In one of His aspects, a very touching aspect, the Lord may be said to be a beggar. He yearn for our attention. The master of Universe, at whose glance all stars, suns, moons and planets quiver, is running after man and saying; ‘Won’t you give Me your affection? Don’t you love me, the Giver, more than things I have made for you? Won’t you seek Me?’ But man says; ‘I am too busy now; I have work to do. I can take time to look for You.’ And the Lord says; ‘I will wait.”

~Paramahansa Yogananda

But no one wants to take time to seek god!

Reading the Internet books discussion is not looking for God. Mediation, the right way is

There is no comparison

Wish the fake guru see the life of Ramana maharshi and Feel ashamed

Normally I would call this 101 on quantum computer but it is more like 100

What does it have to do with spirituality?

You saw logic fail in figuring out heads or tail

Quantum computer was 97%

Pure intuition 100%

We want to teach. Spread our “knowledge”

But those who have it all only share a very very limited portion of worthwhile knowledge

Buddha one went to the Forrest. Asked his disciples how many leaves are there in the Forest. He then bent down picked a handful of leaves and gave it to them. And said , I have only shared this much knowledge with you. The rest is still with me!

What a yogi experiences is so much – that all the books put together is still nothing

However , small steps are good. But don’t Be satisfied. Look for more. Be like Buddha. Have so much but share only a little. That too only to those who are willing to walk the path

Happy New Year!

We meditate. We do kriya yoga. We go to mediation camps. Retreats.

Some do mantra. Some do asana. Others chant the name of God. Others dance to the name of God. Others go to places of pilgrimage.

They are all Good

But what is the fastest way? The other ways have a certain charm – an inner appeal – we like it. And Enjoy it

All our activities should be directed to reach God. Pure consciousness. However our past karma and sanskar ( impressions) prevents us from reaching there ! Plus every activity that we do creates more sanskar and karma.

What is to be done?

Yoga. In Yoga , following all steps , a critical step , is awakening of shakti, and essential to that is kevali. Those advanced in mahayoga or siddha yoga or kriya yoga know it well. Do it well.

What is kevali? Well the secret of how it is done has remained a secret. But it is the end result of all paths.

One essential feature of any yoga( kriya, maha or siddha yoga ) is destruction of karma. So with one kriya – when done properly , one future birth karma is destroyed.This is unique to proper practice of yoga. A very specific technique. And some unique experiences. The advanced practitioner, it is said , can see his past and future. And eliminate those seeds before it bears fruit

Yogananda has said this in a few places. One kriya destroys one future birth. So everyone extols it. But do it correctly. However your ego will prevent you from learning it properly. Everyone wants to gather information, imagine they are doing it properly, but they do not want to learn it properly

So everyone to praise the wonderful method. But no one wants to do it ! How sad !

Vivekananda said , when your on the right path, happiness and unhappy situations will occur in rapid sequence. Why ? Many future birth are absorbed

Thus one kevali, is like a new birth with past karma destroyed. And that is a true birthday. True new year

You are your own enemy and you don’t know it. You don’t learn to sit quietly. You don’t learn to give time to God. And you are impatient and expect to attain heaven all at once. You cannot get it by reading books or by listening to sermons or by doing charitable works. You can get it only by giving your time to Him in deep meditation.

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

3 key things

Need for right approach – mediation
Patience – you will not get there overnight. Will take many births
Persistence – in effort is needed constant effort giving up time for non essential things

Guess who prevents us from these things.

Our own mind. Our laziness. Our lack of faith. Lack of persistence

But those who can do all those they are their best friend

In Gita it is said –

hapter 6, Verse 5

hapter 6, Verse 5
A man must elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.

Chapter 6, Verse 6

Chapter 6, Verse 6
For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be the greatest enemy.

Sadly life after Life is wasted. So unfortunate

And then people make excuses for not meditating

At some point all that you have will go

Your health
Your family – parents, spouse friends
Your Rub of good luck will go
Your body will go

You just can’t hold on to it. But you can hold on to God.
But that requires constant practice. 24/7. No exception.

