Bhagavan

 

This is the surest way to handicap oneself, this burdening of one’s mind with the fear of failure and thought of one’s failings. That fear is not true. The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature.

–Brahma Jnanavali Mala, Adi Sankara

 

Brahman is real. The world is a delusion. Atman is nothing but Brahman.  It is the perfect philosophy as declared by the Vedanta. 

Swami Sivananda Saraswati

 

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. –

Shivapuri Baba

 

When wavering thoughts dominate the mind, then it does whatever it likes. You should fill your mind with Divine Virtues. Without peace, there is no prosperity and without inner peace, there is no divinity. 

Kabir: In the bliss of Sahaj

 

My mind has returned To its own primal state; I realized the Lord When I died while living. Says Kabir: I am merged In the bliss of Sahaj; I no l onger know fear, Nor inspire it in others

Sri Yukteshwar Giri

 

Man’s desire for material things is eternal; man is never fully satisfied and is following one goal after another. A man wants to achieve something that is God, and only he can provide lasting joy. External cravings take us away from our inner happiness and our inner heaven; they only give us false happiness. The lost inner heaven can be quickly returned by divine meditation

divine meditation.

Gain experience directly

 

T eachers and scriptures can stimulate spiritual awareness. But the wise disciple crosses the ocean of ignorance by direct illumination, through the grace of God.

Gain experience directly. Realize God for yourself. Know the Self as the one indivisible Being, and become perfect. Free your mind from all distractions and dwell in the consciousness of the Self.

This is the final declaration of the Vedanta: Brahman is all; [It is] this universe and every creature. To be liberated is to live in the continual awareness of Brahman, the undivided Reality.

Adi Shankaracharya beautifully explains it;

 Ignorance and Maya (illusion). Ignorance is giving importance to the outer world and avoiding the inner world (Atman). When a person starts giving more attention to people, situations, and things, he forgets his true nature and gets stuck in the loophole of ignorance..

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The Maitri Upanishad mentions two aspects of  Brahman, the higher and the lower. The higher Brahman being the unmanifest  Supreme Reality which is soundless and totally quiescent and restful, the  lower being the Shabda-Brahman which manifests itself into the everchanging  restless cosmos through the medium of sound vibrations. The Upanishad  says that “Two Brahmans there are to be known

Adi Sankaracharya

 

He lived in the 7th-8th century AD. and wrote:

‘Having filled the pathway of the Nadis with the streaming shower of nectar flowing from the Lotus feet, having resumed thine own position from out of the resplendent Lunar regions and Thyself assuming the form of a serpent of three and a half coils, sleepest thou, in the hollow of Kula Kunda (Kula Kunda means the hollow of Mooladhara Sacrum bone)’.

‘Saundarya Lahari’: ‘Thou art residing in secrecy with Thy Lord (The spirit) in the thousand petalled Lotus, having pierced through the Earth situated in ‘Mooladhara’, the Water in Manipura, the Fire abiding in the Svadhisthana, the Air in the Heart (‘Anahata’), the Ether above (Visshuddhi) and ‘Manas’ between the eyebrows (‘Agnya’) and thus broken through the entire ‘Kula Path’.’