-forgetfulness. This imaginary and bondage-causing world-picture, [projected on the background] of the dark, dense mind, will not stand in the light of Supreme Knowledge, Sat-Chit-Ananda.

('Guru Vachaka Kovai': 27)

Quotes

Sometimes the presence of the Lord is too much.
You try to go to bed but the bed rejects you.
Sleep rejects you.
Sleep says, 'Go. I don't want you now.
Go and stay with Him.
Go and be with your Lord.
Keep the Lord's company. This night you will not sleep.'
Sometimes we are on fire like this
and no water can quench this fire.
You find yourself leaving your house.
You step out under the moonlight,
under the stars to try and cool off
and it is not happening.
It even gets more intense.
You are full of the brightness of the spirit.
This body is made for the holy spirit.
You have to drink God's 'Rum Punch'.
When you are drunk in the holy spirit you will forget
everything except him. This is freedom itself.
The house of sorrow is burning
and only the clear space of God is left.
Only that cannot be burnt.

~ Mooji, from the book 'White Fire'

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Quotes

  You are walking on the earth as in a dream.
Our world is a dream within a dream,
You must realize that to find God is the only goal, the only purpose, for which you are here.

For Him alone you exist. Him you must find.
And Him you can know "

~ Paramahansa Yogananda from the book The Divine Romance

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