So pick your side. Your battle

Friendly side – God and meditation
Enemy side – holding on to material things

Let the battle begin!

Seems amazing and true. And is true

Yet, yet Jesus was full of love and peace. Yet he had acts of cruelty against him The pace did not reach the spiritually dead king

Same with Krishna – the evil could not open their eyes

But in the life of Ramkrishna – almost all felt peace
Same with Gyaneshwar Maharaj. Sure there were times when the general public was cruel to him
Such immense peace was present around Mohangiri Maharaj.

Enlightening. The power of aum

Only the liberated can fully grasp this

The joy of remaining liberated – chidananda – is unmatched. Compared to that all happiness in this world is painful.

We may believe staying in samadhi – deep mediation – without food etc for years together is painful / tapa. Contrary to what we believe those are great saints who are permitted to remain in samadhi prefer that status to everything. Yogananda said, in his next Life he will come back but most of his early life he will remain in samadhi. The later few years he will help others

Hence Ramana maharshi made this bold statement

https://www.inverse.com/article/61940-ancient-human-four-species-mating-mixing

Top stories in 2019

There was a bottle neck. Significant upheaval in earths geological system

From Discover magazine /astronomy

Around 70,000 years ago, a supervolcano named Toba erupted, blowing roughly 670 cubic miles (2,800 cubic kilometers) of vaporized rock and debris into the air. This is thought to have caused a massive struggle for humanity, ultimately leading to a population bottleneck that whittled down our numbers to as few as 1,000 reproductive adults. According to a 2015 study, during this pivotal point in human history, a small reddish star also was likely passing within a light-year of the Sun, just skimming the outer rim of the Oort cloud (the extended shell of over a trillion icy objects that is thought to cocoon the outer solar system).

Previously, astronomers believed that this wandering star — dubbed Scholz’s star — passed relatively peacefully by the Oort cloud, influencing very few (if any) outer solar system objects. But, according to a new study, researchers now think that Scholz’s star may have caused more of a ruckus than we initially gave it credit for.

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And now with popularity growth – what has happened?

Terrible things. Humans. We have no honesty. Pure greed. Lust. Laziness. Uncaring towards other humans.

So what do law makers do ? Create law.

Thereby is the stupidity of humans. Laws don’t change people.

Spirituality does. Eventually. If the person wants it.

But no one wants it.

So there we have it. A chaotic world.

But let’s not forget to blame God

I am usually reluctant to share deep secrets

What is full concentration?

Is it just thinking? No. The moment you try to stop thoughts they wander off.
Why our emotions and desires force the mind away
So emotions and desires and thinking – they all create problems. And let’s say there are rare moments in life – where you desire God, your thoughts are on God and you love God – yet the mind wanders off. What caused it?

It is prana. So control of prana with thoughts , desires and emotions is full concentration. All of it together and then it is very quick

Yogananda talked about it in God talk with Arjuna and Yogendra Vigyani said it in Mahayoga vigyan. The Bible talks about it in parables. Gita says it . Only a Guru can share the more in-depth secrets

The corollary is without this full concentration whatever else you do, you cannot go to perfection! Ever. This is the ultimate secret

REMOVING THE BLOCKS TO DEEPER LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

The mind as an instrument for tapping the power of God is limitless; I want to emphasize this to you all, as Paramahansaji did to those of us around him….Years ago he told us (and psychologists nowadays would certainly agree) that chronic worry, fear, nervous tension, and the other negative emotions—guilt, hate, jealousy, bitterness—close off the channels through which wisdom and healing flow from the deeper levels of consciousness. People become so tense and anxiety-ridden in struggling with their problems that they get emotionally “hung up.”

So when we have tried everything possible to solve our problem and nothing seems to do any good, the wisest course is simply this: Relax. Stop trying to deal with it through the limited human resources of the rational mind, which has brought you to your present state of frustration and tension. Surrender to the Divine with one hundred faith and trust. In other words, “Let go and let God.”

