What is worth seeking and discovering is the truth of Self. Such knowledge comes only to the still, clear intellect not muddled by strenuous search without but questing for the Truth in silence.-- Sri Ramana (Today is Annamalai Swami Day)
Showing posts with label awareness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awareness. Show all posts
Friday, November 09, 2012
The only true knowledge is pure awareness
The only true knowledge is pure awareness.
Thoughts, beliefs, ideas and concepts are all false knowledge.
Saturday, September 01, 2012
The one true light
The one true light there is, is pure Awareness.
Other kinds of knowledge clinging to it and claiming to be real are ego-born conceptual clouds.
To trust them is sheer folly.
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Sri Muruganar Day 2011
Only by abiding in the heart as pure awareness
which lights up and shines within the mind,
can one enjoy the thrill, the throb, the bliss supreme
of being the Self.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Bringing sense back to Sri Ramana's teachings
Over the years, Bhagavan Ramana's simple path of "clinging to oneself", or being as you are, holding onto awareness/ the feeling of "I", etc, has been complicated by various authors. This simple path has seemingly been lost in translation.
It is heartening, therefore, that Michael Langford has once again put it in simple words for all, in a manner that cannot be missed or confused. In addition, he puts in several chapters to motivate the reader to remain in self-awareness.
The seeker who has never experienced "the Self", is often confused by instructions such as "abide in the Self", "cling to the Self" etc, now understands that it was the most simple fundamental awareness of oneself that was being spoken of, the awareness that wakes up in the morning, the awareness that is looking at the computer screen at this moment -- focusing on that awareness.
At any rate, let me not confuse the reader again -- it is best to read it directly from Mr. Langford himself.
Link.
It is heartening, therefore, that Michael Langford has once again put it in simple words for all, in a manner that cannot be missed or confused. In addition, he puts in several chapters to motivate the reader to remain in self-awareness.
The seeker who has never experienced "the Self", is often confused by instructions such as "abide in the Self", "cling to the Self" etc, now understands that it was the most simple fundamental awareness of oneself that was being spoken of, the awareness that wakes up in the morning, the awareness that is looking at the computer screen at this moment -- focusing on that awareness.
At any rate, let me not confuse the reader again -- it is best to read it directly from Mr. Langford himself.
Link.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
The witness
Q: When you say, I am in the state beyond the witness, what is the experience that makes you say so? In what way does it differ from the stage of being a witness only?
Maharaj It is like washing printed cloth. First the design fades, then the background, and in the end the cloth is plain white. The personality gives place to the witness, then the witness goes and pure awareness remains. The cloth was white in the beginning and is white in the end; the patterns and colours just happened -- for a time.
Chapter 79, I am that, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Maharaj It is like washing printed cloth. First the design fades, then the background, and in the end the cloth is plain white. The personality gives place to the witness, then the witness goes and pure awareness remains. The cloth was white in the beginning and is white in the end; the patterns and colours just happened -- for a time.
Chapter 79, I am that, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Witness and supreme
Q: Can there be awareness without an object of awareness?
Maharaj: Awareness with an object we called witnessing. When there is also self-identification with the object, caused by desire or fear, such a state is called a person.
In reality there is only one state; when distorted by self-identification it is called a person, when coloured with the sense of being, it is the witness; when colourless and limitless, it is called the Supreme.
Chapter 79, I am that.
Maharaj: Awareness with an object we called witnessing. When there is also self-identification with the object, caused by desire or fear, such a state is called a person.
In reality there is only one state; when distorted by self-identification it is called a person, when coloured with the sense of being, it is the witness; when colourless and limitless, it is called the Supreme.
Chapter 79, I am that.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Sadhu Natanananda's question in 1918
Sadhu Natanananda came to Sri Bhagavan for the first time in 1918. With the fervent wish of an earnest sadhaka, he climbed the hill to Skandasramam and besought thus:
In those days Sri Ramana was not speaking much. Still he spoke kindly as follows:
It is my great desire that I should experience your gracious wisdom. Kindly fulfil my desire.
In those days Sri Ramana was not speaking much. Still he spoke kindly as follows:
"Is it the body in front of me which wished to obtain my Grace? Or is it the awareness within it? If it is the awareness, is it not now looking upon itself as the body and making this request?
If so, let the awareness first of all know its real nature. It will then automatically know God and my Grace. The truth of this can be realized even now and here."
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Mindfulness, Awareness
The bhikkhu who delights in mindfulness (awareness),
who sees danger in negligence,
is not likely to fall back.
He is in the presence of nirvana (enlightenment).
- Dhammapada 32
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