Maharishi wrote What is Bliss but your own being? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi (Talk 653) So the egotistic, foolish, idiots, with no experience think their own ego is bliss There is a simple test for that. Go to someone who will belittle and insult – if you remain in bliss then you have reached the …
June 2019 archive
Jun 26
Dream
Vasistha is educating Ram So subtle – where is the world when you wake up? Do you get the hint? Important of a Guru What is reality? So great
Jun 21
A healing prayer from Yogananda
O Spirit, teach us to heal the body by recharging it with Thy cosmic energy, to heal the mind by concentration and cheerfulness, and to heal the disease of soul ignorance by the divine medicine of meditation on Thee. Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda Spirit is Atman. Pure consciousness Soul is not atman. It is the …
Jun 21
The very lovely body!
WARNING DON’T READ BEYOND THIS. GETS DISGUSTING In general, and it may be more true for men then women, people suffer from getting attracted or admiring things of “beauty”. It is a top class seller in Hollywood and modeling and in ads The human body. Someone who looks beautiful or handsome and the observer can …
Jun 21
Did the scripture lie?
Yoga Vasistha is one if the highest books ever written. We see countless people in association with sages – but they take several births to achieve supreme consciousness What is wrong? Dis the scripture lie when it says only a few days? Not at all ! This refers to pure souls. Those souls are very …
Jun 20
Can this be true?
The spark of jñāna will easily consume all creation as if it were a mountain-heap of cotton. All the crores of worlds being built upon the weak (or no) foundation of the ego, they all topple down when the atomic bomb of jñāna comes down upon them. (Bhagavān in ‘ Day by Day with Bhagavān’, …
Jun 19
Why do we have problems?
According to mother In human life the cause of all difficulties, all discords, all moral sufferings, is the presence in everyone of the ego with its desires, its likes and dislikes. Even in a disinterested work which consists in helping others, until one has learned to overcome the ego and its demands, until one can …
Jun 16
The purpose of prayer
The purpose is to find a Guru. Once that is done and the dissciple has faith in Guru then it is only a matter of time
Jun 16
Silence
Question: How can silence be so powerful? Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi: A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence. We may listen to lectures upon truth and come away with hardly any grasp of the subject, but …
Jun 15
So true
Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself. — Naval That is the one thing people will not do. They will sacrifice their body in …
Jun 15
Against mindfulness – the failure of mindfulness
All the promises of mindfulness resonate with what the University of Chicago cultural theorist Lauren Berlant calls “cruel optimism”, a defining neoliberal characteristic. It is cruel in that one makes affective investments in what amount to fantasies. We are told that if we practice mindfulness, and get our individual lives in order, we can be …
Jun 15
Who am I. An old poem
Tell me tell me What it is No thought no logic No ego no emotions Neither life nor death Who am I ? Knowledge limits you Beyond understanding am I Compassion am I But I have no compassion Love I have none For love am I Thus spake the great The riddle to be solved …
Jun 14
Social media
Wrong expectations from pseudo science widely publicized and transmitted by Social media creates an angry mob There should be a responsibility in using social media Verify what you post. Don’t trust social media. IT IS NOT NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE There are so many fake postings and people are incredibly gullible. They have photos …
Jun 14
Ramana Q and A
A visitor wrote some questions in Tamil and presented them to Bhagavan. Bhagavan said, “He wants to know how to turn the mind from sense enjoyments and realise that bliss which is said to be so much above sense-enjoyments”. Answer. There is only one way, making the mind merge in That which is not sense-enjoyment. …
Jun 10
How do I get salvation?
I 4 things are needed. Mind you everyone has a slightly different version but it depends on individual definitions of self enquiry etc Destroy past tendencies. How? By developing new better habits of not getting angry etc. Takes 12 years for each new habit to be cultivated. Self enquiry – better known as Nidhi dhayasan …
Jun 10
Arunachal
It’s a little difficult to read. Skanda purana is about Kartika Shankar son There are some places where peace naturally abounds
Jun 08
What is the highest achievement?
The highest achievement is “silencing the mind”. You could be the greatest King over all universes but yet compared to the achievement of a Yogi it is nothing A king obviously has money power and all luxuries yet it is nothing compared to a Yogi who has conquered and silenced the vacillations of the mind. …
Jun 03
In Gyaneshwari Gita it is said .… Person eats sinful good
From ~~~ Guru Vachaka Kovai. 82 The Simplicity of Life If some men of abundant wealth were to give up willingly a few of their luxurious modes of living, millions of pitifully suffering poor could live. Since the gracious Lord produces the needful food for all creatures only in the needed quantity, if one consumes …
Jun 03
So true
We have everything necessary in the world today to bring about the millennium. Only man’s selfishness makes it impossible. Tremendous unnecessary suffering is created by man’s shortsighted self-interest. Money that could feed and clothe needy people is used instead for destruction. The root cause of the world’s troubles is this selfishness born of ignorance. Each …
Jun 02
Did Jesus poop?
Heretic ! How could anyone ask or think this question? This is the article https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-jesus-poop Not much to say here. Obviously all those who think or ask or debate this question are not Yogi 😀
Jun 02
Common questions answered
Devotee: Is a Master necessary for realisation?” Mrs. Piggot asked first. Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi: The realisation is the result of the Master’s grace more than teachings, lectures, meditation, etc. They are only secondary aids, whereas the former is the primary and the essential cause. Devotee: What are the obstacles which hinder realisation of the …
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