Robert Adams

This universe, my friends, is an optical illusion. It is a dream, just as when you’re dreaming. No one can ever tell you the dream is a dream, as long as you’re dreaming.

Sri Ramakrishna

"It is His will that we should run about a little. Then it is great fun. God has created the world in play, as it were. This is called Mahamaya, the Great Illusion. Therefore one must take refuge in the Divine Mother, the Cosmic Power Itself. It is She who has bound us with the shackles of illusion. The realization of God is possible only when those shackles are severed."

Maya. BY OM Namah Shivaya OM Shantiji. Crow.

Everything that you see has risen from the One Consciousness of the Supreme Brahman.

There is only consciousness, and the consciousness is one consciousness not two. The world is the illusion of separateness and duality being displayed upon the consciousness which is caused by the belief that we are the body and that the body is an individual being. This illusion is called Maya in Sanskrit and Maya is the power of the Divine Mother and it is lifted when the jiva is ready to turn within. Maya affects your life by making you believe that the thoughts of the mind are actually your thoughts and therefore you are that, thinking being, that is born and will die. When you are trapped in this illusion you are trapped in the ego and your karmic cycle. Realising this entrapment is the beginning of the end of the illusion that you are a separate being in the universe Realise the illusion and you will realise your true nature.

AVATAR MEHER BABA

Everything exists only because it has a purpose. The moment that purpose has been accomplished, everything disappears and Existence is manifested as self-existing Self.

Purpose presumes a direction and since Existence, being everything and everywhere, cannot have any direction, directions must always be in nothing and lead nowhere. Hence to have a purpose is to create a false goal. Love alone is devoid of all purpose and a spark of Divine Love sets fire to all purposes. The Goal of Life in Creation is to arrive at purposelessness, which is the state of Reality.

Sri Samartha Siddharameshwar Maharaj

Beingness means ‘Consciousness’, or 'Knowledge’. The mind attending to other things is called bondage. The mind when not attending to anything else, is Brahman. When there is no thinking about objects in the mind, the mind is clean, it is still. That is the state of Brahman.

Yoga Vashishta

To one who is established in what is infinite, pure consciousness, bliss and unqualified non-duality, where is the question of bondage or liberation, seeing that there is no second entity?

THERE IS ONLY CONCIOUSESS

 

“God is consciousness. There is essentially nothing in the universe but mind or consciousness.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

Ramana Maharshi

 Self enquiry is possible for mature minds, not for immature ones

For the immature ones,

repetition of a prayer or holy name, worship of images,

breath control (pranayama),

visualising a piller of light,

and similar yogic and

spiritual and religious practices

have been prescribed.

ANTHONY DE MELLO

Seeker: How does one seek union with God?

Master: The harder you seek, the more distance you create between Him and you.

Seeker: So what does one do about the distance?

Master: Understand that it isn’t there. Seeker: Does that mean that God and I are one?

Master: Not one. Not two.

Seeker: How is that possible?

Master: The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.

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