Mentally assert this, day and night. So the veil grows thinner:
"I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger пог hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!
#SwamiVivekananda
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All that happens is according to destiny.
All the activities that the body is to go through are determined when it first comes into existence, it does not rest with you to accept or reject them.
The only freedom you have is to turn your mind inward and renounce activities there.
#sriramanamaharshi
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You should not let your mind wander about worldly objects and things related to other people. As bad as these people can be, you should not have any hatred towards them.
Both desire and aversion should be avoided
Whatever you give to others you give to yourself.
#sriramanamaharshi


In the root of all creation is desire.
Desire and imagination nourish and strengthen each other.
The fourth state [Turiya] is a state of pure witnessing, impartial consciousness, without passion and without the world.
It's like space, unaffected by whatever it contains. Physical and mental problems don't come to you - they're outside, "there," while the witness is always "here."
#srinisargadattamaharaj
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Existence or consciousness is the only reality. Consciousness plus waking, we call waking. Consciousness plus sleep, we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go. The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The most destructive shaft of maya (delusion) is unwillingness to meditate, for by this attitude one prevents himself from tuning in with God and Guru.
#ParamahansaYogananda

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Love Is seeing the unity under imaginary diversity.
#srinisargadattamaharaj
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He who has transcended the dualities of life sees everything as the manifestation of grace.
#sriramanamaharshi
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OM purifies ego
MA purifies jealousy
NI purifies passion
PAD purifies ignorance
ME purifies greed
HUM purifies hatred.
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When you're truly serene, beyond the effort,
life will come and kiss you.
She will reveal the pearls of wisdom which cannot be found in a book.
A flower will bloom inside your heart which will not be found Nowhere on this planet, and a joy will break out that can't go away.
Here at immense peace, an intuitive knowledge shines:
I am the eternal ONE!
#mooji
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Conversation with people requires
audible voice.
Conversation with God requires silence. People who talk too much are not with God; there is much less time in their thoughts for Him. Those who inwardly converse with God are outwardly more silent. No matter what their surroundings, they are habitually more quiet.
Because the devotee has plenty to say to God, he has very little to say to others. When those who have much to say to God do speak, their words are of God, and are full of wisdom and understanding.
#PARAMAHANSAYOGANANDA


#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Do not hurt anyone.
Just go on tolerating.
You (consciousness) will get the limitless power of tolerance.
Endure with patience the censure and harassment from one and all.
Do not, as a reaction, censure that person.
All foolishness is due to selfishness.
Quarrels are due to selfishness.
With realization,
your selfishness will come to an end.
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On many occasions Bhagavan told me:
'Become envious of anyone lower than you. You must become very small. In fact you must become nothing. Only a person who is nobody can abide in the Self
Bhagavan often spoke to us about the necessity of humility.
On another occasion he told me, 'No one should be our inferior. One who has learned to be the inferior will become superior to all.
#AnnamalaiSwami
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MOST PEOPLE ARE LIKE ROBOTS
Millions of people never analyze themselves.
Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be
entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
#Zenproverb
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Be Aware of Being
Conscious and Seek the
Source of
Consciousness,
That is All!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Do everything you have to do, but not with greed, not with ego, not wit lust, not with envy but with love, compassion himility and devotion.
Lord Krishna
#BhagavadGita
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It is true you will eventually go back to your source.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Inner emptiness is not a void to be filled with comforts; it is a window to be looked through.
#ALANWATTS
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The Heart is a center of stillness, of quietness, of Absolute Peace.
#ROBERTADAMS
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it.
That is the ultimate Truth.
#RAMANAMAHARSHI
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Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.
#LAOTZU
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It's always the fake that makes you suffer, the fake desires and fears, the fake values and ideas, the fake relationships between people." Turn off falsehood and you're free from pain; truth makes you happy, truth sets you free.
#nisargadattamaharaj
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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
#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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When you are with others as consciousness, automatically your energy is helping them function as consciousness.
This is a lot different from usual communication.
Its a kind of communion.
#mooji
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If someone can arouse your anger, you have not yet reached perfect tranquility. Remaining calm does not mean, however, that you should let others make you a fool. Sometimes you have to let people understand that you are not to play around. But you are a child of God and you should never be upset. The more you lose your patience, the longer you stay in your mortal illusional consciousness.
If, meanwhile, you remain calm internally, you are demonstrating the equilibrium of a true child of God.
#paramahansayogananda
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People are so stupid that they are ready to loose their happiness for any trivial thing.
Somebody says something and their happiness is disturbed.
#OSHO
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Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
#Osho
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There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment, it means acting out of your awareness, not acting out of your old conditionings.
#Osho
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Buddha says there is nothing eternal.
Everything is impermanent,
everything is in flow. Understand this, and this very understanding will liberate you.
#OSHO


Meditation is a death
death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection,
but that
will be a
totally new,
fresh
original
being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.
#Osho
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PEACE
It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
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In love one expands, In fear one shrinks. In fear one becomes closed, In love one opens. In fear one doubts, In love one trusts.
#OSHO


Peace in the mind, love and compassion in the heart, bring the scattered world into one reality.
#BabaHariDass


All my talk was madness, filled with do's and don'ts.
For ages I knocked on a door--when it opened I found
I was knocking from the inside!
#Rumi
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When I am with God everything is prayer.
#Rumi


Every Soul becomes gold when touched by the beloved.
#Rumi


The deepest experience of love is the realization of non separation.
Everything is love and at the deepest level...I am the source of this display.
#Adyashanti

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Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
It is not a mere sentiment.
It is truth.
It is the joy that is at the root of all creation.
#RabindranathTagore
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Tell yourself always: yes, His Grace is everywhere. I am inundated by it, and then truly you will see, it is so. #AnandamayiMa
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Don't imagine even for a moment, that any of your thoughts can be kept ineffectual. No, it cannot be.
Thoughts crystallize into habit and solidify into circumstances.
#Babaji


Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world-so make the acquaintanceship of God now," the great guru told his disciples. "Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles. Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence.." from Paramahansa Yoganada Autobiography of a Yogi.
#LahiriMahasaya


Everything you do, be done in peace...
This is the most sublime way to live.
#paramahansayogananda
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Being good, being happy and finding God should be the ideal of all human life. You will never be happy until you find Him. That's why Jesus said,
seek first the kingdom of God.
#paramahansayogananda
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What every religion should give its followers is a perception of the Truth, an experience of God - and not mere dogma. What Jesus Christ realized, we also must experience it.
He didn't teach that we should worship him as a person, but experience what he experienced in his union with God. This can only be achieved through meditation and obedience to God's laws.
#paramahansayogananda
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Q: When do I know that I have discovered Truth?
M: When the Idea,
'This is True',
'That is True' does not arise.
Truth does not assert itself,
It is in the seeing of the False as False and rejecting it.
It is useless to search for Truth, When the mind is blind to the false.
It must be purged of the false completely before Truth can dawn on it.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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True happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.
#srinisargadattamaharaj


Acting from desire and fear is slavery, acting from love is freedom.
#srinisargadattamaharaj
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You need not Stop
Thinking.
Just cease being interested.
It is disinterestedness that Liberates.
Don't hold on, that is all.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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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
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Brahman or the Self is like the screen and the world is like the pictures on it.
You can see the picture only so long as there is a screen.
But when the seer himself becomes the screen only the Self remains.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q: What are the hindrances to the realization of reality?
M: Memory, cheifly, habits of thought and accumulated tendencies.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


