Be truthful in every way.
Without purity, one cannot advance towards
Divinity.
#AnandamayiMa
"Understand one thing: The entire trajectory of our spiritual path, whether it be the progressive path, the straight path, the path of devotion or any other, will ultimately lead us to complete surrender. Everything we do spiritually will lead us to a
spontaneous state of surrender, of letting go. This is the end result, no matter what path or practice chosen.
When you discover this, you realize that every step along the way is a new opportunity to surrender. You may need effort to get to the point where you will surrender yourself to Grace, but ultimately all spirituality is about letting go of the illusion of the separate "self," from what we believe the world is, and from what we think the world should be. "
#adyashanti
Don't get attached to your identity.
Its going to vanish.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
"No University can teach you to be Yourself.
The Only way to learn is by
Practice."
SriNisargadattaMaharaj
The Only Stable (Identity) is the Observer..and You Alone are that Observer - The Eternal
One!!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only. #SriNisargadattaMaharaj
THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION.
“The mind and the world are not separated.
Understand that what you think the world is is your own mind.
All space and all time is in the mind.
Where would you find a world beyond your mind?
There are many levels of the mind, and each one projects its own version, however, everyone is in the mind and is created by it.
Understand that everything happens in consciousness and that you are the root, the source, the foundation of consciousness. The world is nothing but a succession of experiments and you are the one who makes them aware, remaining, even then, beyond all the experiences".
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
'THE REAL' IS ALWAYS 'NOW' !
Questioner:
The fact is that 'here and now' I am asking
you: when did the feeling 'I am the body' arise?
At my birth? or this morning?
Nisargadatta Maharaj: 'Now'!
Q: But I remember having it yesterday too!
M: The memory of yesterday is 'Now' only.
Q: But surely, I exist in time.
I have a past and a future.
M: That is how you imagine - 'Now'!
Q: There must have been a beginning.
M: 'Now'!
Q: And what about ending?
M: What has no beginning, cannot end.
Q: But I am conscious of my question.
M: A false question cannot be answered.
It can only be seen as false.
Q: To me, it is Real.
M: When did it appear Real to you? Now.
Q: Yes, it is quite Real to me - now.
M: What is Real about your question?
It is 'a state of mind'.
No state of mind can be more real
than the mind itself.
Is the mind Real? It is but a collection
of states, each of them transitory.
How can a succession of transitory
states be considered 'Real'?"
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Thoughts
Come and Go.!
Feelings
Come and Go.!
Find out what it is that remains.!
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Repeat the old practice,
"To whom do thoughts arise?"
Keep up the practice until there are no breaks in awareness.
Practice alone will bring about continuity of awareness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Give up all efforts and surrender.
Let the 'I' that wants the divine world die, and the Divine in you will be realised here and now.
For it is already in you as the Self, not different from the Divine (Brahman), nameless and formless.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Leave it to God.
Surrender unreservedly.
One of two things must be done.
Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
In that state there is Being alone.
There is no you, nor I, nor he; no present, nor past, nor future.
It is beyond time and space, beyond expression.
It is ever there.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
A spiritual-minded man thinks that God is all-pervading and takes God for his Guru.
Later, God brings him in contact with a personal Guru and the man recognises him as all in all.
Lastly the same man is made by the grace of the Master to feel that his Self is the Reality and nothing else.
Thus he finds that the Self is the Master.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
When a person reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment, the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him on. That Guru comes only to tell him 'The God is within yourself. Dive within and realize.
God, Guru and the Self are the same.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
If We Don't Leave Ego, God Will be Far away from Us.
" Don't be filled with ego. Take the back seat. That will make you magnetic. So long as the ego is bubbling inside you, God will never be there. He stays away. We own nothing in this world, but we are so much filled with ego. God owns the entire Universe, but He remains silent and simple.
He remains in the background.
When you are with God, you have everything. The billionaire, the millionaire cannot make you bow down. " (But to achieve this, we have to completely get rid of our Ego - because this Ego is the barrier between Man and God)
#YoganandaParamahansa
What we call extraordinary, superconscious inspiration is only the result of a higher development of ordinary consciousness,
gained by long and continued effort.
#SwamiVivekananda
Sri Krishna is often called a stealer of hearts. Perhaps the two things he steals--butter and heart--are connected?
Tulsidäs says that the heart of a saint is like butter: it melts by the heat of pain and suffering. In fact, he says, it is even better than butter. Butter melts only when it is heated, but the heart of a saint melts with compassion at merely seeing the suffering and pain of others.
Krishna steals only a saintly heart, which is full of compassion, understanding, and selflessness.
A selfish, cruel heart is safe from Krishna's hands.
Krishna, come steal my heart. Look my door is open!
#SwamiTyagananda
There are five states of the human heart. By these different states of the heart, man is classified, and his evolutionary status determined. [...]
[1.] The Dark Heart: In the dark state of the heart, man thinks that his material portion of creation is the only real substance in existence, and that there is nothing besides.
[2.] The Propelled Heart: When man becomes a little enlightened, his heart becomes propelled to learn the real nature of the universe and seeks for advice to determine what is truth.
[3.] Steady Heart: The whole of that system is said to be in Dwapara Yuga. Man gradually comes to a pleasant state wherein his heart wholly abandons the ideas of the external world and becomes devoted to the internal one.
[4.] Devoted Heart: Man become able to understand the whole of Darkness, Maya [=illusion] itself. This state of human being is called Treta; the whole of that system is said to be Treta Yuga.
[5.] Clean Heart: Ignorance being withdrawn, his heart comes to a clean state, void of all external ideas. Then man becomes able to comprehend the Spiritual Light, Brahma, the Real Substance in the universe, which is the last and everlasting spiritual portion in creation. This stage of human being is called Satya; the whole of that system is said to be Satya Yuga.
When the heart becomes purified, it no longer merely reflects, but manifests Spiritual Light. In this state, man is called Jivanmukta Sannyasi, like Lord Jesus of Nazareth.
In this state, man comprehends himself as nothing but a mere ephemeral idea resting on a fragment of the universal Holy Spirit of God.
#ShriYukteswar
The Holy Science
Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself, you find the path to inner peace.
#ParamahansaYogananda