ShivAllahSita sutra 62

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Devotion without understanding is only

emotion and later becomes a passion -

fanaticism.

 

~Swami Krishnananda

 

 

Bad moods are either past or imaginary

future, in the present there are no moods

at all. Moods belong to circumstance, to

the past. Face the Sun and there will be

no shadow of moods.

 

~Papaji

 

 

If you would disidentify from the body and remain

firmly entrenched in that animating Consciousness

which gives you sentience and the sense of presence, I Am,

you will know peace and total freedom in this very moment.

 

~Balsekar

 

 

Contentment is absolutely necessary

because whatever you will be in the next

state, or in the next life is whatever

unfulfilled desire that you have in the

present state. Therefore, desire only

the Infinite. Let the other desires arise

and see that they arise from me, from

Emptiness, and then let them fall,

As waves must.

 

~Papaji

 

 

That one is blessed and at peace

who doesn't hope, to whom

desire makes no more loans.

 

Nothing coming, nothing owed.

 

~Lalla

 

 

What is generally understood to be prayer is nothing

more than one fictitious entity called 'me' begging

for something from another fictitious entity called 'God'.

 

~Balsekar

 

 

Demolish the structure.

Burn down the house.

Destroy the habitat.

End the story.

 

~Mitzvah

 

 

What is Real and What is Unreal?

 

The analogy of the shadow is often used to explain "real and "unreal."

A shadow is unreal in the sense that it is dependent on the sun for

its existence. Nonetheless, as shadow, it is real enough. So it is

both real and unreal at the same time. All manifestation is dependent

on Consciousness for its existence. Consciousness is inherent in all

objects, all manifestation. Consciousness transcends the

manifestation yet is immanent in it. Manifestation is contained with

Consciousness.

 

In the second stage, before the final understanding arises, all sorts

of concepts come into play. It is assumed that it is up to the

individual to make efforts to join himself with God. At that level of

subject and object, nirvana and samsara are treated as two.

Therefore, they speak in terms of the sea samsara, misery, which has

to be crossed. The jiva has to cross it and it can do so only by

doing sadhana of one kind or another. So the seeker goes through

sadhana, the whole series. For years he practices. For years he

watches what is happening, and finds himself in a state of pride and

self-conceit. Ultimately, when he settles down in contemplation, he

throws aside everything. As the Sufis say, there is a sort of

ceremony, a burning of all that he has learned and all that he thinks

he has achieved.

 

So, in the third stage, it is realized that the world is both real

and unreal. When that understanding arises the knowledge settles down

and in that organism where enlightenment has taken place there is no

longer any active desire to tell the world about it, to change the

world. In the third stage there is an acceptance of What-is, both the

immanence and the transcendence. Nirvana and samsara are not two.

Samsara is the objective expression of nirvana.

 

In the final understanding, the state of Beingness happens. There is

no question of seeing anything. Everything is appearance and that

appearance is being seen through the instrument of the organism,

through the senses. But no individual ever sees. Though the

individual says, "I can see the mountains" it is only because

consciousness is present that this can be said.

The mountains are really seen by Consciousness, which is also the

appearance! The Totality of manifestation is merely an appearance

created in Consciousness by Consciousness. And this functioning of

manifestation, what we call life and living, is also Consciousness.

Consciousness plays and directs all of the roles of the billions of

human

beings. Every character is played by Consciousness.

 

The question, "Why does this lila exist?" is understood at the final

stage. Therefore, at that stage, no problems arise. The seeker has no

over-whelming desire to teach the world about what he has learned

because the basic understanding is that he has not learned anything.

The understanding has come by itself as a gift from God, a gift from

Totality, Grace. All the words come later. When the enlightenment is

accepted, there is no question of any "one" considering himself

lucky. The individual considers himself lucky to be enlightened only

when enlightenment hasn't truly happened.

 

~"Consciousness Speaks" Ramesh Balsekar

 

 

To want nothing and do nothing - that

is true creation! To watch the universe

emerging and subsiding in one's heart

is a wonder.

 

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

Existence is neither

singular nor dual.

 

Experience is empty,

devoid of any experiencer.

 

Clinging to neither

self nor Self,

abiding in the unknown,

mysterious laughter

resounds throughout

vast silence!

 

~b

 

 

LoveEternal.