–Sri Daya Mataji (Intuition: Soul-Guidance for Life’s Decisions, p53-54)

A word of caution though. Let’s say you have an important exam. If the only thing that motivates you to study is stress, then you should focus on learning two things. Do the right thing and not having stress. You can’t say I will be worry free and God will take care of my exam.

That would be quite silly!

Here is an exciting video about mars

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2017/03/stunning-video-mars-took-three-months-stitch-together-hand/amp

But when the asteroid hit earth, it destroyed the dinosaurs. 75% of species gone

Some of the earth material with bacteria floated into space and many landed on titan one of the moons – which has water

Could we have seeded live elsewhere?

Or could nature or God populate other places independently

Would they believe in Christ ? Or krishna or other religions?

Or would they consider us weak fools for believing in it?

So our goal should be God. A Long path. On rare occasions, a minority number of people may have access to a true Guru. Only a handful of them will be blessed with an awakening Ref Gita

Chapter 7. Verse 3

Without an awakening one cannot leave. But what is worse is that even those with an awakening, only a few may escape.

Why is that?

Past karma
Their own mind creating doubts. And they end up debating or battling the mind. Instead stop the internal hankering and just go straight within.

The doubts of mind – dogs
Hankerings – throwing stones

But this is equally true for real life. Don’t let the critics – your friends , spouse, enemies bother you

We live in stress. We live in fear. We live in illusion. An illusion of happiness

This is with Vasistha Maharaj said

Why go through the pain Why boy wake up that God is everywhere. Supporting everyone. Nourishing everyone. Loving everyone.

Just be pure. Then you can see it for yourself. Not just imagine it

From ~~~ Ramana Periya Puranam, Echammal.

V. Ganesan ;

Echammal lived with her children and husband not far away from Tiruvannamalai. One night, she had a dream in which a young ascetic with a loin cloth and clean shaven head said something which she could not understand. Within a few days after the dream, she lost her husband, her son and one of her two daughters. A few days later, the same boy appeared again in her dream and recited a Sanskrit mantra which she could not follow. When she went to dream interpreters, all they would say was, “God is blessing you.” Feeling utterly lost, she wanted to go back to the village of her childhood with her only remaining daughter. When she was leaving, the third dream came. In the third dream, this same boy said, “Please return to the hill and disappear. You have lived your lives. Your three lives are over.” Even before she came to him, Bhagavan cleared Echammal‟s three apparent births through these three dreams!
After she went to her village, her second daughter who was ten or eleven also died. She could no longer bear the burden of her sorrow. Some of her relatives advised her to go on a yatra – a pilgrimage. Searching for solace, she left for North India. There she met sadhus, served them and gave them food. One of the sadhus initiated her into ashtanga yoga. He gave her a mantra and told her to concentrate on the tip of her nose. However, none of these worked. She still felt burdened with sorrow. When she returned to her village, a relative said, “At Arunachala, there is a young ascetic. He may not speak, but by serving him and being in his proximity you will receive his grace.” The very next day, she went to Tiruvannamalai. It was 1906 and Bhagavan was in Virupaksha cave. She went to have his darshan and Bhagavan looked at her for nearly an hour. She stood in front of Bhagavan with tears rolling down from her eyes. He had tears streaming down his own face as well. Not a single word transpired between them, but she felt an immense power, a mysterious force that seemed to keep her immobilized. Miraculously, there was not a drop of sorrow left in her.
She felt the grace and took a vow that she would feed this ascetic all her life.

This is grace from such high beings

Well , we may never find the answer to this question

Historians and philosophers have tried to explain why people suffer. Often times we could say the reason is obvious

A smoker dies of lung cancer. Obvious maybe

But an infant having autism or born blind ?

What About young people dying young or having bad diseases ?

Why does God let them suffer? Maybe there is no God. Maybe the religions and priests created a concept to give us a method to cope ?

Anyway be it as it may the answer may be elusive.

I have suffered from certain ailments also. Once I cried intensely and then God showed me why the suffering was there. This had happened more than once.

So maybe there is a just God. But I still disapprove of his methods.

Well the right question to ask God is – no you don’t ask God s why you suffer. What we should ask for is God help me cope with it. Guide me through my pain and suffering and insecurity.

