Question: I cannot say it is all clear to me. Is the world that is seen, felt and sensed by us in so many ways something like a dream, an illusion?

Sri Ramana Maharshi: There is no alternative for you but to accept the world as unreal, if you are seeking the Truth and the Truth alone.

Question: Why so?

Sri Ramana Maharshi: For the simple reason that unless you give up the idea that the world is real, your mind will always be after it. If you take the appearance to be real you will never know the Real itself, although it is the Real alone that exists. This point is illustrated by the analogy of the ‘snake in the rope’. As long as you see the snake you cannot see the rope as such. The non-existent snake becomes real to you, while the real rope seems wholly non-existent as such.

Question: It is easy to accept tentatively that the world is not ultimately real, but it is hard to have the conviction that it is really unreal.

Sri Ramana Maharshi: Even so is your dream world real while you are dreaming. So long as the dream lasts, everything you see, feel, etc., therein is real.

Question: Is then the world nothing better than a dream?

Sri Ramana Maharshi: What is wrong with the sense of reality you have while you are dreaming? You may be dreaming of something quite impossible, for instance, of having a happy chat with a dead person. Just for a moment you may doubt in the dream saying to yourself, ‘Was he not dead?’, but somehow your mind reconciles itself to the dream vision, and the person is as good as alive for the purposes of the dream.

In other words, the dream as a dream does not permit you to doubt its reality. Even so, you are unable to doubt the reality of the world of your wakeful experience. How can the mind which has itself created the world accept it as unreal? That is the significance of the comparison made between the world of wakeful experience and the dream world. Both are but creations of the mind and so long as the mind is engrossed in either, it finds itself unable to deny the reality of the dream world while dreaming and of the waking world while awake.

If, on the contrary, you withdraw your mind completely from the world and turn it within and abide thus, that is, if you keep awake always to the Self, which is the substratum of all experience, you will find the world, of which alone you are now aware, just as unreal as the world in which you lived in your dream.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


God will bear whatever burdens we put on Him.
All things are being carried on by the omnipotent power of a
Supreme God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Guru, the Lord of jnana, who is the power of the unlimited greatness of Self, is the Supreme Silence which completely defeats the worthless arguments of those who are stained with the delusion of worldly desires.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
#LaoTzu

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Not putting on a display, They shine forth.
Not justifying themselves, They are distinguished.
Not boasting,
They receive recognition.
Not bragging,
They never falter.
They do not quarrel,
So no one quarrels with them.
Therefore the ancients say,
'Yield and overcome.'
#LaoTzu
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
#Rumi
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When someone is counting
out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold.
Look at the giver.
#Rumi


Some call You love,
I call You the King of love.
#Rumi
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What you seek... is also seeking you
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
#rumi
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Love and lover are eternal.
Don't give your heart to anything but love,
For all other things are artificial.
#Rumi
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Someone asked,
"Is there any way to be nearer to God than prayer?"
Rumi answered,
"Yes, but it is also a prayer."
#Rumi
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To love is human.
To feel pain is human.
Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
#Rumi
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If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.
#Rumi
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Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
#Rumi
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THE WORK OF THE EYES IS DONE.
GO NOW AND DO THE HEART-WORK
ON THE IMAGES IMPRISONED
WITHIN YOU.
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But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
#Dogen
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Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
#Zhuangzi
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I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom.
#JidduKrishnamurti
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No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots.
They will assert their individuality. They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them.
In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. But he cannot sell his life, he cannot serve them. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.
#Osho
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Jesus Was A Man Of Love, Of Immense Love. He Loved This Earth, He Loved The Smell Of This Earth. He Loved The Trees, He Loved The People. He Loved The Creatures Because That Is The Only Way To Love The Creator. If You Cannot Praise The Painting, How Can You Praise The Painter? If You Cannot Praise The Poetry, How Can You Praise The Poet?
#OSHO
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Please, stop focussing on the Buddha, he is not the path. Buddhism is not about the Buddha, it is about you.
Let go of the Buddha, he is gone, dead, but remember his teachings.
Same thing goes with Christianity, let go of Jesus, focus on his message.
Let the world come together through the messages, not the messengers.
#TaisenDeshimaru
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YOU ONLY LOSE WHAT YOU CLING TO.
#BUDDHA
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
#BUDDHA


When fear becomes collective, when anger becomes collective, it's extremely dangerous. It is overwhelming... The mass media and the military industrial complex create a prison for us, so we continue to think, see, and act in the same way... We need the courage to express ourselves even when the majority is going in the opposite direction... because a change of direction can happen only when there is a collective awakening... Therefore, it is very important to say, 1 am here!' to those who share the same kind of insight.
#ThichNhatHanh


People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle.
#ThichNhatHanh


If you are filled with anger, you create more suffering for yourself than for the other person...
So you try to bring peace into yourself first. When you are calm, when you are lucid, you will see that the other person is a victim of confusion, of hate, of violence transmitted by society, by parents, by friends, by the environment. When you are able to see that, your anger is no longer there...
#ThichNhatHanh
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Make Smiling An Exercise #ThichNhatHanh
Why should I smile when there is no joy in me?
The answer to that is: Smiling is a practice.
There are over three hundred muscles in your face. When you are angry or fearful, these muscles tense up. The tension in these muscles creates a feeling of hardness.
If you know how to breathe in and produce a smile, however, the tension will disappear
- it is what I call "mouth yoga." Make smiling an exercise. Just breathe in and smile - the tension will disappear and you will feel much better.
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Looking deeply into your tea, you see that you are drinking fragrant plants that are the gift of Mother Earth. You see the labor of the tea pickers; you see the luscious tea fields and plantations in Sri Lanka, China, and Vietnam.
You know that you are drinking a cloud; you are drinking the rain. The tea contains the whole universe.
#ThichNhatHanh
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A nation may become very rich, very developed, and be called a superpower, but the people in that country still suffer deeply. The desire for material wealth becomes more important than the health and happiness of the people.
They don't have time to take care of themselves and their loved ones, and that is regrettable.
To me a civilized society is one where people have the time to live their daily lives deeply, to love and take care of their family and community.
#ThíchNhatHanh


What most people call power, Buddhists call cravings.
They are wealth, fame, sex, fancy food and lots of sleep.
In Buddhism five true powers are faith, diligence, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.
These five powers are the foundation of real happiness.
#ThichNhatHanh


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!
We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.
#ThichNhatHanh
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"Remember that your
"True Home' is not found
outside yourself, but it is right in your own heart.
If we know how to generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration, then with each breath, with each step,
we arrive at our true home."
#ThichNhatHanh
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Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.
#Papaji
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You are not different than Existence, than Being. See Being everywhere by not looking. The Seeing is Being, not the objects seen.
#Papaji


Meditation means "seeing" God, not merely "thinking" about Him. We may think about a friend who is away or who is no more. But when our friend is here sitting right in front of us, we don't "think" about her, we "see" her, we talk to her, we hear her, don't we? That is what we must do in meditation.
When we can do that, we can be said to be really meditating.
Although "thinking" is different from "meditation"" it is usually a stepping-stone to meditation. Deep and ceaseless thinking about God is what gets miraculously transformed at some stage into meditation on God. Remembering always that God is ever-present and "God is seeing me," helps a great deal in improving the quality of meditation.
#SwamiTyagananda


God is merciful and compassionate. His causeless compassion and mercy, is ever pouring in. Extend your hand with eagerness. Shop keeping attitude should not be there.
(Think that) "I tried but couldn't achieve.
This is the result of my karma. Oh Lord!
You are showering grace and I am receiving it."
A sentient being can expect good only by remembering this.
#Anandamayee
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Meditation opens up one's being to the Light, to that which is eternal.
#AnandamayeeMa
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Many people may doubt that finding God is the purpose of life; but everyone can accept the idea that the purpose of life is to find happiness. I say that God is Happiness. He is Bliss. He is Love. He is Joy that will never go away from your soul. So why shouldn't you try to acquire that Happiness ?
#ParamahansaYogananda


First things must come first. When you awaken in the morning, meditate. If you don't, the whole world will crowd in to claim you, and you will forget God. At night, meditate before sleep claims you. I am so strongly established in the habit of meditation that even after llie down to sleep at night, I find I am meditating. I can't sleep in the ordinary way. The habit of being with God comes first.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Cast away all
negative thoughts
and fears. Remember that as a child of God you are endowed with the same potentialities as the most excellent among men.
#ParamahansaYogananda


