tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62296022024-03-14T05:45:12.152-04:00No Sleep Til Awakening
<i>"When you begin to question your dream, awakening will not be far away."</i>
-Sri Nisargadatta MaharajKali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.comBlogger2337125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-17678298114399902772023-10-09T14:48:00.005-04:002023-10-09T14:48:58.180-04:00Illuminating Silence<p><br /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLpvrILzvSzH1eFuBPBIClUzqwBQbNKx4kE1g0-PYxcXQSqgveIz-iEqelzI5oPJUrSWpvssZj8KA4mu6QB0EBMkdSVJSqEp0JjuYGjtudo7cWvpGJJuty7mwpSXgjJKV5BzGVZBbpaeuXOXlfqi5ctPPu9_2xFqsfvCwxzDFToq8t8vC7TmZSCQ/s506/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-09%20at%201.47.02%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLpvrILzvSzH1eFuBPBIClUzqwBQbNKx4kE1g0-PYxcXQSqgveIz-iEqelzI5oPJUrSWpvssZj8KA4mu6QB0EBMkdSVJSqEp0JjuYGjtudo7cWvpGJJuty7mwpSXgjJKV5BzGVZBbpaeuXOXlfqi5ctPPu9_2xFqsfvCwxzDFToq8t8vC7TmZSCQ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-09%20at%201.47.02%20PM.png" width="253" /></a></div><br /><b> <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">From “Illuminating Silence”, </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">Sheng Yen</span></b><p></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Many people are confused in thinking that enlightenment as a state implies some continuing ecstasy of bliss and awareness such as may be experienced in kensho [Japanese, “seeing one’s nature”, ie, initial enlightenment experience]. This does not appear to be a correct understanding. The fully enlightened practitioner may be said to be ‘one who lives from a perspective of a wisdom-understanding which functions without ego concern under all circumstances’. Such a realized person lives normally in the world, simply lacking habitual self-concern. He or she will have a mirror-like quality in which others see themselves, rather than seeing the reactivity of ego in the one before them. A brief enlightenment experience may be the origin of such a condition but the majority of such experiences are not followed by the persistence of an enlightened state; rather selfish vexations return but with a reduced vigor. It may be that some individuals develop a capacity to generate the experience of selfless bliss, others may find themselves there more frequently, but for most the condition is a short-term blessing. Since the experience does not ensure the emergence of the state of being an enlightened person, further practice is the essential norm.</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><br style="outline: currentcolor !important;" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: currentcolor !important;">Yet there is another way of envisaging this condition, not so much as ‘an’ experience, but more as a form of knowledge. In the Caodong [Japanese: Soto Zen] tradition, enlightenment is said to be no different from practice. This view focuses on the meditative fading away of categorisations of all kinds, time, space, self, until a residual nothingness is discovered in which everything is nonetheless mirrored. Such an approach does not, therefore, emphasise the sudden experiential, revelatory aspect of enlightenment, but rather the discovery of an underlying condition of mind implicitly always present. To know this state is thus more a type of knowing than an experience of insight of limited duration. Some may argue that this Caodong approach is the more mature perspective and it is the deep view of Silent Illumination.<br style="outline: currentcolor !important;" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: currentcolor !important;"><br style="outline: currentcolor !important;" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; outline: currentcolor !important;">Anyone who has ‘seen the nature’ is unlikely to claim to be an enlightened person, even when a master has confirmed the experience; he or she simply knows what a glimpse of enlightenment entails. Indeed, anyone claiming to be enlightened is probably acting erroneously from an inflated ego, which a teacher has been unable to contain. Simple humility alone will normally prevent any such claim. People may consider another person to be ‘enlightened’ on observing an exceptional being who seems truly to have transcended the vexations of this world. It is doubtful whether there are more than a handful of such persons alive in any one generation. Some may become great lamas, masters, or teachers; others may remain entirely unknown, except perhaps to a few. 🕊</div>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-67749323732714942422023-08-15T09:13:00.001-04:002023-08-15T09:13:53.114-04:00Jnana and Vijnana <p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPLj87Q-K2MTMLVHLN_qscsNU85KUVK37hYeuYpIAFZBKk8GEf2-LJw7DlwZLDA6KAxDGjldXpPJGspwWZi7SKpTkCMPcr55Yqpwdblz4_lamLDHLnsxKRqlyBvo_QBGVRhKA-30HFHfyig9OHMMNcGZReLAMKOq0Ak8Xea3AL8VHeuqwxWqc_A/s472/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-15%20at%208.12.08%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="434" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNPLj87Q-K2MTMLVHLN_qscsNU85KUVK37hYeuYpIAFZBKk8GEf2-LJw7DlwZLDA6KAxDGjldXpPJGspwWZi7SKpTkCMPcr55Yqpwdblz4_lamLDHLnsxKRqlyBvo_QBGVRhKA-30HFHfyig9OHMMNcGZReLAMKOq0Ak8Xea3AL8VHeuqwxWqc_A/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-08-15%20at%208.12.08%20AM.png" width="294" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p> <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">“The jñānī, according to Ramakrishna, is the traditional Advaitin who has attained the spiritual realization that the impersonal nondual Brahman alone is real and the universe is unreal. The vijñānī, however, first attains knowledge of Brahman and then achieves the even greater, and more comprehensive, realization that Brahman 'has become the universe and its living beings.' For Ramakrishna, then, both the jñānī and the vijñānī are Advaitins, since they both maintain that Brahman is the sole reality. However, while the jñānī has the acosmic realization of nondual Brahman in nirvikalpa samādhi, the vijñānī returns from the state of nirvikalpa samādhi to attain the richer, world-inclusive nondual realization that the same Brahman realized in nirvikalpa samādhi has also manifested as everything in the universe. Hence, unlike the jñānī, the vijñānī combines knowledge and devotion by worshipping everything and everyone as real manifestations of God.”