Tao Te Ching - Verse 1
The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.
#LaoTzu


Some lose yet gain, others gain, yet lose.
#LaoTzu
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Transformation of gunas
A being, here & there, rupa & arupa, always have its gunas alters between aguna & saguna in respond to situational events.
Of saguna, Nara' narayana is in human form. In order to protect the dharma (rightiousness), transformed into Nara'simha (man-lion), of saguna-aguna as to destroy adharma (unrightiousness).
This is to prove that gunas (agunas, sagunas, nirgunas) of a being is subjected to change based on how it react to the situational need.
Consciousness is like a your shadow following you in the sun light otherwise like the mirror reflection, truly the causes & effects, it is the resultant of your action, create you.
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Truly there never was a time when I was not, nor you, nor these lords of men-nor in the future will there be a time when we shall cease to be.

Krishna from the Bhagavad Gita 2:12


Your ultimate need is to get established in the changeless peace of the Self. For this you have to give up all thoughts.
#AnnamalaiSwami


Each moment contains a hundred messages from God. For every cry of
"Oh God!" He answers a hundred times
"I am here."
#Rumi


Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears.
Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply.
This is mindfulness.
#ThichNhatHanh
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I reject the concept of karma and reincarnation as a potentially cruel false belief and nonsense to any logically rationally thinking person.
The Buddha did not believe in karma. He understood it. Karma is simply that, when we do something, we are more likely to do it again. When we do the same thing over and over, it is a habit, and habits have obvious consequences. Karma is nothing more than what every smoker, person who likes sugar, and health nut knows about how people work.
And the Buddha did not believe in an afterlife.
He specifically rejected all ideas of what happens before or after bodily death and encouraged people to be aware of their actions right now and what will come now or soon as a result. "Rebirth" was about ideas, not people. Say I have a habit of getting angry and thinking harsh words. Each time I think and feel that way, I'm more likely to think and feel that way again later. That is, those thoughts and feelings will keep coming back. They will be reborn. And people will see me as an angry person. That's karma. That's the Buddha's idea of rebirth.


There is nothing to do.
Just be.
Do nothing Be..!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Abandon false ideas, that is all.
There is no need of
True ideas.
There aren't any!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Your problems will come to an end when your body-consciousness goes.
You have a sense of self-identity that makes you anxious.
You are creating pains while looking for pleasures.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world.


Matter is perishable,
but God is immortal and imperishable.
He, the only God,
rules over the perishable matter and the individual souls.
By meditating upon Him, by union with Him,
finally there is cessation of all illusion.
#SvetasvataraUpanishad
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All human beings are Buddha by nature.
Like ice by nature it is water.
There is no ice without water.
No Buddha without human being.
#HakuinEkaku
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Gautam Buddha was trying for his enlightenment for six years; it was a lengthy process. He was following many methods, many paths. He was doing whatsoever is humanly possible to do, but nothing was happening. He was moving in circles; he was where he had started, he was not going anywhere else. He was becoming tired, utterly tired. Finally one evening this sudden illumination happened to him that his whole effort was irrelevant.

Enlightenment is not something like an achievement; one cannot achieve it. One has to disappear for it to happen. It is a happening and it happens only in the absence of the ego. And whenever you are doing some thing the ego becomes more and more strengthened. The ego is a doer, and enlightenment happens in a state of nondoing. It is simply the realization of who you are; it is not a question of achievement. You are already it! Just an awakening, just a turning in!

Seeing the point, Buddha relaxed; he dropped all his methods. That is the only use of methods: you get tired of them, you feel utterly bored with them. One day out of sheer boredom you drop all the methods.

That evening he dropped his whole spiritual search. He had dropped all worldly search six years before, but it is the same search whether you are seeking money or meditation, whether you are seeking power or enlightenment, whether you are running after prestige or God -- it is the same thing! The mind needs some object to run after. The mind wants something to desire. It wants an objective goal; whatsoever that objective goal is doesn't matter -- XYZ, anything will do.

Seeing the point, "It is the same mind --  I have renounced the world, but I have not renounced the mind, and the mind is the real  world. And these six years I have only been changing the objects of my desire, bu t I have not dropped desiring. Instead of money, now I desire enlightenment. Instead of power, now I desire ultimate truth. But is there any difference? It is the same desiri ng mind, the same ambitious ego; in fact, it has become more subtle. It was gross before, now it is very subtle..." seeing it, he laughed. These six years he had not laughed at all, he had been serious. He laughed at the whole ridiculousness of the effort.

Spiritual effort is more ridiculous than  the worldly effort. The  worldly effort has a certain relevance, but the spiritual effort has no relevance.

He relaxed -- obviously, naturally. Not that he made an effort to relax: relaxation came to him because there was nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. Relaxation simply came to him; from the beyond something descended. He fell into deep rest.

