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Solitude is in the mind of man. One mightbe in the thick of the world

and maintainserenity of mind. Such a one is in solitude.Another may

stay in a forest, but still be unableto control his mind. Such a man

cannot be said tobe in solitude. Solitude is a function of the mind.A

man attached to desires cannot get solitudewherever he may be, whereas

a detached man isalways in solitude.- Sri Ramana Maharshi

"Be As You Are"The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshiedited by David GodmanArkana, 1985

When you realise your integral connection withthe Absolute, you will

realise in every sandparticle, in every dust particle, everywhere

Godhimself. That is meditation. You need not closeyour eyes and sit

in the meditation hall. Themoment you are aware of this, you are in

astate of meditation. That is the way to be happy.Otherwise you are

happy inside the meditationhall and unhappy outside.- Swami

Krishnananda

Facets of SpiritualityComplied by S. BhagyalakshmiMotilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1986

When the mind is at peace,the world too is at peace.Nothing real,

nothing absent.Not holding on to reality,not getting stuck in the

void,you are neither holy nor wise, justan ordinary fellow who has

completed his work.- Layman P'ang (c. 740-808)"The Enlightened

Heart"An Anthology of Sacred PoetryEdited by Stephen MitchellHarper &

Row, New York , 1989

 

One who handles a sword wellgets power. Someone generousand

disciplined wins whatthe public religions offer.But knowledge of the

deep self comesonly from a teacher who is That.Everything we do

mixesin the ground of the self.- Lalla "Naked Song"Versions by

Coleman BarksMaypop, 1992

 

The seeker said to himself, "If I'd knownthe real meaning of this

being with God,how should I have gone searching for Him?But that

knowledge depended on this journeying:that knowing can't be gained by

thinking, nomatter how precise."- RumiCamille and Kabir

Helminski"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"Threshold Books, 1996

 

You need both clarity and earnestness forself-knowledge. You need

maturity of heartand mind, which comes through earnestapplication in

daily life of whatever littleyou have understood. There is no such

thingas compromise in Yoga.If you wan to sin, sin wholeheartedly

andopenly. Sins too have their lessons to teachthe earnest sinner, as

virtues - the earnestsaint. It is the mixing up of the two that isso

disastrous. Nothing can block you soeffectively as compromise, for it

showslack of earnestness, without which nothingcan be done.-

Nisargadatta Maharaj"I Am That"Talks with Sri Nisargadatta MaharajThe

Acorn Press, 1973

 

The technique to return to your source isvery simple. The outside

attachments donot allow sitting still and meditating. Soavoid, for

some time, all outside attachmentslike you do when you sleep and have

a verypeaceful night. Practice this in the daytime.The instant in

which you forget all youroutside attachments will be the taste

oftremendous Love and Happiness. Then slowlyyou will stop looking

outside until the outsideand the inside are the same causing both

tocease to exist.- Papaji"The Truth Is"Sri H.W.L. PoonjaYudhishtara,

1995

"I then sang to them a song about my Five Comforts:

'Lord! Gracious Marpa! I bow down at Thy Feet!Enable me to give up

worldly aims.'Here is the Draghar-Taso's Middle Cave,On this the

topmost summit of the Middle Cave,

1, the Yogi Tibetan called Repa,Relinquishing all thoughts of what to

eat or wear, and this life's aims,Have settled down to win the

perfect Buddhahood.

'Comfortable is the hard mattress beneath me;Comfortable is the

Nepalese cotton-padded quilt above me.Comfortable is the single

meditation-band which holdeth up my knee,Comfortable is the body, to

a diet temperate inured,Comfortable is the Lucid Mind which

discerneth present clingings and the Final Goal;

Nought is there uncomfortable; everything is comfortable.'If all of ye

can do so, try to imitate me;But if inspired ye be not with the aim of

the ascetic life,And to the error of the Ego Doctrine will hold fast,I

pray that ye spare me your misplaced pity;For I a Yogi am, upon the

Path of the Acquirement of Eternal Bliss.

'The Sun's last rays are passing o'er the mountain tops;Return ye to

your own abodes.And as for me, who soon must die, uncertain of the

hour of death,With self-set task of winning perfect Buddhahood,'No

time have I to waste on useless talk;Therefore shall I into the State

Quiescent of Samadhi enter now.'"

~Milarepa

 

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