' Prajnaparamita '
Subhuti asked the Buddha: "The highest, most awakened mind that you have attained is that mind the unattainable?"
"Yes, Subhuti. With regard to that highest and most awakened mind, I have not attained anything. That mind is everywhere equally. it cannot be attained or grasped, but it can be realized. It is realized through the practice of all good actions when they are done in the spirit of no self and no object of self."
Subhuti asked the Buddha: "The highest, most awakened mind that you have attained is that mind the unattainable?"
"Yes, Subhuti. With regard to that highest and most awakened mind, I have not attained anything. That mind is everywhere equally. it cannot be attained or grasped, but it can be realized. It is realized through the practice of all good actions when they are done in the spirit of no self and no object of self."
1.1 HOMAGE TO THE ABSOLUTE REALITY, the source and the embodiment of bliss, the supreme consciousness, here termed as She, the Mother, who is both the magnificent image of the universe and the mirror in which this dazzling reflection appears.
7.89-92 Consciousness is transcendental and is beyond all three sates of mind — waking, dreaming, and deep sleep — and is named Tripura. Though this universe is inseparable from her, it appears to be separate and the same as Visnu and Siva. Therefore you should not consider them different. They are one and the same. The entire universe is a reflection of pure consciousness. Consciousness is non-dual. Therefore, there is nothing superior or inferior.
14.43-49: The whole universe is always encompassed by light within and without. Such light is transcendental and is called the supreme Tripura, the supreme goddess. Knowers of the Vedas call her Brahman and Vaisnaivites call her Vishnu. According to Saivites, she is Siva; according to Shaktas, she is Shakti, As the image is pervaded by the mirror, this world is pervaded by the power of consciousness. All the objects in this universe are illuminated by that light. As the image of a city is not part of the mirror, similarly the universe is not part of consciousness. As an image cannot be separated from the mirror, the universe cannot be separated from consciousness. This is the glory of the real self.
7.89-92 Consciousness is transcendental and is beyond all three sates of mind — waking, dreaming, and deep sleep — and is named Tripura. Though this universe is inseparable from her, it appears to be separate and the same as Visnu and Siva. Therefore you should not consider them different. They are one and the same. The entire universe is a reflection of pure consciousness. Consciousness is non-dual. Therefore, there is nothing superior or inferior.
14.43-49: The whole universe is always encompassed by light within and without. Such light is transcendental and is called the supreme Tripura, the supreme goddess. Knowers of the Vedas call her Brahman and Vaisnaivites call her Vishnu. According to Saivites, she is Siva; according to Shaktas, she is Shakti, As the image is pervaded by the mirror, this world is pervaded by the power of consciousness. All the objects in this universe are illuminated by that light. As the image of a city is not part of the mirror, similarly the universe is not part of consciousness. As an image cannot be separated from the mirror, the universe cannot be separated from consciousness. This is the glory of the real self.
The first twenty minutes immediately after we wake up in the morning, plays a vital role in shaping our entire day. The mood we are in, the thoughts that arise and the way we react to these thoughts during the first twenty minutes, sets the trend for our entire day. One way to wake up refreshed, without depression every morning, is to eat vegetarian food. To many Western people it might come as a surprise to know that there is a finer aspect to vegetarian food. This refinement helps the energy flow in our body. This pure food is called satvic food. When we adhere to a satvic vegetarian diet, we do not consume garlic, onions, or green chilies (jalapeno peppers) in any form.
It keeps us light and active throughout the day. ‘Why should we avoid these foods? Garlic, onion, and green chilies contain natural steroids in them. They are ideal medicines.’ We can inject them as medicines, but not as a regular part of our meals. Daily intake of these as food will bring down our energy flow. Similarly, tea and coffee are not good for our system as they actually over-stimulate our body and leave us tired. Now you know why people run for a caffeine fix! Meat, alcohol, and cigarettes are considered lethargy inducing items. These foods or habits induce laziness in us. Using these substances make us dull and disturb the energy flow in our body. These foods create a feeling of depression in the morning. It is possible to support the cause for vegetarianism only from the point of view of practicality.
A spiritual point of view will provide a better understanding of the significance of vegetarian food. If an enlightened, spiritual master declares that vegetarianism is the best, then it is the ultimate truth. The master knows from experience. For every other argument we have strong counter arguments. It is in my personal experience that vegetarian food allows more sensitivity and ecstasy in the energy flow that happens in your system. We feel light and ecstatic with this diet. Definitely.,vegetarian food is better for people who wants to live a healthier life.
