Guru

The Guru's Grace (spiritual teacher) is both external and internal. From the outside, he pushes the mind inwards, and from the inside he pulls the mind towards the Self and helps it keep quiet. That is the grace. There is no difference between God, guru and Self. A guru's help is necessary and useful to start you on the inquiry, but you yourself must pursue it.

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2024-09-01 09:02:01

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2024-09-01 08:56:59

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2024-09-01 08:52:19

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2024-09-01 08:43:18

I have nothing inside, and l seek nothing outside.
#Chaochou
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2024-09-01 08:30:22

At any moment, you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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2024-09-01 08:24:02

Leonard Cohen: "Meditation is not what you think. You sit in absolute silence and your mind starts going over all your movies. During that process, you become so familiar with the scripts you keep in your life that you end up getting sick of them. Then you realize that the person you think you are is nothing but a complicated script you spend most of your energy on.
After a more thorough examination, you discover your personality disgusts you, and that's because it's not really you. If you feel terrified enough about that personality, you spontaneously allow it to fade away. Then, if you're lucky, you can experience yourself without the distortion of that personality.
There's so much talk about the mechanics of happiness - psychiatry and pills, positive thinking and ideology
- but I really think the mechanism is there. All you have to do is get quiet for a moment."
#LeonardCohen
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2024-08-21 09:16:19

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
#SriRamanaMaharshi

2024-08-21 09:14:10

"As long as you search for something other than yourself in order to obtain happiness, there will be no happiness for you. "
#SriRamanaMaharshi

2024-08-21 09:06:31

You are beyond desire, which itself depends on the 'I am'. Do not suppress desires, just don't identify with them and they will disappear.
#SriNisargdattaMaharaj

2024-08-21 09:03:34

Find the spark of life that weaves
the tissues of your body and be with it.
It is the only reality the body has.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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2024-08-21 09:01:10

I do not want to teach anything to anybody; I only hold up a mirror to those who come here. I will make you stand before the mirror and look at yourself. You have to get the vision of yourself in the light that is emanating from your own Self.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj

2024-08-21 08:59:05

Watching yourself, that itself is meditation.
To keep only consciousness, without mixing it with anything, that is knowledge without words, that you ARE.
Thoughts will be there, but they will be weaker and weaker, so only the feeling of
"I Amness" will remain: just consciousness, without any activity.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj

2024-08-21 08:55:50

if you read a book about swimming
and actually cannot swim
You missed the point
Same way
If you read a book about Divinity, spirituality
Remembered it
But have not become light electric and magic And you and the world around you has not
Transformed upside down
You missed the point.
Reading a book about quenching the thirst
Wont quench the thirst
Drinking water will quench the thirst
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2024-08-21 08:53:20

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2024-08-21 08:50:09

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2024-08-14 08:35:40

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2024-08-14 08:28:12

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2024-08-14 08:20:31

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2024-08-14 08:10:20

The Tao is the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds."
#LaoTzu

2024-08-14 08:07:53

Ever desireless,
one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees only the manifestations.
#LaoTzu
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2024-08-14 08:02:08

The Echo of Silence
In the echo of silence,
The whispers of the divine are heard, A melody sung by the universe, A song without a single word.
Listen to the echo, my dear, And let your soul be stirred, In the silence, you'll find, The divine's sacred word.
#Rumi
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2024-08-14 07:59:23

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
#Rumi
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2024-08-14 07:53:02

Truth is very simple, don't complicate it.
#Papaji
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2024-08-14 07:50:20

#ThichNhatHanh
Disconnect of Modern Life ~
"People today do not know how to rest. They fill their free time with countless diversions. People cannot tolerate even a few minutes of unoccupied time. They have to turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper, reading anything at all, even the advertisements. They constantly need something to look at, listen to, or talk about, all to keep the emptiness inside from rearing its terrifying head.
The Heart Sutra says that there is "nothing to attain." We meditate not to attain enlightenment, because enlightenment is already in us... We see that we do not lack anything, that we already are what we want to become, and our striving just comes to a halt. We are at peace in the present moment, just seeing the sunlight streaming through our window or hearing the sound of the rain. We don't have to run after anything. We can enjoy every moment. People talk about entering nirvana, but we are already there."
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2024-08-14 07:47:38