I have asked God for pain and suffering. It helped me a lot in life – to form a permanent connection with God. The world can be deceptive. And can be evil. My Allegiance is to God

What is to be done when we pray for God supporting hand and don’t get it? We pray more. After all if there is a God he knows what is best.

I still disagree with his methods. So I extend my love to those who need it!

Well it is kind of individual isn’t it?

I like to reserve Joy as something divine

So here goes my viewpoint

Joy – divine How do you know it is divine? What is the sign? It is something that you will not tire of. You can remain immersed in samadhi for tens of thousands of years and never get tired of it.

Happiness – you get tired of it after a while. At least for a short time. For example food – you will get tired of the same food after a while. Same thing with sex. Same with company. After a while you just want to be by yourself for a while.

But you will never get tired of God. If you get tired of mediation, tired of prayer, tired of God – you have not reached the real thing!

Imagine you die and go to heaven. Think you can be in heaven for eternity say playing a harp and floating on a cloud? Or something like that?

Something is missing. That something is an actual connection with God

This is what Yogananda said

DECEMBER – 26 SRF DIARY – CHRISTMAS

And so, dear ones, my Christmas will go on forever, in

ever increasing joy everlasting, If this joy were limited, as worldly

happiness is, a time would come when all would be finished. But

no saint will ever be able to exhaust the ever-new bliss of God.

—Paramahansa Yogananda, “ Man’s Eternal Quest “

When tilling ground for the cultivation of crops, one needs patience to destroy all useless weeds; and to wait, even though the ground then appears barren, until the hidden good seeds sprout into plants. It requires still more patience to clear the field of consciousness that is overgrown with weeds of useless attachments to sense pleasures, which are very difficult to uproot. Yet when the field of consciousness is cleared, and sown with seeds of good qualities, plants of noble activities sprout forth, yielding abundantly the fruits of real happiness. Above all, have patience to seek communion with God through deep meditation and to become acquainted with your indestructible soul, hidden within your perishable earthly body.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

The weeds are the problem. It takes and ways the nourishment provided by Mother Earth and does not leave much for the soul to grow.

What are the weeds?

Lack of faith
Craving material things like money food and sex

How does lack of faith manifest?

Worries and anxiety

Are money food and sex that bad?

Initially one needs just enough to sustain the body and let us meditate worry free
In the final stages they are abandoned too

Let’s say your going to climb Mount Everest. And you have a book which tells you how to get there. The directions are very incomplete. But not to worry! You have a teacher who can tell you exactly what the language in the book means and how you can climb Mount Everest ! Fantastic. Your Set

Except that the teacher or priest you have had never climbed Mount Everest!

That is the sad state of religions ! Some claim Bible is the only true book. It is the word of God
Others claim it is the Torah. A book which was created before time.
Others say it is the Gita or Vedas
Same thing With Koran

Everyone has a firm belief in their books. After all that is what they were told since childhood and then Reinforced by their respective religious teacher!

And that’s when conflict occurs

Now take a simple person like Vivekananda. No books. Just found a teacher. He asked him have you seen God and can you show him to me ? And it was done. Within a few years. No books. No discussion. Just realization.

So what will it be?
God or debates and discussion?

A boy came one time and asked, “Maharajji, did Jesus really get angry?” As soon as Maharajji heard the word “Jesus,” tears came to his eyes. He was sitting up when the question was asked, and he leaned over on his elbow and tapped his heart three times with tears coming down from his eyes. There was total silence for a moment. Maharajji had brought the reality of Christ into everyone’s consciousness, and he said, “Christ never got angry. When he was crucified he felt only love. Christ was never attached to anything; he even gave away his own body.” And at that point everyone was crying—we had gone through the complete Passion of Christ. And all of a sudden he sat up and said, “The mind can travel a million miles in the blink of an eye—Buddha said that.”

That was Neem Karoli Baba

In a second he went back and touched the entire life of Jesus before he replied

That is mediation and prayer and love. Seeing his life he cried with love

Reading and listening does not Give experience
One must make the mammoth task of silencing the mind.

