With the mind gone, misery is gone, and suddenly you are full of energy.
And the energy needs expression, sharing; it wants to become a song, a dance, a celebration. That is compassion: you start sharing.
#OSHO
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No work stains a man who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of hislife, whose soul is one with the soul of all.
#BhagavadGita


Birth and death are nothing but the beginning and ending of a stream of movements in Consciousness,
Interpreted as events in space-time!
You are Neither Born;
Nor will Die!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Realize that whatever there is true, noble and beautiful in the universe it all comes from you;
you yourself are at the source of it.
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The world has no existence apart from you. At every moment it is but a reflection of yourself. You create it, you destroy it.
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The moment you say, "I am,"
the entire universe  comes into being along with its creator.
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"I am" is an ever-present fact; while "I am created" is an idea. Neither God nor the universe have come to  tell you that they have created you. The mind obsessed  by the idea of causality invents creation, and then  wonders "who is the creator?"

The mind itself is the creator. Even this is not quite true, for the created and its creator are one. The mind and the world are not separate.
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Be aware that whatever happens, happens to you, by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive, and you will not be  afraid. Unafraid, you will not be unhappy, nor will you  seek happiness.

In the mirror of your mind all kinds of
pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are  entirely your own creations, watch them silently come  and go, be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of
silent observation is the very foundation of Yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
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All that happens in the universe happens to you, the  silent witness. On the other hand, whatever is done, is  done by you, the universal and inexhaustible energy.
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Yours is the desire that creates the universe. Know the world as your own creation and be free.

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The Scriptures say

that we have our

Karma and our sin

and that is why we

are here,

But this is for the

ignorant masses.
One who has Realized the Self-knowledge,
For him these stories are of no use!

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Five Verses on the Self

These are the last verses composed by Bhagavan. They  were written at the instance of a devotee, Suri Nagamma,
the author of Letters from Sri Ramanasramam. He wrote them first in Telugu, but to a Tamil metrical form called venba, and  then translated them into Tamil. Since there was already a
 composition of Shankaracharya called the Atma Panchakam,
Bhagavan decided to call his composition Ekatma Panchakam.

1. When, forgetting the Self, one thinks
That the body is oneself and goes
Through innumerable births
And in the end remembers and becomes
The Self,
know this is only like
Awaking from a dream wherein
One has wandered over all the world.

2. One ever is the Self. To ask oneself
‘Who and whereabouts am I?’
Is like the drunken man’s enquiring
‘Who am I?’ and ‘Where am I?’

3. The body is within the Self. And yet
One thinks one is inside the inert body,
Like some spectator who supposes
That the screen on which the picture is thrown  Is within the picture.

4. Does an ornament of gold exist
Apart from the gold?
Can the body exist  Apart from the Self?
The ignorant one thinks ‘I am the body’;
The enlightened knows ‘I am the Self’.

5. The Self alone, the Sole Reality,
Exists for ever.
If of yore the First of Teachers
Revealed it through unbroken silence
Say who can reveal it in spoken words?
#SriRamanaMaharshi


"In all forms of spiritual practice other than atma-vicãra (self-investigation) our attention is directed towards something other than ourself as we actually are, our fundamental awareness 'I am'. So such practices will only sustain and perpetuate the illusion of the false 'I' who is practising them, and hence they can never destroy it. The only means by which we can destroy this illusion is to withdraw our attention from everything else and focus it exclusively upon 'I'."
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Pay no attention to the thoughts that bother you].
Don't fight them. Just do nothing about them, let them be, whatever they are.
Your very fighting them gives them life. Just disregard.
Look through.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


You want to be full of ease and Spontaneity?
Stop trying to become something in a dream.
When you are completely empty of the unreal, You become a vessel for the real..!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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The Tao is the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds."
#LaoTzu


Ever desireless,
one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees only the manifestations.
#LaoTzu
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Love is when
the holy nothingness loves itself.
#Rumi


The Echo of Silence

In the echo of silence,
The whispers of the divine are heard, A melody sung by the universe, A song without a single word.
Listen to the echo, my dear, And let your soul be stirred, In the silence, you'll find, The divine's sacred word.
#Rumi
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Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
#Rumi
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Truth is very simple, don't complicate it.
#Papaji
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#ThichNhatHanh
Disconnect of Modern Life ~
"People today do not know how to rest. They fill their free time with countless diversions. People cannot tolerate even a few minutes of unoccupied time. They have to turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper, reading anything at all, even the advertisements. They constantly need something to look at, listen to, or talk about, all to keep the emptiness inside from rearing its terrifying head.
The Heart Sutra says that there is "nothing to attain." We meditate not to attain enlightenment, because enlightenment is already in us... We see that we do not lack anything, that we already are what we want to become, and our striving just comes to a halt. We are at peace in the present moment, just seeing the sunlight streaming through our window or hearing the sound of the rain. We don't have to run after anything. We can enjoy every moment. People talk about entering nirvana, but we are already there."
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Samsara hard to overcome

It was time for Papa's bath. Papa went to the building behind the bhajan-hall. S. brought a seat on which Papa sat. S. was fanning him.
Breaking the few minutes silence, Papa said,
"One who is caught in samsara is doomed. What a hard struggle it is to get out it! Ramdas had been in it and he knows how much he had to suffer and struggle to free himself from its coils. Even though one separates oneself physically, it is very difficult to take the mind away from the old rut. It drags you down: Ramdas had to do intense sadhana to free himself from all attachments. He used to consider the world like a passing show."
S: "When did the struggle cease?'
Papa: "The struggle finally ceased only a few years after he came to this ashram."
S (with great surprise) : "What! It took so many years! Did you not feel calm and peaceful when you were repeating Ramnam intensely day and night? Were you not free from those attachments then?"
Papa: "No. There were occasionally some disturbances. Even a slight irregularity in diet used to disturb the mind. While in the Kadri cave, once Ramdas ate some food which was not well cooked. That produced stomach trouble which in turn disturbed the mind. So, whenever there was mental disturbance, he used to go into solitude and observe fast for one or two days. That helped him much."
S: "What was Papa's practice to remain unaffected by the worldly whirlpool?
Was it by detaching your real Self from the body and asserting that your real nature is bliss, or did Papa resort to other means ?'
Papa: "It was by looking at everything as Ram and every incident that happened as brought about by Ram."
#SwamiRamdas


It’s kept in your Palm!

Maharaj:
Worlds are created and destroyed,
how did I survive and observe all this?
Only the One who has transcended everything can employ such discrimination. I have appeared spontaneously without my knowing and everything is happening spontaneously.
Having realized this do what you like, even if you sit in a desert, it will become a place of pilgrimage.

My Guru said ‘The source of the entire world is kept on your palm, here it is, you are not that beingness’.
Out of sheer providence or good luck
someone is inclined to understand all this, in the process his own being gets pleased with him and provides him all the knowledge.

This sickness of beingness is the outcome of the five elemental chaos.
Your own concepts make you suffer,
‘I amness’ makes you suffer.
People call me a Jnani, just observe.
Saint Tukaram said ‘watch with appreciation, admiration and no involvement’.
You entertain concepts and they make you
suffer internally and externally.
Can you by employing any means of yours
limit manifest nature?
The Ramas and Krishnas have come and gone, but nature plays by itself, unconcerned.

When you die, die with totality, you are
everything, die with it.
How do you understand yourself?
It is better to say
‘I have not understood’, rather than saying ‘I understand everything’.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj.


