Enlightenment is Knowledge Itself, not knowledge of a person, a thing or an idea. Just Knowledge Itself. Enlightenment is there when there is no imagination of the past, no imagination of the future, not even an idea of the present.
#Papaji
Meditation is
really a process of
nonjudgmental awareness.
#MingyurRinpoche
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. #Jesus
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
#Rumi
the moon does not appear except at night. do not seek your beloved without heartache!
#Rumi
Rumi, a 13th century Persian spiritual teacher, was asked:
What is spiritual maturity?
It's when we stop trying to change others and focus on changing ourselves.
It is when we accept people as they are.
It is when we understand that everyone is correct according to their own perspective.
It is when we learn to “let go”.
It is when we are able to not have "expectations" in a relationship, and we give of ourselves for the pleasure of giving.
It is when we understand that what we do, we do for our own peace.
It's when we stop showing the world how smart we are.
It's when we stop seeking approval from others.
It's when we stop comparing ourselves to others.
It is when we are at peace with ourselves.
It is when we are able to distinguish between "need" and "want" and we are able to let go of that want.
Spiritual maturity is gained when we stop attaching "happiness" to material things!
#Rumi
My dear heart
There is a path through the soul to the Beloved
There is a hidden way from a confused mind to the Sweetheart
Even if the six directions in your life are closed
Have no fear
There is a passage
from the depth of your existence to the highest Love.
#Rumi
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.
The light which fills the heart is the Light of God, which is pure and separate
from the light of intellect and sense.
#Rumi
Of the unknowable only silence talks. The mind can talk only of what it knows.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
People come here and ask for blessings;
they don't understand that the Knowledge that one is not the body. but the Consciousness
Within,
is the blessing.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
High Tide
Stories from
Papaji's satsangs
"We are playing like children on the beach, making sand castles.
Sand castles, you see.
And forgetting to return home, that's all.
#Papaji
The Guru may tell his disciples a thousand times,
'You are the Self, you are not what you imagine yourself to be', but none of them ever believes him.
They all keep asking the Guru for methods and routes to reach the place where they already are.
#AnnamalaiSwami
Desire (kama), anger (krodha), greed (lobha), attachment (moha), pride (mada), jealousy (matsarya) ; these dacoits are residing within your own body. They are not outside. They are residing as six column enemies within you. And, why are they there? To loot you of the Jnana-Ratna, to rob you of the precious gem of spiritual wisdom or atma-inana, to loot you and deprive you of the precious gem of Self-awareness and make you forget your Self and weep and wail and be in ignorance. In order to deprive you of this jewel of atma-jnana, they are there. Therefore, oh man, oh Sadhak, Jagrata, Jagrata. Beware, beware. In this way, from the submerged level of the chitta or the deep within, various samskaras and vasana are brought into activity.
#SriAdiShankaracharya.
The world never exists without the body
The body never exists without the mind
The mind never exists without consciousness and consciousness never exists without reality
#SriRamanaMaharshi