ShivAllahSita sutra 60

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I keep weeping for you, my soul,

good sir, gently trying to let you

see the nature of what you love.

 

Not even the shadow

of an iron anchor

will last from here.

 

Remember the truth

that you are.

 

~Lalla

 

 

Are you that?

Remembrance spills

 

the tell-all answer. Existing

in form, in resisting the storm,

the one who would live must die.

 

Crying tears of me in the river of belief

the falling vasanas dropped the one who climbed high to hide from "I."

The nature of life is seen as the transience and transcendence of all.

Love leaves the Heart obliterated in the burning away of the idea of

an "other."

 

~Mitzvah

 

 

When the sense of distinction and separation

is absent, you may call it love.

 

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

Seeing a man dying slowly,

gradually separating from the body-mind apparatus,

I can say truly, that in that man I am born and I die.

Whatever part of that being which clings to the idea of separation,

whatever part of that being which surrenders all concepts about

an "other,"

I am in truth that manifestation of body, mind, heart, and spirit.

As long as anyone remains concealed in delusion's sticky web,

I too am waiting for the spider of "I" to bite and dissolve itself.

There is no other. This is Love in Amusement.

This entire world is an amusement park,

And Love is every ride inside it.

 

~Mitzvah

 

 

If you want a kingdom and get it,

you'll have no peace.

 

If you give it away,

still you won't be content.

 

Only a soul free of desire

can taste eternity.

 

Be living, yet dead!

Then knowing comes

to live in you.

 

~Lalla

 

 

Billowing I to the infinite sky of "gate gate,"

I found that "I" endlessly vibrating from silent emptiness…

Echo-Laughing and Dancing, I returned to live "here, here,"

This, As It Is Now.

There is no explanation for this.

I am the living dead…singing Joyful dirges,

embracing all in the Light of Paramatman…

Breath of Brahma stilled by Its reflection.

 

~Mitzvah

 

 

People often ask how the mind is controlled.

I say to them, 'Show me the mind and then

you will know what to do.' The fact is that

the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. How can

you extinguish it by the thought of doing so

or by a desire? Your thoughts and desires are

part and parcel of the mind. The mind is simply

fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore

it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by

means of the mind. The only way of doing it is

to find its source and hold on to it. The mind

will then fade away of its own accord.

 

~Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

 

LoveEternal.