Samsara hard to overcome
It was time for Papa's bath. Papa went to the building behind the bhajan-hall. S. brought a seat on which Papa sat. S. was fanning him.
Breaking the few minutes silence, Papa said,
"One who is caught in samsara is doomed. What a hard struggle it is to get out it! Ramdas had been in it and he knows how much he had to suffer and struggle to free himself from its coils. Even though one separates oneself physically, it is very difficult to take the mind away from the old rut. It drags you down: Ramdas had to do intense sadhana to free himself from all attachments. He used to consider the world like a passing show."
S: "When did the struggle cease?'
Papa: "The struggle finally ceased only a few years after he came to this ashram."
S (with great surprise) : "What! It took so many years! Did you not feel calm and peaceful when you were repeating Ramnam intensely day and night? Were you not free from those attachments then?"
Papa: "No. There were occasionally some disturbances. Even a slight irregularity in diet used to disturb the mind. While in the Kadri cave, once Ramdas ate some food which was not well cooked. That produced stomach trouble which in turn disturbed the mind. So, whenever there was mental disturbance, he used to go into solitude and observe fast for one or two days. That helped him much."
S: "What was Papa's practice to remain unaffected by the worldly whirlpool?
Was it by detaching your real Self from the body and asserting that your real nature is bliss, or did Papa resort to other means ?'
Papa: "It was by looking at everything as Ram and every incident that happened as brought about by Ram."
#SwamiRamdas

2024-08-14 07:44:51

It’s kept in your Palm!
Maharaj:
Worlds are created and destroyed,
how did I survive and observe all this?
Only the One who has transcended everything can employ such discrimination. I have appeared spontaneously without my knowing and everything is happening spontaneously.
Having realized this do what you like, even if you sit in a desert, it will become a place of pilgrimage.
My Guru said ‘The source of the entire world is kept on your palm, here it is, you are not that beingness’.
Out of sheer providence or good luck
someone is inclined to understand all this, in the process his own being gets pleased with him and provides him all the knowledge.
This sickness of beingness is the outcome of the five elemental chaos.
Your own concepts make you suffer,
‘I amness’ makes you suffer.
People call me a Jnani, just observe.
Saint Tukaram said ‘watch with appreciation, admiration and no involvement’.
You entertain concepts and they make you
suffer internally and externally.
Can you by employing any means of yours
limit manifest nature?
The Ramas and Krishnas have come and gone, but nature plays by itself, unconcerned.
When you die, die with totality, you are
everything, die with it.
How do you understand yourself?
It is better to say
‘I have not understood’, rather than saying ‘I understand everything’.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj.

2024-08-14 07:42:04

#SriRamanaMaharshi :
The Living Guru --
The Ramana Way
Perhaps it is easier to say what the Ramana Way is not than to say what it is. It is not based on theoretical speculations. It is not conceptual. For thoughts arise only when the mind's attention is not on oneself but on the core of the mind, the 'I', it would be the death of thought. No thought can arise till attention wavers. This core-attention would push back the mind to its conscious source. The enquiry as to whom the thoughts arise for is only necessary if and when the mind is distracted and therefore incapable of holding on to self-attention. Then, and only then, one has no option except to shift attention back to itself by questioning for whom it arises. By doing this attention reverts back to the thinker, away from the thought which was the distraction.
The second vital point to remember is that Ramana is not against devotion. His path is not an "intellectual path" . In fact intuition and feeling have the primary place in it. Why does one say so? This is because of the importance and the need for Sadgurus Ramanas guidance and support to stay on course, to prevent the straying of the mind in thought forms. Ramana himself emphasizes this when he draws attention to the fact and says " Arunachala , is my guru . Have I not composed many verses in his praise?" Some of his compositions which extol the role of Arunachala as guru par excellence go straight to the heart. Those who have read his 'Five hymns on Arunachala know only too well its power to melt ones heart, to fill one with emotional longing to be united with Ramana, with the Self.
There is no question of practical 'advaita', non dualism with guru Ramana. One has to feel his presence through every possible means of worship, to "offer incense at his holy feet".
The third vital point to be kept in mind is that in the Ramana way one does not still the mind, or lull it into spells of quietness, long or short. For when the mind is troubled, pestered by unending thought streams, one thinks of a quiet mind, a still mind as a tremendous achievement. One regards it as a worthwhile goal. A greater mistake is added on when those who have stilled their minds labour under false belief of having attained the goal itself, when they are convinced that practices have yielded full fruit. So one goes through varied breath control exercises and meditation techniques. All this for the prized still mind hence one finds Ramana cautioning against what he labels "mano laya" or a mind which is lulled into silence. When it happens one has to be alert to awaken the consciousness and ensure uninterrupted self-attention. Having said what the Ramana path is not, one can venture to say what it is. The term 'venture' is used because when an experience is described, the description itself may be taken as reality and not the experience. Subject to this danger one has to indicate what it means . It is sometimes said that the answer to the question 'who am I?" is found in the experience of Self-abidance. How does one experience this? It is experienced by the pure mind. Such a mind which is the reflection of fullness of consciousness, experiences an overflowing bliss. Ramana describes this brimming blissfulness, as an 'I-I' feeling for it is continuous, without any break. It is felt in the region of the spiritual heart, located on the right side of the chest. Why? Because the spiritual heart is the source of the mind which experiences this bliss. This bliss is not disturbed by action or thoughts for they would take place automatically and spontaneously . This is the state of the jnanis, the firm natural state which Ramana in his abundant grace enables one to discover for oneself.