It will come all right in the end.
There is the steady impulse of your determination
that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown.
Gradually the obstacles are all overcome
and your current becomes stronger.
Everything comes right in the end.
Steady determination is what is required.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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In enjoyments, there is the fear of disease;
In social position, the fear of falling off;
In wealth, the fear of hostile kings;
In honour, the fear of humiliation;
In power, the fear of enemies;
In beauty, the fear of old age;
In scholarship, the fear of learned opponents;
In virtue, the fear of slander;
In body, the fear of death.
- (Vairàgya Shatakam 31)
All the things in the world are associated with fear.
Detachment alone leads to fearlessness.
#SwamiTyagananda
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RENUNCIATION
WHEN ASKED: 'HOW DOES A GRIHASTHA (householder) fare in the scheme of Moksha (liberation)?' Bhagavan said, 'Why do you think you are a grihastha? If you go out as a sannyasi (ascetic), a similar thought that you are a sannyasi will haunt you. Whether you continue in the household or renounce it and go to the forest, your mind goes with you. The ego is the source of all thought. It creates the body and the world and makes you think you are a grihastha. If you renounce the world it will only substitute the thought sannyasi for grihastha, and the
environments of the forest for those of the household. But the mental obstacles will still be there. They even increase in the new surroundings.
There is no help in a change of
environment. The obstacle is the mind. It must be got over whether at home or in the forest. If you can do it in the forest, why not at home? Therefore, why change your environment? Your efforts can be made even now - in whatever environment you are now. The environment will never change according to your desire.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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We are reading the printed characters on paper but ignore the paper which is the background.
Similarly you are taken up by the manifestations of the mind and let go the background.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Agitation of mind is
the cause of desire, the sense of doership and personality.
If that is stopped there is quiet. There
'knowing' means 'being'.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


It is by God's Grace that you think of God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Leave it to God. Surrender unreservedly.
One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.
#sriramanamaharshi


Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


'Reality is simply the loss of the ego!' Destroy the ego by seeking its identity.
Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and Reality will shine forth by itself. This is the direct method.
Whereas all other methods are done, only retaining the ego. In those paths there arise so many doubts and the eternal question remains to be tackled finally. But in this method the final question is the only one and it is raised from the very beginning. No sadhanas are necessary for engaging in this quest.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q: How long will it take for one to get the grace of the Guru?
A: Why do you desire to know?
Q: To give me hope.
A: Even such a desire is an obstacle. The Self is ever there, there is nothing without it. Be the Self and the desires and doubts will disappear.
Grace is the beginning, middle and end.
Grace is the Self. Because of the false identification of the Self with the body the Guru is considered to be a body. But from the Guru's outlook the Guru is only the Self. The Self is one only and the Guru tells you that the Self alone is. Is not then the Self your Guru? Where else will grace come from? It is from the Self alone.
Manifestation of the Self is a manifestation of grace and vice versa. All these doubts arise because of the wrong outlook and consequent expectation of things external to oneself. Nothing is external to the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Keep the mind quiet. That is enough.
The force will be clearly felt when stillness is achieved.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


ANNAMALAI SWAMI REMEMBERED:

'ONION SWAMI'

Whenever I was supervising construction work, Bhagavan would often tell me, 'You are working hard in the heat of the day. You may eat whatever you want.'

The serving ladies, aware of Bhagavan's concern for me, always served me large amounts of curd and ghee [clarified butter] to counteract the heat. I also had a remedy of my own. In the summer, when the heat was almost unbearable, I found that mixing a chopped raw onion with my food helped me to keep my body cool. I ate such a lot of raw onion one summer that many people started to call me 'Onion Swami'.

In the early days, before large numbers of people started to come to the ashram, it was often possible to talk to Bhagavan while he was eating in the dining room. On one occasion I was sitting next to Bhagavan while he was eating his morning iddlies. An iddly is a small, steamed cake made from the fermented dough of rice and black gram. Iddlies were the most commonly occurring item in the ashram's breakfasts.

I asked Bhagavan some spiritual questions but before he had a chance to complete his answer Chinnaswami interrupted us by saying, 'Why are you asking questions while Bhagavan is eating? Ask your questions at a more convenient time!’

Before continuing with his answer, Bhagavan turned to Chinnaswami and said, 'Jnana is more important than eating iddlies. This time will never come again. If we stop talking now, a suitable occasion may not come again.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The ego is itself unreal. What is the ego? Enquire. The body is insentient and cannot say ‘I’. The Self is pure consciousness and non-dual. It cannot say ‘I’. No one says, ‘I’ in [dreamless] sleep. What is the ego then? It is something intermediate between the inert body and the Self. It has no locus standi. If sought for it vanishes like a ghost. You see, a man imagines that there is something by his side in darkness; it may be some dark object. If he looks closely the ghost is not to be seen, but some dark object which he could identify as a tree or a post, etc. If he does not look closely the ghost strikes terror in the person. All that is required is only to look closely and the ghost vanishes. The ghost was never there. So also with the ego. It is an intangible link between the body and Pure Consciousness. It is not real. So long as one does not look closely it continues to give trouble. But when one looks for it, it is found not to exist.

Again, in a Hindu marriage function, the feasts continue five or six days. A stranger was mistaken for the best man by the bride’s party and they therefore treated him with special regard. Seeing him treated with special regard by the bride’s party, the bridegroom’s party considered him to be some man of importance related to the bride’s party and therefore they too showed him special respect. The stranger had altogether a happy time of it. He was also all along aware of the real situation. On one occasion the groom’s party wanted to refer to him on some point. They asked for him. He scented trouble and made himself scarce. So it is with the ego. If looked for, it disappears. If not, it continues to give trouble.

How it is to be looked for is learnt from those who have already done so. That is the reason why the Master is approached.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Of all the thoughts that appear in the mind, the thought called "I" alone is the first thought. Only after this arises, other thoughts arise. Only after the first person ["'"] appears do second and third persons [everyone and everything else] appear; without the first person, second and third persons do not exist.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it
#Rumi
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Be very quiet and talk little. It will calm your mind and fill your soul with calm and complete peace.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty.
Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent! Die and be quiet.
Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
#Rumi
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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
#Rumi
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The soul has been given it’s own ears to hear things mind does not understand.
#Rumi

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Recognize that unlearning is the highest form of learning.
#Rumi
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The problem is not yours... it is your mind's only.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


All through eternity beauty unveils
God's exquisite form in the solitude of nothingness.
He holds a mirror to His face and beholds His own beauty.
#Rumi


My Guru told me: Go back to that state of pure being, where the 'I AM' is still in its purity before it got contaminated with 'this I am' or 'that I am.' Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all." My guru told me, "Trust me, I tell you: you are Divine. Take it as the absolute truth. Your joy is divine, your suffering is divine too. All comes from God. Remember it always. You are God, your will alone is done." I did believe him and soon realized how wonderfully true and accurate were his words. I did not condition my mind by thinking, "I am God, I am wonderful, I am beyond."

I simply followed his instruction, which was to focus the mind on pure being, "I AM," and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the "I AM" in my mind and soon the peace and joy and deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared—myself, my guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained, and unfathomable silence.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Question: Have you seen God?
Ma's answer: "You said it! He is seen all the He. There is nothing but Ood Every thing is.
#AnandamayiMa
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I cannot show you God or enable you to see God because
God is not an object that can be seen.
God is the subject.
He is the seer.
Don't concern yourself with
objects that can be seen. Find out who the seer is...
You alone are God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Before one siudies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountain are once again mountains and waters once again waters.
#Dogen


Blessed is he,
who listen with ear of his heart.
#Rumi
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The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.
#LaoTzu


Spiritual Maturity (Pakva)

198. The mind will not be willing to come and follow the spiritual path until it has been repeatedly stung and afflicted by the miseries, which lie hidden like poisonous honeybees in all the worldly pleasures that are sought and attained through the five senses; and until it has thereby gained desirelessness (vairagya) towards all such pleasures. This alone is the reason why God gives all the sense pleasures that people ask Him to bestow, and is also the reason why the Vedas mainly recommend the path of kamya karmas (actions performed for the fulfillment of temporal desires).

