2014年1月28日火曜日

Beauty & Pure 152


Instead of going on, driven by the restless thoughts, performing actions such as ‘I should do this, I should give up that’ as if they were worthy to be done, acting according to how the Grace of God, the Lord of our soul, leads us, is the right form of truly worshipping Him.






2014年1月25日土曜日

Beauty & Pure  151

Everyone is aware of the eternal Self. He sees so many dying but still believes himself eternal. Because it is the Truth. Unwillingly the natural Truth asserts itself. The man is deluded by the intermingling of the conscious Self with the insentient body. This delusion must end.





2014年1月24日金曜日

Beauty & Pure 150

Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow and everyone has the greatest love for him self, which is solely due to the fact that happiness is his [her] real nature. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi






2014年1月23日木曜日

Beauty & Pure 149

.: You are the same person that is now awake [as was in sleep]. Is it not so?

D.: Yes.

M.: So there is a continuity in the sleep and the waking states. What is that continuity? It is only the state of Pure Being. There is a difference in the two states. What is that difference? The incidents, namely, the body, the world and the objects appear in the waking state but they disappear in sleep.

D.: But I am not aware in my sleep.

M.: True, there is no awareness of the body or of the world. But you must exist in your sleep in order to say now "I was not aware in my sleep". Who says so now? It is the wakeful person. The sleeper cannot say so. That is to say, the individual who is now identifying the Self with the body says that such awareness did not exist in sleep. Because you identify yourself with the body, you see the world around you and say that the waking state is filled with beautiful and interesting things. The sleep state appears dull because you were not there as an individual and therefore these things were not. But what is the fact? There is the continuity of Being in all the three states, but no continuity of the individual and the objects.

D.: Yes.

M.: That which is continuous is also enduring, i.e. permanent. That which is discontinuous is transitory.

D.: Yes.

M.: Therefore the state of Being is permanent and the body and the world are not. They are fleeting phenomena passing on the screen of Being-Consciousness which is eternal and stationary.







2014年1月22日水曜日

Beauty & Pure  148

"For one who is observing Sat-Achara, which is the perfect state of Love, even the desire for Liberation should be considered to be wrong, because desire implies a movement of the mind towards a second or third person, whereas Love has the form of unbroken and unmoving Existence. This is the significance of the ancient saying, 'Cut the desire even for God'.

"Though the meaning of Achara should be understood in this way, we find in our midst people who boast that they are observing acharas and that they are therefore certainly above all others in life. They maintain untouchability, they hide themselves while eating, they take great care in wearing their clothes in a particular manner, etc., yet at the same time they are mistaking the filthy body to be themselves and they have innumerable ugly desires. Can their behaviour be considered to be Achara? Surely not. Therefore, unless one attains Atma-Nishta [i.e. perfect Self-Abidance], all one’s boasting about observing acharas is 







2014年1月21日火曜日

Beauty & Pure 147

By the enquiry ‘Who am I?’. The thought ‘Who am I?’ will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.







2014年1月20日月曜日

Beauty & Pure 146

Just as the sight of a lion appearing in its dream will awaken an elephant from sleep, so also the Darshan of the Sadguru will awaken the disciple from the dream of this present waking state, which is merely an illusion, into the state of Jnana.






2014年1月19日日曜日

Beauty & Pure 145

There are no objects without the subject, i.e., the objects do not come and tell you that they are, but it is you who says that there are the objects. The objects are therefore what the seer makes of them. They have no existence independent of the subject. Find out what you are and then you understand what the world is.







2014年1月17日金曜日

Beauty & Pure 144

[O mind,] do not waste your life in roaming outside, pursuing wonders and courting enjoyments; to know Self through Grace [Self-enquiry], and to thus abide firmly in the Heart, is alone worthwhile.







2014年1月16日木曜日

Beauty & Pure 143

Your duty is "to Be" ; and, not to be 'this' or 'that'. "I AM THAT I AM" sums up the whole Truth. 
The method is summed up in "BE STILL".