It is a state of bliss that is not its description, which is both "is" and "is not", both something and not-something, light and darkness. It is full of non-consciousness and (objectless) consciousness, it can only be indicated by negation (not this, not this). He became that which is beyond description.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
May 19
He in whom the very notions of calamity, poverty, elation, pride, dullness and excitement do not arise--his mind is dead and he is liberated while living.
May 20
Therefore, you will realize the unborn state of consciousness if you either restrain the movement of prana in your own psychological ground (of concepts and notions), or refrain from disturbing the homogeneity in consciousness.
May 21
When one, established in non-becoming, contemplates that which has not changed into becoming and when one thus perceive what is as it is, then the mind becomes no-mind.
May 22
When diversity is abandoned and unity prevails, there is also non-experience: and hence unity is not a "thing" nor an object of experience. This unity is therefore eternal and imperishable....Contemplation of division does not lead to purity of vision.
May 23
That pure existence is heaviness in all heavy things; that is lightness in all that is light. That is grossness and that alone is subtlety. It is first among the first, last among the last. It is the light of the luminous and the darkness of the dark. It is substantiality of all substances and it is the space too. It is seen and it is unseen. That I am and that I am not.
May 24
O Rama, therefore, by every means in your power, strive to get established in that supreme state and then do what is appropriate. They who reach that state, which is pure and undecaying and which is the truth of one's own self, attain to supreme peace. By reaching it, you will forever be freed from the fear of this worldly existence.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
May 25
If one has achieved even a little bit of control over the mind by self-inquiry, such a person has attained the fruit of his life. For that self-inquiry will expand in his heart.
May 26
O Rama, this world-appearance has been experienced as truth for a very long time and it needs persistent practice of all these three [realization of truth, cessation of mind, ending of conditioning] simultaneously to overcome it.
May 27
Again, if you conceptualize this teaching for your intellectual entertainment and do not let it act in your life, you will stumble and fall like a blind man.
May 28
He who has the vision of the infinite and into whose heart the world-appearance has merged, does not entertain the deluded notion of a jiva, etc....Recollect your essential nature as the infinite consciousness. Abandon the notions of diversity. You are what you are: nay, not even that as a concept but beyond it you are the self-luminous being.
May 30
The truth or Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is beyond thought and understanding, it is supreme peace and omnipresent, it transcends imagination and description....It is omnipotent, it is more empty than space and yet it is not empty because it is full of consciousness.
June 1
Liberation is attained when one arrives at the state of supreme peace after intelligent inquiry into the nature of the self and after this has brought about an inner awakening.
June 2
The sweetness one tastes is not experienced by another: listening to someone's description of the cessation of ignorance does not give rise to your enlightenment. Each one has to realize it....It arises when the senses and the mind, which is the sixth sense, cease.
June 3
Continuous and homogeneous in waking, dreaming, deep sleep and in the fourth (transcendental) state of consciousness, it shines when all thoughts have ceased, when all excitements have ceased and when all hate has ceased....Let this world be an illusion or substantial. I am free from the fever of distress.
June 4
The best of all states, O sage, is indeed the vision of the one infinite consciousness. Even the contemplation of the self which is infinite consciousness banishes sorrow, terminates the long-dream vision of the world-appearance, purifies the mind and the heart, and dispels worries and misfortunes. That contemplation of the self is devoid of mentation.
June 5
What is the right understanding? It is to realize that this world is nothing but the reflection (and therefore appearance) of pure consciousness and thus is neither real nor unreal [as the substance or absence of substance of a reflection in a mirror is neither real nor unreal].
June 6
Live happily and playfully in this world without considerations of desirable and undesirable....When there is right understanding of the truth that even if the body is real, "I" is different from it and that "I" is but the reflection of the infinite consciousness, there is no sorrow.
June 7
They who have laid this ghost are the good people who render some service to this world. Hence, one should uplift oneself from this ignorance by laying this ghost known as egosense.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
June 8
Your constant remembrance, O Lord, is like the pot of nectar and is the ever open door to liberation.
