Heart Is Thy Name, Oh Lord

Neem Karoli Baba १ - Audio

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Sathya Sai Baba is Pure Love

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Judy Collins - My Father

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2012-01-23T00:12:00.000-05:00

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Ding Dong, Ding Dong - George Harrison (1974) High Quality

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SAI BABA - МОЛИТВА Оптинских Старцев

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Amazing Grace - Self-Realization

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Holy Sheeeeeeeeee-it!

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Krishna Das - Ma Durga - Anandamayi Ma

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She is so amazingly beautiful and yet fully detached and fully absorbed

Her blessings for all humanity

beautiful Ma !!!!!

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PAPAJI - 'Who am I?'

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Show me My Self!

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Bliss is not added to your nature, it is merely revealed as your true natural state, eternal and imperishable. ~ Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi On Reincarnation

2010-11-15T23:38:00.000-05:00

From The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Edited by David Godman

Question:Is reincarnation true?

Sri Ramana Maharshi: Reincarnation exists only so long as there is ignorance. There is really no reincarnation at all, either now or before. Nor will there be any hereafter. This is the truth.

[Note: Comments by David Godman: Most religions have constructed elaborate theories which purport to explain what happens to the individual soul after the death of the body. Some claim that the soul goes to heaven or hell while others claim that it is reincarnated in a new body.

Sri Ramana Maharshi taught that all such theories are based on the false assumption that the individual self or soul is real; once this illusion is seen through, the whole superstructure of after-life theories collapses. From the standpoint of the Self, there is no birth or death, no heaven or hell, and no reincarnation.

As a concession to those who were unable to assimilate the implications of this truth, Sri Ramana would sometimes admit that reincarnation existed. In replying to such people he would say that if one imagined that the individual self was real, then that imaginary self would persist after death and that eventually it would identify with a new body and a new life. The whole process, he said, is sustained by the tendency of the mind to identify itself with a body. Once the limiting illusion of mind is transcended, identification with the body ceases, and all theories about death and reincarnation are found to be inapplicable.]

Question: Can a yogi know his past lives?

Maharshi: Do you know the present life that you wish to know the past? Find the present, then the rest will follow. Even with our present limited knowledge, you suffer so much. Why should you burden yourself with more knowledge? Is it to suffer more?

When seen through the sight of the supreme space of Self, the illusion of taking birth in this mirage-like false world is found to be nothing but the egotistical ignorance of identifying a body as "I". Among those whose minds are possessed with forgetfulness of Self, those who are born will die and those who die will be born again. But know that those whose minds are dead, having known the glorious Supreme Reality, will remain only there in that elevated state of reality, devoid of both birth and death. Forgetting Self, mistaking the body for Self, taking innumerable births, and at last knowing Self and being Self is just like waking from a dream of wandering all over the world.

Question: How long does it take a man to be reborn after death? Is it immediately after death or some time later?

Maharshi: You do not know what you were before birth, yet you want to know what you will be after death. Do you know what you are now?

Birth and rebirth pertain to the body. You are identifying the Self with the body. It is a wrong identification. You believe that the body has been born and will die, and confound the phenomena relating to the body with the Self. Know your real being and these questions will not arise.

Births and rebirths are mentioned only to make you investigate the question and find out that there are neither births nor rebirths. They relate to the body and not to the Self. Know the Self and don’t be perturbed by doubts.

Question: Do not one’s actions affect the person in later births?

Maharshi: Are you born now? Why do you think of other births? The fact is that there is neither birth nor death. Let him who is born think of death and palliatives for it.

Question: What happens to a person after death?

Maharshi: Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself. Do not worry about the future. The state before creation and the process of creation are dealt with in the scriptures in order that you may know the present. Because you say you are born, therefore they say, yes, and add that God created you.

But do you see God or anything else in your sleep? If God is real, why does he not shine forth in your sleep also? You always are, you are the same now as you were in sleep. You are not different from that one in sleep. But why should there be differences in the feelings or experiences of the two states?