It keeps us light and active throughout the day. ‘Why should we avoid these foods? Garlic, onion, and green chilies contain natural steroids in them. They are ideal medicines.’ We can inject them as medicines, but not as a regular part of our meals. Daily intake of these as food will bring down our energy flow. Similarly, tea and coffee are not good for our system as they actually over-stimulate our body and leave us tired. Now you know why people run for a caffeine fix! Meat, alcohol, and cigarettes are considered lethargy inducing items. These foods or habits induce laziness in us. Using these substances make us dull and disturb the energy flow in our body. These foods create a feeling of depression in the morning. It is possible to support the cause for vegetarianism only from the point of view of practicality.
A spiritual point of view will provide a better understanding of the significance of vegetarian food. If an enlightened, spiritual master declares that vegetarianism is the best, then it is the ultimate truth. The master knows from experience. For every other argument we have strong counter arguments. It is in my personal experience that vegetarian food allows more sensitivity and ecstasy in the energy flow that happens in your system. We feel light and ecstatic with this diet. Definitely.,vegetarian food is better for people who wants to live a healthier life.
To have Samadrishti (equanimity) is supreme. The world is crazy about the illusory; craze for the subtle is rare. Amongst tens of thousands, there is only one who is genuinely crazed about the subtle, to the others there are sixteen crazy obsessions at each moment. That one wants this, one wants that, this is different and thatbm is different, these are the various kinds of crazinesses. To have multiplicity of imaginations is craziness; fickelness is craziness. Mountains (greatness) is craziness. To undertake Sadhana (religious ordeal) is craziness, Jeevanmukti (Life liberation) is craziness, those who refuse to perceive this as such, are grossly crazy; each one has a different kind of craze. The, millions, houses, diamonds, jewels, gold, farmlands- one does’nt loose them when one doesn’t have them and one does not possess them even when they are gained who are always one with Brahman are the Brahmacharies. Such a man may even belong to a pariah caste. One does not become a Swami by simply holding an ascetic’s wand in hand or by holding a copy of the Bhagavad Gita. Nor by putting on red clothes, nor by discussing God with whomsoever he meets.
' LOOKING WITHIN '
THE VERY PURPOSE OF RELIGION
IS TO CONTROL YOURSELF,
NOT TO CRITICIZE OTHERS.
RATHER, WE MUST CRITICIZE
OURSELVES. HOW MUCH AM
I DOING ABOUT MY ANGER?
ABOUT MY ATTACHMENT,
ABOUT MY HATRED, ABOUT MY PRIDE,
MY JEALOUSY?
THESE ARE THE THINGS WHICH
WE MUST CHECK IN DAILY LIFE.
TAKING YOUR OWN BODY AND
MIND AS THE LABORATORY,
ENGAGE IN SOME THROUGH GOING
RESEARCH ON YOUR OWN
MENTAL FUNCTIONING,
AND EXAMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF
MAKING SOME POSITIVE CHANGES
WITHIN YOURSELF.
THE VERY PURPOSE OF RELIGION
IS TO CONTROL YOURSELF,
NOT TO CRITICIZE OTHERS.
RATHER, WE MUST CRITICIZE
OURSELVES. HOW MUCH AM
I DOING ABOUT MY ANGER?
ABOUT MY ATTACHMENT,
ABOUT MY HATRED, ABOUT MY PRIDE,
MY JEALOUSY?
THESE ARE THE THINGS WHICH
WE MUST CHECK IN DAILY LIFE.
TAKING YOUR OWN BODY AND
MIND AS THE LABORATORY,
ENGAGE IN SOME THROUGH GOING
RESEARCH ON YOUR OWN
MENTAL FUNCTIONING,
AND EXAMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF
MAKING SOME POSITIVE CHANGES
WITHIN YOURSELF.
Aushadha is a powerful component in hindu tradition. This Aushadha is programmed for giving you the state of Sadashiva, the pure unclutched space of Kailasa, complete completion, Nirviklapa Samadhi. That is the state from which all the best things express.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Welcome the lion on your path.
Because until then, you are planning a tomorrow you don’t have, a next week that nobody promises and all of this.