Note: When God bestows worldly pleasure upon those people who pray for them, and when the Vedas recommend people to follow the path of kamya karmas, their inner aim is only to create desirelessness or vairagya in the hearts of people by making
them experience all the miseries which will inevitably accompany the enjoyment of sense-pleasures.
Compare verse 681 of Garland of Guru Sayings, in which Sri Bhagavan says, “The injunction ‘Marry a girl’ is (given in the Vedas) in order to make one give up the desire for that petty pleasure (of sexual enjoyment), is it not? (Similarly) the injunctions which
extol (the performance of) ritual sacrifices are (given) by the words of the Vedas in order to make
one gain aversion for all the pleasures of heaven and so on; say, is it not so?”

199. For people whose madness of desire for the pleasures of this world has not yet subsided,
who have not become disgusted with all the efforts they have been making to obtain those pleasures, and whose minds have not therefore completely
withdrawn from all such extroverted desires and efforts, it will not be easy to inquire, “Who am I?”, and to know the true state of Self, just as a reflection of
one’s face will not be formed clearly in swiftly running water. Know that a reflection can be seen clearly only when the water stops running and collects itself calmly together in one place.

Note: Compare Vichara Sangraham, ch. 8, paragraph 3, where Sri Bhagavan says, “Just as it is impossible to separate the threads of a fine silk cloth with a very gross (and blunt) crow-bar, and just as it is impossible to determine the nature of very subtle objects with a lamp which is very much wavering due to the wind, so it is impossible to experience the
reality with a mind which, being under the sway of inertia and activity (tamo- and rajo-gunas) and thus is gross and wavering, because the reality is extremely subtle and motionless”.

200. If the liking to attain true knowledge really rises with one, it will be easy for one to experience
Self-knowledge, the state of perfect emancipation, as clearly as an amalaka (crystal, or goose berry)
fruit in the hand. But so long as even an iota of the liking to enjoy the pleasures of this unreal world remains unsubsided in one’s heart, the real thirst to know Self will not rise within one.

201. To the extent in which the conviction grows stronger in us that all the extroverted activity of the mind is only misery, to that extent the desire and love to turn within will also increase. And to the extent to which the strength to attend to Self alone increases in us, to that extent the conviction will grow that attending to anything other than Self is useless.
Thus, each one of these two (namely vairagya or desirelessness towards external objects and bhakti or the love to attend to Self) is an aid to increase the other.

202. Know that he who likes to remain steadfastly attending to Self, knowing that Self-attention is
far more important than any action that he has to do, than any word that he has to speak, or than any
thought that he has to think, alone is a true mature spiritual aspirant (pakvi).

203. Though many crores (millions) of very important thoughts rise in one’s heart, bliss can be enjoyed only when one rejects all of them and remains still, knowing that to be still is far more important than to continue attending to any thought whatsoever. Only by those earnest aspirants who have
clearly understood this truth, can real austere practice (tapas) be possible.

The Essence of Spiritual Practice
(Sadhanai Saram)
By
#SriSadhuOm


This path ('atma-vichara') is the direct path; all others are indirect ways. The first leads to the Self, the others elsewhere. And even if the latter paths do arrive at the Self, it is only because they lead at the end to the first path which ultimately carries them to the goal. So, if in the end, the aspirants must adopt the first, why not do so now? Why waste time?

Q : So it amounts to this: that I should always look within.

A : Yes.

Q : Should I not see the world at all?

A : You are not instructed to shut your eyes to the world. If you consider yourself as the body, the world appears as external. If you are the Self, the world appears as 'Brahman' [Talk-272]

Q : The 'Gita' says the worlds are like beads on a string. How?

A : Krishna means that they are not apart from ME. The differences are physically apparent and therefore the 'Gita' emphasises the unity

Q : But that unity is only after merging into the Lord?

A : Where are we now? The illusion and we are all in Him. [Talk-290]

Regarding 'maya' the idea that phenomena are unreal in all the senses is to be repudiated, but that alone which is permanent and does not change is worth the name of reality. The world is not real, apart from the hidden reality. Hence it is really the spiritual reality itself in another way.

'Ananda' lives in every being.

Q : The difficulty lies in reaching it !

A : There is no reaching it, because it is eternal. If the Self were to be gained anew, it will not be permanent.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything, we are wasting our time.
But that is not true.
Our time is first of all for us to be.
To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving. And that is what the world needs most.
#ThichNhatHanh


Religion is realisation; but mere talk — mere trying to believe, mere groping in darkness, mere parroting the words of ancestors and thinking it is religion, mere making a political something out of the truths of religion — is not religion at all.
#SwamiVivetananda


We say, "I am the mind," "I am thought," "I am angry," or "I am happy". How can we be angry and how can we hate? We should identify ourselves with the Self that cannot change. If It is unchangeable, how can It be one moment happy, and one moment unhappy? It is formless, infinite, omnipresent. What can change It ?
It is beyond all law. What can affect it? Nothing in the universe can produce an effect on It. Yet through ignorance, we identify ourselves with the mind-stuff, and think we feel pleasure or pain.
#SwamiVivekananda
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Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine, there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Silence is of four kinds
Silence of Speech,
Silence of the eye, Silence of the ear, and Silence of the mind.
Only the last is pure Silence and is the most important.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Silence and introspection can often provide deeper understanding than endless discussion
#LaoTzu


Say to your mind: Get as depressed as you want. I am only going to observe you, but I am not going to join you.
#Mooji
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Close your eyes
Fall in love stay there
#Rumi
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Divine love is the magnet that draws to me all good.
#ParamahansaYogananda


A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home."
"When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias, and the difference between them."
"I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you-all else melted away.
#Rumi
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Thus every creature is asleep; none in the world of souls is awake. Only the Sage, who, is being firmly established in the Fourth State (Turiya) has transcended the three states (of waking, dream and deep sleep) and is free of Ignorance is awake.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.
#Shyunrusuzuki


Misuse of God-given reason leads to sin, which is the cause of suffering; the right use leads to virtue, the precursor of happiness. God, with His infinite nobility, would not punish us; we punish ourselves through our own unreasonable actions, and reward ourselves through our own good conduct.
#ParamahansaYogananda


People suffer because
they are caught in their views.
As soon as we release those views, we are free & we don't suffer anymore.
#ThichNhatHanh


(just breathing)
In, Out.
Deep, Slow.
Calm, Ease.
Smile, Release.
Present Moment, Wonderful Moment.
#ThichNhatHanh


Return Something
to Nature

As long as we breathe, as long as we eat and drink, we have to do something, because consciously or unconsciously, we are taking something from the Nature. The air is from Nature, the water is from Nature, food is from Nature, so we are taking something from Nature, and we have to return something to Nature.
Otherwise we become debtors.
So the air, the light, the water, the food, everything that we get from Nature, we convert into energy and utilize that energy for the benefit of the world. Something comes in, and in its place something goes out—we become only the channel. Then we are not debtors.
#SriSwamiSatchidanan


The Guru is within.
Surrender and you will find it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Uncertainties, doubts and fears are natural to everyone until the Self is realized. They are inseparable from the ego, rather they are the ego.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


DEVOTEE: How to control lust, anger, etc.?
MAHARSHI: Whose are these passions?
Find out.
If you remain as the Self,
there will be found to be nothing apart from the Self. Then there will be no need to control, etc.
DEVOTEE: If a person whom we love dies, grief results. Shall we avoid such grief by either loving all alike or by not loving at all?
MAHARSHI: If one dies, it results in grief for the other who lives. The way to get rid of grief is not to live. Kill the one who grieves. Who will remain then to suffer?
THE EGO MUST DIE.
That is the only way.
The two alternatives amount to the same state. When all have become the one Self, who is there to be loved or hated?
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Even now the mind is not.
Recognise it.
How can you do it if not in everyday activities.
They go on automatically.
Know that the mind promoting them is not real but a phantom proceeding from the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


DEVOTEE: How to attain Unity Consciousness?
MAHARSHI.: Being Unity Consciousness how to attain it?
Your question is its own answer.