There is no creation in the state of realisation. When one sees the world, one does not see oneself. When one sees the Self, the world is not seen.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The Absolute Being is what is - It is the Self.
It is God.
Knowing the Self, God is known.
In fact God is none other than the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The mind must be introspective and proactive in its pursuit.
Sometimes hidden thoughts come out with so much power when your eyes are closed.
It may be difficult to open the eyes and introspect the mind.
You need brain power to do so.
The mind gets polluted when things are taken.
If not, it's pure.
The key to meditation is to keep the mind active in its own practice, without taking in external influences or thinking about other things.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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All thoughts are sorrowful, because thoughts
take one's attention away from the Self, which is undiluted.
Happiness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Make no effort to work or to give up work; your efforts are the obstacle.
Allow your own nature to fulfill the will of the Supreme Power. Actions will follow by themselves Your body and its activities are not inseparable from the Real Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


There is no one who has not seen God.
God vision is natural to all. all ignorance consists in not being aware of this natural experience of truth. As wrong knowledge is only the ego, the
" i am the body" idea loss of ego meansgaining God.? knowing oneself is knowing god, knowing god is only abiding as the self-realization
is a god realization self and god are not different.
That which appears and shines, without another, in the space of the heart, and which encountered there, is the form of god.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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#SriRamanaMaharshi
By seeking the source of the doubter, all doubts will cease.


God dwells in you as you.
You think Sri Krishna is a human being or one with a human form, the son of so and so, whereas he himself has said, Tam in the Heart of all beings, I am the beginning,
the middle and the end of all forms of life.' He must be within you, as he is within all.
He is your Self or the Self of your Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Mr. Cohen desired an explanation of the term "blazing light" used by Paul Brunton in the last chapter of 'A Search in Secret India'.

MAHARSHI: Since the experience is through the mind only it appears first as a blaze of light. The mental predisposition are not yet destroyed. The mind is however functioning in its infinite capacity in this experience.

As for 'nirvikalpa samadhi' i.e., a 'samadhi', of non-differentiation (undifferentiated, supreme, beatific repose), it consists of pure consciousness, which is capable of illumining knowledge or ignorance; it is also beyond light or darkness. That it is not darkness is certain; can it be however said to be not light?  At present objects are perceived only in light. Is it wrong to say that realisation of one's Self requires a light? Here 'light' would mean the consciousness which reveals as the Self only.

The yogis are said to see photisms of colours and lights preliminary to Self-Realisation by the practice of yoga.

Once before, Goddess Parvati practised austerities for realising the Supreme. She saw some kinds of light. She rejected them because they emanated from the Self, leaving the  Self  as it was ever before. She determined that they were not supreme. She continued Her austerities and experienced a limitless light. She determined that this also was only a phenomenon and not the Supreme Reality. Still she continued Her austerities  (penance) until she gained transcendental peace.

The 'Taittriya Upanishad' says, "Seek Brahman through penance". Later on, "Penance is Brahman". Another Upanishad says, "Itself is penance which is again made up of wisdom alone". "There the sun shines not, nor the moon, nor the stars, nor fire; all these shines forth by Its light".

#SriRamanaMaharshi

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A rich man had a garden and two gardeners. One of these gardeners was very lazy and did not work; but when the owner came to the garden, the lazy man would get up and fold his arms and say,
"How beautiful is the face of my master", and dance before him. The other gardener would not talk much, but would work hard, and produce all sorts of fruits and vegetables which he would carry on his head to his master who lived a long way off. Shiva is that master, and this world is His garden, and there are two sorts of gardeners here; the one who is lazy, hypocritical, and does nothing, only talking about Shiva's beautiful eyes and nose and other features; and the other, who is taking care of Shiva's children, all those that are poor and weak, all animals, and all His creation.
Which of these would be the more beloved of Shiva? Certainly he that serves His children. It is said in the Shâstra that those who serve the servants of God are His greatest servants. He who wants to serve Shiva must serve His children.
#SwamiVivekananda


We let
our self go
riding a cool breeze

Wu Wei
effortlessly
moving at ease

In
rivers
forests
mountains
ancestor stars
up in the Milky Way
here are Chuang Tzu’s
dazzling pearls and beads

Here
we witness
all our thoughts
they come and go
just like ocean tides

In this Silent
Illumination

There’s no
separation

Oneness

Arises from
the emptiness

Containing the
potential possibilities
of absolutely Everything
          every night and
                         every day

We’re One
       with the
      mysterious
          eternal Tao
          simply flowing
                       as the Way.
#LaoTzu


Remember friends,
If you're seeking
Closeness to
The Beloved,
Then Love One another.
#Rumi


When people are contented and free from excessive desires, manipulative individuals find it difficult to exploit or interfere.
#LAOTZU


When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity for accepting and having compassion for them is there.
#ThichNhatHanh
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When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because you're holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You're denying how it is. Then you see it's the expectations of your own mind that are creating your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn't the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You'll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.
#RamDass
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MINDFULNESS GIVES YOU TIME. TIME GIVES YOU CHOICES. CHOICES, SKILLFULLY MADE, LEAD TO FREEDOM.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SWEPT AWAY BY YOUR FEELING. YOU CAN RESPOND WITH WISDOM AND KINDNESS RATHER THAN HABIT AND REACTIVITY.
#BHANTEHENEPOLAGUNARATANA


The most straightforward
advice on awakening enlightened mind is this: practice not causing harm to anyone yourself or others and every day, do what you can to be helpful.
#PemaChödrön
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There is a life force
within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
Traveler, if you are in search of that, don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.
#Rumi
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Once you stop clinging
and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death.
You'll transform everything.
#Bodhidharma
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Those who see all creatures in themselves And themselves in all creatures know no fear.
Those who see all creatures in themselves And themselves in all creatures know no grief.
How can the multiplicity of life Delude the one who sees its unity?
#IshaUpanishad


As the sun, who is the eye of the world, cannot be tainted by the defects in our eyes nor by the objects it looks on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, cannot be tainted by the evils of the world.
For this Self transcends all!
#KathaUpanishad


The Lord is the one life shining forth from every creature.
Seeing him present in all, the wise man is humble, puts not himself forward.
His delight is in the Self, his joy is in the Self, he serves the Lord in all.
#MundakaUpanishad


Prayer is an indispensable part of sadhana.
The power of prayer is infallible and in prayer lies the life force of the sentient being and the world. Let Him know whatever comes in the mind and pray for His shelter with simplicity and eagerness.
#AnandamayeeMa
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When one is illumined, he sees himself as the one Spirit throbbing beneath all minds and bodies.
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One must never give up hope of becoming better. A person is old only when he refuses to make the effort to change. The stagnant state is the ony "old age". I recognize.
"You become stagnant when you let circumstances override your better judgement. It is all too easy to waste time and forget about the kingdom of God. Thus you dwell too much on petty things, and have no time to think about Him.
When you analyze yourself each night, be watchful that you are not becoming stagnant. You came into the world not to lose yourself but to find your true Self. God sent you here as His soldier to win victory over your life. You are His child, and the greatest sin is to forget or to put off your highest duty: to win the victory over our little self and regain your true place in the kingdom of God.
#SriParamahansaYogananda
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Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception.
Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life.
Through man's ingenuity for getting himself into trouble appears to be endless, the Infinite Succor is no less resourceful.
#YogirajLahiriMahasaya
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The true devotee's heart is always saying:
"My Lord, my Lord, I do not want to become ensnared in the delusory drama of Thy creation. I want no part of it except to help in establishing Thy temple in the souls of men. My heart, my soul, my body and mind - everything belongs to Thee." Such devotion reaches God. That devotee knows God.
#PARAMAHANSAYOGANANDA


