"I shall use memory only to remember good things.
From this moment I banish from my mind all wrong memories. They belong to the mortal being, I am a child of the Spirit."
#ParamahansaYogananda
"The lord is not a person with sense organs, but consciousness itself...
God is consciousness. There is essentially nothing in the universe but mind or consciousness."
#ParamahansaYogananda
Give up all working for a future, concentrate totally on the now, be concerned only with your response to every movement of life as it happens.
#SriNisargattaMaharaj
The whole world is an ever-changing state.
No form is permanent.
All you have to do is see the dream as a dream... you are the formless, timeless, unborn.
I ask you to stop imagining that you were born,
have parents, are a body, will die and so on.
#SriNisargattaMaharaj
Your sincerity will guide you.
Devotion to the goal of freedom and perfection will make you abandon all theories and systems and live by wisdom, intelligence and active love.
Theories may be good as starting points, but must be abandoned, the sooner - the better.
#SriNisargattaMaharaj
BECOME CONSCIOUS OF BEING CONSCIOUS. SAY OR THINK "I AM", AND ADD NOTHING TO IT. BE AWARE OF THE STILLNESS THAT FOLLOWS THE "I AM". SENSE YOUR PRESENCE, THE NAKED UNVEILED, UNCLOTHED BEINGNESS. IT IS UNTOUCHED BY YOUNG OR OLD, RICH OR POOR, GOOD OR BAD, OR ANY OTHER ATTRIBUTES. IT IS THE SPACIOUS WOMB OF ALL CREATION, ALL FORM.
#SRIRAMANAMAHARSHI
Consciousness is the only truth.
Its nature is Bliss.
Bliss alone is.
There is no enjoyer to enjoy pleasure.
Enjoyer and joy - both merge in it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
How to remove the ignorance?
While lying in bed in Tiruvannamalai you dream in your sleep that you find yourself in another town.
The scene is real to you. Your body remains here on your bed in a room. Can a town enter your room, or could you have left this place and gone elsewhere, leaving the body here? Both are impossible.
Therefore your being here and seeing another town are both unreal. They appear real to the mind. The āIā of the dream soon vanishes, then another āIā speaks of the dream.
This āIā was not in the dream. Both the āIās are unreal. There is the substratum of the mind which continues all along, giving rise to so many scenes.
An āIā rises forth with every thought and with its disappearance that āIā disappears too.
Many āIās are born and die every moment.
The subsisting mind is the real trouble. That is the thief according to Janaka. Find him out and you will be happy.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Please tell me the method of reaching the eternal Truth.
You are That.
Can you ever remain apart from the Self?
To be yourself requires no effort since you are always That.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
God is in all and in the seer.
Where else can God be seen?
He cannot be found outside.
He should be felt within.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
endless literary controversy is for sluggard minds
what more quickly liberating thought than
'god is'-nay 'god?'
#SriYukteswar
Where is God? Can we find Him only in the temple, church or mosque?
No. Is He to be sought only in the four *Vedas *or in the six schools of philosophy? No. Does He dwell in places of pilgrimage? No, no, no.
Where is He then?
God is seated in the hearts of all. He is not very far away. He is quite close to you. Subtler than the subtlest, greater than the greatest, He is located in the cavity of your heart, in the innermost recess or chamber. You can reach Him through earnest and sincere spiritual practice.
#SwamiSivananda
Love is a light that emanates from the heart and removes all differences, separation, and self-interest.
Love is free from all conditions. It shines equally for everyone, like the light of a sun.
But one who sits in a dark corner can't experience it.
Pure love has no lust. Lust is the craving of the senses, and pure love is the expression of the soul.
Love is a universal religion.
#BabaHariDass
"Any pain which turns the mind toward God and creates the desire to seek God is God's grace."
#BabaHariDass
He who is able to clear your doubts, he who is sympathetic in your Sadhana, He who does not disturb your beliefs but helps you on from where you are, He in whose very presence you feel spiritually elevated
- He is your Guru.
#SwamiSivananda
Mind is just a bundle of thoughts along with the I that moves them around.
When the I drops off there is no mind.
When no-mind sinks into its source and stays there, reality shines, permanently and irrevocably.
#Papaji
That which makes the mind think but cannot be thought by the mind, that is the self indeed.
This self is not something other than you.
#KenaUpnishad
"The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. But when it's calm, everything becomes clear."
#Buddha