InnerRealisation

People repeat God’s name in various ways, as they are taught. According to my experience if the mantra is recited with proper breathing, the mind becomes silent and samadhi ensues.
Even when Arjuna was fighting a war, his peace was not shaken. Without peace there is no samadhi. The peace that results from Self-realization is the real samadhi. The rest are mental constructs.

Know that you are not the body or the mind or prana, and be quiet. Then the actions performed by the body-mind will not affect you.

To whom has birth happened?
To whom does old age come?
Think about that.
All good and bad habits come with the body, and go with the body. But you are not the body. As long as you take yourself as the body, there will be a sense of being a man or a woman with the accompanying pains and pleasures. All attributes depend upon body-consciousness.
Our true nature has no attributes.

The ultimate Truth, Paramatman, has no caste or creed. The one who is the knower recognizes this and keeps silent. If I tell you to do some ritual you will do it, but it will not be of any use to you. Your miseries are because of your consciousness, not because of the world. Knowledge that can be spoken is of the nature of ignorance. Any action in the world is just entertainment. Unless you forget this entertainment, there will be no peace. The real jnani does not see the world as true at all. A jnani has no problem of whether to act or not to act. Hence, nothing can be said about his household.

Just saying, ‘I am not the body, I am not the
mind’, is not sufficient. It should be known whose attributes are the body and the mind. Only wordy knowledge will not do.

Consciousness in the body is the characteristic of the essence of food. It will last as long as the essence is there. All things are contained in consciousness. Prana and consciousness arise out of the food essence.
How long will they last?
Consciousness through which you experience the world is not everlasting.

!!! MEDITATIONS with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Nirupana 90. An excerpt.
Thursday, February 1, 1979.

Surrender is to surrender your concept of separateness, your ego.
Surrender is to submit your stupidness, your wickedness,
to the will of existence. That´s all.
You must surrender like a river discharging into the ocean.
Surrender is to discharge your river of separateness
into the ocean of Being, losing your limitations,
and allowing to happen what happens.

~ Papaji

We cannot meditate because of the diseases of the mind. These diseases are attraction and aversion, attachment and hate, anger and greed. For meditation you need a very healthy mind.

We have to get rid of these diseases of the mind. How can we meditate when our mind is diseased? While meditating you have to be very alert, vigilant and watchful so that for a little time during meditation these diseases don’t show up. In the beginning they may trouble you, they may rise up, but gradually they will go on vanishing. When they have vanished you will enjoy meditation while sitting, while walking, while talking, and at work. Then meditation will become your nature – will be spontaneous without any effort of sitting meditations.

There you will see your own Self which doesn’t need any meditation. You will be one with the Heart – the mind will merge into the heart and heart into the Self, and Self is always free. The Self is always wisdom, light and freedom itself. You have to be careful while meditating that these notions of attachment, hatred, greed and lust do not touch you.

~ Papaji

It is extremely important to find out whether or not you can keep the continuity of your calmness throughout the day. Your muscles, your senses, your desires, and the misunderstandings of others, all come to disturb the quietude of your soul. To be controlled by moods is to be a part of matter. If you keep your mind on the resolve never to lose your peace, you can attain godliness. Keep a secret chamber of silence within yourself, where you will not let moods, trials, battles, or inharmony enter. Keep out all hatred, revengefulness, and desires. In this chamber of peace, God will visit you.

– Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
Solving The Mystery of Life
“The Art of Right Action”, page 41

“To know God is the most important way to heal all disease – physical, mental, spiritual. As darkness cannot remain where light is, so also the darkness of disease is driven away by the light of God’s perfect presence when it enters the body.

When the Master of the Universe came into my body temple, my heart forgot to beat, and all the cells of my body forgot their duties. They were transfixed, listening to the voice of Life Immortal – the Lover of all life, the Life of all lives. My heart, my brain, all the cells of my being were electrified, immortalized with His Presence. Such is the love of the Lord.”

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

The result of the final examination at the end of this earthly sojourn will be determined by the sum total of achievements and mental and spiritual diplomas won at the various examinations throughout life. Those totally successful in this last great examination will receive a diploma of divine self-sufficiency, a free and joyous conscience, and blessings, engraved eternally on the parchment of the soul. This rare reward is incorruptible by moths, beyond the reach of thieves and the eraser of time, and is awarded for honourable entry into the Fellowship of Truth.

– Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
Man’s Eternal Quest
“The Balanced Life(Curing Mental Abnormalities)”, page 352

All the prophets observe these two foremost commandments. Loving God with all your heart means to love Him with the love that you feel for the person who is dearest to you – with the love of the mother or father for the child, or the lover for the beloved. Give that kind of unconditional love to God. Loving God with all your soul means you can truly love Him when through deep meditation you know yourself as a soul, a child of God, made in His image. Loving God with all your mind means that when you are praying, your while attention is on Him, not distracted by restless throughts. In meditation, think only of God; don’t let the mind wander to everything else but God. That is why yoga is important; it enables you to concentrate. When by yoga you withdraw the restless life force from the sense nerves and become interiorized in the thought of God, then you are loving Him with all of your strength – the whole of your being is concentrated in Him.

– Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
Journey to Self-Realization
“Probing The Core of Nervousness”, page 96-97

Hardly anyone thinks of your highest welfare except your spiritual teacher and God. The wise teacher will give you but one instruction: Think of God. And share Him; there is no form of service greater than to speak of God. If you convince someone that the path of error leads to the valley of death, and that the path of meditation leads to everlasting life, you have given him something of more value than a million dollars. Money is perishable, but realization of God will go with us beyond the portals of the grave. Therefore whenever I see anyone striving and struggling with great intensity to know God, it gives me great joy.

– Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
Man’s Eternal Quest
“Making Religion Scientific”, page 49

Prince! I shall ask you a question. Please answer me.
I learnt about the Supreme Truth from Ashtaka and later from you.
You are a Sage; but still, how is it that you go out hunting?
How can a Sage be engaged in work?
Work implies duality; wisdom is non-duality; the two are thus opposed to each other. Please clear this doubt of mine.

Thus requested, Hemangada spoke to the Brahmin as follows:

O Brahmin!
Your confusion owing to ignorance has not yet been cleared up.
WISDOM IS ETERNAL AND NATURAL.
How can it be contradicted by work?
Should work make wisdom ineffective,
how can wisdom be useful any more
than a dream?
No eternal good is possible in that case.
All this work is dependent on
Self-awareness (i.e., wisdom).
Being so, can work destroy wisdom and yet remain in its absence?

Wisdom is that consciousness
in which this world with all its phenomena and activities is known to be, as an image or series of images;
the duality essential for work is also a phenomenon in that non-dual awareness.

There is no doubt that a man realises the Self only after purging himself of all thoughts, and that he is then released from bondage, once for all.
Your question has thus no basis and cannot be expected of the wise.

Then the Brahmin continued further:

True, O Prince!
I have also concluded that the Self is pure, unblemished Intelligence.
But how can it remain unblemished when will arises in it?
Will is modification of the Self,
giving rise to confusion, similar to that of a snake in a coil of rope.

Listen, O Brahmin!
You do not yet clearly distinguish confusion from clarity. The sky appears blue to all alike whether they know that space is colourless or not.
Even the one who knows  speaks of the ‘blue sky’ but is not himself confused.
The ignorant man is confused whereas the man who knows is not.
The latter’s seeming confusion is harmless, like a snake that is dead. His work is like images in a mirror.
There lies the difference between a Sage and an ignorant man.

The former has accurate knowledge and unerring judgement, whereas the latter has a blurred conception and his judgement is warped.

Knowledge of Truth never forsakes a Sage although he is immersed in work. All his activities are like reflections in a mirror for, being Self-realised, ignorance can no longer touch him.

Wrong knowledge, due to sheer ignorance, can be corrected by true knowledge; but wrong knowledge, due to a fault, cannot be so easily corrected. So long as there is diplopia the eyesight will be blurred and many images of a single object will be seen.

Similarly, so long as there is prarabdha (residual past karma) unaccounted for, the manifestation of the world will continue for the Jnani, though only as a phenomenon. This will also vanish as soon as the prarabdha has played itself out and then pure, unblemished Intelligence alone will remain.

Therefore I tell you, there is no blemish attached to a Jnani, though he appears active and engaged in worldly duties.

~ Tripura Rahasya
CHAPTER XXII, (5-26)The Conclusion.

“After knowing Eckhart Tolle for a while and studying the books, I woke up and suddenly got it. I understood how thought is just illusory, and that thought is responsible for most, if not all of the suffering we experience. And then I suddenly felt like I was looking at thoughts from another perspective, and I wondered, who is it that is aware that ‘I’ am thinking? And suddenly I was thrown into this expansive amazing feeling of freedom – from myself, from my problems. I saw that I am bigger than what I do, bigger than my body. I am everything and everyone. I am no longer a fragment of the universe. I am the universe.”
~ Jim Carrey

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
You are NOT just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Life is so beautiful, especially when I’m absent from it. Don’t get me wrong, Jim Carrey is a great character, and I was lucky to get the part, but I don’t think of that as me anymore. I used to be a guy who was experiencing the world and now I feel like the world and universe experiencing a guy. So there’s kind of been a shift.”
~ Jim Carrey

“You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Everyone is saying Jim Carrey has gone insane, I’m not surprised. Consciousness has always been regarded as madness. They’d rather see me being a rich arrogant prick.”
~ Jim Carrey

“The absurd overvaluation of fame is just one of the many manifestations of egoic madness in our world.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“I’ve often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it’s not where you’ll find your sense of completion.
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
~ Jim Carrey

“Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.”
~ Jim Carrey

“Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul. I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I’m the container.”
~ Jim Carrey

“You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“I don’t believe in personalities. Peace lies beyond personality.“
~ Jim Carrey

“Walk through life as a field of conscious Presence, not as a personality.”
~ Eckhart Tolle