Ranjit Maharaj: Forget yourself, “I am not the woman”, or not the man, or not the body, or not the name. In this way, forget and you are everywhere. He acts as the body is there, actions are sure to happen. But say -” It is not true.”
So this is nothing, but a long dream. Nobody is bad and nobody is good. Everybody is He! If you understand, then dream becomes happiness to you.
That is the point, and nothing else here. Once understand yourself. “I don’t exist.”
Question: So, I want to ask you, what advice would you give to the sincere seeker, who devotes his or her live to the pursuit of enlightenment? What advice, what would you say?
Karl Renz: Don’t listen to anybody, not even to yourself. Because all you can perceive is not what you are. All you can understand, you can forget already. And that what can get clear is not what you are.
Question: No understanding, no clarity.
Karl Renz: No freedom.
Question: No realization.
Karl Renz: See that That what you are is perfect as it is. And that what is an idea of imperfection is merely an idea in time. It cannot touch That what is Perfection itself.
Question: Yes, nothing works. Because wherever I stay, the mind is always suffering or screaming, or not happy with anything.
Karl Renz: That is the nature of the mind. It always creates – the other shore is better than this shore. This shore is greener than this one. It’s like you make it always – the other side is better than there. If you reach the other side, then you look back and then you think – Oh, it was not so bad before on the other side, so I better go back. You are always restless. That’s called mind. But what to do with it. It’s just the nature of restless phantom, always looking for something was better – advantage, advantage, advantage. And never can stop. So you have to be inspite of that phantom. Because the phantom will always be restless. There will be no final destination, final home or anything.
Karl Renz: The Self always enjoying itself by being the Self. So that what is Self enjoys even the unenjoyment of that what is not Self. Absolutely, you can never disturb the perfect happiness of the Self. This cannot be disturbed by anything. And that what can be disturbed is not the Self, that’s all. And the Self never cares about that what is not Self. The Self is not the caretaker of that what is the unfolding of the Self.
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Ramana Maharshi: What is Realization? Is it to see God with four hands, bearing conch, wheel, etc.? Even if God should appear in that form, how is the disciple’s ignorance wiped out? Such appearance is phenomenal and illusory. All perceptions are indirect or secondary knowledge. The truth must be eternal Realization. The direct perception is ever present Experience. There must be a seer.
ABOUT ANANDAMAYI MA, WHEN SHE WAS EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD
Her appearance at this time was also striking. She was slim and graceful, her long, black hair hung below her knees, and her tangible spiritual radiance evoked awe in all who saw her. Once, the new couple was invited to attend a celebration of Durga Puja. When Ma, who at that time was unknown to the local people, entered the gathering wearing a red saree, the people assembled there were awestruck and proclaimed, “Durga Herself has come into our midst,” and began making obeisance, by kneeling and touching their heads to the ground. Continue reading “Durga Herself”
Nisargadatta Maharaj: How did you get this “I Am-ness”? Did it come spontaneously, or did you try for it? As the Absolute, you were free from all concepts, including the primary concept “I Am”. Suddenly you were caught up in this “I Am-ness”. Who did it? Has it not happened spontaneously?
Question: Yes, that is true.
Nisargadatta Maharaj: You did not have this concept “I Am” in the course of the nine months in the womb. Understand this state of affairs; the concept “I Am” comes spontaneously and goes spontaneously. Amazingly, when it appears, it is accepted as real. All subsequent misconceptions arise from that feeling of reality in the “I Am-ness”. Try to stabilize in that primary concept “I Am”, in order to lose that and with it all other concepts. Why am I totally free? Because I have understood the unreality of that “I Am”. Continue reading “Why am I totally free?”
Karl Renz: Being quiet is just being complete. You can do working, speaking, thinking – everything. You can eat. That doesn’t influence your completness. Or to be quiet is not talking or being silent or something. No. Being quiet means you are quiet, you are complete in your nature.
And that is 24/7, and that is meditation – being quiet, being complete. That is meditation without a meditator. Because a meditator is always incomplete. He wants to make something complete. But he will never make it complete, always incomplete, always greedy bastard – the meditator, greedy for peace, greedy for control. What to do with him. He cannot make you more or less as you are anyway. So you can be very generous – let it be as it is. May it be as it is. Let him struggle or not. Let him be a controller, a master. Let him even be enlightened. Continue reading “Being complete”
Karl Renz: You just are. Don’t call it anything. The pointer is just you are inspite of two liquids meeting and the body coming out. Not because you were born by or made by something.
You experience yourself as something what is local. But what you are is never local. You have no location or anything. It’s an experience of… like a baby and then growing, and it’s all experiencing and then it will end. And still you are that what was before. So you were before, you are now and you will be after, uninterrupted. So you didn’t get more when you were born, and you don’t get less when you die. So it’s always – you never get more or less by anything. Continue reading “Don’t call it anything”
Anandamayi Ma: All this, which is His creation, is under His dispensation, in His Presence, and is verily He Himself. In whatever state He keeps anyone at any time, it is all for the good, for verily everything is ordained by Him, and is of Him. Continue reading “In Him is everything”