And our minds are full of the noise of otherness.
What will bring you to this instant this moment?
When will you spend one moment to be just you?
Not carrying some message for tomorrow or something...You see?
And it’s the habit that all of us, we have it...and so we are full of noise, claustrophobic with noise.
What will strip you back to that place? beyond time and intention, you see.
How far are you from this place now?
What’s left to do?
What unfinished business is left to do before you can simply be your being, be yourself.
Because the mind is not going to have a holiday.
There is something that is not in the next moment, not in the past moment also.
Don’t look anywhere to find it, even your very search to find it is already arising in it.
We are missing the obvious.
Don’t seek help from your mind.
Because until then, you are planning a tomorrow you don’t have, a next week that nobody promises and all of this.
And our minds are full of the noise of otherness.
What will bring you to this instant this moment?
When will you spend one moment to be just you?
Not carrying some message for tomorrow or something...You see?
And it’s the habit that all of us, we have it...and so we are full of noise, claustrophobic with noise.
What will strip you back to that place? beyond time and intention, you see.
How far are you from this place now?
What’s left to do?
What unfinished business is left to do before you can simply be your being, be yourself.
Because the mind is not going to have a holiday.
There is something that is not in the next moment, not in the past moment also.
Don’t look anywhere to find it, even your very search to find it is already arising in it.
We are missing the obvious.
Don’t seek help from your mind.
Each cell as it dies, leaves behind a memory that the newly created cell follows. That is the bio-memories, saṁskāras within us. The saṁskāras ensures the continuation of a pattern despite complete changes in the body-mind system. These saṁskāras are more powerful than the rest of the body-mind system. It decides and drives.The deep sleep we go into everyday is a rehearsal of our death process. We die and are reborn. Our subtle body leaves the gross body and returns reenergized if we allow it to. It is in our hands to maximize this process of rejuvenation that happens automatically everyday.Through meditation we can clear our saṁskāras and be reborn. We can change our features, our character and behavior, all by reprogramming our saṁskāras.That is why people radiate grace after they start meditation. Beauty is created by make-up. Grace is radiated by meditation. Grace makes the occupant feel at home. It soothes the atmosphere. Beauty creates excitement. Beauty moves the other person into rajas (restlessness). Grace creates calmness, satva. Grace puts the other person in energy.
People reminisce about great Masters like Raamaṇa Mahaṛṣi and say that He imparted wisdom through silence. It is the Enlightened Master’s grace that penetrates the other person’s energy and changes that person’s saṁskaras. All that we need to do in an Enlightened Master’s presence is just be, be open and silent and allow the Master’s eternal grace to penetrate us. There is nothing that we need to do. The Master’s grace does whatever is needed.
People reminisce about great Masters like Raamaṇa Mahaṛṣi and say that He imparted wisdom through silence. It is the Enlightened Master’s grace that penetrates the other person’s energy and changes that person’s saṁskaras. All that we need to do in an Enlightened Master’s presence is just be, be open and silent and allow the Master’s eternal grace to penetrate us. There is nothing that we need to do. The Master’s grace does whatever is needed.
Some say my teaching is nonsense. Others call it lofty but impractical. But to those who have looked inside themselves, this nonsense makes perfect sense. And those who put it into practice this loftiness has roots that go deep. I have just three things to teach: Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies You accord with the way things are, Compassionate towards yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
From "The Enlightened Heart" edited by Stephen Mitchell
From "The Enlightened Heart" edited by Stephen Mitchell
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets.
Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless.
Although I may try to describe love,
when I experience it, I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless.
My pen breaks, and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.
Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets.
Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless.
Although I may try to describe love,
when I experience it, I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless.
My pen breaks, and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.
Q: What instructions have the Masters everywhere given for dhyana-practice and the study of the Dharma?
A: Words used to attract the dull of wit are not to be relied on.
Q: If those teachings were meant for the dull-witted, I have yet to hear what Dharma has been taught to those of really high capacity.
A: If they are really men of high capacity, where could they find people to follow? If they seek from within themselves, they will find nothing tangible; how much less can they find a Dharma worthy of their attention elsewhere! Do not look to what is called the Dharma by preachers, for what sort of Dharma could that be?
Q: If that is so, should we not seek for anything at all?
A: By conceding this, you would save yourself a lot of mental effort.