Feel the love of God; then in each person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love that is in everyone. You will discover a magical and living relationship uniting trees, skies, stars, all people and all things, and you will feel oneness with everything. This is the code of divine love.
#paramahansayogananda
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If love dominates a man, he rises higher than angels.
If lust overpoweres, he descends lower than the beast.
#Rumi


Be still like a mountain and flow like a river
#LaoTzu
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by your nature you are free; you have forgotten yourself in your state of slavery. a king may fall asleep and find himself a beggar; he may dream that he is a beggar, but that can in no way interfere with his real sovereignty.
#SwamiRamaTirtha
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Everything Appears and vanishes,
Including thousands of suns, In the Parabrahman.
You had Self-knowledge prior to Birth,
But the World and its experience made you forget it.
Like a king dreams that he is a beggar,
You have forgotten yourself.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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What one fails to know by conversation extending to several years can be known instantly in silence, or in front of silence
-Dakshinamurti and his four disciples are a good example of this. This is the highest and most effective language.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Think that you are always in my presence, that will make you feel right.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one.
Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage "Thou art all' and
"Thy will be done:
#SriRamanaMaharshi


What are you?
You are not the body.
You are Pure Consciousness.
#SriRamanaMahsrshi
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If all thoughts are controlled, automatically the breath is also controlled.
By intense and sustained practice it will become habitual.
Controlling the breath through various yogic exercises is like putting brakes to the train when the engine is working.
But by watching the source of the mind with full concentration, the thoughts would get controlled.
This method will be more effective and easy. It is like shutting the power of the engine and thereby stopping the train completely.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


True surrender is love of God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even for the sake of liberation.
In other words, complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through self enquiry or through bhakti marga.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


We will know in due course
that our glory lies where we cease to exist.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Whatever this body is to do and whatever experiences it is to pass through was already decided
when it came into existence.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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What our Lord [Sri Ramana] firmly teaches us to take to as the greatest and most powerful tapas is only this much, "Summa iru" ['Just be' or 'Be still'], and not any other duty for the mind to do in the form of thoughts [such as meditation, yoga and so on].
The lazy state of just being and shining [as I am'] is the state of Self, and that is the highest state that one can become. Revere as most virtuous ones those who have attained that lazy state, which cannot be attained except by very great and rare tapas.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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After the death of the physical body, the mind remains inactive for some time, as in dreamless sleep when it remains worldless and therefore bodiless. But soon it becomes active again in a new world and a new body - the astral - till it assumes another body in what is called a
'rebirth'. But the jnani, the Self-realised man, whose mind has already ceased to act, remains unaffected by death. The mind of the jnani has ceased to exist; it has dropped never to rise again to cause births and deaths. The chain of illusions has snapped for ever for him.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The individuals cannot act of their own accord.
Recognise the force of the Divine Will and keep quiet.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Dive into your heart centre. Sit in the silence. Everything will take care of itself.
#RobertAdams


Why are you so dejected?
If you were really unfit to realize the Self in this life, you could not have come to this place at all.
The power that drew you here
There is no reason why you should be dejected.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Leave it to God. Surrender unreservedly.
One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery.
God never forsakes one who has surrendered.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


If you believe that God will do for you all the things you want Him to do, then surrender yourself to Him.
Otherwise let God alone and know yourself.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Thus, since the Truth of the source is One,
Why do all religions (and sometimes even sages) start their teachings by at first conceding that these three prime entities are real?
Because the mind,
which is tossed about by objective knowledge,,
would not agree to beleive in the One Unless the Sages condescended to teach
It as Three!
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Realisation consists only in getting rid of the false idea that one is not realised.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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When the habit of interpreting life is broken,
through the direct experience of Truth,
suffering is replaced by true understanding...
Compassion and peace prevail everywhere.
#mooji
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It is not you who takes care of life.
Life takes care of life.
Find out who you are who is being cared for so much.
Life is unfolding spontaneously in the presence of the Unborn.
#Mooji
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What one fails to know by conversation extending to several years can be known instantly in silence, or in front of silence
-Dakshinamurti and his four disciples are a good example of this. This is the highest and most effective language.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The calm Yogi can spin your body and mind in intense action without identifying with them, and can then instantly return to your action-free inner state, in meditative communion with Spirit. He's always calmly active and actively calm.  #sriparamahansayogananda


The false belief that
this hell-like house called body is me, is Naraka himself.
To destroy that false belief and let the self shine as Self, is Deepavali.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Although the modes of meditation
may appear to be different from one another, in the end all of them become one.
There is no need to doubt this.
One may adopt that path which suits the maturity of one's mind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


To do pranam obeisance means to put one's head where it should be
- at the feet of God.
His feet are everywhere and therefore
one may do namaskar, salutation, everywhere, remembering the feet of God.
To do pranam means to open oneself to the Divine Power, which is always streaming down on everyone.
One usually shuts oneself away from it.
To do pranam
means to give one's mind, one's I to Him,
to surrender oneself to the One, so that there should be only He and not you.
#MaAnandamayee
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Sanskrit Word Symbol For God
"Om" or "Aum" Is the basis of all sounds in the universe.
The "Aum" of the
Hindu Vedas became the sacred word
"Hum" of the Tibetans; Amin of the Moslems; and "Amen" of the Egytians, Greeks, Romans, Jews, and Christians.
"Om" is the all-pervading sound emanating from God in His aspect of Creator, the voice of all things in creation,
testifying to the Divine presence in every atom. The great Hindu sage Patanjali said:
"He who knows "Om" knows God."
#SriParamahansaYogananda
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I shall use memory only to remember good things.
From this moment I banish from my mind all wrong memories. They belong to the mortal being, I am a child of the Spirit.
#SriParamahansaYogananda


By constantly meditating in the Heart,
'That pure unconditioned Awareness that is Siva, That am I,' remove all attachment of the ego.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


LIGHT
THE LAMP OF love
WITHIN YOU AND MOVE FORWARD.
#AMMA


Letting go
gives us freedom, and freedom
is the only condition for happiness.
#ThichNhatHanh


Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
#Rumi
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God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state.
Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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In ancient China, the Taoists taught that
a constant inner smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why?
Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend.
Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.
#MantakChia

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Meditate with an intension to get rid of Desires, Anger, Greed, Attachment, Pride and Envy.
They are the 6 enemies of the Mind.
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Study me as much as you like, you will not. know me, for i differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be.
Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as i see myself, for i have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
#Rumi
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There is only Seeing;
Both the Seer and the Seen are contained in it!
Don't create differences where there are none!-
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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A yogi whose mind is free from the waves of temporary mental elation, sadness, or emotional disturbances finds within himself the clear reflection of Spirit.
#SriParamahansaYogananda


When divine friendship reigns supreme in the temple of your heart, your soul will merge with the vast Cosmic Soul, leaving far behind the confining bonds which separated it from all of God's animate and inanimate creation.
#SriParamahansaYogananda


Since the Supreme Self exists as all there is, there is nothing whatsoever for it to attain.
Therefore, the benefit of this 'Lamp of Supreme Truth' is to bring about a total cessation of mental movements towards dharma* artha* and kama*.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Who am I?
How is this (world) created?
Who is its creator?
Of what material is this (world) made?
This is the way of that Vichara (enquiry).
Aparokshanubhuti. Verse 12
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If seekers are advised to meditate, many may go away satisfied with the advice.
But someone among them may turn round and ask, 'Who am I to meditate on an object?' Such a one must be told to find the Self.
That is the finality. That is vichara.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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How the Greats recognize their disciples and how they direct others to their Masters !! How #RobertAdams met #SriRamanaMaharshi