</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> ~ Swami Medhananda, <i>Swami Vivekananda’s Vedantic Cosmopolitanism</i></span></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-66316813661335983092023-07-11T21:53:00.003-04:002023-07-11T21:53:12.573-04:00SINLESS<h1 class="quoteText" style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVehz0uObg1WIRiTjrd5POxhEthxuF_0r0LSAoO0HP6hPvrR24RkTl5PZBKS4RdfV02eCrgNzoNJDhpJUpXRkAofvL3kq_fRRVoCvmgzmAjJxTpDNXZy24la0l0W2bO3Z9AODYBnSmG4DWzp4puc7jNUmskgRMRNzaAoWgax9vbdoNYbnyoVCVvA/s512/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-11%20at%208.52.25%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="410" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVehz0uObg1WIRiTjrd5POxhEthxuF_0r0LSAoO0HP6hPvrR24RkTl5PZBKS4RdfV02eCrgNzoNJDhpJUpXRkAofvL3kq_fRRVoCvmgzmAjJxTpDNXZy24la0l0W2bO3Z9AODYBnSmG4DWzp4puc7jNUmskgRMRNzaAoWgax9vbdoNYbnyoVCVvA/w320-h400/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-11%20at%208.52.25%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></h1><h1 class="quoteText" style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i>“The Vedanta recognizes no sin; it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta, is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.” </i></span></span></h1><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">― </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="color: #333333;">Swami Vivekananda</span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium; outline: none !important;"><span style="color: black; outline: none !important;"><b style="outline: none !important;"></b></span></span></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-82601156009346234812023-02-13T05:00:00.001-05:002023-02-13T05:00:00.245-05:00The Light of All Lights<p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk-CV5goCCRDvGMUOCLeNA513CoN940SZcWtlwtHB27J-ib_22pKFaGW6joQWKCOTqlPTVBQphswTzk5zwF6iM_sDBRB9EwL5z5UXzMBPSsTxmiNhVk5oYWVGDtXJfYprSYunaRopqg_9Gxlo1PQhV1C9aAC13ut_Ohgg9ORRM86MZBFnGthM/s730/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-19%20at%2011.25.29%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="498" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk-CV5goCCRDvGMUOCLeNA513CoN940SZcWtlwtHB27J-ib_22pKFaGW6joQWKCOTqlPTVBQphswTzk5zwF6iM_sDBRB9EwL5z5UXzMBPSsTxmiNhVk5oYWVGDtXJfYprSYunaRopqg_9Gxlo1PQhV1C9aAC13ut_Ohgg9ORRM86MZBFnGthM/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-19%20at%2011.25.29%20AM.png" width="218" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br />One day a group of musicians came to play for Ramana Maharshi. The instruments included flute, violin and harmonium. </span><p></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">Afterwards there was a discussion about the various instruments and which was the most pleasing. The Maharshi said that he himself listened to nothing but the harmonium as its steady, monotonous, one-pointed rhythm helped to keep one centered in the Self. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">Q: What is the significance of the spot between the eyebrows?</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">RM: <a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>It is a reminder not to see with our eyes. The mind functions both as light and objects; if divested of objects the Light alone will remain.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">Q: But must we know that there is such light?</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">RM: Sight or cognition pertains to the present state because there is light. Light is the essential requisite for sight. It is plain in our daily life. Among the lights, the sunlight is the most important. Hence they speak of the glory of millions of suns.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">Q: I cannot go within sufficiently deeply.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">RM: It is wrong to say that. Where are you now, if not in the Self? Where can you go? All at is necessary is the stern belief that you are the Self. It is better to say that the other activities throw a veil over you.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">- <i>Conscious Immortality (</i>Roy Eugene Davis)</span></div></div>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-47906164764036580272023-02-06T05:00:00.001-05:002023-02-06T05:00:00.221-05:00The Best Asana for Self-Realization<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBBGKsKoWT5UFe32ihSIaYQ02nsv8TucJXcfU4ZJ3PvqJCCYwuJwpeKfh7ERnfIL0r0GY1YrA7cTMZKuKcYrVDiWAKGeEVbQCNBcpJf7FCrF-ozB3enhKEbt5NEaVlq3_cQEZE4ReGmWF2--mQsSU89qGROKlIJTbaMzDAYViYebiwfDKbKDo/s580/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-18%20at%209.46.52%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="340" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBBGKsKoWT5UFe32ihSIaYQ02nsv8TucJXcfU4ZJ3PvqJCCYwuJwpeKfh7ERnfIL0r0GY1YrA7cTMZKuKcYrVDiWAKGeEVbQCNBcpJf7FCrF-ozB3enhKEbt5NEaVlq3_cQEZE4ReGmWF2--mQsSU89qGROKlIJTbaMzDAYViYebiwfDKbKDo/w235-h400/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-18%20at%209.46.52%20AM.png" width="235" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Q: Is it good to devote some time to stay healthy?</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast"><b style="font-family: georgia;">Annamalai Swami:</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "It is difficult to do sādhana if the body is not in good condition. Hatha yoga is one way of staying healthy. Bhagavan (Ramana Maharshi) used to say, however, that of all the different āsanās, nidhidhyāsanā is the best. He would then add that nidhidhyāsanā means abidance in the Self.