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The realised man knows neither past present or future. He is above time for he lives in the timeless Self.
There is a sloka in Gita which says that he who acts without attachment to the senses and without egoism (the sense ‘I’ am doing this) though he kills an enemy, does not make any karma. Similarly such an illuminated one is free from all past karma and from all past vasanas. How can there be karma or vasanas when the I, the ego, which caused or causes them has been destroyed?
“Desires go on increasing and burning more fiercely as they are fed.”
Q. What is your opinion about social reform? A. Self reform automatically brings about social reform. Confine yourself to self-reform. Social reform will take care of itself. [Talk 282]
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When one has realised, a universal life-current takes possession of him and uses him henceforth. His own separate will is gone. He becomes but an instrument in its hands. This is the real Self-surrender. This is the highest kundalini, this is real bhakti, this is jnana.
All lectures and books do little good and are of use only for beginners, to point out on the way. The real service is done in meditation. One sitting still and silent — as mentioned in the poem by the Tamil saint Tayumanavar — can influence a whole country. The force of meditation is infinitely more powerful than speech or writings. One who sits in silence meditating on the Self, will draw a whole lot of people to him without his going out to anyone.
What need is there for talk when a knower meets another knower?
The best instruction is heart-to-heart speech in silence.
One who sees the Self has the power to help others, to see their selves. He is the real Guru and that is the only initiation.
See yourself first and then see the whole world as the Self.
People insist on asking me questions and so I must reply. But the truth is beyond words.
The meaning or significance of ‘I’ is God. The experience of “I am” is to be still. [Talk
Hold something firmly and trace it back to its source. By concentration mouna (silence) results. When practice becomes natural it will end in mouna. Meditation without mental activity is mouna. Subjugation of mind is meditation; deep meditation is eternal speech. [Talk 231]
Those who have made big discoveries have made them, not when they were anxious about them, but in the stillness, by intuition rather than thinking.
Self-realisation is the cessation of thoughts and all mental activity.
People like inventors searching for new material inventions make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition. Hence a sharpened concentrated intellect is useful and even essential in material matters, but the revelation or intuition takes its own time to arise and one must await it.
The gap between two thoughts is our true state, it is the real Self.
True greatness is to be free of thoughts.
Any sadhaka therefore who comes to me for enquiry and elucidation would amply benefit himself and others by sitting before me silently and absolutely speechless. Those forces are the greatest and most effective which are invisible, for instance, the ether, the electric current, etc. Any enquiry you desire to make, give it to your mind or thought, you will readily find the answer in your own mind.
The most effective help is with Silence.
When camphor burns no residue is left. The mind is the camphor: when it has resolved itself into the Self without leaving the slightest trace, it is realisation.
What one fails to know by conversation extending to several years, can be known in a trice in silence, or before silence, for example, Dakshinamurti and his four disciples. That is the highest language and most effective.
Be always reflecting and feeling the Real Being. Be That. Cling close to it. Let your quest be constant and sustained until you catch the Self and thereby find eternal happiness.
Anything which has to be attained is not the Reality, not the Truth. We are already the Reality, the Truth.
Peace is the inner nature of man. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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Just as a woman with her necklace round her neck who imagines it has been lost and goes about searching for it until she is reminded of it by a friend, has created her own anxiety of loss and then her own pleasure of no loss, the Self is there whether you search for it or not.
Again, just as the woman feels fulfilled as if regaining the lost necklace were something new, so also the removal of ignorance and the cessation of false identification reveal the Self which is eternally existing. This is called realisation. But realisation is not new. It amounts to elimination of ignorance and nothing more.
The example of chintamani is found in Yoga Vasistha.Chintamani signifies the Real nature of the Self, the story is as follows: A man was making tapasya (penance) for gaining the chintamani. A gem mysteriously fell into his hands. He thought that it could not be chintamani because his effort had been too short and too little to gain the gem. He discarded it and continued the tapas. Later a sadhu placed before him a brilliant pebble cut into shape. The man was deceived by its appearance but found that it could not fulfill his desire as claimed. Similarly, the Self being inherent should not be
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Gandhi Babu Rajendra Prasad, the President of the Indian National Congress, visited Maharshi. On leaving, he asked for a message which he could convey to Gandhi. Maharshi said: “When heart speaks to heart, what need is there for words?”
