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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.'
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.'
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
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
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind.
Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
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
'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
~ Thus Speaketh the Stomach and the Tragedy of Nutrition
God is not playing with You,
God is playing as You.
God is playing as You.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Therefore, God is our Reality.
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
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
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.
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)
~ Vivekachudamani (Crest Jewel of Discimination)
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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.
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.
Real friends are like diamonds — precious and rare.
Fake friends are like leaves in the fall — everywhere.
Fake friends are like leaves in the fall — everywhere.
It’s more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
Surrender is not a weakness it is strength. It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme — to the cosmic unfolding.
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.
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration.
Beings
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