SAT-CHIT-ANANDA

 

ROBERT ADAMS

 

Brahman consciousness

Brahman consciousness is a fundamental concept in Hindu philosophy and spirituality, representing the ultimate reality and source of all existence.

It is believed to be the underlying principle that connects all living beings and the universe as a whole

Sri Nisargadatta Mahara

 

I am beyond consciousness and so in consciousness I cannot say what I am. Yet I am. The question “Who am I?” has no answer in consciousness and therefore helps to go beyond consciousness. Remember there is no person, only a mental picture given a false reality by conviction. All you need to do is to cease taking yourself to be within the field of consciousness. The "I am" is a concept that must disappear to reveal the Absolute.

Sudhakar S.D, 1988. p108

All that is, is one, the one reality, and plurality does not exist anywhere, except in man’s mind. The esoteric science postulates that there is ultimately One power, One life, One substance. This power is omnipresent, eternal and immutable

Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

 “Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself. The questions that can lead us are already alive in our midst, waiting to be summoned and made real. It is a joy to name them. It is a gift to plant them in our senses, our bodies, the places we inhabit, the part of the world we can see and touch and help to heal. It is a relief to claim our love of each other and take that on as an adventure, a calling. It is a pleasure to wonder at the mystery we are and find delight in the vastness of reality that is embedded in our beings. It is a privilege to hold something robust and resilient called hope, which has the power to shift the world on its axis.”

The Light of the World Talon Abraxas

 For Elohim, who said "Let light [Christ] shine out of darkness," has shone it in [Tiphereth] our hearts, to give the light of Gnosis, the splendour of Elohim, [as the sun] in the face of Jesus Christ.

– 2 Corinthians 4: 6

Krishna

 "The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind."

RAMARISHNA

 

The river and its waves are one ~Kabir

surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?

When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction? Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water? Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads: Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.

— Cee

 We call it Existence/Consciousness/Bliss

“Happiness has to be deeper than what is experienced by human senses. There is something completely fulfilling that does not depend on anything in order to be experienced. Knowledge of the truth of your own existence is completely fulfilling. We call it Existence/Consciousness/Bliss. It is never at any time dependent on an outside factor to be experienced.”

~ Sri Yukteswar

 Wisdom is not assimilated with the eyes, but with the atoms. When your conviction of a truth is not merely in your brain but in your being, you may definitely vouch for its meaning. 

YOGANANDA

 

 “IF AN EGG IS BROKEN BY AN OUTSIDE FORCE , LIFE ENDS . IF AN EGG IS BROKEN BY AN INSIDE FORCE , THEN LIFE BEGINS . GREAT THINGS HAPPEN FROM THE INSIDE

Sanatana Dharma

 Sanatana Dharma or merely Dharma was the term that was used in ancient scriptures. If we look into the entomology of the Sanatana Dharma, “Sanatana” means eternal and “Dharma” means Religion. If we look into other religions of the world, we can definitely track its origin or founder. But, this is not true in the case of Sanatana Dharma. Sanatana Dharma is eternal and universal in nature.

It is often referred to as the most ancient way of life or religion that is guiding millions of human beings till date. In Bhagavad-gita, As It Is, Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has beautifully simplified the meaning of Sanatana Dharma

Thomas Berry

We come into being in and through the Earth. Simply put, we are Earthlings. The Earth is our origin, our nourishment, our educator, our healer, our fulfillment. At its core, even our spirituality is Earth derived. The human and the Earth are totally implicated, each in the other. If there is no spirituality in the Earth, then there is no spirituality in ourselves.

Annamalai Swami

The experience of this “I am” is God. All of us have this “I am”, this basic sense of existing. This consciousness is the ultimate and only reality.

Basilius Valentinus 15th Century Benedictin

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The earth is not a dead body, but is inhabited by a spirit that is its life and soul. All created things, minerals included, draw their strength from the earth spirit. This spirit is life, it is nourished by the stars, and it gives nourishment to all the living things it shelters in its womb.

