Many visited Ramana. Few received initiation
Here is an account of initiation

**** Arthur Osborne ***

Arthur Osborne came to Ramana Maharshi only in 1945. He stayed with the master for only five years. But years do not matter.

Though Bhagavan‟s spiritual message was meant for the whole world, Arthur Osborne was the English voice, the western voice, you may even call him the modern voice, to carry and spread Bhagavan‟s direct teaching of atma vichara – Self Enquiry all over the world. Arthur Osborne played a most important part in this. We are going to share how Bhagavan chose him and pointedly matured him in the direct teaching of Self Enquiry. While in the body, Bhagavan matured Osborne spiritually through his look, presence and various other ways. After Bhagavan dropped the body, he made Osborne carry on this mission through dreams. From the beginning, Bhagavan, in his own mysterious, mystical, but simple and natural way, drew Arthur Osborne from his childhood for the sole purpose of spreading his direct teaching. In this whole drama of Arthur Osborne and Ramana Maharshi, I too had a part to play though I was not aware that I had been chosen. Arthur Osborne single-handedly shouldered the responsibility of upholding the direct teaching of Bhagavan through his life and his brilliant writing.

He had the rare combination of intellectual clarity, intuition and poetical ability to express what he had already experienced. It was as though the direct teaching of Bhagavan was broken and simplified in the prism of this chosen direct disciple‟s true understanding and handed down to all those who have a lesser capacity to grasp it. Arthur Osborne‟s devotion to Bhagavan was complete and he gave to Bhagavan his whole life together with his many and varied talents. All these he gave without any reserve and without any thought of himself.

It was in 1960 that I came to Arunachala to stay permanently. After an illness of three months I completely recovered and said that I am dedicating myself totally to Ramanasramam. In the 1960s, there were only ten people or so living in the whole ashram. When I arrived, Osborne was standing with open arms under the illupai tree. It felt as if Bhagavan himself was receiving me with a smile of appreciation and acceptance of my decision. That one look, that one smile of Arthur Osborne, made my life flower into total dedication to spiritual life. He said “Welcome, Ganesan! We all knew that you will return here to your home. Arunachala is our home and Bhagavan is our mother. Ask Arunachala, ask Bhagavan, only one boon, „Give me Self realization.‟ Do not ask for mundane things because he will certainly give whatever you ask for. He is a great giver. If you ask for a wife, house, property, power and position he will most assuredly give it to you, in greater measure as well. But then, he will send you away from Arunachala. If you ask for Self realization and nothing else, he will retain you here and give himself to you. Arunachala is Self realization, the pinnacle of jnana. Welcome home, Ganesan! Be happy.” Who uttered these words? Not just an ordinary person, a westerner and an intellectual, but one who had stayed unmoved from Arunachala, keeping Arunachala in his Heart. Of course, all these are true!

These are glorious words and we must preserve it in our Heart. Great men‟s words are true all the time, to all, under all conditions. Who was Arthur Osborne? He was born in London in 1906. His father was a school head master and his mother was a simple, pious lady interested in poetry and gardening. Osborne inherited these two traits from his mother. He wanted to be a gardener, a farmer, all his life. But his father put him in Oxford and he came out brilliantly with ten gold medals. He fulfilled his parent‟s desires. But all his life he remained a lover of poetry and gardening. All his spiritual experiences, apart from those that happened in the presence of Bhagavan, took place in his garden. From his childhood, he sought the deeper and higher purpose, the meaning of life.

He told me that even as a small child playing in the grounds, he felt worldly living was meaningless. He could not share this feeling with anybody. The words of Jesus Christ were his only support: “He who seeks shall find.” He told me this made him a seeker after truth all his life. At a particular stage, he came across the writings of the French philosopher Rene Guenon and he was thrilled because Rene Guenon‟s teaching was, “Being is one.” He immediately felt that this teaching was the truth. His restlessness and discontent over the futility of worldly living dropped off with the realization that life has, after all, a meaning. This is what he shared, “If being is one and there is no other, then I cannot be any other than that one being. Therefore, to realize one‟s true being is to realize the identity with that absolute one being. It was the beginning of my quest, a quest from which I never swerved or turned aside.” This was even before he knew anything about Bhagavan.

Then he met Lucia, fell in love with her and married her. Both of them had similar aspirations in life as she was also searching for the truth. They were guided by Rene Guenon to another guru who gave them a very rigorous sadhana of chanting incantations which they followed meticulously. During that time, being a keen intellectual in addition to being a seeker, Osborne studied and even practiced simultaneously, the tenets of Sufism, Buddhism, Christianity and Vedanta, gaining mystical erudition in all of them. And look at the beauty – all this prepared him for the finale.

He then got a job in the University of Bangkok in Thailand and took his wife and three children there. Wherever he went, he was always in contact with members of Rene Guenon‟s group. One of the members, David McIver, sent them a photograph of Ramana Maharshi and two of Bhagavan‟s books. He also cautioned them that Ramana Maharshi was not a guru as he did not give initiations or accept anyone as a disciple.

But Arthur and Lucia Osborne were captivated by the picture of Bhagavan and desired to go to India and meet Ramana Maharshi. Being a very hot summer, they first went to Kashmir where they were met by David McIver who also owned a cottage opposite to Ramanasramam. After spending a few weeks, Osborne had to go back to Bangkok. Fortunately, David invited Mrs. Osborne and the three children and took them to Tiruvannamalai. When Osborne went to Bangkok, the Second World War broke out and the Japanese arrested him and put him in jail. For three and a half years he was in jail. Arthur Osborne‟s only solace was Bhagavan‟s picture and the two books. When the Japanese came to arrest him from the university campus, some urge prompted him to take these three things. While in the prison camp, he created and tended to a very nice garden. His personality, and his talks there, drew many people to him.

One among them was Louis Hurst, who came to Bhagavan after the Second World War. Far away in Tiruvannamalai, Mrs. Osborne had by then already got Bhagavan‟s darshan. The moment she saw Bhagavan‟s eyes – Bhagavan gave her a pointed look – she felt absolutely transformed. Bhagavan took care of Mrs. Osborne and the children and paid special attention to them. To her husband in prison, Mrs. Osborne wrote about how Bhagavan‟s eyes had the innocence of a small child together with the unfathomable wisdom and immense love of a sage. Meanwhile, the children prayed to Bhagavan, “Bhagavan, we are writing letters to our father but we do not know whether he is alive or not. Please keep him alive and bring him back soon.” Osborne told me that when he was in the prison, prominent British prisoners were sometimes taken away and executed. When the special force came to take Osborne, everyone knew that he was going to be shot.

Osborne told me, “The last thing I looked at was Bhagavan‟s picture and the two books. When I was taken in front of the firing squad, I closed my eyes. I did not pray to Bhagavan but Bhagavan‟s picture came to my mind and for some unknown reason they released me and put me in a concentration camp.” While he was suffering, his children back in Tiruvannamalai were going on praying to Bhagavan for their father‟s safe return. Bhagavan never gave an answer until the war ended. The day when Osborne was released along with the first batch of forty prisoners, his son Adam‟s prayers were answered by Bhagavan: “Yes, Adam‟s father is coming back.” When he came to Arunachala, Osborne was in a debilitated mental state because of the torture in the concentration camp. Intellectuals were tortured to brainwash them.

When Bhagavan was told about Osborne‟s imminent return by train, his attendant, T. P. Ramachandra Iyer, on seeing Bhagavan‟s concern, asked, “May I also go?” Bhagavan replied, “Yes, you also go.” So, Bhagavan‟s representative was also there when Osborne was brought back. The only person he could recognize in his poor mental condition was his wife. She came crying to Bhagavan. Bhagavan told her, “Please bring Osborne here morning and evening and make him sit where I can see him.” This happened till he became completely alright and even afterwards. Osborne told me, “Bhagavan saw to it that I sat where he could see me. One day, when two or three people came and sat between me and Bhagavan, he even asked those people to sit elsewhere so that he could see me, which was very, very unusual for him.”

However, Bhagavan did not reveal himself to Osborne on the very first day. Some days later, on a festive occasion, Bhagavan concentrated his attention on Osborne and the change came with all its immensity. This is how Osborne describes it: “Bhagavan sat up facing me and his luminous eyes pierced into me, penetrating intimately with an intensity which I cannot describe. Then arose from within, a quietness, a depth of peace and an indescribable lightness and happiness.” This is what is written in the book. What Arthur Osborne himself told me was, “Two search lights came into my body and then divinized every cell in it and that was the first initiation and the first realization”.

After this, Osborne began to understand what the grace and blessings of a guru could be. It was this initiation by look that vitalized him and made him follow Sri Bhagavan‟s teaching of Self Enquiry, a quest for which his intellectual bent of mind was perfectly suited. Bhagavan poured his love and attention continuously on him. Osborne was very meticulous and regular, coming every morning and evening as he went deeper and deeper within. He fully understood what Bhagavan meant by saying that the only purpose of the outer guru was to invoke the inner guru. When he came to Bhagavan, he was again told by McIver that Bhagavan was not a guru and he never gave initiation or accepted disciples. Osborne now felt that if Bhagavan was not a guru there was no meaning for the word guru at all. Bhagavan had given him initiation by look which transformed him and made him a disciple. So, there was no question about Bhagavan not having disciples. The constant practice of Self Enquiry began to awaken an awareness of the Self as Bhagavan outwardly and simultaneously as the Self within.

