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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2021 13:02:00 GMT
There may be times when you feel that you are worthless. But you are nothing less than a miracle. The fact that you are here - alive and capable of breathing in and out - is ample proof that you are a miracle. One string bean contains the whole cosmos in it: sunshine, rain, the whole Earth, time, space, and consciousness. You also contain the whole cosmos.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2021 6:24:57 GMT
Three Methods Explained
Destroy the power of mind by seeking it. When the mind is examined its activities cease automatically. Looking for the source of mind is another method. The source may be said to be God or Self or Consciousness. Concentrating on one thought, all other thoughts disappear; finally that thought also disappears. It is necessary to be aware while controlling thoughts, otherwise it will lead to sleep.
— Talks: No.345 ☆ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharishi. ☆
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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2021 11:13:18 GMT
Asked if Sri Bhagavan had read Kamba Ramayana, Sri Bhagavan said: No. I have not read anything. All my learning is limited to what I learnt before my 14th year.
Since then I have had no inclination to read or learn. People wonder how I speak of Bhagavad Gita, etc. It is due to hearsay. I have not read Gita nor waded through commentaries for its meaning. When I hear a sloka I think that its meaning is clear and I say it. That is all and nothing more.
Similarly with my other quotations. They come out naturally. I realise that the Truth is beyond speech and intellect. Why then should I project the mind to read, understand and repeat stanzas, etc.? Their purpose is to know the Truth. The purpose having been gained, there is no use engaging in studies.
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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2021 18:10:05 GMT
Nirupana 12 Thursday, February 16, 1978 Your consciousness contains the immense phenomenal world. Yet it appears outside. As it is created from this subtle consciousness, it is untrue. Only Brahman is true. Hold tight to that knowledge. That is true meditation. As long as you look for personal benefit, you will not get Self-realization. Atman is our true nature. It is the formless consciousness. With the combination of body, prana and Atman, there is the sense ‘I am’. Put aside your problems if any and get stabilized in the Self. The body has a form but consciousness within the body has no form. By taking the body as our form, duality is created. It brings the experience of happiness and misery. Worship only consciousness by which all of this is experienced. It is beyond intellect. The knowledge (jnana) is called the Guru. That means the knowledge that the teacher has is the Guru. Where there is an experience of the Self, there is bliss. We are that bliss. Consciousness is the hum of beingness. To catch hold of it is meditation. People say they are happy, but has anyone of them experienced bliss? Our true nature is neither happiness nor sorrow. The Self, itself, is happiness. To worship the Guru is to worship his word. It means to worship our own consciousness. ‘I am’ is beyond the mind, it is also beyond the qualities. Its nature is like space. It is the all-pervading firmament of consciousness. It is fearless just as space is fearless. It is stupendous and fathomless. Keep your attention on It. Worship It without bringing in duality. Do not identify with the body. You are the ocean of bliss. In summary, worship the word of the Guru, ‘I am not the body, I am the formless, pure life force or Brahman that vitalizes the body’. There is no limit to happiness where there is no body-consciousness. Consciousness will sustain you in every sense if you have faith in the Guru’s word. When your inner urge is devotion to the Guru, death has no effect on you. Consciousness appears in various forms including different types of visions. One who is firmly established in the Guru’s teaching has no fear. Because of body- consciousness, the Atman who is of the nature of perfect bliss has to endure misery. Do not take yourself to be an individual. Stay with the awareness of the manifest (totality). Its body is space. Take the Guru’s word to your heart. It will enable you to see and experience clearly the seed within. That seed has become the world. Though it moves about in myriad bodies, it is spotless. Hence, you need not worry about the purification of the body. You do not require rules and regulations of any creed. Your consciousness will slowly crystallize and you will realize your true nature. The concept of death will seem ridiculous. The true religion of a devotee is faith. Strictly observe the Guru’s word, ‘I have no other form but consciousness’. Then, do what you like. Do not worry. It is a waste of intellect and energy. Spontaneously, everything is happening in God, through God, and by God.
