Love takes care of everything. Love is the same as absolute awareness, pure intelligence, or the power of God. When you have enough love inside, there are truly no problems. Problems only arise when you believe you are separate and lacking love.
#RobertAdams
"A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part." #SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Whatever you know is unreal and wherever you say you know is also unreal.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be. #SriNisargadattaMaharaj
In the mirror of your mind, all kinds of pictures appear and disappear.
Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed.
This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Humility and
Surrender make you
Realize your inner
Nature.
#SriNisargattaMaharaj
Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
REALITY IS SIMPLE ❤️
It is not good to think too much about your meditation practice. Just do it and keep on doing it until you have the firm conviction that nothing that appears in the mind has anything to do with the real you. If you pay attention to thoughts and feelings while you meditate and try to use them to evaluate how well or how badly you are meditating, you will never reach the ultimate silence. Instead, you will just get bogged down in mental concepts.
Some people are distracting their minds in so many different ways: for example, trying to make distinctions between things like turiya [the fourth state] and turiyatita [that which is beyond the fourth].
Reality is very simple: instead of trying to explain it or label it, just be it by giving up all identification with the body and the mind. This is the ultimate jnana. If you follow this path you need not get involved in any mental or philosophical complexities.
People are practicing all kinds of sadhanas to reach the Self.
Some of these methods are hindrances to jnana (meditation). Meditation can be another form of bondage if it starts from the assumption that the body and the mind are real. If this idea is not dropped, meditation will merely enhance it.
#AnnamalaiSwami
Your glory lies where you cease to exist. In order to gain that state, you should surrender yourself.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
DEVOTEE: I have not yet learnt to control my mind so l intend to seek ekantavasam (life in solitude) in North India and want Sri Bhagavan's grace.
BHAGAVAN: You have come all the way to Tiruvannamalai for ekantavasam, and that in the immediate presence and vicinity of Ramana Bhagavan, yet you do not appear to have obtained that mental quiet; you now want to go elsewhere and from there you will desire to go to some other place. At this rate there will be no end to your travels. You do not realize that it is your mind that drives you in this manner.
Control that first and you will be happy wherever you are. I do not know if you have read Swami Vivekananda's lectures. It is my impression that he has somewhere told the story of a man trying to bury his shadow and finding that over every sod of earth he put in the grave he had dug for it, it only appeared again, so that it could never be buried. Such is the case of a person who tries to bury his thoughts. One must therefore attempt to get at the very bottom from which thought springs
and root out thought, mind and desire.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Investigate what the mind is, and it will disappear.
There is no such thing as mind apart from thought.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Whatever this body is to do and whatever experiences it is to pass through was already decided
when it came into existence.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Devotee: From where did ignorance come?
Maharshi: There is no such thing as ignorance. It never arises. Everyone is Knowledge itself. Only Knowledge does not shine easily. The dispelling of ignorance is Wisdom which always exists.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The Seer is most important.
You are. That is most important.
Concentrate on the Seer, not on the seen.
All that you see is false and the Seer alone is true.
All knowledge you gather is useless, until you hold on to your Self.
You are the Truth, not what is being told to you, not what you see.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
"When you work for God, not self, it is just as good as meditation. Then work helps your meditation and meditation helps your work.
You need the balance. With meditation only, you become lazy. With activity only, the mind becomes worldly and you forget God."
#ParamahansaYogananda
I am a spark from the Infinite.
I am not flesh and bones.
I am light.
#ParamahansaYogananda
Life is entertaining when we do not take it too seriously. A good laugh is an excellent remedy for human ills. ... This my master [Swami Sri Yukteswar] taught me. In the beginning of my training in his hermitage, I went about with a solemn face, never smiling. One day Master pointedly remarked, "What is this? Are you attending a funeral ceremony? Don't you know that finding God is the funeral of all sorrows?
Then why so glum? Don't take this life too seriously."
#ParamahansaYogananda
Grieve not for lost love, whether it is through death or the fickle fluctuations of human nature. Love itself is never lost, but just plays hide-and-seek with you in many hearts; that in pursuing it you might find its ever greater manifestations. It will keep hiding from you, and disappointing you, until you have quested long enough to find its abode in the One who resides in the deepest recesses of your own soul, and in the heart of everything. Then you will say: “O Lord, when I resided in the house of mortal consciousness, I thought I loved my parents and my friends; I fancied I loved birds, beasts, possessions. But now that I have moved into the mansion of Omnipresence, I know it is Thee alone I love, manifested as parents, friends, all creatures and all things. By loving Thee alone, my heart expanded to love the many. By being loyal in my love to Thee, I am loyal to all I love. And I love all beings forever.” I see life on earth as only a scenic backdrop behind which my loved ones hide at death. As I love them when they are before my eyes, so does my love follow them with my ever-watching mental gaze when they move elsewhere, behind death’s screen. Those whom I have loved I could never hate, even though they grow uninteresting through ugly behavior. In my museum of recollections, I can still behold those traits that caused me to love them. Beneath the temporary mental masks of those whose behavior I dislike, I see the perfect love of my great Beloved, even as I see it in those worthy souls that I love. To stop loving is to stem the purifying flow of love. I shall loyally love every being, every thing, until I find all races, all creatures, all animate and inanimate objects embraced by my love. I will love until every soul, every star, every forsaken creature, every atom, is lodged in my heart; for in the infinite love of God, my breast of eternity is large enough to hold everything in me. O Love, I see Thy glowing face in the gems. I behold Thy shy blush in the blossoms. I am enraptured, hearing Thee warble in the birds. And I dream in ecstasy when my heart embraces Thee in all hearts. O Love, I met Thee in all things—only a little and for a while—but in Omnipresence I clasp Thee entirely and forever, and I rejoice in Thy joy evermore.
#ParamahansaYogananda
I know there is a law by which God directly supports that devotee who depends solely upon Him... The true renunciant knows that everything comes from God, and that He is the sole support of life...The Power that supports your heartbeat certainly knows your lesser needs. If you live solely for God and have faith in His power, He will give you direct help.
#ParamahansaYogananda