Osborne understood, and said, that the specious theory that Bhagavan was not a guru simply evaporated in the full radiance of his grace. This intiation and its consequences changed the course of his spiritual life. He could no more practice his earlier methods of sadhana. He was a little disturbed about this and sought Bhagavan‟s permission to drop them. Bhagavan gave it immediately saying, “Yes, all other methods only lead to Self Enquiry.” The moment for the final decision came. He was staying with Bhagavan when the British government announced that all the released British prisoners of war in India would be accommodated in Britain with all comforts. The British High Commission sent letter after letter to the Osbornes about this. They did not even show these letters to Bhagavan to ask him his opinion. They were certain that they did not want to leave Bhagavan and go anywhere else. When the last ship was to leave India for Britian, the British High Commissioner sent a telegram to alert them. Mrs. Osborne told me that she did not even feel like taking this telegram to Bhagavan because it was already confirmed for them that Bhagavan was their sole refuge and that there was no other worldly life than staying with Bhagavan. But, Osborne was a family man and had to earn a little money. So he got a job in Chennai as an editor in a reputed daily newspaper.

Though he did not want to go, he had to. Before he left for Chennai, one of his friends gave him an oil portrait of Bhagavan. He took it to Bhagavan who holding it in his hands said, “Osborne is taking swami with him.” That portrait, Osborne told me, looked at him with the love and compassion of a guru and spoke more profoundly than all the other pictures of Bhagavan. This adorned his room and whenever he wanted to make any decision, he would first look at that portrait and only then decide. Every holiday and free day, he would rush back to Tiruvannamalai – to Bhagavan and his family. When he came, Bhagavan used to pay special attention to him. Once, after Bhagavan‟s second operation on his arm, Osborne came unexpectedly in some friend‟s car. Bhagavan was taking rest in the dispensary verandah. Usually, Bhagavan was discreet in showing outward signs of his grace. But this time, surprised by Osborne‟s unannounced visit, Bhagavan gave himself away. His face lit up with pleasure and love on seeing Osborne. He looked at him for quite a while with indescribable tenderness and grace. Mrs. Osborne and Bose, standing immediately behind Osborne, felt that they had never seen Bhagavan look at anyone in such a way. Osborne himself felt transformed. The graciousness of Bhagavan‟s reception melted Osborne‟s heart and awoke a feeling of guilt and gratitude as to how great was the reward for such little effort made. It strengthened even further, the bond between this wonderful disciple and his guru.

Bhagavan continued to bless Osborne to be deeply and steadily rooted within the Heart. The purpose of the outer guru is to awaken the inner guru. The fateful day when Bhagavan passed away, Osborne was there. It did not fill him with sorrow. Instead, it only made him plunge within. He felt Bhagavan‟s grace more abundantly and his support more powerfully. Some days after Bhagavan dropped the body, Bhagavan appeared to him in his dream. In the dream, Osborne was in the Old Hall and Bhagavan asked him to come near the couch. Osborne went and knelt before Bhagavan and Bhagavan put his hands on Osborne‟s head in blessing. When Bhagavan put his hand on his head, he had a feeling that Bhagavan was asking him to write about his direct teaching. He then wrote seven articles. They were brought out later as a book titled Ramana Arunachala. Every one of us, every seeker should read this book. That was the beginning. Soon, a cascade of books started coming from Osborne: Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self Knowledge, The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi, The Teachings of the Maharshi in His Own Words, The Incredible Sai Baba, Rhythm of History, Buddhism and Christianity in the Light of Hinduism, Gautama the Buddha, The Question of Progress and a few more.

After working in Chennai for some time, Osborne had to take a job in Calcutta in 1952. During the holidays, he would come rushing from Calcutta to stay in Arunachala and be at Bhagavan‟s shrine. Osborne had his second awakening in Calcutta. This is how he described it: “I was alone in my Calcutta room when I woke up and sat up in bed and I just was my Self, the beginningless immutable Self, and I thought that nothing has changed. There was no excitement, no joy or ecstasy. In the wholeness of simple being, there was the thought that it was impossible ever to be bored. The mind seemed like a dark screen that had shut over consciousness and was now rolled up and pushed away. It is the mind that craves activity and feels bored when it does not get it. The Self is untouched by activity and abides in its pristine state of simple happiness. I do not know how long the experience lasted, and in any case, while it lasted it was timeless and therefore eternal. Imperceptibly, the mind closed over again but less opaque, for a radiant happiness continued.

The afterglow continued for several weeks only gradually fading out.” When he was in Calcutta, his friends were all talking about the Sai Baba of Shirdi. He had read one or two articles about him. Some of his friends wanted him to write an article on Sai Baba, but he was reluctant to do so. That night, Bhagavan appeared to him in a dream and commanded him to write on Shirdi Sai Baba.

When in the dream Osborne confessed that he did not know much about him, Bhagavan instructed him to go to the shrine and that Sai Baba would himself tell him what to write. Bhagavan specifically said, “Sai Baba should be known to the western world so you have to write.” This was the inspiration for him to go to Shirdi and write the book, The Incredible Sai Baba.

~ From Ramana Periya Puranam Book

Teaching from the perfected soul is tailor made

Some teaching is for everyone
Some is for advanced yogi
Some who are just beginning
Some for those who are only interested in this world

Sometimes you will read Ramana say there is no mind
Sometimes you will say don’t think
Sometimes he will say ego is the culprit
They often seem contradictory

Why? When you go deep the contradictions vanish

What does faith include?

Be calm. Trust.

This is what Yogananda said

DECEMBER – 18 SRF DIARY – CHRISTMAS

Lift your eyes and concentrate within. Behold the astral star

of divine wisdom and let the wise thoughts in you follow that

telescope star to behold the Christ everywhere.

In the land of everlasting Christmas, of festive,

omnipresent Christ Consciousness, you will find

Jesus, Krishna, the saints of all religions, the

great guru-preceptors waiting to give you a divine floral

reception of everlasting happiness.

— Paramahansa Yogananda,

“ Metaphysical Meditations “

This star has been misunderstood. Everyone thinks they see the star. Know it. But this happens much much later

Depends on the purity.
A pure person has good intuition.
For such a person, his actions are guided by intuition. not the fault ridden logic or intellect

Such a great souls only needs a word. Short sentence. Look within. Or your the divine light. That’s it. He immediately experiences it
Nothing more is needed
There are souls like that. But very rare

What happens to the others? They falter. Struggle. They want to understand. Look for ways to experience. They want to analyze. Compare. But they don’t want to be pure forest. Or tolerate hardships. Or give up pleasures of life. They enjoy being angry. Lustful. Resentful. Revenge. Such people are not worthy and cannot understand the sublime way of the divine

So the intermediate steps are missing !

These are the last words Gyaneshwar Maharaj sang before leaving the body at 22

pasaayadana

1. May the Self of the universe be pleased with this sacrifice of words and bestow His grace on me.
2. May the sinners no longer commit evil deeds, may their desire to do good increase, and may all beings live in harmony with one another.
3. May the darkness of sin disappear, may the world see the rising of the sun of righteousness, and may the desires of all creatures be satisfied.
4. May everyone keep the company of saints devoted to God, who will shower their blessings on them.
5. Saints are walking gardens filled with wish-fulfilling trees, and they are living villages of wish- fulfilling gems. Their words are like oceans of nectar.
6. They are moons without blemish and suns without heat. May these saints be the friends of all people
7. May all beings in all the worlds be filled with joy, and may they worship God forever
8. May all those for whom this book is their very life be blessed with success in this world and the next
9. Then, Nivrittinath, the great Master said that this blessing will be granted. This brought great joy to Jnaneshwar.

Note: The English translation of the Pasayadan can be found in Jnaneshwar’s Gita as rendered by Swami Kripananda, as well as the CD “Pasayadan and Mahalakshmi Stotram: As sung in Siddha Yoga Ashrams”. Both of these items can be purchased at the Siddha Yoga Bookstore. http://www.bookstore.siddhayoga.org/merchant/index.html
Complete Dnyaneshwari is available at http://sanskritdocuments.org/marathi/

Q: I practise hatha yoga and I also meditate `I am Brahman’. After a few moments of this meditation, a blank prevails, the brain gets
heated and a fear of death arises. What should I do?

A: I am Brahman' is only a thought. Who says it ? Brahman itself does not say so. What need is there for it to say it ? Nor can the realI’ say so.
For `I’ always abides as Brahman.

To be saying it is only a thought.
Whose thought is it ?
All thoughts are from the unreal I', that is theI’-thought.
Remain without thinking.
So long as there is thought there will be fear.

Q: As I go on thinking of it there is forgetfulness, the brain becomes heated and I am afraid.

A: Yes, the mind is concentrated in the brain and hence you get a hot sensation there.
It is because of the I'-thought. When theI’-thought arises fear of death arises simultaneously. With regard to
forgetfulness, so long as there is thought there will be forgetfulness.

First there is the thought I am Brahman', then forgetfulness supervenes. Forgetfulness and thought are for theI’thought only.
Hold on to it and it will disappear like a phantom. What remains
over is the real `I’ and that is the Self.

I am Brahman' is an aid to concentration since it keeps off other thoughts. When that one thought alone persists, see whose thought it is. It will be found to be fromI’. From where is the I'-thought ? Probe into it, theI’-thought will vanish, and the supreme Self will shine forth of itself. No further effort is needed.

When the one real I' remains alone, it will not be sayingI am Brahman’.
Does a man go on repeating I am a man'? Unless he is challenged, why should he declare himself a man? Does anyone mistake himself for an animal that he should say, 'No, I am not an animal, I am a man'? Similarly, Brahman orI’ being the only existing reality, there is no one there to challenge it and so there is no need to be repeating `I am Brahman’.

