Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi ✅ Talk 293.

 

Everyone says “I am the body”.

It is the experience of the sage as also of the ignorant.

The ignorant man believes that the Self is confined to the body only,

whereas the wise man believes that the body cannot remain apart from the Self.

The Self is infinite for him and includes the body also.

Alan Watts

 

But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

artwork by Alfredo Zagaceta

Mooji

 

In the heart of life, there is the ever perfect!

You can't improve what is already perfect.

You can only discover it.

Just stay quiet and empty.

Let life play.

🌺 Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, Chapter 3

 Desire is the memory of pleasure

and fear is the memory of pain.

Both make the mind restless.

Moments of pleasure are merely

gaps in the stream of pain.

How can the mind be happy?

Knowledge is already within you

The basic thing to know is that Knowledge is already within you. Spiritual Knowledge is already within you. You just have to refresh it and remove the illusory concepts. And this is the work of Meditation. Meditation will reduce the forces of the ego, of the mind, of the intellect. Changes will happen. These will be spontaneous changes. They're already built in, but you're not aware of that.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - Public talk in Ojai, April 1980

 

It is man's pretense that because he has choice he is free.

Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward.

Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man

but lies in the first step of his existence.

THE MASTER WHO SHOWS US "THE PATH OF LIBERATION" IS OUR REAL RELATIve

SEEING WITH WISDOM IS TO FEEL THAT "ALL IS BRAHMAN."

YOU HAVE HEARD THIS, BUT THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE MERELY HEARD.IT IS MEANT TO BE EXPERIENCED.IF YOU LOOK AT EVERYTHING AS BEING ONLY PARAMATMAN,THEN YOU BECOME GOD (SHIVA),BUT IF YOU SEE EVERYTHING AS BEING MERELY THE PHENOMENAL MUNDANE WORLD,THEN YOU REMAIN ONLY AS AN INDIVIDUAL (JIVA).BECAUSE THERE IS THE SEEN, THERE IS THE SEER.IF THERE IS NOTHING TO BE SEEN, HOW CAN THE SEER COME INTO BEING?IF YOU DISCARD THE SEEN, THERE IS ONLY BRAHMAN.IF ALL OF THE THINGS IN YOUR POSSESSION ARE DESTROYED,WHAT CAN THE MIND THINK OF?Remove the poison that has affected your mind. You become more experienced according to what you do repeatedly over and over. Everyone has the habit of speaking about sense objects. Drop that habit and speak about the wisdom of Brahman. In that way, by constantly thinking of "That," you become Brahman. You should spend your time discussing Spiritual Knowledge. When you talk of sense objects over and over again, you only become more worldly. The aspirant for Self-Realization should keep relatives and friends close who are interested in these subjects. Do not waste your life talking with others.

Mahavatar BabajI

 

A Kriya Yoga Master recently gave this advice: ”Keep the company of the holy Satsang. A magnet attracts iron. When rubbed against non-magnetic iron, the iron becomes magnetic. The law of magnetism also applies through association with Mahatmas. By keeping the company of and by meditating with or attending the Satsang of Mahatmas you will be spiritually magnetized, you will acquire the spiritual qualities of the Mahatma. When the opportunity was given to meditate with or to attend the Satsang of a Mahatma, I was always the first one there to sit in front, and I was always the last one to leave. I kept quiet and still to absorb the holy vibration. Love is the magnet that attracts. This magnet of love is present in all beings and creatures. It is because of this love that God and Guru come to see you in meditation. When is the Self revealed ? From simple Faith, Love is born Prema (Divine Love) reveals Shanti                         Where Shanti (Peace) prevails the Self will reveal itself                                   Where the Self abides, there is AnandaAnanda (Bliss) is the abode of God”

Om Kriya Babaji Namah Aum !

AVATAR MEHER BABA

Love is different from lust. In lust there is dependence upon the physical object, and thus spiritual subordination of the soul to it.

Love puts the soul into direct, coordinate relation with the reality which lies behind the form.

Therefore lust is experienced as being heavy, but love is experienced as being light. In lust there is a narrowing down of life, while in love there is an expansion in being.

To have loved one soul is like adding its life to your own. Your life is multiplied and you live virtually in two centers.

If you love the whole world, you live vicariously in the whole world. But in lust there is an ebbing of life and generation of a sense of hopeless dependence upon a form which is regarded as another.

Thus in lust there is accentuation of separateness and suffering, but in love there is a feeling of unity and joy.

Lust is dissipation, love is recreation.

Lust is a craving of the senses, love is the expression of spirit.

Lust seeks fulfillment but love experiences fulfillment.

In lust there is excitement, in love there is tranquility

When Papaji met Ramana Maharshi, and asked him,

"Have you seen God?"

Maharshi replied, "Anything that you see cannot be God. Whatever you see must be an object of your senses. God is not an object of your senses. God is the one through whom all things are seen, tasted, touched, heard and smelt, but He himself cannot be seen because He is the seer, not an object of sight."