“Finding the address of Robert Adams in the transcript, I wrote to him asking the details of how he attained Self-realization in the presence of Bhagavan. I received a long letter:
"I am Robert Adams. I was born in New York in 1928. As far as I remember, even when I was in the crib, I remember that a man about two feet tall, with white hair and gray beard would always appear at the foot of the crib and speak to me without words. As a child, I couldn't understand anything he was saying. When I was about five or six years old, I told my parents this, but they thought I was playing. I told my friends. They even laughed at me. Stopped talking about it. These visits from little man stopped when I was about seven. "
Robert Adams also added that he didn't know what to do. He couldn't share what happened with anyone. So, something weird happened. Whenever he wanted something, whether it was a pencil, chocolate or a violin, he would appear through someone when he uttered the word "God" three times. If he found out someone needed a pencil in class, he would have said "God" three times and the pencil would be there and handed the pencil to the person who needed it. It happened during his exams too. Not interested in studying. During exams, he would have said "God" three times, and the answers would appear before him and he would have written them down. This is how he passed his exams.
When he wrote a math assignment he wasn't prepared for, he did the same thing. He kept the question paper in front of him and uttered "God" three times.
Answers were expected to appear as usual, but what happened was something completely different:
“The whole room was filled with a light a thousand times brighter than the sun. It was a beautiful, warm and bright glow. Everything and everyone in the room was immersed in light. All the children seemed simple particles of light and I found myself merging into a radiant being of consciousness. So I have joined my conscience. It was not an out of body experience. This was a completely different experience. I realized I wasn’t my body. What appeared to be my body wasn't real. I've gone beyond the light in pure radiant consciousness. I became consciousness and my individuality merged into pure and absolute happiness. I expanded and become the universe. The feeling was indescribable. It was total happiness and total joy. "
After this experience, Robert Adams could no longer carry out his business as usual.
Being a teenager, he wanted someone to drive him.
Joel Goldsmith was considered a true Christian mystic at the time. Several people suggested approaching Joel Goldsmith and so he went there.
Joel Goldsmith listened to Robert Adams and suggested, “Go to #SriParamahansaYogananda in Encinitas. It will guide you through. "
Robert Adams went to Encinitas in a state of excitement and ecstasy.
A strange thing has happened. Lots of people were present in Paramahansa Yogananda. Robert was out though. Paramahansa told his secretary: 'There's a boy outside. Give him a call. "
Robert Adams prostrated before the great man and said, "You are my guru." Paramahansa replied, "No, I am not your guru. Your guru is Sri Ramana Maharshi. Maharshi is not well, go to him immediately. ”
After being out, Robert felt the need to read a book at the library. I was flipping through the philosophy section when the book Who am I? I'll get her attention . When she saw Ramana Maharshi's picture on the book, her hair curled, because this was just the person who used to appear in front of her crib and talk to him. So with the strong recommendation of Paramahamsa Yogananda, reached Arunachala in 1947.
#SriVGanesanRamanaPeriyaPuranam


Why do you consider nonessentials so important? Most people concentrate on breakfast, lunch, and dinner, work, social activities, and so on. Make your life more simple and put your whole mind on the Lord.
#SriParamahansaYogananda
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True surrender is love of God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even for the sake of liberation.
In other words, complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through self enquiry or through bhakti marga.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


#SriRamanaMaharshi
When the mind is turned inwards,
the source of illumination shines forth by itself, and the mind remains dim and useless like the moon in day-time.


I had just finished the song when I saw a wondours form, the Divine Mother! appear from out of the sky. In response to my soul call, I beheld everywhere, in everything, the cosmic Mother. I prayed and worshipped Her. She blessed me and talked with me.
#SRIPARAMAHANSAYOGANANDA
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Know the real self and then the truth will shine forth within your heart like sunshine.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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JUST REMEMBER YOURSELF.
'I AM', is enough to heal your mind and
take you beyond.
If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time,
until the secret of your being stands revealed.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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To know the source is to be
the source.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Knowing the Self is being the Self, and being means existence, one's own existence.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Everyone holds the Christ
Consciousness
You just need to realize it.
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Many of us are willing to spend six or eight years studying to get a diploma.
We believe it's necessary for us to be happy. But very few of us are willing to spend three or six months, or even a year, training ourselves to handle our sadness or our anger, to listen with compassion, and to use loving speech.
If you can learn how to transform your anger, sadness, and despair, and if you can learn how to use loving speech and deep listening, you can become a real hero capable of offering happiness to many people
#ThichNhatHanh


Life and death are one. Knowing this, there is nothing to fear in life.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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You did not come here to chase money, obsess over looks, indulge in meaningless pleasure or destroy your body with poison....
You came here to remember your true self as spirit incarnate, and to make a difference on this planet.
Namaste 🙏
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As my Master says, Inquire until there is no one left to inquire.
#Papaji
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My Guru used to say no matter how old you are, You are only a child.
(The body gets older. Yet
Consciousness is always in the present moment. It is like a new born child at all times.)
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Treating everything as a dream Liberates.
As long as you give Reality to dreams, You are their slave!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Life is like a dream..
Just like a dream at night is not True,
So what happens during the day is Nothing but a Dream!
Everything is Dream!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Practice so that you do not become a drop of water separated from the river. Not being caught in status, money, praise, position, knowing how to go as a river, we have a bigger chance to realize our dreams.
#ThichNhatHanh


In love one expands, In fear one shrinks. In fear one becomes closed, In love one opens. In fear one doubts, In love one trusts.
#Osho


My dear heart,
never think you are better than others.
Listen to their sorrows with compassion.
#Rumi
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Meditation is the spring from which God's peace flows into your soul.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Once you have found that peace within, then it flows out as a blessing to your environment and the world.
#ParamahansaYogananda


When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast and so devastating that you have no option but to merge with it. You have no option but to feel the rhythm of the universe in the rhythm of your heart.
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I won't leave you even when I'm gone, because inside, you're always with me, now, and you'll be forever.
Whether we live here or walk through the gates of death, we will always be united in God.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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If one can love God, this is the consummation of all love.
#MaAnandamayi
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The right sustenance for the mind cannot be had from anything that is of this world and therefore perishable, but solely from that which is Eternal.
#MaAnandamayi
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With madness for you, you have freed me from madness for the world.
Grant me now the cure for all madness, Arunachala.
 #SriRamanaMaharshi


"I am" alone is;
and not
"I am so and so"
or
"I am such and such".
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Unless you give up the idea that the world is real, your mind will always be atter it.  #SriRamanaMaharshi
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What is the use of knowing about everything else when you do not yet know who you are?
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Your mission on Earth is to experience the Divine that dwells in your heart.
That's your mission
#PremRawat
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
#Rumi


You are the honored guest, do not weep like a beggar for pieces of the world.
#Rumi