~ Be as you are. The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi edited by David Godman

No ones knows

Here are a few excerpts

❤ Embodied Spirit ❤

In 1962 an old woman came for darshan of Maharajji. When she saw him she exclaimed, “How can Neem Karoli Baba be alive? He must have died a long time ago! My father was a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba, and my father said he knew Baba for forty years before that. I am seventy-three now; I last saw Baba when I was seven and he didn’t look any different from the way he looks now.” Maharajji upbraided her and wouldn’t let others speak with her after that.
** RAM **

Maharajji once said, “I used to come here to see that fakir who rides on a horse, that Gorashin Baba.” (Gorashin Baba lived some three hundred years ago.)
** RAM **

Once in Lucknow an eighty-year-old Muslim arrived, who said he had known Maharajji as an adult since he himself was ten or fifteen years of age. Maharajji said, “Don’t believe him!” Another man of over eighty years said he knew Maharajji almost seventy years before, when the man was twenty years old, and that Maharajji had given him his blessing to take his first job.
** RAM **

Several people were once discussing a saint who had lived some five hundred years earlier. Maharajji said, “Oh, I knew him.”
** RAM **

In 1961 Maharajji made a pilgrimage to Chitrakut with several devotees. While there, he stood on the banks of a river and kept shouting across it for a certain Gopal, a shepherd. Over and over he would call for him. No one knew of such a man, but Maharajji said that Gopal was a friend of his who would bring him many things. After much inquiry, it was discovered that four generations back there had been such a person who was devoted to such a guru. Gopal’s grandson was eventually found, and he was a very old man.
** RAM **

To one old woman who was confused by seeing Maharajji unchanged after so many years, he said, “Ma, I was dead. I have been reborn in the hills.”

— “Miracle of Love” by Ram Dass.

Maha Vir Prasad, Chief Engineer to the U. P. Government
who had been staying here for about twenty days in October and November and who went on a pilgrimage
to Rameswaram and other places, is back here.

In continuation of an old question of his with reference to a certain passage in Maha Yoga,
he asked Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi,

whether it was necessary and a condition precedent
for a man to watch his breathing
before beginning the mental quest ‘Who am I?’

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

All depends on a man’s pakva, i.e.,
his aptitude and fitness.

Those who have not the mental strength
to concentrate or control their mind
and direct it on the quest are advised
to watch their breathing,
since such watching will naturally and
as a matter of course lead to cessation of thought
and bring the mind under control.

Breath and mind
arise from the same place and
whenone of them is controlled,
the other is also controlled.

As a matter of fact,
in the quest method – which is more correctly
‘Whence am I?’
and not merely ‘Who am I?’ –

we are not simply trying
to eliminate saying
‘we are not the body, not the senses and so on,’
to reach what remains
as the ultimate reality,

but we are trying to find
whence the ‘I’ thought for the ego arises within us.

The method contains within it,
though implicitly and not expressly,
the watching of the breath.

When we watch wherefrom the ‘I’-thought,
the root of all thoughts,
springs,
we are necessarily
watching the source of breath also,
as the ‘I’-thought
and the breath arise
from the same source.

Mr. Prasad again asked whether, for controlling breath,
the regular pranayama is not better in which 1:4:2 proportion
for breathing in, retaining, and breathing out is prescribed.

Sri Ramana Maharshi replied,
“All those proportions,
sometimes regulated not by counting
but by uttering mantras, etc.,
are aids for controlling the mind.
That is all.

Watching the breath is also
one form of pranayama.

Retaining breath, etc., is more violent
and may be harmful
in some cases,
e.g., when there is no proper Guru
to guide the sadhak at every step and stage.

But
merely watching the breath
is easy and involves no risk.”

~ Day by Day with Bhagavan book

Yes !

This verse from Ramana should eliminate all confusion, all doubts.

I have explained this in great detail elsewhere

He basically describes the Sohum or Hangso method that Yogananda describes

If you can do it successfully realization is in a short time and in first day there is the highest manifestation.
However , this simple technique is very hard to perform. Why? Your desires. Your body will bring you down to this unfortunate living in this world

Ramana maharshi taught the masses by telling them to use the method of inquiry. To a few very fortunate disciple he told them the hungso technique

Even if you look up the technique or even read about it and what Yogananda said, you will need an accomplished person to explain a few secret details

Seeds of desire – samskar

Created and reinforced from thousands of births

Both human and animal

Many of them are physical. – food and sex

Many relate to sour and sweet relations.

Destroy the seeds / samskar. Otherwise the will sprout again. Quickly. Into a very strong think tree

Reach the seeds. They are very very deep

Difficult to do. You will know you have reached the seeds. One you teach the seeds – desires don’t torment you.

If desires torment you, you have not reached the seeds

You will find yourself helpless against the desires. Repeatedly

What to do then? Fulfill them intermittently. And go about meditating deeper till you destroy the seeds.. in mediation
No more samskar

We are trapped into this world by 5 simple things. The pleasure principle.

We try to satisfy the mind through the 5 senses. Taste touch ( sex) smell, heating and sight

If only you could find the joy in the absence of those senses ( in awake and dream ) then all is done !

Where do you exist?

That is only within.

What is on the outside ? It is nothing more than someone using LSD and imagining a great meal or trip or sex. It has no reality

Same is true with the pleasure outside of mediation

But no one wanted to wake up from the LSD like hallucination

This applies to everything

You have a thought. I am hungry. I want a car. I want sex. Your mind gets fixated on it And you can’t get beyond it! Now is that not misery ? What is to be done? Meditate!

Let it be. Maharshi says the creator will take care of everything.
Don’t dwell on it. Don’t crave it. destroy that thought. Destroy that desire

“The universe is ours to enjoy. But want nothing. To want is weakness. Want makes us beggars, and we are sons of the king, not beggars.”

Excerpt From
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-complete-works-of-swami-vivekananda/id1160797085

Not only does want make us beggars, but when we want and don’t get it, we get depressed, anxious and frustrated. Like Yukteshwarji said “ thwarted desires causes anger”

Why live like a slave to desire? Wake up. Give up your desire. If there is anyone who has enslaved you it is your mind full of desire

So sad. So unfortunate. I don’t like people with so many desires and wants. Where can I find a pure person?

I play my act
and act in the play
but I live in divine rays
Where is darkness
There is always light
The word is right

Go deep within
Break the chains
Which are your thought trains
What fuels the trains?
Your desires – your life in vain

I revealed the enemy
Fight it
That fight is yours
The desire is yours
Lament not
Just be pure

Thinking is the ultimate failure. The train of thoughts and emotions. Nonstop. And we think we are smart with the logic

In stead of thinking remaining silent brings about inspired visions which hello the universe. Not human logic

My blogs are never thought of. So forgive me for not thinking through. I just publish

Maharshi – refers to the hath yoga. There are stubborn people and do variety of postures and pranayama Often times these things are harmful

Raj yoga is different method
Gyana yoga – is inquiry **BUT NOT THE INQUIRY WHICH PEOPLE THINK. IT IS NOT ANALYSIS. IT IS MEDIATION. WHERE ONE SILENTLY CALMLY OBSERVED THE ORIGIN OF THOUGHT **

When one can do it that way then Raj yoga eventually shines

There are many subtle differences

There are other methods the other methods have been totally misunderstood and people foolishly follow misguided information

Karma yoga – not the yoga of action. It is the yoga of kriya yoga where One reverses life flow
Bhakti yoga – not the singing or dancing but the inner joy of mediation which spontaneously arouses love for God
Mantra yoga – not just the recitingof mantra but the aum technique in mediation

Ultimately it is mediation.

Someone had question about it

Shastras/ scriptures prohibit a disciple from sharing any part of his initiation.
If they do so, they develop ego and from there on progress is halted and the awakened shakti leaves them.
I have seen this happen many many times

There are many shastras that describe initiation. Devatma shakti has a nice chapter in awakening with around 30 pages on it. However , that is a compilation of all the different paths to advaita

In God talks with Arjuna, the first chapter has a detailed description of awakening. Those 100 odd pages describe the whole path accurately.

Anyone who goes with high expectations will he disappointed. Why? It is not the awakening that is needed. It is God.

The signs of awakening have been written so it gives confirmation – please proceed your on the right express train.

Please never let your ego that I have had an experience interfere with your love for God I only care for thee God

The road is far more intricate than you can imagine.

That’s why thousands of authentic books exist but they can never describe it fully.

I have asked many people who have been meditating for decades.
I ask them – can you describe your experiences in more than a page? Sadly they can’t

It’s a simple experiment.

On the other hand the great saints have written volumes. When will I be worthy of them?

Shankaracharya established 4 Ashrams in 4 corners of India and a total of 10 different Sanyasi sects. From the North Joshi Matha he started Giri, Paravata and Sagar. Paramhansa Yogananda and my Gurudeva belong to the Giri pantha. The Upanishada is Mandokaupanishada. Tirtha sect started from Dwarka and their upanishada is Chandogya upanishada. Vishnutirthji is one of the greatest saints from that pantha

Vasistha Maharaj was teaching Ram Bhagwan

What is the most stupid thing that people do?

They remain identified as their body. This single error is responsible for much suffering

And this is what Vivekananda said

So majestic. He soared in the skies of freedom. This is how he saw the world

“Good and evil are our slaves, not we theirs. It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God! Make the heart like an ocean, go beyond all the trifles of the world, be mad with joy even at evil; see the world as a picture and then enjoy its beauty, knowing that nothing affects you. Children finding glass beads in a mud puddle, that is the good of the world. Look at it with calm complacency; see good and evil as the same, both are merely “God’s play”; enjoy all.”

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What can we do but worship such a great person ?

That is the attitude of 99.9999% on this earth. Maybe true on most other places where there is life

What does Vasistha Maharaj say any that?

He says that such a life is worthless.

So what is to be done?

