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Post by Admin on Jul 30, 2021 9:40:12 GMT
''Self-surrender is the highest and easiest method for enlightenment. One who has surrendered himself is always protected by the divine power. One who possesses nothing and has no one to protect him belongs to God and is constantly under the protection of the Divine.”
-Swami Rama
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Post by Admin on Jul 30, 2021 18:59:34 GMT
NARENDRA(to the Master): Why, I have meditated on Kāli for three or four days, but nothing has come of it. MASTER: All in good time, my child. Kāli is none other than Brahman. That which is called Brahman is really Kāli. She is the Primal Energy. When that Energy remains inactive, I call It Brahman, and when It creates, preserves, or destroys, I call It Śakti or Kāli. What you call Brahman I call Kāli. Brahman and Kāli are not different. They are like fire and its power to burn: if one thinks of fire one must think of its power to burn. If one recognizes Kāli one must also recognize Brahman; again, if one recognizes Brahman one must recognize Kāli. Brahman and Its Power are identical. It is Brahman whom I address as Śakti or Kāli.
Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Swami Nikhilananda
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2021 10:15:46 GMT
"At first it seems as though things exist outside one another. The sun is not the moon. This galaxy is not another galaxy. You are outside me. The father is outside the son. But looking deeply, we see that things are interwoven. We cannot take the rain out of the flower or the oxygen out of the tree. We cannot take the father out of the son or the son out of the father. We cannot take anything out of anything else. We are the mountains and rivers; we are the sun and stars. Everything inter-is..." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
While Buddhists don't usually speak of God, here Thich Nhat Hanh expresses the Zen view of Inter-being and "Big Mind" from a Western spiritual perspective...
"Our cosmic body is the universe, creation, the masterpiece of God. Looking deeply into the cosmos, we see its true nature. And we can say that the true nature of the cosmos is God. Looking deeply into creation, we see the creator.
At first it seems as though things exist outside one another. The sun is not the moon. This galaxy is not another galaxy. You are outside me. The father is outside the son. But looking deeply, we see that things are interwoven.
We cannot take the rain out of the flower or the oxygen out of the tree. We cannot take the father out of the son or the son out of the father. We cannot take anything out of anything else. We are the mountains and rivers; we are the sun and stars. Everything inter-is.
This is what the physicist David Bohm called “the implicate order.” At first we see only “the explicate order,” but as soon as we realize that things do not exist outside one another, we touch the deepest level of the cosmic. We realize that we cannot take the water out of the wave. And we cannot take the wave out of the water. Just as the wave is the water itself, we are the ultimate.
Many still believe that God can exist separately from the cosmos, his creation. But you cannot remove God from yourself; you cannot remove the ultimate from yourself. Nirvana is there within you.
If we want to touch the ultimate, we have to look within our own body and not outside. Contemplating deeply the body from within, we can touch reality in itself.
If your mindfulness and concentration are deep as you practice walking meditation in nature, or as you contemplate a beautiful sunset or your own human body, you can touch the true nature of the cosmos."
~Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Living
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2021 18:13:22 GMT
Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer. Do not try to change anything. Be yourself. Work on yourself. Begin to see things in a new light. See your situation differently. There are no bad things, there are no good things. But thinking makes it so. Stop thinking of the extremes, good and bad, right and wrong. Rather look at yourself in the moment. Stay centered. See yourself as a Divine Being, an Infinite Being, totally free and liberated. Do not feel sorry for yourself because you are in a position and in a situation you don't like. This just holds you there more. And again as we mentioned before, even if you run away from a situation, you will attract some of the circumstances elsewhere. Running away is never the answer. Changing yourself is the answer. Take a look at your own life and see if it is not true what I'm saying. The changes you've gone through in your life. I know so many people who have left their home and family and gone to India to meditate, to find gurus, teachers. They have come back very depressed, even suicidal. For they've given up everything. Remember, there's nothing you have to give up. Only mentally do you give up attachment. Always look at the world as a reflection of you. You are the world. The world can be nothing without your approval. It sounds strange, but true. You have to stop identifying conditions apart from yourself. I know it seems hard to do. When you see the riots we've just had, the murders, the looting, it seems really difficult to realize you are one with this. But think about this. Why should you only think you are one with the good things? If you are One, you are One with everything. Never just the good things that you enjoy and you like and bring into your life. You are All-Pervading, Omnipresent, and you are One with all there is. The correct way to observe this is to look at everything in the world intelligently without any comments, without any reactions. Do not be for or against anything. Train yourself to observe, to watch, to look without any reaction.
~ Silence of the Heart, Dailogues with Robert Adams. # T.155@This is your Dharma.
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2021 23:17:23 GMT
Sat Sang means association with Sat or Reality.
One who knows or has realized Sat is also regarded as Sat. Such association is absolutely necessary for all. Sankara has said,
“In all the three worlds there is no boat like sat sang to carry one safely across the ocean of births and deaths.”
- Sri Ramana Maharshi.
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Post by Admin on Aug 2, 2021 9:42:06 GMT
“If you are still interested in time and the spiritual accumulations you can have in time, you will get a time-bound experience. The mind is acting as if what you are looking for isn’t already present right now. Now is outside of time. There is no time, and the paradox is that the only thing that keeps you from seeing the eternal is that your mind is stuck in time. So you miss what’s actually here. It’s about realizing what you are, what you have always been. This realization is outside of time because it’s now or never.”