Did you ask, while asleep, questions regarding your birth? Did you then ask ‘Where do I go after death?’ Why think of all these questions now in the waking state? Let what is born think of its birth and the remedy, its cause and ultimate results.

Question: What becomes of the Jiva (Individual soul) after death?

Maharshi: The question is not appropriate for a Jiva now living. A dead Jiva may ask me, if he wishes to. In the meantime let the embodied Jiva solve its present problem and find who he is. Then there will be an end to such doubts.

Question: Is the Buddhist view, that there is no continuous entity answering to the ideas of the individual soul, correct or not? Is this consistent with the Hindu notion of a reincarnating ego? Is the soul a continuous entity which reincarnates again and again, according to the Hindu doctrine, or is it a mere mass of mental tendencies- samskaras?

Maharshi: The real Self is continuous and unaffected. The reincarnating ego belongs to the lower plane, namely, thought. It is transcended by Self-realisation.

Reincarnations are due to a spurious offshoot. Therefore they are denied by the Buddhists. The present state of ignorance is due to the identification of consciousness (chit) with the insentient (jada) body.

Question: Do not we go to heaven (svarga) as the result of our actions?

Maharshi: That is as true as the present existence. But if we enquire who we are and discover the Self, what need is there to think of heaven?

Question: Should I not try to escape rebirth?

Maharshi: Yes. Find out who is born and who now has the trouble of existence. When you are asleep do you think of rebirths or even the present existence? So find out from where the present problem arises and in that place you will find the solution. You will discover that there is no birth, no present trouble or unhappiness. The Self is all and all is bliss. Even now we are free from rebirth so why fret over the misery of it?

Ouestion: Is there rebirth?

Maharshi: Do you know what birth is?

Questioner: Oh yes, I know that I exist now, but I want to know if I’ll exist in the future.

Maharshi: Past!…Present!… Future!….

Questioner: Yes, today is the result of yesterday, the past, and tomorrow. The future, will be the result of today, the present. Am I right?

Maharshi: There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

Question: Are the past and future mere imagination?

Maharshi: Yes, even the present is mere imagination, for the sense of time is purely mental. Space is similarly mental. Therefore birth and rebirth, which take place in time and space, cannot be other than imagination.

Question: What is the cause of tanha, the thirst for life and the thirst for rebirth?

Maharshi: Real rebirth is dying from the ego into the spirit. This is the significance of the crucifixion of Jesus. Whenever identification with the body exists, a body is always available, whether this or any other one, till the body-sense disappears by merging into the source – the spirit, or Self. The stone which is projected upwards remains in constant motion till it returns to its source, the earth, and rests. Headache continues to give trouble, till the pre-headache state is regained.

Thirst for life is inherent in the very nature of life, which is absolute existence – sat. Although indestructible by nature, by false identification with its destructible instrument, the body consciousness imbibes a false apprehension of its destructibility. Because of that false identification it tries to perpetuate the body, and that results in a succession of rebirths. But however long these bodies may last, they eventually come to an end and yield to the Self, which alone eternally exists.

Questioner: Yes, "Give up thy life if thou wouldst live", says the Voice of the Silence of H.P.Blavatsky.

Maharshi: Give up the false identification and remember, the body cannot exist without the Self, whereas the Self can exist without the body. In fact it is always without it.

Questioner: A doubt has just now arisen in a friend of mine’s mind. She has just heard that a human being may take an animal birth in some other life, which is contrary to what Theosophy has taught her.

Maharshi: Let him who takes birth ask this question. Find out first who it is that is born, and whether there is actual birth and death. You will find that birth pertains to the ego, which is an illusion of the mind.

Question: Is it possible for a man to be reborn as a lower animal?

Maharshi: Yes. It is possible, as illustrated by Jada Bharata – the scriptural anecdote of a royal sage having been reborn as a deer.

Question: Is the individual capable of spiritual progress in an animal body?

Maharshi: Not impossible, though it is exceedingly rare. It is not true that birth as a man is necessarily the highest, and that one must attain realisation only from being a man. Even an animal can attain Self-realisation.

