tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75971499755894866492024-02-07T06:02:18.782-08:00Ramana Maharshi Teachings Quotes Ramana Meditations Discourses Self InquiryRamana Maharshi blog shares Ramana Maharshi teachings, Bhagwan Ramana Discourses, Bhagwan Ramana Meditation sutras, Quotes and Self Inuiry meditationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger286125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-9139559454413016082011-12-05T05:35:00.000-08:002011-12-05T05:36:25.935-08:00Sri Siva Sakthi Ammaiyar - enlightened living mystic from Tiruvamamalai<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjeLo7lMK9EKz8hRqcZ_PgAwK-cuZGDjManu_4MZWGyrCp0Nr9nMMSyiH6Zhmy8XPXf5lmt3fXynM6DNMIwSPhwzn-9a-mwApjflP0R1hk_OaGw0EWIKCcXT1cqa354zVDZ6ECEhHjCiR/s1600/shiva-shakti-ma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjeLo7lMK9EKz8hRqcZ_PgAwK-cuZGDjManu_4MZWGyrCp0Nr9nMMSyiH6Zhmy8XPXf5lmt3fXynM6DNMIwSPhwzn-9a-mwApjflP0R1hk_OaGw0EWIKCcXT1cqa354zVDZ6ECEhHjCiR/s1600/shiva-shakti-ma.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Sri Siva Sakthi Ammaiyar is an silent mystic living in Tiruvamamalai.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Seekers who visit ramana maharshi ashram </div><div style="text-align: center;">can also enjoy the grace of Sri Siva Sakthi Ma</div><div style="text-align: center;">by attending her daily silent satsang.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">to know more about Sri Siva Sakthi Ammaiyar and her satsang schedule<br />
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<b>Ramana Maharshi Quotes from Guru Vachaka Kovai</b><br />
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<ol><li>For those who allow their mind to wander here and there, everything will go wrong.</li>
<li>Just as the sun cannot be seen in a densely clouded sky, so one’s own Self cannot be seen in a mind-sky which is darkened by a dense cloud of thoughts.</li>
<li>All the benefit to be obtained by inner enquiry is only the destruction of the deceptive ‘I’-sense [the ego]. It would be too much to say that it is to attain Self, which always shines clear and ever-attained.</li>
<li>Firmly abiding as ‘I am I’, without any movement of the mind, is the attainment of Godhood.</li>
<li>When scrutinized, among all the many qualities necessary for those who wish to attain the imperishable Liberation, it is the attitude of a great liking to be in permanent solitude that must be well established in their mind.</li>
<li>According to the outlook of different people the same woman is considered to be wife, husband’s sister, daughter-in-law, wife of one’s brother-in-law, mother, and so on. Yet in truth she does not at all undergo any change in her form.</li>
<li>Unless one realizes oneself to be the unattached Self, which is like the space that remains not even in the least attached to anything, though it exists inside, outside and pervading everything, one cannot remain undeluded.</li>
<li>One who has destroyed the mind is the emperor who rides on the neck of the elephant of supreme Jnana (self-knowledge). Know for certain that the turmoil of the mind is the sole cause of the miserable bondage of the cruel and fierce birth [and death].</li>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Question : <b>How does one get rid of fear ?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Ramana Maharshi </b>: What is fear ? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees things separate from the Self ? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is nothing external. For anything external to oneself implies the existence of the seer within. Seeking it there will eliminate doubt and fear. Not only fear, all other thoughts centred round the ego will disappear along with it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Question :<b> How can the terrible fear of death be overcome?</b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Ramana Maharshi :</b> When does that fear seize you? Does it come when you do not see your body, say, in dreamless sleep? It haunts you only when you are fully `awake' and perceive the world, including your body. If you do not see these and remain your pure Self, as in dreamless sleep, no fear can touch you. If you trace this fear to the object, the loss of which gives rise to it, you will find that that object is not the body, but the mind which functions in it. Many a man would be only too glad to be rid of his diseased body and all the problems and inconvenience it creates for him if continued awareness were vouchsafed to him. It is the awareness, the consciousness, and not the body, he fears to lose. Men love existence because it is eternal awareness, which is their own Self. Why not then hold on to the pure awareness right now, while in the body, and be free from all fear?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-20417190644600106982010-06-25T07:32:00.000-07:002010-06-25T07:32:49.073-07:00Bhagvan Ramana Maharshi Quotes on Renunciation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidXv4u68u97GBHkkbgVzkw9JcgCkJ6sAzFUBOPyBKnthvT0jjUJEWMNhmAsl3RFEizJV4Nk8lhyNwgM6HE8sCd9esTvz4HPwQgKf3suxR8r8GiouNutEjjLaGi0vxPU5H6YjcGI1nYiJ3T/s1600/Bhagvan-Ramana-Maharshi2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidXv4u68u97GBHkkbgVzkw9JcgCkJ6sAzFUBOPyBKnthvT0jjUJEWMNhmAsl3RFEizJV4Nk8lhyNwgM6HE8sCd9esTvz4HPwQgKf3suxR8r8GiouNutEjjLaGi0vxPU5H6YjcGI1nYiJ3T/s400/Bhagvan-Ramana-Maharshi2.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><br />
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<b>Bhagvan Ramana Maharshi Quotes on Renunciation</b><br />
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<ol><li>Renunciation does not imply apparent divesting of costumes, family ties, home, etc., but renunciation of desires, affection and attachment. There is no need to resign your job, only resign yourself to God, the bearer of the burden of all.<br />
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<li>A man should surrender the personal selfishness which binds him to this world. Giving up the false self is the true renunciation.<br />
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<li>Renunciation is always in the mind, not in going to forests or solitary places or giving up one's duties. The main thing is to see that the mind does not turn outward but inward.</li>
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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 371px; height: 336px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilF_A29J8RKvzIgNFwb1i813-dkyg1Ma3wQ1q_VlZO5tro8FNWi_9fGi5JsyhxBWkDX3dBmK2Gmo7yWhb9rCEVsbosS8mG1BPVni2dZGjVS86QbmdFBDobNcFCYCuQFfCZNH4zfppjrrcj/s400/OshoRajneesh_SwamiRajneesh.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465479334320668802" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Swami Rajneesh is born in one of most rich family of India<br />and His mother was a famous bollywood actress.<br />But Swami Rajneesh was more inclined towards finding the inner richness.<br />From his childhood, He started having many Satori's and out of body experiences.</div><div style="text-align: center;">At the age of 21 He left his house and came to Osho Ashram Pune.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In Pune Ashram<br />Swami Rajneesh was very sincere in his search for truth<br />and He meditated whole heartily and sincerely. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Swami Rajneesh attained to his first samadhi at the age of 25.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">When in 1990, Osho left his body </div><div style="text-align: center;">then Swami Rajneesh moved into isolation in the Himalayas.</div><div style="text-align: center;">After a silent stay of 17 years in Himalayas, </div><div style="text-align: center;">Swami Rajneesh came back to the world in 2007.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In 2007, Swami Rajneesh shared his journey to buddhahood </div><div style="text-align: center;">in his mystical ebook "Tears of The Mystic Rose"</div><div style="text-align: center;">The EBook is loved worldwide</div><div style="text-align: center;">and has been translated into 12 languages </div><div style="text-align: center;">and read by million of people.<br /><br />The ebook shares many mysteries related with<br />Osho Sannyas movement, Samadhi and many meditation insights.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The ebook can be freely download in his Swami Rajneesh Official website <a href="http://www.oshorajneesh.net/">http://www.oshorajneesh.net</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Swami Rajneesh youtube videos are available at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/swamiamitabh">Swami Rajneesh Videos</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-26542311652923663932010-01-29T04:08:00.000-08:002010-01-29T04:12:48.386-08:00Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi Quotes and Sayings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp6hL5C723XDVhOoBH35kepOsDr8lPwgTk-hyYkfi5Z6FW-W52lSyxP5v4KFJUJUGIp4ggMGTbDytIVll_t9fm-Odn82vhOlu_qR_ZksKHfKR8pJnM__fHGoVplcz0v8_KHIJ4g8m8mQh6/s1600-h/bhagavan-Ramana_Quotes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp6hL5C723XDVhOoBH35kepOsDr8lPwgTk-hyYkfi5Z6FW-W52lSyxP5v4KFJUJUGIp4ggMGTbDytIVll_t9fm-Odn82vhOlu_qR_ZksKHfKR8pJnM__fHGoVplcz0v8_KHIJ4g8m8mQh6/s400/bhagavan-Ramana_Quotes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432132798975793074" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi Quotes and Sayings</span><br /><ol><li>Liberation is our very nature. We are that. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. When we achieve that, there will be no desire or thought of any sort. So long as one desires liberation, so long, you may take it, one is in bondage.<br /><br /></li><li>Realization is nothing to be gained afresh; it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought `I have not realized'.<br /><br /></li><li>There is no other way to succeed than to draw the mind back every time it turns outwards and fix it in the Self.<br /><br /></li><li>Hold the `I'-thought and find its source.<br /><br /></li><li>The proper way to get rid of a desire is to find out `Who gets the desire? What is its source?' When this is found, the desire is rooted out and it will never again emerge or grow.<br /><br /></li><li>We are wrongly persisting in unreality, that is, attachment to thoughts and worldly activities. Cessation of these will reveal the truth.<br /><br /></li><li>Search for the source of the `I'-thought. That is all that one has to do. The universe exists on account of the `I'-thought. If that ends there is an end to misery also. The false `I' will end only when its source is sought.<br /><br /></li><li>Divine grace is essential for realization. It leads one to God realization. But such grace is vouchsafed only to him who is a true devotee or a yogi. It is given only to those who have striven hard and ceaselessly on the path towards freedom.