All scriptures without any exception proclaim that for attaining Salvation, the mind should be subdued; and once one knows that control of the mind is their final aim, it is futile to make an
interminable study of them.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The Jiva comes out with the letter 'Ha' and gets in again with the letter
'Sa'. Thus Jiva always utters the Mantra
'Hamsa', 'Hamsa'. The Jiva always utters the Mantra twenty-one thousand and six hundred times in one day and night. This is called Ajapa Gayatri and is ever the bestower of Nirvana to the Yogins.
64-66(a). Through its very thought, man is freed from sin.
Neither in the past nor in the future is there a science equal to this, a Japa equal to this or a meritorious action equal to this.
Parameshvari (viz., Kundalini Sakti) sleeps shutting with her mouth that door which leads to the decayless Brahma-hole.
66(b)-68. Being aroused by the contact of agni with manas and prana, She takes the form of a needle and pierces up through susumna. Then he will pierce the door to salvation by means of Kundalini.
#DhyanaBinduUpanishad


Whoever has a heart filled with love for God is incapable of intentionally hurting anyone. When you love God unconditionally, He fills your heart with unconditional love for everyone.
No human language can describe this love.  #paramahansayogananda
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It is pointless trying to know where the way leads.
Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
#ShamsTabrizi


Once you eat of the light you won't be attached to the bread and oven.
#Rumi


This is the experience of all the buddhas.
There is no peace anywhere.
Everything is as if it is on fire,
and all that you need to do is to jump out of this fire.
Your jealousy is fire, your anger is fire, your fear is fire, your love is fire -
all that you are living is nothing but a house on fire.
Every moment there is anxiety, every moment there is anguish.
#Osho
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Don't recall. Let go of what has passed.
Don't imagine. Let go of what may come.
Dont think. Let go of what is happening now.
Don't examine. Dont try to figure anything out Don't control. Dont try to make anything happen.
Relax. Right now and rest.
#Tilopa


Water says to the dirty,
"Come here."
The dirty one says, "But I am so ashamed."
Water says, "How will you be made clean without me?"
#Rumi


By cultivating peace within, we bring about peace in society. It depends on us.
#ThichNhatHanh
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened.
Don't open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
#Rumi


When we are mindful,
deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.
#ThichNhatHanh
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The wise adapt
themselves to circumstances, while the foolish resist change.
#LAOTZU


There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is'
- Your demands keep you chained to the
'dream-state' of the conditioned mind.
The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
#Adyashanti


When God want to become one person,
God turn u into...
#mooji
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Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet, less attached to it.
#RamDass
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To meditate does not mean to fight with a
problem!
To meditate means to
observe.
#ThichNhatHanh
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We say that God is invisible to us, but in reality He is visible in the mighty manifested
universe. God is everything--not just one thing.
#ParamahansaYogananda


The heart is always right if there is a question of choosing between the mind and the heart because
mind is a creation of the society. It has been educated.
You have been given it,by the society... not by existence.
THE HEART IS UNPOLLUTED.
#Osho
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Awareness is ever there.
It need not be realized.
Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it.
The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy.
#Mooji
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Forgive me,
Oh Shiva!
My three great sins!
I came on a pilgrimage to Kashi, forgetting that You are omnipresent.
In thinking about you, I forgot that You are beyond thought.
In praying to you, I forgot that You are beyond words.
#SriShankaracharya


It's very important to not mistake teaching or spiritual
practice strategies for the ultimate truth.
The ultimate truth has to be experienced.
#Adyashanti


From delusion lead me to Truth. From darkness lead me to Light. From death lead me to Immortality.
#BrihadaranyakaUpanishad
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"Each moment is an opportunity for growth and spiritual awakening. "Serve others without attachment, for selfless service is the highest form of worship."
"Meditate upon the truth, and you shall attain self-realization."
#MahabatarBabaji
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The witness is not a person.
#SrinisargadattaMaharaj
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When you discover the Self which has no colour, form or shape then you are liberated There is no need to be influenced by the concept of liberation. You will go beyond liberation
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Remember that your light is the only light you see outside.
The light between the object we see and our eye cannot be distinguished. Because He is non-dual. Light means.. you.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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That You are
Formless must be a conviction!
Don't Identify with anything!
To Identify with anything is bondage!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched,
you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
#PemaChodron
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You are the pure, uncreated
Silence before mind.
Identify only with this Silence always, not the superimposed mind.

Your strong likes dislikes & desires keeps the ego intact. Desirelessness & equanimity will take you back to Silence.

Suffering is inevitable when you forget your true
Self & identify with a mortal body & fickle mind.
The only way out is to Know who you really are.

Reject the mind & abide in the heart to open the eye of wisdom.
Now you only see
God-Self wherever you look!

Self is the thought-free essence in all of us which is Known only by being That. Self is never Known in duality.

Clarity comes when you see from the Source.
Be one with Self, abiding in the heart in supreme Bliss & Peace.

All is Self alone, there is no duality. There is a Knowing that all are myself, there is no 'other', so only unconditional love flows towards all beings.

You are the Still, Peaceful Center & like the axle of a wheel, you remain unmoving in the midst of all movement.

Living as ego is suffocating & gives you the 'free will' to keep suffering as a doer.
This is the only bondage there is.

Detached witnessing frees you from doership &
keeps you in equanimity.
You lose the plot when you identify as an ego & react to situations.

Letting go is the key to
Freedom. Just accept everything as it is & Be Still. Stillness is a divine power.

The need of the hour is to heed your Self alone, not to follow the mind's dictates. Let Maya's play go on, you just surrender
& Keep Quiet.

When the emotions churn & the mind rebels, just let it be. Trust & stay in your heart, soon the ego will melt away.

Sit in your heart & Abide in the Silence of
Self as Self even when the body acts or speaks & the mind thinks.


Ishwara (God)
will answer your call
by whatever name you call Him and will appear in whatever form you worship Him.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


This life is all a dream, a dream within a dream within a dream.
We dream this world, we dream that we die and take birth in another body. And in this birth, we dream that we have dreams. All kinds of pleasures and suffering alternate in these dreams, but a moment comes when waking up happens. In this moment, which we call realizing the Self, there is the understanding that all the births, all the deaths, all the sufferings, and all the pleasures were unreal dreams that have finally come to an end.
#AnamalaiSwami
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A few days ago, a lady, a recent arrival,
came into the hall at about 3 p.m. and sat down.
All the time she was there,
she was trying to get up and ask something of Sri Bhagavan.

As Bhagavan appeared not to have noticed her,
and was reading a book,
she waited for a while.

As soon as Bhagavan put the book aside,
she got up,
approached the sofa and
said without any fear or hesitation,
“Swami,
I have only one desire.
May I tell you what it is?”

“Yes,” said Bhagavan, “What do you want?”

“I want moksha,” she said.

“Oh, is that so?” remarked Bhagavan.

“Yes, Swamiji,
I do not want anything else.
Is it enough if you give me moksha,” said she.

Suppressing a smile that had almost escaped his lips,
Bhagavan said, “Yes, yes,
that is all right;
that is good.”

“It will not do if you say that you will give it sometime later.
You must give it to me here and now,” she said.

“It is all right,” said Bhagavan.

“Will you give it now? I must be going,” said she.

Bhagavan nodded.

As soon as she left the hall,
Bhagavan burst out laughing and said,
turning towards us,

“She says that it is enough
if only moksha is given to her.
She does not want anything else.”

Subbalakshmamma, who was seated by my side,
took up the thread of the conversation and
quietly said,
“We have come and are staying here for the same purpose.
We do not want anything more.
It is enough if you give us moksha.”

“If you renounce,
and give up everything,
what remains is only moksha.
What is there for others to give you?
It is there always.
That is,” said Bhagavan.

“We do not know all that.
Bhagavan himself must give us moksha.”