Learn the truth from Someone who has experienced it. But the ego of most people will prevent them from moving forward. All they want is to argue and debate rather than go straight to the truth

An ocean, a wave, a mirror
The mirror became “alive”
Charged with power
Created the greatest illusion ever!

I met my Guru, a sage beyond wisdom
No up, no down
No in or out,
I lost my count

Where was time?
Where was space?
Before the singularity
Called the Big Bang!

Time and space
Quantum and atom
Higgs and beasts
All from lost memory of the ocean

All theories till the singularity!
4 or 7 or 11 or 17 or 19
String or flat
Dimensions of your choice

Peek behind
Perceive in thee
Beyond the mirror
No mind or thought
The life of the mirror
The life of life
The life of illusion

Quotations there have been, in superabundance. But what original commentary can you supply, from the uniqueness of your particular life? What holy text have you absorbed and made your own?

In what ways have these timeless truths renovated your nature?

Are you content to be a hollow victrola, mechanically repeating the words of other men?

~Sri Yukeshwar Giri ji to a Self conceited pundit
Autobiography of a Yogi

Quotations there have been, in superabundance. But what original commentary can you supply, from the uniqueness of your particular life? What holy text have you absorbed and made your own?

In what ways have these timeless truths renovated your nature?

Are you content to be a hollow victrola, mechanically repeating the words of other men?

~Sri Yukeshwar Giri ji to a Self conceited pundit
Autobiography of a Yogi

Most people, Don’t realize that they have achieved nothing and are quickly going down the path of ego

A few books here and there. A few so called miracles and their spiritual life is over

There are many very deep secrets in mediation. Find them out. You can re write all the scriptures even if they are destroyed. That is what Shankaracharya did in the 9th century. He closed his eyes and rewrote all the ancient scriptures that were lost !

So then Veda Vyas Challenged Him. Now Veda Vyas is the person who wrote most of the books thousands of years ago. His father Parashar was also an enlightened being. Veda Vyas son Shukdev Was also enlightened. This was about 5000 years ago

So at the age of 15 Shankaracharya was challenged by Vyas Bhagwan – ( he is one of the immortals ) and asked to interpret the deeper meanings of the Shlokas. And this debate went on and on for weeks -day and night. Without halting

Finally Shankaracharya realized that the person who challenged him is none other than Ved Vyas ! Vyas Bhagwan then have Shankaracharya another 16 years to live

So the point of the story is

• All shastras have deep meaning
• With deep mediation the meaning is revealed
• Timeless – great saints are timeless. The Vedas and shastras are timeless

Sanskar

Latent impression from the past. From this life. Past lives. Very hard to overcome

Requires very strong determination.

But can be done.

“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing; do not merely endure, be unattached. Remember the story of the bull. A mosquito sat long on the horn of a certain bull. Then his conscience troubled him, and he said, “Mr. Bull, I have been sitting here a long time, perhaps I annoy you. I am sorry, I will go away.” But the bull replied, “Oh no, not at all! Bring your whole family and live on my horn; what can you do to me?”

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Such should be the attitude towards painful circumstances

Instead people breakdown. Resort to alcohol. Drugs. Medications. Anti anxiety meds. Antidepressants. Become forlorn. With draw.

Yoga. Hinduism. They talk about titiksha

Without this progress is not possible. That is what Vivekananda described.

Vasistha Maharaj , one of the immortals the Guru of avatar Ram said those who have titiksha – its such a powerful ally in Yoga – if they lose a finger a new finger will grow

In autobiography of a Yogi , there is a story where a fakir – strolled into the tent of women – who were part of the Harlem of a king. The sadhu was naked. The king was enraged. He cut the hands of the sadhu. The sadhu calmly picked or touched the severed limbs and the attached back instantly.

The king feel at his feet. He asked for forgiveness and asked for guidance.

The sadhu wrote on the ground, “fastest way to progress is do things your mind does not want to do and don’t do things your mind wants you to do “. This refers to desire not necessities of life

“After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains, one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states and states must ever change; but the nature of the Soul is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.”

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This is what Ramana Maharshi says

From ~~~ Who Am I ?.

8 : What is the nature of the mind?

Baghavan.;
What is called ‘mind’ is a wondrous power residing in the Self. It causes all thoughts to arise. Apart from thoughts, there is no such thing as mind. Therefore, thought is the nature of mind. Apart from thoughts, there is no independent entity called the world. In deep sleep there are no thoughts, and there is no world. In the states of waking and dream, there are thoughts, and there is a world also. Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and again withdraws it into itself, likewise the mind projects the world out of itself and again resolves it into itself. When the mind comes out of the Self, the world appears. Therefore, when the world appears (to be real), the Self does not appear; and when the Self appears (shines) the world does not appear. When one persistently inquires into the nature of the mind, the mind will end leaving the Self (as the residue). What is referred to as the Self is the Atman. The mind always exists only in dependence on something gross; it cannot stay alone. It is the mind that is called the subtle body or the soul (jiva).

However Yukteshwar had a different explanation. He called it something that wants to move outward anandatattva. He called the soul as something within ego / chit
See the holy science. There is a nice diagram

I call the mind as nothing but the pleasure principle.
Something that always craves happiness. It is foolishness. Why? It only knows happiness in this world. Or in sleep. Foolishly it does not want to find joy within the light of God. Or when it does it does not recognize it or rejects it.

It takes time. Even if a Guru gave you experience, your mind will reject it. I have given the nectar of religion in many places but there is an inherent stubbornness which prevents people from accepting

This is natural. But in time the mind adjusts itself. It will calmly go within. Not the rushes anxiety provoked insecurity of wanting to go within.
The mind will doubt.

Everyone who has reached a high level has taken several births. Buddha took 100 births it is said.

The longer the path the higher the achievement / glory

THE HEART IN BHAGAVAN’S TEACHINGS

The Heart or Hridayam appears in Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s teachings extensively.

D: Sri Bhagavan speaks of the heart as the seat of Consciousness and as identical with the Self. What
does the heart exactly signify?
M: The question about the heart arises because you are interested in seeking the source of consciousness.
To all deep thinking minds, the enquiry about the ‘I’ and its nature has an irresistible fascination. Call it by any name, God, Self, the heart or the seat of Consciousness, it is all the same. The point to be grasped is this, that Heart means the very core of one’s being, the Centre, without which there is nothing whatever.
D: But Sri Bhagavan has specified a particular place for the heart within the physical body, that it is in the
chest, two digits to the right from the median.
M: Yes, that is the centre of spiritual experience according to the testimony of Sages. This spiritual heart-centre is quite different from the bloodpropelling, muscular organ known by the same name.The spiritual heart-centre is not an organ of the body. All that you can say of the heart is that it is the very core of your being. That with which you are really identical (as the word in Sanskrit literally means), whether you are awake, asleep or dreaming, whether you are engaged in work or immersed in samadhi.

                                                                                                                              – Maharshi’s Gospel

From Chandogya Upanishad

एष म आत्मान्तर्हृदयेऽणीयान्व्रीहेर्वा यवाद्वा सर्षपाद्वा श्यामाकाद्वा श्यामाकतण्डुलाद्वैष म आत्मान्तर्हृदये ज्यायान्पृथिव्या ज्यायानन्तरिक्षाज्ज्यायान्दिवो ज्यायानेभ्यो लोकेभ्यः ॥ ३.१४.३ ॥
eṣa ma ātmāntarhṛdaye’ṇīyānvrīhervā yavādvā sarṣapādvā śyāmākādvā śyāmākataṇḍulādvaiṣa ma ātmāntarhṛdaye jyāyānpṛthivyā jyāyānantarikṣājjyāyāndivo jyāyānebhyo lokebhyaḥ || 3.14.3 ||
3. My Self within my heart is smaller than a grain of rice, smaller than a grain of barley, smaller than a mustard seed, smaller than a grain of millet, smaller even than the kernel of a grain of millet. The Self in my heart is larger than the earth, larger than the mid-region, larger than heaven, and larger even than all these worlds.

THE HEART IN BHAGAVAN’S TEACHINGS

The Heart or Hridayam appears in Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s teachings extensively.

D: Sri Bhagavan speaks of the heart as the seat of Consciousness and as identical with the Self. What
does the heart exactly signify?
M: The question about the heart arises because you are interested in seeking the source of consciousness.
To all deep thinking minds, the enquiry about the ‘I’ and its nature has an irresistible fascination. Call it by any name, God, Self, the heart or the seat of Consciousness, it is all the same. The point to be grasped is this, that Heart means the very core of one’s being, the Centre, without which there is nothing whatever.
D: But Sri Bhagavan has specified a particular place for the heart within the physical body, that it is in the
chest, two digits to the right from the median.
M: Yes, that is the centre of spiritual experience according to the testimony of Sages. This spiritual heart-centre is quite different from the bloodpropelling, muscular organ known by the same name.The spiritual heart-centre is not an organ of the body. All that you can say of the heart is that it is the very core of your being. That with which you are really identical (as the word in Sanskrit literally means), whether you are awake, asleep or dreaming, whether you are engaged in work or immersed in samadhi.

                                                                                                                              – Maharshi’s Gospel

DECEMBER 8 – SRF DIARY – SILENCE

The true practice of religion is to sit still in meditation and talk to God, but you don’t get to that point of intensity, you do not concentrate enough, and that is why you remain in delusion. — Paramahansa Yogananda, “Man’s Eternal Quest”

Talk to God – is it a try talking ? Or just our imagination telling God about how the Traffic light delay upset us and how it would be nice to have that vacation I deserve it, ?

Those things by my interpretation is just an imagination of no value.

True prayer or talking is giving oneself to God. With love. No expectation or wants. Just a prayer GOD I am yours take me back to you. Here I am. No thoughts no wandering of the mind. Just pure love And in the deep silence God respond back instantly , with a divine vision or an explanation of how the Red Sea parted or the life of another Saint etc.

