Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Sri Muruganar

 

If you refrain from looking at this, that, or any other object,
then by that overpowering look into Absolute Being,
you become yourself the boundless space of pure Awareness,
which alone is real Being.



Sri Dattatreya

 A yogi has no particular path,

He simply renounces "imagining" things, His mind then ceases out of its own accord, And "the perfect state" naturally occurs..


Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

When the grown-up person is made ready, when he has acquired the attributes of the child, then he creates heaven within himself, he understands. The child with his innocence does not understand, but when a person with understanding develops the childlike loving tendency, the purity of heart of the child with the desire to be friendly to all -- that is the opening of the heart, and it is by that blessing that he can receive all the privileges of human life.



Amritabindu Upanishad

 Mind alone is the cause of bondage and liberation for human beings.  The mind attached to sense objects leads to bondage and that which is free of sense objects … sets one free..

                           

 

The Kena Upanishad

 


Monday, February 27, 2023

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

 

It is only with the heart that one can see
rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.



Jamgon Khentsye Chokyi Lodro

 Manifestation and manifestor are not two - in this state of oneness naturally remain. Live like this and you will not be ashamed at the moment of death, and in this life and others you will go from happiness to happiness - there is no doubt.



Henry David Thoreau,

 Some of our richest days are those in which no sun shines outwardly, but so much the more a sun shines inwardly.



The Upanishads

 



Hazrat Inayat Khan

As one rises above passion, so he begins to know what is love.

 

One need not fall in love, one must rise through love. Pour out floods of love, yet keeping your garment of detachment from being wet. ... To what does the love of God lead? It leads to that peace and stillness which can be seen in the life of the tree which flowers and bears fruit for others and expects no return.






Sunday, February 26, 2023

Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

 


“He already understood how to speak the “Om” silently, that word of words, how to speak it silently in his inner being as he inhaled, how to pronounce it silently out of himself as he exhaled, how to do so with his whole soul while his forehead was enveloped by the radiance of the clear-thinking mind. He already understood how to recognize Atman within this inner essence of his that was indestructible and one with the universe.”



Papaji

 I don't give any exercise or practice because all practice is in time and is in mind. What I recommend is to simply stay quiet, don't make effort, don't think. This is all you have to do now. Do this now.



Paul Brunton

 No man has free will if he is enslaved by things or affected by events outside of himself. He has it only when he is inwardly detached from them.



–Van Morrison, 'Into the mystic'

 “Smell the sea and feel the sky.

Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic.”



Yogananda

 


Michel de Montaigne, Essais

 Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.



Ibn ‘Arabi

 I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.



Stanislav Grof

 A deep mystical experience tends to dissolve the boundaries between religions and reveals deep connections between them, while the dogmatism of organized religions tends to emphasize differences between various creeds and engenders antagonism and hostility.



Siddharameshwar Maharaj

 

Formerly there was a person, the 'me', who was imagined. Now, by listening to the Vedanta, that imaginary person is gone. He was only a product of imagination. 'I' and 'you' have both vanished. All of this, everything, without any doubt, is only Brahman



Friday, February 24, 2023

Ram Dass

 And every time you step back from your own melodrama, the cosmic humor gets higher and higher.



Mahasiddha Tilopa

 "When you look into space, seeing stops.

Likewise, when mind looks at mind, the flow of thinking stops and you come to the deepest awakening.





silence

 Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world.

Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."



The Tibetan Book of the Dead

 "All phenomena are ultimately selfless, empty, and free from conceptual elaboration."

-Padmasambhava



Zhuangzi

 

"The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?"




Be here NOW

 


“The Conquest of Illusion”

 

“And such it is, it is an invasion from another world, from the only real world, the world of Reality; it is the vision of truth, or intuition, which, in that world, knows with lightning-like rapidity and with immediate certainty and which flashes down its message of truth into the dullness of our illusion bound intellect”



J. J. Van Der Leeuw

 

 As Kabir says: `That which you see is not, and for that which is, you have no words' (Tagore, 49). It is a world of pure Beauty, yet, how express beauty without shape, colour or sound, the Beauty unbeheld' of which Shelley sings? When we experience it we feel that now we know beauty for the first time and that what we used to call beauty in our world image was but a distorted shadow



“The Conquest of Illusion”

 

“Let us then do what so few ever do in our hurried civilization--be alone and be silent. So should relax all effort, and renounce all sensation coming to us from without, still our emotions and our thoughts and sink back into the depth of our own consciousness, like a diver sinking deep into the cool dark waters.”


