339. To realize the whole universe as the Self is the means of getting rid of bondage. There is nothing higher than identifying the universe with the Self. One realizes this state by excluding the objective world through steadfastness in the eternal Atman.
"Since past and future have never been without the present, to know the Eternal Now is to know the Truth" - Ramana
"The future is a concept—it doesn't exist. There is no future. There is no past. There is only the eternal now." — Alan Watts
"The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant." — Eckhart Tolle
"Wherever you go the sense of here and now you carry with you all the time. It means that you are independent of space and time." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The amount of love you give and receive is a direct reflection of your self-love. Others can only connect with you at the depth of the inner work and exploration they have reached within themselves. In order to fully give and receive love; we must first burn away (purify/purge) all of the self-erected imagined barriers that stand in our heart’s way.”
Manifestation and manifestor are not two - in this state of oneness naturally remain. Live like this and you will not be ashamed at the moment of death, and in this life and others you will go from happiness to happiness - there is no doubt.
Mind alone is the cause of bondage and liberation for human beings. The mind attached to sense objects leads to bondage and that which is free of sense objects … sets one free.
When the grown-up person is made ready, when he has acquired the attributes of the child, then he creates heaven within himself, he understands. The child with his innocence does not understand, but when a person with understanding develops the childlike loving tendency, the purity of heart of the child with the desire to be friendly to all -- that is the opening of the heart, and it is by that blessing that he can receive all the privileges of human life.
A yogi has no particular path,
He simply renounces "imagining" things, His mind then ceases out of its own accord, And "the perfect state" naturally occurs.
If you refrain from looking at this, that, or any other object, then by that overpowering look into Absolute Being, you become yourself the boundless space of pure Awareness, which alone is real Being.
A deep mystical experience tends to dissolve the boundaries between religions and reveals deep connections between them, while the dogmatism of organized religions tends to emphasize differences between various creeds and engenders antagonism and hostility.