But first

1. Sincere love to God
2. Not asking anything
3. Giving oneself to God
4. Emptying the mind of all thoughts
5. Waiting patiently
   And then what happens is talking to God

Takes time not to think. After all God knows what your heart desires, knows what’s best. What is there for us to say ?

I can’t reveal all of it

In Germany there was a trial what they found people who listened to Sanskrit had better memory

But this is one of the Best hymns – on Lalita. She is the highest. Multiple universes are here children. Even Ram krishna are her children.
She is simultaneously both shakti personal and impersonal

This is her hymn. Beautiful. Even if you don’t know Sanskrit one should listen to it once

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Padam’s power

One day when I [Narayana Iyer] was sitting by the side of Bhagavan I felt so miserable that I put the following question to him: “Is the ‘sankalpa’ (will or intention) of the jnani not capable of warding off the destinies of the devotees?”
Bhagavan smiled and said:” Does the jnani have a ‘sankalpa’ at all? The ‘jivanmukta’ (liberated being) can have no sankalpas whatsoever. It is just impossible.”
I continued:” Then what is the fate of all of us who pray to you to have grace on us and save us? Will we not be benefited or saved by sitting in front of you, or by coming to you?”
Bhagavan turned graciously to me and said:”…a person’s bad karma will be considerably reduced while he is in the presence of a jnani. A jnani has no sankalpas but his ‘sannhidi’ (presence) is the most powerful force.
He need not have sankalpa, but his presiding presence, the most powerful force can do wonders: save souls, give peace of mind,, even give liberation to ripe souls. Your prayers are not answered by him but absorbed by his presence. His presence saves you, wards off the karma and gives you the boons as the case may be, (but) involuntarily. Yhe jnani does save the devotees, but not by sankalpa, which is non-existent in him, only through his presiding presence, his sannhidi.

PADAMALAI
Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi recorded by Muruganar
-edited and annotated by D.Godman

This is very true. I have seen this many many times over

IT is the final steps he describes. It is important to know who he was talking with. If he was talking with a beginner he would be saying things differently

For the beginner, understanding and scripture are needed. After that the goal becomes clear
Once the goal is clear, then the how to reach there begins.
At that point the beginner is aghast how difficult it is. Many times it will seem impossible.
After the proper method is learnt and a Guru opens the ability to still the mind than slowly in small steps the disciple gets to the point of advaita
At that point what maharshi says will seem obvious and the only step

A nice pearl from Yogananda

Be alone within. Don’t lead the aimless life that so many persons follow. Meditate and read good books more…Once in a while it is al right to go to the movies and have a little social life, but mostly remain apart and live within yourself…Enjoy solitude; but when you want to mix with others, do so with all your love and friendship, so that those persons cannot forget you, but remember always that they met some one who inspired them and turned their minds towards

God.—Paramahansa Yoganada, “ Man’s Eternal Quest”

But I have no desire to inspire anyone.
But there is much joy within. Take your pick

Don’t let the senses force you outside against your will.

Once God or inner self is found, the challenges will still remain but becomes easier to go back within.

Even great saints were tempted till the last minute. Their challenges are harder. Why? Ordinary people often toil to get their desires fulfilled
Higher saints have only to think about it and their desire is fulfilled in hours to day’s
Thus they fall into the trap.

Such beings constantly realize this and are afraid to think of anything material, lest their thoughts turn into something material !

This is very long. It is from God talks with Arjuna – a commentary on Gita by Yogananda

But so beautiful. So perfect

My take in the shloka is different and to me reveals the technique of finding God but that is a different topic

God Talks With Arjuna — Bhagwad Gita,
by Paramhans Yogananda

Youtube audio of the Bhagwad Gita, shlokas, chapter 4, verses 7, 8) for reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ehgFhYVcOI
Quote:

Bhagwad Gita

Chapter IV, Verses 7–8

yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharat |

abhyutthaanam-adharmasya tadatmaanam srujamyaham ||7||

paritraanaaya sadhunaam vinashaay cha dushkrutaam !

dharmasansthapanaarthay sambhavaami yuge yuge ||8||

O Bharata (Arjuna)! whenever virtue (dharma) declines and vice (adharma) predominates, I incarnate as an Avatar. In visible form I appear from age to age to protect the virtuous and to destroy evildoing in order to reestablish righteousness.

This earth is a stage whereon a divine drama is being evolved. Whenever the majority of human actors misuse their God-given freedom, and by the creation of evil bring suffering and upset the divine plans concerning their fellow beings and their own destiny (plans intended to be carried out by man’s proper use of free choice), then God, the Cosmic Director, appears on the stage in a human form (an avatar) to instruct the amateur thespians in the proper art of living. God thus teaches man, made in His image, how to evolve by using free will, manifesting the divine nature inherent in the human nature.

The question is: Can God Himself ever incarnate as a human being? To say that God can not do a certain thing is to limit Him. But there are so many things that God can do, yet does not do—at least not as human beings expect of Him. God has never been known to have taken a human form called “God” and dwelt in it among men. (“Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God,” Jesus said,11 to distinguish himself, an avatar, from God the Father, the Absolute, the Formless.) The Lord has condescended many times, however, to manifest Himself through the incarnation of a fully liberated being who, once an ordinary human being, has become a true reflection or “son of God.” God, who is almighty and can do anything, thus operates His Omniscience through the human body of an avatar. Just as the ocean of Cosmic Consciousness is aware of a soul wave manifesting on its surface, so the soul wave of an avatar is aware of the ocean of Cosmic Consciousness manifesting through its form.

The Nature of an Avatar

Great prophets and minor saints differ only in degree—the former manifest God fully through wide-open windows of their consciousness; the latter manifest God through small crevices of certain divine realizations. It can be said that the full manifestation of divinity in an avatar is greater than is the partial manifestation in a saint who has not yet attained absolute liberation.

All human beings are potential gods; the wise man and the ignorant one both are true image-incarnations of God. The Divine Omnipresence fills each soul-image even as the mighty ocean is present in each wave. However, unless a wave dissolves itself and becomes one with the ocean, it remains inordinately limited. Until a devotee is fully liberated, he cannot truly assert: “I and my Father are one.”

There is no “special” avatar or a “unique” incarnation of God (except as regards form, time, and place); any liberated soul may descend to earth or to other spheres as a full avatar or savior.

Partial and full manifestations of God’s consciousness in saints and avatars

From the study of earthly chronology it is evident that, like a person, every nation undergoes the necessary evolutionary stages of development. For the earth, these four successive stages are the material, atomic, mental, and spiritual cycles, termed such according to the predominance of physical, electrical, psychical, or spiritual qualities in the majority of people. However, in every age tenacious wickedness is more or less active, even when virtue is prevalent.

So whenever ignorance, selfishness, war, and misery are prominent, the Supreme Lord manifests through masters who, through many incarnations, have had earthly experiences as partially or fully liberated beings. They may appear on earth as minor saints or as great masters according to their degree of realization, to serve as living examples of virtue and to inspire spiritual aspirants to destroy their inward and outward evils. In this way Spirit appears through many liberated and partially liberated souls, shining more or less through the various degrees of unbefogged —clear and partially clear— mentalities of yoga-purified beings. Divine ones who are not fully liberated, or who come to earth to aid in the redemption of souls but have no obvious world mission, are called khanda avatars (partial incarnations).

But whenever the specter of vice stalks unexorcised on the earth, in every such age God incarnates as a savior (in the form of a fully liberated being) to resurrect fading virtue, protect the spiritual, help in the removal of evil currents, and destroy the evil propensities of the wicked. Such manifestations are called purna-avatars (full incarnations).

As every wave, if it were conscious, could feel the ocean beneath it, so every liberated being feels the entire Sea of Spirit behind his perception. As the ocean appears in part, then in greater and greater vastness as a person views it first from the shore and then from an airplane, so saints of various intuitional powers have lesser or greater realizations of Spirit. But fully liberated souls such as Krishna, Jesus Christ, Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswarji, and many others, are themselves full manifestations of God.

That is what is meant by the Bible statement: “But as many as received him (that is, fully manifested God through the purity of their intuition), to them (all liberated beings of all ages before and after Jesus Christ was born) gave he power to become the sons of God (the power to appear as full manifestations of God).”12 A veritable “son of God” is a true image of omnipresent Spirit.

As verse iv:8 is often translated to refer to “the destruction of evildoers,” and as many legendary stories in the Puranas also cite the annihilation of the wicked by holy beings, certain theologians claim that a Hindu incarnation of God comes to protect the virtuous by destroying evildoers, in contradistinction to Jesus Christ who came on earth to liberate not only virtuous men but malefactors! However, the truth is that virtue always causes the destruction of evil.

Divine virtue manifested by an avatar destroys evil

We read in the Bible that even Elisha, Elijah, and Peter were instrumental in the destruction of evildoers who had resisted the powerful vibrations of virtue. Swami Shankara and various saints of India have had similar experiences. An insulated wire carrying a million volts of current is harmless when touched, but an exposed live wire is deadly. When a person, in spite of warning, deliberately ventures to contact that powerful live wire without its cover, he is electrocuted. Similarly, God’s potent energy, present everywhere, is insulated from man by a cover of delusive ignorance.

Thus an ignorant man blaspheming God is not immediately punished; but a wicked man who is a contemporary and acquaintance of an avatar or a great master is inviting instant retribution if, after warning, he continues to defy the Spirit flaming through the pure vehicle of the Great One. For instance, Peter was able to perceive God without any insulation of delusion. The Holy Spirit was fully manifest in him, and when the married couple13—in spite of Peter’s warning—lied before the live Spirit, they were destroyed. Their willful evil collided with the omnipotent harmony of the Divine.

