~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.

Rumi

If you find me not within you, you will never find me for, I have been with you, from the beginning of me.

Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's 

Wei Wu Wei

“There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to dis-identify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.”

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Grasping to a non-existent self, we misread our world and lose the true treasure of our mind. Because of our belief in a self that must be preserved at all costs, ego controls our every mental, emotional, verbal, and physical act. Although our wisdom mind is completely radiant at all times, we become like a homeless prince: a monarch who lives like a vagabond, unaware of his own inheritance.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

First find the immutable center where all movement takes birth. Just like a wheel turns round an axle, so must you be always at the axle in the center and not whirling at the periphery.

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Running after saints is merely another game to play. Remember yourself instead and watch your daily life relentlessly. Be earnest, and you shall not fail to break the bonds of inattention and imagination.

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Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.

 

METTA PRAYER

May all beings be peaceful.

May all beings be happy.
May all beings be safe.
May all beings awaken to
the light of their true nature.
May all beings be free.

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Paul Brunton

Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

The Advaita Philosophy Of Sri Sankara

The first systematic exponent of the Advaita is Gaudapada, who is the Parama-Guru (preceptor's preceptor) of Sri Sankara. Govinda was the disciple of Gaudapada. He became the preceptor of Sankara. Gaudapada has given the central teaching of Advaita Vedanta in his celebrated Mandukya Karikas. But it was Sankara who brought forth the final beautiful form of Advaita philosophy, and gave perfection and finishing touch to it. Carefully go through Sri Sankara's commentaries on the principal Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad-Gita. You will clearly understand his Advaita philosophy. The commentary on the Vedanta Sutras by Sankara is known as Sariraka Bhashya.

The teachings of Sankara can be summed up in half a verse: "Brahma Satyam Jagan Mithya Jivo Brahmaiva Na Aparah-Brahman (the Absolute) is alone real; this world is unreal; and the Jiva or the individual soul is non-different from Brahman." This is the quintessence of his philosophy.

The Advaita taught by Sri Sankara is a rigorous, absolute one. According to Sri Sankara, whatever is, is Brahman. Brahman Itself is absolutely homogeneous. All difference and plurality are illusory.

Unknown Author

Kulaarnava Tantra

Because she practices the yonimudra,

attends upon the Feet of Girija (the

Divine Mother),

and because of the glory of total

immergence without support,

she is called yogini.

~ Kulaarnava Tantra

we are Shakti Goddess Kundalini.

There is no greater religion

across all ages and nations

than Love and Compassion.

The true mark of a spiritual man

Their seat is in the heart

where ceaselessly burns

benevolent creative fire

a consecration to sublime art

By constantly striving

from a light seeker

you become a light bearer

with a crescent and a cross

Bringing blessings for every one

in course of your earthly sojourn

every passing moment and hour

merciful rain and sunny shower.

(Yayati)