Self

Truly there is no cause for you to be miserable and unhappy. You yourself impose limitations on your true nature of infinite being, and then weep that you are but a finite creature. Then you take up this or that spiritual practice to transcend the non- existent limitations. But if your spiritual practice itself assumes the existence of the limitations, how can it help you to transcend them ?

Hence I say know that you are really the infinite pure being, the Self. You are always that Self and nothing but that Self. Therefore, you can never be really ignorant of the Self. Your ignorance is merely an imaginary ignorance, like the ignorance of the ten fools about the lost tenth man. It is this ignorance that caused them grief.

Know then that true knowledge does not create a new being for you, it only removes your ignorant ignorance. Bliss is not added to your nature, it is merely revealed as your true natural state, eternal and imperishable. The only way to be rid of your grief is to know and be the Self. How can this be unattainable ?

- Maharshi's Gospel

Self

What would be the attraction to go
even beyond the state of presence?
It must be that something deeper is calling you
—a very powerful urge to go beyond
the surface or facade of the mind.
And the more you go inside,
paradoxically, the less there is of you personally
and the more there is of you truthfully, spiritually, completely.
The person seems to be the reality in the beginning,
but as you move more deeply into the inner being,
the personhood-feeling becomes more superficial
and a deeper sense of intuitiveness,
of spiritual harmony and wisdom and love
becomes more prominent.
Ultimately, one knows one’s Self as timeless, fearless, formless.
If you say this to the regular man on the street,
he would not understand what you’re talking about.
Who would want such a thing?
It sounds almost the same as being dead.
He would have no idea
we are speaking of the Supreme Being,
which is our essential being, our true nature, our purest and happiest state.
The mind cannot imagine such a state,
unable to comprehend its completeness,
the total no-word-for-it-ness.
Should this auspiciousness come for you, know:
your mind will be made perfectly prepared for its darshan.
This is how the Buddha, the Christ is revealed.

~ Mooji

Silence

Silence reveals itself only to itself. Only when we enter as nothing and stay as nothing, will silence open its secret. Its secret is itself.

That's why I say all the words, all the books, all the teachings, and all the teachers can only get you to the door, and perhaps entice you to enter. Once there, you start to feel the presence of silence very powerfully.

When this happens, something spontaneously arises that's willing to enter it without being somebody. That is the sacred invitation. Inside you find that silence is the final and ultimate teacher and the final and ultimate teaching. It's the only teacher that won't speak to you.

Silence is the only teacher and teaching that keeps our humanness on its knees all the time. With any other teaching or teacher, we find we can get up. We can think, "Oh, I heard Adya said dah-dah-dah, and it sounds good," and we find ourselves lifting up off the floor of surrender. We turn away from our most sacred and beautiful humility.

Silence is the ultimate and best teacher because in silence is the never-ending welcoming to do that which our human heart truly desires, which is to always be with our knees on the floor, always be in that sort of devotion to Truth. Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time. Every minute that you are awake, every minute that you are alive, every minute that you breathe, it's right there.

Palo Alto, California: January 12, 2002

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