</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Don’t pay too much attention to the body. If you worry about the well-being of your body, you identify with it more and more. Look at it as a useful vehicle: maintain it, fuel it properly and repair if it breaks down, but don’t become attached to it. If you can keep your attention on the Self without being distracted by unpleasant bodily sensations, you are healthy enough to do sādhana. If you do your meditation earnestly and continuously you will begin to find that health problems will not distract you. When your abidance in the Self is firm and strong, you cease to be aware of the body and its pains.</span></p><p class="number" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -16.5pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"" "We must take care of the body by giving it food, shelter and clothing. This is necessary because the journey to the Self is only easy when the body is healthy. If a ship is not in need of repair, if it is in good condition, we can easily use it to go on a journey. But we should not forget the purpose for which we have been given this body." </span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-59139884160007386342023-01-30T05:00:00.002-05:002023-01-30T05:00:00.217-05:00ALL ONE<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaN0JiNTlo7myxG94vZVdtoibyZDHxHSw3Mcry56-6B2ce00jJYPQKwNGnQd0bxYlTzyUtIHiVRcJGwHMSIqfzshwCgkqozbZGuPvQ1nI8hOIuAThvtNHUnB9fRednfscljp-QymJvp-53Egz3enTOe81aVusVF5TsRx6BNB3iUlFfDT5Akr8/s736/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-03%20at%209.33.45%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="596" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaN0JiNTlo7myxG94vZVdtoibyZDHxHSw3Mcry56-6B2ce00jJYPQKwNGnQd0bxYlTzyUtIHiVRcJGwHMSIqfzshwCgkqozbZGuPvQ1nI8hOIuAThvtNHUnB9fRednfscljp-QymJvp-53Egz3enTOe81aVusVF5TsRx6BNB3iUlFfDT5Akr8/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-03%20at%209.33.45%20PM.png" width="259" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Question:</b> Is it necessary to renounce the world?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /><b>Anandamayi Ma:</b> "No, why? Where is the place where God is not? The natural way of life itself could be transformed into the spiritual way of life. In fact, there is nothing which can be 'other' to God; so properly speaking, to live in the world is to be on the way to Self-realization. Since this perspective has been lots to us we perforce speak in the language of 'otherness to God'. To realize one's self means to discover that there is naught else except God, God alone is, and all else is God only."<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-57849714987724639082023-01-23T05:00:00.001-05:002023-01-23T05:00:00.209-05:00The Path to Self-Abidance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfDREZOeFG8kQE3-SCMN3lbZRelA_zzl6mV_ORGFtMsfeVYp2RoYqzVIsVPOqppgs5W-wEOdM4MnHf9dlKKeIv0ySof_m8zHu4794Q1VAY055UcCvhYguGJgdzeY1Mef_o7dF0b7HRgwdfj-_Ipn43yB4aOXMJrwVSJae-Xy1notsjShLz0M/s366/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-02%20at%204.17.53%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfDREZOeFG8kQE3-SCMN3lbZRelA_zzl6mV_ORGFtMsfeVYp2RoYqzVIsVPOqppgs5W-wEOdM4MnHf9dlKKeIv0ySof_m8zHu4794Q1VAY055UcCvhYguGJgdzeY1Mef_o7dF0b7HRgwdfj-_Ipn43yB4aOXMJrwVSJae-Xy1notsjShLz0M/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-02%20at%204.17.53%20PM.png" width="278" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p> <i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;">“Fold back the speech into the mind. Fold the mind into the intellect. Fold that intellect into the ‘witness’ of the intellect. After gaining perfectly the attitude of a witness to one’s own thought processes, this witnessing faculty also should be folded into the tranquil Atman, the Supreme Self.”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Palatino;"><i>-Kathopanishad </i>1.3.13<o:p></o:p></span></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-77103903335686846022023-01-16T05:00:00.001-05:002023-01-16T05:00:00.229-05:00Isvara Pranidhana (Surrender of the Ego)<p> <span style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; text-indent: -16.5pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0in 0in 15.6pt; text-align: center;"><span class="bigcap"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMXoT7moBhHVAODyYfeU7xVfH1Kv2NOCrO5itfkrQ6XhF0DT-FffMom563LNV9At-L8WI3sKavgNDIYWnlfSeQUgFHz7oDZ-AMtOnDziI1Qz7T4kfCAkuiGSEhAKnOx_m9aBXNPVht8huwAzVdDwZLOw_pXKO3q_QS6OE9A1UiLj_Ma8l_-Fw/s502/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-02%20at%204.10.17%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="384" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMXoT7moBhHVAODyYfeU7xVfH1Kv2NOCrO5itfkrQ6XhF0DT-FffMom563LNV9At-L8WI3sKavgNDIYWnlfSeQUgFHz7oDZ-AMtOnDziI1Qz7T4kfCAkuiGSEhAKnOx_m9aBXNPVht8huwAzVdDwZLOw_pXKO3q_QS6OE9A1UiLj_Ma8l_-Fw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-02%20at%204.10.17%20PM.png" width="245" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p align="center" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 15.6pt; margin: 0in 0in 15.6pt; text-align: center;"><span class="bigcap"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 15pt;">L</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 10.5pt;">ord, take me where You want me to go;<br />Let me meet who You want me to meet;<br />Tell me what You want me to say; and<br />Keep me out of your way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;"><a href="https://www.northjersey.com/in-depth/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2021/09/10/father-mychal-judge-911-attacks-fdny-catholic-saint/4939813001/">Father Mychal Judge</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-61378221967900846292023-01-09T05:00:00.002-05:002023-01-09T05:00:00.220-05:00Realization<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjerFaYrBd2eP9vH7o56wcRLVj-RTXPBI5CAfYkFZrcFZ76z6YJL7t4HLYeIm4TtusXgLUMOr6KcQkhIj5wJ8eswatqL680EfVx0gQFB3S-Aodx4sMK-s0NKdJ1WTeOSSWRRogxbbxOieD_SSK3LFc0IIKzcU7qO4imO_-Jrs2FTNDGdBdq9FM/s640/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-02%20at%204.02.03%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="640" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjerFaYrBd2eP9vH7o56wcRLVj-RTXPBI5CAfYkFZrcFZ76z6YJL7t4HLYeIm4TtusXgLUMOr6KcQkhIj5wJ8eswatqL680EfVx0gQFB3S-Aodx4sMK-s0NKdJ1WTeOSSWRRogxbbxOieD_SSK3LFc0IIKzcU7qO4imO_-Jrs2FTNDGdBdq9FM/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-02%20at%204.02.03%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>"To me, there is no desire for the continuance of enjoyments, nor for the abandoning of enjoyments, Whatever comes, let it come. Whatever departs let it go.