Sri Ramana Maharshi ~ Day by Day 29-05-46

 

Ashṭāvakra

 

“You do not consist of the elements - earth, water, fire, air or even ether. To be liberated, know yourself as consisting of consciousness, the witness of these.”

Zhuangzi and Ashtavakra

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ~ "I Am That"

 

Ramana Maharshi

 “The world is a dream, but the dreamer is real. Realize the dreamer and be free."

Swami Vivekananda

 "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached—the goal of knowing thy infinite nature."

Carl Jung, On the Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype

“The great mother is uroboric: terrible and devouring, beneficent and creative; she is a helper, but also alluring and destructive; a maddening enchantress, yet, a bringer of wisdom; she is both bestial and divine; voluptuous harlot and inviolable virgin, immemorially old, and eternally young.”

Elizabeth U. Harding, Kali: The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar

 

“After Ma Kali has been officially put to bed, the priest in charge of locking up purifies the inner shrine by sprinkling Ganges water all around. He waves incense in front of Kali’s bed and bows down to her, his head touching the marble floor. Then he closes and locks the inner and outer doors to the Kali Temple.”

Paramahansa Yogananda, Solving the Mystery of Life

 So, find Him. You will never be happy until you do. That is the keynote of life. He is calling you. Each one of you who is sympathetic with that thought has responded to the wisdom-call of God within you; and that is why you are herE in this temple today.

e in this temple today.

Rumi

Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal~~~Rumi

Here it is that we approach that attitude of the self, that point of view, which is loosely and generally called mystical. Here, instead of those broad blind alleys which philosophy showed us, a certain type of mind has always discerned three straight and narrow ways going out towards the Absolute. In religion, in pain, and in beauty—and not only in these, but in many other apparently useless peculiarities of the empirical world and of the perceiving consciousness—these persons insist that they recognize at least the fringe of the real. —Evelyn Underhill