I was undeceived, that is all. I used to create a world and populate it. Now I don't do it any more. [Now I live] in the void beyond being and non-being, beyond consciousness. This void is also fullness; do not pity me. The mind ceased producing events. The ancient and ceaseless search stopped - I wanted nothing, expected nothing, accepted nothing as my own. There was no "me" left to strive for. Even the bare "I am" faded away. The other thing that I noticed was that I lost all my habitual certainties. Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel that I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make.
When you put a donut in boiling water, a lot of bubbles will come out until all of the moisture in the donut is gone. It also makes a lot of noise, doesn't it? Finally, all is silent and the donut is ready. The silent condition of mind which comes about through a life of meditation is called peace. Meditation is like boiling the oil. It will make everything in the mind come out. Only then will peace be achieved.
This was a very graphic and precise explanation of spiritual life if I had ever heard one!
This was a very graphic and precise explanation of spiritual life if I had ever heard one!
Consciousness is the sense of knowingness ‘I am’ without words, and it appeared unknowingly and unsolicited. Only in the realm of knowingness ‘I am’ – the consciousness – can a world be, and so also an experience. Hold on to this knowingness ‘I am’ and the fount of knowledge will well up within you, revealing the mystery of the Universe; of your body and psyche; of the play of the five elements, the three ‘gunas’ and ‘prakriti-purusha’; and of everything else. In the process of this revelation, your individualistic personality confined to the body shall expand into the manifested universe, and it will be realized that you permeate and embrace the entire cosmos as your ‘body’ only. This is known as the ‘Pure Superknowledge’ – ‘Shuddhavijnana’.
To me nothing ever happens.
There is something changeless, motionless, immovable, rock-like, unassailable;
a solid mass of pure being-consciousness-bliss. I am never out of it. Nothing
can take me out of it, no torture, no calamity.
There is something changeless, motionless, immovable, rock-like, unassailable;
a solid mass of pure being-consciousness-bliss. I am never out of it. Nothing
can take me out of it, no torture, no calamity.
There is nothing to practice.
To know yourself,
be yourself.
To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that.
Just
be.
Let your true nature emerge.
Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
To know yourself,
be yourself.
To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that.
Just
be.
Let your true nature emerge.
Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
Maharaj: After all, it is the mind that creates illusion and it is the mind that gets free of it. Words may aggravate illusion, words may also help dispel it. There is nothing wrong in repeating the same truth again and again until it becomes reality. Mother's work is not over with the birth of the child. She feeds it ...day after day, year after year until it needs her no longer. People need hearing words, until facts speak to them louder than words.
The world has no existence apart from you. At every moment it is but a reflection of yourself. You create it, you destroy it.
Intelligence is the door to freedom, and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
I see what you too could see, here
and now, but for the wrong focus of your attention.You give no
attention to your self. Your mind is all with things, people and
ideas, never with your self. Bring your self into focus, become
aware of your own existence. See how you function, watch the
motives and results of your actions.... Study the prison you have
built around yourself, by inadvertence.
and now, but for the wrong focus of your attention.You give no
attention to your self. Your mind is all with things, people and
ideas, never with your self. Bring your self into focus, become
aware of your own existence. See how you function, watch the
motives and results of your actions.... Study the prison you have
built around yourself, by inadvertence.
Liberation is never of the person, it is always from the person.
Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think.
Mind is interested in what happens, while awareness is interested in the mind itself. The child is after the toy, but the mother watches the child, not the toy.
Q: Please come down from these metaphysical heights! The Bengali of East Pakistan is a fact and his suffering is a fact. Please, do not analyse them out of existence! You are reading newspapers, you hear people talking about it. You cannot plead ignorance. Now, what is your attitude to what is happening?
M: No attitude. Nothing is happening.
M: No attitude. Nothing is happening.
The mind must learn that beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness which does not change.
You imagine being and doing as identical. It is not so. The mind and the body move and change and cause other minds and bodies to move and change and that is called doing, action.
Happiness is our real nature and we shall never rest until we find it.
The acceptance of the unreal as real is the obstacle.
The changeful keeps on changing, while the changeless is waiting. Do not expect the changeful to take you to the changeless - it can never happen.
To remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. You come to it through earnestness.
The world of things, of energy and matter? Even if there were such a common world of things and forces, it is not the world in which we live. Ours is a world of feelings and ideas, of attractions and repulsions, of scales of values, of motives and incentives, a mental world altogether. Biologically we need very little..., our problems are of a different order. Problems created by desires and fears and wrong ideas can be solved only on the level of the mind. You must conquer your own mind and for this you must go beyond it.
You are the infinite potentiality; the inexhaustible possibility. Because you are, all can be. The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.
Q: What exactly do you mean when you ask me to stop being a person?
M: I do not ask you to stop being -- that you cannot. I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning -- it is not as hard as you think.
M: I do not ask you to stop being -- that you cannot. I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning -- it is not as hard as you think.
Questioner: Should I stabilize in beingness or
should I flow with the thoughts?
Maharaj: If you stay put in
beingness the thoughts will get less and less. If you get mixed up with
the thoughts they will multiply. Stay put in beingness only.
should I flow with the thoughts?
Maharaj: If you stay put in
beingness the thoughts will get less and less. If you get mixed up with
the thoughts they will multiply. Stay put in beingness only.
Did I ever tell you that you do not know
and, therefore, you are inferior? Let those who invented such
distinctions prove them. I do not claim to know what you do not. In
fact, I know much less than you do.
and, therefore, you are inferior? Let those who invented such
distinctions prove them. I do not claim to know what you do not. In
fact, I know much less than you do.
I see no difference between you and me. My
life is a succession of events, just like yours. Only I am detached
and see the passing show as a passing show, while you stick to
things and move along with them.
life is a succession of events, just like yours. Only I am detached
and see the passing show as a passing show, while you stick to
things and move along with them.
Beings
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