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Longing for a tiny grain of pleasure, people toil so hard using the mind to plough the field
of the five senses, but they never wish for the flood of Bliss which is the fruit that comes
by ploughing the Heart, the Source of the mind, with [simple] Self-attention. Ah, what a
wonder!
('Guru Vachaka Kovai': 72)
-------------------------------------------------------------------Just as the goats beard wanders and wags for nothing, people roam about merrily but in
vain, doing Karmas for the fulfilment of their worldly desires, while despising the
disciplines [followed by aspirants] which lead to eternal Moksha in Self. Ah, what a
pitiable spectacle is the condition of these worldly people!
('Guru Vachaka Kovai': 71)
-------------------------------------------------------------------Only when the worlds allurement is lost will true Liberation be possible [and its
allurement cannot be lost unless it is found to be unreal]. Hence, to try to foist reality
upon this world is to be just like an infatuated lover who tries to foist chastity upon a
prostitute.
('Guru Vachaka Kovai': 74)
[Sadhu Om: "A lover foists chastity upon a prostitute only because of his infatuation with
her, and similarly some schools of thought argue and try to insist upon the worlds
reality, only because of their immense desire for the enjoyment of this world. Therefore
Liberation, which is the fruit of desirelessness, is absolutely impossible for them."]

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Renate Ahluwalia
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GURU:
The externally visible Guru pushes the mind inward. He is also in the hearts of the
seekers and so he draws the inwardly turned mind into the Heart.

The Gurus Grace works automatically and spontaneously. The disciple gets precisely
the help he requires.
-quotes from Bhagavan Ramana Maharsrhi
Ramana Hridayam

January 9 at 5:30pm

Q: Can I think 'I am God'?

M: Don't identify yourself with an idea. If you mean by God the Unknown, then you
merely say: 'I do not know what I am'. If you know God as you know your Self, you need
not say it.
Best is the simple feeling 'I am'. Dwell on it patiently. Here patience is wisdom; don't
think of failure. There can be no failure in this undertaking.

- I AM THAT ch 53

Ramana Hridayam

January 9 at 8:00pm

Even if we have met a teacher and received instructions, however, we will never be
able to receive his blessings if we do not have fervent devotion and complete confidence
in him and his teachings. And without his blessings we will not progress along the path.
First of all, therefore, we need to generate devotion.
~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Ramana Hridayam

Yesterday at 7:30am

CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

Q: When I keep the mind on this feeling of 'I am', must I be relaxed and quiet? Should I
see what is happening, without interfering, or should I be observing, scrutinizing,
comparing, etc. ?
AS: It is enough if you can simply relax in this 'I am. Whatever happens in this 'I am,
this consciousness, just be indifferent to it.

You are the consciousness itself, not the thoughts and ideas that appear in it. Many things
both good and bad are going on in this world. We don't bother about most of them
because we think, these things are happening to somebody else and not to me.
In the same way, be the consciousness 'I am' and be indifferent to the various things that
come and go in your mind. If you identify with thoughts, judge them, compare them,
worry about them, try to suppress them, or get involved with them in any way, they will
cause you trouble. Instead, be utterly indifferent to them. If you don't pay them any
attention, they can never adversely affect you.
Living by the Words of Bhagavan p. 322

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BEACAUSE YOU HAVENT HAD YET ENOUGH OF IT!
I didn't realize at the time that I was being given this heavy workload for my own good,
to keep me near Bhagavan. After living like this for some time, I began to feel that I had
too much to do and that my life was being wasted.
One day Bhagavan looked at me intently and said, 'It looks as
if you are still hankering after meditation'.
I replied, 'I have no time. All I have is endless work in the
kitchen.'
Bhagavan responded, with deep feeling, 'Your hands may do the work but your mind can
remain still. You are that which never moves. Realize that and you will find work is not a
strain.
But as long as you think that you are the body and that the work is done by you, you will
feel your life to be an endless toil. In
fact, it is the mind that toils, not the body. Even if your body
keeps quiet, will your mind keep quiet too? Even in sleep the mind is busy with its
dreams.'