Question: Theosophy speaks of fifty to 10,000 year intervals between death and rebirth. Why is this so?

Maharshi: There is no relation between the standard of measurements of one state of consciousness and another. All such measurements are hypothetical. It is true that some individuals take more time and some less. But it must be distinctly understood that it is no soul which comes and goes, but only the thinking mind of the individual, which makes it appear to do so. On whatever plane the mind happens to act, it creates a body for itself; in the physical world a physical body and in the dream world a dream body which becomes wet with dream rain and sick with dream disease.

After the death of the physical body, the mind remains inactive for some time, as in dreamless sleep when it remains worldless and therefore bodyless. But soon it becomes active again in a new world and a new body – the astral – till it assumes another body in what is called a ‘rebirth’. But the jnani, the Self-realised man, whose mind has already ceased to act, remains unaffected by death. The mind of the jnani has ceased to exist; it has dropped never to rise again to cause births and deaths. The chain of illusions has snapped forever for him.

It should now be clear that there is neither real birth, nor real death. It is the mind which creates and maintains the illusion of reality in this process, till it is destroyed by Self-realisation.

Question: Does not death dissolve the individuality of a person, so that there can be no rebirth, just as the rivers discharged into the ocean lose their individualities?

Maharshi: But when the waters evaporate and return as rain on the hills, they once more flow in the form of rivers and fall into the ocean. So also the individualities during sleep lose their separateness and yet return as individuals according to their samskaras, or past tendencies. It is the same after death – the individuality of the person with samskaras is not lost.

Question: How can that be?

Maharshi: See how a tree whose branches have been cut grows again. So long as the roots of the tree remain unimpaired, the tree will continue to grow. Similarly, the samskaras (past tendencies) which have merely sunk in the Heart on death, but have not perished for that reason, occasion rebirth at the right time. That is how Jivas (individual souls) are reborn.

Question: How could the innumerable Jivas and the wide universe which they produce sprout up from such subtle samskaras sunk in the Heart?

Maharshi: Just as the big banyan tree sprouts from a tiny seed, so do the Jivas and the whole universe with name and form sprout up from the subtle samskaras.

Question: How does the Jiva (individual soul) transfer from one body to another?

Maharshi: When one begins to die, hard breathing sets in; that means that one has become unconscious of the dying body. The mind at once takes hold of another body, and it swings to and fro between the two, until attachment is fully transferred to the new body. Meanwhile there are occasional violent breaths, and that means that the mind swings back to the dying body. The transitional state of the mind is somewhat like a dream.

Question: How long is the interval between one’s death and reincarnation?

Maharshi: It may be long or short. But a jnani (Self-realised man) does not undergo any such changes; he merges into the universal being.

Some say that those who after death pass into the path of light are not reborn, whereas those who after death take the path of darkness are reborn after they have enjoyed the fruits of karma in their subtle bodies.

Some say that if one’s merits and demerits are equal, they are directly reborn here. Merits outweighing demerits, the subtle bodies go to heaven and are then reborn here; demerits outweighing merits, they go to hells and are afterwards reborn here.

A Yogabrashta (one who has slipped from the path of yoga) is said to fare in the same manner. All these are described in the sastras (scriptures). But in fact, there is neither birth nor death. One remains only as what one really is. This is the only truth.

Question: I find this very confusing. Are both births and rebirths ultimately unreal?

Maharshi: If there is birth there must be not only one rebirth but a whole succession of births. Why and how did you get this birth? For the same reason and in the same manner you must have succeeding births. But if you ask who has the birth and whether birth and death are for you or for somebody distinct from you, then you realise the truth and the truth burns up all karmas and frees you from all births. The books graphically describe how all would take countless lives to exhaust, is burnt up by one little spark of jnana (spiritual knowledge), just as a mountain of gunpowder will be blown up by a single spark of fire. It is the ego that is the cause of all the world and of the countless sciences whose researches are so great as to baffle description, and if the ego is dissolved by enquiry all this immediately crumbles and the reality or Self alone remains.

