Sayings of Totapuri – the Guru of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

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Brahman is the only Reality, ever-pure, ever-illumined, ever-free,

beyond the limits of time, space, and causation. Though apparently

divided by names and forms through the inscrutable agency of Maya

(illusion), that enchantress which makes the impossible possible,

Brahman is really one and undivided. When a seeker is merged in the

state of supreme happiness of Samadhi, he does not perceive time and

space or name and form - the production of Maya. Whatever is within the

domain of Maya is unreal; give it up. Dive deep in the search for Self

and be firmly established in It through Samadhi. You will then find the

world of name and form vanishing into nothing, and this puny ego

merging into cosmic consciousness.