</li></ol>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-67569909268171936542010-01-06T08:44:00.000-08:002010-01-06T08:47:10.240-08:00Ramana Maharshi - There is no seeing. Seeing is only being<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwHxfIlg26ISSE8WYkWXxPosl6aXya3wGH0w94HAzjPLBhisHjnFUcSHx2oH4ZPZtdj21RDqrNEn-U0C9cMCzL4juVAHQOolx-KxRkq79vCttJFtf1Sls6fOiN8g4ucO91l1Iuwe_wq3BN/s1600-h/ramanamaharshi_self.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 343px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwHxfIlg26ISSE8WYkWXxPosl6aXya3wGH0w94HAzjPLBhisHjnFUcSHx2oH4ZPZtdj21RDqrNEn-U0C9cMCzL4juVAHQOolx-KxRkq79vCttJFtf1Sls6fOiN8g4ucO91l1Iuwe_wq3BN/s400/ramanamaharshi_self.jpg" alt="Ramana Maharshi seeing is being" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423668867100561922" border="0" /></a><br />Question : When a man realizes the Self, what will he see?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramana Maharshi -</span> There is no seeing. Seeing is only being. The state of Self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. All that is needed is that you give up your realization of the not-true as true. All of us are regarding as real that which is not real. We have only to give up this practice on our part. Then we shall realize the Self as the Self; in other words, `Be the Self'. At one stage you will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self which is so self-evident. So, what can we say to this question?<br /><br />That stage transcends the seer and the seen. There is no seer there to see anything. The seer who is seeing all this now ceases to exist and the Self alone remains.<br /><br />Question : How to know this by direct experience?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramana Maharshi -</span> If We talk of knowing the Self, there must be two selves, one a knowing self, another the self which is known, and the process of knowing. The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. If one has realized, one is that which alone is and which alone has always been. One cannot describe that state. One can only be that. Of course, we loosely talk of Self-realization, for want of a better term. How to `real-ize' or make real that which alone is real ?<br /><br />Source - David Godman book "be as you are"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-65019370974196549102010-01-06T08:36:00.000-08:002010-01-06T08:48:10.963-08:00Ramana Maharshi : You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSBKu72xWQpzvHRF2YzDdg_mdbb_QrB4AM1FvGZPurSUwV6nQySOaGQER7N6ULdqXuhfnhrvWwsnp0XV7VURHscgaN8uhTgNRSAJsMtXXV_w5b_9Exgf2oEubKyV9QkkhyP5lURxmnhPD/s1600-h/ramanamaharshi_reality.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSBKu72xWQpzvHRF2YzDdg_mdbb_QrB4AM1FvGZPurSUwV6nQySOaGQER7N6ULdqXuhfnhrvWwsnp0XV7VURHscgaN8uhTgNRSAJsMtXXV_w5b_9Exgf2oEubKyV9QkkhyP5lURxmnhPD/s400/ramanamaharshi_reality.jpg" alt="Ramana Maharshi" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423667034951985154" border="0" /></a>Question : What is reality?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramana Maharshi : </span>Reality must be always real. It is not with forms and names. That which underlies these is the reality. It underlies limitations, being itself limitless. It is not bound. It underlies unrealities, itself being real. Reality is that which is. It is as it is. It transcends speech. It is beyond the expressions `existence, non-existence', etc.<br /><br />The reality which is the mere consciousness that remains when ignorance is destroyed along with knowledge of objects, alone is the Self [atma]. In that Brahma-swarupa [real form of Brahman], which is abundant Self-awareness, there is not the least ignorance.<br /><br />The reality which shines fully, without misery and without a body, not only when the world is known but also when the world is not known, is your real form [nija-swarupa].<br /><br />The radiance of consciousness-bliss, in the form of one awareness shining equally within and without, is the supreme and blissful primal reality. Its form is silence and it is declared by jnanis to be the final and unobstructable state of true knowledge [jnana]. Know that jnana alone is non-attachment; jnana alone is purity; jnana is the attainment of God; jnana which is devoid of forgetfulness of Self alone is immortality; jnana alone is everything.<br /><br />Question : What is this awareness and how can one obtain and cultivate it?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramana Maharshi : You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you</span>. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.<br /><br />Question : If the Self is itself aware, why am I not aware of it even now?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramana Maharshi : </span>There is no duality. Your present knowledge is due to the ego and is only relative. Relative knowledge requires a subject and an object, whereas the awareness of the Self is absolute and requires no object.<br /><br />Remembrance also is similarly relative, requiring an object to be remembered and a subject to remember. When there is no duality, who is to remember whom? The Self is ever-present. Each one wants to know the Self. What kind of help does one require to know oneself ? People want to see the Self as something new. But it is eternal and remains the same all along. They desire to see it as a blazing light etc. How can it be so? It is not light, not darkness. It is only as it is. It cannot be defined.