DEVOTEE.: What is Atman (Self), anatman (non-self) and paramatman (Supreme Self)?
MAHARSHI.: Atman is jivatman (the individual Self) and the rest are plain.
The Self is ever-present (nityasiddha).
Each one wants to know the Self.
What kind of help does one require to know oneself?
People want to see the Self as something new. But it is eternal and remains the
same all along. They desire to see it as a blazing light, etc. How can it be so?
It is not light, not darkness (na tejo, na tamah). It is only as it is.
It cannot be defined.
The best definition is ‘I am that I AM.’

The Srutis speak of the Self as being the size of one’s thumb, the tip of the hair, an electric spark, vast, subtler than the
subtlest, etc. They have no foundation in fact. It is only Being, but different from the real and the unreal; it is Knowledge, but different from knowledge and ignorance. How can it be defined at all?
It is simply Being.

Again Sri Bhagavan said that in the whole Thayumanavar literature, he preferred one stanza which says: “Ego disappearing
another ‘I-I’ spontaneously manifests in full glory,” etc.
Again he cites Skandar Anubhuti: “Not real, nor unreal; not darkness nor light, it is.”

One man said, that a siddha of Kumbakonam claimed to overcome the defects in Sri Sankara’s system which deals only with transcendentalism and not the work-a-day life. One must be able to exercise super-human powers in ordinary life, that is to say, one must be a siddha in order to be perfect.

Sri Bhagavan pointed out a stanza in Thayumanavar which condemns all siddhis. Further he said that Thayumanavar mentions mouna (silence) in numerous places but defines it in only one verse.
Mouna is said to be that state which spontaneously manifests after the annihilation of the ego.
That state is beyond light and darkness,
but still it is called light since no other proper word could be found for it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Liberation comes when you fully understand and experience
there is no one
who needs liberation.
#AnnamalaiSwami


Q: Swami, it is good to love God, is it not? Then why not follow the path of love?

A: Who said you couldn't follow it ?
You can do so. But when you talk of love, there is duality, is there not ? - the person who loves and the entity called God who is loved ?
The individual is not separate from God. Hence love means one has love towards one's own Self.

Q: That is why I am asking you whether God could be worshipped through the path of love.

A: That is exactly what I have been saying. Love itself is the actual form of God.

If by saying, `I do not love this, I do not love
that', you reject all things, that which remains is swarupa, that is the real form of the Self.
That is pure bliss.

Call it pure bliss, God, atma, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything.
If you thus reject everything, what remains is the Self alone. That is real love. One who knows the secret of that love finds the world itself full of universal love.

The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion [bhakti] which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love.

Only if one knows the truth of love, which is the real nature of Self, will the strong entangled knot of life be untied.
Only if one attains the height of love will liberation be attained.
Such is the heart of all religions.

The experience of Self is only love, which is seeing only love, hearing only love, feeling only love, tasting only love and
smelling only love, which is bliss.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The world. like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
#AdiShankara


Be silent,
only the hand of God
can remove the burdens of your heart.
#Rumi
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You ask why I wander
alone in mountains with
crystal clear streams as
translucent as my mind

No one knows I’m up here
They may look for me but
alas they will never find

Out here one feels
the void in one’s
bones, it comes
from the Source
of “Original I”

Above the waterfall,
the full moon is my
lantern in infinite Sky

Of enlightenment,
like the night bird,
it leaves no trace,
as how can it,
when it’s everywhere

I somersault onto my old
friend the one eyed Yak,
with a five chambered heart
and he loves to graze the
fresh green grass up here

I ride him backwards up
and down hills, as he still
knows Shakyamuni’s Way

We watch shooting stars
They’re our ancestors out
for a ride across the universe
We see them each night, yet
I know they do this all day

Long ago I solved all
the unsolvable koans
and broke mine and my
Masters minds wide open
creating chaos all about

He and me both
Awakened that day
and realized that all
ten directions were now
gate-less as there was no
longer any within nor without

As I walked the world it was
different now as there was no
longer any separation, as in
every myriad being and thing
there was no difference from
this Being I once called ‘me’

I have finally found what it is
that is true wealth and fame

For there is this inner sense
of Blissfulness as I walk the
world, different yet the same

I’m the Unknown Wanderer
and completely anonymous
as no one knows my name

I climb unnamed mountains
for neither fame nor fortune,
I brush by rare snow leopards
as only a true Zen man can

We both guard the mountain
and together we sit Zazen

Up here I’ve
found true tranquility

As I abide
within Equanimity

I gaze upon the world and
see from the emptiness that
ten times ten thousand beings
and things continually arise

I wonder if there’s any among
them who will Awake to Realize

That life is so very precious
and we’re all interconnected
to one another and all of the
mountains and all of this
Earths priceless treasures

Kindness, compassion and
gratitude are life’s pleasures

To make another being smile

Makes life on Earth worthwhile

So go on and meditate and
empty the clutter in your mind

Then rise up and walk the world
and whatever you do be kind.

#ThichNhatHanh
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The cave you fear to enter may hold the light you seek.
#Rumi
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GOD BLESS
THE DAY WHEN
YOU FORGET ABOUT YOURSELF.
AND JUST BE IN YOUR BEING.
#MOOJI


You need not go in search of him
He will come in search of you.
#OSHO
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As you begin awakening to the Truth, You're starting to realize how well life flows on its own and how well you are being cared for.
Life supports the physical need, emotional, mental and spiritual for him which is open to self discovery.
Confidence opens up your eyes for this recognition.
Surrender allows you to ground in his own and Eternal Being.
#mooji
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We seek to reach the goal with the ego, but the goal exists before the ego.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Don't believe your thoughts.
I am the body is a thought.
I am the mind is a thought.
I am the doer is a thought.
Worry is only a thought.
Fear is only a thought.
Death is only a thought.
#sriramanamaharshi


Q: Does distance have any effect upon grace?
Maharshi: Time and space are within us.
You are always in your Self. How do time and space affect it?
Q: On the radio those who are nearer hear sooner. You are Hindu, we are American.
Does it make any difference?
Maharshi: No.
Q: Even thoughts are read by others.
Maharshi: That shows that all are one.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q: If grace is so important, what is the role of individual effort?
Maharshi: Effort is necessary up to the state of realization. Even then the Self should spontaneously become evident, otherwise happiness will not be complete.
Up to that state of spontaneity there must be effort in some form or another.
There is a state beyond our efforts or effortlessness. Until it is realized effort is necessary. After tasting such bliss, even once, one will repeatedly try to regain it.
Having once experienced the bliss of peace no one wants to be out of it or to engage in any other activity.
#SriRamanMaharshi


DISCIPLE: How should I carry on nama japa?
MAHARSHI: One should not use the name of God mechanically and superficially without the feeling of devotion. To use the name of God one must call upon Him with yearning and unreservedly surrender oneself to Him. Only after such surrender is the name of God constantly with the man.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Heaven is a waste of time.
One might think that heaven is a place of enjoyment.
However, things are not very different from this world there.
Attachments, prejudices, jealousies etc. are there too.
That enjoyment too is perishable for everything is centered on the ego. Because of pleasures, one's mind would not then turn inward in search of truth.
It is such a waste!
After the good karma which gave one the enjoyments of heaven are over one has to return.
What needs to be done is to inquire:
'for whom is this desire for heavenly enjoyment?' Such an inquiry is an absolute necessity.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Having seen that Lordly form in which Rudra was identical with Narayana, which showed the identity of gods Shiva and Vishnu, the sages who were the propounders of the Vedas felt that they had achieved their ultimate goal in life.
#TheKurmaPurana


The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.
#PARAMAHANSAYOGANANDA
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To try to be a millionaire in this incarnation is really much more difficult than to be a true son of God. To know God is possible in one lifetime, because you don't have to acquire Him;
He is already your own.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Wealthy people who live in miserliness, and selfish people who never help others, do not attract wealth in their next life.
But those who give and share, whether they have much or little, will attract prosperity.
That is the law of God.
#PARAMAHANSAYOGANANDA


I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about in this garden in various ways, each has his own uniqueness and beauty. Their presence and variety give me great delight. Every one of you adds with his special feature to the glory of the garden.
#SriAnandamayiMa


I had found many men of God-realization in India, but never before had I met such an exalted woman saint.
Her gentle face was burnished with the ineffable joy that had given her the name of Blissful Mother. Long black tresses lay loosely behind her unveiled head. A red dot of sandalwood paste on her forehead symbolized the spiritual eye, ever open within her. Tiny face, tiny hands, tiny feet—a contrast to her spiritual magnitude!" — #ParamhansaYogananda
Autobiography of a Yogi.


