Rumi and Maharaji Mixing it up

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Between the banks of pain and pleasure

the river of life flows. It is only when

the mind refuses to flow with life, and

gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes

a problem. By flowing with life, I mean

acceptance - letting come what comes

and go what goes. Desire not, fear not,

observe the actual, as and when it

happens, for you are not what happens,

you are to whom it happens. Ultimately

even the observer you are not.

 

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

 

At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:

We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?

We have gone to heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,

And now we will go back there, for there is our country.

We are higher than heaven, more noble than the angels:

Why not go beyond them? Our goal is the Supreme Majesty.

What has the fine pearl to do with the world of dust?

Why have you come down here? Take your baggage back.

What is this place?

Luck is with us, to us is the sacrifice!...

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean--

the ocean of the soul.

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean--

the ocean of the soul.

How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

No, we are the pearls from the bosom of the sea,

it is there that we dwell:

Otherwise how could the wave succeed to the wave

that comes from the soul?

The wave named 'Am I not your Lord' has come,

it has broken the vessel of the body;

And when the vessel is broken, the vision comes back,

and the union with Him.

 

~Rumi

Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch,

'Rumi and Sufism' trans. Simone Fattal

 

 

In reality only the Ultimate is.

The rest is a matter of name and form.

And as long as you cling to the idea that only what has name

and shape exists, the Supreme will appear to you non-existing.

When you understand that names and shapes are hollow shells without

any content whatsoever, and what is real is nameless and formless,

pure energy of life and light of consciousness,

you will be at peace - immersed in the deep silence of reality.

 

 

When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons

everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of

memories and habits. At the moment of realization the person

ceases. Identity remains, but identity is not a person, it is

inherent in the reality itself. The person has no being in

itself; it is a reflection in the mind of the witness, the 'I am',

which again is a mode of being.

 

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

" I Am That "

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie