What you see in this world is only you. You can never see anything but that. Everywhere you look there is yourself If you are in trouble you will see trouble everywhere If you are at peace with yourself, you will see peace everywhere You are the cause and creator of your particular world and you have the power to change it by turning inward and not reacting to the things of this world. Think about it.
#robertadams
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I see a painter painting a picture.
The picture I call the world, the painter I call God. I am neither. I do not create, nor am I created. I contain all, nothing contains
me.
#SriNisargdattaMaharaj
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Watch your thoughts like you watch street traffic
People come and go; you record no response.
It might not be easy at first, but with a little practice you’ll find out that your mind can function on multiple levels at once
And you can be aware of them all.
Its only when you're invested in a particular level,
that your attention is captured on it and you lose consciousness on other levels.
Even so, activity on unconscious levels continues,
out of the field of conscience.
Don't struggle with your memories and thoughts;
just try to include other important issues in your area of attention,
like "Who am I?" ", ''How was I born ? ",
Where did this universe come from? ", "
What is real and what is momentary? ".
No memory will last if you lose interest in it,
it is the emotional connection that perpetuates slavery.
#srinisargadattamaharaj
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God doesn't take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.
#ShamsTabrizi


When somehow in your heart you have chosen that this life is for freedom,
this life is for Truth, then great power comes to support you.
#Mooji
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You have tried it the hard way ...
now try it the heart's way, the effortless way, for a while.
#Mooji


O mind, it is not wise for you to come out lin the form of thoughts]; it is best to go within.
Hide yourself deep within the Heart and escape from the tricks of Maya, who tries to upset you by drawing you outwards.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


How to get rid of the mind?
Is it the mind that wants to kill itself?
The mind cannot kill itself.
So your business is to find the real nature of the mind.
Then you will know that there is no mind.
When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere.
Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Reality must be always real.
It is not with forms and names.
That which underlies these is the Reality.
It underlies limitations, being itself limitless.
It is not bound.
It underlies unrealities, itself being real.
Reality is that which is. It is as it is.
It transcends speech, beyond the expressions, e.g., existence, non-existence, etc.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Having known for certain that everything which is seen,
without the least exception,
is merely dream, and that it [the seen] does not exist without the seer, turn only towards Self-Sat- Chit- Ananda without
attending to the world of names and forms,
which is only a mental conception!
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The only worthy occupation is to thoroughly absorb the ego by turning Selfward and, without allowing it to rise, to thus abide quietly, like a waveless ocean, in Self-Knowledge, having annihilated the delusive mind-ghost, which had been wandering about unobstructed.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to
a calm awakening.
#ChuangTzu
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Right now, even as deluded thoughts arise, your awareness of the arising of deluded thoughts is not deluded. This is exactly the Buddha.
There is no other. Put a complete stop to the arising of concepts, and you will have a slight chance of sudden awakening to the truth.
#HuangPo
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Love is the goal, life is the journey.
#Osho
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If you suffer, it is because of you.
If you feel blissful, it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible
- only you and you alone.
You are your hell and your heaven too.
#Osho


He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva; and if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste, or creed, or race, or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples.
#SwamiVivekananda
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If only people understand the truth of God, there will not be many Gods, there be ONLY the GOD.
#RaoKalvala
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There may be happiness or misery.
Be equally indifferent to both and abide in the faith of God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


From deep within my heart I always catch the scent of my Beloved.
How can I help but follow that fragrance?
#Rumi


Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
Except for love, nothing you see will remain forever.
With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but LOVE.
#Rumi
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When love has become such a spontaneous flow, when it is always there in your consciousness that is called spontaneous ecstasy.It needs no technique; it needs only spontaneity, it needs only naturalness, it needs only simplicity.
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Love should be like breathing. It should be just a quality in you - wherever you are, with whomsoever you are, or even if you are alone, love goes on overflowing from you. It is not a question of being in love with someone - it is a question of being love.
#Osho
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Work leads to purification of the mind, not to perception of the Reality. The realisation of Truth is brought about by discrimination and not in the least by ten million of acts.
#AdiShankaracharya
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
#Rumi
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You cannot hide love
Love will get on its way
To the heart of someone you love Far or near, it goes home To where it belongs To the heart of lovers.
#Rumi


There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?
You feel the separation from the Beloved.
Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire.
Remind those who tell you otherwise that
Love
comes to you of its own accord, and the yearning for it cannot be learned in any school.
#Rumi
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If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.
#Rumi


The lamps are different, but the Light is the same.

One matter, one energy,

one Light, one Light-mind

Endlessly emanating

all things

Ground yourself,

strip yourself down,

To blind loving silence.

Stay there, until you see

You are gazing at the Light

With its own ageless eyes

#Rumi


When you meditate,
the ego rises and you become the meditator.
In this process, you objectify Reality, which is actually who YOU truly are.
So the best meditation is to simply keep quiet here.
Don't follow any thought and don't activate the mind.
This is true meditation.
Knowing that you are meditating is not true meditation.
When you keep quiet here, there is no meditator.
There is nothing to achieve in the future, because everything is already here.
The meditator rises from here.
When you keep quiet that is
no meditator, no meditation and no object of meditation.
This is Existence-Consciousness-Bliss Itself.
It is in this instant, in this space, It is who you are, desireless, Perfect Self.
In the twinkling of an eye you are free!
#Papaji


It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Once you realize that there is nothing in this world that you can or need call your own, you will look at it from the outside, as you look at a play on the stage or a movie on the screen, admiring and enjoying, perhaps suffering, but deep down, quite unmoved.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"No want"
is the
greatest bliss.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


There is nothing in this world, yet everyone is madly pursuing this nothing - some more, some less.
#AnandamayiMa
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You can only find peace when you return home to your own Self.
#Papaji
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There is no other God in this world except for self-consciousness.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


God Himself is indeed everywhere.
Whatever you can see is all God's own form. bow down to every one
The whole world is His shape.
Develop the habit of seeing Him in everything.
#anandamayima
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All ignorance and illusion, all objects inert and living, all beings and non-beings, all the five elements, all the diverse worlds,
all bodies and the lives that arise in them, not being apart from Brahman-Self, are Brahman-Self only.
Existence alone is,
for even non-existence acquires meaning only in Existence.
Simply put,
everything exists always as Brahman-Self only.
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(Ch.12, v.2)
The essence of #RibhuGita


Shankaracharya had a disciple who had been serving him for a long time but was not still given any instruction by him.
Once, while seated alone, Shankara heard the footsteps of someone coming behind. So he called out, "Who is there?" The disciple answered, "It is I." The Acharya thereupon said,
"If this I' is so dear to you, then either expand it to infinity (i.e. know the universe as yourself, or renounce it altogether. #SriRamakrishnaKathamrita
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There is an opening up of the heart, an opening up of the mind, which comes by meditating deeply, until one reaches the inner source of peace.
#SRIDAYAMATA
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It is exhausting to perceive the world in the reactive and judgmental mode in which most people function. They exhaust themselves in the notion that they are
"living life" rather than realizing that they are life itself.
#Mooji
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You can meditate even while chopping carrots:
The metal of knife has come from Earth, carrots have come from Earth, body is nothing but refined Earth. It's all a dance of Earth and you are the eternal watcher, the soul.
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Within every obstacle, challenge and hardship exists an opportunity to deflate the ego, to become wise and to create more inner freedom.
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Just Be Aware, and then it won't matter if you die a hundred times!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Why do you worry about life and death?
Deathlessness is our real nature.
The real 'I' exists here and now.
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement.
This is the final truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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love to see the beings being set free from the hypnosis of conditioning: from fears, false projection and the grip of ego.
And I know that to be liberated is not difficult, in fact it is natural.
However, it requires great openness and the sincere and earnest desire to be free.
#Mooji
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Samsara refers to your uncontrollably recurring rebirth, with all of its uncertainty, problems. and suffering, which you have been experiencing since beginningless time. And you will continue to experience it forever if you do not do something about it.
Quite simply, if you choose to follow a worldly path, by looking out, you will be stuck in.
But if you choose to follow the Buddhist path, by looking in, you will get out.
That is a promise.
#ChamtrulRinpoche
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The most important thing in life is find and be your true Self.
When you get recognized than the 'person' you imagined yourselt to be
it is an imagined illusion in the Real Self or Consciousness, the awakening occurs.
The umbilical cord to psychological identity
is cut and the Being is left without a mask
like the only reality.
#mooji