God or His saints seldom deliberately hurt anyone, and then only to mitigate the effects of that person’s bad karma, or to give a direct lesson to hasten redemption. Neither God nor His avatars ever turn Their omnipotence against any evildoers out of wrath or vengeance. People hurt themselves by manifesting unnatural evils. The knuckles of a person are broken when he performs the stupid or unnatural act of striking them hard against a stone wall. The stone wall is innocent of all evil intention, just as virtue is innocent when vice foolishly hurls itself against it.

The same principle is at work empowering the divine man, with or without a conscious act on his part, to bestow blessings on those who are receptive. Devotees who approach Divinity with the harmony of a pure heart and mind, attract instant blessings from the sight or touch of a holy person (darshan). For example, in the press of a great crowd, Jesus suddenly said, “Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.” A woman had been healed instantly when with faith she came up behind Jesus and touched the border of his garment.14

Avatars such as Krishna and Christ have such power of the Almighty within them that they could open their spiritual eye and annihilate the wicked, even as God could destroy the universe in a second. Little does frail man realize the Power he pits himself against when he chooses to oppose Divinity! Yet he needn’t fear the wrath of a tyrannical God. Neither He nor His saints and avatars stoop to obvious human methods of either chastisement or compensation. God coaxes His children back to Him only by the attracting power of His love, incarnate in every atom of creation and in every soul. Similarly, His saints and avatars almost always use the mild method of spiritual persuasion to inspire the wicked to reform.

Man, made in the image of God with free will like His Creator, rewards or punishes himself by the results of his merits or demerits; he himself operates the exacting law of karma. Divine intervention, when on occasion it is warranted, expresses neither vengefulness nor favoritism, but is meted out for man’s highest good by a just and loving God, or through his equally compassionate incarnations.

Though fully manifest in an avatar, God is not limited to one form

Many thinkers posit God as infinite and impersonal, and that He cannot be finite and personal. This conception limits the almightiness of God. Just as invisible hydrogen-oxygen gas can be condensed into vapor, or water, or frozen into a solid as ice, so God the impersonal Spirit and invisible Cosmic Consciousness can and does materialize Itself into a Great Light, into an Intelligible Voice of any language, into any desired form, and into a finite personal body.

God, who has created all human beings and is secretly present in them, can be perceptibly manifest in saints, or can materialize a new human body that can be seen or touched or heard by an advanced devotee or by any number of persons. One can say with truth that the entire Absolute God is vibrating and manifesting in that newly materialized body, but it would be a metaphysical blunder to say that God is limited to that body.

The Infinite God can and does manifest in a three-dimensional form. He has appeared to many liberated souls in this way, in whatever concept they longed to see. But God is not confined to that form, nor has He adopted any such form as His sole personal image. The Infinite is infinite in His expressions; that is why God has never had a permanent definite form.

God prefers to employ His own Self-created law of limitation, the law of relativity, when He appears as a human being. He chooses to incarnate in the bodies of liberated masters. In this way, He appears in various costumes of flesh to suit the desires and needs of His devotees through the ages.

For example, as Jesus or Rama or Krishna or Babaji, and so on, He has been born in different forms to help the growth of virtue and the dissolution of vice in the world. God, being Infinite, can rematerialize any form, and does so at times. But He never allows a divinely manifested form such as Jesus or Krishna to be visibly present for a long period before the staring gaze of ignorant people. Therefore, the deathless Babaji, who has a human form at the present time, remains in utmost secrecy in the northern Himalayas near Badrinarayan. However, any liberated being can instantaneously materialize himself before an advanced saint or even (for special purposes) before a group of ordinary men, as did Jesus and Babaji.

Why does God prefer to manifest Himself through partially liberated and fully liberated beings whom He sends to reincarnate on earth (by “immaculate” or by ordinary sexual creation) to quicken the evolution of virtuous people and to dissolve the wickedness of vicious beings? Because such advanced souls were once ordinary human beings subject to all the temptations and delusions of Cosmic Nature. Such divine agents have sympathy, humor, and understanding; they can tell their fellow beings: “Behold, we were once bound by the flesh, just as you are now! By dint of self-control, discrimination, meditation, and spiritual labor, we have reaped the plenteous harvest of omnipresent Spirit. If we have done that, you too can overcome the weak, difficult flesh by a continuous expansion of consciousness and strengthening of the Spirit that is also within you!”

God could produce Jesus Christs and Babajis by the thousands by direct materialization or via the ordinary embryonic creation, and could have them act out their sacred lives as divine puppets. But could such beings, lacking past personal experience of the intricate compulsions of sense temptations, serve realistically as exemplars to teach human beings the art of conquering flesh allurements by natural human methods of self-control?

Devotees admire Christ because he came among men as one of them. He was humanly tempted, and he suffered at the hands of persecutors; but he overcame all human ordeals by will, effort, and love for God! A sacred puppet, acting out a divine drama of temptation and victory, would be only a spurious actor on the stage of life. But a human being who becomes a master is a spiritual artist who can show other fellow beings how to destroy evil and become divine.

The soul of an ignorant being and of a master are the same in essence, and are perfect, even as the one moon’s reflections appearing distorted in pots of agitated and muddy water, or undistorted in calm and clear water, are reflections of the same object—the moon.

When the water in the pot is muddy and agitated by a breeze, the moon reflected there appears distorted even though it is not so in reality; muddy minds agitated with the restlessness caused by the attributes of Nature similarly cause a seeming distortion of the soul. When, by yoga meditation, the muddied mind of ignorance settles, restlessness disappears; the clear soul is manifest.

As the moon’s reflection may be distorted beyond recognition in swirling water, so is the soul’s reflection grossly distorted in a materialistic man. As the moon is recognizably reflected in slightly agitated clear water, or perfectly reflected in completely calm clear water, so enlightened souls are either partial or full manifestations of God.

As calm clear water in various pots reflects perfectly the same shining moon, so all liberated souls manifest the same pure soul essence. When the pots are broken and the water released, the reflected images that had appeared to be confined in various pots become one with the moon whose light is spread all over the sky; similarly, all fully liberated masters who can separate their reflected souls from their bodies at will and yet live in bodily forms are perfect and equal soul-images of God. There is a delusive difference in the appearance, but when they dematerialize their bodily confinements they are the same One Omnipresent Spirit.

Belief that one liberated master is greater than another is dogmatic ignorance

Dogmatic disciples with their little minds strive to represent their own particular master as greater than other masters. Who may say with authority: “My master is a fully liberated incarnation of God”? Only he who has true intuition and is himself perfected in the wisdom of God-attunement.

Anyone who says, “My master is the greatest incarnation of God, or the only liberated master,” is unquestionably ignorant. The yardstick of judging fully liberated masters is possessed only by fully liberated disciples. A liberated disciple is completely loyal to his master, the guru who had shown him the way to liberation, but he always respects other avatars and masters. Masters and disciples who have achieved Self-realization after wandering through various bypaths of beliefs love all saints as one in God. Ignorant disciples, trying to glorify a certain avatar as supreme over other avatars, instead belittle that master through their bigotry, intolerance, hate, inquisitions, crusades, and religious wars.

In Omnipresence there is no labor foreman, no president, nor servant; no great, greater, and greatest. All are equal and one with the Spirit—a joyous conclave of Divine Amity.

How Spirit Incarnates in the Successive Strata of Creation

These stanzas of the Gita may also be interpreted as a reference to the history of creation. “Whenever there is a distortion of My Spirit (the protecting shelter or dharma of the universe) through the action of My delusory maya, then My Infinite Oneness is divided into finite waves of creation, colliding with one another in the evil of pain and disharmony. In order to bring back the harmonious goodness of My One United Being and to destroy the ominous evils of seeming relativities, My Spirit (limited when displayed as warring matter, minerals, plants, animals, and human beings) continuously incarnates Itself in repeated evolutionary influxes until, by dissolving the unsalutary clashing dualities, all recover the eternal blissful state of oneness.”

The above brings out two points:

(1) Spirit, by eclipsing Itself in cosmic delusion, appears as myriad ever-changing material phenomena. It is by this process, this malevolent delusive medium, that Spirit re-creates Itself from the macrocosmic Infinitude to infinitesimal, microcosmic, almost unendingly divisible ions of energy. “I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.”15 Cosmic energy flowing down from Spirit manifests the troublesome material nature (Apara-Prakriti; Maya, Satan).

(2) After outwardly projecting Itself as energy into atomic matter, the utmost density of delusion, Spirit sees the constant roil of the atomic forces of finite creation—colliding, uniting, warring, dividing according to laws of attraction and repulsion—as etheric, gaseous, fiery, liquid, solid forms emerging, dissolving, ever changing. Spirit, disappointed that delusive maya does not reflect Its perfection in creation, halts this outward repulsion and begins the process of reunification by incarnating Itself in progressively higher forms of life and expression. Asleep in the inert minerals of matter, Spirit begins to dream in the vegetative life of trees and flowers. Then Spirit partially awakens in the sentient mobility of the tiny amoeba and the mighty beast. Fully awake in man, Spirit’s discriminative intelligence reaches out as a conqueror of the delusive mysteries of life. And in the illumined man, Spirit’s incarnation is complete!16

At whatever period of eternity Spirit first created Itself into various forms of creation, including the first human beings, all Its manifested objects easily reflected Its spiritual quality during a Spiritual Age of 4,800 years. The original purity of creation evidenced its emergence from causal manifestation into astral and then material form.