#SriRamanaMaharshi :
The Living Guru  --
The Ramana Way

Perhaps it is easier to say what the Ramana Way is not than to say what it is. It is not based on theoretical speculations. It is not conceptual. For thoughts arise only when the mind's attention is not on oneself but on the core of the mind, the 'I', it would be the death of thought. No thought can arise till attention wavers. This core-attention would push back the mind to its conscious source. The enquiry as to whom the thoughts arise for is only necessary if and when the mind is distracted and therefore incapable of holding on to self-attention. Then, and only then, one has no option except to shift attention back to itself by questioning for whom it arises. By doing this attention reverts back to the thinker, away from the thought which was the distraction.

The second vital point to remember is that Ramana is not against devotion. His path is not an "intellectual path" . In fact intuition and feeling have the primary place in it. Why does one say so? This is because of the importance and the need for Sadgurus Ramanas guidance and support to stay on course, to prevent the straying of the mind in thought forms. Ramana himself emphasizes this when he draws attention to the fact and says " Arunachala , is my guru . Have I not composed many verses in his praise?" Some of his compositions which extol the role of Arunachala as guru par excellence go straight to the heart. Those who have read his 'Five hymns on Arunachala know only too well its power to melt ones heart, to fill one with emotional longing to be united with Ramana, with the Self.

There is no question of practical 'advaita', non dualism with guru Ramana. One has to feel his presence through every possible means of worship, to "offer incense at his holy feet".

The third vital point to be kept in mind is that in the Ramana way one does not still the mind, or lull it into spells of quietness, long or short. For when the mind is troubled, pestered by unending thought streams, one thinks of a quiet mind, a still mind as a tremendous achievement. One regards it as a worthwhile goal. A greater mistake is added on when those who have stilled their minds labour under false belief of having attained the goal itself, when they are convinced that practices have yielded full fruit. So one goes through varied breath control exercises and meditation techniques. All this for the prized still mind hence one finds Ramana cautioning against what he labels "mano laya" or a mind which is lulled into silence. When it happens one has to be alert to awaken the consciousness and ensure uninterrupted self-attention. Having said what the Ramana path is not, one can venture to say what it is. The term 'venture' is used because when an experience is described, the description itself may be taken as reality and not the experience. Subject to this danger one has to indicate what it means . It is sometimes said that the answer to the question 'who am I?" is found in the experience of Self-abidance. How does one experience this? It is experienced by the pure mind. Such a mind which is the reflection of fullness of consciousness, experiences an overflowing bliss. Ramana describes this brimming blissfulness, as an 'I-I' feeling for it is continuous, without any break. It is felt in the region of the spiritual heart, located on the right side of the chest. Why? Because the spiritual heart is the source of the mind which experiences this bliss. This bliss is not disturbed by action or thoughts for they would take place automatically and spontaneously . This is the state of the jnanis, the firm natural state which Ramana in his abundant grace enables one to discover for oneself.


FREEWILL AND DESTINY ARE EVER EXISTENT.
Destiny is the result of past action; it concerns the body. Let the body act as may suit it. Why are you concerned about it? Why do you pay attention to it? Freewill and destiny last as long as the body lasts. But jnana transcends both. The Self is beyond knowledge and ignorance. Whatever happens, happens as the result of one's past actions, of divine will and of other factors.

There are only two ways to conquer destiny or be independent of it. One is to enquire for whom is this destiny, and discover that only the ego is bound by destiny and not the Self, and that the ego is non-existent.

The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord, by realising one's helplessness and saying all the time, 'Not I, but Thou Oh Lord' and giving up all sense of 'T and 'mine', and leaving it to the Lord to do what he likes with you. Complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self- enquiry or bhakti marga (path of devotion).

Everything is predetermined. But a man is always free not to identify himself with the body, and not to be affected by the pleasures or pains consequent on the body's activities.

Those alone who have no knowledge of the Source whence fate and freewill arise, will dispute which of them can conquer the other. Those who have realised their Self, which is the Source of both fate and freewill have left such disputes behind, and will have nothing more to do with them.

Success and failure are due to prarabdha karma, and not to willpower or the lack of it. One should try to gain equipoise of mind under all circumstances. That is willpower.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The day after Sri Bhagavan had told us about the greatness of walking around Arunachala he was suddenly reminded of a short verse he had written many years before. In the early 1930s Sri Somasundara Swami had approached Sri Bhagavan with a new notebook and requested him to write one akshara [letter] in it. Aksharam also means 'the indestructible".

So Sri Bhagavan wrote in Tamil, '0ne aksharam shines always of itself in the Heart. How can it be written?'

This verse found its way into Guru Vachaka Kovai and was later translated into Sanskrit and Telugu by Sri Bhagavan himself.

This somehow reminded Sri Bhagavan of another verse in Guru Vachaka Kovai that discourages aspirants from judging teachers by the powers they manifest.

Sri Bhagavan remarked, commenting and explaining the verse, 'The jnani is ever in ecstasy and fullness, sporting in chidakasa [the space of consciousness]. For the world to attribute to him siddhis is like determining the glory of the sun from the mates in a sunbeam that is projected in a dark chamber.'

Miraculous events did happen in Sri Bhagavan's presence, but not through any act of will on Sri Bhagavan's part. When these so-called miracles occurred, Sri Bhagavan would often be as surprised and wonder-struck as the rest of us. Sri Bhagavan himself told us about one such occurrence.

'Some time ago a paralytic was brought in a conveyance. He was carried into the hall and placed before me. I was looking at him, as usual. After about half an hour the man with some effort got up by himself and prostrated. Rising to his feet he came forward and handed a notebook to me. I found it to be his horoscope. As I glanced through it I read a portion that stated that he would be stricken with paralysis, which would be of short duration because, at around the same time, he would have the darshan of a mahatma, by whose grace he would be miraculously cured. The man, after expressing his fervent gratitude, walked by himself to his conveyance outside the hall. All people present were struck dumb with amazement. I also shared their sense of wonder, because I had not consciously done anything to help him.'

Then #SriRamanaMaharshi again repeated that a jnani could not have any sankalpa of his own.


CEASE TO BE AS YOU SEEM NOW

Q: If what I am, as I am, the person I take myself to be, cannot be happy, then what am I to do?

M: You can only cease to be -- as you seem to be now. There is nothing cruel in what I say. To wake up a man from a nightmare is compassion. You came here because you are in pain, and all I say is: wake up, know yourself, be yourself. The end of pain lies not in pleasure. When you realize that you are beyond both pain and pleasure, aloof and unassailable, then the pursuit of happiness ceases and the resultant sorrow too. For pain aims at pleasure and pleasure ends in pain, relentlessly.

Q: In the ultimate state there can be no happiness?

M: Nor sorrow. Only freedom. Happiness depends on something or other and can be lost; freedom from everything depends on nothing and cannot be lost. Freedom from sorrow has no cause and, therefore, cannot be destroyed. Realize that freedom.

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Oh conqueror of riches!"
, there is no truth greater than Me. Everything
rests in Me, like pearls on a thread."
"Oh son of Kunti!" "I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and moon, the Om syllable of Vedic mantras; I am the sound of the ether and the ability of man.".
"I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat of the fire." "! am the life of all that lives, and I am the penitences of all ascetics."
"Oh son of Prtha!" Know that I am the original seed of all that exists, the intelligence of the intelligent and the power of all powerful men."
"I am the strength of the strong, devoid of passion and desire. I am the sex life that does not go against religious principles, oh lord of the Bharatas (Arjuna)! ".
#BhagavadGita
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Whenever there is decay of righteousness,
O Bharata,
And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth ;
For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers,
For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.
#BhagavadGita


Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


When you Demand nothing of the World, Nor of God.
When you want
Nothing,
Seek Nothing, Expect Nothing,
Then the Supreme state will come to you
Uninvited and Unexpected!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj

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Why should you be tired now?
Because your mind is restless and wanders.
It gets tired, and not you.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


There is neither past nor future. There is only the present and even the present is mere imagination, for the sense of time is purely mental. Space is similarly mental.
Therefore birth and rebirth, which take place in time and space, cannot be other than imagination.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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'Hold to one thought so that others are expelled'
#SriRamanaMaharshi


There is only one meditation.
The rigorous refusal to harbour thoughts.
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Many say that it is necessary to work for one’s country. This cannot be denied. But there is no greater work for one’s country than to meditate for Self-realization, as the Self is the true ‘native land’.

