Spiritual Quotes

There is a silence into which the world can not intrude. There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched. All this today you will remember.

~ A Course In Miracles

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When you have pure heart and clear intention, nothing can deter you & nature will support you.-Sri Sri

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'Die every moment so you can be born every moment.'-Sri Sri

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Example after example is given in these talks, in language to suit all
tastes and mentalities. The reading of the book automatically drives
one inward to the source. It is itself a sufficient sadhana. Do not delude yourself, you are already That, there is nothing more to be obtained, only false association to be shed, limitation to be recognised as illusory.

His method of doing this is well-known: Self-Enquiry. Always and
at all times seek for the source of the ego, the apparent actor, and on
the attainment of that goal, he tells us, the ego will drop away of its
own accord, and nothing will be left but the all-blissful Self.

'Introduction' to Talks with Ramana Maharshi
Sri Ramanasramam,
1st January, 1955

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Ramana Maharshi The Sadguru – the one unlimited Whole, who pervades this and all other worlds, and all time and space, and who shines as ‘I’ within and as everything outside – is He who resides in the hearts of His intimate disciples as the Pillar of Light of Knowledge, the divine Lamp which needs no kindling.
By coming near to the Sadguru and by depending completely upon His Grace, with great Guru-bhakti, one will have no misery in this world and will live like Indra.
('Guru Vachaka Kovai', v. 323-324)
[Michael James: Indra is the king of the devas and he has all the enjoyments of heaven at his feet.]

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Quotes

226. All the activities that the body is to go through are determined when it first comes into existence. It does not rest with you to accept or reject them. The only freedom you have is to turn your mind inward and renounce activities there.

Quotable Quotes from 'Day by Day with Bhagavan'

Self realised person

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

Self realization

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

Self

♥ 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

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