AVATAR MEHER BABA

The Perfect Master does not give something which is not already within the aspirant in latent form.

He unveils the real self of the aspirant and enables him to come into his own rightful divine heritage.

🌺 Annamalai Swami

"When you have become one with the Self; A Great Power takes you over, and runs your life for you. IT looks after your body, it puts you in the right place at the right time; it makes you say the right things to the people you meet. This power takes you over so completely that you no longer have any ability to decide, or discriminate."

M.T. Mind

 

There is a power and there is a presence which I like to call THE CURRENT THAT KNOWS THE WAY, that takes care of everything. It is all part of the grand illusion. And even in this illusion which appears in front of your eyes, there is a presence and a power that lifts you up. It will lift you up as high as you can allow it to. Until it lifts you up completely out of your body, out of your thoughts, out of the universe, to a completely new dimension.You'll appear to be the same person as always to people, but you'll not be that person any longer. For that person is gone, no longer exists. You have become Brahman. You have become all-pervading. You have become your Self without trying to do so.You must always have gratitude for the way you are. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Love yourself just the way you are. By loving yourself just the way you are, you will transcend those things that have appeared to annoy you, to bother you, to cause you pain. They will all go. You'll no longer be aware of them. Let go of everything. Have no desires whatsoever. Dive deep within the Self. Do not react to the outside world or to your body. ALL IS WELL.

Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj.

God has given us a great gift in the form of this human body. The only purpose of this human birth, which is very difficult to get, is to realize God and hence terminate this incessant cycle of birth and death. This site contains the teachings of the great teacher of the 20th century, Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. Practice of his teachings will confer on one the state of supreme blessedness, viz. God-realization, which is your birthright. In order to inspire and strengthen ones faith in the Lord, we have included some inspiring messages and the lives of some saints who have treaded the path that we are now attempting to tread. May God bless you with unhampered spiritual progress and attainment of Bliss, Peace and Illumination.

Umi This is Enlightenment

"So that is the process of Satsang, melting the ice, melting the mind. When the ice becomes water it is Consciousness. It becomes fluid, flowing, adaptable, will conform to any shape. Has no preference. It will always fit where ever it is. It will fit with any situation. This is Consciousness. But as the water gets nearer and nearer to the fire it turns to steam, this is Nirvana. It disappears into the Nothingness, into The Whole. So these are the three stages of the same phenomena. Ice, water and steam. Mind, Consciousness and Nirvana. This is Enlightenment."

Swami Vivekanada

"Therefore, to gain this infinite universal individuality, this miserable little prison - individuality must go. Then alone can death cease when I am one with life, then alone can misery cease when I am one with happiness itself, then alone can all errors cease when I am one with knowledge itself; and this is the necessary scientific conclusion- Science has proved to me that physical individuality is a delusion, that really my body is one little continuously changing body in an unbroken ocean of matter, and Advaita (unity) is the necessary conclusion with my other counterpart, Soul."

Maitripa

 To innermost bliss, I pay homage!

Were I to explain Mahamudra, I would say—

All phenomena? Your own mind!

If you look outside for meaning, you'll get confused.

Phenomena are like a dream, empty of true nature,

And mind is merely the flux of awareness,

No self nature: just energy flow.

No true nature: just like the sky.

All phenomena are alike, sky-like.

That's Mahamudra, as we call it.

It doesn't have an identity to show;

For that reason, the nature of mind

Is itself the very state of Mahamudra

(Which is not made up, and does not change).

If you realize this basic reality

You recognize all that comes up, all that goes on, as Mahamudra,

The all-pervading dharma-body.

Rest in the true nature, free of fabrication.

Meditate without searching for dharma-body—

It is devoid of thought.

If your mind searches, your meditation will be confused.

Because it's like space, or like a magical show,

There is neither meditation or non-meditation,

How could you be separate or inseparable?

That's how a yogi sees it!

Then, aware of all good and bad stuff as the basic reality,

You become liberated.

Neurotic emotions are great awareness,

They're to a yogi as trees are to a fire—FUEL!

What are notions of going or staying?

Or, for that matter, "meditating" in solitude?

If you don't get this,

You free yourself only on the surface.

But if you do get it, what can ever fetter you?

Abide in an undistracted state.

Trying to adjust body and mind won't produce meditation.

Trying to apply techniques won't produce meditation either.

See, nothing is ultimately established.

Know what appears to have no intrinsic nature.

Appearances perceived: reality's realm, self-liberated.

Non-duality, sameness [of perceiver and perceived]: the dharma-body.

Like a wide stream flowing non-stop,

Whatever the phase, it has meaning

And is forever the awakened state—

Great bliss without samsaric reference.

All phenomena are empty of intrinsic nature

And the mind that clings to emptiness dissolves in its own ground.

Freedom from conceptual activity

Is the path of all the Buddhas.

I've put together these lines

That they may last for aeons to come.

By this virtue, may all beings without exception

Abide in the great state of Mahamudra.