Like it says in the Bible – Be still and know that I am

This silliness is absolute stillness of the mind. Of all emotions. All logic.

Then in an instant – God or pure consciousness dawns.

Few will make that effort. They want to chant. Listen. Praise God. But those things don’t impress God.

He wants your absolute attention – and that is achieved only when the mind is silent.

I never go or listen. I find it painful. Why leave the sanctuary of God within me to hear some fool talk about his imagination how God should could or would Be?

All I can say is Go within. Reach him within. He is eager to meet but first silence your mind.

Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac in the mount of Moriah This was in Genesis 22

Abraham means enlightenment
Moriah is gyana Bhumi – knowledge in sense of knowing first hand which is experience
Isaac means happiness / laugh/ pleasure

Our thoughts are our children /son Children constantly seek something to play or enjoy. We created them. Destroy them. Don’t paint a picture of God with your mind. He is far far more beautiful than what we can ever imagine.

Of course there is a much deeper meaning to the story.

His name was Jesus and Christ was more of a title. A description of someone anointed or someone who has achieved a certain spiritual level. In those days, last names did not exist.
It is doubtful that such titles were given to many

He was born in Bethlehem. (Bethelehem meaning house of bread or place of nourishment – suspect it refers to nourishment for the sou. In the passage of time, the divine meaning gets lost, I suspect) In a manger. No one knows when he was born – the month. Various people have interpreted the month anywhere from December to January to April. I do not think this matter will be clarified anytime in the near future

3 wise men from the east followed a falling star that lead them to Jesus. Yogananda interprets the Star as Agna chakra the chakra in the forehead. Did they come to bless him ? Or did they come to receive his blessings?

Jesus father was a carpenter and was assigned the work of making a throne for the King. When it was about to be delivered, Joseph had a hard time assembling it. He had made a mistake in the dimensions. Jesus was only 5 and he came over and touched the throne – and all problems were resolved.

At the age of 12, Jesus left Jerusalem. The word comes from Yeru meaning make and shalom yiddish for complete. Make complete. Perhaps a city where people are made perfect. This is of course my interpretation but sadly, the current day places are no longer as great as described in the meaning

Where Jesus went, no one knows. Nicolas Notovitch a Russian historian is of the strong opinion that he went to India. There are a few indirect clues that this maybe correct. Yogananda believed it to be true. He believes Jesus met Babaji. There is a picture of Jesus carved out in the stones of a famous temple called Jagannath Puri in India.

The lost years span from around the age of 12 to 29. After that he revealed himself for 2 years till his crucifixion. the Bible – is basically a version of things and the life of Jesus for those 2 words. Many things are repeated based on different view points of his disciples

Originally there were 13 but Judas betrayed him. All the disciples were poor and did not have a high social or economic status. Even his disciples did not fully know his greatness. That came about much later..

Jesus did not reveal the name of his Guru or much about his missing years. Thus, much misunderstanding started.

The question of reincarnation is a constant debate. Debate to some but a firm conviction to many. Yogananda believed Jesus was Elijah in the past and his guru Elisha was John the Baptist. This was in the last birth. There is quote, – Elijah has already come. He was referring to John the Baptist. There are other quotes that refer to reincarnation but such matters are settled emotionally rather than going deep into meditation

