consciousness

When you do not know what is good for yourself, how can you know what is good for others?”

Question: When we talk of helping humanity, we mean a struggle against disorder and suffering.

Maharaj: You merely talk of helping. Have you ever helped, really helped, a single man? Have you ever put one soul beyond the need of further help? Can you give a man character, based on full realization of his duties and opportunities at least, if not on the insight into his true being?

When you do not know what is good for yourself, how can you know what is good for others?

Q: The adequate supply of means of livelihood is good for all. You may be God himself, but you need a well-fed body to talk to us.

M: It is you that need my body to talk to you.I am not my body, nor do I need it. I am the witness only. I have no shape of my own.

You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That, Chapter 68: Seek the Source of Consciousness .

(photo: Buddhist novice in temple, Myanmar by Sasin Tipchai)

Surrender

Being completely absorbed in ātma-niṣṭhā [self-abidance], giving not even the slightest room to the rising of any thought other than ātma-cintanā [thought of oneself or self-attentiveness], alone is giving oneself to God. Even though we place whatever amount of burden upon God, that entire amount he will bear. Since one paramēśvara śakti [supreme ruling power or power of God] is driving all activities [everything that happens in this world], instead of yielding to it why should we always think, ‘it is necessary to act in this way; it is necessary to act in that way’? Though we know that the train is going bearing all the burdens, why should we who go travelling in it suffer bearing our small luggage on our head instead of remaining happily leaving it placed on that [train]?

Ramana

Divine love

"Grieve not for lost love, whether it is through death or the fickle fluctuations of human nature. Love itself is never lost, but just plays hide and seek with you in many hearts; that in   pursuing it you might find its ever greater manifestations. It will keep hiding from you, and disappointing you, until you have quested long enough to find its abode in the One who resides in the deepest recesses of your own soul, and in the hearts of everything"

~~Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
(The Divine Romance)

प्रेम

प्रेम क्या है ......?
प्रेम जो कुछ भी हो ,
उसे शब्दो में कहने का उपाय नहीं ,
क्योंकि वह कोई विचार नही है ।
प्रेम तो अनुभूति है ।
उसमें डूबा जा सकता है ,
लेकिन उसे जाना नही जा सकता ,
प्रेम पर विचार मत करो ।
विचार को छोड़ो और फिर जगत को देखो ।
उस शांति में जो अनुभव में आयेगा ,
वह "प्रेम" है - ओशो ।।

Quotes

गुरू

शिक्षक और गुरु में फर्क है। शिक्षक आप को कुछ देता है, गुरु आपसे कुछ छिन लेता है। शिक्षक आप को भरता है, गुरु आपको खाली करता है। शिक्षक आप को सूचनाएं देता है, गुरु, आपके पास जो अहंकार है, उस अहंकार का जो ज्ञान है तथाकथित, उसको छीन लेता है। शिक्षक आप को आजीविका देता है, गुरु आपको जीवन।

आजीविका देनी हो तो आपको कुछ सिखाना पड़ता है। गणित है, इतिहास है, भूगोल है, साइंस, यह कुछ सिखाना होता है। और अगर ज्ञान देना हो, तो आपने जो सिखा है उसे अनसिखाना होता है। उसे मिटाना होता है।

स्कूल, कॉलेज, विश्विद्यालय में जो हैं, वह शिक्षक हैं। गुरु खो गया है।

इसलिए शास्त्रों ने कहा है कि गुरु मृत्यु रुप है, वह मार डालता है। वह आपको मिटा डालता है। और जब आप वापस लौटतें हैं तो आपका पुनर्जन्म हो गया होता है। आप नये होकर, द्विज होकर, ट्वाइस बार्न होकर लौटते हैं। एक गर्भ मां का है और एक गर्भ गुरु का भी है।

मृत्यु गुरु है। अगर आप मरना सिख जाएं तो आप सब पा जाएंगे, जो पाने योग्य है। यहां मैं आपको भी मृत्यु के हांथ मे दे देना चाहूंगा। और चाहूंगा कि सब तरफ से मृत्यु आपको घेर ले, और आपके भीतर जो भी मर सकता है वह मर हीं जाए। और जो नहीं मर सकता, जिसको मारने का मृत्यु के पास कोई उपाय नहीं है, वही केवल आपके भीतर जगमगाता हुआ बचे। जो कूड़ा - करकट है वह जल जाए, जो स्वर्ण है निखर आए। इस अग्नि से आपको गुजरना हीं होगा।  * ओशो * कठोपनिषद।
(  संकलन - स्वामी जीवन संगीत )
सभी मित्रों मे मेरा सादर नमन। जय ओशो।

Awareness in sleep

INDEPENDENT AWARENESS DURING SLEEP

Q: Well then, what happens when one becomes enlightened?

Ven. SongChol: Once you've become enlightened by sweeping away all delusions, there is not even a trace of the delusions having been swept away. And that is the state of "No Mind."

You may think that this “No Mind" is like a tree or rock, like an empty animation, but it is not. It is the Great Light of Wisdom that is all-encompassing, eternal, and constantly abiding. This is the Bhutatathata, the essence of life.

Most people are unconscious when they are asleep, but one who has become enlightened has the Great Light with him constantly, no matter how deep his sleep. Such a state is evidence of having achieved enlightenment.

Ven.Tong SongChol (1912~1993), also SeongCheol, one of the great Zen masters in the last century was also called the Living Buddha of Korea.

"Samadhi is one’s natural state. It is the undercurrent in all the three states. This - that is, ‘I’ - is not in those states, but these states are in It. If we get samadhi in our waking state that will persist in deep sleep also. "

–Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks, no 136