That night he slept for the first time with out dreams. When there are no desires there are no dreams; dreams are reflections of desires. That night there was no nightmare; for six years he had been suffering from many nightmares. A nightmare simply says that you are desiring impossible things; hence your night is disturbed, your sleep is disturbed. There is no rest; it is feverish, it is pathological, it is not healthy. For the first time in his life he relaxed and slept well, totally, like a small child newly born.

Deeply rested, in the morning when he opened his eyes the last star was disappearing from the sky. Seeing the last star disappear, the last trace of the ego disappeared in him. He had found it -- but he had found it without any effort. It had happened, but it had happened not as a goal, not as an achievement -- it had happened out of deep relaxation.
#Osho
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Reform yourself first
and let us then see about the rest.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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All that we need to do is to keep quiet.
Peace is lour real nature. Peace is the only reality.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of silence.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The thoughts are the enemy. They amount to the creation of the Universe. In their absence there is neither the world nor God the creator. The Bliss of the Self is the single Being only.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting.
To know one's Self is to be blissful always.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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So long as an external object is required for happiness, incompleteness is felt.
When it is felt that atman alone is there, permanent happiness stays.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely due to the fact that happiness is his real nature.
Hence, in order to realize that inherent and untainted happiness, which indeed he daily experiences when the mind is subdued in deep sleep, it is essential that he should know himself.
For obtaining such knowledge the inquiry 'Who am I?' in quest of the Self is the best means.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Man's search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Your nature is Peace and Happiness.
Thoughts are the obstacles to realization.
A thought must be quelled as soon as it rises.
Whenever a thought arises, do not be carried away by it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Bliss comes only from inside ourselves and it is most intense when we are free from thoughts and perceptions.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The means by which this mind, which is restless and moves about quicker than the wind, can be brought under control, is indeed the means to obtain liberation;
it indeed is what is good for those who seek the permanent Reality;
it itself is Pure Consciousness and the state of firmness;
moreover, it alone is the righteous duty to be followed by discerning aspirants;
it alone is the pilgrimage to holy waters;
it alone is charity; it alone is austerities. Know that there is no doubt about this.

When the mind moves even a little,
that is samsara(worldly bondage);
when the mind abides firmly and
motionlessly (in the state of Self),
that is mukti (liberation).
This is certain.
Therefore know that the wise man must hold his mind firm by supreme Self-awareness.

The happiness attained in this aloneness is the highest, boundless bliss. Which learned persons will not revel in that Supreme Reality, in which there is absolutely no action?
Tell me.

Being rid of the worldly knowledge, the great hero who has acquired pure wisdom, in which there are no sense objects, and which is all pervading and without any form, will attain immutable moksha without fail, even though he may have no desire to attain liberation.

The consciousness (chaitanya) associated with the aspect ‘am’ is called Sakti. The universe shines by its light.
The entire creation is Sakti’s sankalpa (thought). The state (of mind) which is completely devoid of all attachment is the pure (wisdom) to be attained.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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# ***The struti declares us, first reject
that you are not, then negate what you are not, then assert what you are.You are not jagath, you are not body mind intellect senses. If I identify with body, I have birth, olddage disease death. If I identify with mind I have kama krodha etc, If I identify with intellect I have good and bad goals, understandings. If I negate like this that I am not all this.
Then nothingness-sunya comes karana sareera.
***
# ***Who knows this sunya that I am
that Tatvam asi, aham brahmasmi.
Then I am free from all that I am not, their problems. I am pure atma.
Atma bodh.***
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Tripple Path of Sadhana
JAP -TAP-DHYAN
Dhyaan - Focusing on one object for a fixed period of time (meditation)
Sadhana - Working towards an objective on a daily basis without distraction (chanting of mantra)
Tabasya - Dedicating all your time, energy and focus on achieving one goal (builds heat /taap in the body) usually isolale themselves to avoid gelling distracted from outside.
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Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself. everything that you want, you are already that.
#Rumi


WHEN WILL YOU
FIND GOD?
When all your desires for other things are finished.
When you realise that the Only thing worth having is
Him.
When every thought, every feeling is drenched with the thought of God.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Some lose yet gain, others gain, yet lose.
#LaoTzu
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I wish you deep, deep in love of God;
I wish you to dissolve in God.
#BabaHariDass
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YOU ARE
A MOUNTAIN
SEARCHING FOR
ITS ECHO.
#Rumi
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When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
#Rumi