Q: But in this way everything would be eliminated. There cannot just be nothing.
A: Who called it nothing? Who was this fellow? But you wanted to SEEK for something.
Q: Since there is no need to seek, why do you also say that not everything is eliminated?
A: Not to seek is to rest tranquil. Who told you to eliminate anything? Look at the void in front of your eyes. How can you produce it or eliminate it?
Q: If I could reach this Dharma, would it be like the void?
A: Morning and night I have explained to you that the Void is both One and Manifold. I said this as a temporary expedient, but you are building up concepts from it.
Q: Do you mean that we should not form concepts as human beings normally do?
A: I have not prevented you; but concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.
Q: Then should we avoid any feeling in relation to the Dharma?
A: Where no feeling arises, who can say that you are right?
Q: Why do you speak as though I was mistaken in all the questions I have asked Your Reverence?
A: You are a man who doesn't understand what is said to him. What is all this about being mistaken?
A: Words used to attract the dull of wit are not to be relied on.
Q: If those teachings were meant for the dull-witted, I have yet to hear what Dharma has been taught to those of really high capacity.
A: If they are really men of high capacity, where could they find people to follow? If they seek from within themselves, they will find nothing tangible; how much less can they find a Dharma worthy of their attention elsewhere! Do not look to what is called the Dharma by preachers, for what sort of Dharma could that be?
Q: If that is so, should we not seek for anything at all?
A: By conceding this, you would save yourself a lot of mental effort.
Q: But in this way everything would be eliminated. There cannot just be nothing.
A: Who called it nothing? Who was this fellow? But you wanted to SEEK for something.
Q: Since there is no need to seek, why do you also say that not everything is eliminated?
A: Not to seek is to rest tranquil. Who told you to eliminate anything? Look at the void in front of your eyes. How can you produce it or eliminate it?
Q: If I could reach this Dharma, would it be like the void?
A: Morning and night I have explained to you that the Void is both One and Manifold. I said this as a temporary expedient, but you are building up concepts from it.
Q: Do you mean that we should not form concepts as human beings normally do?
A: I have not prevented you; but concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.
Q: Then should we avoid any feeling in relation to the Dharma?
A: Where no feeling arises, who can say that you are right?
Q: Why do you speak as though I was mistaken in all the questions I have asked Your Reverence?
A: You are a man who doesn't understand what is said to him. What is all this about being mistaken?
VASISTHA: They who are fully awakened, who are constantly engaged in samadhi and who are thoroughly enlightened, are known as samkhya-yogi. They who have reached the state of bodiless consciousness through pranayama, etc. are known as yoga yogi. Indeed, the two are essentially the same. The cause of this world-appearance and bondage is indeed the mind. Both these paths lead to the cessation of the mind. Hence, by the devoted and dedicated practice of either the cessation of the movement of prana or the cessation of thought, liberation is attained. This is the essence of all scriptures dealing with liberation.
RAMA: O sage, if the cessation of the movement of prana is liberation, then death is liberation! And all people attain liberation at death!
VASISTHA: O Rama, when prana is about to leave the body, it already makes contact with those elements with which the next one is to be fashioned. These elements are indeed the crystallization of the vasana (psychological conditioning, memory-store, past impressions and predisposition) of the jiva, the reason why the jiva clings to those elements. When the prana leaves the body, it takes with it all the vasana of the jiva.
Not indeed until these vasana have been destroyed will the mind become no-mind. The mind does not abandon the life-force till self-knowledge arises. By self-knowledge the vasana are destroyed and thus the mind, too; it is then that the prana does not move. That indeed is supreme peace. It is by self-knowledge that the unreality of the concepts concerning worldly objects is realized. This puts an end to vasana and to the link between the mind and the life-force. Vasana constitute mind. Mind is the aggregate of the vasana and nothing else; if the latter cease, that itself is the supreme state. Knowledge is the knowledge of reality. Vicara or inquiry itself is knowledge.
Total dedication to one thing, restraint of prana and the cessation of the mind—if one of these three is perfected, one attains the supreme state. The life-force and the mind are closely related, like a flower and its fragrance or sesame seed and oil. Hence, if the movement of thought in the mind ceases, the movement of prana ceases, too. If the total mind is one-pointedly devoted to a single truth, the movement of mind and therefore of life-force ceases. The best method is to inquire into the nature of the self, which is infinite. Your mind will be completely absorbed —then both the mind and the inquiry will cease. Remain firmly established in what remains after that.