🕉 MEDITATIONS WITH SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
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Post by Admin on Jun 14, 2021 18:56:31 GMT
WHAT IS LOVE ? When you ask what love is, you may be too frightened to see the answer. It may mean complete upheaval; it may break up the family; you may discover that you do not love your wife or husband or children - do you? - you may have to shatter the house you have built, you may never go back to the temple. But if you still want to find out, you will see that fear is not love, dependence is not love, jealousy is not love, possessiveness and domination are not love, responsibility and duty are not love, self-pity is not love, the agony of not being loved is not love, love is not the opposite of hate any more than humility is the opposite of vanity. So if you can eliminate all these, not by forcing them but by washing them away as the rain washes the dust of many days from a leaf, then perhaps you will come upon this strange flower which man always hungers after. Love is something that is new, fresh, alive. It has no yesterday and no tomorrow. It is beyond the turmoil of thought. It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent. To find this extraordinary thing which man has sought endlessly through sacrifice, through worship, through relationship, through sex, through every form of pleasure and pain, is only possible when thought comes to understand itself and comes naturally to an end. Then love has no opposite, then love has no conflict. But you don't know how to come to this extraordinary fount - so what do you do? If you don't know what to do, you do nothing, don't you? Absolutely nothing. Then inwardly you are completely silent. Do you understand what that means? It means that you are not seeking, not wanting, not pursuing; there is no centre at all. Then there is love.
K.|commentaries on living
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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2021 4:36:41 GMT
D: Does my Realization help others? M: Yes, and it is the best help that you can possibly renderto others. Those who have discovered great truths have done so in the still depths of the Self. But really there are no ‘others’ to be helped. For, the Realised Beingsees only the Self, just as the goldsmith sees only the gold while valuing it in various jewels made of gold. When you identify yourself with the body, name and form are there. But when you transcend the body consciousness, the ‘others’ also disappear. The Realised one does not see the world as different from Himself.
~ Maharshi's Gospel
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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2021 5:18:03 GMT
"The ego's death is the blossoming of bliss." "The ending of the ego, by its drowning into the Space of Silence, is our true life of living as the Space of Jnana. Therefore when the ego disappears, like a false dream, into its Source, the Real 'I' [Self] will shine forth spontaneously."
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2021 5:43:52 GMT
In course of conversation Mataji said: World means that which is in constant flux and thus illusory. This pandal (canopy) in which you are sitting now will not remain to-morrow - therefore it is transitory. Just as a tree did not exist earlier and will not be in existence much later, thus it is impermanent. Why do you not aspire towards Truth and Eternity? According to the doctrine of Vedanta or Advaita, name and form are regarded as illusory. To think of name and form as separate from That which Is - this indeed is false. In the case of a living Vigraha (Concrete External Presence as form) there is no transitoriness. You are true, enlightened, the Atma (Self) beyond all names. You are the Atma Itself, free, Knowledge Itself. So long as God has existed, Maya is also in existence. But God is beyond Maya- just like the external relationship between water and ice. Exactly as ice is nothing but water, so Nirakara, the Formless and Sakara, God-with-Form are one and the same.
- Matri Satsang. Conversation with Ma Anandamayi Swami Bhagavatananda Giri
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2021 15:51:27 GMT
There is nothing wrong with you as the Self. It is what it is to perfection. It is the mirror that is not clear and true and, therefore, gives you false images. You need not correct yourself; only set right your idea of yourself. Learn to separate yourself from the image and the mirror. Keep on remembering: I am neither the mind nor its ideas. Do it patiently and with conviction, and you will surely come to the direct vision of yourself as the source of being—knowing—loving, eternal, all-embracing, and all-pervading. You are the infinite focused in a body. Now you see the body only. Try earnestly and you will come to see the infinite only.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Post by Admin on Jun 17, 2021 19:40:44 GMT
You are dreamer too. We differ only in the contents of our dreams. You are after perfection in the future. I am intent on finding it in the now. The limited only is perfectible. The unlimited is already perfect. You are perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2021 11:09:58 GMT
Know that the experience of Bliss exists only in the Self and never in this life of delusion.
~Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Post by Admin on Jun 21, 2021 16:36:39 GMT
We inquire within, "To whom has this come? To whom has this illusion come?" That is what you must do with every problem, with every tummy-ache, with every unhappiness and with everything you see in this world. In other words, who sees this? Who is experiencing this? Of course the answer is, "I am." I am. Who is this I? Who is the I that experiences this illusion? Where did the I come from? Who gave it birth? What is its source? The word source is important. The I has a source. It didn't come from nowhere. In reality it does not exist. The I is a thought. As you trace it back, you will trace it back to the heart center on the right side of the chest. That is the abode of the Self. It appears as if the I arises from the abode of the Self. That is how it appears. Try to catch it. You will begin to realize that in deep sleep there is no I. What happened to the I when you are in deep sleep? There is no one to say, "l am asleep." Where did it go? Yet when you awaken you say, "I slept." Where did the I come from? If you watch it when you wake in the morning, you will notice the I comes out of your chest, and goes to your brain. Then it identifies with the body and the mind. Then the world comes into existence. You then say, "I see the world. I am my body. I am my mind." When you go to sleep at night, just before you fall asleep, you will notice that the I becomes weaker and weaker. It loses it's power because it is returning to the heart center from whence it came. Then you sleep. But what would happen if you didn't fall asleep and the I returned anyway? What would happen then? You would be pure consciousness. You would be like the chalk board on which images are drawn and erased. The chalk board never changes. The images change. If you allowed the I-thought to sink into the chest, into the spiritual center, you would awaken to reality. You would be liberated. You would be awake. That is the real awakening.
🌻 Robert Adams
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2021 13:15:31 GMT
How do you create a dream? Does it start with a beginning? As soon as you start dreaming, there's no creation. The dream just starts. Everything is already there. The trees, the sky, the earth, the flowers, the grass, people, insects, birds, flowers, everything just appears. Does it die in the end? You just wake up, and it's all gone. What we're doing now is living the mortal dream. We believe in our bodies, in our existence, as it were. We believe the world is real, the mind is real, our experiences are real, and we get involved in them, like we get involved in a movie. You know you're not the movie. You watch the movie, it ends, and you go home. The more you get involved in the world situations, and in yourself, the small self, your body or mind phenomena, the more you get pulled into ignorance. You have to loosen yourself from this maya. And thinking every day that you are unborn, you have no personal life, and you do not exist, and you will not disappear, just thinking about these things does something to you. You begin to feel different. You begin to feel alive. But not as a body. As Omnipresence. You begin to understand what Moses said, when he said, "I Am That I Am." You begin to feel free, untarnished. Your past is dissolved, because it never existed to begin with. You have no past. There's no cause. It's all a manifestation of your mind. As you think about this, you become totally free.
~ SILENCE OF THE HEART 1999 edition Dialogue with Robert Adams # T. 006 × The Three Vehicles of Self Realization - August 26, 1990
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2021 14:08:40 GMT
Withdraw your mind completely from the world and turn it within, and abide there. If you keep awake always to the Self which is the substratum of all experiences, you will find that the world which you are now aware of is just as unreal as the world in which you lived in your dream.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2021 21:23:53 GMT
Approaching the Self is like walking the razor's edge: two cannot go there. You cannot bring your mind nor even a thought. The only one who can help you is Self. Anything that touches a flame becomes the flame. Touch a sage and you become a sage. Knowing Self, you see only Self and this Self is your Guru. The Satguru is within! The true Guru is Self. All else is pointing to Self.
-Papaji
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