</p><p>"When the mind is destroyed by the mind and has arrived at the state devoid of egotism, and when thought has dropped down (or vanished) through thought, I remain self-abiding and alone"</p><p>-"The Story of Prahlaaada" in <i>The Essence of</i> <i>Yoga Vasishta (</i>Samata Books)</p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-43431472005679704292023-01-02T16:52:00.004-05:002023-01-02T16:53:52.218-05:00Vedanta from the Creator of HBO's 'Deadwood'<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAy_tromD3ZgSWyIlh4Bsxjv-uG2ODaBdihaoQXiNEuVKIMA87VYATQYnsnliTZ7DsSPvTAzN9Bei5Wr0r6RCREPQCaaUIZ3Tiqu5DdnU9_mHlLZi5psm8g7YGB16n5AcSJUE6KmbrvB43FXXe9SF2gxFwR5w7HMQ5CUX4tWPbTFuINEiWxQ/s1132/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-02%20at%203.42.50%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1132" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAy_tromD3ZgSWyIlh4Bsxjv-uG2ODaBdihaoQXiNEuVKIMA87VYATQYnsnliTZ7DsSPvTAzN9Bei5Wr0r6RCREPQCaaUIZ3Tiqu5DdnU9_mHlLZi5psm8g7YGB16n5AcSJUE6KmbrvB43FXXe9SF2gxFwR5w7HMQ5CUX4tWPbTFuINEiWxQ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-02%20at%203.42.50%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><i>"When I was writing </i>Deadwood<i>, my formal voice changed....The reason that happened then I think is that I accepted that the formal voice is God's voice. No matter how you distort it or reverb it, it's still God's voice. Once you accept that, when you're writing, the question becomes, what would be necessary to God, if the narrator has to be true to the narrator's nature and the characters have to be true to their natures? If we were to say that God as a narrator wants to place the characters in a situation most congenial </i><b style="font-style: italic;">to their discovery of their deepest nature - which is that their sense of themselves as separate is predicated on an upper misapprehension, and they are all one thing</b><i> - how would you go about telling the story."</i><p><i>"...The idea of being an auteur, I don't believe in that. I don't care whose name is on a script. <b>We are organs of a larger organism which knows us although we do not know it. I regard myself as vessel of whatever that larger organism is, its instrument, rather than as the source of the scenes. So a lot of what I do is try to get out of the way.</b> That's the way I work in my writing. That's the way I work with the actors. That's he way I edit. It put me in the path of an enormous amount of energy."</i></p><p>-David Milch, writer of creator/writer of <i>NYPD Blue </i>and <i>Deadwood, </i>in his recent memoir,<i> Life's Work.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-90017259854531553252022-10-27T10:16:00.003-04:002022-10-27T10:16:46.280-04:00From the Wordly to the Divine<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdP5tMWKEbBHN5mNpSO0nnXF42O1frCj-T6-j87bKDGm-Ksqfoypd5oKS-DLbxKt-bJEKQpIAXbXCRI8-TS0hyYWDra1h1IO9FYLV0WbF1IobYpP_29t5hZMVZe9zT6mB8Bzhrfnvl5PBXjoPOdz-fDFCdRQPCrEJZN5oquc7bc6n7n8BSc48/s1204/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%209.15.59%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1204" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdP5tMWKEbBHN5mNpSO0nnXF42O1frCj-T6-j87bKDGm-Ksqfoypd5oKS-DLbxKt-bJEKQpIAXbXCRI8-TS0hyYWDra1h1IO9FYLV0WbF1IobYpP_29t5hZMVZe9zT6mB8Bzhrfnvl5PBXjoPOdz-fDFCdRQPCrEJZN5oquc7bc6n7n8BSc48/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%209.15.59%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><i> "It is easy to be worldly, it is difficult to be Divine. From the heart and base of the spinal cord, we must awaken the Kundalini so Cosmic Energy can rise to the highest. By obtaining purification of spirit, we obtain Divine powers. Upon awakening of the Kundalini, set it forth on the road to God."</i></p><p><br /></p><p>-Swami Kailashananda</p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-3658787178590331072022-08-01T05:00:00.001-04:002022-08-01T05:00:00.252-04:00La Vida es un Sueño (Life is a Waking Dream)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgjuIyuGqEyR4oxT00Hs0ZHaryqq3jUPLN0bk8i0oZiBz_8d5TbM4ZcSIXLGAtPwfck25SuI_k1dRdntdaAlJxbO1eSZ9fl2zd8QllaPCsD5Z2xjJu2bbbUHa2u2Y4vcL5Z54Nl357ggykqRKFvsOUmUmiAorCdsoaj58U99VhhtXGO3ml8N8/s320/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="213" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgjuIyuGqEyR4oxT00Hs0ZHaryqq3jUPLN0bk8i0oZiBz_8d5TbM4ZcSIXLGAtPwfck25SuI_k1dRdntdaAlJxbO1eSZ9fl2zd8QllaPCsD5Z2xjJu2bbbUHa2u2Y4vcL5Z54Nl357ggykqRKFvsOUmUmiAorCdsoaj58U99VhhtXGO3ml8N8/w266-h400/image.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">"<span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">There is no society, there is no suffering and there is no world. The world, the society and the suffering that you perceive are all part of your dream. They have no reality except in your own mind.</span></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"If you see a hungry man in your dream you can cook him a dream meal and give him some dream food. That will give him some temporary relief. If, instead, you wake up, you solve the problem permanently because you discover that the hungry man only existed in your imaginary dream world.