Once you begin to recognise the divine gifts in life, you come to see that there are so many.
Your life is abundant.
#Mooji


When you perceive yourself and others as one single consciousness, all are risen up to the level of the Impersonal.
#Mooji
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Understanding is the very foundation of love; it's another word for love because, once we understand, we already begin to love. There is a very deep connection between the heart and mind.
#ThichNhatHanh
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Emerge as a bodhisattva with a heart unclouded, wielding the 'l' as a skillful tool, neither clinging to its echo nor denying its song.
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Think
God is with me.
He is my protector and witness.
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When a person reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment,
the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him on.
That Guru comes only to tell him.
'The God is within yourself.
Dive within and realise.'
God, Guru and the Self are the same.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Your glory lies where you cease to exist.
In order to gain that state, you should surrender yourself.
 #SriRamanaMaharshi


The kingdom of heaven is as close as a quiet mind. Silence reveals the wisdom aspect of Consciousness, Peace, Freedom, Happiness, Bliss, Grace Itself, and everlasting Love. Surrendering your life to That unveils eternity.
#Padma
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The Supreme is the easiest to reach for it is your very being.
It is enough to stop thinking and desiring anything, but the Supreme.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Live in Samsara, there is no harm.
But don't allow Samsara to get into you, for then you will become stagnant. Just as a boat should be in water, but water should not be in the boat, for that would make it stagnant.
(Three Important Teachings of #SriRamakrishna -
#SwamiRanganathananda )
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Voyage of Self Discovery
Mind is the wall between you and the reality.
If you understand this wall, you will be free forever.
#SwaniRama
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LIVE IN THE HEART

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
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Let the illusional world take care of itself. You must find out who you are.
#srinisargadattamaharaj

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"If you want to see God, seek him in the human being; in him or her He is more manifest than in anything else.
Among human beings again, God is more manifest in a devotee. A devotee's heart is the Lord's drawing room, where you can get an interview with God." (Three Important Teachings of #SriRamakrishna - #SwamiRanganathananda)

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The mind will exist only
so long as you think of external things.
But when you draw it from external things and make it think of the mind or I
— in other words introvert it — it ceases to exist.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


All differences between
"me" and "you" are illusional
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Love has no limits.
Which is limited to a few only it can't be called love.
#nisargadattamaharaj

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O miserable and extroverted people, failing to see the seer, you see only the seen!
To dissolve duality by turning inwards instead of outwards is alone Blissful.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Become aware of being aware." Say or think I am and add nothing Be mindful of the stillness that follows the "I am". Feel your presence "l
#sriramanamaharshi


Do you know? #Buddha didn't ask us to be Buddhists. He asked us to be humans. He said : "to be born as human is rare." It is classical Western scholars who labelled  Dhamma (Buddha's teaching) as "religion" and called us "Buddhists". Actually Dhamma means a way of human well-being, happiness and liberation, and we are just humans, and we have no religion (belief in and worship of God, gods, and goddesses).

Addition : If Dhamma were to be called a religion, then it should be called a "human religion".

Difference between Religion and Dhamma

Religion : Belief in and worship of God, gods, and goddesses. In religion God is the Master of the universe and the rest are His subordinates. Nothing moves in the universe without His will. Humans have no freedom. Their success or failure, good or bad, happiness or sorrow... totally depends on Him.

Dhamma : A way of human well-being, happiness, and liberation on own merits. In Dhamma all humans are equal. They have freedom of choice. They are the masters of their own success or failure, good or bad, happiness or sorrow...

Discrimination and inequality among humans on the basis of race, caste, religion, gender, color, status, geographical location, nationality, language, culture, civilization... are narrow, selfish and delusional social constructs which are developed in society because of humans' wrong views (minds) attached to them. Buddha-Dhamma is a way of human well-being, happiness, and liberation. As such, it transcends these wrong views and hold on to no views, and says that all humans are fundamentally equal. All humans can attain well-being, happiness and liberation if and when they are free from such wrong views.
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THE AIM OF FOUR PATHS

The Testament of #SriRamanaMaharshi
(by V. Kadal Amutham)

Ego is grief. Annihilation of this is bliss. The four paths are as follows:
1. The path of duty (Karma Yoga)
2. The path of devotion (Bakthi Yoga)
3. The path of exercises, postures and meditations (Raja Yoga)
4. The path of intelligence (Jnana Yoga)
To practice any of these, there shall be an
"I". To understand what "|" is and merge with ONE is the ultimate aim of these paths. To understand who the follower of these paths is more important than these paths
Note: It is not important to stick to any of these paths. We can chose any
combination of all these paths and form a separate one which suits us the best. So, practically, there will be billions of paths to
suit every one of us.
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Study the prison you have built around yourself by inadvertence. By knowing what you are not, you come to know yourself. The way back to your self is through refusal and rejection. One thing is certain: the real is not imaginary, it is not a product of the mind. Even the sense 'I am' is not
continuous; it shows where to seek, but not what to seek.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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While you don't see that literally everyone is the Buddha, you are not seeing things clearly." Mother Teresa once said that when she was caring for the sick or hungry, she was caring for Jesus from within each person.
This isn't just another beautiful spiritual concept, it's the concrete reality. The true Christ is in all beings.
It's the same as saying that the Buddha is in everyone. And the only thing that can realize this is Christ who lives inside us. Only Buddha understands Buddha. Only One understands One. Little me will never understand Oneness.
#Adyashanti
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You are your own enemy and you don't know it. You don't learn to sit quietly. You don't learn to give time to God. And you are impatient and expect to attain heaven all at once.
You cannot get it by reading books or by listening to sermons or by doing charitable works. You can get it only by giving your time to Him in deep meditation.
#SRIPARAMAHANSAYOGANANDA
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There are no impediments to meditation.
The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker.
It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


One afternoon Krishna Jivrajani asked Bhagavan, Suppose there is some disturbance during meditation like mosquito bites, should one persist in meditation and try to bear the bites and ignore the interruption or drive the mosquitoes away and continue meditation?"
#SriRamanaMaharshi answered, "You must do as you find most convenient. You will not attain mukti simply because you refrain from driving the mosquitoes away. The thing is to attain one pointedness and then to attain Manonasa. Whether you do this by putting up with the mosquito bites or driving the mosquitoes away is left to you.
If you are completely absorbed in your meditation you will not know that the mosquitoes are biting you. Till you attain the stage why should you not drive mosquitoes away?
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Meditation: Joy in the Heart of Silence

Meditation helps one to attain the highest level of equilibrium and tranquility.
With persistence, it leads one to the state of turiya, the state beyond.
#SwamiRama
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All books will tell you the same truth,
perhaps in slightly different ways.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The ideals of Christ are the same as the scriptures of India. Os
Jesus' precepts are analogous to the highest teachings
Vedics, which existed long before the advent of Jesus. That's a no diminishes the greatness of Christ; shows the eternal nature of truth.
#sriparamahansayogananda


I will prepare for the coming of the Omnipresent
Baby Christ by cleaning the cradle of my consciousness, now rusty with selfishness, indifference, and sense attachments; and by polishing it with deep, daily, divine meditation, introspection, and discrimination. I will remodel the cradle with the dazzling soul qualities of brotherly love, humbleness, faith, desire for God-realization, will power, self-control, renunciation, and unselfishness, that I may fittingly celebrate the birth of the Divine Child.
#SRIPARAMAHANSAYOGANANDA


"During the Christmas season, celebrate the birth of Christ in the cradle of your conscience. May the vast perception of Christ in the bosom of Nature, in space and in universal love be felt within your heart. "
#sriparamahansayogananda


Through the transparency of my deepest meditation, I will feel the light of the Father permeating my whole being. I will be a child of God, as Jesus was, feeling Him fully through my soul-consciousness expanded by meditation. I will follow the pastors of faith, devotion and meditation, who will guide me through the star of inner wisdom to the omnipresent Christ.
#SriParamahansaYogananda
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If you have in your consciousness the desire to please God above all else, He will look after you."
... What more dost
thou want that thou hast Me?" Will you remember that? Every one of you? It isn't much to remember. If you meditate and sincerely pray to God, you will find Him; and He will bring to you all the prosperity you need.
#SriParamahansaYogananda


