Parce 1 - 29 March 2020
Questioner: What should one think of when meditating?
Ramana: What is meditation?
It is the suspension of thoughts. You are perturbed by thoughts which rush one after another. Hold on to one thought so that others are expelled.
Continuous practice gives the necessary strength of mind to engage in meditation.
Meditation differs according to the degree of advancement of the seeker.
If one is fit for it one can hold directly to the thinker; and the thinker will automatically sink into his source, which is Pure Consciousness.
If one cannot directly hold on to the thinker, one must meditate on God; and in due course the same individual will have become sufficiently pure to hold on to the thinker and sink into the absolute Being.
~ Ramana Maharshi
You wake up in the morning and look into the mirror and the mirror shows you that you have a growth and that you have to get rid of it. You may go on looking into any number of mirrors; every mirror will tell you the same, but no mirror can ever shave you. You have to shave yourself.
Instead of wasting time looking into mirror after mirror it is best to start shaving after having looked into the first mirror and known the truth.
So also all the books will tell you the same truth, perhaps in slightly different ways. Instead of wasting time reading book after book why not realise for yourself what was obvious from the very first book.
~ Ramana Maharshi
If you have no thoughts, there is no time; no time means no mind; no mind means no memory; no memory means no garbage; no garbage means no samsara; no samsara means no cycle (of birth and death); no cycle means no suffering.
~ Papaji
The mind derives its strength from your attention, from your interest and your belief.
~ Mooji
----
In your world you are truly alone, enclosed in your ever-changing dream, which you take for life.
My world is an open world, common to all, accessible to all.
In my world there is community, insight, love, real quality; the individual is the total, the totality – is in the individual.
All are one and the One is all.
~ Nisargdatta Maharaj
A visitor: “The Supreme Spirit (Brahman) is Real. The world (jagat)
is illusion,” is the stock phrase of Sri Sankaracharya. Yet others
say, “The world is reality”. Which is true?
M.: Both statements are true.
They refer to different stages of development and are spoken from different points of view.
The
aspirant (abhyasi) starts with the definition,
that which is real exists always; then he eliminates the world as unreal because it is changing. It cannot be real; ‘not this, not this!’
The seeker ultimately reaches the Self and there finds unity as the prevailing note.
Then,
that which was originally rejected as being unreal is found to be a part of the unity.
Being absorbed in the Reality, the world also is Real.
There is only being in Self-Realisation, and nothing but being.
Again Reality is used in a different sense and is applied loosely by
some thinkers to objects. They say that the reflected (adhyasika)
Reality admits of degrees which are named:
(1) Vyavaharika satya ( everyday life) - this chair is seen by me and is real.
(2) Pratibhasika satya (illusory) - Illusion of a serpent in a
coiled rope.
The appearance is real to the man who thinks so. This phenomenon appears at a point of time and under certain circumstances.
(3) Paramartika satya (ultimate) - Reality is that which remains
the same always and without change.
If Reality be used in the wider sense the world may be said to
have the everyday life and illusory degrees(vyavaharika and pratibhasika satya).
Some, however, deny even the reality of
practical life - vyavaharika satya and consider it to be only projection of the mind. According to them it is only pratibhasika
satya, i.e., an illusion.
YOGI RAMIAH’S ACCOUNT OF HIS EXPERIENCES
Jaya Guru Ramana Raya 🙇♂🙇♂🙇♂🙇♂🙇♂👣👣👣👣👣
To whom should I surrender?
To your Self.
If you begin to do just that. While you are at work. While you are washing the dishes, while you are watching TV, you always remember to surrender.
And one day the inner teacher pulls your mind inward to the Source and you Awaken.
You become your Self.
~ Robert Adams
The Meaning Of 'Spiritual Practice'
'Spiritual practices actually mean a hankering for God alone - a longing for Him alone by discarding this world, forgetting all thoughts of name and fame, physical comfort, and even one's own existence, and having no anxiety about lives here or hereafter, or about anything else. God will reveal Himself out of His mercy to one who wants Him in such a way.'