Once you express your sorrow from the bottom of your heart it will be washed away. Look at a flower it can never hide its scent nor its color.
#Rumi
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Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is within you.
#Rumi
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Anything born in spring dies in fall, but love is not seasonal.
#Rumi
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At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening.
If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
#HakuinEkaku
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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
#ZenKoan
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You don't really exist. That is, as an ego, a soul, a separate will. When you realize this, you're liberated.
#AlanWatts
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I'm referring to a kind of experience, a kind of... shall we say, state of consciousness, which seems to be as prevalent among human beings as measles. It's something that simply happens, and we don't know why it happens. And although there are all sorts of techniques which claim to be able to promote it and which are more or less successful in doing so and sometimes rather less than more, nevertheless, there is this peculiar thing that happens to people, and it's been recorded as far back in time as we have any recording at all, and that is coming over people the peculiarly convincing sensation that their ordinary sense of individuality, personal identity, is transcended...
#AlanWatts
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Love yourself and stop acting small, You are the Universe in human form.
You are not just part of creation, but creators of your own reality.
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I invite you to open to the next moment and allow it to have its own richness. Nothing will kill the glow faster than clinging.
I was with Aldous Huxley years ago, and I didn't know him well, but when we were together there were just a few words he kept using:
"Extraordinary," "How curious," and
"How odd." I realized that everything in life is extraordinary if I just want to look. It's true there's nothing new under the sun, and yet it's all fresh.
#RamDass
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LIVE IN THE HEART

Live in your heart rather than in your head.
If life wants to announce a direction (for you to go in), it will prepare the way for you by presenting feelings in your body and mind to enable that movement to occur. And when your mind is seated in your heart, even if you should feel torn, other beings will come at precisely the right time to facilitate whatever transition needs to happen. Not only does your life become wind assisted, but you will also discover how miraculous this existence is.
#Mooji
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When you transcend the limited eyes of the ego, you begin to see with the eyes of God.
#moojii
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Surrender vour fear.
Something will come that is greater than what the fear is trying to protect.
#Mooji
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There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.
#RobertAdams
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Be intentional with your energy. Be intentional with your time. Be intentional with your words.
Be intentional with your craft. Be intentional with your breathing. Be intentional with your heart.
Be intentional with your habits. Be intentional with your focus. Be intentional with your self-talk.
Be intentional with your life. This is your power.
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om
It's considered one of the most powerful words in the Universe because the vibration from chanting its three lyrical syllables call our body, mind and spirit
home.
ahhh 0000 mmm
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Morality says, "Always keep your promises." Wisdom says, "Never make promises because you only know the present moment. You don't know how things will turn out in future.
Morality binds you. Wisdom frees you.
Morality is the path of Bhishma. Wisdom is the path of Krishna.
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Gentleness is powerful.
When we use gentle and loving speech, we are able to transform all the anger, fear, resentment, and suspicion in our communication. The whole intention of loving speech is to understand the other person and to be understood.
#ThichNhatHanh
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If the Buddha and the Christ were to meet today what do they have to tell each other?" not only do they meet today but they met yesterday, they met last night, they are always in me and they are very peaceful and united with each other. There is no conflict at all between the Buddha and the Christ in me.
They are real brothers, they are real sisters within me. This is part of the answer.
#ThichNhatHanh
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One time Ma was walking in the courtyard near the
mango tree. From the leaves of the mango tree, drops of honey were falling on the floor. The floor under the tree was sticky. Seeing this Ma said. "Once upon a time similarly honey used to drop from
the hair of this body. As a result the hair had become matted.
#anandamayima
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Our relationship with God is not a cold impersonal one, like that between employer and employee. We are His children. He has to listen to us! There is no way that we can get away from the fact that we are His children. We are not merely creatures created by Him; we are a part of Him.
He made us princes, but we have
We are made in His image, but we have somehow forgotten that truth.
We have succumbed to the delusion that we are mortal beings, and we must sunder the veil of that delusion with the dagger of wisdom.
#ParamhansaYogananda
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No human language can describe the joy to be discovered in the silence of the mind."
The spiritually deep man lives day and night in a quiet inner silence.
You, however, need to convince yourself; you need to meditate and create that environment.
Those who meditate deeply feel a wonderful inner stillness.
This inner stillness is maintained throughout the day and night: in social interactions, in intimate relationships, in life.
This inner stillness is not broken even with the impact of colliding worlds...
In your intimate temple of silence, with your awake intuition, receive
God.
#paramahansayogananda
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The wise man should always strive for the cessation of thought.
#Vivekachudamani


Brahman is neither void nor nonvoid. It is neither pure nor impure. It is neither all nor none. Being the selfsame Brahman, O mind, why do you weep?
#SriDattatreya


Lord Rama asks Hanuman Ji
"How do you perceive me as?"
Hanuman Ji answered thus:
Oh Lord, while I identify mysell with my body, I am your servant When I consider myself as Individual Soul, I am Your part.
But when I look upon myself as the eternal Truth, I am one with Bu.