When the mind does not crave for pleasure, it is absorbed into the self, along with the life-force. Ignorance is non-existence; self knowledge is the supreme state! Mind alone is ignorance when it appears to be a reality; the realization of its non-existence is the supreme state. If the mind remains absorbed even for a quarter of an hour, it undergoes a complete change, for it tastes the supreme state of self-knowledge and will not abandon it. Nay, even if the mind has tasted it for a second, it does not return to this worldly state. The very seeds of samsara (world-appearance or cycle of birth and death) are fried. With them, ignorance is dispelled and the vasana are utterly pacified; one who has reached this is rooted in satva (truth). He beholds the inner light and rests in supreme bliss.
RAMA: O sage, if the cessation of the movement of prana is liberation, then death is liberation! And all people attain liberation at death!
VASISTHA: O Rama, when prana is about to leave the body, it already makes contact with those elements with which the next one is to be fashioned. These elements are indeed the crystallization of the vasana (psychological conditioning, memory-store, past impressions and predisposition) of the jiva, the reason why the jiva clings to those elements. When the prana leaves the body, it takes with it all the vasana of the jiva.
Not indeed until these vasana have been destroyed will the mind become no-mind. The mind does not abandon the life-force till self-knowledge arises. By self-knowledge the vasana are destroyed and thus the mind, too; it is then that the prana does not move. That indeed is supreme peace. It is by self-knowledge that the unreality of the concepts concerning worldly objects is realized. This puts an end to vasana and to the link between the mind and the life-force. Vasana constitute mind. Mind is the aggregate of the vasana and nothing else; if the latter cease, that itself is the supreme state. Knowledge is the knowledge of reality. Vicara or inquiry itself is knowledge.
Total dedication to one thing, restraint of prana and the cessation of the mind—if one of these three is perfected, one attains the supreme state. The life-force and the mind are closely related, like a flower and its fragrance or sesame seed and oil. Hence, if the movement of thought in the mind ceases, the movement of prana ceases, too. If the total mind is one-pointedly devoted to a single truth, the movement of mind and therefore of life-force ceases. The best method is to inquire into the nature of the self, which is infinite. Your mind will be completely absorbed —then both the mind and the inquiry will cease. Remain firmly established in what remains after that.
When the mind does not crave for pleasure, it is absorbed into the self, along with the life-force. Ignorance is non-existence; self knowledge is the supreme state! Mind alone is ignorance when it appears to be a reality; the realization of its non-existence is the supreme state. If the mind remains absorbed even for a quarter of an hour, it undergoes a complete change, for it tastes the supreme state of self-knowledge and will not abandon it. Nay, even if the mind has tasted it for a second, it does not return to this worldly state. The very seeds of samsara (world-appearance or cycle of birth and death) are fried. With them, ignorance is dispelled and the vasana are utterly pacified; one who has reached this is rooted in satva (truth). He beholds the inner light and rests in supreme bliss.
If you simply shed tears just by spelling my name, then no more you have to worry about your life, I will take care of it.
Man is not just an animal - if he loses his awareness, he can be worse then an animal -
But if he becomes aware, he can become more beautiful than a God.
But if he becomes aware, he can become more beautiful than a God.
The light of the world comes and goes, it is unstable. The Light that is eternal can never be extinguished. By this Light you behold the outer light and everything in the universe; it is only because It shines ever within you, that you can perceive the outer light. Whatever appears to you in the universe is due solely to that great Light within you, and only because the Supreme Knowledge of the essence of things lies hidden in the depths of your being is it possible for you to acquire knowledge of any kind.
I may also bring to light another mystery. We have
been saying out of devotion that there is providence in
the fall of a sparrow and not a leaf trembles without the
divine will. And that is a fact too. But if I say that God
too does not move without the will of his devotee, I do
not know what the wiseacres of saints might think of
me. But that is a fact beyond doubt and a fact must be
declared in order to reveal reality.
Complete works of Ram Chandra Volume I, p. 276
source: https://www.sahajmarg.org/publications/ebook/towards-infinity
been saying out of devotion that there is providence in
the fall of a sparrow and not a leaf trembles without the
divine will. And that is a fact too. But if I say that God
too does not move without the will of his devotee, I do
not know what the wiseacres of saints might think of
me. But that is a fact beyond doubt and a fact must be
declared in order to reveal reality.