<br /><br />The best definition is `I am that I am'. The srutis [scriptures] speak of the Self as being the size of one's thumb, the tip of the hair, an electric spark, vast, subtler than the subtlest, etc. They have no foundation in fact. It is only being, but different from the real and the unreal; it is knowledge, but different from knowledge and ignorance. How can it be defined at all? It is simply being.<br /><br />Source - David Godman book "Be as You Are"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-84209414063690629392009-12-11T23:41:00.000-08:002009-12-11T23:47:30.281-08:00Ramana Maharshi - On meditation the relative consciousness will vanish<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtVRHcEZxe1ofW22xUh-ECrmPUF6gVgBQaaVL615VsU30uJIL8Q5JYUPnh-lUinHAk1E7GeXGIyBCvSkuHs23lzSi9k1rRbNBZTEjRQqyEDssn2L3gFnfOeBxyQXNgFGoytpbM6gOOUcq3/s1600-h/3.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtVRHcEZxe1ofW22xUh-ECrmPUF6gVgBQaaVL615VsU30uJIL8Q5JYUPnh-lUinHAk1E7GeXGIyBCvSkuHs23lzSi9k1rRbNBZTEjRQqyEDssn2L3gFnfOeBxyQXNgFGoytpbM6gOOUcq3/s400/3.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414251753528189250" border="0" /></a><br />At 5-30 p.m. the Swiss lady complains to Sri Bhagavan that she gets a headache if meditation be prolonged for some time.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramana Maharshi</span> : If the meditator and meditation be understood to be the same there will be no headache or similar complaints.<br /><br />Questioner : But they are different. How shall we consider them to be the same?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramana Maharshi :</span> That is due to your outlook. There is only one and there are no differences. On meditation the relative consciousness will vanish. That is not annihilation; for Absolute Consciousness arises. The Bible itself says, “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you” . . . If you consider yourself to be the body there is some difficulty in understanding the statement. On the other hand if you know who you really are, the Kingdom of Heaven and all are included in your true Self.<br /><br />They are concepts arising after the ego has arisen. Drishtim jnanamayeem krtva pasyet Brahmamayam jagat (Direct your look within and make it absolute). With that absolute awareness realised, look without and you will realise the universe to be not apart from the realised Absolute.<br /><br />Because your outlook is externally directed you speak of a without. In that state you are advised to look within. This within is relative to the without you are seeking. In fact, the Self is neither without nor within. Speaking of Heaven one thinks of it as above or below, within or without, since one is accustomed to relative knowledge. One seeks only objective knowledge and hence these ideas.<br /><br />Really speaking there is neither up nor down, neither in nor out. If they were real they must be present in dreamless sleep also. For what is real must be continuous and permanent. Did you feel ‘in’ or ‘out’ in sleep? Of course not.<br /><br />Questioner : I do not remember.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramana Maharshi </span>: If there was anything there that could be remembered. But you admit your existence then. The same Self is now speaking. The Self who was undifferentiated in sleep is differentiated in the present state, and sees the diversity. The Real Existence is the only One devoid of objective knowledge. That is absolute consciousness. That is the state of happiness, as admitted by all of us. That state must be brought about even in this waking state. It is called jagrat sushupti. That is mukti.<br /><br />Source - "Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi part 2"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-17577756394137527832009-12-11T23:35:00.000-08:002009-12-11T23:44:10.683-08:00Sri Bhagavan : You are told to meditate now and find who you are<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDCXtlH8y9Ew7PkULzvwLB243HjG9gxSEgOG-IQwimQVtVNffLQsdZvo6bOrM2aQdHdIhPaS0sZ4BGle6nhO-G5KLSGkBHxUNPVeZkVrNZmDhmiN6otQNlll5H71VzIdr1zD2JdvouGhVV/s1600-h/bhagavan05.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDCXtlH8y9Ew7PkULzvwLB243HjG9gxSEgOG-IQwimQVtVNffLQsdZvo6bOrM2aQdHdIhPaS0sZ4BGle6nhO-G5KLSGkBHxUNPVeZkVrNZmDhmiN6otQNlll5H71VzIdr1zD2JdvouGhVV/s400/bhagavan05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414250620841018066" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Mr. Cohen asked: Meditation is with mind in the jagrat (waking) state. There is mind in dream also. Why is there no meditation in dream? Nor is it possible?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramana Maharshi</span> : Ask it in the dream.<br /><br />After a short silence Sri Bhagavan continued: You are told to meditate now and find who you are. Instead of doing it you ask “Why is there no meditation in dream or in sleep?” If you find<br />out for whom there is jagrat (waking), it will be clear that dream and sleep are also for the same one. You are the witness of jagrat (waking), svapna (dream) and sushupti (sleep) - rather, they pass before you. Because you are out of meditation now, these questions arise. Stick to meditation and see if these questions arise.