Question: Do you mean to say that I was never even born?

Maharshi: Yes, you are now thinking that you are the body and therefore confuse yourself with its birth and death. But you are not the body and you have no birth and death.

Question: So you do not uphold the theory of rebirth?

Maharshi: No. On the other hand I want to remove your confusion that you will be reborn. It is you who think that you will be reborn.

See for whom the question arises. Unless the questioner is found, such questions can never finally be answered.

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Sri Maharshi's Way / Upadesa Saram

2010-11-15T20:01:00.001-05:00

By the will of the Creator, action bears fruit. Is
action, then, supreme? No, it is inert, unconscious.

The fruits of action are not everlasting and they
cause one to fall into the great ocean of karma,
blocking spiritual progress.

That action which is done without personal desire
and whose fruits are surrendered to the Lord,
purifies the mind and leads to Liberation.

Ritual worship, repetition of sacred names, and
meditation are done with the body, the speech,
and the mind, and they progress in excellence
in that order.

To serve the world, looked upon as the
manifestation of the Lord, is to offer worship to
the Lord of the Eight Forms.

Silent meditation, in the mind, is higher than the
best devotional praise, or the uttering of sacred
names, loudly or softly.

Like an unbroken flow of oil or a stream of water,
continuous meditation is better than that which is
interrupted.

Meditation on the identity of the individual and
the Lord, “I am He”, is more purifying than meditation
which assumes a difference between them.

By the power of meditation, devoid of thoughts,
one is established in true Being, and this is supreme
devotion.

The practice of fixing the mind in its own source
in the Heart is, without doubt, true bhakti, yoga,
and understanding.

The mind may be subdued by regulating the
breath, just as a bird is restrained when caught
in a net. This practice controls the mind.

Mind and breath, manifesting in thought and
action, branch out from a common source, the
Sakti.

Absorption, or laya, and destruction, or nasa,
are the two kinds of mind control. When merely
absorbed, it emerges again, but not when it is
destroyed.

When the mind has been suspended by breath
restraint, it may then be annihilated by singleminded
attention to the Self.

What action remains to be done by that great yogi
whose mind has been extinguished, and who rests
in his own true and transcendent state of Being?

If one’s attention is turned away from external
objects of sense and focused on the light of the
Self, that is the true vision of Reality.

Again, if one persists in asking, “What is this mind
of mine?” it will be found that there is really no
such thing as ‘mind’. This is the Direct Path.

What one has thought of as his mind is merely a
bundle of thoughts. All these thoughts depend
upon the one thought of “I”, the ego. Therefore,
the so-called mind is the “I” thought.

If one asks himself, “Where does this I come
from?” it will vanish. This is Self-enquiry, or
atma-vichara.

Where this ‘I’ vanished and merged in its Source
there appears spontaneously and continuously
an “I-I”. This is the Heart, the infinite Supreme
Being.

And this uninterrupted “I-I” is the true meaning
of the term “I” because when the waking ‘ego I’
daily disappears in deep sleep, the real ‘I’ remains.

This true ‘I’, the one Reality, is not the body, or
the senses, or mind, or breath, or ignorance. These
are all inert and insentient.

There is only one Being that can know Reality.
That one-only Being is itself Reality and is itself
Consciousness.

Both Creator and creature are essentially one and
the same Reality. Their apparent differences are due
only to differences in form and levels of knowledge.

When the creature abandons its illusory individual
form and recognises itself as without attributes, it
sees the Creator as its own true Self.

Being the Self is knowing the Self, because there
is only one Self, and not two. This Being and
knowing the Self is abiding in the Reality.

True knowledge is beyond what we think of as
‘knowledge’ or ‘ignorance’ because in the State
of Non-differentiation what other thing is to
be known?

If one’s true Self is known, then there is neither
birth nor death, but eternal Being, Consciousness,
Bliss.

The jiva who attains the state of Supreme Bliss,
beyond any thoughts of bondage or freedom is
truly devoted to the Lord.

When the individual ‘I’ has disappeared and the
real ‘I-I’ has been found, that is excellent tapas.
Ramana says this.