2024-08-11 10:27:02

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2024-08-11 10:24:05

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2024-08-11 10:21:27

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2024-08-11 10:18:19

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. #Jesus
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2024-08-11 10:14:25

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
#Rumi
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2024-08-11 10:08:11

Love It is what remains!
#Rumi
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2024-08-11 10:05:45

Rumi, a 13th century Persian spiritual teacher, was asked:
What is spiritual maturity?
It's when we stop trying to change others and focus on changing ourselves.
It is when we accept people as they are.
It is when we understand that everyone is correct according to their own perspective.
It is when we learn to “let go”.
It is when we are able to not have "expectations" in a relationship, and we give of ourselves for the pleasure of giving.
It is when we understand that what we do, we do for our own peace.
It's when we stop showing the world how smart we are.
It's when we stop seeking approval from others.
It's when we stop comparing ourselves to others.
It is when we are at peace with ourselves.
It is when we are able to distinguish between "need" and "want" and we are able to let go of that want.
Spiritual maturity is gained when we stop attaching "happiness" to material things!
#Rumi

2024-08-11 10:02:10

My dear heart
There is a path through the soul to the Beloved
There is a hidden way from a confused mind to the Sweetheart
Even if the six directions in your life are closed
Have no fear
There is a passage
from the depth of your existence to the highest Love.
#Rumi
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2024-08-11 09:59:19

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.
The light which fills the heart is the Light of God, which is pure and separate
from the light of intellect and sense.
#Rumi
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2024-08-11 09:03:59

Of the unknowable only silence talks. The mind can talk only of what it knows.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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2024-08-11 09:00:50

People come here and ask for blessings;
they don't understand that the Knowledge that one is not the body. but the Consciousness
Within,
is the blessing.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj

2024-08-11 08:58:05

High Tide
Stories from
Papaji's satsangs
"We are playing like children on the beach, making sand castles.
Sand castles, you see.
And forgetting to return home, that's all.
#Papaji
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2024-08-11 08:53:46

The Guru may tell his disciples a thousand times,
'You are the Self, you are not what you imagine yourself to be', but none of them ever believes him.
They all keep asking the Guru for methods and routes to reach the place where they already are.
#AnnamalaiSwami
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2024-08-11 08:45:03

The world never exists without the body
The body never exists without the mind
The mind never exists without consciousness and consciousness never exists without reality
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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2024-08-11 08:42:42

All your needs will come to and end with
Self-realization.
Otherwise, you will not be satisfied even if you want the emperor of the whole universe!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj

2024-08-11 08:36:24

When divinity and disciple become one, then there is non-duality (advaita), one-ness.
#SriRaviShankar
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2024-08-11 08:34:10

Once a blind woman was coming from a well at night with a pitcher of water in her hand and a lighted lantern in her hand. A man met her on the way and said, "How stupid, you are blind so why carry a lantern?" The blind woman said, "It is so you will not knock me down." Our sadhana (spiritual practice) is our lantern that lights our way and keeps us on the path even if we're blind.
#BabaHariDass
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2024-08-11 08:21:05

You are caught up in Maya.
You are playing the game.
You are still involved in the Leela.
You're feeling things.
You're reacting to things.
You're arguing about things.
You're debating things.
#RobertAdams

2024-08-11 08:18:34

With the mind gone, misery is gone, and suddenly you are full of energy.
And the energy needs expression, sharing; it wants to become a song, a dance, a celebration. That is compassion: you start sharing.
#OSHO
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2024-08-11 08:16:26

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
#LaoTzu

2024-08-11 08:10:47

Become totally empty. Quiet the restlessness of the mind. Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.'
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2024-08-11 08:07:27

