adultery

From ~~~ Be As You Are, Ch. 12

Q.:
I am carried away by the sight
of the breasts of a young woman neighbour
and I am often tempted to commit adultery with her.
What should I do?

M.:
You are always pure.
It is your senses and body which tempt you
and which you confuse with your real Self.

So first know who is tempted and who is there to tempt.

But even if you do commit adultery,
do not think about it afterwards,
because you are yourself always pure.
You are not the sinner.

~~

awakening

If you realize the reason why you came, you will be interested in one thing, awakening. And that will dominate your life. Nothing else will. You will not be concerned with what somebody else is doing and you will be at peace with yourself and everybody else. ~ Robert Adams

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Self surender

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.

(Talk 450)

daily reminder self

You must remind yourself as soon as you open your eyes in the morning. 

You simply remember every day that, 

"I am.not the body/mind phenomena. 

I am nothing to do with the world. 

I, is really Consciousness, Emptiness, Nirvana, Sat-Chit-Ananda. 

I is really Parabrahman. 

I am That." 

Just to remember, not to forget to remember, is the important point.

Do not think about world affairs. 

The world will take care of itself. 

The world is unfolding as it should. 

Do not think about your affairs. 

As far as you know, you are under the law of karma. And the Lord of Karma, Ishvara, will take care of  everything. 

So don't even think about those things. 

Do not think, in other words, of the world as manifestations, and do  not think about the body and its problems, but rather inquire, "To whom does this body come? 

To whom does the mind  come that keeps thinking and thinking and thinking? 

Who possesses it? 

I do. 

But my real I is Absolute Reality. 

Therefore, 

the 'I' that appears to have a body and its problems, 

the 'I' that appears to perceive the world and the universe, 

must be a  false I. 

Yet where did it originate? 

What gave it birth?"

Then you can think of the power source, 

the spiritual Heart on the right side of your chest. 

If you desire, you may see a  picture of your deity that you respect in the center of the ball of light on the right side of your chest. Whether it's the  Buddha or Moses or Jesus or whomever. And you watch the 'I' as it comes out of that center and goes up to your brain. 

And then all of a sudden, you identify with your body and the world comes into being. And the mind appears to sustain it all. 

That's when you catch yourself. 

You reverse the process. 

You watch the 'I' returning from the brain. You abide in the 'I'. 

You hold onto the 'I'. 

You follow the I-thread. 

You trace the 'I' as it returns to the spiritual Heart center and  disappears. 

Then you keep silent. 

You just keep totally silent. 

If thoughts do appear, you inquire,

To whom do they come?" 

and you keep silent again. 

As you practice this every day, day after day, week after week, month after month, 

year after year, something will give. Something has to give, and you will become free. 

Free in the Silence.

✅ T. 070 @ Jnana, Siddhis and Spiritual Healings - June 16, 1991

~ Robert Adams.  Silence of the Heart.

satsang or meditation to silent the mind

Dr. Lohara: Why does the mind not sink into the Heart even while meditating?

Maharshi: A floating body does not readily sink unless some means are adopted for making it do so. Breath-control makes the mind quiescent. The mind must be alert and meditation pursued unremittingly even when it is at peace. Then it sinks into the heart. Or the floating body might be loaded with weights and made to sink. So also association with the wise will make the mind sink into the Heart.

Such association is both mental and physical. The extremely visible being (of the Guru) pushes the mind inward. He is also in the heart of the seeker and so he draws the latter’s inward-bent mind into the Heart.

This question is asked only when the man begins to meditate and finds it difficult. Let him practise breath-control just a little and the mind will be purified. It does not now sink into the heart because the latent tendencies stand as obstacles. They are removed by breath-control or association 

with the wise. 

In fact the mind is always in the Heart. But it is restive and moves about on account of latent tendencies. When the tendencies are made ineffective it will be restful and at peace.

By breath-control the mind will be only temporarily quiescent, because the tendencies are still there. If the mind is transformed into the Self it will no longer give trouble. That is done by meditation.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Talk 223.