COMMON ERA...

 

Atharva Veda 19-9-14

May the earth be peaceful, May the atmosphere be peaceful, May the medicinal herbs be peaceful May all shining objects be peaceful, May all the enlightened persons be peaceful May all the actions be peaceful. By these peace May we alleviate that which is terrific here That which is cruel here, That which is sin here, That has been calmed, that is auspicious. Let all be gracious unto us.

Ramana Maharshi

Plunge deep into yourself, in the inner most depths of your heart, as the pearl diver holding speech and breath plunges deep into the waters and so secure with mind alert the treasure of the Self within.

 

 Paramahansa Yogananda

Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

The Bhagavad Gita

“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One… I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.”

-Nikola Tesla

Our entire biological system - the brain and the earth itself - work on the same frequencies.

Advaita Vedanta- Guru Adi Shankara

* Brahman is not an object, as It is Adrisya, beyond the reach of senses, mind or intellect. It is not another. It is all-full, infinite, changeless, self-existent, self-delight, self-knowledge and self-bliss. It is Svarupa, essence. It is the essence of the knower. It is the Seer (Drashta), Transcendent (Turiya) and Silent Witness (Sakshi). It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as It is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other beside It.

SRI ADI SANKARACHARYA ON DIRECT REALISATION

Knowledge cannot spring up by any other means than enquiry, just as the perception of things is impossible without light. (11)

"Who am I? How was this (universe) born? Who is its maker? What is its material cause?" This is the kind of enquiry referred to above. (12)

"I am not the body which is a mere conglomeration of the elements, nor am I the group of the senses, but am something different from all these." This is the kind of enquiry referred to above. (13)

"All this (universe) has its origin in ignorance and is dissolved by knowledge. Desire, in its various aspects, is the mainspring of all action." This is the kind of enquiry referred to above. (14)

"The prime cause of both these (viz., ignorance and desire) is the one, subtle and immutable Reality, even as the clay is the prime cause of the earthen vessel etc." This is the kind of enquiry referred to above. (15)

"I too am the one, subtle, and immutable Reality, the knower, the witness. I am That, without doubt." This is the kind of enquiry referred to above. (16)

Paramahansa Yogananda

The three aspects of God — Creator, Preserver, Destroyer — and all His qualities are contained in the Aum vibration. To concentrate on Aum is the surest way to realization of Brahman. The sacred scriptures —the Vedas, Upanishads, Gita, Bhagavata — all declare that God may be known through Aum.

Aum is the best symbol for those who want to worship a personal God. It is a better symbol than images, such as those of Kali, Krishna, and others; because in worshipping God as an image, the mind limits the Infinite to that form. It becomes difficult for the sadhaka to think of God beyond that ishta, when in fact God is Spirit.

While meditating on Aum, the mind expands with the Omnipresence of that vibration, and the Spirit-nature of Brahman inherent therein is realized as Sat-chit-ananda — ever-existing, ever- conscious, ever-new Bliss.

KRISHNAMURTI

 There is no seperate you as a Person, as a meditator to meditate. You are already a Divine Presence and not a Person.....

The you, you think you are as a person does not exist.

"You do not suffer. Only the person you imagine yourself to be suffers. You cannot suffer."

Well there is no meditator, only meditation, because the you, you think as a person is illusion. You are already Divine Presence. Truth is effortless, you are that.

You say you want to get rid of the noise,

but you and the noise go together.

You have to be you without ‘you’ and all noise will stop.

The real You is the formless witness within.

The person, the noisy one, is only imagined.

How can one "practice"  being what one IS  ?  the very idea is quite bizarre....