So saying she left the hall.
Looking at the attendants who were by his side,

Bhagavan remarked,
“I should give them moksha, they say.
It is enough if moksha alone is given to them.
Is not that itself a desire?
If you give up all the desires that you have,
what remains is only moksha.
And you require sadhana to get rid of all those desires.”

The same bhava (idea) is found in Maharatnamala:

It is said that the complete destruction of vasanas is
Brahmam and moksha.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Whatever this body is to do and whatever experiences it is to pass through was already decided
when it came into existence.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second. If ego rises, all will rise.
The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


If the mind subsides, the whole world subsides.
Mind is the cause of all this.
If that subsides,
the natural state presents itself.
The Self proclaims itself at all times as 'I, l'.
It is self- luminous. It is here.
All this is that. We are in that only.
Being in it, why search for it?
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
#SriRamanaMaharshi

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You must become nothing.
Only a person who is nobody can abide in the Self (God).
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Just as the sun cannot be seen in a densely clouded sky, so one's own Self cannot be seen in a mind-sky which is darkened by a dense cloud of thoughts.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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D.: What should one think of when meditating?

M.: What is meditation?
It is expulsion of thoughts.
You are perturbed  by thoughts which rush one after another.
Hold on to one thought
so that others are expelled.
Continuous practice gives the necessary  strength of mind to engage in meditation.

Meditation differs according to the degree of advancement of the  seeker.
If one is fit for it one might directly hold the thinker; and  the thinker will automatically sink into his source,
namely Pure  Consciousness.
If one cannot directly hold the thinker one must meditate on God;
and in due course the same individual will have become sufficiently  pure to hold the thinker and sink into absolute Being.

One of the ladies was not satisfied with this answer and asked for  further elucidation.

Sri Bhagavan then pointed out that to see wrong in another is  one’s own wrong.

The DISCRIMINATION between RIGHT and WRONG  is the ORIGIN of the SIN.

One’s own sin is reflected outside and the
individual in ignorance superimposes it on another.

The best course  for one is to reach the state in which such discrimination does not  arise.
Do you see wrong or right in your sleep?
Did you not exist  in sleep?

Be asleep even in the wakeful state.
Abide as the Self and  remain uncontaminated by what goes on around.
Moreover, however much you might advise them, your hearers may  not rectify themselves. Be in the right yourself and remain silent.
Your silence will have more effect than your words or deeds.
That is the development of will-power.
Then the world becomes the
Kingdom of Heaven, which is within you.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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What is right and wrong?
There is no standard by which to judge something to be right and another to be wrong.
Opinions differ according to the nature of the individual and according to the surroundings.
They are again ideas and nothing more.
Do not worry about them but get rid of thoughts instead.
If you always remain in the right, then right will prevail in the world.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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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 haired 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.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and
hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
#Dogen
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It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.
Papaji


Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?
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Just sit still at home in Silence and stop the mind from thinking.
That's the easiest way, the best way, the simplest way.
For one week, I would like you to experiment.
I don't want you to read any book.
Don't look at any spiritual literature.
Just sit by yourself as much as you can.
And watch your mind, watch your mind.
Do whatever you have to do to slow down the mind, and then you're going to be amazed.
You will laugh at yourself.
For when the mind becomes quiescent,
Reality will rush in.
And you will see it so simple, it's so simple.
#RobertAdams


When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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We say that God is invisible to us, but in reality He is visible in the mighty manifested
universe. God is everything--not just one thing.
#ParamahansaYogananda


The day that the wrong knowledge regarding the world is eliminated by virtue of the Sadguru's advice, one becomes convinced that this entire world is only a temporary appearance.
When this happens, one becomes able to look at the world and appreciate it as if it were a cinema, or a source of entertainment, and with the detachment that has been achieved, one remains unaffected.
#SiddharameshwarMaharaj


Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised - a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat slowly, and you will be surprised - there is great relaxation.
Do everything slowly.. just to change the old pattern, just to come out of old habits.
#Osho


THE CLOSER I GET THE MORE I SEE HOW FAR I AM.
#RUMI
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The wound is the place where the light enters you.
#rumi


Your heart, my friend, must look like a polished mirror.
You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust and particles of impurities, because your heart is destined to reflect the Light of Divine Secrets. #Rumi

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Don't look for me in a human shape, I am inside your looking.
#Rumi


WHEN IAM
SILENT, I FALL INTO THE PLACE
WHERE EVERYTHING IS MUSIC.
#Rumi
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It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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There are three steps. First settle into consciousness, then witness that consciousness, in the end only emptiness remains. #SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Freedom means to surrender, to let go. People don't care about giving up everything, let everything go. They do not know that the end is the price of infinity, just as death is the the price of immortality Spiritual maturity is in a readiness to surrender everything, let everything go. Giving up is the first step. But the true abandonment is the realization that there's nothing to abandon, because nothing is your own. It's like a deep sleep You don't leave your bed when you fall asleep, you just forget about it.
#srinisargadattamaharaj
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The answers will be according to the capacity of the seeker.
It is said in the second chapter of Gita that no one is born or dies:
but in the fourth chapter Sri Krishna says that numerous incarnations of His and of Arjuna had taken place,
all known to Him but not to Arjuna.
Which of these statements is true?
Both statements are true, but from different standpoints.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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At Skandasramam a peacock would follow
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi everywhere.
One day a huge black cobra appeared in the Ashram and the peacock attacked it fiercely.
The cobra spread its hood and
the two natural enemies were poised for a fight to the death,
when Bhagavan Sri Ramana came quite near the cobra and said:
"Why did you come here?
That peacock will kill you.
Better go away at once."
The cobra immediately lowered its hood and slithered away.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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It is true
I know the innermost thoughts of you all,
but if I brought them all to light would any of you stay here?
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Realize your pure Be-ing.
Let there be no confusion with the body.
The body is the result of thoughts.
The thoughts will play as usual, but you will not be affected.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Bhagavan only slept about four or five hours every day. This meant long working hours for the attendants because one of us had to be on duty all the time he was awake. He never slept after lunch, whereas most of his devotees did. Bhagavan would often utilize this quiet time of the day to feed all the ashram's animals or to tour the ashram in order to inspect any building works that were in progress.
Bhagavan would generally go to sleep at about 10 p.m. but he would usually wake up at about 1 a.m. and go out to urinate.
When he returned he would often sit for half an hour or an hour before going back to sleep again.
Then, sometime between 3 and 4 a.m., he would wake up and go to the kitchen to cut vegetables.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


A dream lasts for a short time, the waking state lasts longer.
That is the only difference.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Watch the mind.
You must stand aloof from it.
You are not the mind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Other thoughts arise after the 'I-thought' rises; the 'I-thought' is the root of all conversation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The source and substance of the ego is only the real substance, but the real substance itself is just real awareness, which is devoid of thought and hence of the ego.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The jnani's method is only that of enquiry.
When by this method
the mind is merged in the Self, the shakti or kundalini,
which is not apart from the Self, rises automatically.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The only language able to express the whole truth is silence.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Why does God not appear before me?'
'If He appears before you in person you will not leave Him in peace.
He is not appearing because He is afraid of you.
He is afraid of manifesting in a form that you can see because He knows that if He does you will just give Him
a long list of things that you want.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Ramana Maharshi was telling me that:
To be calm is the greatest asset in the world.
It's the greatest siddhi, the greatest power you can have.
If you can only learn to be calm you will solve every problem.
This is something you must remember.
When you are perfectly calm,time stops.
There is no time, karma stops, samskaras stop.
Everything becomes null and void.
For when you are calm you are one with the entire energy of the universe and everything will go well with you.
To be calm means you are in control.
You're not worried about the situation, the outcome, what is going to happen tomorrow.
Robert Adams
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Go easy on yourself.
Whatever you do today, let it be enough.
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There is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. Each mind is connected with every other mind. And each mind, wherever it is located, is in actual communication with the whole world. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that Universal mind, little waves in the ocean; and on account of this continuity, we can convey our thoughts directly to one another.
#SwamiVivekananda
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There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
#ThichNhatHanh
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True love does not just choose one person. When true love is there, you shine like a lamp. You don't just shine on one person in the room. That light you emit is for everyone in the room. If you really have love in you, everyone around you will profit - not only humans, but animals, plants, and minerals. Love, true love, is that.
#ThichNhatHanh


AS A MAN THINKS, SO HE BECOMES.