Complete works of Ram Chandra Volume I, p. 276
source: https://www.sahajmarg.org/publications/ebook/towards-infinity
EGO IS A VERB
From early childhood, we are given messages such as, "You are pretty," "You are smart," "You got a good grade, so you are good," or "You did not get good grades, so you are not good."
Soon the child starts to believe it, to feel it, to own that emotional essence as "me." In the same way, someone can have a thought, and pretty soon he or she will start feeling that thought. If he thinks about a happy, sunny day, soon his body will start taking on that tone, feeling something that doesn't exist. So, of course, this makes it rather difficult when someone is told to get rid of ego, because who is going to get rid of ego? What is trying to get rid of ego? That's how it maintains itself, thinking it has to do something with itself.
Ego is a movement. It's a verb. It is not something static. It's the after-the-fact movement of mind that's always becoming. In other words, egos are always on the path. They are on the psychology path, the spiritual path, the path to get more money or a better car. That sense of "me" is always becoming, always moving, always achieving.
Or else it is doing the opposite—moving backward, rejecting, denying. So in order for this verb to keep going, there has to be movement. We have to be going forward or backward, toward or away from. We have to have somebody to blame, and usually, it's ourselves. We've got to be getting somewhere because otherwise, we are not becoming.
So the verb—let's call it "egoing"—is not operating if we are not becoming. As soon as a verb stops, it's not a verb anymore. As soon as you stop running, there is no such thing as running—it's gone; nothing is happening. This ego sense has to keep moving because, as soon as it stops, it disappears, just like when your feet stop, running disappears.
From "Emptiness dancing" p.51
From early childhood, we are given messages such as, "You are pretty," "You are smart," "You got a good grade, so you are good," or "You did not get good grades, so you are not good."
Soon the child starts to believe it, to feel it, to own that emotional essence as "me." In the same way, someone can have a thought, and pretty soon he or she will start feeling that thought. If he thinks about a happy, sunny day, soon his body will start taking on that tone, feeling something that doesn't exist. So, of course, this makes it rather difficult when someone is told to get rid of ego, because who is going to get rid of ego? What is trying to get rid of ego? That's how it maintains itself, thinking it has to do something with itself.
Ego is a movement. It's a verb. It is not something static. It's the after-the-fact movement of mind that's always becoming. In other words, egos are always on the path. They are on the psychology path, the spiritual path, the path to get more money or a better car. That sense of "me" is always becoming, always moving, always achieving.
Or else it is doing the opposite—moving backward, rejecting, denying. So in order for this verb to keep going, there has to be movement. We have to be going forward or backward, toward or away from. We have to have somebody to blame, and usually, it's ourselves. We've got to be getting somewhere because otherwise, we are not becoming.
So the verb—let's call it "egoing"—is not operating if we are not becoming. As soon as a verb stops, it's not a verb anymore. As soon as you stop running, there is no such thing as running—it's gone; nothing is happening. This ego sense has to keep moving because, as soon as it stops, it disappears, just like when your feet stop, running disappears.
From "Emptiness dancing" p.51
Intellect is a tool of the Self, which uses it for measuring variety. It is not without Self. How could there be manifestations of intellect without its seed existing?
Q. Where are memory and forgetfulness located?
A. In the chitta (intellect).
People like inventors searching for new material inventions make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition. Hence a sharpened concentrated intellect is useful and even essential in material matters, but the revelation or intuition takes its own time to arise and one must await it.
Conscious Immortality
Q. Where are memory and forgetfulness located?
A. In the chitta (intellect).
People like inventors searching for new material inventions make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition. Hence a sharpened concentrated intellect is useful and even essential in material matters, but the revelation or intuition takes its own time to arise and one must await it.
Conscious Immortality
On this Ganesh Chaturthi , may the Remover of Obstacles clear the way to the fulfillment of what you truly deserve in the coming way.
~ 2017
~ 2017
Ganesha is alive, awake, available, solid and can easily be pleased. He is the most sweetest, beautiful, life- affirmative, embodiment of love, joy, bliss, power.
~ Ganesha Chaturthi 2017
~ Ganesha Chaturthi 2017
Essentially, meditation means to experientially realize that you are not an individual bubble – you are a universe.