<br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The world is like a reflection in a mirror. The world which we see is merely a reflection of our gunas, our own state of mind. We see the reflection, forget the mirror, and imagine that we are looking at a real world which is separate from us.<br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"You are continuously radiating a mental energy which affects everything and everyone around you. If you are in a rajasic or a tamasic state you are automatically infecting the world with your unwholesome state of mind. The jnani, who is established in the reality beyond the gunas, experiences only continuous peace and bliss. He alone can help other people by radiating this peace and bliss to them. If you try to help this world with some physical activity, the good that you do may be more than wiped out by the negative mental vibrations which you inflict on the world. If you make your mind pure, you automatically help everyone in the world because each person will receive a cleansing and healing measure of your own purity.<br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"An ant is walking on the floor with a grain of sugar on its back. Suddenly a man steps on it and kills it. Finish: instant death. We are in the same situation as the ant, for death may come at any moment. You can take nothing with you when you die, not even your mind. So why not die to the world now?<br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The world that you are attached to is nothing more than a long dream. You may feel hungry in your dream and then wake up to find that you are suffering from indigestion pains because you ate too much the night before. How much reality do you then give to the hunger pains that you felt in your dream?<br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"If you see suffering all around you it is just a reflection of your own inner suffering. If you want to alleviate suffering go to the root cause which is the suffering inside yourself. Immerse yourself in the Self. End the <i>maya</i> dream and wake up to the real world of jnana. Your ideas about the world are all wrong because you are misperceiving it. Your mind is processing what you see in such a way that it makes you think that there is a suffering world outside and apart from you. If you want to get rid of that suffering world you must eliminate the mental processes that make you misperceive it. When you reach the state of jnana there will be no misperceptions. Your vision will be completely clear. You will be aware that there is no suffering and no world. You will be aware that the Self alone exists." 🕉</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-Annamalai Swami</span></div>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-34404929342437801692022-07-25T05:00:00.001-04:002022-07-25T05:00:00.200-04:00Svadhyaya (Self-Study)--->Moksha<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 70, 66); color: #444642; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQj7MbHcWoCnDeF3eHIzaLlzCuKb5ORibBWjzxueuTJ0goyR44v_6nQwWERfas-5JhH39OplPqAh6sgAWuUc9Fv6zZcSUs5eH_ome8jejriqxxXcepN3vw4JOnnTVyw6i9bU2v-v5xy9nZW9rXnv_7Q7XG7Y6FNjZuT9cPXFaeEpTzgJ8dtHo/s582/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-02%20at%205.43.47%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQj7MbHcWoCnDeF3eHIzaLlzCuKb5ORibBWjzxueuTJ0goyR44v_6nQwWERfas-5JhH39OplPqAh6sgAWuUc9Fv6zZcSUs5eH_ome8jejriqxxXcepN3vw4JOnnTVyw6i9bU2v-v5xy9nZW9rXnv_7Q7XG7Y6FNjZuT9cPXFaeEpTzgJ8dtHo/w309-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-02%20at%205.43.47%20PM.png" width="309" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 70, 66); color: #444642; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 70, 66); color: #444642; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"If you examine yourself, you will see. There is beauty in the birds and in the animals. They too eat and drink like us, mate and multiply; but there is this difference: we can realize our true nature, the Atman [Self]. Having been born as human beings, we must not waste this opportunity. At least for a few seconds every day, we must enquire as to who we are. It is no use taking a return ticket over and over again. From birth to death, and death to birth is ‘<i>samsara</i>.’ But really we have no birth and death. We must realize that."</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(68, 70, 66); color: #444642; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">-Anandamayi Ma</span></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-43281537964457684742022-07-18T05:00:00.001-04:002022-07-18T05:00:00.208-04:00Raga (Desire) and Shraddha (Faith)<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfsCF3Nceii-m1rlxktersGwNH_nacUhUzEui_3aCR19Z-hNX5tNcaOcVAZilwqx7bwYrwZ0mfXUlCMrvyEOhQ86n38BPjjkmcVQRQj-UCEIIDw54FxUen4Hd-KxmCVuBpM2Y-rvan_-cdFaZiWZnW0oAcmVoD-jq8SIC62CwMSr6Tsl8XrU/s770/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-02%20at%205.37.43%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="576" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfsCF3Nceii-m1rlxktersGwNH_nacUhUzEui_3aCR19Z-hNX5tNcaOcVAZilwqx7bwYrwZ0mfXUlCMrvyEOhQ86n38BPjjkmcVQRQj-UCEIIDw54FxUen4Hd-KxmCVuBpM2Y-rvan_-cdFaZiWZnW0oAcmVoD-jq8SIC62CwMSr6Tsl8XrU/w299-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-02%20at%205.37.43%20PM.png" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> "<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The world is the Lord's. He created it for His own play. We are mere pawns in His game. Wherever He keeps us and in whatever way He does so, we have to abide by it contentedly."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">&</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">&</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"It is best therefore to surrender all desires at the feet of God. He will do whatever is best for us. But one may pray for devotion and detachment. These cannot be classed as desires."