Reason the truth of the Self by the brain and feel it by the heart. The heart is the place for feeling. The idea of Truth automatically grows in a pure mind. Cordial earnestness is the means. For this purification of the mind is necessary.

Purity in talk, deed, thought, and good company are the means to develop the thirst for Truth.

Habit ensnares a man and habit releases him. By only talking as an advaitin one cannot attain the advaita state. If one wishes to attain the advaita state one must die while alive; unless one dies to the world, one cannot realize Truth.

#SriBrahmajnaMa


"Don't try to change the world.
First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the level of your understanding.
You will find that it has always been you who set the pace and depth of your experience by recognising and honouring your true nature."
#mooji
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The mind can create miracles.
Life is not for resting.
Anything done with good intentions creates a positive effect.
The secret is not to own the pain.
Going through pain is also sadhana.
Anything that is not accepted by the mind is the cause of pain.
God is an eternal energy which never takes birth or never dies.
Non-violence in the mind and unconditional love in the heart bring eternal peace.
#BabaHariDass


Enlightenment is Knowledge Itself, not knowledge of a person, a thing or an idea. Just Knowledge Itself. Enlightenment is there when there is no imagination of the past, no imagination of the future, not even an idea of the present.
#Papaji


Meditation is
really a process of
nonjudgmental awareness.
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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. #Jesus
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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
#Rumi
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the moon does not appear except at night. do not seek your beloved without heartache!
#Rumi


Love It is what remains!
#Rumi
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Rumi, a 13th century Persian spiritual teacher, was asked:

What is spiritual maturity?

It's when we stop trying to change others and focus on changing ourselves.

 It is when we accept people as they are.

 It is when we understand that everyone is correct according to their own perspective.

It is when we learn to “let go”.

It is when we are able to not have "expectations" in a relationship, and we give of ourselves for the pleasure of giving.

It is when we understand that what we do, we do for our own peace.

 It's when we stop showing the world how smart we are.

 It's when we stop seeking approval from others.

It's when we stop comparing ourselves to others.

It is when we are at peace with ourselves.

 It is when we are able to distinguish between "need" and "want" and we are able to let go of that want.

Spiritual maturity is gained when we stop attaching "happiness" to material things!

#Rumi


My dear heart
There is a path through the soul to the Beloved
There is a hidden way from a confused mind to the Sweetheart
Even if the six directions in your life are closed
Have no fear
There is a passage
from the depth of your existence to the highest Love.
#Rumi
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The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.
The light which fills the heart is the Light of God, which is pure and separate
from the light of intellect and sense.
#Rumi
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Of the unknowable only silence talks. The mind can talk only of what it knows.
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People come here and ask for blessings;
they don't understand that the Knowledge that one is not the body. but the Consciousness
Within,
is the blessing.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


High Tide
Stories from
Papaji's satsangs
"We are playing like children on the beach, making sand castles.
Sand castles, you see.
And forgetting to return home, that's all.
#Papaji
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The Guru may tell his disciples a thousand times,
'You are the Self, you are not what you imagine yourself to be', but none of them ever believes him.
They all keep asking the Guru for methods and routes to reach the place where they already are.
#AnnamalaiSwami
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Desire (kama), anger (krodha), greed (lobha), attachment (moha), pride (mada), jealousy (matsarya) ; these dacoits are residing within your own body. They are not outside. They are residing as six column enemies within you. And, why are they there? To loot you of the Jnana-Ratna, to rob you of the precious gem of spiritual wisdom or atma-inana, to loot you and deprive you of the precious gem of Self-awareness and make you forget your Self and weep and wail and be in ignorance. In order to deprive you of this jewel of atma-jnana, they are there. Therefore, oh man, oh Sadhak, Jagrata, Jagrata. Beware, beware. In this way, from the submerged level of the chitta or the deep within, various samskaras and vasana are brought into activity.
#SriAdiShankaracharya.
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The world never exists without the body
The body never exists without the mind
The mind never exists without consciousness and consciousness never exists without reality
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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All your needs will come to and end with
Self-realization.
Otherwise, you will not be satisfied even if you want the emperor of the whole universe!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


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When divinity and disciple become one, then there is non-duality (advaita), one-ness.
#SriRaviShankar
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Once a blind woman was coming from a well at night with a pitcher of water in her hand and a lighted lantern in her hand. A man met her on the way and said, "How stupid, you are blind so why carry a lantern?" The blind woman said, "It is so you will not knock me down." Our sadhana (spiritual practice) is our lantern that lights our way and keeps us on the path even if we're blind.
#BabaHariDass
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You are caught up in Maya.
You are playing the game.
You are still involved in the Leela.
You're feeling things.
You're reacting to things.
You're arguing about things.
You're debating things.
#RobertAdams


With the mind gone, misery is gone, and suddenly you are full of energy.
And the energy needs expression, sharing; it wants to become a song, a dance, a celebration. That is compassion: you start sharing.
#OSHO
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Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
#LaoTzu


Become totally empty. Quiet the restlessness of the mind. Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.'
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Deep down inside, each of us knows we have no idea what's going on. We don't know. We don't know why we occupy this body. We don't know when we are born, where we came from.
Don't know why we are on this planet. We don't know. Nobody knows. So what we do very interestingly, is we pretend we know. Some people take it quite vigorously. They take on a set of beliefs. They are ready to fight over them or kill over them. Abuse other people over them. And that reinforces their beliefs. The question isn't, "I need to figure this out." The question is actually here [pointing to his abdomen.] What am I? What is this? What is true nature? In asking this question we are opening ourselves up. Zen practices itself is actually a self actualization practice. It's not dependent on anything else. It's up to each one of us to self actualize. If deep down inside we don't know, then really the self actualization is becoming completely comfortable with not knowing. That's what human beings are. - Zen Master #BonHaeng
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Master Lianchi of the Ming Dynasty recorded a story in the Record of the Worship of the Monks: Master Guangxiaoan of the Song Dynasty was the abbot of Qingtai Temple. One day, the Zen master saw two monks talking while leaning against a railing. At first, a celestial being was guarding them and listening respectfully, but soon the celestial being left. Then a ghost appeared and mocked them with disdain. After the Zen master came out of meditation, he asked the reason and learned that the two monks were discussing Buddhism at the beginning, so the celestial being guarded and listened, but later they started to chat about family matters and even talked about accepting financial offerings, so the celestial being left. The ghost also felt disgusted with them and mocked them.  From then on, Master Guangxiaoan never discussed worldly matters for the rest of his life.

In ancient times, practitioners traveled around for the sake of life and death. Once they met a teacher or friend who was worth learning from, they would eagerly ask for the Buddhist principles of liberation, and had no time to discuss other trivial matters. However, most monks now spend the whole day chatting about useless things and engaging in worldly affairs, without considering that ghosts and gods are always around, what will they do? This situation is really worrying, and practitioners should always be vigilant, as careful as walking on thin ice or facing the abyss.