Swami Shivananda
a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna
[in For seekers of God]
Ramana: What is meditation?
It is the suspension of thoughts. You are perturbed by thoughts which rush one after another. Hold on to one thought so that others are expelled.
Continuous practice gives the necessary strength of mind to engage in meditation.
Meditation differs according to the degree of advancement of the seeker.
If one is fit for it one can hold directly to the thinker; and the thinker will automatically sink into his source, which is Pure Consciousness.
If one cannot directly hold on to the thinker, one must meditate on God; and in due course the same individual will have become sufficiently pure to hold on to the thinker and sink into the absolute Being.
~ Ramana Maharshi
You wake up in the morning and look into the mirror and the mirror shows you that you have a growth and that you have to get rid of it. You may go on looking into any number of mirrors; every mirror will tell you the same, but no mirror can ever shave you. You have to shave yourself.
Instead of wasting time looking into mirror after mirror it is best to start shaving after having looked into the first mirror and known the truth.
So also all the books will tell you the same truth, perhaps in slightly different ways. Instead of wasting time reading book after book why not realise for yourself what was obvious from the very first book.
~ Ramana Maharshi
If you have no thoughts, there is no time; no time means no mind; no mind means no memory; no memory means no garbage; no garbage means no samsara; no samsara means no cycle (of birth and death); no cycle means no suffering.
~ Papaji
The mind derives its strength from your attention, from your interest and your belief.
~ Mooji
----
In your world you are truly alone, enclosed in your ever-changing dream, which you take for life.
My world is an open world, common to all, accessible to all.
In my world there is community, insight, love, real quality; the individual is the total, the totality – is in the individual.
All are one and the One is all.
~ Nisargdatta Maharaj
A visitor: “The Supreme Spirit (Brahman) is Real. The world (jagat)
is illusion,” is the stock phrase of Sri Sankaracharya. Yet others
say, “The world is reality”. Which is true?
M.: Both statements are true.
They refer to different stages of development and are spoken from different points of view.
The
aspirant (abhyasi) starts with the definition,
that which is real exists always; then he eliminates the world as unreal because it is changing. It cannot be real; ‘not this, not this!’
The seeker ultimately reaches the Self and there finds unity as the prevailing note.
Then,
that which was originally rejected as being unreal is found to be a part of the unity.
Being absorbed in the Reality, the world also is Real.
There is only being in Self-Realisation, and nothing but being.
Again Reality is used in a different sense and is applied loosely by
some thinkers to objects. They say that the reflected (adhyasika)
Reality admits of degrees which are named:
(1) Vyavaharika satya ( everyday life) - this chair is seen by me and is real.
(2) Pratibhasika satya (illusory) - Illusion of a serpent in a
coiled rope.
The appearance is real to the man who thinks so. This phenomenon appears at a point of time and under certain circumstances.
(3) Paramartika satya (ultimate) - Reality is that which remains
the same always and without change.
If Reality be used in the wider sense the world may be said to
have the everyday life and illusory degrees(vyavaharika and pratibhasika satya).
Some, however, deny even the reality of
practical life - vyavaharika satya and consider it to be only projection of the mind. According to them it is only pratibhasika
satya, i.e., an illusion.
YOGI RAMIAH’S ACCOUNT OF HIS EXPERIENCES
Jaya Guru Ramana Raya 🙇♂🙇♂🙇♂🙇♂🙇♂👣👣👣👣👣
To whom should I surrender?
To your Self.
If you begin to do just that. While you are at work. While you are washing the dishes, while you are watching TV, you always remember to surrender.
And one day the inner teacher pulls your mind inward to the Source and you Awaken.
You become your Self.
~ Robert Adams
The Meaning Of 'Spiritual Practice'
'Spiritual practices actually mean a hankering for God alone - a longing for Him alone by discarding this world, forgetting all thoughts of name and fame, physical comfort, and even one's own existence, and having no anxiety about lives here or hereafter, or about anything else. God will reveal Himself out of His mercy to one who wants Him in such a way.'
Swami Shivananda
a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna
[in For seekers of God]
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