Many a man with a show of humility says,
"I am like an earth-worm groveling in the dust."
In this way,
thinking themselves always to be worms, in time men become weak in spirit like worms. Let not despondency ever enter into your heart.
Despair is the greatest enemy in the path of progress. As a man thinks, so he becomes.
Sayings of #SriRamakrishna
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Some say that if man did not fight with man, he would not progress. I also used to think so; but I find now that every war has thrown back human progress by fifty years instead of hurrying it forwards. The day will come when men will study history from a different light and find that competition is neither the cause nor the effect, simply a thing on the way, not necessary to evolution at all.
#SwamiVivekananda
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Question: One can have a temporary experience of the Self, the underlying reality, but then it goes away. Can you offer any guidance on how to stabilise in that state?
#AnnamalaiSwami: A lamp that is lit may blow out if the wind is strong. If you want to see it again, you have to relight it. But Self is not like this. It is not a flame that can be blown out by the passing winds of thoughts and desires. It is always bright, always shining, always there. If you are not aware of it, it means that you have put a curtain or a veil in front of it that blocks your view. Self does not hide itself behind a curtain. You are the one who puts the curtain there by believing in ideas that are not true. If the curtain parts and then closes again, it means that you are still believing in wrong ideas. If you have eradicated them completely, they will not reappear. While these ideas are covering up the Self, you still need to do constant sadhana.
So, going back to your question, the Self does not need to stabilise itself. It is full and complete in itself. The mind can be stabilised or destabilised, but not the Self.
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If you can hold on to this knowledge 'I am Self' at all times, no further practice is necessary.
#AnnamalaiSwami


Q: I begin to ask myself 'Who am I?' eliminate the body as not 'l', the breath as not 'l', and I am not able to proceed further.
Bhagavan: Well, that is as far as the intellect can go. Your process is only intellectual. Indeed, all the scriptures mention the process only to guide the seeker to know the truth. The truth cannot be directly pointed out. Hence this intellectual process.
You see, the one who eliminates all the 'not I' cannot eliminate the 'I. To say 'I am not this' or 'I am that' there must be the 'I'. This
" is only the ego or the 'I'-thought. After the rising up of this ''-thought, all other thoughts arise. The 'I'-thought is therefore the root-thought. If the root is pulled out all others are at the same time uprooted.
Therefore seek the root 'I', question yourself 'Who am I?. Find out its source, and then all these other ideas will vanish and the pure Self will remain.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The state of being is permanent, and the body and the world are not. They are fleeting phenomena passing on the screen of Being/consciousness, which is eternal and stationary.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it!
#SriRamanaMaharshi


What is essential in any sadhana is to try to bring back the running mind and fix it on one thing only.
Why then should it not be brought back and fixed in Self attention?
That alone is Self-enquiry (atma-vichara).
That is all that is to be done!
#SriRamanaMaharshi


As long as a man is the doer he also reaps the fruits of his deeds, but as soon as he realises the Self through enquiry as to who is the doer, his sense of being the doer falls away and the triple karma [destiny] is ended. This is the state of eternal liberation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Why are you looking for something that you already are?
You yourself are Consciousness.
You yourself are the Self!
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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You are the Goal and you are the path.
You are the siddhi (attainment) and you are the sadhana (effort).
You are ever that SELF.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura which draw many people towards him.
Yet he may sit in a cave
and maintain complete silence.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


To turn deep within, we need to leave behind all the words, all the conceptual understanding. A conceptual understanding points us in the direction we should go, but we need to actually go in that direction. When we go in that direction, we are leaving the conceptual understanding behind and practising actual investigation of who am I. So all this philosophy, all this conceptual understanding is useful to the extent to which it encourages us to turn within. When we hold on to 'I am' so firmly that we thereby let go of anything else, the verbal teachings will go.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Truly the sage is not other than God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Disappear into the light of the one Reality, the Heart.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The state called realisation is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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You can only know your self by being yourself without any attempt at self-definition and self-description. Once you have understood that you are nothing perceivable or conceivable, that whatever appears in the field of consciousness cannot be your self, you will apply yourself to the eradication of all self-identification, as the only way that can take you to a deeper realization of your self.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Throw  out  concepts  like  ‘I have  become  very virtuous’ or ‘I am  a  great  sinner’. What  is  the  entity that  senses this?  Body-consciousness  will  not  lose  its  grasp  on  you  with  the  thought  that  your  well-being  is  the  result  of some  spiritual  activity.

All  you  need to  do is  keep observing  your  Self. Do  not  befriend  anything  that  is  visible  to  you.

If  you  have  to act  at  all,  do  only  this:  please  your  consciousness.  It  is  very  merciful.  It  will  show  you  all  that  IS,  directly. You  will  realize  that  the  immense  manifestation  never  existed.

You  are  so  microscopic  that  you  will  not  be able  to  see  yourself  through  your  knowledge.  Take  the  Guru’s  word  as  authority.  You  have  no  body.  That which  is  prior  to  consciousness  is  fathomless  peace.  Surrender  to  it.  Do  not  make  everlasting  bliss  an  object (a  goal).  You  are  beyond  objects.

The  moment  of  death  is  the  most  blissful  of  all.  There  is  nothing  else  to gain  in  this  world  except  death.  The  irony  is  that  where  there  is  fear  of  death,  at  that  very  point  is  the  ocean of bliss.

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The urgency to find yourself out is a sign you are getting ready.
Momentum always comes from within Unless the time has come, you'll have neither the desire nor the strength to begin the self-investigation with full confidence.
#srinisargadattamaharaj
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just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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There are no individuals; there are only food bodies with the knowledge 'I Am'
There is no difference between an ant, human being and 'Iswara'... they are of the same quality.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


There is No Greater fortune than having Self-knowledge!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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When the concept that you are your body is proved false through your own experience.
You will know the
Nature of Paramatman!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


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How ever,
out of millions a rare one follows the Sadguru!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Your Consciousness is the flavour of the Absolute.
The Absolute contains an infinite number of Universes!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Make your Own Decision, Choose for yourself.
Do not depend upon other people.
You must worship this knowledge,
Which is listening to the word of the Guru!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Know that you are not the Body, but the knower of the body
• Give full attention,
Keep in mind that you are the Light in the body and then act.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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If you could transcend yourself just once, the secret of all secrets would open to you and the face of the unknown, hidden beyond the Universe, would appear on the mirror of your perception. #Rumi


I looked in temples, churches and mosques.
But I found the Divine within my heart!
#Rumi


Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
#Rumi
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There is a voice that doesn't use words.
Listen.
#Rumi
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Where there is the continuum of pure thought, there definitely is a path to the diminution of karmas. As long as the goal is not attained, the fruit of action, nonaction and wrong action has to be experienced.
#AnandamayeeMa
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One thousand
Kriyas practiced in eight hours gives the yogi, in one day, the equivalent of one thousand years of natural evolution:
365,000 years of evolution in one year.
Autobiography of a Yogi, by #ParamhansaYogananda