A few salient points about his life

1. His teacher was never revealed
2. His missing years remains a matter of controversy to the historians
3. His disciples were not reach and had low status. Surely Jesus could have attracted the rich and powerful but they were not worth his while. Current day teachers, priests and Guru are interested only in the rich and famous.
4. He knew Judas would betray him on the first day he met him. Yet he gave him al his love. Judas did not get liberation for another 800 years tilll he was born again in Bhuvaneshwar in India. Even in his last birth he remained greedy about money
5. The last night – garden of Gethsemane – Jesus prayed all night. His disciples were weak and could not stay up all night to meditate. Thus Jesus said, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
6. Jesus worshipped his disciples that last night, knowing it would be the last time he will meet them
7. Jesus asked for the crucifixion to be changed but God denied him
8. He reappeared in 3 days to Mary but would not let her touch him, – his body was not fully materialized.
9. Jesus came back another time on the day of tongues
10. He came back one more time to St Paul as he was escaping Rome when he was threatened to crucifixion. Since Jesus was going to take Pauls place, Paul was ashamed and asked he be crucified upside down
11. The Jesus was crucified 2 other thieves were crucified too. Jesus gave salvation to one other thief. This thief was a great Yogi in the past but slipped. Jesus delivered him in the last moments, even as Jesus was suffering. (This came from Vivekananda)
12. Jesus suffered a lot. He was not in the center but on the extreme left. The soldiers finally pierced his heart with a spear and finally Jesus was able to leave the body
13. There are stories about his shroud being found. I suspect this may not be authentic
14. Elijah and Elisha had great powers. There were around the time of Abraham.
15. The second coming of Christ is difficult to understand. Yogananda believes his second coming is in the depth of our meditations
16. Jesus was a yogi. Many things he talked about refer to secret methods of meditation. These secrets are not revealed.

Of course a lot of these things are my version / interpretation. I have no desire to get into a debate or challenge anyone in their view points. I respect them just as much.

Many secrets are hidden in the Bible – the chapter of revelations, the story of David and the Goliath are in essence a perfect Yoga description.

Until we know ourself all actions have some fault. Why? There is some personal gain or benefit that we seek

One anchored in oneself the action is always perfect. Untainted. Without fault. Why? It is divinely directed

In the words of mother ( aurobindo )

Don’t ever take lightly all the circumstances of each day, all the tiny little things of life, all the small events, you know; never take all this lightly. Never react with your lower being. Each time you are told to do something or not to do it – you are not told this very often, but each time you are told, before reacting think a little, try to find in yourself the part which reacts. Do not react just like that with what is most commonplace in you. Enter within yourself, try to find the best in yourself and with this you must react. It is very important, it is very important.

There are people who mark time for years because they haven’t done this. There are others who seem to fly, so fast do they go, because they pay attention to this. And those who don’t do that throw the blame always on the Divine. They accuse the Grace. They tell her, “It is You who deceived me, it is You who put me into difficulty, it is You who made me stumble, it is You who are a monster”, not exactly in these words, but their thought is like this. And so, naturally, they make their case worse because they push away even the help they could have had in their difficulty. There we are.

The Mother, Questions and Answers 1954, CWM volume 6, pages 444 – 445.

What does it mean?

Circumstances in life – even the smallest one – come in our daily life so we can correct ourself Not often, but it does happen, someone will tell you not to do something or tell you to do something. For example, your spouse may tell you not to go to store now, we will go together later. Now your heart was set on going and this comes up. What do you do ?
First thing to do is to observe carefully your own reaction. Are you Angry or upset? Is the anger directed to the spouse that she or he constantly bosses you ? Or is it because you suddenly wanted to leave the house? Or is it could be a reaction – great !- I don’t have to go alone Here there is a problem of you not wanting to do the chore. In any event look and figure out your reaction. Gently correct it Your reaction.

This would be the beginning of learning how to be pure. Or learning to have witness attitude – sakshi bhav.

Our mind is bombard constantly with reaction. If only, you Learn to correct your reaction, improve yourself, then in many ways it would be like constant mediation. **Dont be under the illusion it is easy. Many times your mind will tire. You will feel why me? This is not fair. I airways end up enduring and giving up. If that is your lot , your destiny JUST ENDURE. There is no other way out. God knows the perfect situations you need to correct yourself

These steps are the first steppe yoga that are called Yama and niyama**

Without doing the first steps, you cannot really go to any of the deeper steps. Try as you may

Without exception, God constantly pulls us back to him. However, initially he does not talk. But later he will talk. Just as clearly as reading my blog. Without ambiguity

No matter how you react, the circumstances in life will not change. So why not react perfectly by not reacting – get a few million extra favors from God?

Remember, your life goal is to escape. Not to remain a slave to circumstances or senses or your mind. Do you have what it takes to do it?

Just correct yourself. Then you help others just by being. Silence.

