There is no such thing as a Self-realised person. When there is no "person" the Self is realised. When there is no "person" the question of coming and going cannot arise. The body is an appearance in the Self. When the body disappears the Self remains as it always was and is. Realisation is the understanding "I am not this body which comes and goes, I am that permanent, unchanging reality in which the body and all else appears".
~ Papaji
In the Ashram we saw at one end of the hall a silent, motionless figure reclining on a low couch, lost in deep meditation, oblivious, it would seem, of everybody and everything. We slipped in quietly and seated ourselves on the ground amongst the crowd. I took in slowly the strange, unforgettable scene, my whole attention fixed on that central figure whose calm majesty, serene strength and perfect poise seemed to fill the whole place with unutterable peace. To look into his eyes, shining like stars, was perhaps for the first time to know the meaning of Eternity and to be caught up into bliss that passeth understanding.
Who was this Great one? On what rung of the ladder of human or superhuman evolution did he stand? Such questions have but little value. When the sun shines does one need to know why and how it shines? I opened my heart to the Spiritual Life which radiated so intensely in Silence. I had the impression of being as it were, surrounded by a sea of fiery Power, welding all present into a great Flame rising Heavenwards. Not once did the silent figure turn or move or show any sign of interest in the proceedings, that is, the recitation of the Vedas conducted as evening prayers in the Ashram. It was as if he had been living in a sphere beyond the limitations of time and space.
Pascaline Mallet
♥ The Self ♥
"When the person in the eye resides in the body,
he resides where the organ of sight
has entered into the Akasa (i.e. the pupil of the eye);
the eye is the instrument of seeing.
He who is aware of the thought:
‘Let me smell this,’ he is the Self;
the nose is the instrument of smelling.
He who is aware of the thought:
‘Let me speak,’ he is the Self;
the tongue is the instrument of speaking.
He who is aware of the thought:
‘Let me hear,’ he is the Self;
the ear is the instrument of hearing.
"He who is aware of the thought:
‘Let me think this,’ he is the Self; the mind is his divine eye.
He, the Self sees all these desires in the World of Brahman through the divine eye, the mind and rejoices.
"The gods meditate on that Self.
Therefore all worlds belong to them and all desires.
He who knows that Self and understands It
obtains all worlds and all desires."
Thus said Prajapati, yea, thus said Prajapati.
~ Chandogya Upanishad : 8:12:1-6
"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?
“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
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)
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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