Ramana’s Instruction - Upadesa Saram

2010-11-07T17:21:00.002-05:00

1. By the will of the Creator, action bears fruit. Is
action, then, supreme? No, it is inert, unconscious.

2. The fruits of action are not everlasting and they
cause one to fall into the great ocean of karma,
blocking spiritual progress.

3. That action which is done without personal desire
and whose fruits are surrendered to the Lord,
purifies the mind and leads to Liberation.

4. Ritual worship, repetition of sacred names, and
meditation are done with the body, the speech,
and the mind, and they progress in excellence
in that order.

5. To serve the world, looked upon as the
manifestation of the Lord, is to offer worship to
the Lord of the Eight Forms.

6. Silent meditation, in the mind, is higher than the
best devotional praise, or the uttering of sacred
names, loudly or softly.

7. Like an unbroken flow of oil or a stream of water,
continuous meditation is better than that which is
interrupted.

8. Meditation on the identity of the individual and
the Lord, “I am He”, is more purifying than meditation
which assumes a difference between them.

9. By the power of meditation, devoid of thoughts,
one is established in true Being, and this is supreme
devotion.

10. The practice of fixing the mind in its own source
in the Heart is, without doubt, true bhakti, yoga,
and understanding.

11. The mind may be subdued by regulating the
breath, just as a bird is restrained when caught
in a net. This practice controls the mind.

12. Mind and breath, manifesting in thought and
action, branch out from a common source, the
Sakti.

13. Absorption, or laya, and destruction, or nasa,
are the two kinds of mind control. When merely
absorbed, it emerges again, but not when it is
destroyed.

14. When the mind has been suspended by breath
restraint, it may then be annihilated by singleminded
attention to the Self.

15. What action remains to be done by that great yogi
whose mind has been extinguished, and who rests
in his own true and transcendent state of Being?

16. If one’s attention is turned away from external
objects of sense and focused on the light of the
Self, that is the true vision of Reality.

17. Again, if one persists in asking, “What is this mind
of mine?” it will be found that there is really no
such thing as ‘mind’. This is the Direct Path.

18. What one has thought of as his mind is merely a
bundle of thoughts. All these thoughts depend
upon the one thought of “I”, the ego. Therefore,
the so-called mind is the “I” thought.

19. If one asks himself, “Where does this I come
from?” it will vanish. This is Self-enquiry, or
atma-vichara.

20. Where this ‘I’ vanished and merged in its Source
there appears spontaneously and continuously
an “I-I”. This is the Heart, the infinite Supreme
Being.

21. And this uninterrupted “I-I” is the true meaning
of the term “I” because when the waking ‘ego I’
daily disappears in deep sleep, the real ‘I’ remains.

22. This true ‘I’, the one Reality, is not the body, or
the senses, or mind, or breath, or ignorance. These
are all inert and insentient.

23. There is only one Being that can know Reality.
That one-only Being is itself Reality and is itself
Consciousness.

24. Both Creator and creature are essentially one and
the same Reality. Their apparent differences are due
only to differences in form and levels of knowledge.

25. When the creature abandons its illusory individual
form and recognises itself as without attributes, it
sees the Creator as its own true Self.

26. Being the Self is knowing the Self, because there
is only one Self, and not two. This Being and
knowing the Self is abiding in the Reality.

27. True knowledge is beyond what we think of as
‘knowledge’ or ‘ignorance’ because in the State
of Non-differentiation what other thing is to
be known?

28. If one’s true Self is known, then there is neither
birth nor death, but eternal Being, Consciousness,
Bliss.

29. The jiva who attains the state of Supreme Bliss,
beyond any thoughts of bondage or freedom is
truly devoted to the Lord.

30. When the individual ‘I’ has disappeared and the
real “I-I” has been found, that is excellent tapas.
Ramana says this.