The Self-realized ( Yogis ) have no particular path. They simply renounce duality by ceasing to imagine things. For them, liberation is easily attained.
#SriDattatreya


As a boat on the water is swept away by a strong wind, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man's intelligence.
#JAYSHREEHARI
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Rare indeed, my son, is the lucky man whose observation of the world's behaviour has led to the extinction of his thirst for living, thirst for pleasure, and thirst for knowledge.
If you would just see the transformations of the elements as nothing more than the elements, then you would immediately be freed from all bonds and established in your own nature.
#AshtavakraGita
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He who has known for certain that 'Isvara' the Self is the creator of all and that there is none else here in the universe, becomes peaceful with all his inner desires set at rest, and is not attached to anything whatsoever.
#AstavakraSamhita
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Remember that the
Knowledge
"You are' is the
Guru- God!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginning-less, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


no happening affects your real being - This is the absolute truth.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Seeker: Why is there so much suffering in this world? Maharaj: You, as a witness You will not be sad if you stay. The world will appear to you like a play,a very interesting play.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Seeker - Why am I afraid of death?
Maharaja - He who thinks he is born is very much afraid of death. On the contrary, one who knows himself sees death as a happy event.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Once the mind is quiet,
Keep it quiet.
Don't get bored with peace.
Be in it.
Go deeper into it.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


A devotee asked Sri Bhagavan,
"What is your feeling when hundreds of people come and do pranams to you?"
Without hesitation,
Sri Bhagavan replied:
"First I do my namaskarams to each one of them
as soon as they enter this room, and then only they do so.
Subsiding one's ego is the right and real form of doing namaskarams. Do I not have more chances each day to do such namaskarams than
anyone who comes here?"

Sadhu Om explains:
This reply of His contains a lot of secret and deep meaning to ponder over.
The essence of the instruction given here is that being ever humble, without allowing the rising of the ego, is the only way to achieve greatness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Devotee: Is it not that the 'I' exists only in relation to a 'this' (aham - idam)?
BHAGAVAN: I, 'this' appear together now.
But 'this' is contained (vyaptam) in the ' - they are not apart. 'This' has to merge into and become one with 'I. The 'I' that remains over is the true 'I.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Do not react to any action that takes place in, by, and around you.
Act but do not react is one secret principle.
The other, is to totally and experientially understand that things and actions, in and around you, happen through you and are not done by you.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Yesterday a Bengali Swami in ochre robes by name Hrishikesanand came here. This morning from 8-30 to 11-00 Bhagavan continuously discussed spiritual matters with him. That voice flowed full of nectar and uninterruptedly like the waters of the Ganges. How can my pen keep pace with that great flow? That amrit (nectar) can only be drunk deep with the hand of devotion: how can it be gathered and conveyed on paper?

When Sri Bhagavan was relating his experiences in Madurai of the vision of death, these eyes were incapable of taking in the radiance of his personality, these ears of grasping the full wisdom of his words. It is natural for the enthusiasm of one who relates an incident to reflect the level of intelligence of him who listens.

I should have given you a more detailed account of the questions asked by the Swami and the replies given by Bhagavan; only at present the place reserved for ladies in the hall is rather far from Bhagavan and, as I happened to be sitting at the back, I could not hear properly all that was being discussed. I did however hear one thing clearly.

Bhagavan Sri Ramana said,

“In the vision of death,
though all the senses were benumbed,
the aham sphurana (Self-awareness) was clearly evident,
and so I realised that
it was that awareness
that we call ‘I’,
and not the body.
This Self-awareness never decays.
It is unrelated to anything.
It is Self-luminous.
Even if this body is burnt,
it will not be affected.
Hence, I realized on that very day so clearly that that was ‘I’.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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It is not at all correct to say that advaitins of the Sankara school deny the existence of the world, or that they call it unreal.
On the other hand, it is more real to them than to others. Their world will always exist whereas the world of the other schools will have origin, growth and decay, and as such cannot be real.
They only say that the world as 'world' is not real, but that the world as Brahman is real. All is Brahman, nothing exists but Brahman, and the world as Brahman is real.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The practice of fixing the mind in its own source in the Heart is, without doubt, true bhakti, yoga, and understanding.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Bhagavan spoke about turning inwards to face the Self. That is all that is needed. If we look outwards, we become entangled with objects and we lose awareness of the Self shining within us. But when, by repeated practice, we gain the strength to keep our focus on the Self within, we become one with it and the darkness of Self ignorance vanishes. Then, even though we continue to live in this false and unreal body, we abide in an ocean of bliss that never fades or diminishes.

This is not going to happen in a moment because lifetimes of wrong and ignorant thinking have made it impossible for most of us to focus intently and regularly on the Self within.