Deep down inside, each of us knows we have no idea what's going on. We don't know. We don't know why we occupy this body. We don't know when we are born, where we came from.
Don't know why we are on this planet. We don't know. Nobody knows. So what we do very interestingly, is we pretend we know. Some people take it quite vigorously. They take on a set of beliefs. They are ready to fight over them or kill over them. Abuse other people over them. And that reinforces their beliefs. The question isn't, "I need to figure this out." The question is actually here [pointing to his abdomen.] What am I? What is this? What is true nature? In asking this question we are opening ourselves up. Zen practices itself is actually a self actualization practice. It's not dependent on anything else. It's up to each one of us to self actualize. If deep down inside we don't know, then really the self actualization is becoming completely comfortable with not knowing. That's what human beings are. - Zen Master #BonHaeng
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2024-08-11 07:55:38

Patriarch #Bodhidharma said: Without using words, transmitting outside the teachings, pointing directly to the human mind, seeing Buddha nature and becoming Buddha. You are the one who practices, you will understand it, if you are fascinated by these wonderful teachings, that wonderful teaching... you are still occupied by thoughts, still a slave. When you see the pure state of mind together with Buddhas and all sentient beings, no different, you will truly be free from all judgments of all, no matter whose judgment it is.
The reason is because language is to express images. It cannot touch the purity of Buddha nature... if you want to be free.
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2024-08-11 07:51:02

The truth is always silent.
The lie is always with words.
Venerable #AjahnBrahm
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2024-08-11 07:48:22

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2024-08-11 07:45:34

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2024-08-11 07:42:44

Knowing a spiritual truth in your mind is just the first step. True transformation happens when you embody that truth in your daily life. Intellectual understanding alone won't bring you the peace, growth, or liberation you're seeking. It's about aligning your actions, thoughts, and emotions with that deeper wisdom. https://nostrcheck.me/media/4707c8fa26c025f3694dc0a62d45fe597f7819deb8a45abb894f22cffbecb777/b21bf80603f1ec2799adc8e16c11ddd836c9129c922c69a83a7c202776dd0531.webp

2024-08-11 07:36:47

MEDITATION
BECAUSE WE COULD ALL USE A LITTLE
"SIT DOWN AND SHUT THE F*CK UP."
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2024-08-07 08:27:56

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2024-08-07 08:24:27

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2024-08-07 08:21:02

me after having 7 years worth of thoughts in 5 minutes.
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2024-08-07 08:18:12

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2024-08-07 08:14:30

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2024-08-07 08:11:22

Leave and observe your thoughts wandering here and there in your mind.
They arise out of nowhere, almost suddenly
are replaced by others
and they follow one another endlessly, until the point occupied all the necessary space in the mind.
Observe...
treat them as guests who come to visit you, and then leave the place to other visits, with new guests.
Be present ... Observe
Don't allow,
to the guest on duty,
to become the master of the house ... during your absence.
Be present ... as much as you can
#Arjun
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2024-08-07 08:09:25

This Body itself is Emptiness and Emptiness itself is this Body. This Body is not other than Emptiness and Emptiness is not other than this Body.
#TheHeartSutra
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2024-08-07 08:06:03

One moment of total awareness is one moment of freedom and enlightenment.
#LamaSuryaDas
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2024-08-07 08:04:04

I said: How long will you drag my soul around the world?
He said:
Wherever I drag you, come quickly.
Say nothing.
I said: While I say nothing, do you want me to burn?
Are you saying:
Come in and say nothing?
He smiled like a rose and said:
Come in and see.
This fire is jasmine, green leaves and roses.
Say nothing.
The fire became roses and spoke.
It told me:
Except for our beloved's love and kindness.
Say nothing.
#Rumi

2024-08-07 08:01:44

"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love."
#Rumi
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2024-08-07 07:58:23

"If you seek peace, be still.
If you seek wisdom, be silent.
If you seek love, be yourself."
#BeccaLee
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2024-08-07 07:56:12

"It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will."
#JidduKrishnamurti
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2024-08-07 07:53:53

You are always in Love, and you can only Love yourself,
the changless one in which even space is.
There is no beginning, no middle, and no end to it.
Only Love is worth loving and this is your own Self.
#Papaji

2024-08-07 07:50:36

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.
#Rumi
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2024-08-07 07:46:20

"At some point we need to stop identifying with our weakness and shift allegiance to our basic goodness." -
#PemaChödrön
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2024-08-07 07:42:19