Maya

2010-11-07T10:14:00.000-05:00

What we call maya is very powerful, and so it appears. It grabs you in its clutches and makes you believe that things are happening in this world, and makes you believe that things are moving, changing. That's the picture it shows you. There are very few people who can go through a day without being affected by maya. Think about yourself. Just today, how have you been affected by maya? Believing something about your body, or about somebody else. Or about a situation in your life, or about the world. Or about the universe, and feeling it. That's maya.

Here's an example; I've told this story before. One day Buddha and his chief disciple, Narada, were walking along a country road. Buddha was discussing maya. He explained that the tree, the river, the mountains, the beauty, all of the bugs and the mosquitoes, animals, it's all maya.

And Narada said, "But Master, how can this be? It sounds virtually impossible. I can grab the tree. I can grab your arm. I'm stung by a mosquito. I feel this thing, there's a bump on my arm. How can this all be illusion? I don't understand."

And Buddha said, "I'm thirsty. Go get me a glass of water."

There was a town nearby, so Narada went to the town and knocked at the door of the first house he saw. An old lady opened the door. She said, "What do you want?" Narada said, "My master would like a glass of water." She looked him over and saw that he was handsome, well built, healthy, and she said, "Come in."

He went into her house and there was a beautiful lady sitting on a chair. The woman said, "This is my daughter. Isn't she beautiful?" Narada was astounded at her beauty. He said,
"She is the most beautiful girl I've ever seen." The old lady said, "How would you like to marry her?" And Narada said, "Why not?"

So, he married the girl. They had a big wedding, and all the people in the village came. The next day, he got a job. He was a potter by trade, and he made beautiful pots out of clay. He did this for a living. After the first year, they had a child, and he was able to afford a beautiful house. He had a mortgage payment, had to pay taxes. So he had to work harder and hire people to help him. He had employees. He had to pay them salaries, take out taxes, workers' compensation, everything else. Then, after two years passed, another child. He was completely enmeshed in family life. Some days were good. Some days were bad. A couple more years went by, three years, four years, five years.

One day there was a big hurricane, very powerful hurricane that came into the town. The place was getting flooded. Narada said, "What are we going to do?" All his furniture was being ruined. Everything he believed he owned was getting wet, totally ruined. He took his family up onto the roof. There was a clothesline on the roof. All hung onto the clothesline. The hurricane became stronger and stronger and stronger. His mother-in -law was washed away by the flood. Narada said, "I guess we didn't need her anyway, she was old." But the hurricane was still very strong, and his wife and two children were holding on. One of the children was washed away, and Narada became very distraught. But he was holding on with his wife. Then the other child was washed away. He became very upset, but he said to himself, "At least I have my wife. We can have more children." Then his wife was washed away, and he said, "What happened to my family? They're all gone!

Everything I worked for is all gone! Everything I strived for is all gone! I'm going to end it all, commit suicide." So he let go of the rope.

The next moment, he found himself sitting next to Buddha, with a glass of water. He looked at Buddha and Buddha said, "It's about time you brought me my water!" (laughter) So Narada looked at him and said, "Now I understand what maya is!"

This is just like us. We become so enmeshed in the world.

We think things are real. Everything bothers us. We become angry. We become upset. But the truth is, you are not maya. You are Absolute Reality. You are Total Awareness. You are the Self. Know who you are and wake up. Awaken and be free!

It's so simple. Words make it so complicated. The fact is you were never born, you can never die. There is no power that sustains you, maintains you. You do not exist the way you appear. The same is true for the whole universe. It's only a reflection. It's an optical illusion. Like the mirage in the water, or the water in the mirage. They're both the same. The water is the mirage and the mirage is the water. So the appearance is of water. But when you try to grab it, you grab sand. Everything you grab in this world is like sand. It seems so real. And then your emotions grab a hold of it and give it more power so that the maya becomes stronger and stronger and stronger. Until you're in such a state that it takes you many incarnations to get rid of all your fears, all the frustrations, thoughts about the past, samskaras. You have made these things real for you, but they do not exist. None of these things are real, but you have made them real. You have done it to yourself. Therefore when you leave your body, you appear to go through an astral plane, and you take a rest. You meet your long lost relatives that you couldn't stand. And then you go onwards and you go back into a body again. And you continue and continue and continue. But it's a lie. You are making it the truth. It is your truth because you believe in this. And you refuse to let go.

