Worship of the Supreme in any name or form aids the vision of it. True vision, however,is merging into Reality.; Maharishi Ramana.
Comments: I have been experiencing this for forty years. we can do prayar,you can do live with holy Saints, and by Nam-Japa, devosnal songs it has limit beacuse it is by voice and mind or by body but that bliss comes only by Self-Inquiry or observation of your mind. This is the direct path to find Sat-Chit-Ananda. (Bliss)
Vadanta is a way to understand the purpose of our lives. It is described in Scriptures Such as the Upanishads, Guruvani, and Buddha’s scriptures. But over the ages, the language and ideas are different.
The main teaching is this, as my Guru St. Nikka Singh used to say: Confirm one thing: you are not body, you are not mind, you are not senses, but Sakshi, meaning the watcher who looks at these things.” This is the same teaching as Maharishi Ramana, Nishal Das, etc., who have realised the Self. When we understand the theory of Vedanta, then our second step will be ‘ Practice of Self-inquiry ‘, as Nam japa, observation, and many ways are possible, but the most effective is Observation of the mind. My Guru St Nikka Singh also gave Updesha to me” Observe your mind, and you will go straight “. Here, in the second step, we have to do a lot for the practice of the Self.
Maharishi Ramana said to Paul Brunton that you have to pay one price that is not what other people think,” I am a body; you have to leave this idea. When we understand the theory of Vedanta, we start the practice of observation. In this practice, we look at the mind without giving in to ideas of Religion, tradition, and social society. Because the practice is of emptying the mind. We have loaded our minds like a computer, and a computer has a limit programmed into it. Culture, religions, and traditions program our minds.
Jiddu Krishnamurti used to say this in his lectures worldwide. The teaching of Vedanta is, Aham Brahmasmi, ” meaning ” I am That”. In the Old Testament, this is also written: ” I am that”
We have to realise this: That ‘I am That ‘. It is a very big topic to understand through theory, and I want to describe it in other posts.
The ‘I’ thought dies first for those who have taken refuge from death; at the feet of the conqueror of death, they are naturally immortal.
Can they ever again be assailed by the fear of death?
Comments: To understand this post, one needs great wisdom. Because Maharishi Ramana’s teachings are for those who have advanced in wisdom. After about 14 years of age, he left the house, and in his remaining days he was at Arunachala mountain in South India.He remained in Samadhi and gave his teachings like sunlight to seekers of truth, describing his inner life and experience of Self-realisation to the Sadhakas.
In this verse, Maharishi advises that whoever wants to be immortal in this life should practice Self-inquiry so much practice of Self-inquiry that there will be no ‘I’ thought. When we start to observe our mind, when all thoughts vanish, then only the ‘I’ thought, which is ‘ego’ or, in Sanskrit, we say Ahamkara, remains; when it dissolves, a new experience of our being, or Self, shines. As Maharishi used to describe it, it is ‘mother thought’. After this thought, other thoughts arise. When we trace the very origin of our thought, then this takes us beyond the mind because it starts from the ‘I’ thought. By this method, we can be Immortal. It is a matter of the practice of Self-inquiry.
All religions begin with the existence of the individual and the world with God. So long as ego lasts, these three will remain separate. To abide in the Self without ego is best.; Maharishi Ramana.
Comments: Meaning of Maharishi is that all religions start from the existence of the individual,the world and God. It is the style of every religion.
Next ha said ,” So long as ego lasts, these three will remain separate”; it is clear.
To abide in the Self is the egoless is the best.
Prayer: Can the feeling of “I” exist without that which always exists? Free from thoughts, it exists: the inner being, the Heart. How then can we know that which is beyond the mind? To know it firmly, in the Heart.
Comments: As I understand it. I have been working of meditation practice for forty years. Our life becomes very beautiful and calm, and you can experience bliss, which you can call Samadhi.
The meaning of Maharishi is: ‘Can there be the feeling of ‘I’ without that which exists always? Meaning is that which consciousness exists always without it; how can we do any work, such as speaking, walking, etc.? Every action done with the body, mind, and senses should have a source from which this light comes. When we die, our body will not work; it means that someone from the body has gone! there should not feeling of”I’.
Next is ‘free from thoughts’; it exists in this inner being, the Heart. It is not this physical Heart, but the Heart that thinks, does his actions, and from which our emotions come. It is the very place of our being or Self.
How, then, do we know what lies beyond the mind? Maharishi asks us, ‘How can we know that which is beyond the mind?
In this last lines he is telling us the way that ‘To know it is abide,Firmly in the Heart.
Now we understand that by removal of thoughts we can take experience of this Self. So we have to do Self-Inquiry for emptying our mind. Our mind is like a cloudy Sky . We cannot see the sky when there are clouds. But when there are no clouds, we can see the sky. Like this, we have to remove our thoughts by any method, whether it be Nam Japa or prayer, but the most effective is Self-Inquiry.
Even the mind and world rise and set together; it is the mind that lights the world.
The source from which the world and mind arise and into which they set is reality, which does not rise or subside, Maharishi Ramana.
Years later, Sri Ramana explained the difference to Paul Brunton, a Western seeker.
Brunton: What exactly is this Self of which you speak? If what you say is true, then there should be another self in man?
Sri Ramana: Can a man be possessed of two identities, two selves? To understand this matter, a man to analyse himself. Because it has long been his habit to think as others think, he has never faced his ‘I’ in the true manner. He has not a correct picture of himself. He has too long himself with the body and brain. Therefore, I tell you to pursue this inquiry: ‘ Who am I’
You ask me to describe this true self to you.what can be said ? it is that out of which the sense of personal “I” arises and into which it will have disappear. continue……..
Friends, I request that you that take interest in meditation. This is an art that can change your life. By doing this, your life will become more peaceful and calm, and when your mind stays peaceful, you can do your job better. Our very demond is for peace.
I want to give some ideas from the conversation of Maharishi Raman and Paul Bruntn
Maharishi Ramana; “Will it be clearer if it put in this way ? All human beings are ever wanting happiness, untainted with sorrow . They want to grasp happiness, which will not come to an end. The instinct is true, but have you ever been struck by the fact that they love themselves most?
“Well” ?
” Now relate that to the fact that they are ever desirous of attaining happiness through one means or another,through drink or through religion, and you are provided with a clue to the real nature of man”
” I fail to see —-“
The tone of his voice becomes higher.
“Man’s real nature is happiness’. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. His search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness that does not come to an end.
“But the world is so unhappy?”
“Yes it is because the world is ignorant of its true nature. All men care consciouslyor unconsciously, seeking it.”
“Even the wicked,the brutal and the crimnal?” I ask
” Even they sin because they are trying to find the Self’s happiness in every sin which they commit. This sstriving istinctive in man, but they do not know that they are truly seeking their true selves, and so they try these wicked ways first as a means to happiness. Of courscourse, theywrong warw; whereasns acts are reflected back to him.” Continue……..
Meditation is a process of wholeness, not a part. When one becomes aware of all activities- who you are speaking to, how you are speaking to your wife, child, boss- in every action, like walking, writing, eating, just ‘ be aware’ of this action. Then you will see the beauty of life and the stillness of mind; you can do anything correctly, such as driving. Because then our mind does not chatter; it will automatically become wise and intelligent. Now the mind will cool in society and in every field.