To me there is no difference between a person and another; I see everything as reflections of the soul of a single God. I cannot imagine anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the same spirit.
#paramahansayogananda
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All appears and nothing is.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Realize the heaven within you, and all at once all the desires are fulfilled, all the misery and suffering is put an end to.
#SwamiRamaTirtha


Slowing Down
The Buddha said, My practice is the practice of nonpractice! That means a lot.
Give up all struggle. Allow yourself to be, to rest.
People talk about entering nirvana, but we are already there. Aimlessness and nirvana are one."
Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.
#ThichNhatHanh


Surrender. Let Silence have You.
 #Papaji


Once you are absolutely convinced that nothing can disturb you but your own imagination, you ignore your desires and your fears, your concepts and your ideas, and live guided by the Truth.
#srinisargadattamaharaj
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Under every wave is ocean, under every name is substratum, under every appearance, this is You.
If you do not forget who you are, This appearance is the Cosmic Dance.
The Unnameable has given you this shape to Play, to Love, to Know Thy Self.
Don't forget this!
#Papaji
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Imagine a drama company is putting on a play.
The person who has to play the servant of the king falls sick at the last moment and cannot come. No other actors are available, so the proprietor of the company steps in to play the role.

In the play the king, who is one of the employees of the proprietor, orders the servant around: “Fetch my shoes. I want to go for a walk.”
The proprietor meekly obeys and carries out the orders,
but does he ever forget that he is the owner of the company?
He is happy to act the role of the servant because all the time that this role is being portrayed he knows that he is really the proprietor.

If you live like this, knowing that you are the Self, you can act anywhere.
If you know this, all your activities will be very beautiful, and you will never suffer.

Once you have had a glimpse, a knowledge of this emptiness, you will be happy all the time because you will know that all manifestation, all samsara, is your own projection.

#papaji


The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
#DogenZenji
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
#LaoTzu


Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
#LaoTzu


Why separate your spiritual life & your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.
#HuaHuChing
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If your religious/ spiritual tradition or political affiliation helps you become more open-minded, more loving and compassionale, and more inclusive of all beings, especially those people who disagree with you, then you're walking a path that's probably good for you.
#RichardYoung
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One must
be
deeply
aware
of
the
impermanence
of
the world.
#DogenZenji
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Just as the flower falls when the fruit takes shape, worldly desires disappear when detachment matures.
No desire can arrest such a person later, whether she lives at home or in the forest. He who established God - fulfillment as his goal, gives no importance to anything else. He already understood that nothing physical is permanent and that true happiness lies within.
#MataAmritanandamayi


There is a misconception that Buddhism is a religion, and that you worship Buddha.
Buddhism is a practice, like yoga.
You can be a Christian and practise Buddhism.
I met a Catholic priest who lives in a Buddhist monastery in France.
He told me that Buddhism makes him a better Christian. I love that.
#ThíchNhatHanh


We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being.
We think that when we are not doing anything, we are wasting our time.
But that is not true.
Our time is first of all for us to be.
To be what?
To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving.
And that is what the world needs most.
#ThichNhatHanh


YOU HAVE TO KEEP BREAKING
YOUR HEART
UNTIL IT
OPENS.
#Rumi
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It does not matter how many languages you know.
To know the language of the heart makes you worthy.
#Rumi


Our greatest
strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
#Rumi
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Once, a student approached Rumi and asked, "How should I deal with the pain and suffering in life?"

Rumi, in his wisdom, decided to share a story:

"There was a man who sought the wisdom of a great sage, hoping to find a way to escape his suffering. The sage looked at the man and said, 'I will help you, but first, you must do something for me. Take this spoon, fill it with oil, and walk through the town without spilling a drop.'

"The man thought this task was simple enough and agreed. He took the spoon, filled it with oil, and began to walk through the town. As he carefully balanced the spoon, he couldn't help but focus all his attention on not spilling any oil.

"When he returned to the sage, the sage asked, 'Did you see the beautiful flowers in the town square? Did you notice the children playing and the laughter of families?' The man realized he had been so fixated on the spoon that he hadn't noticed anything else.

"The sage then said, 'This is the key to dealing with pain. Just as you were so focused on the spoon that you missed the beauty around you, when you are consumed by your suffering, you miss the beauty of life. Pain is like the spoon, and life is like the town. Don't let the pain consume your entire focus. Remember to look around and appreciate the beauty that still exists.'"

The student understood the sage's message: while pain and suffering are part of life, it's essential not to let them overshadow the beauty and joy that can be found in every moment. This story serves as a reminder that even in the face of pain, there is an opportunity to find meaning and beauty in life.

#Rumi


Pura Vida Nostr 🌞😌❤🔥🧡💜🫂🙏🍀🕊🪽
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Rumi

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Your joy, your blissfulness, your benediction has to be shared.
The more you share it, the more you have it.
#Osho
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If you get stuck in your personalities, life will kick your ass.
But if you are open to the Truth, then you are constantly expanding into a bigger and bigger vision.
Finally, you will exclaim: "I love to step out of the excess of myself into the bright light of my Being.
#Mooji


Love's radiant oil never stops searching for a lamp in which to burn.
#Rumi
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Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea...
#LaoTsu


I think God is on Earth, inside every living being.
What we call "the divine" is none other than the energy of awakening, of peace, of understanding, and of love, which is to be found not only in every human being, but in every species on Earth.
#ThichNhatHanh
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The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'!! realize you've just embraced the whole
universe, and everything and everybody in it.
#Adyashanti
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#RobertAdams
Within you is the Light of a thousand suns.
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
#Rumi
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The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on Earth.
#Rumi
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Consume with anger the world is an ugly place.
Bathed in happiness
the world is a wonderful place.
But, ....aha,..
it's the same world.
#TaitetsuUnno
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The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go.
Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.
#Mooji


As soon as you see something, you start to intellectualize it. As soon as
you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw. »
#ShunryuSuzuki


Certainly, but after all, Guru only means guri, concentration.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


How to see God?
To see Him
is to be consumed by
Him.
How to see the Self?
As the Self is one without a second,
it is impossible to see it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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All that is knowable exists within the knower!
#YogaVasishta
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Enlightenment
is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.
#ThichNhatHanh
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God is nearer than the mind and the body, nearer than
the sense 'I am'.
You do not see it
because you look too far away from yourself,
outside your inner most being.
You have objectified truth and
insist on your standard proofs and test, which apply only to things and thoughts.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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The secret to bliss is to stop the search, stop thinking, stop not-thinking, and keep quiet.
#Papaji


There will be many
messengers.
But the message is One.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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God, Guru and the Self are the same.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q: May one have more than one spiritual master?

Maharshi: Who is a master? He is the Self after all. According to the stages of development of the mind the Self manifests as the master externally. The famous ancient saint Dattatreya said that he had more than twenty-four masters. The master is one from whom one learns anything. The Guru may be sometimes inanimate also, as in the case of Dattatreya. God, Guru and the Self are identical.
A spiritually-minded man thinks that God is all-pervading and takes God for his Guru.
Later, God brings him in contact with a personal Guru and the man recognises him as all in all. Lastly the same man is made by the grace of the master to feel that his Self is the reality and nothing else.
Thus he finds that the Self is the master.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Since God alone is the root,
all that is offered to Him
will go to the whole banyan tree,
the world and souls
which sprout out from Him,
the root.

Sadhu Om:
Submitting oneself to God is like watering a banyan tree at its root. If, rejecting this selfsurrender, which is nothing but the state of true knowledge, one engages oneself in the world thinking that one is doing service to the world, it is just like spraying water on the leaves and
branches of the banyan tree. On the other hand, if one surrenders oneself to God, truly that alone is the real service to the whole world and all the souls.
Here, some may doubt that this instruction seems to contradict the 5th verse of Upadesa Undiyar.
But in truth it is not so. How?
Verse 5 of Upadesa Undiyar points out that worshipping the universe by imagining it to be God is only a thought-process
[enni vazhipadal], and that its fruit is also
only the purification of one’s own mind [karuttai tirutti – as pointed out in verse 3]; such worship is not for the benefit of the universe. But by surrendering oneself to God, thought or imaginations stop and one attains the state of perfect knowledge. Attaining this supreme knowledge alone is truly helping or serving the world. Hence, the instruction given in.verse 5 of Upadesa Undiyar is for those sadhakas who want
to gain purification of mind [Chitta-suddhi], whereas the instruction given in this present verse is for those sadhakas
who want truly to serve the whole world. Therefore, if we scrutinize in this way, it becomes clear that these two
instructions do not contradict each other.