The Lord knows the course of our thoughts. He does not reveal Himself to us until we have surrendered to Him our last worldly desire; until each of us says: "Father, guide and possess me.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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2024-08-07 07:36:09

God is all pervading. He alone is in everyone's picture and
temple. It is God's grace alone that prompts one to love God
and this is a matter of good fortune. Love should be developed
between God and man. Then only (there is hope) of peace and
bliss. Always take refuge at His feet.
#AnandamayiMa
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2024-08-07 07:33:10

The ceaseless noise and activity keep the nerves pumped with excitement. That's not the way to God; it's the way to destruction, because that which destroys your peace.
So remember, don't think you can't change and improve. Every night, analyze yourself; and meditate deeply, praying, “Lord, I have lived too long without You. I have played too much with my desires. Now what will become of me? I need to have you. Come to my aid. Break Your Vow of Silence. Lead me on." Ten times He may remain silent; but in the meantime, when you least expect it, He will come to you. He can't stay away. As long as you harbor ungodly curiosity, He will not come; but if you are truly sincere, then no matter where you are, He will be with you. This is worth all the effort you can make.
Isolation is the price of greatness. Avoid going to noisy places too often. The ceaseless noise and activity keep the nerves pumped with excitement. That's not the way to God; it's the way to destruction, because whatever destroys your peace moves you away from God. When you are quiet and quiet, you are with the Lord. I try to stay alone most of the time, but whether I'm alone or in a crowd, I find isolation in my soul. What a deep cave! All the sounds of the earth fade away and the world turns dead to me, as I walk in my cave of peace. If you haven't found this inner realm, why are you wasting your time?. Who will save you? No one but yourself. So don't waste any more time.
#ParamahansaYogananda

2024-08-07 07:30:31

Q: Is consciousness beyond the mind?
A: Higher consciousness is beyond the mind. We are conscious of air, fire, etc. It is a lower consciousness. There is one higher consciousness that is developed when the mind is stopped, but it is shown through the mind. Like how far the moon is from this earth. Thousands of years ago yogis knew it by higher consciousness. Then the mind put it in miles.
#BabaHariDass
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2024-08-07 07:26:11

Up till the late 1930s, devotees would bring food offerings to Sri Bhagavan and expect him to taste them immediately so that they could be distributed to everyone present as prasad. Sri Bhagavan allowed this practice, even though it meant he had to consume far too many sweets, which were the standard offering. One night Sri Bhagavan in a jocular vein envied the luck of 'Bhagavan' [the deity] in the temple.
'My namesake there,' said Sri Bhagavan, 'is not compelled to eat the offerings made by devotees every time they come for darshan. I am compelled to eat them here. In the temple, the priest makes an offering of the food by muttering mantras and waving his hands. Then he takes the food plate away, but you people insist on my eating everything.'
In my first few visits to Sri Bhagavan, I witnessed innumerable distributions, especially of dried grapes and sugar candy. These would go on at all hours of the day and night. As this practice was found to be detrimental to Sri Bhagavan's health, it was stopped in the late 1930s. From then on, all the donations were collected in the hall and distributed at the time of meals.
Soon after my arrival with my family at the ashram in the summer of 1939, Sri Bhagavan showed me his Telugu translation, in sisa-padyam [meter], of Vasisthopadesam from Yoga Vasishta. He also showed me some alterations and separate renderings by devotees that had been made at his request. He suggested that I make further changes in his poem and also write my own version. I wrote something down and returned the whole file in a couple of minutes.
Sri Bhagavan with a look of surprise, perused my writing and exclaimed, 'What have you done? You have merely copied my original draft.'
'What else should I do, Bhagavan?' I asked. 'Nothing would be more preposterous of me than to meddle with Bhagavan's words. They are Veda. I copied this poem only for my personal parayana [reverential reading].'
Sri Bhagavan smiled and said, 'You are a clever man!'
One day, while I was at the ashram Sri Bhagavan spoke about the use of drugs by those practicing yoga.
'... after some time, the drug habit will become a great fetter and obstacle to jnana. Its addicts will not flinch from any crime to satisfy their cravings. So, it is best to remain desireless. Having seen the effects of all these drugs, I have decided that to be as we are is best. To strive for knowing one's real nature through self-inquiry, though it may be a little difficult, is the only safe path.'
The next day someone asked, What is this "I"? Where does it arise? How can it exist in all things?'
Sri Bhagavan replied, 'If you want to know what the "I" is and where it arises, you should ask the "I" itself. To state that "I am in all things" is like saying that the mirror is within the image. The truth is the other way. Just as the image is within the mirror, so all things are within the real "I".'
#SriRamanaMaharshi