</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;">-<a href="https://www.vedantaberkeley.org/sri-sarada-devi/">Sarada Devi</a></span></span></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-2971029848564841032022-07-11T05:00:00.001-04:002022-07-11T05:00:00.197-04:00🐜 Viveka - Discrimination 🦢<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDJNiSOMGe4Cc-lW2LazwRd-EXH9fIB_53uhEJ8IFNBZXzdwelsebEns7293rzaKUXxeanK7G9TsTTFBastSWu_htNddW95U_XmhCmhWnBB_0_R3xAT_JHBTmyxyT7McD5l6vPoOXHXKDS3Aku3Sq6Uc6bw646PcKONnFGu-TrVLEemcsAbD8/s806/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-02%20at%205.20.58%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="586" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDJNiSOMGe4Cc-lW2LazwRd-EXH9fIB_53uhEJ8IFNBZXzdwelsebEns7293rzaKUXxeanK7G9TsTTFBastSWu_htNddW95U_XmhCmhWnBB_0_R3xAT_JHBTmyxyT7McD5l6vPoOXHXKDS3Aku3Sq6Uc6bw646PcKONnFGu-TrVLEemcsAbD8/w291-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-02%20at%205.20.58%20PM.png" width="291" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>"Sugar and sand may be mixed together but the ant rejects the sand and eats the sugar. Similarly, pious men and <i>paramahamsas </i>(great yogis) reject the unreal (i.e.; lust and gold) and choose the Real (<a href="https://sriramanamaharishi.com/faith-heart-grace-reality/what-is-sat-chit-ananda/"><i>satchidaananda</i></a>)."</p><p><br /></p><p>-<a href="https://www.vedantaberkeley.org/sri-ramakrishna/">Sri Ramakrishna</a></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-13633063666088368992022-07-04T05:00:00.001-04:002022-07-04T05:00:00.438-04:00Fleeting Mumukshutva (A Strong Desire for Liberation vs. Worldly Life)<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKw99caWXJ37Mi_j1Y2-RJCGTzaDucAUjFOko14a1-dZcD7Gc1tbTPOyJoFPce8BKKB1oMvTT8UMO5sh2yfrfzaoSUMzpzqwOUjCbhViyzFZb0PKbLUWFUEhmefIoOiAWtgL2_ws6DEWxfXFfvKTSF7Huldp4UtK6rFWBA0Pq0jCTBxyhcUnQ/s1064/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-02%20at%205.13.06%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="858" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKw99caWXJ37Mi_j1Y2-RJCGTzaDucAUjFOko14a1-dZcD7Gc1tbTPOyJoFPce8BKKB1oMvTT8UMO5sh2yfrfzaoSUMzpzqwOUjCbhViyzFZb0PKbLUWFUEhmefIoOiAWtgL2_ws6DEWxfXFfvKTSF7Huldp4UtK6rFWBA0Pq0jCTBxyhcUnQ/w323-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-02%20at%205.13.06%20PM.png" width="323" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Questioner:</b> When I first started meditating I had an intense desire for liberation. This period lasted for 3-4 years. In the last twelve months my enthusiasm has been slipping. I now seem to be more and more content with my worldly life.</span></p><div dir="ltr" id="yiv2475962869AppleMailSignature" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv2475962869AppleMailSignature" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #1d2228;"><b>Annamalai Swami</b>: The satisfaction which comes from the outside world is transient. At death it will all be lost. </span><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Human life is given to you for the sole purpose of realising the Self. If you die without realising the Self your life has been wasted. </b></span><span style="color: #1d2228;">Death can come at any time. I am telling you this so that you will become aware of your own death. If you are constantly aware of the possibility that you may die at any moment, your enthusiasm will increase. Try to cultivate this awareness and see if it makes any difference to your sadhana.</span></div>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-63013891678074827222022-06-27T05:00:00.001-04:002022-06-27T05:00:00.175-04:00Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma: All this is Verily Brahman (Self) <p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVWwSV7cWv1aXezIU2IP8GG8udWqPpat7UcAJfPsVoaXJqlgkTdBcfqdSIqKal5yp2_7wiOwc2e6k8zlpET6BT9yePbBCxh8uj4EZSkA6rjxZ8eYzAoGX7j2ETlBeug3MZzZT7KGbCf4TFhiasb6GCe7AsI6BE5Ar-aeAG-KXQodvlKdE3y4M/s962/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-30%20at%205.36.47%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="962" data-original-width="732" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVWwSV7cWv1aXezIU2IP8GG8udWqPpat7UcAJfPsVoaXJqlgkTdBcfqdSIqKal5yp2_7wiOwc2e6k8zlpET6BT9yePbBCxh8uj4EZSkA6rjxZ8eYzAoGX7j2ETlBeug3MZzZT7KGbCf4TFhiasb6GCe7AsI6BE5Ar-aeAG-KXQodvlKdE3y4M/w304-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-30%20at%205.36.47%20PM.png" width="304" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">23. Anything seen as other than Brahman-Self is bound to cause fear and trouble. Therefore, it behoves one to stick to the single attitude that everything sensed is Brahman-Self alone. In due course even this one thought must be given up, in order to abide firmly in the free undisturbed blissful state of the sole Brahman-Self. (Ch.15, v.5) <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">24. The total discarding of the mind is alone victory, achievement, bliss, yoga, wisdom and liberation. The sacrifice of the mind is, in fact, the totality of all sacred sacrifices. (Ch.15, v.7) <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">25. The firm denial of the existence of the mind and the firm belief in the existence of Brahman-Self, is the sure way to the conquest of mind, leading to the experience of the sole effulgent Self. (Ch.15, v.11) <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">26. If one gives the slightest room for the thought that the mind exists, pure Awareness itself will vibrate as the ruffled mind, which is the parent of all trouble and illusions. Therefore, one should ever abide in the conviction that there is no mind, and that the pure Awareness-Self is the sole Existence. This is the easy way to conquer the mind with all its vagaries. (Ch.15, v.12) <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">27. There is no such thing as the troublesome mind, no world of names and forms, not the least bit of ego. All these are nothing but the perfect Brahman-Self, which I am. In this conviction one should abide firmly, until one achieves the state of sleepless-sleep which is alert-peace-eternal. (Ch.16, v.7)</div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-<i>Essence