'Yes, Swami,' I replied, 'It is as natural for you to know that

you are not your body as it is for us to think that we are the
body. I had a dream recently in which you were explaining this very point. I was
dreaming that I was working in the kitchen and that you were having your bath in your
usual place behind
the bamboo-mat partition. You asked, "Who is it?" and I replied, "Who shall I say I am?"
Then you answered, "Exactly so. You are nothing of which something can be said."
That was my dream, and it was all quite clear. Why can't I continuously remember while I
am awake that I am not the
body?'
'Because you haven't yet had enough of it,' he replied with a smile.
- Subbalakshmi Ammal, The Power of the Presence, part III

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CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

Q: Is the energy one receives from the Self constant or does it fluctuate? Does the body or
the mind store it in any way?
AS: In deep sleep the mind and the body are renewed. On awakening there is a feeling of
energy and bliss, but almost
immediately the sense organs become active and desires arise.
When this happens, the energy you have stored up during sleep
gets dissipated. If you can control the mind and the senses so that neither of them
succumbs to external stimuli, you can build up energy and power in the body.
Bhagavan was fond of telling the story of the lame monkey
king called Nondi who had lost his power and position. He went alone to the forest for
some days to regain his power. When he returned he had accumulated enough power and
energy to take over his tribe again.
Energy is increased in solitude. When you are alone it is less
likely to go out through the indriyas [the five senses] and the mind. Arunagirinatha, the
famous saint of Tiruvannamalai, once sang a song which says, 'The senses are thieves
who steal the energy of the Self.'
LWB p 346

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Ramana Maharshi
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Just as the spider draws out the thread of the cobweb from within itself and withdraws it
again into itself, in the same way the mind projects the world out of itself and absorbs it
back into itself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Happiness is experienced by you in deep sleep, where there is neither body-consciousness

nor awareness of the world, it follows that happiness must be within you, and not outside.

- Sadhu Om. The Path of Sri Ramana ( part one).

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Katy Hyde
Yesterday at 12:18am

TRUTH REVEALED (SAD-VIDYA) BY RAMANA MAHARSHI

6. The world is nothing more than an embodiment of the objects perceived by the five
sense organs. Since, through these five sense organs, a single mind perceives the world,
the world is nothing but the mind. Apart from the mind is there a world?

(SYNOPSIS)

6. The world is really synonymous with the mind.

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Katy Hyde
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Every object in this world including your own body is extraneous to you, and that is
why they are forgotten in deep sleep. Yet, since everyone experiences perfect happiness in
that state, the only possible conclusion is that happiness does lie within you. The truth is
that you yourself are happiness! Happiness is your true nature! You are not this bodyform!
You are full and perfect bliss itself!!

- Sadhu Om. The Path of Sri Ramana (part one)

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Chandrasekhar Narayan
Yesterday at 4:55am

Question: How long is a Guru necessary for Self-realisation?

Sri Ramana Maharshi: Guru is necessary so long as there is ignorance. Ignorance is due
to the self-imposed but wrong limitation of the Self. God, on being worshipped, bestows
steadiness in devotion, which leads to surrender. On the devotee surrendering, God shows
his mercy by manifesting as the Guru. The Guru, otherwise God, guides the devotee,
saying that God is within and that he is not different from the Self. This leads to
introversion of mind and finally to realisation.

- The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Sage of Kanchi

33 mins Mumbai

How do we obtain enlightenment or jnana?

Our body is sustained by our mother's milk. It is Amba who nourishes us with the milk of
jnana. She is indeed the personification of jnana. We will be rewarded with the light of
wisdom if we firmly hold her lotus feet and dissolve ourselves in her. One who does so
becomes God.
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The Great UpanishadsLike Page

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Yoga is the practice

of tolerating the consequences
of being yourself.

Bhagavad Gita
Ramana Maharshi

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SUFFERING.
A asked: A person does something good but he sometimes suffers pain even
in his right activities. Another does something wicked but is also happy.
Why should it be so?
M.: Pain or pleasure is the result of past Karma and not of the present
Karma. Pain and pleasure alternate with each other. One must suffer or
enjoy them patiently without being carried away by them. One must always
try to hold on to the Self. When one is active one should not care for the
results and must not be swayed by the pain or pleasure met with
occasionally. He who is ndifferent to pain or pleasure can alone be happy.
source: Talk 546
Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya!
Bramhasri Samavedam Shanmukha Sarma

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For thousand of years man has had the illusion that he can attain freedom through
knowledge.
But no man can ever attain the total freedom by accumulating a knowledge which can
only theorize about the higher dimensions but keeping him barred from it.
Total freedom can be realized only through self- knowledge.
Self-knowledge is, seeing ourselves exactly as we actually are, undistorted by any
interpretation or judgement.
It is only when we attain it, our mind becomes quiet, still.
And once this happens, we attain the state of miracle, known as total freedom.
(Anandmath)
Ramana Hridayam

Yesterday at 12:30pm

Q. What should I do if an old painful memory arises during meditation?

A. Old memories, hurts, fears, angers, resentments, etc., can arise in meditation. Simply
allow them to arise without resisting, analyzing, judging, or denying them. Just watch
them without getting involved. See that they do not define who you are. They are pockets
of unconsciousness arising to be purified in the light of awareness and released from your
system. Allow the light of being to set suffering free.
- Adyashanti

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Evan Keith
15 hrs Eugene, OR, United States

