InnerRealisation

There are four stages of nonattachment. The first is to make a sincere attempt not to allow the mind to dwell on sensual objects. When objects beckon the student he should endeavor to free himself from those attractions. With the gradual dawning of discrimination, nonattachment develops and equilibrium is established. This is the second stage. When the senses have been subdued – the third stage, the mind responds with hatred and affection for worldly objects because it can function independently of the senses. In the higher stages of nonattachment the objects of the world do not tempt one at all. The senses are under control, and the mind is perfectly free from likes and dislikes and all other pairs of opposites. This is the fourth stage. The aspirant has now gained independence and supremacy.

-SWAMI RAMA
Lectures on yoga [pg 6]

“Truly speaking it is not you who call Him, but He who calls you.

Just as in the hushed silence of night the sound of distant temple bells and conches can be clearly heard, even so, when through intense and undivided devotion to Him the hunger of the senses is stilled, His call will find response from your inmost depths and reverberate through your whole being. Then and then only will true prayer spontaneously flow from your heart.

This divine call is bound to come to everyone for Shiva, the Eternal Spirit, has resolved Himself into jivas, sentient beings, and every creature has to become recovered again into Shiva.
Just as water freezes into ice, and ice melts into water, so this play of transformation of Shiva into jiva and jiva into Shiva goes on and on through eternity.”

– Ma Anandamayi

Bhagawan Lovingly Explains…

What Is Deathless Travel…?

Deathless Travel (Amara Gati) is:

1. Conscious Pranic exit, with full awareness.

2. Withdrawal of all five koshas without trauma.

3. No decay, no ghosting, no rebirth loop.

4. Direct entry into Chidakasa (pure awareness field).

Siddha Yogis do not wait for death. They prepare, reverse, and rise.

Love All, Serve All, Pray All.

(AMRIT VANI)

Swamiji.

“We may worship anything by seeing God in it, if we can forget the idol and see God there. We must not project any image upon God. But we may fill any image with that Life which is God. Only forget the image, and you are right enough — for “out of Him comes everything”. He is everything. We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God.

Two sorts of persons never require any image – the human animal who never thinks of any religion, and the perfected being who has passed through these stages. Between these two points all of us require some sort of ideal, outside and inside.”

~ Swami Vivekananda
(CW/V4/Addresses on Bhakti-Yoga/The Chief Symbols)

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Devotee: What is that Self in actual experience?

Bhagavan: It is the Light which ever shines in the Cave of the Heart as the flame of the Consciousness ‘I’ ‘I’ — the eternal and
blissful Sat-chit-ananda.

This is the answer to the vichara and its
fulfillment. The ‘I’, which has carried out a determined and protracted search into its own nature, has at long last found itself to be not other than the Pure Mind, the immaculate Being, which is eternally wrapped in blissful stillness.

This is Turiya, the Fourth, or Samadhi (the highest stage).

– Guru Ramana by S.S. Cohen.

The Perfect Man and Work

A newly married young woman remains deeply absorbed in the performance of domestic duties so long as no child has been born to her. But as soon as she has a child she begins to neglect the minor details of household work, and does not find much pleasure in them. Instead, she fondles the new-born baby all the day and kisses it with intense joy.

Thus a man in his state of ignorance is ever busy in the performance of all sorts of work but as soon as he sees in his heart the presence of God, he finds no pleasure in such work. On the contrary, his happiness consists now only in serving God and doing His will. He no longer finds happiness in any other occupation, and he cannot withdraw himself from the ecstasy of that holy communion.

– Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna. 970.

There is a difference between work and mere activity. All nature works. Work is nature, nature is work. On the other hand, activity is based on desire and fear, on longing to possess and enjoy, on fear of pain and annihilation. Work is by the whole for the whole, activity is by oneself for oneself.

Even if everyone were to pray day and night to become as rich as Henry Ford, their prayers could not be granted because earth is not a place where everybody can be a Henry Ford. But everyone can be rich in Spirit, for God has given everyone equal power to become like Him. When you claim your divinity, everything belongs to you. A Henry Ford might lose his wealth or his health, but a Jesus Christ can create health or wealth or anything else he wants, at will. So don’t long to be as rich or as healthy as someone else; have only one desire: to be like God. Jesus never claimed that he was the only son of God. The Father loves you, His child, just as much as He loves Jesus. And God won’t deny you anything if, like Jesus, you establish your true status with Him. Meditation is the way to reclaim your lost divinity.

~ Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoganandaji, “Man’s Eternal Quest”

Meditate on God all the time, whatever you may do, wherever you may be. Remember, whatever you see, whatever you hear is God’s manifestation. Pain exists because you believe yourself to be separate. Don’t consider anyone as separate from yourself. Regard everyone as your friend. Consider yourself to be God’s tool (yantra) and think that God is moving you. Dedicate yourself entirely to God, feel all the time that God is doing everything. Even when you walk, feel that god is moving your legs. ~Anandamayi Ma
Anandamayi Ma

Time and tide wait for no man. So the time indicated by the sunrise and the sunset will be uselessly wasted if such time is not properly utilized for realizing identification of spiritual values.

Even a fraction of the duration of life wasted cannot be compensated by any amount of gold.

Human life is simply awarded to a living entity, jiva, so he can realize his spiritual identity and his permanent source of happiness. A living being, especially the human being, is seeking happiness, because happiness is the natural situation of the living entity. But he is vainly seeking happiness in the material atmosphere.

A living being is constitutionally a spiritual spark of the complete whole, and his happiness can be perfectly perceived in spiritual activities. The Lord is the complete spirit whole and His name, form, quality, pastimes, entourage and personality are all identical with Him.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.