Life should be chiefly service. Without that ideal, the intelligence that God has given you is not reaching out toward its goal. When in service you forget the little self, you will feel the big Self of Spirit.
#SriParamahansaYogananda


He alone does everything and causes it to be done. Whatever is to happen will happen.
#AnandamayeeMa
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Release anger, greed and other negative traits. Do not be swayed by praise or blame. Also, do not contradict others no matter what is said about you. Reply politely with a smile, and say no more.
#AnandamayiMa


Beginners often argue and boast about the superiority of their way, but one who has trodden the path knows that all paths lead to the same destination.
There is no superior or inferior path.
It is immaterial which path one fol lows, but one should carefully watch one's own modifications of mind and learn not to identify with them.
#AnandamayiMa


Firstly, the world around you is not real; it's a dream, an illusion. Internet world is one more layer of illusion within it.
Instead of doing online devotion, sit and shed tears in a corner of some temple complex, or take refuge of trees.
#Shunya


All around us, life bursts with miracles-a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere...
#ThichNhatHanh


When I understand myself, then there is quietness, then there is stillness of the mind. In that stillness, reality can come to me. That stillness is not stagnation, it is not a denial of action. On the contrary, it is the highest form of action. In that stillness, there is creation- not the mere expression of a particular creative activity, but the feeling of creation itself.
#Krishnamurti.
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Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don't trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.
#Gangaji


That is best which does not again yoke you to suffering.
To a discriminating man,
pain is apparent in all aspects of life.
Whatever has the impress of misery on it cannot be good.
Such are wealth, children, wife, kingdom, treasury, army, fame, learning, intellect, body, beauty and prosperity.
For they are all transient and already in the jaws of death, otherwise called time.
Can that be good which is only the seed ready to sprout as pain and grow into misery?
The right means lies beyond these.
#TripuraRahasya


When I think of the Supreme Being as inactive - neither creating nor preserving nor destroying - I call Him Brahman or Purusha, the Impersonal God. When I think of Him as active - creating, preserving, and destroying - I call Him Sakti or Maya or Prakriti, the Personal God. But the distinction between them does not mean a difference. The Personal and the Impersonal are the same thing, like milk and its whiteness, the diamond and its lustre, the snake and its wriggling motion.
It is impossible to conceive of the one without the other. The Divine Mother and Brahman are one.
#Ramakrishna


Free of karma, I am the fire that burns all karmas. Free of sorrow, I am the fire that removes all sorrow. Free of form (body), I am the fire that releases all forms. I am the liberating nectar of Self-knowledge, I am all-pervading like the endless sky .
#AvadhutaGita


Observe the train of thoughts, coming from the unknown, and going toward the unknown.
Decide that no
thoughts will be able to distract you.
Just observe.
#SwamiRama


When you feel the suffering of every living thing within your own heart
that is true consciousness.
#BhagavadGita
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Shiva Said "O Vishnu, be the bestower of salvation too at my bidding!
The benefit accruing from your mercy will be the same as that from mine.
This boon is given now.
It is the truth, certainly the truth Vishnu is in my heart and I am in Vishnu's heart. #ShivaPurana


Lord Narayana said "I am never pleased with petty-minded people even if they make a thousand danas, perform hundreds of sacrifices and offer a lot of money. I am pleased with him who tries to know me with steadfast mind even though he may have many faults.
#SriVarahaPurana


Why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
#Adyashanti


Always remember that every one of us is a unique spark of the divine, a light unto this world.
And no true light should remain hidden under a cloak of fear and denial. Allow your true being to step out in love and courage, and embrace the full measure of your life. All the rest happens in its own good time.
#Adyashanti


You must learn to act always from within - from your inner being which is in contact with the Divine. The outer should be a mere instrument and should not be allowed at all to compel or dictate your speech, thought or action.
#SriAurobindo


Human's original look is invisible and unknowable...
It is said that the entire dharma realm...
It is no cause, no effect...
The moment of being human, there is cause and effect...
So the same as true of the Six reincarnations...
Human is inherently animal..,
Only when Brahma-sound steady as tides, better than the name transcending every worldly sound...
could just reach the realm of the so-called Buddha
#Duoduo


The birds have vanished into the sky and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.
#LiBo
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist
them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
#LaoTzu


The Master observes the world but trusts his inner vision.
He allows things to come and go.
His heart is open as the sky.
#LaoTzu
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Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles, and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?
#LaoTzu


Without form
there is no desire.
Without desire, there is tranquillity.
#LaoTzu


Learn to trust what's happening, If there's silence let it grow, something will come up.
If there is a storm let it roar, it will soon calm.
#LaoTzu


Those who understand others
are intelligent,
Those who understand themselves, are enlightened.
#LaoTzu
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Live in your heart. Seek the highest consciousness. Let go of winning and losing. Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate. Look within. Be still.
Free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of the way.
Follow the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to forbear. Follow them as the moon follows the path of the stars.
#Buddha
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All is known in the sacredness of silence.
#Rumi


I am smiling at myself today
There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left
Free from all desire
I sit quietly like Earth
My silent cry echoes like thunder
Throughout the universe I am not worried about it
I know it will be heard by no one
Except me.
#Rumi


Where the lips are silent, the heart
has a thousand tongues.
#Rumi
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O breeze,
my story quietly share,
My heart's secrets, to whoever you care.
Tell not to upset or bring sorrow, Share them with a heart that's aware.
#Rumi


There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
O traveler, if you are in search of that, don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek That.
#Rumi


Sit with lovers and choose their state.
Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.
#Rumi


You have within you more love than you could ever undersland.
#Rumi
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Behind the Beauty of the Moon is the MoonMaker.
#Rumi
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YESTERDAY
I WAS CLEVER,
 I WANTED TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
TODAY
I AM WISE, I AM CHANGING MYSELF.
#Rumi


Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.
#Rumi


Love helps you see into the invisible.
#Rumi


A Candle never Loses any of its Light while
Lighting up another Candle.
#Rumi


Soul,
if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about shame and dignity.
#Rumi


You are the essence of my existence;
Who am I? A mirror in your hand!
I am your irresistible reflection.
With every breath, I feel my heart is beating with yours.
In your joy, l am exuberant!
In your sadness, I am in sorrow.
If you are bitter, I become bitter.
It you are grace, I become grace.
My joy is when I am bewildered in your beauty
and taste the sweetness of love on your lips.
If I pick a rose without you, it becomes a thorn in my hand.
If I am the thorn,
I become the rose in your hand.
#Rumi


Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.
#Rumi


You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it."
#Rumi
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Why to Find God elsewhere,
When you can have him in your heart.
#Rumi


There is a place where words are born of silence, A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
#Rumi


The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is
LOVE.
#Rumi
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I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know You, all else melted away.
#Rumi


Listen to silence.
It has so much to say.
#Rumi
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AS YOU START TO WALK ON THE WAY, THE WAY APPEARS.
#Rumi


I WISH I COULD SHOW YOU, WHEN YOU ARE LONELY OR IN DARKNESS, THE ASTONISHING LIGHT OF YOUR OWN BEING!
#Rumi


Be So Beautiful That It Finds You

When you are out walking and you become tired you stop, you sit down, you relax. So when you get tired of trying to find solutions to your problems, when you find no solution, sit down. By sit down I mean, don’t try to solve the problem at all - the problem is in the past, it is not now. Don't think about past problems, just leave them alone and sit down. This is the moment of relaxation. You only have to allow this, listen to it, do not do anything. Just listen: Don't go to the past. The past is a problem, the past is mind. When you go to the past all will be problems so don't go to the past. The mind is the past and the past is a graveyard. Don't go to the graveyard. All problems are dead, so return to this moment without trying to solve the problem. Trying has put you in trouble, so don't touch this trying any more.

Simply sit down, keep quiet. Keep quiet for one moment. This is the moment you need, this is the moment of rest. Keep quiet for a moment without going to the past and you will find relaxation. There is no other way - simply do not think of the past. First help yourself - which means to not think - and then if you still need to you can ask me for help.

Just for this moment do not think, but direct your mind to its Source. Bring the mind which is thinking - which is going to the past - to face this present moment, and this will give you eternal rest. Help yourself not to look to past moments and do you find any problems? In this moment, without going to the past, where is the problem? Has it gone away? Then you have helped yourself. This is truly Self help.

