Consciousness

Q. Is the state of unconsciousness close to Infinite Being?

A. Consciousness alone exists.

He who knows the Self has nothing more to do. Henceforth the Infinite Power will do all further actions that may be necessary through him. Nor has he any more thoughts.

During meditation that is directed towards the Self, the thoughts actually die down of their own accord. Meditation can be directed to different objects, but when directed to the true Self, it is sent to the highest object, or rather the Subject.

Thoughts are our enemy. When we are free of thoughts we are naturally blissful. The gap between two thoughts is our true state, it is the real Self. Get rid of thoughts, be empty of them, be in a state of perpetual thoughtlessness. Then you are consciously Self-Existent. Thoughts, desires and all qualities are alien to our true nature. The West may praise a man as a great thinker. But what is that? True greatness is to be free of thoughts.

The true answer to the question 'Who Am I?' does not come in thoughts. All thoughts disappear — even the thinker himself disappears.

- Conscious Immortality

प्रेम ,ध्यान ,समाधी

मौत और जीवन एक हीं घटना के दो हिस्से है - अन्योन्याश्रित है। एक दूसरे पर निर्भर है। तो जब ' पर , बिल्कुल छूट जाता है, तो स्वयं की उसकी निजता मे अंतत: स्वयं का होना भी मिट जाता है। शून्य रह जाता है। ध्यान की यही अवस्था है, उसको हमने समाधि कहा है।
दो शब्द बनाने चाहिए। ध्यान समाधि और प्रेम समाधि। समाधि तो दोनो मे एक हीं है, लेकिन दोनो के मार्ग बड़े अलग है। पुरुष को जो समाधि उपलब्ध होती है, जो बुध्द को उपलब्ध हुई, वह है ध्यान समाधि। पर को छोड़ा, स्व छूट गया, समाधि उपलब्ध हुई।
मीरा को जो समाधि उपलब्ध हुई, वह है प्रेम समाधि। पर को नहीं छोड़ा, स्व को समर्पित किया। इतना समर्पित किया कि स्व न बचा, पर हीं बचा। और जब पर अकेला बचा तो पर भी मिट गया, समाधि उपलब्ध हो गई। जहा दो मिट जाते है वहां समाधि। लेकिन मिरा की समाधि प्रेम से आयी। बुद्ध की समाधि ध्यान से आयी। समाधि तो एक ही है, लेकिन मार्ग बड़ा अलग - अलग है।     
स्त्री का मन का ढांचा हीं अलग है। पुरुष के मन का ढांचा अलग। इसलिए पुरुष महाबीर और बुद्ध बन जाता है। महाबीर को हमने नाम दिया है - जिन। जिसने जीत लिया। बुद्ध को हमने नाम दिया - बुद्ध। जो जाग गया। लेकिन मीरा से पुछो, जीता ? मीरा कहेगीहारे। कृष्ण को जीतने की बात ही बेहूदी है।मीरा कहेगी, तुम समझे ही नहीं प्रेम मे कही कोइ जीतता है, हारते है। मगर हार ही वहां जीत है। मिरा से पूछो, जागी ? मीरा कहेगी, जागना वहां कहां है ? वहां तो खोना है, वहां तो मिटना है..... * ओशो * एस धम्मो सनंतनो ।
( संकलन -  स्वामी जीवन संगीत  )
सभी मित्रों मे मेरा सादर नमन। जय ओशो।

Thought won't perform without u

Much like the actors in a play
won't come on stage
until the audience is seated;
thoughts won't perform without you,
the perceiver of them.
Thoughts cannot think themselves,
because thoughts are not sentient.
Therefore, they cannot,
by themselves, turn into thinking.
For thinking to occur,
thoughts need to link up
with the thinker-thought,
the 'I' that is interested
in the play and its outcome.

Mooji

(from: Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space:
what you are before you became)

Happiness

MAA ANANDAMAYI

Question: How can I find happiness?
Answer: First tell me whether you are willing to do as this body bids you to do?
Questioner: Yes, I am.
Answer: Are you really? Very well. Now suppose I ask you to remain here, will you be able to do that?.
Questioner: No, I will not. (Laughter...)
Answer: You see, happiness that depends on anything outside of you, be it your wife, children, money, fame, friends or anything else, cannot last. But to find happiness in Him who is everywhere, who is all-pervading, your own Self, this is real happiness.
Question: So you say happiness lies in finding my Self?
Answer: Yes. Finding your Self, discovering who you really are, means to find God, for there is nothing outside of Him.

Self alone real

Sadguru

1.    'What are the marks of a real teacher (Sadguru)?'

Steady abidance in the Self, looking at all with an equal eye, unshakeable courage at all times, in all places and circumstances, etc.

2.    'What are the marks of an earnest disciple (sadsishya)?'

An intense longing for the removal of sorrow and attainment of joy and an intense aversion for all kinds of mundane pleasure.

(From 'Spiritual Instruction', Ch. I: 'Instruction')

Awareness of mind

You know very well that if your mind is suffering it is not at peace. You know the activities of the mind also. You know, "Now my mind is thinking or not thinking." This means that you are also aware of the activities of the mind. You are something other than the mind. You are not the mind. You are neither the mind nor the body.

~ Papaji