If you leave your house and start walking away from it, and if you continue this habit over many lives, you will probably be a long, long way from home when you finally decide that you have had enough and that you want to go back to the place from where you started.

Don't be discouraged by the length of the journey, and don't slacken in your efforts to get home. Turn 180° to face the source of your outward journey, and keep moving back to where you started.

Ignore the pain, the discomfort, and the frustration of seeming not to get anywhere. Keep moving back to your source, and don't let anything distract you on the way. Be like the river on its journey back to the sea. It doesn't stop, take diversions, or decide to flow uphill for a while. It doesn't become distracted. It just moves slowly and steadily back to the place from where its waters originated. And when the river dissolves in the ocean, river is no more – only Ocean remains.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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


Descending from the head to the Heart is the beginning of sadhana.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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God will answer your call by whatever name you call Him and will appear in whatever form you worship Him.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


To bring about peace means to be free from thoughts and to abide as
Pure Consciousness.
If one remains at peace oneself, there is only peace all about.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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


Give up all efforts and surrender.
Let the 'I' that wants the divine world die, and the Divine in you will be realised here and now.
For it is already in you as the Self, not different from the Divine (Brahman), nameless and formless.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The reality which shines fully, without misery and without a body, not only when the world is known but also when the world is not known, is your real form (nija-swarupa).
The radiance of consciousness-bliss, in the form of one awareness shining equally within and without, is the supreme and blissful primal reality. Its form is silence and it is declared by Janis (Self-realised) to be the final and unobstructable state of true knowledge (nana).
Know that inana alone is non-attachment; inana alone is purity; jnana is the attainment of God; jnana which is devoid of forgetfulness of Self alone is immortality;
Jnana alone is everything.
#SriRamanaMaharshi

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Liberation is not anywhere outside you. It is only within. If a man is anxious for deliverance, the internal Guru pulls him in and the external Guru pushes him into the Self. This is the grace of the Guru.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


What should I do
What not to do
Not even understood - Devotee.
Don't worry about it.
Which job because of you
To be done
What is destined, it will happen.
Even if you like it or don't.
#SriRamanaMaharishi


The Guru is the bestower of silence who reveals the light of Self-knowledge which shines as the residual reality. Spoken words are of no use whatsoever if the eyes of the Guru meet the eyes of the disciple.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Don't go with the flow.
Be the flow.
#Rumi


Feel yourself being quietly drawn by the deeper pull of what you truly love.
#Rumi
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Your mind is a
garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
#Osho
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The first Love has to be
Towards Oneself -
only from that Centre can Other Kinds Of Love Arise.
#Osho


TO LIVE THE MOMENT,
TO LIVE IT TOTALLY AND FREELY, IS TO DELIGHT IN EXISTENCE. #OSHO


I don't teach you positive thinking, because positive thinking carries the negative in its wake. I teach you transcendence - neither positive nor negative. Be a watcher: witness both.
#Osho
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star disappear, the last trace of the ego disappeared in him. He had found it - - but he had found it without any effort. It had happened, but it had happened not as a goal, not as an achievement - - it had happened out of deep relaxation.
#OSHO
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To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.
#SRINISARGADATTAMAHARAJ
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Freedom means freeing your hands.
People just have no intention of giving up on everything. They know not that the price of infinity is death, just as death is the price of immortality.
Spiritual maturity is in letting go of everything. This resignation is the first step.
But the real renunciation is realizing that there is nothing to give up, because nothing is yours. It's like in deep sleep: you don't give up your bed when you fall asleep - you just forget about it "
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Questioner: But ultimately is there a world, or is there none?
Maharaj: What you see is nothing but your self.
Call it what you like, it does not change the fact.
Through the film of destiny your own light depicts pictures on the screen.
You are the viewer, the light, the picture and the screen.
Even the film of destiny (prarabha) is self-selected and self-imposed.
The spirit is a sport and enjoys to overcome obstacles.
The harder the task
the deeper and wider his self-realization.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Love has no limits.
What is limited to only a few can't be called love.
Don't pretend to love others as you love yourself. Unless you have realized them as one with yourself, you cannot love them.
#srinisargadattamaharaj
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When you get true knowledge, you will say that there was no need for me to acquire the world and the knowledge of the world.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Unless the witnessing consciousness begins to play on the person and it becomes the object of observation rather than the subject, realization is not feasible.
It is the witness that makes realization desirable and attainable.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Remember that nothing that happens in the mind is 'You', and none of it is your business. You don't have to worry about the thoughts that rise up inside you. It is enough that you remember that the thoughts are not you.
#AnnamalaiSwami


when we subside into our "heart', the innermost core of our being, where our true self-awareness shines free from all adjuncts, all thoughts, all imaginations, all duality and all forms of limitation, our mind will disappear in the absolute clarity of that pure self-awareness. Just as an imaginary snake will disappear when we see clearly that what we mistook to be a snake is, in fact, only a rope. Because our mind is false knowledge about ourself - an imagination that we are a material body - the experience of true self-knowledge will reveal that it is unreal.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Whoever desires liberation? Everyone wants only happiness - happiness too as found in the enjoyment of the senses. This question was asked of a Guru, and the latter answered: "Quite so. That happiness which is the result of enjoyment by the senses is the same as that of liberation. That desire of such liberation is one of the four qualifications  for attainment. This is common to all. So all are eligible for this knowledge - Self-knowledge."

