SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARA

THE CONSCIOUSNESS IN YOU AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS IN ME, APPARENTLY TWO, REALLY ONE, SEEK UNITY AND THAT IS LOVE

Wendell Berry

“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.”

Author unknown

 Light is one of the primary metaphors in sacred poetry, suggesting the Divine not framed within a mental concept. But for many genuine mystics, this light is directly experienced.

This sense of light is more than a brightness one might experience on a sunny afternoon. This light is perceived as being a living radiance that permeates everything, everywhere, always. This light is immediately understood to be the true source of all things, the foundation on which the physicality of the material world is built. The sense of boundaries and separation, long taken for granted by the mind as the fundamental nature of existence, suddenly seems illusory, for this light shines through all people and things. It has no edges, and the light of one is the light of all.

Often, one describes being "bathed" in this light, and that is absolutely fitting. This light is not merely an airy phenomenon of the visual realm; it is tactile, permeating, embracing, profoundly soothing, revitalizing, healing. Some describe it in liquid language: water, fountain, lake, a shining white or golden ocean. This light is recognized as your own Self, while simultaneously being the Self of all others. Since this light is you and, at the same time, it radiates within all, the question arises: How can there be separation? conflict? loss? This is the light of the true mystics.

Ram Dass

The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God.

Gyalwang Drukpa

Learn to watch and wait. Emotions come and go like waves on the shore, so if you can be mindful of them you will understand where they come from and also that they are impermanent, like everything.

William Samuel, 2 + 2 = Reality

 "Let the beliefs go. Let what 'they say' go. Drop all the old personal opinions no matter how near and dear they seem. You start anew, turning within to the heart. Then when you arrive at your own meaning of God, you happily find you are also discovering your own real Identity and its childlike simplicity."

Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods

 

"Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led to something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wastelands of the spirit. To receive the message, the mental pores must be open…."

Padmasambhav

Where the past has ceased and the future has not yet arisen In the unimpeded state of present wakefulness, Rest in the manner of mind looking into mind. No matter what thoughts may arise at this time, They are all the display of the single mind essence. As the nature of space is unchanging, You will realize the all-pervasive mind essence to be changeless. This is the Great Perfection, the ultimate of all vehicles, The unexcelled meaning of the self-existing Mind Section.

Swami Shraddhananda

The Upanishad tells us that our experience of brokenness is ignorance. Really speaking, reality cannot be broken. Knowledge cannot be broken. Bliss cannot be broken. We have to discover this great fact. All the time we experience reality, but because the experience seems broken, we do not reach the experience of unity. In a moment this insight can come, but it quickly goes. It has to be stabilized. If we develop our understanding we will see that at the back of change there is unchanging reality, unchanging knowledge and unchanging joy. That is Brahman. Brahman is truth, a reality that does not change, that does not end. Brahman is an unchanging reality that is satyam jnanam anantam—eternal truth and knowledge. To find Brahman does not seem to be impossible because it is here all the time. We experience Brahman all the time, because Brahman is reality.

JOHN MCINTOSH

Concepts such as reincarnation, karma, free will, multi-dimensions, aliens and an endless list of practices and healing modalities are very popular within various branches of the global spiritual community … ‘and’, are true insofar as they are ‘aspects’ of the Grand Dream. However, the SELF [God – I AM – Consciousness] ‘is’ the only Reality and everything that ‘seems’ to be is a temporary projection ‘on and within’ the screen of Consciousness.

The idea that it takes many incarnations to somehow evolve this one called ‘me’ into the SELF [Self Realization – Freedom – ONE-ness Consciousness] is simply an illusion within the Grand Dream … albeit, a very popular one. And, it is the passionate adherence to this idea that makes it an ‘experience’ for many … again, a dream experience and NOT necessary.

The question that exposes this delusion is ‘Who am I?’ … who is this one that supposedly ‘evolves’. This persistent question through Self Inquiry sheds Light on the phantom that it is and causes it to ‘withdraw’ back into the SELF from which it sprang as a result of the original belief in ‘separation’ … the so called biblical: ‘Fall of Man’ – [fall of Consciousness from the Awareness of the God/SELF IT ‘is]. This ‘Who am I?’ question is the lightning fast route to the Freedom or remembrance of your True Reality ‘as’ the SELF.