of Ribhu Gita</i></div>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-4260120258493712172022-06-20T05:00:00.001-04:002022-06-20T05:00:00.191-04:00The Ego's Grandest Illusion<p><i><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoVVk6gakK4I8St7S_wui0-HlESfoMK0DT2AR65ddNNrmDGfMDSO2h5BzqNmEMJSRDCna0kOpUjpEveUM40FeZThxnJJCrUVb94bPqjr_VAGayB0hNZpkt5ui1txGoQonPRildVYfNzQtuMfY8wHJGeUDor5wPrxlemGeZMTCH8_wznTXTEA/s596/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-30%20at%205.30.11%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="590" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoVVk6gakK4I8St7S_wui0-HlESfoMK0DT2AR65ddNNrmDGfMDSO2h5BzqNmEMJSRDCna0kOpUjpEveUM40FeZThxnJJCrUVb94bPqjr_VAGayB0hNZpkt5ui1txGoQonPRildVYfNzQtuMfY8wHJGeUDor5wPrxlemGeZMTCH8_wznTXTEA/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-30%20at%205.30.11%20PM.png" width="317" /></a></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p><i><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">“Only the ego wants to get rid of the ego.”</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-size: 14px;"> </span></span></i></p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-size: 14px;">― </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Francis Lucille, </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-size: 14px;"></span><span id="quote_book_link_19227198" style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818; font-size: 14px;"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/27271958" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"><i>The Perfume of Silence</i></a></span></span>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-19768080339870471032022-06-13T05:00:00.001-04:002022-06-13T05:00:00.212-04:00The Wisdom of the Body<p><i><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: times;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX1ZMJ8m1P8-d9f3DM8Dv5X90Q0rpPwooqRiOKmq9sFg43l_q37QN9xgKCA9k5VngDcuS5mk9D22TLoezb54o5BrRxzipu6T6E8rWiazeS68PYmYuC5YLq5RZE8e4ECMpn-A41uy5UmGs8OzpQ4LaO69ZLgMMQnzQyHYfR1rN4j7ct2-xrC8Q/s1478/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-30%20at%205.26.15%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1478" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX1ZMJ8m1P8-d9f3DM8Dv5X90Q0rpPwooqRiOKmq9sFg43l_q37QN9xgKCA9k5VngDcuS5mk9D22TLoezb54o5BrRxzipu6T6E8rWiazeS68PYmYuC5YLq5RZE8e4ECMpn-A41uy5UmGs8OzpQ4LaO69ZLgMMQnzQyHYfR1rN4j7ct2-xrC8Q/w400-h209/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-30%20at%205.26.15%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></i><p></p><p><i><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"While doing yoga, the body must tell one what to do, not the brain. Brain has to cooperate with the message it receives from the body. I will often say to a student, "Your brain is not in your body! That is why you can't get the asana." I mean of course that his intelligence is in his head and not filling his body. It may be that your brain moves faster than your body or your body may fail to fulfill the instructions of your brain owing to lack of right guidance from your intelligence. You must learn to move the brain a bit more slowly so that it follows the body, or you have to make the body move faster to match the intelligence of the brain. Let the body be the doer, the brain the observer."</span></span></i></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">BKS Iyengar, Light on Life</span></div></div>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-86676068798786606672022-06-06T05:00:00.001-04:002022-06-06T05:00:00.198-04:00The Importance of a Relaxed Mind<p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgco-IxgfkaEVwAFFbZ6zcRRdxd2ZguAdSLeOt5KrPR8isaVLto4AvhYCMMwO_fHsAtzGmPjNvD0s1U066_lnRcZYb8WsU6tQhRpZktvyZAYE5BjSxKRkmXemnQxoCtAR5nTZSOMPtN6BzRdAWGVwHFvn_tvoDKrF8um02ygWiKgUVPexECpDI/s492/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-30%20at%205.21.51%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="492" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgco-IxgfkaEVwAFFbZ6zcRRdxd2ZguAdSLeOt5KrPR8isaVLto4AvhYCMMwO_fHsAtzGmPjNvD0s1U066_lnRcZYb8WsU6tQhRpZktvyZAYE5BjSxKRkmXemnQxoCtAR5nTZSOMPtN6BzRdAWGVwHFvn_tvoDKrF8um02ygWiKgUVPexECpDI/w400-h283/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-30%20at%205.21.51%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p><i><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: times;"> <span style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed."</span></span></i></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">-<a href="https://mantrayogameditation.org/the-first-female-yoga-teacher/">Indra Devi</a></span></div></div>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-15995609760500894432022-05-30T18:19:00.003-04:002022-05-30T18:23:56.412-04:00Real Asana = Concentration<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0fGuIv6GIvWQQNQVV-EjT-sdNECNHL7pVOdYwRG0AZ2ZU1ZxHr23InIFf814SZgji5U9MJKzZylYSTAWYhrghXNZk0lE6p88cBB6Xqa89XMGUFtphZPFbbbtmWa_NNalomhDklsUmd8EE2c4eiDiC6ZK0KKy6GPqmbheHSfjhI3giG1NOlxo/s1888/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-30%20at%205.18.19%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="1888" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0fGuIv6GIvWQQNQVV-EjT-sdNECNHL7pVOdYwRG0AZ2ZU1ZxHr23InIFf814SZgji5U9MJKzZylYSTAWYhrghXNZk0lE6p88cBB6Xqa89XMGUFtphZPFbbbtmWa_NNalomhDklsUmd8EE2c4eiDiC6ZK0KKy6GPqmbheHSfjhI3giG1NOlxo/w400-h184/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-30%20at%205.18.19%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 153, 51); font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em>"In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt. If the mind is wandering while practicing, then one is not fully present, and there can be no union. Involvement, interpenetration and insight are the required qualities for the practitioner."