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Q: The fact is that here and now I am asking you: when did the feeling 'I am
the body' arise? At my birth? or this morning?
M: Now.
Q: But I remember having it yesterday too!
M: The memory of yesterday is now only.
Q: But surely I exist in time. I have a past and a future.
M: That is how you imagine -- now.
Q: There must have been a beginning.
M: Now.
Q: And what about ending?
M: What has no beginning cannot end.
Q: But I am conscious of my question.
M: A false question cannot be answered. It can only be seen as false.
Q: To me it is real.
M: When did it appear real to you? Now.
Q: Yes, it is quite real to me -- now.
M: What is real about your question? It is a state of mind. No state of mind
can be more real than the mind itself. Is the mind real? It is but a collection of states,
each of them transitory. How can a succession of transitory states be considered real?

Source: I Am That, Ch. 33

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Just as a bird leaves no trail in the sky as it flies, the true teaching leaves no trace in memory. The teaching must have no teacher and no student. If the teaching comes from the past or memory or concept, it is preaching not teaching. This teaching never was. It never will be. And it never is.

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CONVERTING A CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY

"I can remember one other occasion when Bhagavan appeared to approve of a devotee falling at his feet.

Bhagavan was sitting on a sofa outside the hall and many devotees were coming, prostrating and leaving.

A Christian priest came into the ashram but he didn’t come near Bhagavan, nor did he attempt to prostrate. He just stood at a distance and watched Bhagavan with evident curiosity for about forty-five minutes. Finally, just like a tree falling down, he went down on the floor, prostrated full length and then left. He had obviously had some experience which convinced him of Bhagavan’s greatness but we never found out what it was because he left without saying a word.

After he had gone, Bhagavan smiled and remarked, ‘He couldn’t control himself any longer without doing namaskaram.’"

- LWB

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Кастовая система, обычаи, ритуалы и ортодоксальная привязанность к ним – все это ничто иное как детские игры.

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Позвольте кастам, религиям, измам и привязанностям к ним, всему хаосу и путанице, порожденными ими, полностью раствориться.

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RESPONSIBILITY FOR NOTHING, OR FOR ALL

M: There is a universal power which is in control and is responsible.

Q: And so, I can do as I like and put the blame on some universal power? How easy!

M: Yes, very easy. Just realize the One Mover behind all that moves and leave all to Him. If you do not hesitate, or cheat, this is the shortest way to reality. Stand without desire and fear, relinquishing all control and all responsibility.

Q: What madness!

M: Yes, divine madness. What is wrong in letting go the illusion of personal control and personal responsibility? Both are in the mind only. Of course, as long as you imagine yourself to be in control, you should also imagine yourself to be responsible. One implies the other.

Q: How can the universal be responsible for the particular?

M: All life on earth depends on the sun. Yet you cannot blame the sun for all that happens, though it is the ultimate cause. Light causes the color of the flower, but it neither controls, nor is responsible for it directly. It makes it possible, that is all.

Q: What I do not like in all this is taking refuge in some universal power.

M: You cannot quarrel with facts.

Q: Whose facts? Yours or mine?

M: Yours. You cannot deny my facts, for you do not know them. Could you know them you would not deny them. Here lies the trouble. You take your imagining for facts and my facts for imagination.

I know for certain that all is one. Differences do not separate. Either you are responsible for nothing, or for everything. To imagine that you are in control and responsible for one body only is the aberration of the body-mind.

I AM THAT ch. 35

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JAI YOGIRAMSURATKUMAR on his 100th Jayanti!
Divine Beggar of our hearts.

‘Each event in our lives is by Father’s will alone and is good, is His Blessing. Each and every experience is simply whatever is needed, to prepare us to do His Work.'

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MIND AND HEART

D: If the mind is merely a shadow how then is one to know the Self?

M: The Self is the Heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self. The world is perceived by an act of the mind. When the mind is illumined it is aware of the world; when it is not so illumined, it is not aware of the world.

If the mind is turned in, towards the source of illumination, objective knowledge ceases, and the Self alone shines as the heart.
The moon shines by reflecting the light of the sun. When the sun has set, the moon is useful for displaying objects. When the sun has risen no one needs the moon, though its disc is visible in the sky. So it is with the mind and the heart. The mind is made useful by its reflected light. It is used for seeing objects. When turned inwards, it merges into the source of illumination which shines by Itself and the mind is then like the moon in the daytime.

When it is dark, a lamp is necessary to give light. But when the sun has arisen, there is no need for the lamp; the objects are visible. And to see the sun no lamp is necessary; it is enough if you turn your eyes towards the self-luminous sun. Similarly, with the mind; to see the objects the light reflected from the mind is necessary. To see the heart, it is enough that the mind is turned towards it. Then the mind does not count and the heart is self-effulgent.

- Maharshi’s Gospel

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Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind.
Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

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My love, stay here. Going in search of Self (as a goal) is illusion; You are already the One Self. You will purchase the map, Only to find you are already Here

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'Food experts' without exception give the advice: 'Yes, you require more protein to overcome your weakness.' This faulty advice is partly the 'tragedy of nutrition'.

~ Thus Speaketh the Stomach and the Tragedy of Nutrition

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God is not playing with You,
God is playing as You.

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The guru is the bestower of silence
who reveals the light of Self knowledge which shines as the residual reality.
Spoken words are no use
whatsoever if the eyes of the guru
meet the eyes of his disciple.

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The Pure being is the Reality.
The Pure Being cannot be otherwise than Consciousness. Otherwise you cannot say that you exist.

Therefore Consciousness is the reality.
When that consciousness is associated
with upadhis you speak of Self consciousness,
unconsciousness, human consciousness, dog consciousness,
tree consciousness and so on.
The unfaltering common factor in all of them is Consciousness.

~ Talk no 591.

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God can never be close because it would mean that there is some place where God is not. God is infinite. We cannot exist outside of the infinite.
Therefore, God is our Reality.

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The Center of the Hurricane is Peace

People ask me, when I see peace, what do I mean? I don’t have to see peace where it’s peaceful. I feel and see peace in every situation. Whatever there appears to be going on, there is peace. Just as in the center of a hurricane, there is a peaceful circle, total stillness at the center of a hurricane. The same is true in the center of a tornado, in the cyclone.

There is a Center of Peace. We are all that Center.

The true peace is YOU.

~ Silence of the Heart

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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink, look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.

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O foolish person, cease to identify thyself with this bundle of skin, flesh, fat, bones and filth, and identify thyself instead with the Absolute Brahman, the Self of all, and thus attain to supreme Peace.

~ Vivekachudamani (Crest Jewel of Discimination)

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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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Once a Westerner asked Sri Bhagavan:

Should I become an ascetic or a Hindu
to realize the Self?

Sri Ramana Maharshi smiled and replied:

You need not have to be this and that.
Be as you are.
Be still.

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Real friends are like diamonds — precious and rare.
Fake friends are like leaves in the fall — everywhere.

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It’s more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

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Surrender is not a weakness it is strength. It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme — to the cosmic unfolding.

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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

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