June 9
The lord fit to be worshiped is indeed the one who upholds the entire creation, who is beyond thought and description, who is beyond the concepts of even the "all" and the "collective totality." He alone is referred to as "God" who is undivided and indivisible by space and time, whose light illumines all the objects, who is pure and absolute consciousness.
June 10
He dwells in the cave of one's own heart. He transcends the mind and the five senses of cognition; therefore he cannot be comprehended nor described by them--yet for the purpose of instruction, he is indicated by "consciousness."
June 11
This consciousness is like a mirror which holds a reflection within itself, as it were, without undergoing any modification in itself; this consciousness appears as all these countless beings in this universe.
June 12
The infinite consciousness alone exists, naught else exists. Consciousness alone has risen in consciousness.
June 13
Merely by forgetting one's true state, the consciousness undergoes great troubles and sorrows and experiences pitiable downfalls.
June 14
This infinite consciousness, which is unmodified and non-dual, can be realized by one in the single, self-luminous light. It is pure and eternal, it is ever-present and devoid of mind, it is unmodified and untainted, it is all the objects....It is omnipresent without being divided by the particulars constituting the all.
June 18
The realization of this infinite consciousness (which is totally effortless) is alone the best form of worship.
June 19
This is the supreme meditation, this is the supreme worship: the continuous and unbroken awareness of the indwelling presence, inner light or consciousness. While doing whatever one is doing--seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing or talking--one should realize one's essential nature as pure consciousness. Thus does one attain liberation.
June 20
Equanimity is sweetness itself and this sweetness is beyond the sense and the mind. Whatever is touched by that equanimity instantly becomes sweet, whatever its description or definition may be. That alone is regarded as worship which is performed when one is in a state of equanimity like that of space, when the mind has become quiescent without the least movement of thought, when there is effortless absence of perversity.
June 21
Be at peace, pure, free from cravings. Consider that all your experiences and expressions are the worship of the self.
June 22
If the real nature of the infinite consciousness is allowed to slip even for one-half of a hundredth part of a second, then all these unfortunate illusory creations take place....However, if one does not slip from that state of cosmic consciousness, one realizes that the truth is ever-present everywhere.
June 23
Just as liquidity is in liquids, motion in wind, emptiness in space, even so is omnipresence in the self.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
June 25
The bliss that is experienced in a state of no-mind, that bliss which is uncaused...is inexpressible and indescribable and should not even be called happiness!
June 26
After living with such no-mind for some time, there arises the state known as turiya-atita (the state beyond the transcendental or the turiya state).
June 27
The notion of Brahman and the world is therefore both dual and non-dual. That which is the substratum for all these notions of unity and diversity--that is the supreme state.
June 28
Even as all that is seen as water in the world is naught but hydrogen and oxygen gases, even so the world-appearance is but Brahman alone.
June 29
Just as water in a mirage is and is not simultaneously, even so is diversity in relation to the infinite consciousness.
June 30
Where nothing has arisen (been created), there everything is seen. Such a state of purity of the self, the true nature of the infinite consciousness, is not a vision (an experience of the mind and the senses). It is incapable of being taught. It is not very easy nor is it far distant or impossible. It is attained by direct experience alone.
July 2
The concept of unity is used to cancel the concept of the many; the concept of self (infinite consciousness) is used to cancel the conceptualization of unity. The self can neither be conceived of as existence or non-existence, it is what it is.
July 3
Be established in oneness. You are the single ocean of consciousness....Hence, in order to attain the realization of Brahman, fill your entire being with Brahman.
July 4
Whatever your inner being is, that you shall certainly attain. Hence, in order to attain the realization of Brahman, fill your entire being with Brahman.
July 5
What remains when all sense of duality has been abandoned, that is the self, that is the supreme truth.
July 6
If the mental modifications are pacified, then the mind is at peace. Sattva arises. Then the consciousness is freed from the object. There is pure inner consciousness.
July 7
The world-appearance is illusory. It exists in Brahman as an image exists in a mirror--intangible and without holes (breaks) and divisions--being non-different from Brahman.
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