Monday, April 6, 2015

July 12

Desire for limitation interferes with the fullness of the self; absence of such desire promotes bondage! Hence, constant awareness is to be preferred. 

July 13

Realize: "All this is pervaded by me for I am omnipresent and devoid of body and such other limitations" and dwell in peace and supreme happiness.

July 14

The silence of deep sleep is conducive to liberation. In it the prana or life-force is neither restrained nor promoted, the senses are neither fed nor starved, the perception of diversity is neither expressed nor suppressed, the mind is neither mind nor non-mind. There is no division and hence no effort at abolishing it; it is called the silence of deep sleep and one who is established in it may not meditate. There is knowledge of what IS as it is and there is freedom from doubt. It is utter emptiness. It is supportless. It is of the nature of supreme peace of which it can neither be said that it is real nor that it is unreal. That state in which one knows "there is no I," nor another, no mind nor anything derived from the mind, in which one knows "I is but an idea in the universe, and it is really pure existence"--that is known as the silence of deep sleep.

July 15

The best method is by enquiring into the nature of the self which is infinite. Your mind will be completely absorbed. Then both the mind and the enquiry will cease. Remain firmly established in what remains after that.

July 16

This Brahman is referred to positively as the truth, Brahman, etc., and since it is beyond description it is also negatively indicated as emptiness and indescribable, etc....It is formless though it appears in all forms....This world-appearance is but the flesh in which the truth which is pure consciousness is clothed.

July 17

Consciousness, being non-dual and non-moving, is not grasped. However, it can be realized through its own reflection, the body.

July 18

There is but one consciousness which is pure, invisible, subtlest of the subtle, tranquil, which is neither the world or its activities.