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Eternal life of God flows through me. I am immortal. Behind the wave of my mind is an ocean of cosmic consciousness.
#paramahansayogananda
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That which is the subtle essence (the root of all),
in that all that exists has its Self; that is the Truth.
That is the self, that thou art.
#ChhandogyaUpanishad
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That which makes the mind think but cannot be thought by the mind, that is the self indeed.
This self is not something other than you.
#KenaUpnishad
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The state we call Realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
If one has realized, he is That which alone is, and which alone has always been. He cannot describe that state. He can only be That.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Standing in the middle ground, untouched by the suffering of either desire or aversion, move only as the grace of that Lord God moves you!
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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


The self is not allained by doing anything but remaining still and being as we are.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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God illumines the mind and shines within it.
One cannot know God by means of the mind.
One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


M.:
I' is never new.
It is eternally the same.
Q.:
Do you mean to say that there is no progress?
M.:
Progress is perceived by the outgoing mind.
Everything is still when the mind is introverted
and the Self is sought.
Q.:
The Sciences-
what becomes of them?
M.:
They all end in the Self.
The Self is their finality.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


O mind,
it is not wise for you to come out (in 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


There is not such thing as peace of mind.
Mind means Disturbance.
Restlessness itself is mind!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Whatever You can Forget cannot be the Eternal!
The Absolute cannot be
remembered
because it cannot be forgotten!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Liberation comes
through listening.
It cannot be known through Austerities orjapa.
When the words of the Sadguru are understood and remembered,
Perfection follows without effort.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


A person with body
Consciousness cannot
understand this.
First of all you must acquire God
- Consciousness through meditation.
You must have the conviction that,
" I am not an individual, but lam God.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Life seems such a tangible reality, and yet it is elusive. Every minute is precious. Today is yours; you can't be sure about tomorrow. I remind myself of this every day. One by one we slip away.
Others will come and we shall go. But the body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God. Reincarnation means merely a change or mortar dress. But your real self will never change. You must concentrate on your real self, not on the body, which is nothing but a garment.
#SriParamahansaYogananda
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#AnandamayiMa


To cry out to Him is never in vain.
So long as no response is received, the prayer must be continued.
#AnandamayiMa


Every moment belongs to God.
Anandamayee Ma
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The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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A: Why don't most people go to the spiritual end?
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj :
They are not in search of truth but only in search of peace and happiness.
When they get it, they are satisfied and settle there!
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Keep quiet, undisturbed, and the wisdom and the power will come on their own.
You need not hanker. Wait in silence of the heart and mind. It is very easy to be quiet, but willingness is rare.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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The gospel of Self Realization, once heard,
Will never be forgotten.
Like a seed left in the ground it will wait for the right season and sprout and grow into a mighty tree.
Once you say,
"I want to find Truth,"
all your life will be deeply affected by it.
All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.
If you are earnest, whatever way you choose will take you to your goal.
It is the earnestness that is the decisive factor.
[Earnestness] is the homing instinct which makes the bird return to its nest and the fish to the mountain stream where it was born.
The seed returns to the earth when the fruit is ripe.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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You clean your mind by watching it relentlessly.
Inattention obscures, attention clarifies.
Attention brings you back to the present, the Now,
and in the Now is a state ever at hand but rarely noticed!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Pay no attention to thoughts. 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.
#SriNisargdattaMaharaj
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Being needs no proof; it proves all else.
If only you go deeply into the fact of Being and discover the vastness and the glory to which the "I am" is the door, and cross the door and go beyond, your life will be full of happiness and light.
Believe me; the effort needed is as nothing when compared to the discoveries arrived at.
Pure Being,
filling all and beyond all, is not existence which is limited.
All limitation is imaginary, only the unlimited is real.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Knowing the Self means being the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Fasting should be chiefly mental abstention from thoughts.
Mere abstinence from food will do no good, it will even upset the mind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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


There is no reaching the Self.
If Self were to be reached,
it would mean that the Self is not here and now and
that it is yet to be obtained.
What is got afresh will also be lost.
So it will be impermanent.
What is not permanent is not worth striving for.
So I say the Self is not reached.
You are the Self, you are already that.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Q: Even so, I do not understand. 'I', you say, is the wrong 'l' now. How to eliminate the wrong "'?
A: You need not eliminate the wrong 'I'.
How can 'l' eliminate itself? All that you need do is to find out its origin and abide there. Your efforts can extend only thus far.
Then the beyond will take care of itself. You are helpless there. No effort can reach it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Q: Is it possible for a person who once has had the experience of sat-chit-ananda in meditation to identify himself with the body when out of meditation?
A: Yes, it is possible, but he gradually loses the identification in the course of his practice. In the floodlight of the Self the darkness of illusion dissipates for ever.
Experience gained without rooting out all the vasanas cannot remain steady. Efforts must be made to eradicate the vasanas; knowledge can only remain unshaken after all the vasanas are rooted out.
We have to contend against age-long mental tendencies. They will all go. Only they go comparatively soon in the case of those who have made sadhana in the past and later in the case of others.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Q: How can I tell if I am making progress with my enquiry?
A: The degree of the absence of thoughts is the measure of your progress towards Self-realization. But Selfrealization itself does not admit of progress, it is ever the same.
The Self remains always in realization. The obstacles are thoughts. Progress is measured by the degree of removal of the obstacles to understanding that the Self is always realized. So thoughts must be checked by seeking to whom they arise. So you go to their source, where they do not arise.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The moment
you withdraw your mind from external objects and turn inward,
you taste real peace and feel happy.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


God is in all and in the scer.
He should be felt within.
The consciousness within, purged of the mind, is felt as God.
Soul, mind, or ego are mere words.
There are no such entitics.
Consciousness alone is the only truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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People seem to think that by practicing some elaborate sadhana the Self will one day descend upon them as something very big and with tremendous glory, giving them what is called sakshatkaram direct experience.
The Self is sakshat direct all right, but there is no karam or kritam about it. The word karam implies doing something. But the Self is realised not by doing something but by refraining from doing anything, by remaining still and being simply what one really is.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The state we call realisation is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Q: Should I go on asking 'Who am I?' without answering? Who asks whom? Which bhavana attitude should be in the mind at the time of enquiry? What is 'I', the Self or the ego?
A: In the enquiry 'Who am I?', ' is the ego.
The question really means, what is the source or origin of this ego? You need not have any bhavana attitude in the mind. All that is required is that you must give up the bhavana that you are the body, of such and such a description, with such and such a name, etc. There is no need to have a bhavana about your real nature. It exists as it always does. It is real and no bhavana.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the funeral pyre, it will itself be burnt up in the end. Then, there will be Self-realization.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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What does stillness mean?
It means 'Destroy yourself'; because every name and form is the cause of trouble. 'I-l' is the Self. 'I am this' is the ego.
When the 'l' is kept up as the 'I' only, it is the Self.
When it flies off at a tangent and says, 'I am this or that. I am such and such, it is the ego.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Each one wants to know the Self.
What kind of help does one require to know oneself?
People want to see the Self as something new. But it is eternal and remains the same all along.
They desire to see it as a blazing light etc.
How can it be so?
It is not light, not darkness. It is only as it is.
It cannot be defined. The best definition is
'I am that I am'.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
#Rumi
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