How is the true knowledge alone the best service to the world?
Let us see.
Suppose one dreams in his sleep that his friends are wounded by a tiger. Rather than his supplying medicine to his dreamfriends, would not his waking up from his sleep be doing real help to them? No other efforts taken in the dream itself will be a real service to them. So also, realising Self, which is the real awakening alone will be the only proper way of serving the whole universe.
Since jumping into service of the world with a sense of doership will increase the egoism of an aspirant instead of giving him Chitta-suddhi, the real benefit of karma yogi, Sri Bhagavan, with the intention of saving aspirants from such ruin, gives them proper instruction in this verse. #SriRamanaMaharshi


When there are thoughts, it is a distraction: When there are no thoughts, It is meditation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans.
Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.
#LaoTzu
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Still your mind in me, still your intellect in me.
And without doubt you will be united with me forever
#SriKrishna


Don't waste energy and time trying to control the mind. Just stay as the impersonal awareness.
#Mooji


Practicing stillness and awareness enables you to engage in higher spiritual activities. Within the stillness is greater spiritual activity.
Stillness is just a stepping stone.
#MasterChoaKokSui
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This is It
Always we hope
Someone else has the answer, Some other place it will be better, Some other time It will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer, No other place will be better, And it has already turned out.
#LaoTzu


A friendly and loving reminder to follow your own heart. We sometimes get so caught up in proving our own points that we lose sight of that which we are actively attempting to prove. Let that other person say views that don't resonate with you. Let yourself feel things that make sense to you. Follow a path of your own understanding via worship, dedication and practices that align with your human views. Don't let anyone force you into thinking a certain way, acting a certain way, or practicing a certain way. That includes this post!

Keep an open mind. Take what makes sense and disregard the rest. Follow the beat of your own soul. Feel love that makes sense to you. Cry, laugh, dance in the rain. Stay up late and watch the stars emerge. Wake up early and watch the sun reveal itself. Do it all! Your path is both uniquely yours, and universal to all. Don't let external circumstances alter your internal compass. And, disregard this if it doesn't resonate with you.  ❤🔥😌🙏


Be foolishly in love,
because love is all there is.
#Rumi
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Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Do not resist
The journey's flow
And you will find yourself at One
With the mysterious unity of the Universe.
#ChuangTzu
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When there is no more separation between 'this' and "that,'
it is called the still-point of the Tao.
At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
 #ChuangTzu
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Only you
I choose among the entire world.
I see only what you reveal and live as you say.
All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.
From the beginning to the end, no one but you.
#Rumi


There is an old Indian legend that if you place a cup of milk and water before a Râja-Hamsa (swan), he will take all the milk and leave the water. In that way we should take what is of value in knowledge, and leave the dross. Intellectual gymnastics are necessary at first. We must not go blindly into anything.
#SwamiVivekananda


Always do your duty to others, but love you must give to God alone.
Worldly love always brings in its wake untold misery.
#SriSarada
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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
#ThichNhatHanh


A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is Divine.

#SriMeherBaba
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As we are not able to help ourselves, so we have to surrender ourselves to the Supreme completely.
Then He will take care of us as well as the world.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The body is itself a mere projection of the mind, and the mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant heart.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Silence is also
conversation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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True freedom comes to those who have escaped the questions of freewill and fate.
#Rumi
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I am nobody.
I don't belong to any nation, I don't belong to any religion, I don't belong to any political party.
I am simply an individual, the way existence created me. I have kept myself absolutely uninfluenced by any idiotic ideology -- religious, political, social, financial. And the miracle is that because I am not burdened with all these glasses on my eyes, and curtains before me, I can see clearly.
#Osho
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It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.
#Papaji
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The Vow of a Bodhisattva

There are innumerable sentient beings in the universe;
I vow to help them all awaken.
My imperfections are inexhaustible;
I vow to overcome them all.
The Dharma is unknowable;
I vow to know it.
The way to awakening is unattainable;
I vow to attain it.
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Sri Rama Avatar is pure & heartfelt, meant to demonstrate human ability in various roles to deal with adversities of life, provided humans lead dharmic and truthful life.
#RaoKalvala
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It is understood that sleep is the desire for a period of rest for the body.
It is less understood that sleep is the desire for a period of rest away from the body.
#WuHsin
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When we see Him in all persons, in all things; each rock becomes an altar.
#ParamahamsaYogananda
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l am a spark from the Infinite.
I am not flesh and bones. lam light.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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To me, there is no god other than life itself, and there is no temple other than existence itself.
Then everything becomes a divine celebration.
#Osho
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The auspiciousness is our ability to adapt/ integrate Sri Ramaness in our daily lives through utmost devotion. So the history will mark the resurgence of Sri Rama in 21st century.
Hinduness is in human qualities that reflect the Nobility of Sri
Rama.
Rao Kalvala
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You must be satisfied with whatever God gives you and that means having no desires of your own.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Nisargadatta, he always prayed.
He realized that he was consciousness.
He was self-realized, but at the same time he chanted, he prayed, he had devotion.
It sounds like a contradiction.
For you may say,
"If someone is self-realized and knows himself or herself to be all there is, to whom do they pray?" Try to remember that all spiritual life is a contradiction.
It's a contradiction because words cannot explain it.
Even when you are the Self,
you can pray to the Self, which is you.
#RobertAdams


The human body is Brahma-para, the city of Brahman. Ishvara Himself enters into the universe as jiva. Wherefore the maha-vakya "That thou art" means that the ego which is regarded as jiva only from the standpoint of an upadhi is Brahman.
#MahanirvanaTantra


The only thing that has to be learned is watchfulness.
Watch - every act
- thought
- desire
- gestures.
Let everything become an opportunity to watch.
Awareness is eternal, it knows no death. Only unawareness dies.
#Osho


"Can you kindly give me a summary
of your teachings?"
Sri Ramana Maharshi.:
They are found in small booklets, particularly Who am I ?
"Who I am ?" book freely available in worlds 26 nos language on Sri Ramanasramam website.
https://www.sriramanamaharshi.org/resource_centre/publications/


After discovering who you are, you will know who God is.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Exercise,
read,
meditate,
love God,
and act peacefully at all times.
#ParamahansaYogananda


The mind can go in a thousand directions, But on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.
With each step, a gentle wind blows, With each step, a flower blooms.
#ThichNhatHanh


A gentleman said: Ma, the mind is very restless.

Ma said: "Just as restlessness is its nature, so also is stability. The mind wants its mother - that is Complete Bliss.
Therefore, do you not observe that though the worldly person offers its innumerable enjoyments, it is not satiated and runs hither and thither.
Restlessness will never cease,
it is restless for God.
Until it gets God,
it cannot find peace.
As soon as the mind finds Him,
it becomes calm."

The gentleman remarked,
"I have never heard such a viewpoint before, today I have learnt a great lesson."
Ma joined her palms and said:
"You have given the lesson."
The gentleman did pranam to Ma and took leave.

