Ayam Ātmā Brahma ~ This Self is Brahman

 

- Paramahansa Yogananda

 He [God] said, “Him whom you are looking for in the stars and the wind and the ocean and in books and temples of the world, I am He within you in your love. I am with you always there.”

Ātman is the true, eternal self or spirit within each individual, which is distinct from the changing physical body and mind.

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi ~ Brahmasmi Aham ~ I am Brahman

In Hinduism, Purna signifies completeness, fullness, and wholeness, often associated with Shiva and the ultimate state of consciousness. It embodies the divine presence, perfection, and self-realization, related to Nirvana Moksha, and Krishna's qualities, also representing a river and the full moon.

Shams Tabrizi

 The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty.

Rumi

 

Tat Tvam Asi

 

Awareness Watching Awareness

 The moment you turn attention inward—not toward thoughts or sensations, but toward the awareness that knows them—you are already at the threshold of freedom. “Awareness Watching Awareness” is not a technique; it is the natural state when attention ceases to chase objects

Dr. Rabindranath Tagore:

 I hold Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa in high reverence because he recognized the true essence of religion and illuminated our spiritual heritage at a time when the nation was under the absolute rule of dark ignorance. His vast wisdom harmonized the paths of conflicting spiritual disciplines, and his simple personality left a lasting impact on the arrogance of scholars and priests.

Viktor Frankl

 

When the lotus of consciousness blooms,

its fragrance is love, its light — awareness, its nectar — peace.

David R. Hawkins

 “Love is misinterpreted as an emotion; in reality, it is a state of consciousness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.”

H. W. L. Poonja

 “If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!”

“Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.” — H. W. L. Poonja

the Goddess Durga

 In Hindu traditions, the goddess Durga is sometimes understood as a form of Shiva's wife Parvati, the personification of his female energies. This female creative energy, called shakti, has a powerful side that is personified as the warrior goddess Durga, capable of destroying arrogance and other mental vices, personified as the demon. Her main feat in the mythic literature is the slaying of the Buffalo Demon, Mahishasura. He had been ravaging the universe until the warrior goddess Durga decapitated him. His more vulnerable demonic form emerges from the neck, and she, calm but powerful, slays him with her sword.

Marcel Proust

 Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

It is the emptiness within. LAO TZU

 

~ Adyashanti

 In my experience, everyone will say they want to discover the Truth, right up until they realize that the Truth will rob them of their deepest held ideas, beliefs, hopes, and dreams… The freedom of enlightenment means much more than the experience of love and peace... It means discovering a Truth that will turn your view of self and life upside-down… For one who is truly ready, this will be unimaginably liberating... But for one who is still clinging in any way, this will be extremely challenging indeed... How does one know if they are ready? One is ready when they are willing to be absolutely consumed, when they are willing to be fuel for a fire without end…

GEORGE ORWELL

 

Eliphas Lévi, The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic

 It is the imagination, in fact, which is the eye of the soul…. It is through imagination that we can see reflections of the invisible world.

Shakti Energy

 Shakti represents the divine feminine energy. The cosmic force responsible for creation, preservation and transformation of the universe.

Jamgon Kongtrul

 When retiring to sleep, draw the Guru from above your head into the center of your heart,

abandon the coming and going of thoughts, memories, and all mental activity,

and relax into a state of undistracted devotion and prayer.

Then the clear light will gradually arise out of deep sleep.

If you want to do the meditation of recognizing, changing, expanding, and purifying dreams, you must maintain an attitude during the day that all appearances are dreams,

and then it will be easy to deal with dreams.

If you tend to solidity appearances during the day,

then at night, even if you recognise dreams, the practice will be difficult.

Also, to cut through the intermediate existence you need to have cut through the dream experience.

If you don't realize that all waking appearances are like dreams or illusions,

then one vast mass of delusion will obscure another.

Rumi

 Half of life is lost in charming others.

The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others. Leave this play. You’ve played enough.

Joseph Campbell

 Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

The Divergent Truth

 

Modern spirituality often celebrates individuality — “your truth,” “your power,” “your purpose.” Bhagavan Manikkavachakar took a completely divergent route — he celebrated the vanishing of individuality. He discovered that the truest liberation was not in expressing yourself but in disappearing into the Self.

To evaporate into God is to become transparent to His light. The ego stops casting shadows. You live, you breathe, you act — but the doer is gone. What remains is pure happening, like wind through bamboo or water finding its own rhythm.

He didn’t worship for reward. He didn’t preach for followers. He didn’t even seek salvation. He simply melted. That’s why his verses still breathe. Because they were not written about God — they were written from within God.

In a world obsessed with explaining, Bhagavan Manikkavachakar’s legacy whispers:

“Stop interpreting. Start evaporating.”

Buddhist Chant

 All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this truth brings true happiness.

swami vivekananda

 

Walter Russell

 The universe exists solely of waves of motion. There exists nothing other than vibration.

Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf

 Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Rumi

 This heart sanctuary does exist, but it can't be described.

Eckhart Tolle

 

Tripura Rahasya

 

"The universe has thus originated only as an image on the surface of the mirror of the Absolute".

Swami Vivekananda

 "The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage.

Everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."

J. Krishnamurti

 Truth can only come to the mind that is empty of the known. It comes in a state in which the known is absent, not functioning. The mind is the warehouse of the known, the residue of the known; and for the mind to be in that state in which the unknown comes into being, it must be aware of itself, of its previous experiences, the conscious as well as the unconscious, of its responses, reactions, and structure. When there is complete self-knowledge, then there is the ending of the known, then mind is completely empty of the known. It is only then that truth can come to you uninvited. Truth does not belong to you or to me.

You cannot worship it. The moment it is known, it is unreal. The symbol is not real, the image is not real; but when there is the understanding of self, the cessation of self, then eternity comes into being.

— Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus

 "As above, so below—the light that pervades the cosmos is the same light that dwells within your own soul."

Wu Hsin

 Time can tear down mountains. Consider what the timeless source of time can do.

Papaji

 

Sri Ramana Maharsh

 

Annamalai swami

 

Rumi

 

Brihadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, 1.4.10

 As the lotus rises untainted from the mud, so does the soul transcend the world of illusion.

Baba Farid

 

Closing Reflection

Baba Farid spoke not from scriptures but from the soil of lived truth. He showed that to touch eternity, one must first honor the earth beneath one’s feet.

When we live with humility in action and vastness in perception, we don’t escape the world—we sanctify it.

So, plant your roots deep in kindness, let your eyes rise to eternity—and walk, like Baba Farid, as one who belongs to both.

🌾 Roots in Earth, Eyes on Eternity — Farid Speaks

In an age where everyone wants to rise, Baba Farid taught us how to stay rooted. To him, spirituality was not about escaping the world but anchoring so deeply into it that the divine could grow through you. He said, “Let your feet be buried in humility, and your gaze rest on the horizon of the Infinite.”

This simple paradox—groundedness and transcendence—holds the essence of Baba Farid’s wisdom. It reminds us that one cannot truly see eternity unless one has first touched the soil with reverence.

In our hyper-digital, hyper-distracted world, we mistake floating for freedom. We confuse speed for progress, detachment for peace. Baba Farid, in his quiet mystic simplicity, dismantled this illusion. He believed that every human must cultivate earth within before they can understand heaven above.