🕉 The Divine Mother is Shakti or Energy Jai Kali Ma

As we know from science everything is energy: light, heat, movement, even solid matter.In ancient times before paintings and statues humans used fire and the sun to worship God. Now is a good time to revive that ancient practice. We can use a source of energy such as a fire, candle or the sun as a focus point in our bhakti yoga and devotion to the Divine Mother. 

Alan Watts

 

“…To know that you are God, is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever that is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.”

Swami Satchidananda~

“On a pilgrimage you learn to depend on a higher source. You learn that you cannot depend on anything else for your safety or for your peaceful life. All other things, though they are around, can only help you to a certain extent. They are limited. The ultimate help comes from the God within.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These roses under my window make no

reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower, there is no more; in the leafless root, there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

 

Swami Abhayananda

All people of intelligence eventually awaken to some degree to the presence of God in their lives, and, depending on what religious or philosophical environment they happen to be in at the time of that awakening, they tend to interpret their spiritual experience in that context. The person living in a Moslem intellectual environment interprets his experience through the Koran, and worships Allah; the Hindu gives his heart to Krishna or Shiva; the person inundated with Buddhist ideas sees his awakening in Buddhist terms; the Jew relates strongly to the religious history of his forefathers, and looks to Yahweh; the Christian describes his path in Christian terms, and the Platonist in Platonist terms. But, of course, they are all turning in the same direction. If they reach the object of their yearning, they transcend sectarian interpretations and come to know directly the Source of their attraction, and realize that It is beyond all religious tradition, containing all traditions and yet transcending them all

NISARGADATTA

The moment you start talking you create a verbal universe, a universe of words, ideas, concepts and abstractions, interwoven and inter-dependent, most wonderfully generating, supporting and explaining each other and yet all without essence or substance, mere creations of the mind. Words create words, reality is silent.

RAMAKRISHNA

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

 Nisargadatta Maharaj

 Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything. The giving up is the final step. But the real giving up is in realising that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own.

 It is like deep sleep: You do not give up your bed when you fall asleep; you just forget it.

Jeff Foster

Become curious. Allow your present experience to become totally fascinating. Stop calling the energy 'positive' or 'negative', 'light' or 'dark', 'right' or 'wrong', and what is there? Come back to the sensations in the body. Raw life. The throb of mystery. Tingly, alive sensations - prickly, dull, warm, intense, fluttery - dancing in the belly, chest, neck, head. Inseparable from what you are. Intimate. Sacred. So present, alive only in this moment.

Mahagauri Author unknown

Mahagauri is the kriya Shakti of existence . Kriya means action , the energy which creates motion in static matter is Mahagauri . She is the eighth manifestation of Goddess Durga who is worshiped on Maha Durgashtami . She is the beloved wife of Lord Shiva, who is meditated upon seated on Nandi, the bull. She has four hands in which she holds a trident , damru , abhaya and Vara mudras. She is saumyamukhi or has blissful expression on face .

Mahagauri also represents the union of Shiva with Shakti. She completes him by merging him with herself, which makes him Ashutosh. Shiva grants auspicious boons to his devotees only when he is United with Shakti , without her her he becomes dispassionate and has no purpose in existence . The reason Mahagauri plays a Damru represents that divine union of Shiva and Shakti. Their union is considered auspicious for continuance of existence , so Mahagauri embodies the greatest Auspiciousness.

She is the creator of life, the Yoni from whom the creation takes birth. She is mother to all life forms . Her worship grants experience of oneness with all lives. When one feels the same amount of love and compassion for everyone, the oneness can be felt. This oneness is auspiciousness of Mahagauri , as it reduces friction and stress in our surrounding and creates acceptance and Harmony , for smooth functioning of life . The purpose of spirituality is to reduce external friction to go deed inside your spiritual self . Mahagauri provides this kind of transformation with her worship