You cannot buy this in the market, you cannot acquire it, you cannot purchase it. It is not something to be had. It is something that is already here. Do not try to get things, to achieve things, to attain things which are not already here, because whatever is absent - once you get it - will also be lost. Instead of reaching out after anything which is absent discover that which is already here, which you do not need to try and attain. This will be something fresh, something which is here, which is now. Give up your desire to get something tomorrow, do not allow this desire to stir, to rise up form the ground of mind. Abandon all your desires to get something which you do not already have. No desire is needed for that which you already have here.

Instead of trying to get it offer yourself up so it can get you. Be so beautiful that this will be attracted by your beauty. It will come and get you instead of you getting it. Who are you to get it, anyway? Allow yourself to be taken by it - that's the only way. You must be immaculate, which means to be without desire. Your own nature is immaculate so sooner or later you will know this. When there is no desire there is Beauty, there is Love. You cannot disturb this beauty even by giving rise to a thought to get it. This thought will only be an impurity. Make sure that no desire arises and you will be so immaculately beautiful - so perfectly pure and spotless - that everything will be instantaneously unfolded before you. Then this beauty will hug Beauty itself.

Simply keep quiet. Do not do anything and it will happen. Abandon even the intention to get something in the next moment. Do not even make the distinction between "this moment" and "the next moment". Then something will happen instantaneously.
#Papaji
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Only an uwise person seeks to repeat experience.
A wise person knows that every experience, every delight, is fleeting and will not touch it.
Everyone in the world is unhappy; not a single person
finds happiness because they delight in old experience.
There is something very precious which is not stored in
the memory... it will bring satisfaction and bliss.
#Papaji


When everything has burned, the rain of Grace will fall on you.
#Papaji


When there are no ripples in the lake you can see your face. These ripples are thought disturbances. If you do not stir a ripple in your mind you can see your face Now. All of manifestation is just a ripple in the lake. Under the surface you are calm and quiet, this is your nature.
#Papaji
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SO BE IT.
May you discover life that is free from
sorrows
Let your mind be enlightened in Truth
May you overcome the fear of death
May you never be ashamed of the presence of the Holy Spirit or feel the need to defend yourself in any personal way
May your confidence be big, your heart be full of love, and may you carry the fragrance of the Lord's presence wherever you go.
This is my prayer for you in the name of the Holy Spirit of God.
Let it be so.
Oh peace peace peace.
#Mooji


Step into my cabin
You will enter as is,
but you must leave the other side without
"you"
because this is not the real You.
You've been living only in the idea of yourself and that's not freedom, it's not truth.
You don't need to have a lot of time for what you must discover is timeless.
Find what takes no time.
Nothing to practice for .
Somehow you gotta find the magic to let yourself fall.
Only those who do, discover their timeless and perfect Self.
#Mooji


Silence.
Remain and move beyond the silence, penetrates even further. Confirm the location beyond which the distance disappears. Here you cant go You can only be.
#mooji


We all know the meaning of being."
Without practicing anything, all beings naturally refer to themselves as 'I', I am or I exist. 'I am' means being, being. But do we know who the
'I' is? Does 'l' exist?
The sense of existence is naturally present in us and is a conviction and an unquestionable sense for all living beings. It's there at the beginning of perception.
It functions during the state of vigilance as a witness and observer of all that appears within us, consciousness.
This feeling, 'I am', 'I exist', is the natural, not taught way by which we recognize our own existence.
Avoid the tendency to think that the '! am' is a special state we need to seek. It's just the very natural sense of being. Acknowledge and confirm this.
#Mooji


The wise one does not try to control life and is not controlled by life.
His heart is full and serene knowing that life takes care of life.
#Mooji


You can be aware of your triggers, shortcomings, and engrained habits, but when you discover that it is all seen, including the involved witness, you need not work on this one anymore.
#Mooji


In every moment you only have one real choice: to be aware of the Self or to identify with the body and the mind.
#AnnamalaiSwami


You must know that you were not born to remain stuck in your self-portrait,
but to awaken to your original
Being.
#Mooji
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No scientist will ever be able to measure consciousness
When you go into places like consciousness or absolute reality, there are no instruments to measure this.
Science has to be measured to say how it works.
But this is beyond science.
They have nothing to measure consciousness with.
Noone can measure consciousness.
Noone can measure absolute reality.
A human being can never be able to do this.
No scientist will ever be able to measure it.
You can go a certain way and say what you just said.
Everything is in a state of flux.
#RobertAdams


Stop worrying! Remember, all is well. You live in an intelligent universe that knows all about you and it can take care of you and meet all your needs in the right way, in ways that you know not of.
Trust it. Have
faith in that which you do not understand. Drop all fear.
#RobertAdams


I am the Brahman, Without any Shape, Form or Design, and without any mental inclinations.
I am the Manifest Consciousness.!"
When you Realize that you are Formless,
There is No Caste or
Creed for you,
There are no concepts left!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Hold on to the 'I am' to the exclusion of everything else,
the 'I am' in movement creates the world,
the 'I am' at peace becomes the Absolute.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


"You are the knower, not the doer."
"And that also is in this field of consciousness.
Beyond that there is nothing."
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


YOU PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW HOW MUCH YOU MISS BY NOT KNOWING YOUR OWN TRUE SELF.
#SRINISARGADATTAMAHARAJ
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Satguru means the Eternal State which will
never be changed: what you are. You are that Immutable, Eternal, Unchangeable Absolute. Satguru tells you to get rid of all these walls built around you by the hearsays and concepts of others.
You have No Form, No Design. The names and torms you see are your consciousness only - the Self is Colorless but it is able to judge colors, etc. The one who is directed by a Satguru has no more birth. Your sadhana is over, you have reached this Place.
To you who search for the Self, I explain this type of knowledge, I lead you to a State where there is no hunger, no desire. When you have knowledge, you see the "I" as All-Pervasive, as long as the
consciousness is there, but the Witness of the Consciousness has no "I Am," that is your True Eternal Nature. Giving up the body is a great festival for me.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human, should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such, so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.
It does not mean that you must be brainless and foolhardy, improvident or indifferent; only the basic anxiety for oneself must go. You need some food, clothing and shelter for you and yours, but this will not create problems as long as greed is not taken for a need. Live in tune with things as they are and not as they are imagined.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The moment you start talking you create a verbal universe, a universe of words, ideas, concepts and abstractions, interwoven and inter-dependent, most wonderfully generating, supporting and explaining each other and yet all without essence or substance, mere creations of the mind.
Words create words, reality is silent.
#SriNisargattaMaharaj


The dream world is made up of our desires for possessions, wealth, property, fame, etc. We want family and friends, sensual happiness, money, status and reputation etc. All these desires kept us in the dream world.
#AnnShaw


What message is needed when Heart speaks to Heart?
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q: Will the Guru help us to know the Self through initiation?
Maharshi: Does the Guru hold you by the hand and whisper in the ear? You may imagine him to be what you are yourself.
Because you think you are with a body, you think he also has a body and that he will do something tangible to you.
His work lies within, in the spiritual realm.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q: What is Guru's grace? How does it lead to Self-realization?
Maharshi: Guru is the Self. Sometimes in his life a man becomes dissatisfied and, not content with what he has, he seeks the satisfaction of his desires through prayer to God. His mind is gradually purified until he longs to know God, more to obtain his grace than to satisfy his worldly desires.
Then, God's grace begins to manifest. God takes the form of a Guru and appears to the devotee, teaches him the truth and, moreover, purifies his mind by association.
The devotee's mind gains strength and is then able to turn inward. By meditation it is further purified and it remains still without the least ripple. That calm expanse is the Self.
The Guru is both external and internal.
From the exterior he gives a push to the mind to turn it inwards. From the interior he pulls the mind towards the Self and helps in the quietening of the mind. That is Guru's grace. There is no difference between God, Guru and the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q.: Is the Universal Soul (Paramatma) always different from us?
@ 100% (,
Bhagavan.: That is the common belief, but It is wrong.
Think of Him as not different from you, and then you achieve identity of Self with God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


"To BE" is to realise - Hence I AM THAT I AM.
I AM is Siva.
Nothing else can be without Him.
Everything has its being in Siva and because of Siva.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


according to Bhagavan nothing exists independent of our awareness of it. It is only because of our awareness of phenomena that they seem to exist. They do not exist independent of our awareness of them. Also the basis of every pair of opposites is that each has a meaning relative to the other one. It is only when we come to know things other than ourself, that we come to know that we were ignorant of them. So there cannot be any knowledge without ignorance, and there cannot be ignorance without knowledge. They are each interdependent upon the other, neither can exist without the other.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Silence
is more effective than speech.
From silence came thought, from thought the ego and from the ego speech.
So if speech is effective, how much more effective must its original source be?
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q: What are the marks of a real teacher sadguru?