#ShreeShreeAnandamayeeMa


Stillness is the sole requisite
for the realisation of the Self as God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The real Beloved is that One Who is unique. Who is your beginning and your end. When you find that One, you will no longer expect anything else;
that is both the manifest and the mystery.
#Rumi


My heart is so small it's almost invisible.
How can You place such big sorrows in it?
"Look," He answered,
"your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world."
#Rumi


Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself.
They are two aspects of the same coin.
#Osho


The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are a half-crazed lunatics, as most of us do nowadays.
You can do any thing and everything without even the guidance of anyone.
Stand up and express the Divinity within you.
#SwamiVivekananda


The universe is the 'shining forth' of the One,
There is no split, or division, or separate aspects.
The idea of "Maya" is itself the great delusion;
Duality and non-duality are merely concepts of the mind.
#TheAvadhutaGita


There is another class of Vrittis called Vikalpa. A word is uttered, and we do not wait to consider its meaning; we jump to a conclusion immediately. It is the sign of weakness of the Chitta. Now you can understand the theory of restraint. The weaker the man, the less he has of restraint. Examine yourselves always by that test. When you are going to be angry or miserable, reason it out how it is that some news that has come to you is throwing your mind into Vrittis.
#RajaYoga


THE GUEST HOUSE

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dr hauhh, the shame, the malice.
invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes. because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
#Rumi


Once, a man was going through a forest, when three robbers fell upon him and robbed him of all his possessions. One of the robbers said, "What's the use of keeping this man alive?" So saying, he was about to kill him with his sword, when the second robber interrupted him, saying: 'Oh, no! What is the use of killing him? Tie his hand and foot and leave him here." The robbers bound his hands and feet and went away. After a while the third robber returned and said to the man: "Ah, I am sorry. Are you hurt? I will release you from your bonds. "After setting the man free, the thief said: "Come with me. I will take you to the public high way." After a long time they reached the road. At this the man said: "Sir, you have been very good to me. Come with me to my house." "Oh, no!" the robber replied. "I can't go there. The police will know it."

This world itself is the forest. The three robbers prowling here are Satva, rajas, and tamas. It is they that rob a man of the Knowledge of Truth. Tamas wants to destroy him. Rajas binds him to the world.But Satva rescues him from the clutches of rajas and tamas. Under the protection of Satva, man is rescued from anger, passion and other evil effects of tamas.

Further, Satva loosens the bonds of the world. But Satva also is a robber. It cannot give man the ultimate Knowledge of Truth, though it shows him the road leading to the Supreme Abode of God. Setting him on the path, Satva tells him: "Look yonder. There is your home." Even Satva is far away from the knowledge of Brahman.

#SriRamakrishnaParamhansa


In your light I learn how to love.
#Rumi
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Unfortunately, Humans have an obsession to showcase Gods in a physical form rather than internalizing their divine qualities.
#RaoKalvala


Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
#SrRamanaMaharshi


Everything should be spontaneous. Do not plan anything in life. When you do not plan anything your life will go smoother.
Sounds strange, but true. There is a power that knows the way. When you get your little ego out of the way, this great power will take over and lead you into itself.
#RobertAdams
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Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.
#rumi
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The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.
#LaoTzu
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A visitor asked:
What to do to get liberation (moksha)?

Maharshi.: Learn what liberation is.

D.: Should I do worship (upasana) for it?

M.: Worship is for mind control
(chitta nirodha) and concentration.

D.: Should I do idol worship?
Is there any harm in it?

M.: So long as you think you are the body there is no harm.

D.: How to get over the cycle of births and deaths?

M.: Learn what it means.

D.: Should I not leave my wife and family?

M.: How do they harm you?
First find out who you are.

D.: Should not one give up wife, wealth, home?

M.: Learn first what samsara is.
Is all that samsara?
Have there not been men living among them and getting realisation?

D.: What are the steps of practical training (sadhana) for it?

M.: It depends on the qualifications and the nature of the seeker.

D.: I am doing idol worship.

M.: Go on with it.
It leads to concentration of mind.
Get one-pointed.
All will come out right.
People think that freedom (moksha) is
somewhere yonder and should be sought out. They are wrong.
Freedom (moksha) is only knowing the Self within yourself.
Concentrate and you will get it.
Your mind is the cycle of births and deaths (samsara).

D.: My mind is very unsteady.
What should I do?
M.: Fix your attention on any single thing and try to hold on to it.
All will be right.

#SriRamanaMaharshi


There will be many
messengers.
But the message is One.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


I have closed my eyes to see everything.
#Buddha


God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state.
Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.
#sriramanamaharshi


All knowledge is within us. All perfection is there already in the soul.
But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul. What have we to do? Really we do not develop our souls at all. What can develop the perfect? We simply take the evil off; and the soul manifests itself in its pristine purity, its natural, innate freedom.
#SwamiVivekananda


Psalm 73:26
My flesh and my heart may fail but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Ilove You Jesus
Amen


You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
#Buddha


Stop a moment and see who you are.
You have never allowed time to your own Self to reveal itself to you and to kiss and hug you.
You have tried using your head for millions of years, now at least give time to your Heart.
Keep quiet, simply keep quiet.
If you keep Quiet your own Self will come and hug and kiss you.
Allow time for your own Self.
#Papaji


A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.
#Rumi


Each time the attention goes to the head
wanting to solve something, I point you to the Heart,
where everything is nicely dissolved in perfect Wholeness.
#Mooji


The best is heart to heart speech and heart to heart hearing.
That is the best upadesa. #sriramanamaharshi


God cannot be seen because god is the seer in you. He can never become an object. He is your subjectivity; he is the one who sees.
So those who want to see god are bound to fail.
God cannot be seen because he is not there outside you, he is your interiority. In your looking at me, he is looking at me. In my looking at you, he is looking at you. He is always the seer, and the seer cannot be reduced to the seen.
#Osho


Live in your heart rather than in your head.
If life wants to announce a direction (for you to go in), it will prepare the way for you by presenting feelings in your body and mind to enable that movement to occur. And when your mind is seated in your heart, even if you should feel torn, other beings will come at precisely the right time to facilitate whatever transition needs to happen. Not only does your life become wind assisted, but you will also discover how miraculous this existence is.
#Mooji


Love is the undisturbed balance that binds this universe together.
#MahavatarBabaji


Deep in our hearts the Light of Heaven is shining.
#Rumi


God and the World are in the Heart.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


See God in everything, in everyone.
#AnandamayiMa


God's nature is like that of a child. Just as a child builds a house, breaks it down, and then rebuilds it in play, in the same way God creates, preserves, and dissolves.
Just as a child is not subject to any guna, He too is beyond the three gunas of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas.
#SriRamakrishnaParamhansa


Be watchful.
The grace of God appears suddenly.
It comes without warning to an open heart.
#Rumi


Renunciation is always in the mind, not in going to the forest or solitary places, or giving up one's duties. The main thing is to see that the mind does not turn outward but inward. It does not really rest with a man whether he goes to this place or that, or whether he gives up his duties or not. All that happens according to destiny.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light.
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


A true spiritual partner is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you've been seeking. A true teacher is someone who helps us discover the teacher in yourself. #ThichNhatHanh


Goddess Tripura said;

Krsna Krsna is Mahamaya, the world itself, Hare Hare is the goddess who is the very form of Shiva and Shakti. The words Hare Rama are directly the supreme goddess made of light. RA is Tripura myself, accompanied by the nectar of bliss, but MA is Mahamaya, an eternal Yogini of Rudra's. The visarga, best of sons, is directly the supreme Kundalini, the words Rama Ramaare directly Shiva and Shakti, and the words Hare Hare contain two Shaktis. #RadhaTantra


God is in the heart and soul of every being.
#ParamahansaYogananda


The truth is that there is one Reality which is consciousness in the abstract and also transcendental, irradiating the whole universe in all its diversity from its own being, by virtue of its self-sufficiency, which we call Maya or Sakti or Energy. Ignorance lies in the feeling of differentiation of the creatures from the Creator. The individuals are only details in the same Reality.
#TripuraRahasya


All your seriousness is about sand castles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness.
#Osho


NO SEED
EVER SEES THE FLOWER
#ZENSAYING
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The man of Tao remains unknown.
Perfect virtue produces nothing.
"No-Self" is "True-Self" And the greatest man is
Nobody.
#ChuangTzu
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Why do you run around
looking for the truth? Be still and there it is, in the mountain, in the pine, in yourself.
#LaoTzu


#SriRamanaMaharshi

Q.: Will the Maharshi express an opinion about the future of the world, for we are living in critical times?

M.: Why should you trouble yourself about the future?
You do not even properly know about the present!
Take care of the present;
the future will then take care of itself.
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What we are all doing is, we realised or regard as real that which is unreal.
This habit of ours has to be given up.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Do you not know your Self?
You certainly exist. Or do you deny your existence?
The question may arise
"Who is this Self", only if you do not exist, but you cannot ask anything unless you exist at the same time. Your question shows that you exist. Find out who you are. That is all.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


We are in our Self.
We are not in the world.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Pay no attention to the thoughts that bother you.
Don't fight them. Just do nothing about them, let them be, whatever they are.
Your very fighting them gives them life. Just disregard.
Look through.
#SRINISARGADATTAMAHARAJ


The jnani knows what is eternal and what is not. It is to be understood by discrimination. What is understood by the mind has to be further discriminated. In this process one understands the gross body and the subtle
body. The jnani thinks of the Sattva, the ‘I am-ness’ or consciousness with discrimination. He then becomes
stabilized in his true nature.

