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We are actually experiencing the Reality only; still, we do not know it.
Is it not a wonder of wonders?
Reality is simply the loss of the ego.
The quest "Who am I?" is the axe with which to cut off the ego.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
~ Rumi
Just as a man would dive in order to get something that had fallen into the water, so one should dive into oneself with a keen, one-pointed mind, controlling speech and breath, and find the place whence the 'I' originates.
The only enquiry leading to Self-realization is seeking the source of the word 'I'.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Improving the ego is not a required spiritual practice because there is no end to improvement and no such thing as perfection concerning 'the ego'.
As the ego's preoccupation with improvement decreases, the sense of peace increases.
Eventually when the ego dissolves, what remains is the peace that it was looking for.
~ Mooji
If you sit down and just keep quiet - you are in the state of Self-awareness.
Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate, not following the thought stream, not pursuing the senses, no imagination.
Such an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort.
Then, by itself, out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come.
If you keep quiet and don't stir any thought nor intention then life comes in it, life happens in it.
~ Mooji
When you live in This you will not have any desires for anything else;
likewise, you will only be in This when you give up all desires, even the desire to be in It.
Give up all desires to stay here or there or anywhere and give up the desire for 'this' and for 'that'. Give up all desires.
~ Papaji
The objects of the inner dialogues are only from the past and so this chatter must be stopped, it must be controlled.
This dialogue is only memory and it has to be controlled.
This self-control is with a small 's' and refers to controlling the mind, the thoughts of the mind.
Self control is when your mind is not leaking anything perishable, when your mind touches nothing that fades. No clinging to the past, no thoughts, no expectations for any future.
Keeping mind between past and future is mind control and this is your face.
This is not so easy.
People have been trying to do this for so long.
Five thousand years ago Arjuna asked Krishna how to control the mind which is as difficult to grasp as air. Krishna said: "By Abhyasa, practice, and Vairagya, non-attachment, you will control the mind.
Vairagya is being non-attached to objects. Abhyasa is bringing the mind back from its objects and establishing it in me".
So sit quiet and watch the mind.
It will want to go and enjoy the past experiences and enjoyments. Bring it back.
If you are aware of the thief it will not steal from you, but if you are not aware then the thief will not let you be happy.
It will loot the property of peace. This happens everyday and we enjoy it.
We actually make friends with the snake. Keep after this inner dialogue and it will stop, if you have strong determination.
All these objects of the mind are only projections.
Only when you stop the projecting will you be happy.
When the projection is finished then only the screen is left.
This screen is the same before, during, and after the projections.
When mind stops there is no projection, this is the blissful state.
~ Papaji
Do not think yourself to be this, that or anything; to be so and so, or to be such and such...
Be - and there is an end of the ignorance.
Enquire for whom is the ignorance.
~ Ramana Maharshi
I don't give any exercise or practice because all practice is in time and is in mind.
What I recommend is to simply stay quiet, don't make effort, don't think.
This is all you have to do now.
Do this now.
~ Papaji
If you know you are bound you are no longer bound because by knowing the bondage you separate yourself from it, you objectify it.
With this release, the 'I' that was bound pours into Consciousness like a river pours into the ocean.
~ Papaji
You can't find true peace so don't try to search for it.
What is left when you give up searching?
~ Papaji
It is easy.
You complicate it!
It is simple.
Don't make any effort, stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
Then the substratum will rise up to the top.
It is simple.
Follow this.
~ Papaji
Countless vishaya-vasanas (subtle tendencies of the mind in relation to objects of sense-gratification), coming one after the other in quick succession like the waves of the ocean, agitate the mind.
Nevertheless they too subside and finally get destroyed with progressive practice of Atma dhyana or meditation on the Self.
Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi
Prolonged deep peace is the sign of progress
-----
Does not one find some kind of peace while in meditation?
That is the sign of progress. That peace will be deeper and more prolonged with continued practice.
It will also lead to the goal.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Self-realization comes to everyone the same way basically.
But if you have to do sadhana, you have to do sadhana.
As long as you believe you're the ego or the body or the mind, then you have to do sadhana. And that helps you to become quiet and still.
And when you're quiet and still, realization comes of its own accord.
~ Robert Adams
Q- Why I should give up my desires?
----
All desires must be given up, because by desiring you take the shape of your desires.
When no desires remain, you revert to your natural state.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Q- What happens to our mind(concepts) in sadhana?
___
Stick to your own consciousness, remain in that.
All the burden of your concepts, you should fuse into your consciousness.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Source : March / April 2000 The Maharshi
The Lord of the Universe does not need our services. If occasionally we do something for the devotees , it is out of his compassion for us. Serving the devotees in however humble a way is service to Sri Bhagavan. Sri Bhagavan served the devotees in a unique way. He used to get up around 2 o' clock in the morning , cut vegetables and prepared food for them, day after day, for years. He used to grind rice for idly ; He used to prepare chutney, etc., day after day out of love for the devotees. He is happy when a devotee serves other devotees without expecting anything in return. If we are given an opportunity to serve a devotee in any way, it is because of the Grace of Sri Bhagavan. We cannot choose to serve; we are chosen by Him.
— Dr. K. Subrahmanian
In the course of an informal conversation Sri Bhagavan pointed out that Self-Realisation is possible only for the fit. The vasanas must be eliminated before jnana dawns. One must be like Janaka for jnana to dawn. One must be ready to sacrifice everything for the Truth. Complete renunciation is the index of fitness.
— Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk # 320
You don’t have to wait for something ‘meaningful’ to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do.
There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need.
The ‘waiting to start living’ syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.
