Monday, August 31, 2015

March 19

He did not brood over the past, nor did he worry over the future: he lived in the present moment, smiling happily all the time.

March 20

When thus the infinite self is realized, sorrows come to an end--even the seeds of delusion are destroyed, the shower of misfortune ceases and the perception of evil ends.

March 21

This ocean of world-appearance can be crossed only when you are firmly established in supreme wisdom, when you see the self with the self alone and when your intelligence is not diverted or colored by sense-perception.

March 22

When the limited and conditioned "I am so-and-so" ceases, there arises consciousness of the all-pervading infinite.

March 23

Consciousness minus conceptualization is the eternal Brahman the absolute; consciousness plus conceptualization is thought. Cut the mind down with the mind and dismiss the thought of the mind, which thus negates the mind.

March 25

...you are non-different from the self which pervades everything.

March 26

The wise man sees the self all the time; and he knows that all movement arises from the movement of life-force; he knows, too, that the senses perform their respective functions. What then is known as the mind? All motion belongs to life-force and all consciousness belongs to the self, and the senses each have their own power: which is the one that binds them all together?