A sentence of Amitabha #Buddha
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Patriarch #Bodhidharma said: Without using words, transmitting outside the teachings, pointing directly to the human mind, seeing Buddha nature and becoming Buddha. You are the one who practices, you will understand it, if you are fascinated by these wonderful teachings, that wonderful teaching... you are still occupied by thoughts, still a slave. When you see the pure state of mind together with Buddhas and all sentient beings, no different, you will truly be free from all judgments of all, no matter whose judgment it is.
The reason is because language is to express images. It cannot touch the purity of Buddha nature... if you want to be free.
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The truth is always silent.
The lie is always with words.
Venerable #AjahnBrahm
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Knowing a spiritual truth in your mind is just the first step. True transformation happens when you embody that truth in your daily life. Intellectual understanding alone won't bring you the peace, growth, or liberation you're seeking. It's about aligning your actions, thoughts, and emotions with that deeper wisdom. https://nostrcheck.me/media/4707c8fa26c025f3694dc0a62d45fe597f7819deb8a45abb894f22cffbecb777/b21bf80603f1ec2799adc8e16c11ddd836c9129c922c69a83a7c202776dd0531.webp


MEDITATION

BECAUSE WE COULD ALL USE A LITTLE
"SIT DOWN AND SHUT THE F*CK UP."
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me after having 7 years worth of thoughts in 5 minutes.
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Leave and observe your thoughts wandering here and there in your mind.
They arise out of nowhere, almost suddenly
are replaced by others
and they follow one another endlessly, until the point occupied all the necessary space in the mind.
Observe...
treat them as guests who come to visit you, and then leave the place to other visits, with new guests.
Be present ... Observe
Don't allow,
to the guest on duty,
to become the master of the house ... during your absence.
Be present ... as much as you can
#Arjun
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This Body itself is Emptiness and Emptiness itself is this Body. This Body is not other than Emptiness and Emptiness is not other than this Body.
#TheHeartSutra

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One moment of total awareness is one moment of freedom and enlightenment.
#LamaSuryaDas
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I said: How long will you drag my soul around the world?
He said:
Wherever I drag you, come quickly.
Say nothing.
I said: While I say nothing, do you want me to burn?
Are you saying:
Come in and say nothing?
He smiled like a rose and said:
Come in and see.
This fire is jasmine, green leaves and roses.
Say nothing.
The fire became roses and spoke.
It told me:
Except for our beloved's love and kindness.
Say nothing.
#Rumi


"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love."
#Rumi
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"If you seek peace, be still.
If you seek wisdom, be silent.
If you seek love, be yourself."
#BeccaLee
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"It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will."
#JidduKrishnamurti

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You are always in Love, and you can only Love yourself,
the changless one in which even space is.
There is no beginning, no middle, and no end to it.
Only Love is worth loving and this is your own Self.
#Papaji


In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.
#Rumi
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"At some point we need to stop identifying with our weakness and shift allegiance to our basic goodness." -
#PemaChödrön
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The Lord knows the course of our thoughts. He does not reveal Himself to us until we have surrendered to Him our last worldly desire; until each of us says: "Father, guide and possess me.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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God is all pervading. He alone is in everyone's picture and
temple. It is God's grace alone that prompts one to love God
and this is a matter of good fortune. Love should be developed
between God and man. Then only (there is hope) of peace and
bliss. Always take refuge at His feet.
#AnandamayiMa
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The ceaseless noise and activity keep the nerves pumped with excitement. That's not the way to God; it's the way to destruction, because that which destroys your peace.

So remember, don't think you can't change and improve. Every night, analyze yourself; and meditate deeply, praying, “Lord, I have lived too long without You. I have played too much with my desires. Now what will become of me? I need to have you. Come to my aid. Break Your Vow of Silence. Lead me on." Ten times He may remain silent; but in the meantime, when you least expect it, He will come to you. He can't stay away. As long as you harbor ungodly curiosity, He will not come; but if you are truly sincere, then no matter where you are, He will be with you. This is worth all the effort you can make.
Isolation is the price of greatness. Avoid going to noisy places too often. The ceaseless noise and activity keep the nerves pumped with excitement. That's not the way to God; it's the way to destruction, because whatever destroys your peace moves you away from God. When you are quiet and quiet, you are with the Lord. I try to stay alone most of the time, but whether I'm alone or in a crowd, I find isolation in my soul. What a deep cave! All the sounds of the earth fade away and the world turns dead to me, as I walk in my cave of peace. If you haven't found this inner realm, why are you wasting your time?. Who will save you? No one but yourself. So don't waste any more time.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Q: Is consciousness beyond the mind?
A: Higher consciousness is beyond the mind. We are conscious of air, fire, etc. It is a lower consciousness. There is one higher consciousness that is developed when the mind is stopped, but it is shown through the mind. Like how far the moon is from this earth. Thousands of years ago yogis knew it by higher consciousness. Then the mind put it in miles.
#BabaHariDass
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Up till the late 1930s, devotees would bring food offerings to Sri Bhagavan and expect him to taste them immediately so that they could be distributed to everyone present as prasad. Sri Bhagavan allowed this practice, even though it meant he had to consume far too many sweets, which were the standard offering. One night Sri Bhagavan in a jocular vein envied the luck of 'Bhagavan' [the deity] in the temple.

'My namesake there,' said Sri Bhagavan, 'is not compelled to eat the offerings made by devotees every time they come for darshan. I am compelled to eat them here. In the temple, the priest makes an offering of the food by muttering mantras and waving his hands. Then he takes the food plate away, but you people insist on my eating everything.'

In my first few visits to Sri Bhagavan, I witnessed innumerable distributions, especially of dried grapes and sugar candy. These would go on at all hours of the day and night. As this practice was found to be detrimental to Sri Bhagavan's health, it was stopped in the late 1930s. From then on, all the donations were collected in the hall and distributed at the time of meals.

Soon after my arrival with my family at the ashram in the summer of 1939, Sri Bhagavan showed me his Telugu translation, in sisa-padyam [meter], of Vasisthopadesam from Yoga Vasishta. He also showed me some alterations and separate renderings by devotees that had been made at his request. He suggested that I make further changes in his poem and also write my own version. I wrote something down and returned the whole file in a couple of minutes.

Sri Bhagavan with a look of surprise, perused my writing and exclaimed, 'What have you done? You have merely copied my original draft.'

'What else should I do, Bhagavan?' I asked. 'Nothing would be more preposterous of me than to meddle with Bhagavan's words. They are Veda. I copied this poem only for my personal parayana [reverential reading].'

Sri Bhagavan smiled and said, 'You are a clever man!'

One day, while I was at the ashram Sri Bhagavan spoke about the use of drugs by those practicing yoga.

'... after some time, the drug habit will become a great fetter and obstacle to jnana. Its addicts will not flinch from any crime to satisfy their cravings. So, it is best to remain desireless. Having seen the effects of all these drugs, I have decided that to be as we are is best. To strive for knowing one's real nature through self-inquiry, though it may be a little difficult, is the only safe path.'

The next day someone asked, What is this "I"? Where does it arise? How can it exist in all things?'