<br /><br />Source - "Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi part 2"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-30692160767076211242009-10-28T23:34:00.000-07:002009-10-28T23:46:03.613-07:00Sadhu Arunachala (Major A. W. Chadwick) and Ramana Maharshi<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKz810R5XxMAnMCa73AkLccWv-Ps4l_3U2XjRutmVmZmSfhdKqO7thqXNSHgV83iw2QFqFiprC35tkq3rdVa_BhVxt_ElsRkYqHoCaixRAQeKOjHnx18ORzcGKINWihi-C-h0B_L43mvB/s1600-h/ramana-maharshi.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKz810R5XxMAnMCa73AkLccWv-Ps4l_3U2XjRutmVmZmSfhdKqO7thqXNSHgV83iw2QFqFiprC35tkq3rdVa_BhVxt_ElsRkYqHoCaixRAQeKOjHnx18ORzcGKINWihi-C-h0B_L43mvB/s400/ramana-maharshi.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397908784398219666" /></a> Sadhu Arunachala (Major A. W. Chadwick)- I found, when I had been in the Ashram a short time and was beginning to know my way about, that the best time to catch Bhagavan alone was at one o’clock in the afternoon when he came back from the Hill. Everybody who could would have slipped away for a siesta, except for one attendant whose duty it was to remain with Bhagavan in case he needed anything. <br /><br />This was before the days of electricity, so a punkah had been hung just over Bhagavan’s couch and this would be kept in lazy motion by a sleepy attendant who was himself dying to run off and have a sleep. At times I would take his duty and let him go, at others I would sit up near the head of Bhagavan’s couch and talk to him. <br /><br />It was during these hours that he instructed me, and those quiet hours spent with him then were the most valuable of all. He knew enough English to read the paper and to understand me if I spoke slowly and if a short answer or reference to some book was all that was necessary this he could deal with at the time. <br /><br />But if the answer proved to be complicated he would wait until later in the day when he would call upon some English-speaking Tamil to interpret. In the early days of my stay I was living in a big room adjoining the Ashram store-room. Here Bhagavan often used to visit me, usually when he went out at about ten o’clock. <br /><br />On coming into my room unexpectedly he would tell me not to disturb myself but to go on with whatever I was occupied at the time. It was correct for people to stand up directly he came into a room. I was ignorant of this and so would remain seated, carrying on with whatever I was doing at the time. I realize now that this was looked upon as terrible disrespect by the Indian devotees, but it had its reward. <br /><br />If one put oneself out for Bhagavan or appeared in any way disturbed he just would<br />not come in future, he would disturb nobody, so considerate was he. But if one carried on with what one was doing then he would himself take a seat and talk quite naturally without the formality which usually surrounded him in the Hall. <br /><br />I had no idea how lucky I was and how privileged, but certainly appreciated the visits. He might pick up my pocket-book and take everything out of it, a photograph, a membership card and any odds and ends it might contain, remark on each thing and ask some question about it. It might have been embarrassing but luckily there was nothing questionable in the wallet. Not that Bhagavan would have minded, for there could be nothing questionable or otherwise for him.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-42143694193306976592009-10-28T04:31:00.000-07:002009-10-28T04:49:03.559-07:00Ramana Maharshi's compassion towards Ashram Animals<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqnmE_ACDHv63cmlNF-C4qdq7-a0cdfrHkL8dRn7NBeJ4Z7Ea8iXAemkYlGQzQx-eudU0noIWgUk7ZXcRxRlt5W40aISt2_2ESegJW37pOGj9qRy6dNlQDdKcSdqrbiI9Y5TTtzDwTpNj/s1600-h/ramanamaharshi_with_monkey.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqnmE_ACDHv63cmlNF-C4qdq7-a0cdfrHkL8dRn7NBeJ4Z7Ea8iXAemkYlGQzQx-eudU0noIWgUk7ZXcRxRlt5W40aISt2_2ESegJW37pOGj9qRy6dNlQDdKcSdqrbiI9Y5TTtzDwTpNj/s400/ramanamaharshi_with_monkey.jpg" border="0" alt="Ramana Maharshi with monkey"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397615592390864802" /></a>Sadhu Arunachala (Major A. W. Chadwick)- Bhagavan was invariably kind to all animals though he did not like cats, or, I believe, mongooses, this was principally because the cats hunted his beloved squirrels or chipmunks. These squirrels used to run in and out of the Hall window, over his couch and even his body. He would feed them with nuts and stroke them, some of them even had names. Their chief ambition seemed to be to make nests behind his pillows so that they might bring up their families under his protection. <br /><br />Snakes and scorpions were never allowed to be killed. Sometimes a snake would drop from the roof of the Hall at night. It was the duty of the attendant to show it out to safety by walking behind it with a lamp, as carried in front it would only dazzle the snake and it would become confused. <br /><br />Madhavan, the best attendant he ever had, who would anticipate Bhagavan’s least wish was adept at picking up scorpions by the tail so that they could not sting, and carrying them outside where they could do no harm. For dogs Bhagavan always had a tender spot. One puppy that was born in the Ashram had rickets. Bhagavan was very solicitous and under his direction I treated it and eventually cured it with biochemical medicines. Strangely this dog proved unfaithful and ran away. Bhagavan said that it must have been killed by some beast or it would never have gone, but months later it returned with a new master it had adopted, it took little interest in any of us, even in Bhagavan. This was inexplicable.