Liberation

What is meant by liberation? Do the heavenly worlds and heavenly bliss exist somewhere else in the sky? Are they to be experienced in some other world and some other body after leaving this world and the body?  The Heart alone is the supreme world.  Tranquility, in the form of supreme silence, is alone the supreme bliss or the happiness of liberation. The cessation of all worries is the attainment of the supreme truth. By the state of being - consciousness the great life of supreme bliss can be attained at all times in this world and in this very body.

The Power of The Presence

no effort

Making an effort is easier for you because

this is what you are accustomed to. You

have been trained in effort, and you want

to continue in that effort because this is

all you know how to do. You come to

the spiritual path and you think you

can succeed here by effort.

I am telling you not to make an effort.

For freedom you don't need to make an

effort, you just need to keep quiet. Forget

everything you have learned so far. Forget

everything that you have heard or read;

forget any advice that people or prophets

have been giving you. Forget everything

and look at your own Self. Forget

everything that has happened up to the

present moment, and then tell me, 'What

do you lack?' If you forget everything,

everything you have read, heard and

done up till this present moment,

what's left?

🌺 Papaji

think

Think about the events that happened to you ten years ago. 

What remains of all that occurred, all the suffering and heartbreak, all the joy and affection? Where has it all gone? 

It has disappeared just as though it had never existed. The same thing is happening to your experience today. This very moment has arrived, bringing with it its particular experience, only to disappear almost instantly. When death comes to the body, what will the whole life have amounted to? What will be the sum total of reality that has been accumulated through these passing experiences? 

The answer is zero. Nothing happens and nothing has ever happened. It was all a dream. Only the unchanging background, against which all these experiences appear and fade, is real. 

🌷 Ranjit Maharaj

The Way of The Bird

God

 Swami Yogananda with four others arrived at 8.45 a.m. He looks big, but gentle and well-groomed. He has dark flowing hair, hanging over his shoulders. The group had lunch in the Asramam.

Mr. C. R. Wright, his secretary, asked: 

How shall I realise God?

Maharshi.: God is an unknown entity. Moreover He is external. Whereas, the Self is always with you and it is you. Why do you leave out what is intimate and go in for what is external?

D.: What is this Self again?

M.: The Self is known to everyone but not clearly. You always exist. The Being is the Self. ‘I am’ is the name of God. Of all the definitions of God, none is indeed so well put as the Biblical statement 

“I AM THAT I AM” in EXODUS (Chap. 3). There are other statements, such as Brahmaivaham, Aham Brahmasmi and 

Soham. But none is so direct as the name JEHOVAH = I AM.

The Absolute Being is what is - It is the Self. It is God. 

Knowing the Self, God is known. In fact God is none other than the Self.

🔱 Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Talk 106.

post 8 osho drop knowledge

 Drop knowledge, forget scriptures, forget religions, theologies, philosophies… be born again. Become innocent and it is in your hands. Clean your minds from what you don’t know for youself, all that is borrowed, all that has come by tradition, convention. Given by others, parents, teachers, universities… drop all that. Once again be simple, a child… and this miracle is possible by meditation. Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from what is not yours. Saves only that which is your authentic being and burns everything else, leaves you standing naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. As if you’re the first man, who knows nothing, who has to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, to go on a pilgrimage.

🤍 OshO

post 6

When you really understand the limitations of your physical level and your mental level, then you become really thirsty to get into the spiritual level. Then, you know that what you have known, what you have learned and what you have understood all these years is just NOTHING. You become, actually, NOTHING, in the words of the Zen philosophy: you have to become nothing. Until this stage, you feel that you are something. Don't we hear people saying, "Oh, he or she is really something"? But that something should become nothing. When we really become NOTHING, then we get into a sphere where we become EVERYTHING. And that nothingness is expressed as devotion, faith, respect and humility. It really takes a lot of courage to let go and to be nothing.

-Sri Swami Satchidananda

🕉️🙏🪷

post 5 mooji faith

"If in your heart you have chosen Truth, then trust your experience because something guides and protects you. When your search is genuine and your heart is humble, life protects you. But if you keep some arrogance, be sure trouble will come." Mooji