Illusion or bondage is easy to break!

Here is the trick

Destroy your desires

The Mountain Path is a quarterly Journal founded in 1964
by Arthur Osborne and published by Sri Ramanasramam.

To access the past issues in pdf format, from 1964 to 2016, click below :

Ramana maharshi 1879-1950

Between 1850 to 1950 there was an abundance of very great perfected liberated mahatmas

The average reader only knows a few Famous ones. However the number of hidden ones is substantially higher. They were in many ways helping and shaping the destiny of many others – in ways we cannot fathom

Those who chose not reveal themselves play a more significant role than we can imagine. Why? Once exposed, they are constantly bombarded by petty requests of worldly people. No Doubt worldly people suffer and need help but these great saints are mostly interested in those who don’t want any material gain in this world. This includes lack of interests in food money fame sex etc.

Since most people are only interested in those things the great saints remain hidden

I participate in activities of the world but can’t wait till I have permission to give it all up and stay in a cave

Ramana maharshi has major health issues since he was in his 20’s.

Yet he remained unmoved throughout his life. He practiced what he preached. Completely

During his last weeks he suffered From cancer? Pain. At that time Neem karoli Baba helped him – relieved his pain in the last few minutes

Escaping is not that Easy!

The firmness of ones adherence to the high status is tested during suffering

So everyone reads about – loving everyone. Helping others. I just published a list of wonderful things about Ram Dass.

However when does that kind of love appear? Let us keep reading it That is no doubt one of the highest aspiration of life. one must constantly strive to achieve that

But the yogi Know a secret. That love is a constant feature of yoga and meditation.

When does that love appear?

When you realize the universe is in you. Experience that. Not a miniature imaginary universe. But this external universe that you see. when you can truly give up the body consciousness and the ego you learn to expand. This is the true self. Once that is achieved love for all is but only natural

This is the love Jesus showed This is the love Buddha showed. This is the love gyaneshwar Maharaj showed. This is the love Ramkrishna had.

Reach there! My challenge to you. Don’t be stuck up in this body

A few thoughts on the matter

Thoughts cease – elimination of the mind
Reason to disappear – elimination of intellect or brain
I to rise up and be felt – here there is a secret mantra and technique

It’s there. But the great sages often speak in seeming riddles

Why? They are not riddles. Our ego and error riddled thought process makes it seem that way

His top 10 quotes from mind body

	Be here, now."
	"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."
	"The next message you need is always right where you are."
	"If you think you're enlightened, go spend a week with your family."
	"Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings."
	"I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day."
	"The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love."
	" [Unconditional love](https://www.ramdass.org/category/love/)  really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.'"
	"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."
	"We're fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them."


Seems fantastic. But how do you convince someone in pain that it’s good for you?
An uncle of mine lost his 40 year old son. Yes sure – is what he needed. Now go and use that and comfort him saying is needed for him ! Terrible. There is a time and place for everything

Love someone for loves sake. Very lofty thoughts or ideas. But how do you convince your mind ?

Lofty ideas are quoted by many. What is needed is how does one reach there?

That is then the beginning of the path. And there are tricks to it !

Many people say he took Samadhi. Such words diminish the greatness of something very divine. Very rare. Death is not samadhi. Samadhi is something very specific
I have written about it in my blogs elsewhere

If we use the mind properly, we can understand how God is beyond mind and intellect; and how His true nature can be felt only through the power of intuition. We must find His consciousness through the superconscious mind – the nucleus of mind and intelligence. His infinite nature is revealed to man through the intuitive superconsciousness. The joy felt in meditation reveals the presence of Eternal Joy spread over all creation. The light seen in meditation is the astral light from which our tangible creation is made. Beholding this light, one feels a unity with all things.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

What is intuition?
How do you cultivate it?

We think we know the answer.

Intuition – is it the little voice in us? NO. Most often the little voice in us is our mind or internal dialogue. It is something we simply know? Yes that’s more like it. It is something that just pops up but from lack of mediation our imagination and logic runs with it

How to cultivate? – simple. Be pure. Learn not to think or imagine Meditation

How to be pure? Purity is loving God And God alone. Yes it does mean loss of cravings for the body – including sex food even sleep. Takes time. Such people would rather not talk with anyone.