<br /><br />If an Ashram dog barked trying to drive out some intruder and people got angry with it for making a noise, Bhagavan would defend it, saying it was only doing its duty by the Ashram. There was at one time a small puppy that would always relieve itself on a nice smooth spot near the office. Chinna Swamy would get furious and try to drive it out of the Ashram, but again Bhagavan would come to the rescue, saying that if some child did the same thing nobody would be angry, and the puppy was only a child and knew no better.<br /><br />He seemed specially to love monkeys and often said that in many ways they were better than human beings. They lived from day to day not planning for the future and there was no premeditation in the mischief they performed. He would be very amused when some monkey would slip into the Hall and snatch away plantains from the side of an unsuspecting devotee who had just had them returned as holy prasadam. He would often give directions that they should be fed and encouraged them in many ways much to the annoyance of the management to whom they were a great nuisance.<br /><br />Source - from Book "A Sadhu’s Reminiscences of Ramana Maharshi"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-6740894191171229992009-10-23T23:20:00.000-07:002009-10-23T23:23:47.482-07:00Ramana Maharshi - That bliss of the Self is always with you<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpAgFw-L2dbi6c_tVZM4_xiraA_3QCaJXJQ5KeAQJ4kZT6E2vTWZ1zkr6mGF-Wu3LnucHqe3AgHEmG0aaeG6E8Jn_ld0ZLl4lX8rRXqirURR39ZYISqzmU5OkBM1JjYA2NsVoAUPZp0sx5/s1600-h/Ramana+Maharshi_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpAgFw-L2dbi6c_tVZM4_xiraA_3QCaJXJQ5KeAQJ4kZT6E2vTWZ1zkr6mGF-Wu3LnucHqe3AgHEmG0aaeG6E8Jn_ld0ZLl4lX8rRXqirURR39ZYISqzmU5OkBM1JjYA2NsVoAUPZp0sx5/s400/Ramana+Maharshi_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396048354193856290" border="0" /></a>Q: In this life beset with limitations can I ever realize the bliss of the Self ?<br /><br />Ramana Maharshi - That bliss of the Self is always with you, and you will find it for yourself, if you would seek it earnestly. The cause of your misery is not in the life outside you, it is in you as the ego. You impose limitations on yourself and then make a vain struggle to transcend them.<br /><br />All unhappiness is due to the ego; with it comes all your trouble. What does it avail you to attribute to the happenings in life the cause of misery which is really within you? What happiness can you get from things extraneous to yourself ? When you get it, how long will it last ?<br /><br />If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it, you would be free. If you accept it, it will impose limitations on you and throw you into a vain struggle to transcend them. To be the Self that you really are is the only means to realize the bliss that is ever yours.<br /><br />Q: If truly there is neither bondage nor liberation, what is the reason for the actual experience of joys and sorrows?<br />Ramana Maharshi - They appear to be real only when one turns aside from one's real nature. They do not really exist.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-42857101646212352062009-10-23T23:13:00.000-07:002009-10-23T23:19:49.227-07:00Ramesh Balsekar left the body, last month<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQEIWxDDTV02iSLtK33CRtLyw0o7qTyQAhtU0w1erpd3E3RjeFcrm7w1unn4vaFIJFTapXpbgdj4QmQ896Rfw5_IDpIQWFUXCfypEohrcWd1aXdK1GReC_Ah7UfLGPD5AhuFCY9rODa57Q/s1600-h/rameshbalsekar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQEIWxDDTV02iSLtK33CRtLyw0o7qTyQAhtU0w1erpd3E3RjeFcrm7w1unn4vaFIJFTapXpbgdj4QmQ896Rfw5_IDpIQWFUXCfypEohrcWd1aXdK1GReC_Ah7UfLGPD5AhuFCY9rODa57Q/s400/rameshbalsekar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396047216714322482" border="0" /></a>Its been almost one month but I came across the news about Ramesh Balsekar leaving the body yesterday only. Last month on 27th Sep, Ramesh Balsekar left the body in His Mumbai house.<br /><br />Ramesh Balsekar was an advaita teacher and disciple of Nisargadatta Maharah and lover of Ramana Maharshi. In his apartment in mumbai, He used to answer seeker questions every day from 9 to 10:30am. Many photographs of Ramana Maharshi were alive in his house.<br /><br />Ramesh Balsekar main teaching was that every thing happens as per the cosmic will and we can not change any event in our life.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-37901405168733416532009-09-23T05:01:00.000-07:002009-09-23T05:04:13.430-07:00Ramana Maharshi on observance of self-discipline [niyamas]<div>Q: Sankara says we are all free, not bound, and that we shall all go back to God from whom we have come as sparks from a fire. Then why should we not commit all sorts of sins?</div><div><b>Ramana Maharshi :</b> It is true we are not bound and that the real Self has no bondage. It is true that you will eventually go back to your source. But meanwhile, if you commit sins, as you call them, you will have to face the consequences of such sins. You cannot escape them. If a man beats you, then, can you say, `I am free, I am not bound by these beatings and I don't feel any pain. Let him beat on'? If you can feel like that, you can go on doing what you like. What is the use of merely saying with your lips 'I am free'?