</em></span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 153, 51); font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i>-<a href="https://iyengaryoga.asn.au/blog/geeta-iyengar-sequence-international-yoga-day-2019">Geeta Iyengar</a></span></span></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-19714955089594840192022-05-16T05:00:00.005-04:002022-05-16T05:00:00.193-04:00Deep Within, You are Lord Shiva Already<p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW2DjYBFZme2WEUYyAhXj-hQzUABUBodNAWZiRHk5zVNSmqM3Xr7II115yH4LA0zdnZN6D0QO3nXCZHcwtNSBx58YKjtLneXH22Elx_U6Tu1GVUHAK3BWGjtAwi9wvXtsTYsDxEp2xqjamOBaqKOxTsXy2XYSTzrWXb5zeNzLFgSu8XSdOFWo/s800/SriDharma2012-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="532" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW2DjYBFZme2WEUYyAhXj-hQzUABUBodNAWZiRHk5zVNSmqM3Xr7II115yH4LA0zdnZN6D0QO3nXCZHcwtNSBx58YKjtLneXH22Elx_U6Tu1GVUHAK3BWGjtAwi9wvXtsTYsDxEp2xqjamOBaqKOxTsXy2XYSTzrWXb5zeNzLFgSu8XSdOFWo/w266-h400/SriDharma2012-2.jpg" width="266" /></a></i></div><i><br /></i><p></p><p><i><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: ArialMT;">Whatever you can perceive or have awareness of is something else and not the Real Self. This concept is simple to put into words, but is very difficult for us to truly understand because we have identified with what we can perceive for thousands of lives already."</span></i></p><p><span style="color: #212121; font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">-Sri Dharma Mittra</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: ArialMT;">Read the rest <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dafb351092d661deb4f7532/t/5ecfc6f07a668f3cbed7bd3d/1590675185081/Perception+Vs.+Supreme+Reality++Sri+Dharma+Mittra.pdf">here</a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: x-small;">.</span></p><p><br /></p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-84372345162901545312022-05-09T05:00:00.001-04:002022-05-09T05:00:00.206-04:00Signs on the Path<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXu4PwwUaWMwcgRXEYlsCqYD18l3VNg2zOr6_4Aj-bnvyRf3jHsfdQZXBd2ONRy5YWdNP1YnOO-4K7Px_A5nYj3K8rbYigo-riKjQlNfJf_FFT7auu34If5-aFjVQK3zzAngJE_tRhLdn4ejan0-y_FMnNJqUdRPAiWX-MdNzhGxHcDU6lXww/s468/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-14%20at%202.39.38%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXu4PwwUaWMwcgRXEYlsCqYD18l3VNg2zOr6_4Aj-bnvyRf3jHsfdQZXBd2ONRy5YWdNP1YnOO-4K7Px_A5nYj3K8rbYigo-riKjQlNfJf_FFT7auu34If5-aFjVQK3zzAngJE_tRhLdn4ejan0-y_FMnNJqUdRPAiWX-MdNzhGxHcDU6lXww/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-14%20at%202.39.38%20PM.png" width="191" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;"><br /></span></i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">“The surest signs of spiritual progress</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">are a lack of concern about spiritual progress and</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">an absence of anxiety about liberation.”</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;"> </span></i></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); color: #181818;">― </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="color: #333333;">Ramesh S. Balsekar</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="authorOrTitle" style="color: #333333;">.</span></span></div>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-62582414678446773762022-05-02T05:00:00.001-04:002022-05-02T05:00:00.202-04:00Saint vs. Sage<p><i> </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYeTj6BewvytkKEdqO8JHaiY399XdanyX7s1dbiSawtiTapSFk6rBYgjoHNQC0U3Tj8Mdv0xsT2CWB6l_onJN3_DdbnzmjYXt1cYH3N26oIJHsIEfztHqG9sWWvoHSfAUsH3MqkQp9xLqfJV_srDa9phE-4o2c1M805N3Ct1fINPrdhoNPww/s958/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-14%20at%202.36.40%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="706" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYeTj6BewvytkKEdqO8JHaiY399XdanyX7s1dbiSawtiTapSFk6rBYgjoHNQC0U3Tj8Mdv0xsT2CWB6l_onJN3_DdbnzmjYXt1cYH3N26oIJHsIEfztHqG9sWWvoHSfAUsH3MqkQp9xLqfJV_srDa9phE-4o2c1M805N3Ct1fINPrdhoNPww/w295-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-14%20at%202.36.40%20PM.png" width="295" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><i>"The saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The sage is a man who rids himself of his ego."</i></p><p>_Wei Wu Wei</p><p> </p>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6229602.post-71679179029572028392022-04-25T05:00:00.000-04:002022-04-25T05:00:00.220-04:00True Renunciation (Vairagya)<p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNw9CL8ziACzsY-3L38txLoJgnMEh7tavEmAZNRi9_6Z4b7XfGesVxArxavv-LxpwwhtL31Q1IKFzGggcckHR5HYGvsQxEXfIPW8qPkbAV9olQBF-n8qvKAf9lkf1mAz-x8MB1vToyVSEEmbU4--LCjUutrDltKpTCFTmg5ueIoWKayNQQ1k/s560/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-14%20at%202.18.27%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="398" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNw9CL8ziACzsY-3L38txLoJgnMEh7tavEmAZNRi9_6Z4b7XfGesVxArxavv-LxpwwhtL31Q1IKFzGggcckHR5HYGvsQxEXfIPW8qPkbAV9olQBF-n8qvKAf9lkf1mAz-x8MB1vToyVSEEmbU4--LCjUutrDltKpTCFTmg5ueIoWKayNQQ1k/w284-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-14%20at%202.18.27%20PM.png" width="284" /></a></i></div><i><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p><i><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></i></p><p><i><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Freedom from all desire is eternity. All attachment implies fear, for all things are transient. And fear makes one a slave. This freedom from attachment does not come with practice; it is natural when one knows one’s true being. Love does not cling; clinging is not love. There is nothing to gain. Abandon all imaginings and know yourself as you are. Self-knowledge is detachment. All craving is due to a sense of insufficiency. When you know that you lack nothing, that all there is, is you and yours, desire ceases."</span></i></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Nisargadatta Maharaj</span></span>Kali Omhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13894954154616740001noreply@blogger.com0