Maharshi: Steady abidance in the Self, looking at all with an equal eye unshakeable courage at all times, in all places and circumstances.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The mind should not be allowed to wander towards worldly objects and what concerns other people.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


DISSOLVING INTO THE SELF

Bhagavan speaks about his own experience
In direct knowing, you can feel yourself one with the One that exists. The whole body becomes a mere power, a force-current. Your life becomes a needle drawn to a huge mass of magnet; and, as you go deeper and deeper, you become a mere center and then not even that; for you become a mere consciousness. There are no thoughts or cares any longer, they were shattered at the threshold. It is an inundation. You are a mere straw, you are swallowed alive, but it is very delightful. For you become the very thing that swallows you. This is the union of the individual with the Absolute, self with Reality, the loss of ego in the real Self, the destruction of falsehood, the attainment of Truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q: 1 long for bhakti. I want more of this longing. Even realization does not matter for me. Let me be strong in my longing.
Maharshi: If the longing is there, realization will be forced on you even if you do not want it. Long for it intensely so that the mind melts in devotion. After camphor burns away no residue is left. The mind is the camphor. When it has resolved itself into the Self without leaving even the slightest trace behind, it is realization of the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


You are awareness.
Awareness is another name for you.
Since you are awareness,
There is no need to attain it.
All you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self.
If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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.
When all thoughts are stilled,
Pure Consciousness remains over.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The world shines through your existence, but your being does not depend on the existence of the world.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Ganapati Muni around noon on November 18, 1907, he climbed up to Virupaksha cave and found Sri Ramana Maharshi sitting outside, alone.
He prostrated himself and said:
"All the scriptures that have to be read, I have read.
All the mantras and japa that have to be done, I have done.
Still I have no peace. Please save me." The young Swami took a little time.
For at least fifteen minutes he silently gazed at him.
Sri Ramana broke his silence of eleven years and spoke.
"If one watches whence the notion I' arises, the mind is absorbed in That; that is tapas.
When you recite a mantra,
watch where the sound is coming from, within you;
when you sing a song or prayer, watch where it is emanating from: your Heart.
Put your attention on That.
That is tyaga,that is Tapasya, that is all."
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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We are all unnatural.
The mind resting in the Self is its natural condition, but instead of that our minds are resting in outward objects.
After the expulsion of name and form (nama-rupa)
which compose the external world, and by dwelling on
existence-knowledge-bliss (sat-chit-ananda),
take care to prevent the re-entry into the mind of the expelled name and form.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Question - Will the Maharshi express an opinion about the future of the world, for we are living in critical times?

#SriRamanaMaharshi - 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.


What is destiny ?
There is no destiny.
Surrender, and all will be well.
Throw all the responsibility on God.
Do not bear the burden yourself.
What can destiny do to you then ?
#SriRamanaMaharshi


God does not know anything, because his nature is the ever-real whole, other than which nothing exists to be known.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The world is a drama of gold, women, desire and envy. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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In the vision of death, though all the senses were benumbed, the aham sphurana (Self-awareness)
was clearly evident, and
so l realised that it was that awareness that we call T', and not the body.
This Self-awareness never decays.
It is unrelated to anything. It is Self-luminous.
Even if this body is burnt, it will not be affected.
Hence, I realized on that very day so clearly that that was !
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Your present knowledge is due to the ego and is only relative.
Relative knowledge requires a subject and an object, where as the awareness of the Self is absolute and requires no object.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Your source is within yourself.
Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Fix the mind in your Heart.
If you keep your attention on the source from where all thoughts arise,
the mind will subside there at the source and reality will shine forth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Maharshi said:
There is only one consciousness. But we speak of several kinds of consciousness, as body-consciousness, Self-consciousness. They are only relative states of the same Absolute consciousness. Without consciousness, time and space do not exist.
They appear in consciousness.
It is like a screen on which these
are cast as pictures and move as in a cinema show. The Absolute consciousness is our real nature.

D.: From where do these objects arise?

M.: Just from where you rise. Know the subject first and then question about the object.

D.: It is only one aspect of the question.

M.: The subject comprehends the object also. That one aspect is an all-comprehensive aspect.
See yourself first and then see the objects.
What is not in you cannot appear outside.

D.: I am not satisfied.
M.: Satisfaction can be only when you reach the source. Otherwise restlessness exists.

D.: Is the Supreme Being with or without attributes?
M.: Know first if you are with or without attributes.

D.: What is samadhi?
M.: One’s own true nature.

D.: Why then is effort necessary to attain it?
M.: Whose is the effort?

D.: Maharshi knows that I am ignorant.

M.: Do you know that you are ignorant? Knowledge of ignorance is no ignorance.
All scriptures are only for the purpose of investigating if there are two
consciousnesses. Everyone’s experience proves the existence of only one consciousness.
Can that one divide itself into two?
Is any division felt in the Self?
Awaking from sleep one finds oneself the same in the wakeful as well as in the sleep states. That is the experience of each one.
The difference lies in seeking, in the outlook. Because you imagine that you are the seer separate from the experience, this difference arises.
Experience shows that your being is the same all through.

D.: From where did ignorance come?

M.: There is no such thing as ignorance. It never arises. Everyone is Knowledge itself. Only Knowledge does not shine easily. The
dispelling of ignorance is Wisdom which always exists - e.g., the necklace remaining round the neck though supposed to have been lost; or each of the ten fools failing to count himself and counting only the others. To whom is knowledge or ignorance?

D.: Can we not proceed from external to internal?

M.: Is there any difference like that?
Do you feel the difference - external and internal - in your sleep?
This difference is only with reference to the body and arises with body-consciousness (‘I-thought’). The so-called waking state is itself an illusion.
Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of Supreme Spirit. The world is said to be illusion. Illusion is really
Truth. Even the material sciences trace the origin of the universe to some one primordial matter - subtle, exceedingly subtle.
God is the same both to those who say the world is real and to their opponents. Their outlook is different. You need not entangle yourself in such disputations. The goal is one and the same for all. Look to it.
#SriRamamaMaharshi
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SILENCE IS THE GREATEST WEAPON

I watched a visitor who was u famous public speaker, and a vigorous debater known for his intolerance and argumentativeness, enter the hall and begin to question the Maharshi. Scarcely waiting for an answer he began to provide the answers himself.

He ‘laid down the truth’ in a loud voice. For instance, he said, 'I want to know the way to find truth,' and a minute later he said, 'Service of humanity is the best way to find truth!'

The Maharshi replied, 'That is what you say.’

He began to argue with two others in an obnoxious manner. The Maharshi kept quiet and did not say a single word until the man left, when he remarked, ‘Silence is the greatest weapon with which to answer such people.'

Q: Would you say that the influential force that comes from sitting in silence, meditating on the Self, can overcome the passions and agitated thoughts of most people?

M: Yes, it is the highest power and overcomes everything.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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SPIRITUAL STUDY IN THE CYBER AGE

Analytical study of spirituality is fraught with many problems. The ancient scriptures do not give us a coherent and systematic account of Reality or sadhana. We find well-recorded teachings of modern sages, particularly those of Bhagavan, to be of greater appeal to us for their contemporary idiom and freedom from distortion. Even here, we meet with an unexpected problem. The teachings of a sage are mostly tailored to individuals, who hail from different backgrounds, and so often happen to be inconsistent and mutually contradictory.

The sage is focused more on throwing his influence on his hearers, rather than adhering to too rigorous a system of nomenclature or building a system of philosophy round his teachings. Besides, he does not normally encourage inquisitiveness beyond what is suited to the individual concerned and the society of the time, while inquisitiveness and capacity for rational thinking grow from generation to generation.