</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Q: It is said that the whole universe is God's play of consciousness and that everything is full of Brahman. Then why should we say that bad habits and bad practices should be discarded?</div><div><b>Ramana Maharshi :</b> Suppose there is some wound inside the human body. If you neglect it, on the assumption that it is only a small part of the body, it causes pain to the whole body. If it is not cured by ordinary treatment, the doctor must come, cut off the affected portion with a knife and remove the impurities. If the diseased part is not cut off it will fester. If you do not bandage it after operating, pus will form. It is the same thing with regard to conduct. Bad habits and bad conduct are like a wound in the body. Every disease must be given appropriate treatment.</div><div><br /></div><div>Q: So one should adhere to the conventional codes of behaviour?</div><div><b>Ramana Maharshi :</b> Since the prescribed observances for self-discipline [niyamas] help one to a considerable extent, they are worthy to be accepted and followed. But if they are found to obstruct the superior practice of enquiry for true knowledge, give them up immediately as deficient.</div><div><br /></div><div>Source: From David Godman book "Be as you are"</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-87938395514173910532009-07-13T23:14:00.001-07:002011-08-09T10:30:28.045-07:00Ramana Maharshi Rare Video Footage<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1-OS8LU6JW8" width="425"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-33473879364650099002009-07-06T23:04:00.000-07:002009-07-06T23:20:19.691-07:00Guru Purnima day dedicated to memory of Spiritual Masters - Gurus<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzx0NUT5VnoW7As1ApTPjHvEFWMqKS2_pzrlE9057uw4rMhch77sM1LFCZ9d2c4doHpEeHep4JupZ_qfxK__Tkwnc5y30AtSDiXH0l1Ain5sTGJF1rcmvw8zbHNtTrakEOu1XkEOp9wuPf/s1600-h/ioh_31_bust.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzx0NUT5VnoW7As1ApTPjHvEFWMqKS2_pzrlE9057uw4rMhch77sM1LFCZ9d2c4doHpEeHep4JupZ_qfxK__Tkwnc5y30AtSDiXH0l1Ain5sTGJF1rcmvw8zbHNtTrakEOu1XkEOp9wuPf/s400/ioh_31_bust.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355595435833766530" border="0" /></a>Today, 7th july is a Guru Purnima day. Guru Purnima day is a special day as it is dedicated to the spiritual masters or gurus. There are 12-13 full moon in a year. The full moon day in the Hindu month of Ashad (July-August) is observed as the auspicious day of Guru Purnima.<br /><br />Guru means the Master and Purnima means the full moon. So, Guru Purnima day is translated in English as 'full moon day dedicated to Masters'. Traditionally, in India this day is dedicated to the sacred memory of great sage Ved Vyasa. Sage Vyasa had edited the four Vedas, wrote 18 Puranas, the Mahabharata and the Srimad Bhagavata. It is believed that it was Ved Vyasa only, who taught Lord Dattatreya, who is regarded as the Guru of Gurus and wrote <a href="http://www.messagefrommasters.com/Mystic_Musings/Gita/avadhutgita.htm">Avadhuta Gita</a>. But in general Guru Purnima is day is to remember all the Buddhas, Gurus and spiritual teachers who have helped us on the spiritual path.<br /><br />Guru Purnima day is meant for thanking the spiritual masters and renewing one pledge to seek truth. Guru purnima is a day to remember all the Buddhas who have realized truth and also to remember the buddha inside us. Spiritual vibrations are very conductive on this day to help us in any kind of Spiritual Sadhana. Lets remember and thank our masters on this day and make best use of this day.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-29657145673250881372009-07-05T12:44:00.000-07:002009-07-05T12:46:36.582-07:00Ramana Maharshi : Knowledge born of one’s own realisation (aparoksha) is firmMr. Ellappa Chettiar, a member of the Legislative Council of Madras Presidency and an influential Hindu, asked: “Why is it said that the knowledge born of hearing is not firm, whereas that born of contemplation is firm?”<br /><br />Ramana Maharshi : On the other hand it is said that hearsay knowledge (paroksha) is not firm, whereas that born of one’s own realisation (aparoksha) is firm. It is also said that hearing helps the intellectual understanding of the Truth, that meditation makes the understanding clear, and finally that contemplation brings about realisation of the Truth. Furthermore, they say also that all such knowledge is not firm and that it is firm only when it is as clear and intimate as a gooseberry in the hollow of one’s palm.<br /><br />There are those who affirm that hearing alone will suffice, because a competent person who had already, perhaps in previous incarnations, qualified himself, realises and abides in peace as soon as he hears the Truth told him only once, whereas the person not so qualified must pass through the stages prescribed above, before falling into samadhi.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-32292064241064172922009-06-19T04:59:00.000-07:002009-06-19T05:13:31.257-07:00Ramana Maharshi Deep Sleep and Technique to Watch Dreams<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKbyDeyQQ9GhZgzV_sOOaf8VOOoJAMU4ijK-PryhU5WY_vCYwiQu1vrkKjSvsqomPwW688ZmcfOXA63C29lrNqW2TmZtgoeB6XgebWoR0E_CDQcSK6lLdp1wC8QnfF3FZM5806YLFhJIJ_/s1600-h/bhagavan05.