Descent of humanity from original Golden Age

Adam and Eve, symbolic of the first human beings specially created by God, were fully conscious of their divinity until through the temptation of Nature they indulged in sex creation, causing their godly consciousness to descend from the higher cerebrospinal centers of spiritual perception to the lower channels of life identified with sensual mortal consciousness.17

After the Spiritual Age, reincarnating earthly beings and their cosmic environment, under the influence of the outgoing separative desire of Spirit to create (manifesting as Maya, or the Cosmic Delusive Force), began to descend to the Mental Age of 3,600 years, the Atomic Age of 2,400 years, and the Material Age of 1,200 years.

After the general populace on earth and the entire solar universe had manifested the vibrations of the Material Age, then Spirit—to stop Its creation from further devolution—created a magnetic upward pull so that the Material Age began to evolve into the Atomic, Mental, and Spiritual Ages again, covering 12,000 more years.

The Yugas, or evolutionary cycles of history

These downward and upward evolutionary cycles, each complete equinoctial cycle taking 24,000 years, have been gone through about 83,000 times during the two billion years that scientists estimate the earth has already existed.18 Whenever this earthly school has fulfilled its temporary purpose in God’s scheme according to cyclic timing, or whenever all the inhabitants have been fully educated in manifesting complete divinity, then, through a cosmic deluge, Spirit will not only release human beings but also the karma-tortured active atoms of the earth. In partial dissolutions, only certain areas of the earth are “dissolved,” such as the continent of Atlantis and the Land of Mu (Lemuria) in the Pacific. Plato recounts the legends of one such partial dissolution when (about 9000 b.c.) the land vibrated and trembled and great fissures appeared; Atlantis disappeared into the surrounding water with its multitudinous inhabitants.19

History could hardly record complete cosmic or earthly dissolutions! At such times a planet, for example, and all things on it are converted into diaphanous energy. Only liberated masters, through visions, have seen such cosmic dissolutions; and no one except God has kept a record of how many times the earthly school-building and its pupils have been entirely dematerialized into astral or causal form, or into mere seed-ideas in the mind of the Creator, and then brought forth again throughout the many “Days of Creation”—periods of manifestation, which are then followed by “Nights of Dissolution.”

With each reemergence of the cosmic schoolhouse, God begins anew to train its pupils—some who are newly arrived, and others who are repeaters (as Krishna explains in VIII:19). Advancing through the different grades of incarnations, they must ultimately pass the final examination of liberation. As the lifespan for a whole universe, according to ancient seers, is over 300 trillion years—an Age of Brahma—no doubt God (garbed as Krishna) declares: “Arjuna, I have attained all, I have nothing to attain, yet I go on working” (III:22).

The Infinite Spirit has been in ecstasy in vibrationless space, and active in vibratory space, for countless aeons of eternity. The Spirit thus divides Itself in creation by the declining-power of delusion, and then brings back to Itself all prodigal outgoing forms through upward evolution. At the end of the universal lifespan, the wandering organic and inorganic forces are transmuted as fluid energy into His Cosmic Consciousness. The storm of delusion is recalled; all waves of animate and inanimate creation become again the sea of Spirit. But that is not the end! After a time, the seeds of creation, carefully preserved in Spirit, are cast forth again to begin their productive cycle anew.

The Downward and Upward Evolution of the Soul

Lastly, these two stanzas of the Gita relate also to the evolution of the individualized soul. During an incarnation, whenever a devotee finds himself in delusion owing to sense identification, the Spirit manifests Itself in him by trying to foster his longing for soul bliss.

Man’s desire to seek salvation often arises out of the torturing power of affliction. However, many mortals suffer through a long period of incarnations without experiencing any awakening. A deluded man is finally roused through the indwelling divine aid that urges him continuously to attempt to regain the image of Spirit; he discovers Its presence re-created within him by each new effort.

Thus, as often as man’s body-identified or depraved nature (adharma) manifests, owing to the effects of the misuse of free choice, so often does the soul’s real nature (dharma) emerge through spiritual self-effort, stimulated by the inward manifestations of the ever awake, ever kind Spirit:

“I manifest Myself in the soul of man to rally his good qualities (the springs of good actions) to conquer his human demerits (the springs of evil activities). I infuse My power in the devotee who inspirits his noble qualities of discrimination and calm intuitive conscience, dispassion, life-force control, self-control, self-discipline to avoid unrighteous actions, and spiritual patience in adherence to meditation, renunciation, and austerity. With the advent of My Spirit and Its reinforcement, the stimulated virtuous qualities cause the dissolution of the human vicious demerits—desire, anger, greed, attachment, egoity, jealousy, hate, illusion and delusion.”

The final victory of the evolution of the soul—of “virtue” over “vice”—is the inner realization or experience of ascension into Spirit. The first two verses of this Gita chapter described the spiritual symbolical aspect of the various stages (Vivasvat, Manu, Ikshvaku, and the Rajarishis) through which the soul of the devotee has descended from the Infinite to the finite.

Emerging from Cosmic Consciousness, the soul enters the vibratory state of Cosmic Light, or Vivasvat. When it comes under the influence of the mind (manas) it becomes individualized, limited by identification with human consciousness in general, termed the Manu state of the descending soul. Thence it flows down into astral life and consciousness, or the Ikshvaku state. The soul then further descends into the Rajarishis, or sense-identified state.

During a long lapse of time, the soul remains identified with the body and forgets its union with the Spirit. The soul thus leaves the higher cosmic spatial palace of Omnipresence to descend the darkening stairway of limitations, and begins to wander on the low plains of materialism; “vice” (adharma) prevails.

It follows that every prodigal son, seeking to ascend by retracing his footsteps upward to Spirit, must attune himself to the inner urgings of Spirit—incarnate in his soul—and through proper yoga meditation leave behind him the identification with material habits and sense enjoyments (Rajarishis), intuitive perception of astral life and consciousness (Ikshvaku), the sum total of individualized human consciousness (Manu), and Cosmic Light (Vivasvat). Reaching the Spirit, the soul “breathes” a long sigh of joyous relief! Perfect “virtue” (dharma) is reestablished.

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|| Hari Om ||
God bless us all, always

Q: Is there no benefit at all in doing japa with the mouth?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

Who said there is no benefit?
Such japa will be the means for chitta suddhi [purifying the mind].
As the japa is done repeatedly the effort ripens and sooner or later leads to the right path.
Good or bad, whatever is done never goes to waste.

Only the differences and the merits and demerits of each will have to be told, looking to the stage of development of the person concerned.

Q: Is not mental japa better than oral japa?

Sri Ramana Maharshi:

Oral japa consists of sounds.
The sounds arise from thoughts,
for one must think before one expresses the thoughts in words.

The thoughts are form the mind.
Therefore mental japa is better than oral japa.

Q: Should we not contemplate the japa and repeat it orally also?

Sri Ramana Maharshi :

When the japa becomes mental,
where is the need for the sounds?

Japa, becoming mental, becomes contemplation.
Dhyana, contemplation and mental japa are the same.

When thoughts cease to be promiscuous and one thought persists to the exclusion of all others,
it is said to be contemplation.

The object of japa or dhyana is the exclusion of several thoughts and confining oneself to one single thought.

Then that thought too vanishes
into its source – absolute consciousness.

The mind engages in japa and then sinks into its own source.

~ From Be as you are book Of Ramana maharshi

Actually, it is a lot more complex than that. There is something like an awakened mantra. That is super charged. That takes over and the path is shortened

I saw a man in DC receive a super charged mantra and he immediately started receiving completed mantra. He was born and raised in America and he and his parents neither had any Indian language knowledge.
He spoke in Sanskrit verses for about 1-2 hours. Constantly.

What happened? The charged mantra took over him. He merely surrendered

So this is an example of Maha yoga – awakening of shakti.

But there are other methods also. Only a Guru can know all of them

You can’t stop your mine using your mind!

I give a slightly different example

You can’t stop the merry go round by sitting in the merry go round !

The mind is the merry go round. Constantly active. Thinking. Getting upset. Getting happy. Analyzing. Reading. Understanding. Drawing conclusions. None of those things will take you to God !

Silly isn’t it ? That’s all everyone does. Read. Read.

Of course some reading is needed. Only to reinforce. And get you convinced – meditate. Trust me. A very long battle

Then learning the right technique to meditate. Imagination – like think of an ocean won’t help. Or listening to a tape. That won’t help either. **There is a specific technique that helps. Some call it kriya yoga. But they have no clue how to do it properly. Just because you took lessons from A blog or subscription won’t help.
Others call it make maha yoga. I have never revealed the technique online **

Everyone calls it by a different name. People latch on to the different names …… and now they feel good. Important. Start teaching Others. And if life circumstances are good the credit goes to the technique

However I do not seek people like that. They are dime a dozen Those with the correct technique. Correct understanding. They have something different. There is something tangible. Life will continue to challenge you. After all karma will pursue you relentlessly. But karma should not change your inner peace

Many people lose peace. Why ? They hold on to desire. Desire is the single most thing that will destroy you. Now and in future.

A short prayer

Just say no to MR desire.

Mr Desire , you have been my enemy for many births. I no longer wish for your association. I would rather be truly alone without you. If you come knocking on my door, I know it is like Satan knocking on it. I will no longer talk with you. Or fall prey to your evil company. With Gods Grace and the company of enlightened ones, Mr desire I will be rid of thee. Enlightened beings I am in thy light. Please burn the desires quickly. I only seek the light of God

This refers to loss of prana

Don’t joke all the time with each other. Be happy and cheerful inside. Why dissipate in useless talk the perceptions you have gained? Words are like bullets: when you spend their force in idle conversation, your supply of inner ammunition is wasted. Your consciousness is like a milk pail: when you fill it with the peace of meditation you ought to keep it that way. Joking is often false fun that drives holes in the sides of your bucket and allows all the milk of your peace to run out.