Spiritual study can never be complete since the final Reality can only be approached but never exactly reached by logical means. The purpose of study is only to point the direction in which Reality lies, and the possible means of attaining it. It must suffice if the analytic account is developed to the extent of satisfying the rational, inquisitive mind, so that the individual concerned can go ahead with his sadhana unperturbed by further questions.

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Self abidance makes you Still in the midst of all action, free of any agenda/intention even as your form is used as an instrument of the Divine.


Self Realization is not for becoming/gaining anything.
Rather you lose all that you think you are, your waking dream & role playing ceases!


Use all attention & energy to attain Self. Don't entertain:
What next? by the mind.
Let it dissolve, let no trace of ego-I remain so Self alone shines.


Self is the pure Silence that silences the ego & makes you Still, free from mental chatter. Now you only see the Self in all beings & all beings in Self.


This is not about nothingness. It is about nothing. Nothing makes sense. In other words, there are no verbal dogmas that explain everything. Only by letting go of words and discursive explanations can one grasp the truth.
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Letting go of all mental burden, relax and allow God to express through me His perfect wisdom and perfect serenity.
My Heavenly Father, is love, and I am made in His image, in which all the planets, all the stars, all beings, all of creation shine. I am the love that fills the universe.
By radiating love and goodwill to others, I will pave the way for God's love to come to me. Divine love is the magnet that attracts to me all good.
#sriparamahansayogananda
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It's so wonderful to be in tune with God and trust Him, to be content wherever He places you and whatever He makes of you, accepting everything with humility and devotion. #sriparamahansayogananda


You are only accountable to God.
Remember this. Human opinion and God's opinion are different. He who has been abandoned by all mankind is not abandoned by the Truth God. The one who is adored by the whole world may not be true to himself. He may not be acceptable in the eyes of the Truth.
But if you live and die for God alone, you will have acted right towards the whole world. Didn't the life of Jesus bring peace to countless thousands of people? Why?
Because he was faithful to his Father. To be faithful to God is to be faithful to everyone.
#sriparamahansayogananda
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O Fountain of Love! Make me feel my heart is flooded with Your omnipresent love.
#sriparamahansayogananda


SILENCE
From the depths of silence the geyser of God's bliss shoots up unfailingly and flows over man's being.
#SriParamahansaYogananda


Stop thinking, and end your problems.
#LaoTzu
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Your mind and your thoughts, you can perceive them. You are there before them. They come and go. You cannot be that, because if you were the things that come and go, when they go you will also be gone. You are here to watch them go, so you cannot be that. What is it that remains to watch everything come and go, but itself neither comes nor goes? Recognize and acknowledge that power in you, that space in you.
#Mooji
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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart.
Find out the real, infinite I.
Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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There is no need for anyone to start reforming the country or the nation before reforming himself.
Each man's first duty is to realise his true nature.
If after doing it, he feels like reforming the country or nation, by all means let him take up such reform.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities.
Qualities pertain to the mind only.
#SriRamanamaharshi


Everything comes right in the end.
Steady determination is the thing required.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Your efforts can be made even now, in whatever environment you may be.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The seeker's aim must be to drain away.
the vasanas from the heart and let no reflection obstruct the Light of Eternal Consciousness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Questioner:
What is meant by saying that one should enquire into one's true nature and understand it?
Maharishi:
Experiences such as, '1 went; I came;
I was; I did' come naturally to everyone.
From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that
consciousness, and remaining as oneself is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.
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In that state there is Being alone.
There is no you, nor I, nor he; no present, nor past, nor future.
It is beyond time and space, beyond expression.
It is ever there.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Ramana Maharshi - Who Am I?
Nan Yar

1. Who am I ?
The gross body which is composed of the seven humours (dhatus), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, viz. sound, touch, colour, taste, and odour, I am not; the five cognitive sense- organs, viz. the organs of speech, locomotion, grasping, excretion, and procreation, which have as their respective functions speaking, moving, grasping, excreting, and enjoying, I am not; the five vital airs, prana, etc., which perform respectively the five functions of in-breathing, etc., I am not; even the mind which thinks, I am not; the nescience too, which is endowed only with the residual impressions of objects, and in which there are no objects and no functioning’s, I am not.

2. If I am none of these, then who am I?
After negating all of the above-mentioned as ‘not this’, ‘not this’, that Awareness which alone remains – that I am.

3. What is the nature of Awareness?
The nature of Awareness is existence-consciousness-bliss

4. When will the realization of the Self be gained?
When the world which is what-is-seen has been removed, there will be realization of the Self which is the seer.

5. Will there not be realization of the Self even while the world is there (taken as real)?
There will not be.

6. Why?
The seer and the object seen are like the rope and the snake. Just as the knowledge of the rope which is the substrate will not arise unless the false knowledge of the illusory serpent goes, so the realization of the Self which is the substrate will not be gained unless the belief that the world is real is removed.

7. When will the world which is the object seen be removed?
When the mind, which is the cause of all cognition’s and of all actions, becomes quiescent, the world will disappear.

8. What is the nature of the mind?
What is called ‘mind’ is a wondrous power residing in the Self. It causes all thoughts to arise. Apart from thoughts, there is no such thing as mind. Therefore, thought is the nature of mind. Apart from thoughts, there is no independent entity called the world. In deep sleep there are no thoughts, and there is no world. In the states of waking and dream, there are thoughts, and there is a world also. Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and again withdraws it into itself, likewise the mind projects the world out of itself and again resolves it into itself. When the mind comes out of the Self, the world appears. Therefore, when the world appears (to be real), the Self does not appear; and when the Self appears (shines) the world does not appear. When one persistently inquires into the nature of the mind, the mind will end leaving the Self (as the residue). What is referred to as the Self is the Atman. The mind always exists only in dependence on something gross; it cannot stay alone. It is the mind that is called the subtle body or the soul (jiva).

9. What is the path of inquiry for understanding the nature of the mind?
That which rises as ‘I’ in this body is the mind. If one inquires as to where in the body the thought ‘I’ rises first, one would discover that it rises in the heart. That is the place of the mind’s origin. Even if one thinks constantly ‘I’ ‘I’, one will be led to that place. Of all the thoughts that arise in the mind, the ‘I’ thought is the first. It is only after the rise of this that the other thoughts arise. It is after the appearance of the first personal pronoun that the second and third personal pronouns appear; without the first personal pronoun there will not be the second and third.

10. How will the mind become quiescent?
By the inquiry ‘Who am I?’. The thought ‘who am I?’ will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.

11. What is the means for constantly holding on to the thought ‘Who am I?’
When other thoughts arise, one should not pursue them, but should inquire: ‘To whom do they arise?’ It does not matter how many thoughts arise. As each thought arises, one should inquire with diligence, “To whom has this thought arisen?”. The answer that would emerge would be “To me”. Thereupon if one inquires “Who am I?”, the mind will go back to its source; and the thought that arose will become quiescent. With repeated practice in this manner, the mind will develop the skill to stay in its source. When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense- organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the heart, the names and forms disappear. Not letting the mind go out, but retaining it in the Heart is what is called “inwardness” (antar- mukha). Letting the mind go out of the Heart is known as “externalisation” (bahir-mukha). Thus, when the mind stays in the Heart, the ‘I’ which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self which ever exists will shine. Whatever one does, one should do without the egoity “I”. If one acts in that way, all will appear as of the nature of Siva (God).

12. Are there no other means for making the mind quiescent?
Other than inquiry, there are no adequate means. If through other means it is sought to control the mind, the mind will appear to be controlled, but will again go forth. Through the control of breath also, the mind will become quiescent; but it will be quiescent only so long as the breath remains controlled, and when the breath resumes the mind also will again start moving and will wander as impelled by residual impressions. The source is the same for both mind and breath. Thought, indeed, is the nature of the mind. The thought “I” is the first thought of the mind; and that is egoity. It is from that whence egoity originates that breath also originates. Therefore, when the mind becomes quiescent, the breath is controlled, and when the breath is controlled the mind becomes quiescent. But in deep sleep, although the mind becomes quiescent, the breath does not stop. This is because of the will of God, so that the body may be preserved and other people may not be under the impression that it is dead. In the state of waking and in samadhi, when the mind becomes quiescent the breath is controlled. Breath is the gross form of mind. Till the time of death, the mind keeps breath in the body; and when the body dies the mind takes the breath along with it. Therefore, the exercise of breath-control is only an aid for rendering the mind quiescent (manonigraha); it will not destroy the mind (manonasa).

