From Dec 2019 imp notes :
The intellect of a mature spiritual aspirant will decide that Self-alone is the greatest and most worthy thing,
and hence he will have real love for Self.
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He knows that Self alone is real and Self alone is manifested as the entire Cosmos and there is nothing but the Self.
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Hereafter suggestions such as ‘I am That, I am This’ loses their relevance.
There is no need for a reminder as the identification with the Self is complete and absolute.
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Before realisation, we should realise that it was the ego chanting Soham.
But when the ego has been erased, who is there to say Soham?
This repetition will be as meaningless as a person going on declaring that ‘I am a man, I am a man’ as if he would ever mistake himself to be anything other than a man.
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116 Tulsidas
“The path, taught by my preceptor, and this life are worlds apart.
The thirst to engage in meditation and austerities overwhelms me.
I want to remain absorbed in the bliss of the Atman.
“The path, taught by my preceptor, and this life are worlds apart.
The thirst to engage in meditation and austerities overwhelms me.
I want to remain absorbed in the bliss of the Atman.
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“It is not the nature of the mind to incline towards rare bliss, but rather to wallow in the common pleasures.
Unless one courts the company of saints who are inseparable from Truth, the state of effortless abidance in the Self is unattainable.
Unless one courts the company of saints who are inseparable from Truth, the state of effortless abidance in the Self is unattainable.
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When we try to resist the temptation of even one sense we fail miserably. While so, how can we resist the onslaught of the deceitful mind, which plays havoc with all senses, madly dancing to the music of external stimuli?
We can hardly hope to realize God, given these imponderables.
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But, to really experience the universe as God
(which is really worshipping it)
is possible only,
after realising the true nature of the Self,
where the world and God will not remain as entities other than the Self.
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The methods of removing the impurities vary according to the maturity of the aspirants.
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The Path is to attend to ‘I am’
and the Goal is to remain as ‘I am’!
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The only need is You alone.
Fulfill that one need of mine, my Lord!
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“When will the wave of thought in me cease so that I may reach Thee, the most minute as well as the most great?”
– ‘Arunachala Aksharamanamalai’ - Verse 57.
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...he has become God-mad having no thoughts for wife, children, house or work, but he remains drowned in the meditation on his Beloved Krishna
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The final state of refinement of the feeling of Love will be experienced as the unshakeable Self-abidance.
A state of love less than that, is not at all either Supreme Love (Para Bhakti) or the Fullness of Love (Sampoorna Bhakti),
and this Love is Self and this Love is Shiva.
A state of love less than that, is not at all either Supreme Love (Para Bhakti) or the Fullness of Love (Sampoorna Bhakti),
and this Love is Self and this Love is Shiva.
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When the Love takes the form of movement, it is fragmented and becomes desire which springs upon other objects.
It is Love when it is in the form of unbroken Existence; it is desire when it is in the form of movement or fragmentation.
As second and third person objects are fragments, your love towards them will be in the form of a mere desire – even towards such a loved one as your Guru.
As second and third person objects are fragments, your love towards them will be in the form of a mere desire – even towards such a loved one as your Guru.
But, when the Love abides in the unbroken being of the first person – the Self, It is full and perfect.
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“When the mind remains permanently absorbed in its source whence it had its rising – it is Karma, Bhakti; it is Yoga and Jnana also.”
– ‘Upadesha Undiyar’ - Verse 10
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He mistakes the nature of his unlimited non-dual, perfect Knowledge, Self, to be the mind
or sense-knowledge which knows other things only (other than Self through the senses).
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173. If you first attend to yourself, by investigating within yourself
“To whom has this illusory appearance of the world (maya) come?
To whom does it exist?”
then in the mind that has merged in the state of Silence due to such Self-attention,
the truth that you exist as the mere consciousness “I am,”
devoid of any differentiation,
diversity or imagination (vikalpa),
will spontaneously reveal itself to you.
............Therefore, the one path of Self-attention, which puts an end to the mind, is alone the means...
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............Therefore, the one path of Self-attention, which puts an end to the mind, is alone the means...
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In the true awakening, .............the state of absolute oneness (kaivalya), which is like one’s awakening from dream, ........all that mundane learning will be found to be useless and unreal like the blueness of the sky.
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Self-knowledge will shine forth spontaneously only when the mind subsides.
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229. If one takes to Self-attention, the practice of keenly observing only the consciousness “I,” then one need not perform any other practice (sadhana).
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260. When you attain the non-dual state of Self abidance, by gaining such one-pointedness and such unequalled love for Self, you will experience the state of true spiritual discipline (tapas) in which you alone blissfully exist as the direct knowledge of Self.
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so long as your mind has not fully evolved, being ignorant of the supreme reality, perform what has been laid down by the teacher,
Shastra and other sources.
Shastra and other sources.
Then with impurity ripened (and destroyed) and Truth understood, you should give up even the good impressions.
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As long as the mind is not defeated by means of firm practice, the impressions jump in the heart like ghosts at night.
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439 nadabindu u
19. That person always engaged in its contemplation and always absorbed in it should gradually leave off his body (or family) following the course of Yoga and avoiding all intercourse with society.
19. That person always engaged in its contemplation and always absorbed in it should gradually leave off his body (or family) following the course of Yoga and avoiding all intercourse with society.
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The (the ascetic) should move about (as a mendicant monk) with the Self alone as his companion
He becomes fit for immortality by subduing the senses
He becomes fit for immortality by subduing the senses
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I am the body = Kalasutra
= trap for Mahavichi
= trap for Mahavichi
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III-50. Even if total ruin faces one, this
(identifying the body with the Self)
should be abandoned by every effort;
it should not be touched (accepted) by a nobly-born person
just as a (low born) tribal woman carrying dog’s meat.
(identifying the body with the Self)
should be abandoned by every effort;
it should not be touched (accepted) by a nobly-born person
just as a (low born) tribal woman carrying dog’s meat.
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If an ascetic practises lores other than (Self-realization) it is like adorning a corpse.
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V-42. Departing (from human habitations) and resorting to a forest, possessing true knowledge and senses subdued, moving about awaiting the time (of death),
(the ascetic) becomes fit for absorption into Brahman.
considering everything other than the ‘I’ (i.e. the Self) to be false and transitory, he shall always speak of himself as Brahman.
(the ascetic) becomes fit for absorption into Brahman.
considering everything other than the ‘I’ (i.e. the Self) to be false and transitory, he shall always speak of himself as Brahman.
There is nothing else for him to know other than his Self.
Being thus ‘liberated while living’ (jivanmukta) he lives as one who has fulfilled himself.
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