If you think you are free, You are free. - Various sources.

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You are already enlightened. You already are the pure and perfect

reflection of God, a part of God and the whole of God. You are Sat Chit

Ananda, Being Consciousness Bliss. Clear the cobwebs [the ego-mind] and see

for yourself. Enough is enough, do not delay now … let that Sat Chit Ananda

which is your real nature shine out.

 

Everything else is the pass-time of the ego-mind. [including temporary

bliss experiences, witnessing, expanded consciousness, kundalini, colorful

‘enlightement’ experiences, etc. … nothing that comes and goes is you] If

you prefer the games and fairy tales of the ego-mind that is okay too.

 

It’s a win-win situation.

So rejoice and celebrate. There are no losers in this deal.

 

However, if you really want to confirm your enlightenment, don't beat

around the bush. Read and understand and confirm deep down your truth from

the Ashtavakra Gita. [You will find a copy in the files section here:

SufiMystic ]

 

All techniques, all effort, all meditation is just a round-about-way to

confirm this fact. Almost all who have “become enlightened” realize this

fact. [They invariably hit their heads and say, “What a fool I have been.

It was so simple, so obvious.”]

 

See quotes below.

 

Jan

UltimateAdvaita

 

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ASHTAVAKRA GITA says,

"If you think you are free, You are free.

If you think you are bound, You are bound.

For the saying is true: You are what you think."

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RAMANA says,

“ Mukti or liberation is our nature. It is another name for us. Our wanting

mukti is a very funny thing. It is like a man who is in the shade,

voluntarily leaving the shade, going into the sun, feeling the severity of

the heat there, making great efforts to get back into the shade and then

rejoicing, "How sweet is the shade! I have reached the shade at last!" We

are all doing exactly the same. We are not different from the reality. We

imagine we are different, that is we create the bheda bhava (the feeling of

difference) and then undergo great sadhana (spiritual practices) to get rid

of the bheda bhava and realise the oneness. Why imagine or create bheda

bhava and then destroy it?"

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NISARGADATTA says,

“Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to

believe that you are free already and to act on it."

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BALSEKAR says,

“What people call realization or enlightenment already exists - it is not

'something' to be acquired. Therefore, any and every attempt to 'attain'

it is an exercise in self-defeating futility.”

 

"We are neither different nor separate from Consciousness, and for that very

reason we cannot 'apprehend' it. Nor can we 'integrate' with it because we

have never been other than it. Consciousness can never be understood in

relative terms. Therefore, there is nothing to be 'done' about it. All is

Consciousness and we are That."

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JEAN KLEIN says,

“What you are looking for is what you already are, not what you will

become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the

question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is a present

actual fact. Looking to become something is completely conceptual, merely

an idea. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and that what

he seeks is the source of the inquiry.”

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