InnerRealisation

Meditation is not done with effort; it happens on its own, it reveals itself on its own. But for meditation to manifest on its own, one has to undergo the discipline of meditation. But doing it and it happening are quite different.

~ Anandamayee Ma

True calmness means that God is with you. If you become restless, you will irritate people and they will will be angry with you. Then you will be miserable…
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Remember that if you remain inwardly calm under all circumstances you can conquer anything or anyone. True calmness means that God is with you. If you become restless, you will irritate people and they will be angry with you. Then you will be miserable….
If someone is trying to get you in trouble, affirm continuously, “I am peace, I am calm,” and say it deeply. No matter how others may try to shake you, hold on to that peace. Your nerves will then be calm.
If anyone can make you angry, you have not yet attained perfect calmness; but maintaining calmness does not mean that you should let others make a doormat out of you. Sometimes it is necessary to make others understand that you mean business; but you are a child of God and you should never be angry. The more often you lose your temper, the longer you will remain in the delusory mortal consciousness; but if you remain inwardly calm, you are demonstrating the poise of a true child of God.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.
Peace in your daily life. P.90-91.
[Inner Peace]

“When it is found,
nothing else remains to be found;
the sense of want will not awaken anymore,
and the hearts torment be stilled forever.
Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness,
which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be yourself”

Avatar Shri Anandamayi Ma

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫: The Westerners who occasionally come to see you are faced with a peculiar difficulty. The very notion of a liberated man, a realised man, a self-knower, a God-knower, a man beyond the world, is unknown to them. All they have in their Christian culture, is the idea of a saint: a pious man, law-abiding, God-fearing, fellow-loving, prayerful, sometimes prone to ecstasies and confirmed by a few miracles. The very idea of a jnani is foreign to Western culture, something exotic and rather unbelievable. Even when his existence is accepted, he is looked at with suspicion, as a case of self-induced euphoria caused by strange physical postures and mental attitudes. The very idea of a new dimension in consciousness seems to them implausible and improbable. What will help them is the opportunity of hearing a Jñani relate his own experience of realisation, its causes and beginnings, its progress and attainments and its actual practice in daily life. Much of what he says may remain strange, even meaningless, yet there will remain a feeling of reality, an atmosphere of actual experiencing, ineffable, yet very real, a centre from which an exemplary life can be lived.

𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣:  The experience may be incommunicable. Can one communicate an experience?

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫: Yes, if one is an artist. The essence of art is communication of feeling, of experience.

𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣: To receive communication, you must be receptive.

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫: Receiver? Of course. There must be a receiver. But if the transmitter does not transmit, of what use is the receiver?

𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣: The Jñani belongs to all. He gives himself tirelessly and completely to whoever comes to him. If he is not a giver, he is not a jnani. Whatever he has, he shares!

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫: But can he share what he is?

𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣: You mean, can he make others into Jñanis? Yes and no. No, since Jñanis are not made, they realise themselves as such, when they return to their Source, their real nature.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj – I Am That – Chapter 38 – Pages 134 – 135

Rise high till you reach the peak of wisdom , where senses couldn’t touch in that fortress. You are always protected from lust , greed, anger, attachments, maya.

Just float above all these in your floating or flying fortress. Above all sensory pleasures,  above all worries,  above this egocentric world.

Whenever you have to come down, then just visit as a tourist,  see what these earthlings are doing on this holy earth, never connected to anything but be a part of everything.

In life we meet so many people, some get along for life some only for few moments. Select those who are right for you.

If influencers are of some different paths, the path of enjoying material life’s .then it will drag you, delay your growth. If one really want to address and understand what life really means, then choose them who, too, wish the same thing .

Everyone around you influences you from your parents to the whole society,  so choose wisely once you have gained maturity of thoughts.

When the profound ecstasy of God falls over you, the body becomes absolutely still, the breath ceases to flow, and thoughts are quite  —banished,,,
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Once you have tasted the wine of spiritual ecstasy, you will find that no other experience can compare with it.
Sacred bliss is never-ending, but the pleasures that come from alcohol and drugs are short-lasting and ultimately bring misery.
Every night in sleep you have a taste of peace and joy. While you are in deep slumber, God makes you live in the tranquil superconsciousness, in which all the fears and worries of this existence are forgotten. By meditation you can experience that holy state of mind when you are awake, and be constantly immersed in healing peace.
When the divine joy comes, immediately my breath is still and I am lifted into the Spirit. I feel the bliss of a thousand sleeps rolled into one, and yet I don’t lose my ordinary awareness. This is universally the experience of those who go deep in the superconscious state. When the profound ecstasy of God falls over you, the body becomes absolutely still, the breath ceases to flow, and the thoughts are quiet-banished, every one, by the magic command of the soul. Then you drink of God’s bliss and experience an intoxication of joy that not a thousand draughts of wine could give you.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.
Man’s Eternal Quest. P.161.
[The true experience of spiritual ecstasy]

Intellect is the only instrument that can take us away from two unreal worlds to real authority. As we gain an understanding of reality through knowledge, we start introspection of it. This makes our conviction stronger about the real authority, our Intellect  could easily discriminate and bring mind and senses under its control.

Then, intellect only plays an important role in establishing ourselves in existence, consciousness, bliss state ( sat chit aanand).

Once we go beyond all thoughts, we come to the point of blankness, stillness,  pause, no motion.

This state is beyond mind, feelings, and senses. Stay here as long as possible.  Understand it’s true nature. This is turiya, this is self, this is life goal.

Establish it then comes the final connection with beyond.

All you have to do is sit still in meditation, and with the sword of discrimination cut off, one by one, the advance of restless thoughts.
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Waste no more time, for if you have to change your bodily residence you will have to wait a long time for another opportunity to seek God carnestly, passing first through rebirth and the travails of childhood and the restlessness of youth. Why squander your time in useless desires? It is foolish to spend your life seeking things you must forsake at death. You will never find happiness that way. But every effort you make toward the contact of God in meditation will bring you an everlasting gift of the soul. Start now-those of you who are real lovers of God, seeking not your own glory, but the glory of Spirit.
Each one has to win his own victory. Make up your mind that you are going to be supremely victorious. You don’t need an army or money or any other material help to gain the highest victory attainable; just a strong determination that you are going to win. All you have to do is sit still in meditation, and with the sword of discrimination cut off, one by one, the advance of restless thoughts. When they will all be dead, God’s kingdom of calm wisdom will be yours.
Every one of you who has heard this sermon, and who makes a sincere effort to change, will find a greater communion with God, and in Him the true and lasting victory of the spirit.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.
The Divine Romance. P.400-401.
[How to find a way to victory]