Sri Bhagavan replied, 'If you want to know what the "I" is and where it arises, you should ask the "I" itself. To state that "I am in all things" is like saying that the mirror is within the image. The truth is the other way. Just as the image is within the mirror, so all things are within the real "I".'
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Meditation is not something that should be done in a particular position at a particular time. It is an awareness and an attitude that must persist throughout the day...
#AnnamalaiSwami


IT IS NOT YOUR WORK

D: Is a set meditation necessary for strengthening the mind?
M: Not if you keep the idea always before you that it is not your work. At first, an effort is needed to remind yourself of it, but later on, it becomes natural and continuous. The work will go on of its own accord, and your peace will remain undisturbed.
Meditation is your true nature. You call it meditation now because there are other thoughts distracting you. When these thoughts are dispelled, you remain alone — that is, in the state of meditation free from thoughts; and that is your real nature, which you are now trying to gain by keeping away other thoughts. Such keeping away of other thoughts is now called meditation. But when the practice becomes firm, the real nature shows itself as true meditation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Go back constantly until there is nothing but the source of all left.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


A wave rises from the ocean and feels she is separate from her source and is therefore not the ocean...
Let her discover the place from where she arose. She will arrive at her source, at the ocean itself.
#Papaji
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"Everything that you perceive, you perceive because of light. And what anyone perceives, be he man or animal is perceived by that same light.
This outer light originates from an inner light, even a blind man has an inner light. The light of the Self is the same in all. Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Rama or Kali, you actually worship that one Light which is also in you, which pervades all things. Everything originates from Light, is essentially Light."
#SriAnandamayiMa
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"Intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible, he connects us with the internal Guru.
Adore your Guru if there be real truth in him; that Guru-bhakti (devotion) will quickly lead you to the highest."
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Satsang will take you to the River,
But the crossing is your Own..!
Freedom cannot be gained not kept without will-to-freedom.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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The present moment is all you ever have.
#ThichNhatHanh
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Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!
Shine.
Buddha
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"Worship of One"
Seeking blessings from Krishna And Christ has blessed me, prayed to Christ
And it was Buddha who attended me.
I called on a buddha
and krishna answered me"
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"Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds."
#Buddha
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Anything born in spring dies in fall,
but Love is not seasonal.
#Rumi
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You are the
honored guest.
Do not weep like a beggar for pieces of the world.
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What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
#Rumi


Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your false ego.
#Rumi
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If a man but once tastes the
joy of God, his desire to argue takes wing.
The bee, realizing the joy of sipping honey, doesn't buzz about
any more.
What will you achieve by quoting
from books? The pundits recite verses and do nothing else.
What will you gain by merely repeating
'siddhi'? You will not be intoxicated even by gargling with a solution of siddhi.
It must go into your stomach; not until then will you be intoxicated. One cannot comprehend what I am saying
unless one prays to God in solitude, all by oneself, with a longing heart.
#SriRamakrishna


On the dissolution of the body, the ether (consciousness)
limited by the heart (hridayam) alone ceases to exist.
People lament needlessly that the Self is extinct.
When pots, etc. are broken the space within them becomes unlimited.
So also
when bodies cease to exist the Self remains eternal and unattached.
Nothing whatever is born or dies anywhere at any time.
It is Brahman alone appearing illusorily in the form of the world.
The Self is more extensive than space; it is pure, subtle, undecaying and auspicious.
As such
how could it be born and how can it die?
#YogaVasishta
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Remember, others can cause suffering for you, but they cannot cause happiness.
Once you understand this, they cannot even cause suffering.
#Osho
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If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationships with others, it is only you, mirrored.
Osho


No-thinking is the door. No-word is the gate.
No-mind is the way.
#Osho
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It Has to Become a Kind of Climate.
"Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to go on living every moment of your life. Walking, sleeping, sitting, talking, listening - it has to become a kind of climate. A relaxed person remains in it. A person who goes on dropping the past
remains meditative."
#Osho
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Being aware of the Self is the real meditation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The Heart is not physical.
Meditation should not be on the right or the left.
Meditation should be on the Self.
Everyone knows I am.
Who is the I?
It will be neither within nor without, neither on the right nor on the left.
I am' - that is all.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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There is only one master and that is the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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THE SUN AND THE MOON

D: If the mind is merely a shadow how then is one to know the Self?
M: The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self. The world is perceived by an act of the mind. When the mind is illumined it is aware of the world; when it is not so illumined, it is not aware of the world.
If the mind is turned in, towards the source of illumination, objective knowledge ceases, and the Self alone shines as the heart.
The moon shines by reflecting the light of the sun. When the sun has set, the moon is useful for displaying objects. When the sun has risen no one needs the moon, though its disc is visible in the sky.
So it is with the mind and the heart. The mind is made useful by its reflected light. It is used for seeing objects. When turned inwards, it merges into the source of illumination which shines by Itself and the mind is then like the moon in the daytime.
#SriRamanaMaharshi

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When ego ends, then one becomes a devotee true.
When ego ends, one becomes a knower too.
When ego ends, one becomes Being supreme.
When ego ends, grace fills all space.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Try to identify yourself!
There is no such thing as disciple, Master! No one has ever visited a Master because there is only one Masterly essence that is formless !
That Masterly essence is in you, you are the Master! "The Master is not separate from you ! But the mind creates confusion & is always trying to catch you unaware, ready to dump you back into the illusory ditch. Therefore be alert, be cautious & try to identify yourself because "There is nothing except your Selfless-Self. Be serious !
Take on this challenge. Grab this valuable moment to know yourself in a real sense.
#ShriRamakantMaharaj

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Try to spend a day doing nothing; we call that a lazy day.
Although for many of us who are used to running around from this to that, a lazy day is actually very hard work! It's not easy to just be.
#ThichNhatHanh


God is 'You' the Presence without you' (the person).
God is everywhere,
only you have to disappear now.
#Papaji
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Om, let there be peace and love among all beings of the universe. Let there be peace, let there be peace, Om Shanti Shanti Shanti.
#Papaji
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Creations are numberless,
I vow to free them.
Delusions are inexhaustible, I vow to transform them.
Reality is boundless, I vow to perceive it.
The awakened way is unsurpassable,
I vow to embody it.

The Four Great Bodhisattva Vows
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"Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.
Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again."
#ThichNhatHanh


On Slowing Down
"The Buddha said, 'My practice is the practice of nonpractice! That means a lot. Give up all struggle. Allow yourself to be, to rest."
"People talk about entering nirvana, but we are already there.
Aimlessness and nirvana are one."
"Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping."
#ThichNhatHanh
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The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.
With each step, the wind blows.
With each step, a flower blooms.
#ThichNhatHanh
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Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Awakening is not for you,,
But from you.
#Mooji
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Stillness is absolutely necessary.
It is an inward turned mind,
turned inward of all senses, thoughts, and concepts, and this is a free mind. Keep Quiet.
Mind going out to pleasure is samsara,
mind in samsara is cycle of birth, suffering, and death.
#Papaji
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"
...one who has tasted the pure bliss of eternal life in Brahman is forever satisfied, the perfect soul does not desire worldly honors."
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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#SriRamanaMaharshi describes the sense of  I as the fundamental, self-evident awareness that is always present. It is the consciousness that knows, "I am." This I' is not the body, mind, or ego but the pure, unchanging awareness that underlies all experiences. Ramana often refers to this as the 'I-I' or the true "I.
To know that it is the true 'I' Ramana speaks of, one must recognize that it is ever-present and self-luminous. Unlike the transient thoughts and sensations that come and go, this I' remains constant. It is the silent witness to all that occurs without being affected by it. When all thoughts and identifications with the body and mind are relinquished through self-inquiry, what remains is this pure sense of being.
Ramana advises that through persistent self-inquiry, asking "Who am I?" and turning attention inward, the false identifications fall away. The true I' reveals itself not as an object to be seen but as the very essence of our existence. It is experienced as a deep, inherent sense of presence and peace, devoid of attributes, distinctions, or forms.
In essence, this sense of T' is simply the state of pure awareness, the unchanging consciousness that is always present. Knowing it is the true 'l' comes from the direct experience of this unbroken, self-evident awareness that transcends all temporary experiences and phenomena.
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You speak of paths as if you were somewhere and the Self
somewhere else and you had to go and reach it.
But in fact the Self is here and now and you are that always.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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There is One who governs the world, and it is His lookout to look after the world.
He who has given life to the world knows how to look after it also.
He bears the burden of this world, not you.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Knowing your true identity And ever in the Heart abiding As the Self supreme alone, Play perfectly your human role, Tasting every pain and pleasure In common with all creatures.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Past and future are dependent on the present.
The past was present in its time and the future will be present too.
Ever-present is the present.
To seek to know the future and the past, without knowing the truth of time today, is to try to count without the number 'One'.
Without us there is no time nor space.
If we are only bodies,
we are caught up in time and space.
But are we bodies?
Now, then and always
- here, now and everywhere
- we are the same.
We exist, timeless and spaceless we.
#SriRamanaMaharshi.


