WALT WHITMAN

 

“Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour.”

A. JODERROSKY

🕉 Chāndogya Upaniṣad. The Upanishads, Introduced and Translated by Eknath Easwaran, pp.132-33.

After Shvetaketu studied the Vedas for

twelve years and returned home, his father asked him if he knew that spiritual knowledge that enables you to hear the unheard, think the unthought and know the unknown.

“What is that wisdom, Father?”

asked the son.

Uddalaka said to Shvetaketu:

“As by knowing one lump of clay, dear one, we come to know all things made out of clay that they differ only in name and form, while the stuff of which all are made is clay. As by knowing one gold nugget, dear one,

we come to know all things made out of gold that they differ only in name and form, while the stuff of which all are made is gold. As by knowing one tool of iron, dear one, we come to know all things made out of iron that they differ only in name and form, while the stuff of which all are made is iron – so

through that spiritual wisdom, dear one, we come to know that all of life is one.”

“My teachers must not have known this wisdom,” said Shvetaketu, “for if they had known, how could they have failed to teach it to me? Please instruct me in this wisdom, Father.”

“Yes, dear one, I will,” replied his father.

“In the beginning was only Being, One without a second. Out of himself he brought forth the cosmos and entered into everything in it. There is nothing that does not come from him. Of everything he is the

inmost Self. He is the truth; he is the Self supreme. You are that,Shvetaketu; you are that.”

J. Krishnamurti

 

Freedom from something, which is really a reaction, is not freedom at all. Mere revolt against a certain pattern of thought or a certain structure of society is not freedom. Freedom implies a state of mind in which there is no imitation or conformity, and therefore no fear. We can revolt and yet conform, as is happening in the world now, and this revolt is generally called freedom. But that revolt, whether it is the communist revolution or any other social revolution, must inevitably create a pattern. There may be a different social order, but it is still a pattern of conformity. When we are talking about freedom, surely we mean a state in which there is no conformity at all, no imitation. Imitation and conformity must exist when there is fear, and fear invariably breeds authority: the authority of the experience of another, the authority of a new drug, or the authority of one's own experience, one's own pattern of thinking.

Ashtavakra Gita :

18.65

Blessed indeed is he who knows Self.

Though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating,

he never desires nor changes.

18.66

For one who is void and changeless,

where is the world and its imaginings?

Where is the end?

Where is the possibility of it?

18.67

Glorious indeed is he who,

free of desire,

embodies Bliss itself.

He has become absorbed in Self.

18.68

In short, the great soul

who has realized Truth

is free of desire, enjoyment and liberation.

In all of space and time

he is attached to nothing.

Autobiography OF A YOGI

 

Jagessar Das,

"Life is a progression. We progress from childhood to adulthood, from simplicity to complexity, from ignorance to knowledge, from innocence to wisdom and from birth to death. It is the law of life. But there is also a progression from the external life to the internal, from the hustle and bustle of material life to the serenity and silence of internal life. It is in the latter that we experience the beauty of the Self and its connection with Divinity.

BY GONGA

If world peace is to dawn,,,, it must begin with the individual. The great masters of India have preserved for us the keys to developing our consciousness to its fullest potential. Mankind possesses many latent abilities that today lay dormant within us all. Most of the problems facing modern society are the direct result of humans operating with a fraction of their full potential. The need of our time is to increase the intelligence, awareness and wisdom of the individuals who make up society. The golden age will dawn when the best of the West is combined with the best of the East, when modern science is combined with the ancient wisdom of the evolution of human consciousness

Paul Brunton

When his mind moves entirely and wholly into the One Infinite Presence, and when it settles permanently there, the divided existence of glimpse and darkness, of Spirit and matter, of Overself and ego, of heaven and earth, will vanish. The crossing over to a unified existence will happen.

THOUGHTS ARE AN OPTICAL ILLUSION ROBERT ADAMS

Do not analyze what I am saying. Do not even agree with what I’m saying. Just be open. Open your heart by remaining still, silent. Allow the thoughts to come, do try not to stop them. Do not judge your thoughts, analyze your thoughts, or try to change your thoughts, or try to remove your thoughts. This will put you back in conflict with your thoughts. Do not even observe your thoughts. Do not even be the witness to your thoughts. Why? Because in reality there are no thoughts. The thoughts that you think you’re thinking, are an optical illusion. It is false imagination. Don’t you see? Everything that you’re thinking about is false. There is no thinker and there are no thoughts. So why have you been practicing all these exercises all of your life? It’s like a person in the ocean going in search for water. Awaken. Be free. Be yourself.