~ Adyashanti
Emptiness Dancing
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2021 21:10:14 GMT
The highest experience is when everything disappears, even God. Until this happens you will continue to be reborn. So forget everything, even forgetting, because forgetting and remembering belong to the mind. Without mind you can't see your God, or Guru, or country, or parents. Just don't give rise to identifying as a body or mind or personality and there will be no forgetting or remembering. First forget yourself which means stop identifying as the body. You are the Essence which does not disappear. Find it ! 🕉 Papaji
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Post by Admin on Aug 6, 2021 11:09:01 GMT
Brahma Jnana
Definition - What does Brahma Jnana mean? Brahma jnana is knowledge of God or of the spiritual Self. The term comes from the Sanskrit, jnana, meaning “knowledge,” “higher knowledge” or “awareness,” and brahma, which means “relating to Brahman,” “divine,” “the Absolute” or “supreme spirit.” The term is used as a synonym for or to represent enlightenment or Self-realization.
This knowledge, or brahma jnana, is the point in the yogi's spiritual journey when the atman (individual self or soul) is one with the paramatman (higher Self or spiritual Self), Brahman or God.
Yogapedia explains Brahma Jnana The path to brahma jnana begins with basic recognition of God or the spiritual Self. This path of knowledge is Jnana yoga. Preventing the yogi from achieving brahma jnana is maya, or the force of illusion that the physical world is reality. It is also the ignorance (ego) that prevents the yogi from seeing the real nature of the Self.
Jnana yoga removes the illusion and ignorance, allowing the yogi to realize the nature of the Self and union with the divine or the infinite and eternal universal force.
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Post by Admin on Aug 6, 2021 21:50:08 GMT
"To be free, shun the experiences of the senses like poison. Turn your attention to forgiveness, sincerity, kindness, simplicity, truth. Liberation is to know yourself as Awareness alone― the Witness of these. Abide in Awareness with no illusion of person. You will be instantly free and at peace.
You are pure Consciousness― the substance of the Universe, the Witness of all things. Your only bondage is not seeing This. A single understanding: I am the One Awareness, consumes all suffering in the fire of an instant. The Universe exists within you. Desire nothing. You are Consciousness.." ~The Ashtavakra Gita ~
"Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere." ―Ramana Maharshi
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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2021 12:36:31 GMT
D.: How can one know the Self? B.: The Self always is. There is no knowing it. It is not some new knowledge to be acquired. What is new and not here and now cannot be permanent. The Self always is, but knowledge of it is obstructed and the obstruction is called ignorance. Remove the ignorance and knowledge shines forth. In fact, it is not the Self that has this ignorance or even knowledge. These are only accretions to be cleared away. That is why the Self is said to be beyond knowledge and ignorance. It remains as it naturally is – that is all.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi.
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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2021 12:57:56 GMT
Duality is pain by its very nature. Duniya, the world is dikha, sorrow; that is, the sense of separation is itself suffering. All sorrow is due to the fact that the many are seen where there is only One. As long as there is identification with the body and the mind, there must be pain, distress and agony. It is useless to seek happiness in anything that is of the world. Find out where your real home is. This world is like a traveller's inn - one comes and one goes. There are innumerable paths - and yet there is no path to the Supreme. If there were, it would mean that the discovery of the Real depends on the efforts of the individual. The Supreme would not be the Supreme if He were subject to anything at all. He and He alone is at all times. To wear out the veil that occludes the vision of Reality is all that man can do, and that he has got to do.
- The essentials of Ma Anandamayi's teaching.
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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2021 17:52:42 GMT
The flourishing of this “I” is only the flourishing of misery. This “I” is that which is called the ego. This ego-”I” rises and flourishes only because of non-inquiry (avichara). If we inquire “Who is this I?”, and thereby vigilantly scrutinize only the feeling “I,” without attending to the adjunct “so-and-so” with which it is mixed, this adjunct will disappear, since it is devoid of any real existence.
- The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharishi.
Sadhu Om.
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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2021 19:33:37 GMT
"Though you may not believe all that is said of God, believe at least " there is God ". This seed is very potent in its growth. It has such great might that in due course you will not see anything but God - you will not see even yourself. Truly, God is all."
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Post by Admin on Aug 7, 2021 21:54:52 GMT
The Jnani, the Formless One who ever abides as the Supreme Self, is a collected totality of all individual siddhis. All the siddhis which function through them are His alone, since He is the witness of them. Know Him as none other than Lord Dakshinamurti! Sadhu Om: The Jnani is described as ‘the Formless One’. Since individual siddhas, even if they possess all the eight-fold siddhis, are unable to display them proudly in front of a Jnani, who possesses Atma-Siddhi [i.e., abidance in Self], which is the highest of all siddhis, they are said to be contained within Him. Since the Jnani is the Self of God, from whom siddhas borrow their powers, all siddhis are here said to be His alone. The Jnani is neither a Murti [i.e., the form of an individual God], nor even an Avatar or Amsa [i.e., an aspect or part] of the Trimurthis [i.e., the three Gods of Creation, Sustenance and Dissolution]. Since the Jnani, the Guru-Murti, is above the Trimurthis, He is described here as Lord Dakshinamurti, the Primal Guru. - The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharishi.
Guru Vachaka Kovai. Verse 124. An Analysis of the Truth. Chapter 12. Individuality.
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Post by Admin on Aug 8, 2021 6:00:02 GMT
"The Core Teachings of Vedanta. Brahman is the ultimate reality, without a second, beyond space and time, name and form, without beginning or end. Brahman manifests through Maya as the multi-creation, thus the universe is an illusion constantly changing."
Brahman = core awareness, the one awareness. Maya = manifestation, which is ultimately illusory.
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