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Through spiritual practices, one must make oneself fit to receive God's grace. All else He does out of His own mercy. Through constant thought of Him and meditation on Him, the mind and heart become purified; and to that pure mind a divine revelation occurs spontaneously and God's grace is realized.
The jnana-path-finder has offered his Jivatma (individual soul) as a camphor in the Fire of the Absolute.
Total loss of pride in individuality is my nirvana.
This world of maya is yours to play with as you wish.
You can take control of it or it can take control of you.
It's your choice.
If you do not wish this maya world to take control of you, then you have to get out of it as fast as you can.
Again you get out of it by not reacting to conditions to people to places to things and inquiring,
"To whom do these things come?
Who is feeling this?
Who is...to whom does this come?
To me.
Who is me?
Who is 'I'?
Where did 'I' come from?"
You keep doing this without looking to time and space and anything else.
Just keep doing it.
Try and make yourself happy everyday, laugh at yourself.
226 Whatever You See Is The Self - February 25, 1993
You can take control of it or it can take control of you.
It's your choice.
If you do not wish this maya world to take control of you, then you have to get out of it as fast as you can.
Again you get out of it by not reacting to conditions to people to places to things and inquiring,
"To whom do these things come?
Who is feeling this?
Who is...to whom does this come?
To me.
Who is me?
Who is 'I'?
Where did 'I' come from?"
You keep doing this without looking to time and space and anything else.
Just keep doing it.
Try and make yourself happy everyday, laugh at yourself.
226 Whatever You See Is The Self - February 25, 1993
When you acquire self-knowledge, then you feel that your birth and your actions are both Divine. This understanding comes to you. Not a single bad word comes out from your mouth. There is no hate or ill feelings in your heart towards anyone. It just cannot happen because everyone feels part of you; like your very own. This is the pinnacle of Love.
Give up worldly matters completely. Talk of nothing else but God. When you come across worldly people, leave quietly. You have lived a worldly life for so long. You have seen that it is all hollow within, that the Lord is the only substance. Everything else is non-substance. The Lord is the only Reality, all else is ephemeral.
Let us love in such a way that the person we love feels free.
In the kitchen he was the Master Cook, aiming at perfection in taste and appearance. One would think that he liked good food and enjoyed a hearty meal. Not at all. At dinner time he would mix up the little food he would allow to be put on his leaf - the sweet, the sour and the savory, everything together- and gulp it down carelessly as if he had no taste in his mouth. When we would tell him that it was not right to mix such nicely made up dishes, he would say:
"Enough of multiplicity. Let us have some unity."
"Enough of multiplicity. Let us have some unity."
To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
I want you to wake up NOW!
This is the direct path.
I am pointing you the pathless path,
to what is already so, but so often missed.
I am pulling the curtains open for you to see from the place
where there is nothing else behind you.
Be here in the place without coordinates.
In your real place, your home and your Self.
Every day, every time, every moment, I push you back.
When you come back up, you are pushed back into the armchair of your own Being.
A time will come when you will not rise up as ego any more.
This is the direct path.
I am pointing you the pathless path,
to what is already so, but so often missed.
I am pulling the curtains open for you to see from the place
where there is nothing else behind you.
Be here in the place without coordinates.
In your real place, your home and your Self.
Every day, every time, every moment, I push you back.
When you come back up, you are pushed back into the armchair of your own Being.
A time will come when you will not rise up as ego any more.
Duality is pain. So long as man does not wake up to his identity with the One, the cycle of birth and death continues for him.
Children, ego arises out of desire and selfishness; it does not occur naturally but is created.
Nobody is excluded from the realisation of the Self.
The Self is the fact of who we are, but first we must overcome the fiction of who we are—the personal self.
And remember: there is a deep loyalty to our identity, self-image, self-portrait, to the idea we have of who we are.
This has to be seen, acknowledged and transcended.
However, something very powerful is here working on your behalf. Grace and the ability to inquire into the real nature of Self brings the recognition of Truth alive inside the Heart.
It is due to this that all the previously distracting influences of the psychological mind are subdued or bypassed, allowing the attention and mind to be brought again into synchronicity with your Heart.
And it is all very simple, actually.
It is simpler than simple, because the true Self is timelessly present and already perfect in itself.
That which I am pointing to needs no human help to be what it is. Satsang and specifically, self-inquiry, is the means to find and confirm this for yourself.
The Self is the fact of who we are, but first we must overcome the fiction of who we are—the personal self.
And remember: there is a deep loyalty to our identity, self-image, self-portrait, to the idea we have of who we are.
This has to be seen, acknowledged and transcended.
However, something very powerful is here working on your behalf. Grace and the ability to inquire into the real nature of Self brings the recognition of Truth alive inside the Heart.
It is due to this that all the previously distracting influences of the psychological mind are subdued or bypassed, allowing the attention and mind to be brought again into synchronicity with your Heart.
And it is all very simple, actually.
It is simpler than simple, because the true Self is timelessly present and already perfect in itself.
That which I am pointing to needs no human help to be what it is. Satsang and specifically, self-inquiry, is the means to find and confirm this for yourself.
You can be here or there or anywhere.
Fixed in silence, established in the inner I, you can be as you are.
The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within.
Fixed in silence, established in the inner I, you can be as you are.
The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within.
You want to possess knowledge, to collect knowledge. Such knowledge is plentiful and available in the world, but a rare person will understand that such knowledge is a bundle of ignorance.
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
This Heart doesn't know the concept of enlightenment – it is simply free.
The point still needs to be cleared up: to whom does this understanding happen? In whom does this conviction take place? The only answer is that so long as this question remains, the true understanding with certainty and conviction will not have taken place. The question remains only for someone who has yet to be blessed with the understanding. The happening of the understanding is coincident with the annihilation of the “me”, and so then none remains to ask the question. Such depth of understanding is apperception. It is an understanding and perception that is prior to both knowledge and ignorance. It is beyond the opposites of logic and reason. It is beyond concepts and beliefs. This conviction arises in that silence in which all concepts and beliefs and doubts merge and get annihilated. It is only in that silence that there is relief from the comparison of opposites (known as mentation or thinking) that is the activity of the split-mind of intellect.
IT cannot be told by the words of the mouth, it cannot be written on paper: It is like a dumb person who tastes a sweet thing — how shall it be explained?
If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.
Death is beautiful. It’s what we believe into death that frightens us.
Remember, one who enjoys more is bound to suffer more because he becomes very sensitive. But suffering is not bad. If you understand it rightly, suffering is a cleansing. If you understand it rightly, sadness has a depth to it which no happiness can ever have. A person who is simply happy is always superficial. A person who has not known sorrow and has not known sadness, has not known the depths. He has not touched the bottom of his being; he has remained just on the periphery. One has to move within these two banks. Within these two banks flows the river.
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.
Use your heart not your head! Put your Heart in front of me when you ask a question! We don't want to see your face not your hands nor your head. Yes not even your head i want. Speak and act from that Heart place! Come in front of me and show me your heart!
Attracted and repulsed with feelings, perceiving is always bewildered...
Perceived feelings are of the perceiver of feelings, but THAT abiding in itself is without any perceptibility (perceivable form).
Perceived feelings are of the perceiver of feelings, but THAT abiding in itself is without any perceptibility (perceivable form).
Our search for happiness is an unconscious search for our true Self.
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