RAMANA MAHARISHI

 

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, 4 : 6, God talks with Arjuna, The Bhagavad Gita.

The consciousness of man under the influence of Cosmic Delusion is bounded by attachment to material possessions and mental faculties. The yogi of Self-realization, on the other hand, finds that he can possess a physical body and work through it without bondage to material desires and their karmic effects, just as the Lord remains unattached and free from karma even while His intelligence silently acts throughout the cosmic vibratory body of creation, ruled by His delusory law of relativity.

   This stanza affords great encouragement to man. By avoiding the misuse of the gift of free choice, and by practicing Kriya Yoga, he can shine forth as an image of God-an image hitherto delusion-eclipsed. Remembering himself as the image of Spirit, the  yogi learns that he, even as God, can work in the world unfettered by bodily environment, or by karma, or by Cosmic Nature's ever-changing attributes (gunas).

   God has spun this eventful cosmic play on the stage of time to entertain us, but we take the shadows as serious realities! There is

only one Serious Reality-God!

~ Herman Hesse

 “I have been, and still am a  seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to  listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”

Albert Camus

In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.

In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.

In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.

I realized, through it all, that…

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Robert Adams

"You must always remember that silence is the greatest teacher. Quietness, silence, total stillness, it is the greatest teacher. Reality shines through where there is silence. If you want to experience reality just keep quiet.

That is all you have to do. Shut up. Stop talking. Stop thinking. Stop imagining. Leave it all alone. There is a power that will take care of everything for you. This is the truth. If you leave it all alone, if you stop worrying, you stop fretting, if you stop imagining what is going to happen, everything will work out.

It has to. It has to because we live in a universe of bliss. Bliss is your very nature. Joy, happiness, harmony, this in truth is what you really are, but when you start to think you spoil it. When you start to talk you mess it up. When you start to worry you will fail."

✅ The Nisargadatta Path.

 

○ Go back to that state of pure being, where the 'I am' is still in its purity before it got contaminated with 'this I am' or 'that I

am'.

Your burden is of false self-identifications - abandon them all.

○ Best is the simple feeling 'I am'.

Dwell on it patiently.

Here patience is wisdom, don't think of failure. There can be no failure in this understanding.

○ By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies. This is the great work of awareness;

it removes obstacles and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind.

Intelligence is the door to freedom

and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

○ When I say: "Remember 'I am' all the time.", I mean: "Come back to it repeatedly."

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

AVADHUT GITA

 

Joseph P. Kauffman

 

“The consciousness inhabiting your body is exactly the same as the consciousness inhabiting my body. We are one. The delusion that we are separate beings comes from identifying with the world of form—with our names, our bodies, our roles, our beliefs, our thoughts, and all of the mental constructs that we have created; but even these are more connected to the universe than we realize.”

• Hazrat Inayat Khan

 "Everything Becomes Spiritual Once This Door Of The Chember Of The Heart Is Open."    

Sri Yuktheswarji with Paramahamsaji, chapter 14, Autobiography of a Yogi.

" You must not get overdrunk with ecstasy. Much work yet remains for you in the world. Come, let us sweep the balcony floor; then we shall walk by the Ganges".

         I fetched a broom; Master, I know, was teaching me the secret of balanced living. The soul must stretch over the cosmogonic abysses, while the body performs it's daily duties.