Like the practice of breath-control. meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, restriction on food, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

Through meditation on the forms of God and through repetition of mantras, the mind becomes one- pointed. The mind will always be wandering. Just as when a chain is given to an elephant to hold in its trunk it will go along grasping the chain and nothing else, so also when the mind is occupied with a name or form it will grasp that alone. When the mind expands in the form of countless thoughts, each thought becomes weak; but as thoughts get resolved the mind becomes one-pointed and strong; for such a mind Self-inquiry will become easy. Of all the restrictive rules, that relating to the taking of sattvic food in moderate quantities is the best; by observing this rule, the sattvic quality of mind will increase, and that will be helpful to Self-inquiry.

13. The residual impressions (thoughts) of objects appear wending like the waves of an ocean. When will all of them get destroyed?
As the meditation on the Self rises higher and higher, the thoughts will get destroyed.

14. Is it possible for the residual impressions of objects that come from beginningless time, as it were, to be resolved, and for one to remain as the pure Self?
Without yielding to the doubt “Is it possible, or not?”, one should persistently hold on to the meditation on the Self. Even if one be a great sinner, one should not worry and weep “O! I am a sinner, how can I be saved?”; one should completely renounce the thought “I am a sinner”; and concentrate keenly on meditation on the Self; then, one would surely succeed. There are not two minds – one good and the other evil; the mind is only one. It is the residual impressions that are of two kinds – auspicious and inauspicious. When the mind is under the influence of auspicious impressions it is called good; and when it is under the influence of inauspicious impressions it is regarded as evil.

The mind should not be allowed to wander towards worldly objects and what concerns other people. However bad other people may be, one should bear no hatred for them. Both desire and hatred should be eschewed. All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood who will not give to others? When one’s self arises all arises; when one’s self becomes quiescent all becomes quiescent. To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent there will result good. If the mind is rendered quiescent, one may live anywhere.

15. How long should inquiry be practised?
As long as there are impressions of objects in the mind, so long the inquiry “Who am I?” is required. As thoughts arise they should be destroyed then and there in the very place of their origin, through inquiry. If one resorts to contemplation of the Self unintermittently, until the Self is gained, that alone would do. As long as there are enemies within the fortress, they will continue to sally forth; if they are destroyed as they emerge, the fortress will fall into our hands.

16. What is the nature of the Self?
What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul, and God are appearances in it. like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time, and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no “I” thought. That is called “Silence”. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is “I”; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

17. Is not everything the work of God?
Without desire, resolve, or effort, the sun rises; and in its mere presence, the sun-stone emits fire, the lotus blooms, water evaporates; people perform their various functions and then rest. Just as in the presence of the magnet the needle moves, it is by virtue of the mere presence of God that the souls governed by the three (cosmic) functions or the fivefold divine activity perform their actions and then rest, in accordance with their respective karmas. God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him. That is like worldly actions not affecting the sun, or like the merits and demerits of the other four elements not affecting all pervading space.

18. Of the devotees, who is the greatest?
He who gives himself up to the Self that is God is the most excellent devotee. Giving one’s self up to God means remaining constantly in the Self without giving room for the rise of any thoughts other than that of the Self. Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He bears them. Since the supreme power of God makes all things move, why should we, without submitting ourselves to it, constantly worry ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

19. What is non-attachment?
As thoughts arise, destroying them utterly without any residue in the very place of their origin is non-attachment. Just as the pearl-diver ties a stone to his waist, sinks to the bottom of the sea and there takes the pearls, so each one of us should be endowed with non-attachment, dive within oneself and obtain the Self-Pearl.

20. Is it not possible for God and the Guru to effect the release of a soul?
God and the Guru will only show the way to release; they will not by themselves take the soul to the state of release. In truth, God and the Guru are not different. Just as the prey which has fallen into the jaws of a tiger has no escape, so those who have come within the ambit of the Guru’s gracious look will be saved by the Guru and will not get lost; yet, each one should by his own effort pursue the path shown by God or Guru and gain release. One can know oneself only with one’s own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else’s. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?

21. Is it necessary for one who longs for release to inquire into the nature of categories (tattvas)?
Just as one who wants to throw away garbage has no need to analyse it and see what it is, so one who wants to know the Self has no need to count the number of categories or inquire into their characteristics; what he has to do is to reject altogether the categories that hide the Self. The world should be considered like a dream.

22. Is there no difference between waking and dream?
Waking is long and a dream short; other than this there is no difference. Just as waking happenings seem real while awake. so do those in a dream while dreaming. In dream the mind takes on another body. In both waking and dream states thoughts. names and forms occur simultaneously.

23. Is it any use reading books for those who long for release?
All the texts say that in order to gain release one should render the mind quiescent; therefore their conclusive teaching is that the mind should be rendered quiescent; once this has been understood there is no need for endless reading. In order to quieten the mind one has only to inquire within oneself what one’s Self is; how could this search be done in books? One should know one’s Self with one’s own eye of wisdom. The Self is within the five sheaths; but books are outside them. Since the Self has to be inquired into by discarding the five sheaths, it is futile to search for it in books. There will come a time when one will have to forget all that one has learned.

24. What is happiness?
Happiness is the very nature of the Self; happiness and the Self are not different. There is no happiness in any object of the world. We imagine through our ignorance that we derive happiness from objects. When the mind goes out, it experiences misery. In truth, when its desires are fulfilled, it returns to its own place and enjoys the happiness that is the Self. Similarly, in the states of sleep, samadhi and fainting, and when the object desired is obtained or the object disliked is removed, the mind becomes inward-turned, and enjoys pure Self-Happiness. Thus the mind moves without rest alternately going out of the Self and returning to it. Under the tree the shade is pleasant; out in the open the heat is scorching. A person who has been going about in the sun feels cool when he reaches the shade. Someone who keeps on going from the shade into the sun and then back into the shade is a fool. A wise man stays permanently in the shade. Similarly, the mind of the one who knows the truth does not leave Brahman. The mind of the ignorant, on the contrary, revolves in the world, feeling miserable, and for a little time returns to Brahman to experience happiness. In fact, what is called the world is only thought. When the world disappears, i.e. when there is no thought, the mind experiences happiness; and when the world appears, it goes through misery.

25. What is wisdom-insight (jnana-drsti)?
Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight.

26. What is the relation between desirelessness and wisdom?
Desirelessness is wisdom. The two are not different; they are the same. Desirelessness is refraining from turning the mind towards any object. Wisdom means the appearance of no object. In other words, not seeking what is other than the Self is detachment or desirelessness; not leaving the Self is wisdom.

27. What is the difference between inquiry and meditation?
Inquiry consists in retaining the mind in the Self. Meditation consists in thinking that one’s self is Brahman, existence-consciousness-bliss.

28. What is release?
Inquiring into the nature of one’s self that is in bondage, and realising one’s true nature is release.
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Fifteen years later, again on our return from a pilgrimage, we stopped at Tiruvannamalai and enquired about the Swami. He was sitting on a couch in the hall. We sat in silence for about ten minutes before him. This gave me an unforgettable experience of mental stillness. Away from him, I spent most of the next year vainly trying to free myself from thoughts.
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When I chanced to go to the Ashram again, I went to the hall. No one else being there, I gathered courage and asked,
"What is atma?" (the Self)
Bhagavan replied,
"To remain without thinking is atma." (the
Self)
Then he looked at me and I felt my mind melt away into nothing. No thoughts came.
Only the feeling of immense unutterable peace was there.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Not to desire anything extraneous to oneself constitutes vairãgya (dispassion)
or nirasa (desirelessness).
Not to give up one's hold on the Self constitutes jñäna (knowledge).
But really vairägya and jñäna are one and the same.
Just as the pearl-diver, tying stones to his waist, dives down into the depths, and gets the pearl from the sea-bed, so every aspirant,
pledged to vairgya, can dive deep into himself and realize the precious Atman.
If the earnest seeker would only cultivate the constant and deep contemplative
'remembrance' (smrti) of the true nature of the Self till he has realized it, that alone would suffice.
Distracting thoughts are like the enemy in the fortress.
As long as they are in possession of it, they will certainly sally forth. But if, as and when they come out, you put them to the sword the fortress will finally be captured.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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He who instructs an ardent seeker to do this or that is not a true master. The seeker is already afflicted by his activities and wants peace and rest. In other words he wants cessation of his activities. If a teacher tells him to do something in addition to, or in place of, his other activities, can that be a help to the seeker?
Activity is creation. Activity is the destruction of one's inherent happiness. If activity is advocated the adviser is not a master but a killer. In such circumstances either the creator [Brahma] or death [Yama] may be said to have come in the guise of a master. Such a person cannot liberate the aspirant, he can only strengthen his fetters
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Awareness becomes consciousness when it has an object. The object changes all the time. In consciousness, there is movement; awareness by itself is motionless and timeless, here and now.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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How can the EYE see the EYE?
Do not search for the self for this would be like
your eye is trying to see your retina.
You are the self."
"We do not need to search in order to find out our True Being.
We already are it.
And the mind which searches for it Is very reason we cannot find it.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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In reality nothing happens, there is no past nor future; all appears and nothing is.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first abandon all self- identifications, stop thinking of yourself as such-and -such, so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.
It does not mean that you must be brainless and foolhardy, improvident or indifferent; only the basic anxiety for oneself must go. You need food, clothing and shelter for you and yours, but this will not create problems as long as greed is not taken for a need. Live in tune with things as they are and not as they are imagined.-
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realise yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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"The Omnipresent
Witness of Consciousness is free from the restrictions of Name and Form."
You are not the Body, But pure Awareness,
Reflected as
Consciousness!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will digcover that for you the world is transformed.
#JidduKrishnamurti


