Realizing the Self with The Ribhu Gita 🕉️

 

ANNAMALAI SWAMI - FINAL TALKS

When you have become one with the Self, a great power takes you over and runs your life for you. It looks after your body; it puts you in the right place at the right time; it makes you say the right things to the people you meet. This power takes you over so completely, you no longer have any ability to decide or discriminate.

The ego that thinks, 'I must do this,' or, 'I should not do that,' is no longer there. The Self simply animates you and makes you do all the things that need to be done.

If you are not in this state, then use your discrimination wisely.

I tell you regularly, 'You are the Self. Everything is the Self.' If this is not your experience, pretending that 'all is one' may get you into trouble. Advaita may be the ultimate experience, but it is not something that a mind that still sees distinctions can practice. Electricity is a useful form of energy, but it is also potentially harmful. Use it wisely. Don't put your finger in the socket, thinking, 'All is one. You need a body that is in good working order in order to realize the Self. Realizing the Self is the only useful and worthy activity in this life, so keep the body in good repair till that goal is achieved. Afterwards, the Self will take care of everything and you won't have to worry about anything anymore. In fact, you won't be able to because the mind that previously did the worrying, the choosing and the discriminating will no longer be there. In that state, you won't need it and you won't miss it.

Plato

 “Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.”

YOUR PERSPECTIVE SHAPES YOUR REALITY.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to shift.

This is the power of manifestation. Your energy, thoughts, and beliefs influence everything around you, attracting experiences that align with your inner state.

The universe mirrors what you focus on, so choose to see the good, the opportunities, and the endless possibilities before you. © manifest_chronicles

You are in full control of your reality through what you choose to believe. Image: Heavy Pulp @TheHeavyPulp

-Ram Dass

 Love is the inner light in everyone and everything.

Adi Shankaracharya

 By means of self-control, one empties the mind, as it were, of its worldly contents, its transient desires and passions, and then, through contemplation, fills up the void with the spirit of Truth. The attempts to meditate without practising self-control is as futile as to irrigate a field without at first closing the big rat-holes through which the water leaks away.

Robert Adams

 Remember the universe is your friend. It's on your side, there's nothing against you. The only thing against you are your thoughts. If you learn to quiet your mind you'll have no problems."

Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

 "If you start thinking, catch yourself. The mind has to become quiescent. When there is a quiet mind, no one suffers. There is no room for suffering. Where the mind identifies with the body and world, suffering increases."

Ramana Maharshi

D.: How is the mind to dive into the Heart? M.: The mind now sees itself diversified as the universe. If the diversity is not manifest it remains in its own essence, that is the Heart. Entering the Heart means remaining without distractions. The Heart is the only Reality. The mind is only a transient phase. To remain as one’s Self is to enter the Heart.

Rumi

In the ocean are many bright strands and many dark strands like veins that are seen when a wing is lifted up. Your hidden self is blood in those, those veins that are lute strings that make ocean music – not the sad sound of surf, but the sound of no shore.

NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

Actions through the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind) do not affect the fifth, i.e. space. I am pure consciousness, pure life force. I’ve no shape, no form. Therefore, I have no birth, no death and no karma