surrender

Surrender to Him and abide by His will

whether he appears or vanishes;

await His pleasure.

If you ask Him to do as you please,

it is not surrender but command to Him.

You cannot have Him obey you

and yet think that you have surrendered.

He knows what is best

and when and how to do it.

Leave everything entirely to Him.

His is the burden:

you have no longer any cares.

All your cares are His.

Such is surrender.

This is bhakti.

Ramana Maharshi

life

When one is without ego, one becomes immediately free of all personal judgments and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind. Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always. ~Mooji

realization

The ultimate realization is not only that the world is unreal but that at the same time the world is real!

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In this drama of life, Consciousness plays and directs all of the roles of the billions of human beings. Every character is played by Consciousness.

Ramesh Balsekar 

1 October

effortlessness

True understanding, which is enlightenment, can happen only when there is total effortlessness - in other words, in the utter absence of any comprehender. Then there is only the witnessing of the dream of life without the least desire to change anything.

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Whatever action happens, whether you eat ice cream or meditate, at that moment you could not have done otherwise.

Ramesh Balsekar 

30 September

self inquiry

Devotee.... 

Should I say? 

I am Siva? along with the enquiry 'Who am I?'' Should I not say, ''I am not the mind, intellect, body,etc..?''

Master....  

You should not give answers to the mind 

in the course of your enquiry..... 

The reply should be allowed to come from within...

The reply of the individual 'I'  is not real...

Continue to enquire until you get the answer by the method of 'jnana marga'  [the path of knowledge]... 

This enquiry is called meditation...

The inactive, peaceful, 

full - of - knowledge experience 

that arises from this state is janana...

Ramana Maharshi....

freedom

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. 

You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence.

You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. 

Forgive yourself for not being at peace. 

The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. 

Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. 

This is the miracle of surrender.

🌝 Eckhart Tolle

divine search

No man can seek the divine because he does not have the capacity for such a search. But when somebody has become ready to disappear, has become ready to be a nobody, has become ready to become an emptiness, then the divine will certainly find him. Only the divine can seek for man, man can never seek the divine because even in seeking, the ego is present.

So a religious person is not one who sets out in search of the divine: a religious person is one who sets out in search of his " I "- and the more he goes on searching, the more he will find that his " I " is not at all there. And the day the " I " no longer remains, on that day the door which is hiding love will open for him.

So I say that the day the shadow of "I" disappears, the day neither " I " nor "you" remains, on that you will no longer have to search for divine - the divine will come searching for you.

🌸 Osho