"Gurus grace is always there. You imagine it is something, somewhere high up in the
sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart,and the moment
(by any of the methods) you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its source, the
grace rushes forth, spouting as from a spring, from within you."
Bhagavan speaking in "Day by Day" 19-10-45 Morning.
Ramana Maharshi

26 mins

SUFFERING.
A visitor from Dindigul said: I suffer in both mind and body. From the day
of my birth I have never had happiness. My mother too suffered from the
time she conceived me, I hear. Why do I suffer thus? I have not sinned in
this life. Is all this due to the sins of past lives?
M.: If there should be unrelieved suffering all the time, who would seek
happiness? That is, if suffering be the natural state, how can the desire

to be happy arise at all? However the desire does arise. So to be happy is

natural; all else is unnatural. Suffering is not desired, only because it
comes and goes.
The questioner repeated his complaint.
M.: You say the mind and body suffer. But do they ask the questions? Who is
the questioner? Is it not the one that is beyond both mind and body?
You say the body suffers in this life; the cause of this is the previous
life: its cause is the one before it, and so on. So, like the case of the
seed and the sprout, there is no end to the causal series. It has
to be said that all the lives have their first cause in ignorance. That
same ignorance is present even now, framing this question. That ignorance
must be removed by jnanam. Why and to whom did this suffering come? If
you question
thus you will find that the I is separate from the mind and body, that
the Self is the only eternal being, and that It is eternal bliss. That is
jnanam.
D.: But why should there be suffering now?
M.: If there were no suffering how could the desire to be happy arise? If
that desire did not arise how would the Quest of the Self be successful?
D.: Then is all suffering good?
M.: Quite so. What is happiness? Is it a healthy and handsome body, timely
meals, and the like? Even an emperor has troubles without end though he may
be healthy. So all suffering is due to the false notion I am the body.
Getting rid of it is jnanam.
source: Talk 633
Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya!
Simply Spiritual Living

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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

~Martin Luther King Jr.

The Great Upanishads

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Between two sounds there is silence,

between two breaths there is a breathless moment.
Between two thoughts there is a mental quiet.
That silence, the breathless moment, the mental quiet,
is a gate between two walls.
You may open it only to friendly thoughts
or you may let in a crowd of disheveled rowdies.
Your own will is your gate-keeper."
~ Swami Veda Bharati Light of Ten Thousand Suns

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Let Life BeLike Page

January 19 at 9:54pm

There is no duality whatsoever.

You are merely projecting your own ideas.

Nisargadatta
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Talk 338.

Mrs. Jennings, an American lady, asked a few questions:

D.: Is not affirmation of God more effective than the quest, who am
I? Affirmation is positive, whereas the other is negation. Moreover,
it indicates separateness.

M.: So long as you seek to know how to realise, this advice is given to find your Self.
Your seeking the method denotes your separateness.

D.: Is it not better to say I am the Supreme Being than ask Who am I?

M.: Who affirms? There must be one to do it. Find that one.

D.: Is not meditation better than investigation?

M.: Meditation implies mental imagery, whereas investigation is for the Reality. The
former is objective, whereas the latter is subjective.

D.: There must be a scientific approach to this subject.

M.: To eschew unreality and seek the Reality is scientific.

D.: I mean there must be a gradual elimination, first of the mind, then
of the intellect, then of the ego.

M.: The Self alone is Real. All others are unreal. The mind and intellect do not remain
apart from you.

The Bible says, Be still and know that I am God. Stillness is the
sole requisite for the realisation of the Self as God.

D.: Will the West ever understand this teaching?

M.: There is no question of time and space. Understanding depends on ripeness of mind.
What does it matter if one lives in the East or in the West?

Sri Bhagavan referred the lady to a few stanzas in Truth Revealed

and to Thayumanavar. She retired.

Later Sri Bhagavan said the whole Vedanta is contained in the two
Biblical statements:
I am that I AM and Be still and know that I am God.

Mr. K. S. N. Iyer, a Railway Officer, said to Sri Bhagavan that the

compiler of Cosmic Consciousness considers realisation to be possible only within
certain limits of age in an individuals life.

M.: Does anyone say I must come into being before or after some age? He is here and
now. Statements like this are misleading because people come to believe that they cannot
realise the Self in this incarnation and must needs take chances in another. It is all absurd.
Paritala Gopi Krishna

8 hrs Hyderabad

The body is a house taken on rent by man. We know how the owner of a house persecutes
the tenant in order to compel him to vacate when the rent is not paid, delayed, or when
the tenant causes damage through negligence. Therefore, it is our duty to keep the body in
good shape and avoid the wrath of the owner. The owner will certainly appreciate a
considerate, courteous, and cooperative tenant. The tenant can win the owners love and
respect by means of his own goodness.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol.10, pg.351