In fact there may not be found any individual in the world who possesses all the qualities in perfection necessary for an aspirant as mentioned in Yoga Sutras, etc. Still pursuit of Self-knowledge should not be abandoned.

Everyone is the Self by his own experience. Still he is not aware, he identifies the Self with the body and feels miserable. This is the greatest of all mysteries. One is the Self. Why not abide as the Self and be done with miseries?

In the beginning one has to be told that he is not the body, because he thinks that he is the body only. Whereas he is the body and all else. The body is only a part. Let him know it finally. He must first discern consciousness from insentience and be the consciousness only. Later let him realise that insentience is not apart from consciousness.

This is discrimination (viveka). The initial discrimination must persist to the end. Its fruit is liberation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


This perception of the division between the observer and the object being seen, is positioned in the mind.
For those who stay in the heart, the watcher becomes one with the vision.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Cease to be a knower, then there is perfection.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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So long as there is the sense of doership, there is the sense of enjoyment and of individual will.
But if this sense is lost through the practice of vichara, the divine will will act and guide the course of events. Fate is overcome by jnana, Self-knowledge, which is beyond will and fate.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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


Plunge the purified mind into the Heart.
Then the work is over.
This is the essence of all spiritual discipline.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Keep your mind calm.
That's enough.
You will receive spiritual help sitting in this room if u just keep quiet
The aim of every practice is to abandon all practices.
When the mind becomes motionless, the power of Being will be experienced.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Q: Can a jnani help not only those who follow his path but also others who follow other paths such as yoga?
A: Undoubtedly. He can help people whatever path they choose to follow. It is something like this. Suppose there is a hill.
There will be very many paths to climb it. If he were to ask people to climb by the way he came, some may like it and some may not. If people who do not like it are asked to climb by that path, and by that path only, they will not be able to come up.
Hence a jnani helps people following any particular path, whatever it may be. People who are midway may not know about the merits and demerits of other paths, but one who has climbed to the summit and sits there observing others coming up is able to see all the paths. He will therefore be able to tell people who are coming up to move a little to this side or that or to avoid a pitfall. The goal is the same for all.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Q.: Is God personal?
M.: Yes,
He is always the first person, the I
ever standing before you.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The best is heart to heart speech and heart to heart hearing.
That is the best upadesa.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


I have not said that a Guru is not necessary.
But a Guru need not always be in human form. First a person thinks that he is an inferior and that there is a superior, all-knowing, all powerful God who controls his own and the world's destiny and worships him or does Bhakti. When he 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 'That God is within yourself. Dive within and realize'. God, Guru and the Self are the same.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Bhagavan with a smile placed his little finger over his eye and said:
Look.
This little finger covers the eye and prevents the whole world from being seen.
In the same way this small mind covers the whole universe and prevents the Brahman from being seen.
See how powerful it is!
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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"I am" alone is;
and not
"I am so and so"
or
"I am such and such"

#SriRamanaMaharshi


Think of Him in all your activities. The self will reveal from all actions. Do not think of any action, separate (from Him) - verily He Himself is. Who is that power of action?
You yourself are. Who is that energy? He Himself is.
#AnandamayeeMa
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One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.
#SriParamahansaYogananda


Treat your consciousness as the Guru.
Convince yourself by saying that you are Brahman.
There is nothing as perfect as
Self-realization.
There is nothing as imperfect as body-consciousness.
The Guru's word is 'I am formless, sinless, pure consciousness'.
A true devotee should never give importance to what people say.
#SriNisargaduttaMaharaj
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No particular thaught can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself.
#SriNisargdattaMaharaj
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The body is made of food and the mind is made of thoughts. Look at them in the same sense. The detachment from the body-mind is called liberation.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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What is its name? It is Mahatatva, Moolmaya, Primary Illusion, 'I amness' (So Hum) or 'I am the manifest Brahman'.
Manifested Brahma is the 'I am', whatever principle is prior to the utterance of sound, that principle proclaims by itself.
What I insist is, that you must stabilize is that state. The recitation of the mantra 'So Hum' must be for very long time, it is prior to words. When that 'So Hum' principle, is pleased, that principle, represented by these words, expounds knowledge....The 'So Hum' Japa is incessantly going on in your pulse, indicating 'I am'; get in tune with it by recitation...
The primordial principle is 'Parabrahman', its advertisement is
done by movement, the stirrings of 'So Hum'. By its movement it is praising the primordial principle, that advertising material is the Moolmaya (Primary Illusion).
That dynamic principal, Moolmaya, pervades everything in the world and is stirring... You must do penance with a strong determination and dwell on touch of 'I amness'; that 'I
am' is everything.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Everybody loves his body, but few love their real being.
Your real being is love itself and your many loves are its reflections
according to the situation at the moment.
Love your self wisely and
you will reach the summit of perfection.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Keep quiet
until you are not
Aware of
Your Silence.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