2024-08-07 07:23:02

Meditation is not something that should be done in a particular position at a particular time. It is an awareness and an attitude that must persist throughout the day...
#AnnamalaiSwami

2024-08-07 07:20:08

IT IS NOT YOUR WORK
D: Is a set meditation necessary for strengthening the mind?
M: Not if you keep the idea always before you that it is not your work. At first, an effort is needed to remind yourself of it, but later on, it becomes natural and continuous. The work will go on of its own accord, and your peace will remain undisturbed.
Meditation is your true nature. You call it meditation now because there are other thoughts distracting you. When these thoughts are dispelled, you remain alone — that is, in the state of meditation free from thoughts; and that is your real nature, which you are now trying to gain by keeping away other thoughts. Such keeping away of other thoughts is now called meditation. But when the practice becomes firm, the real nature shows itself as true meditation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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2024-08-07 07:18:07

Go back constantly until there is nothing but the source of all left.
#SriRamanaMaharshi

2024-08-07 07:14:40

A wave rises from the ocean and feels she is separate from her source and is therefore not the ocean...
Let her discover the place from where she arose. She will arrive at her source, at the ocean itself.
#Papaji
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2024-08-07 07:12:08

"Everything that you perceive, you perceive because of light. And what anyone perceives, be he man or animal is perceived by that same light.
This outer light originates from an inner light, even a blind man has an inner light. The light of the Self is the same in all. Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Rama or Kali, you actually worship that one Light which is also in you, which pervades all things. Everything originates from Light, is essentially Light."
#SriAnandamayiMa
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2024-08-07 07:09:33

"Intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible, he connects us with the internal Guru.
Adore your Guru if there be real truth in him; that Guru-bhakti (devotion) will quickly lead you to the highest."
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2024-08-07 07:06:03

Satsang will take you to the River,
But the crossing is your Own..!
Freedom cannot be gained not kept without will-to-freedom.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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2024-08-07 07:03:43

The present moment is all you ever have.
#ThichNhatHanh
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2024-08-07 06:59:51

Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!
Shine.
Buddha
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2024-08-07 06:57:02

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2024-08-07 06:54:14

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2024-08-07 06:52:00

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2024-08-07 06:48:35

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2024-08-04 08:38:31

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2024-08-04 08:35:02

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2024-08-04 08:32:55

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2024-08-04 08:30:23

"Worship of One"
Seeking blessings from Krishna And Christ has blessed me, prayed to Christ
And it was Buddha who attended me.
I called on a buddha
and krishna answered me"
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2024-08-04 08:27:44

"Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds."
#Buddha
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2024-08-04 08:22:13

Anything born in spring dies in fall,
but Love is not seasonal.
#Rumi
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2024-08-04 08:15:24

You are the
honored guest.
Do not weep like a beggar for pieces of the world.
#Rumi
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2024-08-04 08:13:23

What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
#Rumi

2024-08-04 08:10:30

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your false ego.
#Rumi
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2024-08-04 08:06:29

If a man but once tastes the
joy of God, his desire to argue takes wing.
The bee, realizing the joy of sipping honey, doesn't buzz about
any more.
What will you achieve by quoting
from books? The pundits recite verses and do nothing else.
What will you gain by merely repeating
'siddhi'? You will not be intoxicated even by gargling with a solution of siddhi.
It must go into your stomach; not until then will you be intoxicated. One cannot comprehend what I am saying
unless one prays to God in solitude, all by oneself, with a longing heart.
#SriRamakrishna

2024-08-04 08:02:53

On the dissolution of the body, the ether (consciousness)
limited by the heart (hridayam) alone ceases to exist.
People lament needlessly that the Self is extinct.
When pots, etc. are broken the space within them becomes unlimited.
So also
when bodies cease to exist the Self remains eternal and unattached.
Nothing whatever is born or dies anywhere at any time.
It is Brahman alone appearing illusorily in the form of the world.
The Self is more extensive than space; it is pure, subtle, undecaying and auspicious.
As such
how could it be born and how can it die?
#YogaVasishta
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2024-08-04 07:59:39

Remember, others can cause suffering for you, but they cannot cause happiness.
Once you understand this, they cannot even cause suffering.
#Osho
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