Of course you've got a choice. And this is your choice. Whom shall I follow this day, God or mammon? Which simply means, following mammon is following the world. The world of illusion, which keeps tricking you, making you believe you should do this and do that and to go here and to go there. When you follow God, you're following yourself. You're following the dharma, swarupa. You no longer feel sorry for yourself. You no longer feel guilty about the sins of commission/omission of the past. Your mind becomes clear, peaceful. Your mind becomes like a mirror. And since the mirror is unable to see itself, it sees its reflection in the world as peace, love, harmony, joy. As you continue to work on yourself this way, the day comes when all this is gone, and you are gone. You become nothing. A good for nothing. You go beyond nothingness, which is ineffable. Something that can't be explained. For there are no words or thoughts to understand this. Yet, you've got it all within you. Everything you need is within you. You are the One.
---Excerpt from Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams

2010-10-29T01:23:00.001-04:00

Krishna Das - Hallelujah Chalisa - Neem Karoli Baba

2010-10-28T21:26:00.000-04:00

Ramana Maharshi - It Is False To Speak Of Realization

2010-10-15T22:13:00.000-04:00

The Greatest Mystery

2010-10-15T18:20:00.001-04:00

There is no greater mystery than this: Being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality. ~ Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi - Realization Is Nothing To Be Gained Anew

2010-10-06T21:13:00.000-04:00

Alan Watts on insecure societys and hermits

2010-10-05T00:47:00.000-04:00

Krishna Das - By Your Grace / Jai Gurudev - Ramana Maharshi

2010-09-28T14:30:00.000-04:00

Totapuri Maharaj

2010-09-28T13:05:00.001-04:00

http://www.gurusfeet.com/guru/totapuri-maharaj

Krishna Das - My God is Real - Ramana Maharshi

2010-09-26T01:07:00.000-04:00

Krishna Das - Brindavan Hare Ram - Ramana Maharshi

2010-09-26T01:03:00.000-04:00

Papaji is speaking with Gangaji

2010-09-22T15:49:00.000-04:00

Harilal Poonja (Papaji) - Maya Compilation 1a

2010-09-22T15:36:00.000-04:00

OSHO: Being In Love

2010-09-22T12:54:00.000-04:00

Osho - Zorba The Buddha (Book Presentation) By LamaPower

2010-09-22T12:23:00.000-04:00

Jiddu Krishnamurti

2010-09-17T13:50:00.000-04:00

Papaji - Don't touch the I

2010-08-08T03:48:00.000-04:00

Gangaji - Simply Stop Looking

2010-08-08T03:47:00.000-04:00

OSHO: Your Morality is Not Real

2010-08-05T12:55:00.000-04:00

Krishna Das New Release

2010-07-30T14:03:00.000-04:00

Krishna Das - By Your Grace / Jai Gurudev - Ramana Maharshi

2010-07-30T13:39:00.000-04:00

Krishna Das - Hallelujah Chalisa - Neem Karoli Baba

2010-07-27T15:48:00.000-04:00

Krishna Das - Heart As Wide As The World - Ramana Maharshi

2010-07-15T23:51:00.000-04:00

Krishna Das - Mountain Chalisa - Ramana Maharshi

2010-07-15T17:09:00.000-04:00

John Lennon - Imagine - Ramana Maharshi

2010-07-06T16:43:00.000-04:00

Ramana Maharshi - The State We Call Realization

2010-07-06T16:37:00.000-04:00

Jaya Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

2010-06-27T15:01:00.000-04:00

Sri Ram Jai Ram

2010-06-21T17:23:00.000-04:00

Jai Siya Ramana

2010-06-11T00:22:00.000-04:00

Sri Ramana

2010-05-29T23:37:00.002-04:00

I used to sit on the floor and lie on the ground. No cloth spread out. That is freedom. The sofa is a bondage. It is jail for me. I am not allowed to sit where and how I please. Is it not bondage? One must be free to do as one pleases and should not be served by others. ‘No want’ is the greatest bliss. It can be realized only by experience. Even an emperor is no match for a man with no wants. - Sri Ramana

NK Baba

2010-05-29T23:10:00.000-04:00

Snatam Kaur - The Sun Shines On Everyone

2010-05-11T17:44:00.000-04:00

Papaji - Your nature is silence.