SELF AND IGNORANCE .
Q: Where did ignorance arise from ?
M: There is nothing like ignorance.
It never arises. Everyone is jnana svarupi (Self-abiding).
It is just that jnana (knowledge of Self) does not come easily...
The dispelling of ignorance is jnana, which always exists. It is like the necklace, supposedly lost, which remains around the owner's neck, or the ten fools each counting all nine others, but failing to count themselves.
To whom is knowledge or ignorance ?
Your nature is Bliss.
Ignorance is now hiding that Bliss.
Remove the ignorance for Bliss to be freed.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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To whom is the trouble?
The trouble also is imagined.
Trouble and pleasure are only for the ego.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The ego is
cleverly hidden in noble thoughts,
like to start a vegetarian diet or use the bicycle, & then turn into a sense of superiority towards those who do not follow the same spiritual path.
 #Mooji


Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart.
#SriAurobindo
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If we don't have will power, we must develop won't power.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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The day that we attain a place in that everlasting life which is beyond the reach of births and deaths is our real birthday.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The greatest Guru is your inner self.
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Stay In The Moment

The practice of staying present will heal you.
Obsessing about how the future will turn out creates anxiety. Replaying broken scenarios from the past causes anger or sadness. Stay here, in this moment.

Om, Shanti Shanti Shanti ❤🔥🙏
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If you make your Heart gorgeous, your outside will emanate on its own.
#Rumi
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There was a man breaking up the ground, getting ready to plant,
when another man came by, "Why are you ruining this land?"
"Don't interfere. Nothing can grow here until the earth is turned over and crumpled.
There can be no roses and no orchard without first this devastation.....!!
"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."
#Rumi
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I have come
to drag you out of yourself, and take you in my heart.
I have come
to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the sky.
#Rumi
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The heart is nothing but the sea of Light...
#Rumi
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The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. But when it's calm, everything becomes clear
#Buddha


AWARENESS IN ALL STATES, EVEN IN DEEP SLEEP.

Questioner: What do you do when asleep?
Maharaj: I am aware of being asleep.

Q: Is not sleep a state of unconsciousness?
M: Yes, I am aware of being unconscious.
Q: And when awake, or dreaming?
M: I am aware of being awake or dreaming.
Q: I do not catch you. What exactly do you mean? Let me make my terms clear: by being asleep I mean unconscious, by being awake I mean conscious, by dreaming I mean conscious of one’s mind, but not of the surroundings.

M: Well, it is about the same with me, Yet, there seems to be a difference. In each state you forget the other two, while to me, there is but one state of being, including and transcending the three mental states of waking, dreaming and sleeping.

Q: Do you see in the world a direction and a purpose?
M: The world is but a reflection of my imagination. Whatever I want to see, I can see. But why should I invent patterns of creation, evolution and destruction? I do not need them and have no desire to lock up the world in a mental picture.

Q: Coming back to sleep. Do you dream?

M: Of course.
Q: What are your dreams?
M: Echoes of the waking state.
Q: And your deep sleep?
M: The brain consciousness is suspended.
Q: Are you then unconscious?
M: Unconscious of my surroundings -- yes.
Q: Not quite unconscious?
M: I remain aware that I am unconscious.
Q: You use the words 'aware' and 'conscious'. Are they not the same?

M: Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience.

Q: How does one go beyond consciousness into awareness?

M: Since it is awareness that makes consciousness possible, there is awareness in every state of consciousness. Therefore the very consciousness of being conscious is already a movement in awareness. Interest in your stream of consciousness takes you to awareness. It is not a new state. It is at once recognized as the original, basic existence, which is life itself, and also love and joy.

I AM THAT #SriNisargadattaMaharaj


When i look beyond the mind, I see the witness.
Beyond the witness,
there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Everybody, every book says,
"Be quiet or still".
But it is not easy.
That is why all this effort is necessary.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


1. You are the Truth you are looking for! Awakening to Self is possible if this is your only desire & the world holds no interest for you. All practice is to annihilate the ego ghost!

2. Incessant efforts are a must, then a day will come when everything falls away including the effort maker & you effortlessly shine as the light of Consciousness.

3. Reality is non-dual! Ego seeks liberation but liberation is always from the ego! When you become desireless, you will be absorbed into your Self-Source which alone IS.


I am with you wherever you are.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The ceaseless, never-ending current of divine Mercy and Compassion ever flows forth; in that current one should bathe.
#AnandamayeeMa
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This is your own grace. It comes from within you. No one else can give you this grace.
#Papaji
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All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free
from all limitations of
human thought.
#SriShankaraVivekaChudamani
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Q: What is the use of a quiet mind?

M: When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the  pure witness.
We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and
beyond the two.
The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining oneself to be something:
‘I am this, I am that’, continues,
but only as a part of the objective world.
Its identification  with the witness snaps.

Q: How to strengthen and purify the sattva?

M: The sattva is pure and strong always. It is like the sun. It may  seem obscured by clouds and dust, but only from the point of
view of the perceiver.
Deal with the causes of obscuration, not
with the sun.

Q: What is the use of sattva?

M: What is the use of truth, goodness, harmony, beauty?
They  are their own goal.
They manifest spontaneously and effortlessly, when things are left to themselves, are not interfered with,
not shunned, or wanted, or conceptualized, but just experienced in full awareness. Such awareness itself is sattva.
It  does not make use of things and people — it fulfils them.

Q: Since I cannot improve sattva, am I to deal with tamas and  rajas only?
How do I deal with them?

M: By watching their influence in you and on you. Be aware of  them in operation, watch their expressions in your thoughts,
words and deeds, and gradually their grip on you will lessen  and the clear light of sattva will emerge. It is neither a difficult, nor a protracted process; earnestness is the only condition of  success.

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
 I AM THAT
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Talk 76.

Mr. K. S. N. Iyer said that he was not convinced how spiritual life could be reconciled to worldly activities.

The Master in answer cited some verses from Yoga Vasishta. (The original is said to be millions of verses, of which only 32,000 stanzas are now found in the Sanskrit
text. It was condensed to 6,000 and called Laghu Vasishta. The latter has been rendered in Tamil in 2,050 stanzas).

D.: Without the mind concentrating on it the work cannot be performed satisfactorily. How is the mind to be spiritually disposed and the work kept going as well?

M.: The mind is only a projection from the Self, appearing in the waking state. In deep sleep, you do not say whose son you are
and so on. As soon as you wake up you say you are so and so, and recognise the world and so on.

The world is only lokah, lokah = lokyate iti lokah (what is perceived is the world). That which is seen is lokah or the world.
Which is the eye that sees it?
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. Therefore That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.
In deep sleep mind is merged and not destroyed. That which merges reappears. It may happen in meditation also. But the mind which is destroyed cannot reappear.

The yogi’s aim must be to destroy it and
not to sink in laya. In the peace of dhyana, laya ensues but it is not enough. It must be supplemented by other practices for destroying the mind. Some people have gone into samadhi with a trifling thought and after a long time awakened in the trail of the same thought. In the meantime generations have passed away in the world. Such a yogi has not destroyed his mind. Its destruction is the non-recognition of it as
being apart from the Self. Even now the mind is not. Recognise it. How can you do it if not in everyday activities. They go on automatically.
Know that the mind promoting them is not real but a phantom proceeding from the Self. That is how the mind is destroyed.

