Kindle Notes & Highlights
At a very practical level, Aloneness means ‘the other’ is not very different from me.
Do you understand Aloneness? That things are not different, things are not divided. They are unified, they are one. Do not point fingers at anybody. The chaos in the world is actually the chaos in my mind because my mind and the world are same.
There is no way to know Source, except by looking at the manifestations themselves.
Every single work, even this act of asking a question is work; breathing is work. So, one works only because Love calls.
It’s your smartness that defeats you.
When love calls, move straight. Do not try to act smart. And if you meet a hurdle in between, fight it, jump over it, cross it but do not change your track even by fifteen degrees. Do not apply methods and cleverness.
Why did you come to that obstacle? Because ‘somebody’ called. Well, it’s obviously not ‘somebody’ but just for the sake of language, let’s call it ‘somebody’. So, you came to the obstacle because somebody called. Now, let the caller take care of the obstacle. Why do you think that you have to surmount the barrier? Why do you think that your energy and effort will be needed to defeat the obstacle?
“You called, so now I am facing this problem.” Tell the lover, “You called, so now I have come to this obstruction. And I am facing this threat. You called, you take care of it.” And then test whether or not the problem is taken care of. Test!
Your power is so little. He creates this obstruction, because he likes to hear from you. You will not call him if that problem is not there. So he puts that problem so that you may call him but you are cleverer than he is. He thinks that by doing this, he will be able to get your attention. But still you do not pay any attention. Try, test him out. It’s a fundamental rule. When you come to a problem because the Truth called you, if your problem has been given to you by Truth, then only the Truth can solve the problem. It’s a very fundamental rule. Not your cleverness!
Since in this non-dualistic Beauty, there is nothing except Beauty, so obviously there is nothing to compare beauty with. Beauty alone is.
Truth is beautiful. Truth alone is Beauty alone.
The Heart is beautiful, the Heart is the center of all Beauty, and you are receiving inputs all the time from this world. Whatever takes you towards your beautiful Heart is Beautiful. Do you get this? Whatever takes you towards your beautiful Heart is beautiful. And whatever takes you away from the Beauty in your Heart is ugly.
The absolute matters only to the Absolute. And to creatures of non-duality, only non-dualistic definitions are useful. To them, an Absolute Truth makes no sense.
“That which pleases my conditioning is beautiful.” Don’t you say that? And, “That which violates, and hurts, and breaks my conditioning is ugly.” Don’t you do that? You have been conditioned to hear one particular kind of music, since childhood.
Criteria should be, “Reading this book, did I get to peace? Sitting in front of this man, did I experience silence?” If such is the book, call it ‘a beautiful book’. If such is the man, call him ‘a beautiful man’.
If in somebody’s presence, you become excited, then that presence is not really good for you.
Beauty is Peace and Peace is Silence.
when you will really experience beauty, you will become silent.
the right action has no voice.
I said that the voice of the Heart is very faint. It is actually more faint than faint. It has no voice at all. Whenever there is a voice, it is the voice of the mind.
Whenever the mind is divided into two parts or ten parts and the parts are going in this direction or that direction, none of the directions is your direction. It is the direction of that particular part, right? See, you are being pulled in ten directions, one of the pullers become strong enough to overpower the other nine, and carry you towards himself, drag you, pull you towards himself. Does it mean that, that puller is you? Does it mean that going in that one’s direction is your freedom? It does not mean that.
None of the divisions of the mind represent the essence of the mind.
You don’t need to become a character in all that. Let the forces play out. Let them get tired. Let their power come down a little. And then you can see when movement happens on its own.
Memories are residues. I would like to put it this way. There are two kinds of memories. Capacitor memories and current memories.
memories are stored. There is no circulation of current. There is no resistance.
circulation is happening due to resistance? This is current memory.
If something is continuously there in the mind, it is circulating in the form of the thought. Then rest assured that there is something that you are resisting.
Either you are doing something per force or there is something that needs to be done, but you are not doing it per force.
You have the solutions. Just do not resist the solutions. It is that simple.
Living by the Heart is always worth it, whatever be the side-effects, whatever be the price you have to pay.
Stress is – mind versus mind, mind versus Heart.
The man who cannot choose his T-shirt wisely, would also surely not choose his girlfriend wisely; neither would he choose a job wisely because the choice-maker is the same, the entity that is deciding is the same.
You have to be careful of every single, small decision that you are making. When these small, small decisions will be alright, then your so-called big decisions will also fall into place.
Do not ignore the small things because everything is a small thing. Do not ignore. Do not say, “Placement matters, but small unit tests do not matter.” They matter. The one who will sit in the placement is the same one who is not writing the unit test.
whatever we see around us, whatever we do always has a motive, or an objective of profit, the first kind of negotiation which we call. So this means that all of us mostly act from the mind then?
even if the world is that rotten, do you want to live that way?
It is extremely important to realize that we live in an extremely sick world.
see that their sickness has affected you as well. And see that you do not want to be sick anymore. That will be the beginning of your recovery. And when you recover, you will be able to help others recover.
This entire, overwhelming, immense, infinite totality is sometimes named as ‘God’. That is it. Some people call it as ‘God’, which is there, obviously.
The world belongs to the naked man who is enjoying it.
The world is ruled by the Joyful secure insider who is at home everywhere.
