The day that we attain a place in that everlasting life which is beyond the reach of births and deaths is our real birthday.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The greatest Guru is your inner self.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Stay In The Moment
The practice of staying present will heal you.
Obsessing about how the future will turn out creates anxiety. Replaying broken scenarios from the past causes anger or sadness. Stay here, in this moment.
Om, Shanti Shanti Shanti ❤️🔥🙏
If you make your Heart gorgeous, your outside will emanate on its own.
#Rumi
There was a man breaking up the ground, getting ready to plant,
when another man came by, "Why are you ruining this land?"
"Don't interfere. Nothing can grow here until the earth is turned over and crumpled.
There can be no roses and no orchard without first this devastation.....!!
"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."
#Rumi
I have come
to drag you out of yourself, and take you in my heart.
I have come
to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the sky.
#Rumi
The heart is nothing but the sea of Light...
#Rumi
The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. But when it's calm, everything becomes clear
#Buddha
AWARENESS IN ALL STATES, EVEN IN DEEP SLEEP.
Questioner: What do you do when asleep?
Maharaj: I am aware of being asleep.
Q: Is not sleep a state of unconsciousness?
M: Yes, I am aware of being unconscious.
Q: And when awake, or dreaming?
M: I am aware of being awake or dreaming.
Q: I do not catch you. What exactly do you mean? Let me make my terms clear: by being asleep I mean unconscious, by being awake I mean conscious, by dreaming I mean conscious of one’s mind, but not of the surroundings.
M: Well, it is about the same with me, Yet, there seems to be a difference. In each state you forget the other two, while to me, there is but one state of being, including and transcending the three mental states of waking, dreaming and sleeping.
Q: Do you see in the world a direction and a purpose?
M: The world is but a reflection of my imagination. Whatever I want to see, I can see. But why should I invent patterns of creation, evolution and destruction? I do not need them and have no desire to lock up the world in a mental picture.
Q: Coming back to sleep. Do you dream?
M: Of course.
Q: What are your dreams?
M: Echoes of the waking state.
Q: And your deep sleep?
M: The brain consciousness is suspended.
Q: Are you then unconscious?
M: Unconscious of my surroundings -- yes.
Q: Not quite unconscious?
M: I remain aware that I am unconscious.
Q: You use the words 'aware' and 'conscious'. Are they not the same?
M: Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience.
Q: How does one go beyond consciousness into awareness?
M: Since it is awareness that makes consciousness possible, there is awareness in every state of consciousness. Therefore the very consciousness of being conscious is already a movement in awareness. Interest in your stream of consciousness takes you to awareness. It is not a new state. It is at once recognized as the original, basic existence, which is life itself, and also love and joy.
I AM THAT #SriNisargadattaMaharaj
When i look beyond the mind, I see the witness.
Beyond the witness,
there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Everybody, every book says,
"Be quiet or still".
But it is not easy.
That is why all this effort is necessary.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
1. You are the Truth you are looking for! Awakening to Self is possible if this is your only desire & the world holds no interest for you. All practice is to annihilate the ego ghost!
2. Incessant efforts are a must, then a day will come when everything falls away including the effort maker & you effortlessly shine as the light of Consciousness.
3. Reality is non-dual! Ego seeks liberation but liberation is always from the ego! When you become desireless, you will be absorbed into your Self-Source which alone IS.