Humanity has always made the serious mistake of working towards producing good people. We do not need good people, we need sensible people. If you have sense, you will do the right thing. People do idiotic things only because they do not have sense.
Intelligence is not shrewdness. Intelligence is not about being clever. If you are truly intelligent, you would be 100% in tune with the existence because there is no other way to be intelligent. The sign of intelligence is that you are absolutely in tune with everything around you, you are going through life with the least amount of aberration within and outside of you.
Ganesh Chaturthi is a day to at least start striving to multiply your intelligence. If you work for a boneless limb by doing asanas in the morning, it may happen!
Intelligence is not shrewdness. Intelligence is not about being clever. If you are truly intelligent, you would be 100% in tune with the existence because there is no other way to be intelligent. The sign of intelligence is that you are absolutely in tune with everything around you, you are going through life with the least amount of aberration within and outside of you.
Ganesh Chaturthi is a day to at least start striving to multiply your intelligence. If you work for a boneless limb by doing asanas in the morning, it may happen!
Hymn to Goddess Isis
On the day when I am close to you,
you are far away from me,
and on the day when I am far away from you,
I am close to you.
I am the goddess within and without.
I am the soul of Nature
I am the spirit of the creation of spirits,
I am the request of the souls.
I am control
and the uncontrollable
I am the union
and the dissolution.
I am the hearing which is attainable to everything;
I am the speech which cannot be grasped.
I am the name of the sound
and the sound of the name.
I am the sound of the letter
and the designation of the division
And I am the power of the word
Give heed then you hearers
I am the light of the word
I am the hearing which is attainable to you
Give heed then you hearers,
and you also,
the Angels and those who have been sent,
and you spirits
who have risen from the dead
For I am the One
who alone exists,
and I have no-one
who will judge me.
For many are the pleasant forms
which exist in numerous sins,
and inconsistencies
and disgraceful passions,
and fleeting pleasures,
which (men;) embrace until they
become sober,
and go up to their resting place
And they will find me there,
and they will live,
And they will not die again.
Music Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1fVVQugiy0
On the day when I am close to you,
you are far away from me,
and on the day when I am far away from you,
I am close to you.
I am the goddess within and without.
I am the soul of Nature
I am the spirit of the creation of spirits,
I am the request of the souls.
I am control
and the uncontrollable
I am the union
and the dissolution.
I am the hearing which is attainable to everything;
I am the speech which cannot be grasped.
I am the name of the sound
and the sound of the name.
I am the sound of the letter
and the designation of the division
And I am the power of the word
Give heed then you hearers
I am the light of the word
I am the hearing which is attainable to you
Give heed then you hearers,
and you also,
the Angels and those who have been sent,
and you spirits
who have risen from the dead
For I am the One
who alone exists,
and I have no-one
who will judge me.
For many are the pleasant forms
which exist in numerous sins,
and inconsistencies
and disgraceful passions,
and fleeting pleasures,
which (men;) embrace until they
become sober,
and go up to their resting place
And they will find me there,
and they will live,
And they will not die again.
Music Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1fVVQugiy0
INFINITE
O Almighty!
You are the infinite; the universe is also infinite!
From infinite the infinite has come out!
Having taken infinite out of the infinite, the
Infinite remains!
O Almighty! May there be Peace! Peace!
Everywhere
~ Ishawashya Upanishad
O Almighty!
You are the infinite; the universe is also infinite!
From infinite the infinite has come out!
Having taken infinite out of the infinite, the
Infinite remains!
O Almighty! May there be Peace! Peace!
Everywhere
~ Ishawashya Upanishad
CELESTIAL SONG
Sing the song of celestial love, O singer!
May the divine fountain of eternal grace and joy
enter your soul.
May Brahma, (the Divine One),
Pluck the strings of your inner soul
with His celestial fingers,
And feel His own presence within,
Bless us with a divine voice
That we may tune the harp-strings of our life
To sing songs of Love to you.
~ Rig Veda
Sing the song of celestial love, O singer!
May the divine fountain of eternal grace and joy
enter your soul.
May Brahma, (the Divine One),
Pluck the strings of your inner soul
with His celestial fingers,
And feel His own presence within,
Bless us with a divine voice
That we may tune the harp-strings of our life
To sing songs of Love to you.
~ Rig Veda
Beings
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