What is the root of the pain?"
The ignorance of one's self
What is the root of desire
The desire to find oneself
All creation moves in the direction of its being and will not rest until it returns to it.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Awareness becomes
Consciousness when it has an object.
The object changes all the time.
in Consciousness there is movement,
Awareness by itself is
Motionless and
Timeless,
Here and Now!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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To know that you need nothing to be happy. except
Self-knowledge, is Wisdom!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Self Knowledge always
comes from within, all the
sacred scriptures can
only serve as a guidepost.


The one who awakens
from the waking state is
a Buddha. He rests in Silence as Silence & is
ever blissful & contented.


Surrender itself
is a mighty prayer.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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


There is no other way to succeed than to draw the mind back every time it turns outwards and fix it in the Self. There is no need for meditation or mantra or japa or anything of the sort, because these are our real nature.
All that is needed is to give up thinking of objects other than the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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There was a devotee who remarked to Sri Ramana that manonasha
(destruction of the mind) implied that one could no longer function and therefore was frightening.
Sri Ramana replied, "Many fear that with the destruction of the mind, they themselves will cease to exist.
But manonasha is nothing to be feared.
What we conceive of now as mind is only a combination of rajas and tamas. By their elimination, the mind becomes shuddha (pure). Such a mind is one's own real nature (svarupa). The activities of one whose mind has been purified by Self-attention will continue to be done. He will even appear to do the work with greater attention and involvement. Yet he is unaffected and always stays in the felicity of non-dual bliss.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Your duty lies in practice, continuous practice of Self-enquiry.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Devotee.: Should I not try to escape rebirth?
Maharshi.: Yes. Find out who is born and who has the trouble of existence now. When you are asleep do you think of rebirths or even the present existence, etc.? So find out whence the present problem arises and there is the solution
also.
You will discover that there is no birth, no present trouble or unhappiness, etc. All is That; All is Bliss; we are freed from rebirth in fact. Why fret over the misery of rebirth?
#SriRamanaMaharshi


To be calm is the world's greatest asset.
It is the greatest power you can have..
Because when you are calm, you are one with the energy of the whole universe,
Everything is in tune with you.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Devotee.: How will worldly transaction go on if one observes silence?
Maharshi.: When women walk with water pots on their heads and chat with their companions they remain very careful, their thoughts concentrated on the loads on their heads. Similarly when a sage engages in activities, these do not disturb him because his mind abides in Brahman.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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


The cause of your misery is not in the life outside you, it is in you as the ego.
If you would deny the ego
and scorch it by ignoring it, you would be free.
If you accept it,
it will impose limitations on you and throw you into a vain struggle to transcend them.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Follow the creator,
Not the crowd.


If you only
say
one prayer in a day make it
Thank You.
#Rumi
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There is a way from your heart to mine and my heart knows it, because it is clean and pure like water.
When the water is still like a mirror it can behold the moon.
#Rumi


THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD WILL GO ON FOREVER.
DO NOT DELAY THE PRACTICE OF
MEDITATION.
Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa
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True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
#Adyashanti
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Meditation simply has to mix with your ordinary life and you don't have to take some time out of your life, specially given to meditation. Meditation can simply become your lifestyle; how you do your ordinary things.
#Osho


You have to be honest with yourself. Self honesty results in rapid spiritual development.
#ChoaKokSui


You do not have to be perfect at least not in this incarnation.
#MasterChoaKok
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Ichinen
means to pray without doubt.
When you pray without doubt,
All your prayers will be answered.
#DaisakuIkeda
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Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?
#LaoTzu
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The
strongest warriors
are armed
with
something to believe
in.
#Dokeshinomichi
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I take blindness as my vision, darkness as my hearing;
I take danger as safety, and prosperity as misfortune.
#ZenrinKushu
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I'd like to offer something to help you, but in the Zen School we don't have a single thing!
#Ikkyu
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If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.
When the deep meaning of things is not understood essential
peace is disturbed to no avail.
#SendcaninxinMing
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Two monks are arguing about a flag.
One says, "The flag is moving."
The other, "The wind is moving."
A third walks by and says,
"Not the wind, not the flag; the mind is moving.
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A person of the world adds something on every day, a person of the tao takes something away every day.
#LaoTzu
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What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.
#LaoTzu
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You simply observe yourself.
You watch the way you react to conditions. You do nothing but watch. In the process of watching your mind will slow down. It will become weaker and weaker until it's gone completely, then you'll be free.
#RobertAdams