Shankaracharya Maharaj wrote Vivek chudamani

Vivek – discrimination
Chudamani – crown jewel

What is discrimination or Vivek ? What is Atman or self. What is the non self ? Illusion of reality.

To know the difference is the crown jewel.

Or the crown jewel of discrimination is knowing self from non self

You know discrimination but have you experienced it?

People talk about the heart
Besides the physical heart noted to Dr in the left side is there any other heart?
Is it metaphorical?

Here Ramana Maharshi talks about a different heart. A real heart in which the physical body resides?

There are great Yogis who can create multiple universes – fully functional in the sense we know. And destroy them too

Such Yogi have been described in Hindu scriptures

But we can’t believe it

Why?

We were born in a cage !

Those who have experience know what I am talking about

But this experience is at the highest level

In ancient days – it was sat yuga then. At that time the number of people who wanted liberation was a lot more.

At that time for the true aspirant they had a system called Gurukool. Children at the age of 5 were sent over to be raised by a teacher. What did he teach ?

The art of mediation.

As time passed by the number of true aspirants dwindled. The gurukul tradition continued and they started teaching them worldly knowledge.

And now the tradition is no more.

Depends. Which category are you in

The mind constantly looks for a source of happiness of pleasure. In its ignorance it can only seek happiness in food, fame, outings, shopping, etc. Little does it know there is joy within!
It’s like a piece of clay that only thinks happiness is becoming an idol, or famous figurine nicely decorated but forgets that the real joy is becoming the potter.

This is why I don’t advertise
I have told a few people about this blog. But no one wants to read
Rarely is anyone serious about finding God

Many would debate Yogananda. Same with Vivekananda.

Do you tend of thousands of purple heard Vivekananda. However he only had 2-3 disciples. Everyone else was not given much. They rest were not serious!

This true experience is indeed very rare. Wake up. Be serious. Have tears in your eyes. Have regret that why do I not have the true experience that destroys sadness, fear and destroys the need for any book or scripture

There is much more knowledge than all books put together within. Find it. Experience it. Don’t be a fool waste your life thinking you can reach there without a Guru A true Guru.

They usually are very picky. They want a sincere true disciple. Not a million

Do not think that you can comprehend the infinite Lord by reason. Reason can grasp only the cause-effect principle that pertains to the phenomenal worlds. Reason is powerless to understand transcendental truth and the nature of the Causeless Absolute. Man’s highest faculty is not reason but intuition: apprehension of knowledge derived immediately and spontaneously from the soul, not from the fallible medium of the senses or reason.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

That intuition is a gift from a Guru.

Depends on his wish. It can be all revealing or temporary. However it gives faith in Yoga

A Guru with no intuition is not a true Guru nor a yogi. Such a Guru can help no one

However there are many many higher states than intuition.

But let’s learn to crawl first!!!

Tamas is one is one of the reason why a person fails to grasp the subtleties of spirituality

It’s overwhelming influence makes one love sleep. Be lazy. Humans are skillful and they hide their laziness in a variety of ways including procrastination, excuses etc

This gives unreasonable anger but it guises itself with defiant indignation.

I see the works of the politicians in many parts of the world. Many are full of this and they abuse their Power

Such people are generally thrown into lessor worlds where misery is the rule.

Most People have a combination of Tamas plus Rajas plus sattwa. Thus they come back to earth instead of going to demonic worlds.

The demonic worlds are truly scary

The self

The atman

Where is it.

Everywhere.

Every part and cell of your body

And there are states much higher than this !

1. Disciple has to be worthy. Totally dedicated to finding truth
2. Few get initiation. Many visited.
3. A Guru why has thousands of disciples offers nothing. Followers can be many
4. Ramana maharshi looked in the eye to give initiation How can you get initiation in a crowd Unless there is eye contract our sole other contract
5. The results of initiation – with light visions are common
6. Don’t be satisfied with imaginary initiation