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All religions postulate the three fundamentals, the world, the soul

and God, but it is only the one Reality that manifests itself as

these three. One can say ' The three are really three ' only as long

as the ego lasts. Therefore to inhere in one's own Being, where

the 'I' or ego is dead is the perfect state.

- Ramana Maharshi-Forty Verses, v. 2.

 

The entire world is God : This is the core of my teaching. First

banish egoism ; then you will come up to this test. Would you like to

know the core of Divine Wisdom ? This is my certain answer. Tuka says

Rise above the mind to destroy the ego.

- Tukaram

 

The result of Knowledge is identity with all ; the result of

ignorance is identity with the limited being of one's body.

- Shankara, Commentary on the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

 

The Atman (Self) is never born and never dies. It is beyond time,

unborn, permanent and everlasting. It does not die when the body

dies.

- Kathopanishad.

 

When the ego-sense of the individual me vanishes there springs up

within me an endless current of 'I-I', conferring unique and

transcendental bliss which engulfs all my knowledge and ends in

Silence. How then can Silence be expressed?

- Tayumanavar.

 

It is only because of ignorance that the Self appears to be finite.

When ignorance is destroyed the Self which does not admit of any

multiplicity whatsoever, truly reveals Itself by Itself, like the sun

when the cloud is removed.

- Shankara.

 

Although the scriptures proclaim 'Thou art That', it is only a sign

of weakness of mind to meditate 'I am That, not this', because you

are eternally That. What has to be done is to investigate what one

really is and remain That.

- 'Forty Verses on Reality', v. 32, from The Collected Works of

Ramana Maharshi, Rider and Sri Ramanasramam.

 

If it is said that Liberation is of three kinds, with form or without

form or with and without form, then let me tell you that the

extinction of the three forms of Liberation is. the only true

Liberation.

- Forty Verses on Reality ", v. 40, from The Collected Works of

Ramana Maharshi, Riders and Sri Ramanasramam.

 

Mind is the Buddha, while the cessation of conceptual thought is the

Way. Once you stop arousing concepts and thinking in terms of

existence and non-existence, long and short, other and self, active

and passive, and suchlike, you will find that your mind is

intrinsically the Buddha, that, the Buddha is intrinsically Mind, and

that Mind resembles a Void.

- From The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, p. 67, translated by John

Blofeld, Riders.

 

Self -Realization does not depend on any kind of consciousness ; its

very nature is Awareness or Consciousness.

- Shankara, Introduction to Commentary on Kena Vakya.

 

Tinier than the tiniest atom, Tuka is vast as the sky I swallowed and

spat out the body - the very image of worldly delusion. I have

abandoned the triplets (of knowledge, knower and known). The light is

lit within the lamp. Tuka says : I now remain only for the service of

all.

- Tukaram

 

Your true nature is something never lost to you even in moments of

delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of Enlightenment. In it is

neither delusion nor right understanding. It fills the Void

everywhere and is intrinsically of the substance of the One Mind.

- From The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, p. 93, translated by John

Blofeld, Rider.

 

I gave birth to myself! I was conceived within my own body. Now all

vows are fulfilled; all desire is extinguished. I have become well

and strong. I died away that time. I look on both sides. Tuka is what

he is.

- Tukaram.

 

The purpose of Atma Jnana (spiritual knowledge) is to remove the

illusory self created by Avidya (ignorance). The attainment of Self

by Divine Knowledge means only the removal of the illusory, self

created by ignorance through the superimposition of the body as the

self.

- Shankara, Commentary on the Taittiriya Upanishad.

 

The Vedantic texts teach that although Brahman is One he is regarded

both as possessing attributes and as free from them. In the former

sense He is the object of meditation, in the latter of Knowledge.

- Shankara, Commentary on the Brahma Sutra, 1-1-12.

 

My death is dead-and gone! I have been made immortal. All sense of

body is wiped out root and branch. The deluge came and went. I clung

to life with courage. Tuka says: The foundations have been truly

disclosed.

- Tukaram.

 

 

>From the Mountain Path Journal from www.ramana-maharshi.org

 

Hari Aum !!!

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"O My Lord,

If I worship Thee for fear of hell,

Burn me in hell;

if I worship Thee for hope of Paradise,

Exclude me thence;

 

but if I worship Thee for Thine Own sake,

Withhold not from me Thine eternal beauty."

 

- Saint Rabi'a

 

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The true nature of such a sublime, all-absorbing love,

is beautifully brought out by the following anecdote

regarding Saint Rabi'a :

 

Oneday she was asked,

"Do you love god?"

 

She unhesitatingly said,

"Yes."

 

Again she was asked,

"Do you hate Satan?"

 

Equally unhesitatingly, she replied,

 

"No, my Love for God leaves no room for hating Satan.

 

My Love for God has so possessed me that no place

remains for loving or hating any one except Him."

 

(from - "Woman Saints of East and West")

 

 

> "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time

> of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." - Dante

> Alighieri (1265-1321)

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[Guest guest]

this is all looking like a play of words only. Until and unless, one breaks the

bonds with self, wife, money and children, Nishkama cannot be achieved.

 

if our relative is suffering in front of our eyes, anybody (bonded soul) can

resist from asking god to save Him/her. Let us be practical. The bond with the

money is the root of all the bonds.

 

Liberation is not we get after death. It is to be obtained when alive, which is

called Jeevan Mukti.

 

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

surya

 

 

pyari_h <no_reply> wrote:

"O My Lord,

If I worship Thee for fear of hell,