Peak Experiences

  Don’t try to recreate peak experiences. Instead, just accept them as the gift that they are, and don’t beat up on yourself for not being able to stay there. Because if you stayed there, they wouldn’t be peak experiences. They would be normal, every day in time hum drum boring, experiences. So, savor the peak experiences and compliment yourself upon your achieving of them, and expect more of them, and leave everything else out of the equation.

Excerpted from Tucson, AZ on 2/20/01

Padmā

  In the old days, the Saints would purify and then awaken. With the energy in the world of today, many are having a spontaneous awakening experience, sometimes called a sudden awakening, and then go through the purification process.

Enlightenment Itself mostly evolves from conscious spiritual practice and living in the present moment mindfully after a sudden awakening.

Yet someone who is a seriously ripe practitioner realizes from the instant of that awakening, that enlightenment doesn't really exist, as there is no ONE to be unenlightened. There is truly only Self.

You are beyond the concept and belief of God right now in this instant, and since you are That, you have unlimited power and potential to realize Self.

🕉 Wise Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna. (36).

 

 There are three dolls―

the first made of salt,

the second made of cloth, and

the third of stone.

If these dolls are immersed in water,

the first will become dissolved and lose its form,

the second will absorb a large quantity of water but retain its form, and

the third will remain impervious to water.

The first doll represents the man who merges his self in the universal and all-pervading Self and becomes

one with It;

he is the liberated man.

The second represents the Bhakta or the true lover of God,

who is full of Divine bliss and knowledge.

And the third represents the worldly man who will not admit even a particle of true knowledge into his heart.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

  "Heart" is merely another name for the Supreme Spirit, because He is in all hearts. The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.

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Sri Aurobindo

 

The concept of Brahman connects with the concept of Ātman (true self/ spirit). Ātman is the true
self which is not adulterated by the Ego (ahaṁkāra). It is immortal, fearless (Prabhavananda,
2019) and indiscernible unlike the empirical body. It is the internal controller (antaryāmin)
beyond all of existence with no individualistic characteristics (Lindquist, 2019). Therefore,
knowing of the true self connects with knowing of Brahman- transcendence which resides in
everyone. The Brahman and the Ātman becomes one and the same (advaita).
“so’ham and aham brahmāsmi” (He am I and I am Brahman, the Eternal)

Pandit (1988):

“Regarded from the view of Time, Brahman is Eternity or Immorality; regarded from the view of
Space, Brahman is Infinity or Universality; regarded from the view of Causality, Brahman is
absolute Freedom.”

Sri Sivananda

  Search, Understand, Realise Hold fast the lamp of Dharma. Entertain thoughts of Divine Love. Preserve equanimity in success and failure. Restrain the senses. Calm the mind. Fix it on God. Soar high in the realm of bliss. Behold unity. You will have cosmic vision.

The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu

 Those who would take over the earth

And shape it to their will

Never, I notice, succeed.

The earth is like a vessel so sacred

That at the mere approach of the profane

It is marred

And when they reach out their fingers it is gone.

THE REALITY