realise self

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.

ramana Maharshi

If you become aware that you have chosen to tread the 'Spiritual Path', the first thing you will have to observe is : "Put an end to all forms of 'curiosity' !" Second thing is, "Accept things as they ARE !"

After taking this ' Jnana Snaana ',  you're now ready !  That is, you are now in a state of "Not 'I', Oh Lord !  'YOU' alone exist"  !  "Curiosity " is the child of "Ego" !  "Surrender" is the Mother of "Enlightenment" !

- Sri V Ganesan 14 Jan

sadguru

The boat in touch with

the sacred river but

the boatman chooses

to float over. The sacred

neither glides nor drowns.

Papaji

You come for freedom; in truth there is no difference between bondage and freedom.

If you want to be free, this is from the viewpoint of bondage. When you are ready to reject both bondage and freedom, this is the Freedom I speak about.

~ Papaji

quotes

mind

M.: It is in the mind that birth and death, pleasure and pain, 

in short the world and ego exist. If the mind is destroyed all these are destroyed too. 

Note that it should be annihilated, not just made latent. For the mind is dormant in sleep. It does not know anything. Still, on waking up, you are as you were before. There is no end of grief. But if the mind be destroyed the grief will have no background and will disappear along with the mind.

D.: How to destroy the mind? 

M.: Seek the mind. On being sought, it will disappear.

 

D.: I do not understand.

M.: The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is the thinker. The thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will vanish automatically. The ego and the mind are the same. The ego is the root-thought from which all other thoughts arise.

D.: How to seek the mind?

M.: Dive within. You are now aware that the mind rises up from within. So sink within and seek.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi No 195

quotes

Who gave us this crazy idea

that we should know how to live?

Does a tree know how to grow?

Does a cloud know how to float?

Does the wind know where it is blowing?

Does a road know it is going somewhere?

Don’t know how to live,

just recognise that you are life

and life just Is. 

~ Mooji