The gross body is made up of food. Consciousness flows from the essence of
food and the feeling ‘I am’ arises from consciousness. It is the instrument for right discrimination. The jnani knows that it too is transient.

One who discriminates about time is not bound by time. He is the knower of time. He is prior to what he knows or senses. As long as you think that death is real, you have not come out of the cocoon of consciousness.

The seeker has to convince himself first that he is not the body.
Until then he cannot discriminate.
How can he, who is not the body, ever be stained?
With body-consciousness, one suffers misery even if there is apparent happiness. Without body-consciousness, one is happy even in misery.
He is liberated.

Ego means identification with the body. As space does not go from here to there, the Self does not go places. It is everywhere. Where there is no discrimination, death is real. It is not real for a jnani. It is the ego that performs actions taking the body as its nature.
If a man is told that he will deliver a child in two days, he will not be affected (as he knows it is not possible). Similarly, one who knows that he is not the body is never afraid of death. Parabrahman neither
comes nor goes. He is infinite. Brahman (with qualities) has to come and go through it all. The jnani discriminates as to what it is all about. His being in the body is incidental. As the Self, he pervades inside, outside, and everywhere. As an example, the vessels may be big or small but the space in them is the same.

Think properly about this while prana is still in the body. As long as the body and prana are united, there is experience. A jnani knows that he is not what can be known. He is the knower. A jnani knows that. You are
not consciousness, nor what is experienced through consciousness. Discriminate properly to understand this.
One who identifies with what the mind says is a sinner. He is in bondage. Parabrahman has no identity. He is beyond everything. The company of consciousness will end just as the sun sets, just as childhood ends.

Observe consciousness. Worship it with love and give it the status of God. In the end you will be convinced that you are the Self. This only is the spiritual path, the ultimate Truth.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj

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You are changeless and permanent.
You have no beginning and no end.
You are eternal.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


First realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself.
And then stop finding fault with the reflection.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.
#Rumi


You don't have to always transcend:
You can also just be nothing.
#Mooji
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If you think becoming a vegetarian is more spiritual to buy organic foods, practice yoga and meditate, but then you catch yourself judging those who don't do all these things, you are fell into an ego trap.
When you think riding your bike or public transport to work is more " spiritual but then you judge those sitting in the car, you've fallen into an ego trap.
When you think it's more " spiritual" to stop watching TV because it turns off your brain, but then you judge those who still watch TV, then you've fallen into an ego trap.
When you think it's more spiritual not to read newspapers and gossip journals, but then you judge those who read them, you've fallen into an ego trap.
If you think it's more ' spiritual ' to listen to classical music or nature sounds, but then you judge those who listen to commercial music, you've fallen into an ego trap.
You always have to be careful with the sense of 'superiority'. It's the most important clue we have to realize we're falling into an ego trap. The ego cleverly hides in noble thoughts, such as starting a vegetarian diet or using the bike, and then turns into a sense of superiority to those who don't go the same spiritual path.
#mooji


The Self cannot leave You:
Awareness cannot leave You.
Everything else will leave You But Awareness is what You Are.
#Mooji
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The ego is bound to be there because without the ego,
there would be no transcendence of ego.
Therefore, maya is necessary for there to be self realization What if there was no ego to transcend,
There could never have been a Christ, or a Buddha,
or a Mohammed, a Ramana Maharshi, or anandamayi ma.
They represent transcendence over ego.
#mooji


The best guidance arises from inside. Something is always guiding you in the moment. If you go upstairs to the mind with it, trouble will come. But things work themselves out when you stay centered in and as your natural neutrality, that greater space of awareness, which is uninvolved and untroubled.
#Mooji
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You are so near that I cannot see You.
Like a fool I keep looking around.
#Rumi
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There is a window from one heart to another heart.
#Rumi


SILENCE ALSO IS WISDOM, A FLAME HIDING IN COTTON WOOL.
#Rumi


Through love thorn becomes Roses.
#Rumi


THE HEART IS A THOUSAND STRINGED INSTRUMENT THAT CAN ONLY BE TUNED WITH LOVE.
#Hafiz


Close your eyes. Fall in love stay there.
#Rumi


#SufiProverb
When the heart
weeps for what it has Lost The spirit laughs
for what it has Found.
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Your heart is the size of an ocean.
Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
#Rumi
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I THINK GOD IS ON EARTH, INSIDE EVERY LIVING BEING. WHAT WE CALL "THE DIVINE" IS NONE OTHER THAN THE ENERGY OF AWAKENING, OF PEACE, OF UNDERSTANDING, AND OF LOVE, WHICH IS TO BE FOUND NOT ONLY IN EVERY HUMAN BEING, BUT IN EVERY SPECIES ON EArTH.
#THICHNHATHANH
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Vâda and Siddhânta - these are the two sorts of scriptural knowledge - Vada (the argumentative) and Siddhanta (the decisive). When a man is entirely ignorant he takes up the first of these, the argumentative fighting, and reasoning pro and con; and when he has finished that he takes up the Siddhanta, the decisive, arriving at a conclusion. Simply arriving at this conclusion will not do. It must be intensified. Books are infinite in number, and time is short; therefore the secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
#SwamiVivekananda
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Feel the love of God; then in each person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love that is in everyone. You will discover a magical and living relationship uniting trees, skies, stars, all people and all things, and you will feel oneness with everything. This is the code of divine love.
#paramahansayogananda


Harmony manifests itself as natural goodness. A human being who cannot relate to others is someone who cannot relate to himself; who is always at war within, uncomfortable with nature itself.
How could a person like this be nice to others? First it is necessary that you feel comfortable with yourself; then you will find harmony in your interaction with everything and everyone. Those who find faults in others usually have no high esteem of themselves. These people don't know their own harmonious center.
They get tired of everything; sometimes even life itself. No wonder they only see disharmony wherever they are. This is why even some millionaires commit suicide, despite all their material power and possessions. There is no happiness in wealth or in any other thing unless there's peace of mind. Those who do not find peace in their own heart will find it nowhere else.
#paramahansayogananda
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Whatever is to happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time, is all fixed by Him;
His arrangements are perfect.
#MaAnandamayi
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Lord Datattreya said
When the yogi attains that Supreme Atman, he transcends the injunctions and probibitions of the scriptures. There is no idea of purity or impurity, nor can any evil thought arise in the undifferentiated mind of the yogi.
Anything forbidden to others is permissible to him because he is beyond all rules.
#SwamiChetanananda
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Surrender means
complete dependence on the grace of God, and the faith that God alone is my shelter.
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AJnani and a Bhakta were once passing through a forest. On the way they saw a tiger. The Jnani said: "There is no reason why we should flee; the Almighty God will certainly protect us".
The Bhakta said: "No, brother, no, let us run away. Why should we trouble the Lord, when we can accomplish a thing by our own exertion?
#SriRamakrishnaParamhansa
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There is no treasure higher than Thy Grace. I am full in Thy fullness. Thou art the Ocean into which countless religious streams empty themselves. O beginningless, endless Vastness...
#Thayumanavar


On this road there are no milestones
If you could trust your guru
as much as you trust the railway guard, it would be quite enough to make you reach your destination.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Between two thoughts
there is an interval of no thought.
That interval is the Self, the Atman.
It is pure Awareness only.
#YogaVashistha
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To cry out to Him is never in vain. So long as no response is received, the prayer must be continued.
#AnandamayiMa


Those who feel the love for God, as you mature inwardly,
you are not praying for things any more.
You are just in praise of the Absolute.
You see its beauty everywhere.
You see its love, its care.
You begin to feel deep appreciation.
"What is this that creates all this with such loving care and tenderness?!
#Mooji

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Wherever you are, you are One with the clouds and One with the Sun and the Stars you see. You are One with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear...
#ShunryuSuzuki
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