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKbyDeyQQ9GhZgzV_sOOaf8VOOoJAMU4ijK-PryhU5WY_vCYwiQu1vrkKjSvsqomPwW688ZmcfOXA63C29lrNqW2TmZtgoeB6XgebWoR0E_CDQcSK6lLdp1wC8QnfF3FZM5806YLFhJIJ_/s400/bhagavan05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349007220574891186" border="0" /></a><br />Deep Sleep with out dreams is called Susphuti and it is considered very close to Samadhi State. Ramana Maharshi used to sleep very deeply in his childhood. Maharshi Sleep used to be so deep that it was difficult to wake him up.<br />In his childhood If Ramana Maharshi had some differences with his friends then his friends used to wait till Ramana Maharshi fall asleep and When Ramana Maharshi used to fall asleep then his friends used to come and beat him and next day when Ramana Maharshi used to wake up then he used to wonder why my body is Aching so much.<br /><br />The few moments before we went enter to sleep or we come our from sleep are very important for meditation and these moments are period of transformation when some one can enter or slip into another dimension of consciousness.<br /><br />e.g. If some one wants to witness his dreams then one has to be watchful of these few minutes which are between sleep and waking state. There is a flux state of few moments when we are neither in waking state nor sleep has come. These are the moments when we are changing gear from waking state to sleep state. If meditator is wakeful in these moments then one can witness the dreams and witnessing dreams means they disappear and one has dreamless sleep like Ramana Maharshi used to have in childhood.<br /><br />In later years of Life Ramana Maharshi used to sleep for few hours only and used to wake up early in morning to help in the kitchen work. Ramana Maharshi always insisted on being treated like any other Ashram member and disliked any kind of special preferance given to him.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-41431896967519609722009-06-12T23:24:00.000-07:002009-06-12T23:27:29.356-07:00Ramana Maharshi physical pain during last daysSadhu Arunachala (Major A. W. Chadwick)) - The first question I asked Bhagavan was why Christ called out from the cross. If he was a perfect Jnani then surely he would have been indifferent to all suffering. Bhagavan explained that though a Jnani has attained Liberation already and for him there can be no such thing as suffering, some may appear to feel pain, but this is only a reaction of the body. For the body continues to have its reactions. It still eats and carries out all its natural workings.<br /><br />All its suffering is apparent only to the onlooker and does not affect the Jnani, for he no longer identifies the Self with the body, he lives in a transcendent state above all such. Besides this, it is immaterial to him where and when he leaves the body. Some of them when passing appear to<br />suffer, others may pass while in Samadhi and quite unconscious of the outer world, while yet others may just disappear from sight at the moment of death.<br /><br />This conversation is especially interesting in view of what happened in the case of Bhagavan himself during the last days. He certainly appeared to suffer terribly, at night when he was unaware that anybody could hear him, he lay on his couch, groaning and calling out. At that time<br />it was indeed difficult to realize that he, as a Jnani did not feel pain in the same way as we do, but that he saw it as something apart from him, as a dream which could be regarded objectively.<br /><br />When Milarepa was dying he was asked if he did not feel pain, his agony was so obviously<br />great. “No,” he replied, “but there is pain.” Pain was certainly there for the body. If one is identified with the body one feels it and associates oneself with it. But for the Jnani who sees the body always as something apart from himself, pain is only an experience outside his reality.<br />There is pain but somehow it is not his.<br /><br />Source: from Major A. W. Chadwick Book "A Sadhu's Reminiscences"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597149975589486649.post-9915029850165569972009-06-09T11:46:00.000-07:002009-06-09T11:48:17.008-07:00Guru Vachaka Kovai Quotes -<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-wbt2IWU17WpXmK18Td0EzD2nqFO9OfvlaL432219GOgn4QbwfQGdc7q9C98fBH1RdaoShgAm05-TxRGQaI95h_ZxiW8ut3ahpMb76R0TbDt0elwvajaoAulEQSSDldJhq0ZuCVf2l4a/s1600-h/boa_45_bust.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345401150738451922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 262px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 360px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-wbt2IWU17WpXmK18Td0EzD2nqFO9OfvlaL432219GOgn4QbwfQGdc7q9C98fBH1RdaoShgAm05-TxRGQaI95h_ZxiW8ut3ahpMb76R0TbDt0elwvajaoAulEQSSDldJhq0ZuCVf2l4a/s400/boa_45_bust.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><br />One’s greatness increases to the extent one becomes<br />humble. The reason why God is Supreme to such an<br />extent that the whole universe bows to Him, is His<br />sublime state of humility in which the deluded ego<br />never rises unknowingly.</div><div align="center"><br /> </div><div align="center">For a wise aspirant who seeks to gain true greatness,<br />it is best to pay his homage [namaskarams] to others<br />until complete egolessness is achieved. On the other<br />hand, it is indeed dangerous for him to accept homage<br />from others.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0