We believe that God sees us from above, but He actually sees us from within.
#ShamsTabrizi
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Him the sun does not illumine, nor the moon, nor the stars, nor the lightning
--nor, verily,
fires kindled upon the earth.
He is the one light that gives light to all.
He shines; everything shines.
#Upanishad
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Remember,
the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
#Rumi
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
#Rumi


When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.
#Rumi


Don't knock on the doors of ordinary houses..
Your arms are long enough to knockon heaven's door.
#Rumi


As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and clearer.
#Rumi


I choose to love you in silence...
For in silence I find no rejection,
I choose to love you in loneliness...
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,
I choose to adore you from a distance...
For distance will shield me from pain,
I choose to kiss you in the wind...
For the wind is gentler than my lips,
I choose to hold you in my dreams...
For in my dreams, you have no end.
#Rumi
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Prayers change from religion to religion, but faith is always the same.
#Rumi
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Find the sweetness in your own heart,
Then you can find the sweetness in every heart.
#Rumi
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Don't worry about anything, my heart.
Neither this pain is going to stay forever nor
this
life..
#Rumi


Doing as others told me,
I was blind.
Coming when others called me,
I was lost.
Then I left everyone, myself as well.
Then I found everyone, myself as well.
#Rumi
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Once
you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to Light.
#Rumi
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There is a voice that doesn't use words.
Listen.
#Rumi
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What hurts you blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
#Rumi
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As in a seed the tree exists (potentially) with all its Leaves,
Flowers, Branches, Fruits, Trunk and Root, so does this World exist
in the Brahman (Consciousness)!
#YogaVasishtam
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Does not the fool feel ashamed to move about in the world as he pleases and talk about meditation when he is not able to conquer even the mind?
The only god to be conquered is the mind.
Its conquest leads to the attainment of everything. Without its conquest all other efforts are fruitless.
To be unperturbed is the foundation of blessedness. One attains liberation by it.
To human beings even the conquest of the three worlds, without the conquest of the mind, is as insignificant as a blade of grass.
#YogaVasisthaSara
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Happiness is permanent.
It is always there.
What comes and goes is unhappiness.
If you identify with what comes and goes, you will be unhappy.
If you identify with what is permanent and always there,
YOU ARE HAPPINESS ITSELF.
#Papaji


The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being.
Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others.
Don't forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God.
#Shamstabrizi


The fear of death is fear of time.
And the fear of time is, deeply down, fear of unlived moments, of an unlived life. So what to do? Live more, and live more intensely. Live dangerously. It is your life. Don't sacrifice it for any sort of foolishness that has been taught to you.
It is your life: Live it! Don't sacrifice it for words, theories, countries or politics.
Don't sacrifice it for anybody. Live it!
Don't think that it is courageous to die.
The only courage is to live life totally;
there is no other courage.
#Osho
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It does not matter if you
are a rose or a lotus or a marigold.
What matters is flowering.
#Osho


FLOW WITH LIFE.
Wherever the stream of your life flows, wherever you feel joy and bliss, go on flowing in that direction. Bliss is the criterion.
#Osho


Sufis say that your prayers should be in the middle of the night, when even your household people are fast asleep. Nobody should know that you pray.

Your prayer will be just a whisper between you and the unknown; you should not be an exhibitionist.

#Osho


You want to be free. You want peace.
The question is whether you want it enough. That's the key. If you're not free yet, if you haven't got the freedom, peace, and healing you're looking for, it's because you don't want it enough yet. You have to really want it, as though your life depends on it. Your determination to be free comes from your awakening.
You see you've suffered too long already. You've had enough. You want out. You don't want to continue like that even one more day. That's the awakening. And from that place of awakening you resolve to be free.
#THICHNHATHANH


For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.
#ThichNhatHanh
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Enlightenment for a wave in the ocean is the moment the wave realizes that it is water.
#ThichNhatHanh
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If your mind
is clear at this moment, Your whole life is clear.
If your life is clear, this world
is a better place.
#MasterSeungSahn
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If you were to ask me Why I dwell among green mountains
I should laugh silently.
My soul is serene.
The peach blossom follows the moving water.
There is another heaven and earth
Beyond the world of men.
#LiPo
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Looking inward or outward, see there is no fixed self.
Break in the front door, if you want to enter your home.
#Dogen


Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on water.
The moon doesn't get wet, nor the water broken.
#Dogen
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Where, when and how God keeps (you), everything should be thought as beneficial.
Try to proceed depending on Him alone.
He is the protector, guide and everything.
#ShreeAnandamayeeMa
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The one witness reflects itself in the countless bodies as 'I am'. As long as the bodies, however subtle, last, the 'I am' appears as many. Beyond the body there is only the One.
The Creator is a person whose body is the world. The Nameless one is beyond all gods.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The essence of mind is only awareness or consciousness. When the ego, however, dominates it, it functions as the reasoning, thinking or sensing faculty. The cosmic mind being not limited by the ego, has nothing separate from itself and is therefore only aware. This is what the Bible means by "I am that I AM".
The ego-ridden mind has its strength sapped and is too weak to resist the torturing thoughts. The egoless mind is happy in deep, dreamless sleep. clearly therefore Bliss and misery are only modes of mind; but the weak mode is not easily interchangeable with the strong mode. activity is weakness and consequently miserable; passivity is strength and therefore blissful. The dormant strength is not apparent and therefore not availed of.
The Cosmic mind, manifesting in some rare being, is able to effect the linkage in others of the individual (weak) mind with the universal (strong) mind of the inner recess.
Such a rare being is called the GURU or
'God in manifestation'.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Love is not about possession.
Love is about adoration.
#Rumi


To love is to reach God.
#Rumi
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Foolish and ignorant persons are bound to sense objects by the rope of desire, attracted according to the power of their karma which leads them up and down and causes them to wander in distress.
The serpent and deer die through attachment to sound,
the elephant through attachment to touch, the fish through attachment to taste, and the bee through attachment to smell.
If these die through attachment to a single sense,
what must be the fate of man, who is attached to all five?
The evil effects of sense objects are more harmful than the poison of the cobra, because poison only kills him who takes it, whereas sense objects bring destruction to him who sees them or even thinks of them.
He alone obtains liberation who, with the sharp sword of detachment, cuts the strong rope of love for sense objects and so frees himself from them.
#AdiShankaracharya
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Devotee: Does one who has realized the Self lose the sense of 'l'?
Ramana Maharshi: Absolutely.
Devotee: Then there is no difference between yourself and myself, that man over there, my servant. Are all the same?
Ramana Maharshi: All are the same, including those monkeys.
Devotee: But the monkeys are not people.
Are they not different?
#SriRamanaMaharshi: They are exactly the same as people. All are the same in One Consciousness.
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Enlightenment is like everything else.
It's a movement.
It's a happening.
It's not getting to a finish line where we go Boom, now I got it. Now, I'm complete.
#Adyashanti