All that we are the result of what we have | thought.
#Buddha
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Give attention to the reality within you and it will come to light. It is like churning the cream for butter. Do it correctly and assiduously and the result is sure to come.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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We do not need to search in order to find our True Being.
We already are it.
And the mind which searches for it is the very reason we cannot find it.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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All kinds of pictures appear and disappear in the mirror of your mind. Look calmly at the emerging and receding images, knowing that they are all your own creation. Be careful, but don't mess around. This vision of silent observation is the essence of yoga itself. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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A POWER IN THE UNIVERSE
Maharaj: There is a power in the universe working for enlightenment - - and liberation. We call it Sadashiva, who is ever present in the hearts of men. It is the unifying factor. Unity --liberates. Freedom -- unites.
Ultimately nothing is mine or yours - everything is ours.
Just be one with yourself and you will be one with all. at home in the entire universe.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Look at yourself fearlessly, and then you will know that your happiness depends on circumstances, so it is temporary and not real. True happiness flows from within. #SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Q: When did the feeling 'I am the body" arise? At my birth or this morning?
NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ: Now.
Q: But I remember having it yesterday too!
M: The memory of yesterday is now only.
Q: But surely I exist in time.l have a past and a future.
M: That is how you imagine - - now.
Q: There must have been a beginning.
M: Now.
Q: And what about ending?
M: What has no beginning cannot end. #SriNisargattaMaharaj
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COME TO THE CONCLUSION:
IAM UNBORN, I WAS UNBORN
AND I SHALL
REMAIN UNBORN.
#SRINISARGADATTAMAHARAJ
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The final goal is the realization of the source of 'I-am'-ness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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I don't know what kundalini is.
Sri Ramana Maharshi:
Kundalini is one name given by the yogic people for what may be called the atma sakti inside the body. The vichara school calls the same power jnana.
The bhakta calls it love or bhakti.
The yogic school says that this power is dormant in muladhara at the base of the spinal cord and that it must be roused and taken through the various chakras on to sahasrara at the top, in the brain, this povettain enthetain the heart, dhia ko on.
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There are only two ways to conquer destiny or be independent of it. One is to enquire for whom is this destiny, and discover that only the ego is bound by destiny and not the Self, and that the ego is non-existent.
The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord, by realizing one's helplessness and saying all the time, 'Not I, but Thou Oh Lord' and giving up all sense of 'I' and 'mine, and leaving it to the Lord to do what he likes with you. Complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self-enquiry or bhakti marga (path of devotion).
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From the point of view of Jnana (Knowledge) or the Reality,
the pain seen in the world is certainly a dream,
as is the world,
of which any particular pain like hunger is an  infinitesimal part.

In the dream also you yourself feel hunger.
You see others suffering from hunger. You feed yourself, and  moved by pity feed the others whom you find suffering from
hunger.
So long as the dream lasted,
all those pains were as  real as you now think the pain in the world to be.

It was only  when you woke up that you discovered that the pain in the  dream was unreal. You might have eaten to the full and gone  to sleep. You dream that you work hard and long in the hot  sun all day, are tired and hungry and want to eat a lot. Then
you wake up and find your stomach is full and you have not  stirred out of your bed. But this does not mean that while  you are in the dream you can act as if the pain you feel is not  real. The hunger in the dream has to be assuaged by the food  in the dream. The fellow beings you found so hungry in the
dream had to be provided with food in that dream. You can  never mix up the two states, the dream and the waking state.

Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya  you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever
you see it.
But even then you must do it without ahankara,
i.e., without the sense of ‘I am the doer’,
but with the feeling
‘I am the Lord’s tool’.

Similarly one must not be conceited
by thinking, ‘I am helping a man below me. He needs help.
I am in a position to help.
I am superior and he inferior.’ But
you must help the man as a means of worshipping God in that  man.
All such service is for the Self and not for anybody else.
You are not helping anybody else, but only yourself.
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When you meditate,
you do it for the whole of society.
You seek solutions to your problems not only for yourself but for all of us.
#ThichNhatHanh

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Guru

The Guru's Grace (spiritual teacher) is both external and internal. From the outside, he pushes the mind inwards, and from the inside he pulls the mind towards the Self and helps it keep quiet. That is the grace. There is no difference between God, guru and Self. A guru's help is necessary and useful to start you on the inquiry, but you yourself must pursue it.