Eckhart Tolle
Is it not a wonder of wonders?
Reality is simply the loss of the ego.
The quest "Who am I?" is the axe with which to cut off the ego.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
~ Rumi
Just as a man would dive in order to get something that had fallen into the water, so one should dive into oneself with a keen, one-pointed mind, controlling speech and breath, and find the place whence the 'I' originates.
The only enquiry leading to Self-realization is seeking the source of the word 'I'.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Improving the ego is not a required spiritual practice because there is no end to improvement and no such thing as perfection concerning 'the ego'.
As the ego's preoccupation with improvement decreases, the sense of peace increases.
Eventually when the ego dissolves, what remains is the peace that it was looking for.
~ Mooji
If you sit down and just keep quiet - you are in the state of Self-awareness.
Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate, not following the thought stream, not pursuing the senses, no imagination.
Such an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort.
Then, by itself, out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come.
If you keep quiet and don't stir any thought nor intention then life comes in it, life happens in it.
~ Mooji
When you live in This you will not have any desires for anything else;
likewise, you will only be in This when you give up all desires, even the desire to be in It.
Give up all desires to stay here or there or anywhere and give up the desire for 'this' and for 'that'. Give up all desires.
~ Papaji
The objects of the inner dialogues are only from the past and so this chatter must be stopped, it must be controlled.
This dialogue is only memory and it has to be controlled.
This self-control is with a small 's' and refers to controlling the mind, the thoughts of the mind.
Self control is when your mind is not leaking anything perishable, when your mind touches nothing that fades. No clinging to the past, no thoughts, no expectations for any future.
Keeping mind between past and future is mind control and this is your face.
This is not so easy.
People have been trying to do this for so long.
Five thousand years ago Arjuna asked Krishna how to control the mind which is as difficult to grasp as air. Krishna said: "By Abhyasa, practice, and Vairagya, non-attachment, you will control the mind.
Vairagya is being non-attached to objects. Abhyasa is bringing the mind back from its objects and establishing it in me".
So sit quiet and watch the mind.
It will want to go and enjoy the past experiences and enjoyments. Bring it back.
If you are aware of the thief it will not steal from you, but if you are not aware then the thief will not let you be happy.
It will loot the property of peace. This happens everyday and we enjoy it.
We actually make friends with the snake. Keep after this inner dialogue and it will stop, if you have strong determination.
All these objects of the mind are only projections.
Only when you stop the projecting will you be happy.
When the projection is finished then only the screen is left.
This screen is the same before, during, and after the projections.
When mind stops there is no projection, this is the blissful state.
~ Papaji
Do not think yourself to be this, that or anything; to be so and so, or to be such and such...
Be - and there is an end of the ignorance.
Enquire for whom is the ignorance.
~ Ramana Maharshi
I don't give any exercise or practice because all practice is in time and is in mind.
What I recommend is to simply stay quiet, don't make effort, don't think.
This is all you have to do now.
Do this now.
~ Papaji
If you know you are bound you are no longer bound because by knowing the bondage you separate yourself from it, you objectify it.
With this release, the 'I' that was bound pours into Consciousness like a river pours into the ocean.
~ Papaji
You can't find true peace so don't try to search for it.
What is left when you give up searching?
~ Papaji
It is easy.
You complicate it!
It is simple.
Don't make any effort, stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
Then the substratum will rise up to the top.
It is simple.
Follow this.
~ Papaji
Countless vishaya-vasanas (subtle tendencies of the mind in relation to objects of sense-gratification), coming one after the other in quick succession like the waves of the ocean, agitate the mind.
Nevertheless they too subside and finally get destroyed with progressive practice of Atma dhyana or meditation on the Self.
Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi
Prolonged deep peace is the sign of progress
-----
Does not one find some kind of peace while in meditation?
That is the sign of progress. That peace will be deeper and more prolonged with continued practice.
It will also lead to the goal.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Self-realization comes to everyone the same way basically.
But if you have to do sadhana, you have to do sadhana.
As long as you believe you're the ego or the body or the mind, then you have to do sadhana. And that helps you to become quiet and still.
And when you're quiet and still, realization comes of its own accord.
~ Robert Adams
Q- Why I should give up my desires?
----
All desires must be given up, because by desiring you take the shape of your desires.
When no desires remain, you revert to your natural state.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Q- What happens to our mind(concepts) in sadhana?
___
Stick to your own consciousness, remain in that.
All the burden of your concepts, you should fuse into your consciousness.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Source : March / April 2000 The Maharshi
The Lord of the Universe does not need our services. If occasionally we do something for the devotees , it is out of his compassion for us. Serving the devotees in however humble a way is service to Sri Bhagavan. Sri Bhagavan served the devotees in a unique way. He used to get up around 2 o' clock in the morning , cut vegetables and prepared food for them, day after day, for years. He used to grind rice for idly ; He used to prepare chutney, etc., day after day out of love for the devotees. He is happy when a devotee serves other devotees without expecting anything in return. If we are given an opportunity to serve a devotee in any way, it is because of the Grace of Sri Bhagavan. We cannot choose to serve; we are chosen by Him.
— Dr. K. Subrahmanian
In the course of an informal conversation Sri Bhagavan pointed out that Self-Realisation is possible only for the fit. The vasanas must be eliminated before jnana dawns. One must be like Janaka for jnana to dawn. One must be ready to sacrifice everything for the Truth. Complete renunciation is the index of fitness.
— Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk # 320
You don’t have to wait for something ‘meaningful’ to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do.
There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need.
The ‘waiting to start living’ syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.
Eckhart Tolle
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