Talks with #SriRamanaMaharshi.
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Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
#SriRamkrishnaParamhans
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The spoken and the unspoken are not the Truth, the known and the unknown are not the Truth. If there is only one indivisible, all comprehensive Absolute, how can there be objects, senses, mind, intellect ?
#AvaddhutaGita
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The distinction between
Shiva (Consciousness/Intelligence) and Shakti (Power/Energy) is really a distinction without a difference.
Shiva and Shakti are one, just as fire and its burning power are one.
Shiva and Shakti are one, just as milk and the whiteness of milk are one.
Shiva and Shakti are one, just as a gem and its brightness are one.
You cannot conceive of one without the other, or make a difference between them.
#SriRamakrishnaParamahamsa
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It cannot be that anybody, anywhere is not my very own. I am with you at all times.
#AnandamayiMa

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Emptiness is emptiness. San Francisco or Delhi. Wherever you go, the emptiness surrounds you. Silence will follow you wherever you go.
#Papaji
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If the Guru is silent the seeker's mind gets purified by itself.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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What is your opinion about my Master?
What a question to ask !
The space in Bombay is asked
what is its opinion of the space in Poona.
The names differ, but not the space.
The word 'Master ' is merely an address.
Who lives under the address?
You ask questions when you are in trouble.
Enquire who is giving trouble and to whom.
#SriNisargattaMaharaj
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Today I am going to tell you what is 'Guru.' People have lots of erronious notions about it. The word Guru means 'one who dispels the darkness of ignorance.' Gurudeva dwells in the innermost chamber of our heart. When you receive guidance from the Divine Being within you, your doubts and fears vanishes.
You no longer feel a need to validate your path. Inner light infuses your heart with an unshakable conviction. When the lamp of conviction is lit by the Divine, you become immesaurably strong.
The Guru will help you in identifying your strengths and weaknesses. He will help you learn how to overcome your weaknesses and cultivate inner strength.
#SwamiRama
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Happy
Guru
Purnima 🌞
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After the meditation, I was confronted by my guru. On seeing each other we both started laughing hilariously.
Suddenly he pull out a wooden baton and raised it to hit me. So l started running and he followed me with the baton
Now I am still running but know that when he will struct me, we both will be gone and dissolved in the thin air, only the sound of laughter will remain behind.
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The five meditating Buddhas

In Tibetan Buddhism, there is the practice of the five meditation Buddhas, also known as the "Five Dhyani Buddhas" or "Five Buddha Families". These five Buddhas represent various aspects of the enlightened mind and are used in meditation and worship to overcome obstacles, develop wisdom, and promote spiritual growth.

The five meditation Buddhas are:

Vairochana (Tibetan: noun): The Buddha of the central paradise, who embodies wisdom and purity. He represents enlightened oneness consciousness and spiritual teacher. Vairochana is associated with the color white, which symbolizes purity, clarity and enlightenment. Dharmachakra Mudra (spinning the wheel of dharma gesture).
Akshobhya (Tibetan: Mitupa): The Buddha of the Eastern Paradise, symbolizing equality and self-discipline. Akshobhya is associated with the colour blue. Bhumisparsha Mudra (touching the earth) Ego-dissolving, fitting into the grand order of life.
Amitabha (Tibetan: Opame): The Buddha of the Western Paradise, symbolizing love and compassion. In Tibetan Buddhism he is associated with the color red. He is often depicted as the Golden Buddha. The color red indicates his all-round love and the color gold indicates his inner happiness and living in the light. Dhyana Mudra (Gestures of meditation).
Amoghasiddhi (Tibetan: Mikyö Dorje): The Buddha of the northern paradise, representing completion and success. He has the color green. Abhaya Mudra (Blessing Hand).
Ratnasambhava (Tibetan: Rinchen Jungney): The Buddha of the southern paradise, who embodies giving, abundance and generosity. He is the color yellow, for inner happiness. Varada Mudra (acture of generosity and giving, two hands open forward).
Here is a meditation on the five meditation Buddhas of Tibetan Buddhism for strength, peace, love. Happiness and blessings to receive:

Put yourself in an upright position. Gently close your eyes and take a deep breath in and out to center yourself.

Imagine the white buddha vairochana manifesting himself before you. He lives in the oneness of the cosmos and in its illumination energy. He's the white haired master. Feel His presence around you and open your heart to receive His wisdom. What is your path of truth, wisdom and righteousness today? What feels right to you. Pray to the enlightened masters: “Om all enlightened masters. On inner wisdom. I ask for guidance and help on my way."

Continue with Akshobhya in blue. One hand points to the Earth in meditation. He embodies modesty, humility, contentment and poise. Also, reach out to the earth, connect with the earth (nature, the cosmos) and think, "I accept things as they are." I let go of my desires. I'm flowing freely with life. “

The Buddha Amitabha is red and sometimes gold in Tibetan Buddhism. His hands in lap meditating posture. He goes his way with strength and self-discipline and creates happiness in himself through meditation. He lives in the light, has the light in him and gives light to all people who meditate on him. Visualize light within, circle with the light within, think the mantra "light" and fill yourself with light. Heal all the sick areas in you with light. Keep thinking the mantra "light" and let the light circulate around you and throughout the cosmos. Fill the whole cosmos with light until you become one with the cosmos.

Green Buddha Amoghasiddhi has a blessing hand. He is the Buddha of love Move blessing hands and send light to your friends. Think the mantra: "May all beings be happy. May there be a happy world. “

The Buddha Ratnasambhava in a yellow aura of light with the gesture of giving lives in abundance. He has the illumination in himself and passes it on to his fellow men. He transmits his energy of illumination to you Visualize yourself as enlightened and feel the qualities of calmness, love and happiness within you. Chant the mantra "Om Enlightenment" until you attain peace within.

Meditation: Stop all thoughts. Take it easy. Linger in meditation for as long as you like. Feel the qualities of the five Buddhas within you. Peace, strength, love, happiness and unity. Feeling relaxed and good.

Conclusion: Move your hands and feet and slowly come back.
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"When simplicity rises in your mind, do not follow intelligence; rest in the state of simplicity. "
#Milarepa
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If God is your guide, why fear the way?
#Rumi
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"To love is human. To feel pain is human.
But to love despite the pain is to be an angel." #Rumi.

Let's be angels! There is much need in this world of lights and shadows, of essences and appearances, of angels and demons.
Choose to be an angel and love everything and everyone despite everything because that is your essence and what you came to contribute to this world. There are already too many people who do wrong. Let's spread our wings like never before and fly, my hearts!
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"Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity - but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our
"biography," our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards... It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?
Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?"
#SogyalRinpoche
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You believe God looks at us from above but He actually sees us from the inside.
#ShamsTabrizi
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"Even the most beautiful concept is just a concept!" #Papaji
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When the mind is quiet, all is Self.
#Papaji
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"I am not concerned with taking care of
 anything. The world has been in existence for millions of years.

There have been thousands of Avatars and Great Men, and Important Personalities. Has
a single one of them been able to do anything to change the natural course of events in the world?"
SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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"The entire Universe is your guru.
You learn from everything if you are alert and intelligent."
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God offers you an invincible weapon by which you can eradicate all your sorrows and suffering: wisdom which comes through God-communion.
The easiest way to overcome disease, disappointments, and disasters is to be in constant communion with God.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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"God is the electricity, and
human beings are the light bulbs. The bulbs may be infinitely varied in shape, color, and brightness.
The actual power with which they shine, however, is the same for all.... Never forget the true Source of power in yourself, and in all that you see around you."
#ParamahansaYogananda


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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If God chose to hide
He would hide within man
That is the last place man would look to find God.