“... When thus we sunk back into the depth of our own consciousness we come to a state in which nothing seems to be any more, in which we ourselves seem to have lost name and form and all characteristics. We come to the great Void. It is the `grey void abysm' of which Shelley sings in his "Prometheus Unbound,' in the haunting "Song of the Spirits' which leads Asia and Panthea down into the depths of consciousness”




Thursday, February 23, 2023

Hidden facts

 


J. J. Van Der Leeuw “The Conquest of Illusion” 1928

 

“The race is growing towards this cosmic consciousness, which is, but the concluding chapter in an evolution of consciousness, leading from unconsciousness through self-consciousness to cosmic consciousness. It is in this mystical experience that the intellect is transcended and knowing becomes being.

 Far from being the vague emotionalism or the hysterical transports which at times have usurped the name of mysticism, true mystical experience is a most definite reality. A philosophy based on it is no longer a philosophy of reasoning only, but primarily a philosophy of experience, reasonably expounded.”



Hazrat Inayat Khan

 


Truth is the divine element in man. Truth is every soul's seeking. Therefore as soon as the clouds of illusion are scattered, that which man now begins to see is nothing but the truth which has been there all the time. He finds that the truth was never absent; it was only covered by clouds of illusion.



Nisargadatta Maharaj

 “Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true."



Rumi ♥

 

What is this precious love and laughter
budding in our hearts?
It is the sound of
a soul waking up!
Even after all this time,
the sun never says to the earth,
“You owe me.”
Look what happens
with a love like that,
It lights up the whole sky





Yoga Vasistha

 

When the truth is known, all descriptions cease, and silence alone remains. (III:84)


Onlywhen one severs the very root of the mind with the weapon of non-conceptualization, can one reach the Absolute Brahman which is omnipresent, supreme peace.


First destroy the mental conditioning by renouncing cravings; and then remove from your mind even the concept of bondage and liberation. Be totally free of conditioning.
Ideas and thoughts are bondage; and their coming to an end is liberation. Therefore, be free of them and do whatever has to be done spontaneously. (III:111)





Maura O'Connor, a student of the Kabbalah


Emptiness, what the kabbalists call ayin, exists far beyond concepts or language. It is like a pure ether that can never be grasped by the mind. Emptiness is the ultimate mystery, the secret of the Cause of Causes, and it brought everything into being.
I must tell you of the great rabbi, Isaac Luria. Luria was a visionary like none other: he lived during the fifteenth century in the holy town of Galilee.... He spent his life ceaselessly contemplating the source of the universe, the primordial emptiness we call ayin.... He recognized that in order for the latent divinity of ayin to manifest its glorious potential for life, a cataclysmic contraction had to take place.

Luria understood that the absolute nature of this emptiness meant that it was so pervasive, nothing else but it could exist. In order for life to become manifest, a seismic contraction of emptiness in on itself had to occur, creating a space in which divine emanation was possible





Sri Ramakrishna


When the Godhead [the Father] is thought of as creating, preserving, and destroyinq, It is known as the Personal God, Saguna Brahman, or the Primal Energy, Adyasakti [the Mother]. Again, when It is thought of as beyond the three gunas [the three qualities of the phenomenal world – sattwa, rajas, and thamas, or balance, energy, and sloth], then It is called the Attributeless Reality, Nirguna Brahman, beyond speech and thought; this is the Supreme Brahman, Parabrahman. (31)

Sri Ramakrishna revealed the secret meaning behind the statues of Shakti and Shiva that show Shiva lying recumbent while Shakti dances on His body.

Kali stands on the bosom of Siva; Siva lies under Her feet like a corpse; Kali looks at Siva. All this denotes the union of Purusha and Prakriti. Purusha is inactive; therefore Siva lies on the ground like a corpse. Prakriti performs all Her activities in conjunction with Purusha. Thus She creates, preserves, and destroys. (32)

Thus the Father is “immoveable and actionless” (33), a profound stillness in which we discover Sat-Chit-Ananda, or Being, Awareness, and Bliss Absolute. The Mother is the movement in this stillness, the voice in the silence, the primordial, active energy in the eternal tranquillity of the Father. It is this relationship between the dynamic and the static that Jesus hinted at when he called the totality of God “a movement and a rest.”



Franklin Merrell-Wolff

 "The Current is clearly a subtle, fluid-like substance which brings the sense of well-being already described. Along with It, a more than earthly Joy suffuses the whole nature. To myself, I called It a Nectar. Now, I recognize It under several names. It is.the 'Soma,' the 'Ambrosia of the Gods,' the 'Elixir of Life,' the 'Water of Life' of Jesus, and the 'Baptism of the Spirit' of St. Paul. It is more than related to Immortality; in fact it is Identical with Immortality."