2010-04-24T21:51:00.000-04:00

Who is Gangaji?

2010-04-17T01:44:00.000-04:00

-- type your post here --

PAPAJI - Surrender

2010-03-25T00:34:00.001-04:00

My first satsang - Mooji

2010-03-22T13:16:00.001-04:00

Compassion

2010-03-13T14:23:00.001-05:00

OSHO: Psychologists Know Nothing About Themselves

2010-02-19T02:22:00.000-05:00

The Most Direct Means To Eternal Bliss

2010-02-18T00:44:00.002-05:00

The most direct means to Eternal Bliss is the inquiry, "Who am I?"

Arunachala Dhyanam

2010-02-16T23:34:00.002-05:00

Snatam

2010-02-15T23:21:00.001-05:00

Snatam Kaur Live In Barcelona 2006

2010-02-15T23:14:00.001-05:00

Deva Premal - OM NAMO BHAGAVATE

2010-02-15T19:25:00.001-05:00

Ram Dass' Be Here Now - 40 Year Anniversary

2010-02-14T23:32:00.001-05:00

http://www.ramdass.org/Multimedia/Video/FranklinNewHampshire1969/tabid/509/Default.aspx

G.A.T.E.

2010-02-14T23:24:00.000-05:00

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2009/06/jim-carrey-and-friends-hollywood-lose-your-mind.html

Joe Miller On Ramana Maharshi

2010-02-14T21:09:00.000-05:00

http://www.sftslodge.org/miller-archive/joe-miller-on-ramana-maharshi

Jim Carrey On Eckhart Tolle's 'A New Earth'

2010-02-14T20:38:00.001-05:00

Jim Carrey Emanates Pure Love

2010-02-14T02:28:00.001-05:00

The Ordainer works in mysterious ways.

Jim Carrey on "Awakening"

2010-02-13T21:58:00.001-05:00

Ramana Maharshi -- Abide as the Self (A)

2010-02-13T12:00:00.001-05:00

During the mid part of the twentieth century, a steady stream of visitors traveled to the ancient land of Tamil-Nadu, in the southern region of India to experience the remarkable presence and clear teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. The Maharshi’s name needs little introduction for then as now, seekers who wish to awaken from the powerful illusions of the ego and abide in the perfect peace of their true nature have turned to his teachings. There was a spontaneous simplicity and humility about him. A sense of universal equality, and heart-melting love. His actions were natural and spontaneous and reflected a life that was fully identified with the one consciousness- the Self in all beings.

Eckhart Tolle, not reacting to content, www.soundstrue.com

2010-02-11T00:09:00.001-05:00

OSHO: Strange Consequences

2010-02-09T22:36:00.001-05:00

OSHO: Anybody Who Gives You a Belief System is Your Enemy.

2010-02-09T22:34:00.001-05:00

Ramana Maharshi - The Sage of Arunachala

2010-02-09T22:33:00.003-05:00

Ramana Maharshi -- Abide as the Self (C)

2010-02-09T22:33:00.001-05:00

There Is Neither Past Nor Future

2010-02-09T22:32:00.003-05:00

The Greatest Mystery

2010-02-09T22:32:00.001-05:00

Remain Aware of Yourself

2010-02-09T22:31:00.005-05:00

The Self Is...

2010-02-09T22:31:00.003-05:00

The Eternal

2010-02-09T22:31:00.001-05:00

The Expectation To See

2010-02-09T22:30:00.001-05:00

Not Knowing

2010-02-09T22:29:00.001-05:00

Sacred Duty

2010-02-09T22:28:00.001-05:00