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

The ultimate victor is time. It devours everything. Multiple saints and Gods have walked and are lost in the tide of time

But more subtle is your achievements and losses
When times are good you gain much. You become proud. And when times are bad everything goes awry.

This is the course of time. No exception. So why be proud or sad. Things will change.

But self consciousness is beyond it. The body may Be lost but never the pure self.

People get tired. Lose patience. But patience is what makes even time become weak. Patience Comes from faith.
Faith comes from inner purity. Inner purity is a gift from association of great souls

Hence rare blogs help.

योग वाशिष्ठ दर्शन।
अध्याय 23
ज्ञानोदयका उत्तम प्रकार।
पोस्ट 4

अंदर बाहर व्यापक है। जैसे दर्पण सभी चीजों के प्रतिबिंब का स्थान है,उसी तरह, मैं सभी प्राणियो के देह इंन्द्रिया आदि अनुभवों का स्थान हूं। चैतन्य रूप अंतरात्मा जिन वस्तुओं का संकल्प करता है वह चीजे तुरंत उत्पन्न होती है। आत्मा में स्थित यह कारण कार्यरूप जगत अनिर्वचनीय है। जिन लोगों का चित्त अति विमल हुआ होता है, केवल वे महात्मा पुरुष ही वेसे चिदाकाश का अनुभव करते हैं। मैं एक हु, सर्वव्यापी हु, सब स्थावर जंगम पदार्थो में साक्षी और नियंता के रूप में रहता हूं। जैसे कि जो पूरे शरीर को धारण करने वाला जोन के कारण मैं स्त्री भी हूं, मैं पुरुष भी हूं, मैं भी सभी वस्तुओं के अंदर भी हूं, और मैं सभी वस्तुओं के रूप में भी हूं। जैसा कि एक बच्चा खिलौने बनाता है, वैसे ही आत्मा ने इस अजीब वैविध्यपूर्ण सृष्टि की रचना अपने भीतर बनाई है। जो भी दृश्य है वह परिवर्तनशील, विनाशकारी, दृष्टा के अधीन है। मुझे वही मिला है जो मेरे लिए प्राप्त करने योग्य है। अब में अल्पात्मा नहीं रहा। अब मुझे पता चला है कि मेरे सभी पूर्वज मूर्ख थे, क्योंकि वे देहादिक पदार्थो के साथ अहंता को बांधकर विषय भोगो में पशुओं की तरह चिपके रहते थे। जैसा कि सभी दृश्यों के बाध होने पर जो अखण्ड रूप शेष बचता है, वह परम चैतन्य है, यही मोक्ष है।
आत्मा जो अपने अच्छे बुरे संकल्पों के रूप में गंदा है, एक पाश से बंधे पक्षी की तरह ब्रह्मरूपी चिदाकाश में नहीं चढ़ सकता। मेरा अपना स्वरूप अब बिना आवरण के पूर्ण चन्द्र जैसा हो गया है। मैं शरीर में रहता हूं, फिर भी मेद, अस्थि, मांस, मज्जा, खून आदि से अलग हूं। जैसा कि तिल में तेल है, दूध में घृत है, फूलों में सुगंध है, मीठे पदार्थों में मिठास, ओर नमकीन पदार्थों में लवणता है, उसी तरह सभी पदार्थों में आत्मा स्थित है, अहंकार रूप बादल मुझसे दूर हो गए हैं, मेरे दिमाग में आशारूपी अग्नि शांत हो गया हैं। मैंने कामदेव के रुप अग्नि से तपे हुए मन को मेने ज्ञान द्वारा शांत किया है। मेरा मन अब बिना काष्ठ के आग की तरह शांत हुआ है। में आसक्ति से मोह से रहित हो गया हूं। दृश्य वस्तुओं का वास्तविक स्वरूप मेने जान लीया है। मेरे मन में जो अज्ञानता रूप जड़ता थी, वह दूर हो गई है। जिस प्रकार जल और तरंग के भेद की अवधारणा विशुद्ध रूप से व्यावहारिक, असत्य है, वेसे आत्मा और परमात्मा के बीच की भेद की कल्पना मिथ्या है। (केवल उपलक दष्टि ही है)। जिस तरह सूर्य अपार आकाश में अविरत गति करता रहता है, वेसे मैं भी अब अपने अनंत स्वरूप में विहार करता हु। आत्मनिष्ठ होने के कारण अनुकूल या प्रतिकूल परिस्थितियों में भी, मैं अपनी समता को नहीं खोता। अविवेकी, अज्ञान ग्रस्त मनुष्यो का मन अतार्किक वासनाओ से भरा होता है। विवेक द्रष्टि से अजर अमर दिखाई देता हे आत्मा, तेरी जय हो; वास्तविक से मन के अविषय रूप दिखाई देता है आत्मा, तेरी जय हो। में तेरे दर्शन से शांत हो गया हु, प्रफुल्लित हो गया हु, ज्ञानशक्ति आनन्द स्वरूप हुआ हूं, जीवन मुक्त हुआ हु, विषयगत इच्छाओं से मुक्त हुआ हूं, और अब मुजे किसी प्रकार का बंधन नहीं है। मैं सभी माया का अधिपति हूं। मेरा न कोई जन्म है, न कोई मृत्यु है; अचल शांति मेने प्राप्त की है, मैं गुणातीत ओर द्वंद्वातीत हो गया हूं।

क्रमश:

The English translation is very weak. But still conveys an impression

Yoga special darshan.
Chapter 23
Jñānōdayakā best type.
Post 4

The inside is wide out. As the mirror is the place of reflection of all things, in the same way, I am the place of the body of all the people of the The things which are determined by the soul of consciousness are immediately generated. In the soul, this is the reason why the world is unexplainable. Those who have a very vimal mind, only those mahatma men experience the same cidākāśa. I am one, omnipresent, I live as witness and captain in all when movable diverse. As I am a woman because of the zone that holds the whole body, I am also a man, I am also inside all things, and I am also as all things. As a child makes toys, so the soul has created this strange universal creation within itself. Whatever the scene is, the variable, destructive, under the vision. I got the one who is worthy to get for me. There is no longer an objection. Now I know that all my ancestors were fools, because they were glued to the dēhādika and glued to the topic. As the undivided form of the rest of the scene remains, it is the ultimate consciousness, that is the salvation.
The soul that is as dirty as its good bad resolutions, can not climb the brahmarūpī cidākāśa like a bird tied to a loop. My own nature is now like full moon without cover. I live in the body, still different from marrow, bone, meat, marrow, blood etc. As oil in the sesame, Aloe in milk, fragrance in flowers, sweetness in sweet substances, and salinity in salty substances, in the same way, the soul is located in all substances, the ego form clouds have gone away from me, in my mind Āśārūpī fire has become calm. I have silenced my mind with a fire as a cupid. My mind is now calm like a fire without wood. I have become free from attachment to attachment. I have known the real form of visual objects. The ignorance that was in my mind has gone away. As the concept of the difference between water and wave is purely practical, false, the mystery between the soul and the God is a myth. (only the upalaka is the only one). Just as the sun keeps on moving in the sky, I also live in my infinite form. I don’t lose my parity even in favorable or adverse conditions because of self-respect. Irrational, the mind of the ignorant man is full of illogical vāsanā’ō. The soul appears to be immortal by the vision of conscience, hail to you; the soul of the mind appears to be the soul of the mind, hail to you. I am calm down from your sight, I am hilarious, I have become happy, I am free, I am free, I am free from thematic desires, and now I do not have any kind of bond. I am the overlord of all maya. I have no birth, no death; I have received the real peace, I have become how and dvandvātīta.

YES

Although Maharshi did not give an explanation, those who believe he was enlightened can take his word as gospel

You can use all the logic you have, but until you know the origin of matter you cannot comprehend

Maharshi said that very clearly when someone said plants have life. He said stones have life too!

Now how can we know “life”?

And what did Jesus say, let the dead bury the dead!

This is the ultimate secret
But English being a weak language , there is a more secret meaning hidden
This sentence is both the goal and method

Most people will quickly imagine they are a witness. They are the people who have time to write big books, impress people and feel self important

Those with a little bit of IQ – devotee their energy to getting something more profound and realize that this witness watches without the slightest concept of I

Now what is that?

One if the greatest person to walk on earth

He says

The Universe is in you
We struggle to even understand the length of a football field. Can you imagine what the self consciousness is with has the entire universe within it?

Now some very intellectual people will escape this logic by thinking its an allegory.

But my answer is – learn to meditate. Then find the truth.

Debate will neither help you or support your views

There is a stage where the pure I emerges. This pure I emerges when all thoughts, emotions and the ego of body is forgetten

At that time the pure I ( And a few other things ) emerges.

And that is the first step !

The world. We see multiplicity. Although all is GOd

That is the illusion. A rope looking like a snake

The saints have found that happiness lies in a constant mental state of unruffled peace during all the experiences of earthly dualities.

A changeable mind perceives a changeable creation, and is easily disturbed; the unchangeable soul and the unruffled mind, on the other hand, behold, behind the masks of change, the Eternal Spirit.

The man whose mind is like an oscillating mirror beholds all creation as distorted into waves of change; but the man who holds his mental mirror steady beholds there naught but the reflections of the Sole Unity—God.

Through realization, not mere imagination, he sees that his body and all things are the condensed consciousness of Spirit.

The mind, free of artificial excitation, remains centered in its native state of inner peace and soul joy.

~Paramahansa Yogananda
“God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita” p.205

People want to imagine this ! Why not enjoy the bliss by experience ?

But…..

Your ego says you know it
Your ego says I can do it on my own
Your body does not cooperate
Your ego does not want to surrender to a Guru

Where is the hope then?