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I go through periods of intense spiritual ecstasy, where I am drowned in the Nectar of God, utterly rapturous, and I go through periods of extreme depression, where I no longer wish to live, and where I fall into sin.
I wonder, oh my sweet Beloved! How much longer must this alternation last! When can I just be immersed in your Light and never come out into sin, fleshliness, and carnality!
Can we attain jnana through your Grace and teach it to the people of the world?
First know your Self; leave alone the idea of teaching others. If the world and its people remain after your realisation, you may teach them. Trying to help the world without knowing your Self will be just like a blind man trying to treat the diseases in the eyes of others. First clear your own eyes. If you do this you will see the eyes of all others as your own. Then, if you see the eyes of all others as your own, how can you exist without helping them?
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
“[The cause of suffering is] Self-identification with the limited. Sensations as such, however strong, do not cause suffering… It is the mind, bewildered by wrong ideas, addicted to thinking, “I am this”, “I am that”, that fears loss and craves gain and suffers when frustrated.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj (via cobotis)
Annamalai Swami on Jesus and Misconceptions
Q: There is another biblical statement which is very popular among Christians: 'No man comes to the Father except through me.' How does Swami understand this statement of Jesus?
AS: When Jesus said 'Except through me' he was speaking of the Self, not the body, but people have misunderstood this. On another occasion Jesus said, ‘The kingdom of heaven is within you’. He did not mean that it is within the body. This 'you’ Jesus spoke of is the Self, infinite consciousness.
Although a sage who has stabilized in the Self may use the word 'me’ we should not make the mistake of thinking that he is the body. Whenever the jnani, who has become one with the infinite, pure consciousness, says 'me’ he is speaking not of the body, the form, but of the one consciousness.
In the absolute, single, formless, immanent consciousness, where is Jesus or any other jnani? All is one in consciousness. It is impossible to differentiate between people there.
The one who realizes this state beyond the mind expresses the truth in his own way. Those who are seeking to understand this truth always try to understand the message through the misleading medium of words. They misinterpret with their minds and misunderstand what the teacher is really trying to say.
Many Christians take that phrase 'No man comes to the Father except through me' to mean through the form of Jesus Christ alone. Because of this interpretation they condemn all other concepts of God and all other religions.
In essence all religions are one. Bhagavan once told me, ‘If the ego is destroyed by proper self-enquiry, and if the non-dual consciousness is realized, that alone is truth. Then, in that non-dual consciousness, where are all the different religions and different masters? All are one in that state.'
Q: Does Swami understand Jesus Christ to be a jnani like so many other jnanis, or was he something more than that?
AS: If the ego is destroyed, only non-dual consciousness remains. There is no higher or lower in that state. You cannot say that one jnani is in a different state from another. You cannot say that Jesus Christ is better than Bhagavan or vice versa. There is no higher state than that of the jnani and there is no jnani who is superior to any other jnani.
Although the inner state and experience of all jnanis is the same, their outer activities differ because each of them has a different destiny to fulfill.
When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
Osho (via purplebuddhaquotes)
“The practitioners of nondualistic Kashmir Shaivism came to view the world as absolute Consciousness, which they called Shiva. This Consciousness, being both one and free, creative and self-reflective, was revealed as the fundamental I, or Divine Self. Thus, Kashmir Shaivism emphasizes the inner Self. The systematic growth of Kashmir Shaivism unfolded as practitioners reflected on the nature of the highest reality, describing it as pure Consciousnes”
http://www.themovementcenter.com/kashmir-shaivism/
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Posting again because I could hear this every single day, and it would always bring me peace.
Amen
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.
Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.
Byron Katie (via aspiritualwarrior)
At present your being is mixed up with experiencing. All you need is to unravel being from the tangle of experiences… Once you have known pure being, without being this or that, you will discern it among experiences and you will no longer be misled by names and forms. Self-limitation is the very essence of personality…
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via cobotis)
Whatever be the situation, if it is acceptable, it is pleasant. If it is not acceptable, it is painful. The cause may be physical, or psychological, or untraceable; acceptance is the decisive factor. Reversely, suffering is due to non- acceptance.
Nisargadatta Maharaj (via motherofhermes)
[The cause of suffering is] Self-identification with the limited. Sensations as such, however strong, do not cause suffering… It is the mind, bewildered by wrong ideas, addicted to thinking, “I am this”, “I am that”, that fears loss and craves gain and suffers when frustrated.
Nisargadatta Maharaj (via cobotis)
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Om Namah Shivaya!