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To love God is to be God's Agent on Earth. We do his will as we walk through the gateway of pure God consciousness into eternal goodness, beauty and truth. Namaste 🙏😌❤🔥


To see God is to be
God.
#SriRamanaMaharishi


The Self is the real book. You can glance anywhere in that book; nobody can take it away from you.
Whenever you are free, turn towards the Self. Thereafter you may read whatever you like.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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On the eve of my departure I recounted to Sri Bhagavan the sufferings of my wife who was still grief-stricken by the sudden death of our son.

'Has she no other male child?' enquired Bhagavan.

'No,' I replied.

Sri Bhagavan sighed and said, 'What a pity!'

This brief exchange took place on 18th October 1936. My wife delivered a male child on 1st August 1937.

When the baby was later shown to Sri Bhagavan, his first question was, 'What is the baby's name?'

When I answered 'Ramana Prasadam,' Sri Bhagavan exclaimed, 'Indeed! Is it so?' and to my consternation he fed the baby with two bananas as if to demonstrate his prasad. It did not in the least upset the child's digestion!

At my leave-taking the ashram manager handed me three packets of prasad. l asked whom they were for.

Bhagavan who was then having his oil bath in the same room*, replied, '0ne for your family, one for Narayanappa, and one for your friend'.

The friend's name was not specified, nor did I at that time think to ask for it. The next day, after I had returned home, I received a letter that had been redirected from the ashram. It had been written by Mr R. P. Reddy, a zamindar, and sent to my Ramanasramam address. Enclosed was a prayer for Sri Bhagavan's grace. Mr Reddy's grandmother, it stated, was on the verge of collapse, having stopped taking food several months before. I at once understood whom Bhagavan meant by 'your friend'. I took the prasad and went as quickly as I could to Mr Reddy's home.

A few days later Mr Reddy met me and reported that the prasad proved to be the turning point for his grandmother. She was, he said, now taking food and was on the road to recovery. Now, he said, she had a strong desire to make some offering in token of her gratitude to Sri Bhagavan. My friend was not content with the customary presents to the ashram. Since he knew that I had been translating Sri Ramana Gita, he insisted on printing a no-expenses-spared edition of the book. The ashram, on behalf of Sri Bhagavan, accepted the devout offer. This was another marvel of Sri Bhagavan's grace.

*Until the middle of the 1930s, the ashram was administered from a part of a building that also included the ashram's dining room and Bhagavan's bathroom.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


No learning or knowledge of scriptures is necessary to know the Self, as no man requires a mirror to see himself. All knowledge is required only to be given up eventually as not-Self. Nor is household work or cares with children necessarily an obstacle.
If you can do nothing more at least continue saying "I, I" to yourself mentally as advised in Who am I? (book)...
If one incessantly thinks "I, I", it will lead to that state (the Self).
Continue to repeat it whatever work you may be doing, whether you are sitting, standing or walking.
"I" is the name of God. It is the first and greatest of all mantras. Even om is second to it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


"The Bible says, "Be still, and know that I am God. Stillness is the only requirement for the realization of Being like (being) God. "
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The Guru

Mr. Evans-Wentz continued another day: "May one have more than one spiritual master?"

M.: Who is a Master? He is the Self after all. According to the stages of the development of the mind the Self manifests as the Master externally. The famous ancient saint Avadhuta said that he had more than 24 Masters. The Master is  one from whom one learns anything. The Guru may be sometimes inanimate also, as in the case of Avadhuta. God, Guru and the Self are identical.

A spiritual-minded man thinks that God is all-pervading and takes God for his Guru. Later, God brings him in contact with a personal Guru and the man recognises him as all in all. Lastly the same man is made by the grace of the Master to feel that his Self is the Reality and nothing else. Thus he finds that the Self is the Master.

D.: Does Sri Bhagavan initiate his disciples?
Maharshi kept silent.

Thereafter one of the devotees took it upon himself to answer, saying, "Maharshi does not see anyone as outside his Self. So there are no disciples for him. His Grace is all-pervading and He communicates his Grace to any deserving individual in silence."
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The Guru is within. Surrender and you will find it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Love is the water of life.
Love is the ocean of grace.
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Where Lover, Loving and Loved are ONE, every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.
#Rumi
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If ten lamps are present in one place, each differs in form from another;
Yet you can't distinguish whose radiance is whose when you focus on the light.
In the field of spirit there is no division; no individuals exist.
Sweet is the oneness
of the Friend with His friends.
Catch hold of spirit.
Help this headstrong self disintegrate;
That beneath it you may discover unity,
Like a buried treasure.
#Rumi


O God, make me a light in my heart...
O God, increase for me a light, give me a light, and make me light...
O Light of Light in Your infinite Compassion!
Most merciful of those who are merciful!
#Rumi


The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.
#Rumi
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Come home to the heart where peace is shining.
#Rumi
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Every mortal will taste death, but only some will taste life.
#Rumi
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~ Tao (iễ) - The Way of Nature ~

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the Source of Being.
Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world."
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Tao or Dao: it is a Chinese word meaning 'way', 'path', 'route'... In Japanese pronounced "Do" - the symbol associated with traditional arts like judo, kendo, kyudo, chado (the way of tea) ...
"Tao signifies the primordial essence or fundamental true nature of the Universe (and ourselves). Tao is not a 'name' for a 'thing' but the underlying natural order... It is thus "eternally nameless" and to be distinguished from the countless 'named' things (visible forms and structures) which are considered to be its manifestations."
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"You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous.
You cannot be loving if you are not courageous.
You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous.
You cannot enter into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes first & everything else follows."
#Osho


That ocean of eternal peace is you. What is the difficulty that we suffer from? It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.
#Papaji
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The light is there and if you only half open your eyes, you will not see the sun.
The sun is always there and does not turn its back on the earth.
The earth turns her back to the sun and the result is night.
There is no night or levels in the sun.
Your own light and wisdom waits for you, but you have been postponing it.
#Papaji


All our effort is intended to lift the veil of
'maya' (illusion). The result depends on His Grace absolutely.
#AnandamayeeMa
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YOU PEOPLE DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH YOU MISS BY NOT KNOWING YOU TRUE SELF

Q: While in theory I am ready to pay any price, in actual life again and again I am being prompted to behave in ways which come in between me and reality. Desire carries me away.

M: Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the Real, the Infinite, the eternal heart of Being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

Q: If I am free, why am I in a body?

M: You are not in the body, the body is in you! The mind is in you. They happen to you. They are there because you find them interesting. Your very nature has the infinite capacity to enjoy. It is full of zest and affection. It sheds its radiance on all that comes within its focus of awareness and nothing is excluded. It does not know evil nor ugliness, it hopes, it trusts, it loves. You people do not know how much you miss by not knowing your own true Self. You are neither the body nor the mind, neither the fuel nor the fire. They appear and disappear according to their own laws.

That which you are, your true Self, you love it, and whatever you do, you do for your own happiness. To find it, to know it, to cherish it is your basic urge.

Since time immemorial you loved yourself, but never wisely. Use your body and mind wisely in the service of the self, that is all. Be true to your own self, love your self absolutely. Do not pretend that you love others as yourself. Unless you have realized them as one with yourself, you cannot love them. Don't pretend to be what you are not, don't refuse to be what you are. Your love of others is the result of self-knowledge, not its cause.

Without self-realization, no virtue is genuine. When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realize the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection. But when you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid of it. Alienation causes fear and fear deepens alienation. It is a vicious circle. Only Self-realization can break it. Go for it resolutely.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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