Realization

Q: How is liberation different from realization?

Adya: Realization is direct experience and insight which can lead to liberation. Realization is that which allows one to truly let go. The result of that letting go is liberation. We can have many, many spiritual realizations, many spiritual experiences, many deep insights, and still remain very attached to the experience of realization. In this sense, realizations themselves can become forms of addiction. Even deep and profound realization and spiritual experiences can be co-opted by the mind and become mere objects of fascination. Liberation is beyond any experience, or any insight. It is the ultimate non-attainment. Realizations are often extraordinary and entertaining. Liberation is ordinary and thorough. As I said, realization can lead to liberation if one completely surrenders into the non-state which deep and profound realization can open you to.

~ Adyashanti

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Truth

To know truth
You need not undergo
This torture of learning.
Not by reading do you get the truth.
Be quite that is truth
Be still that is God .

Long for it intensely
So that mind melts in devotion.
After the camphor burns away
No residue is left.

The mind is the camphor when it resolves into self without leaving even the slightest trace behind.

Moksha

* * * Moksha (Liberation) * * *
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Neti Neti Neti
Removal of camouflage
Is moksha
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A few days ago, a lady, a recent arrival,
came into the hall at about 3 p.m. and sat down.
All the time she was there,
she was trying to get up and ask something of Sri Bhagavan.

As Bhagavan appeared not to have noticed her,
and was reading a book,
she waited for a while.

As soon as Bhagavan put the book aside,
she got up,
approached the sofa and
said without any fear or hesitation,
“Swami,
I have only one desire.
May I tell you what it is?”

“Yes,” said Bhagavan, “What do you want?”

“I want moksha,” she said.

“Oh, is that so?” remarked Bhagavan.

“Yes, Swamiji,
I do not want anything else.
Is it enough if you give me moksha,” said she.

Suppressing a smile that had almost escaped his lips,
Bhagavan said, “Yes, yes,
that is all right;
that is good.”

“It will not do if you say that you will give it sometime later.
You must give it to me here and now,” she said.

“It is all right,” said Bhagavan.

“Will you give it now? I must be going,” said she.

Bhagavan nodded.

As soon as she left the hall,
Bhagavan burst out laughing and said,
turning towards us,

“She says that it is enough
if only moksha is given to her.
She does not want anything else.”

Subbalakshmamma, who was seated by my side,
took up the thread of the conversation and
quietly said,
“We have come and are staying here for the same purpose.
We do not want anything more.
It is enough if you give us moksha.”

“If you renounce,
and give up everything,
what remains is only moksha.
What is there for others to give you?
It is there always.
That is,” said Bhagavan.

“We do not know all that.
Bhagavan himself must give us moksha.”

So saying she left the hall.
Looking at the attendants who were by his side,

Bhagavan remarked,
“I should give them moksha, they say.
It is enough if moksha alone is given to them.
Is not that itself a desire?
If you give up all the desires that you have,
what remains is only moksha.
And you require sadhana to get rid of all those desires.”

The same bhava (idea) is found in Maharatnamala:

It is said that the complete destruction of vasanas is
Brahmam and moksha.

~ Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, 8th January, 1946

Meditation on self heart

'The residual impressions (thoughts) of objects appear wending like the waves of an ocean. When will all of them get destroyed?'

As the meditation on the Self rises higher and higher, the thoughts will get destroyed.

('Who Am I?', Q. 13)

Die every moment

Living and dying must go together. Dying every moment means dying to past, dying to all the projections of mind. It means ending all which we have accumulated in our mind as memory and projections as desires. It is only when there is an ending, complete ending, without causation, then there is a beginning without end, that is immortality. That is a state of timelessness.

Die every moment so that You renewed each moment.
Osho

Mauna

M: That state which transcends speech and thought is mauna; it is meditation without mental activity. Subjugation of the mind is meditation; deep meditation is eternal speech. Silence is ever-speaking; it is the perennial flow of ‘language’. It is interrupted by speaking; for words obstruct this mute ‘language’. Lectures may entertain individuals for hours without improving them. Silence, on the other hand, is permanent and benefits the whole of humanity. . . . . . By silence, eloquence is meant. Oral lectures are not so eloquent as silence. Silence is unceasing eloquence. . . . It is the best language.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

(From 'Maharshi’s Gospel', Book I, Ch. 2)

Self

For him who is the Bliss of Self arising from extinction of the ego, what is there to do? He knows nothing other than this Self. How to conceive the nature of his state?

('Reality in Forty Verses', v. 31 ("Collected Works"))