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From part 1
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.......Don’t be deluded by your thoughts and vasanas.
They are always trying to trick you into believing that you are a real person, that the world is real, and that all your problems are real.
Don’t fight them; just ignore them.
Don’t accept delivery of all the wrong ideas that keep coming to you.
Establish yourself in the conviction that you are the Self and that nothing can stick to you or affect you.
Once you have that conviction you will find that you automatically ignore the habits of the mind.
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When the rejection of mental activities becomes continuous and automatic,
you will begin to have the experience of the Self.
If you see two strangers quarrelling in the distance you do not give much attention to them because you know that the dispute is none of your business.
Treat the contents of your mind in the same way.
Instead of filling your mind with thoughts and then organising fights between them, pay no attention to the mind at all.
Rest quietly in the feeling of ‘I am’,
which is consciousness.
And cultivate the attitude that all thoughts, all perceptions are ‘not me’.
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When you have learned to regard your mind as a distant stranger, you will not pay any attention to all the obstacles it keeps inventing for you.
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Mental problems feed on the attention that you give them.
The more you worry about them, the stronger they become. If you ignore them, they lose their power and finally vanish.
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Bhagavan summarised these views a little later by saying,
‘Every jiva [individual self] is seeing a separate world but a jnani does not see anything other than himself. This is the state of truth.’
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‘To remain unchanged in the state of Self is the eternal siddhi , the greatest of all siddhis.
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Then he quoted the following verse [2.173] from Kaivalya Navanltam:
If you always remain aware that T am perfect consciousness, what does it matter how much you think, or what you do? All this is unreal, like dream visions after waking. T am all bliss!
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Then Bhagavan quoted verse thirty-one of Ulladu Narpadu which describes the real state of liberation:
To one who has destroyed himself [his ego] and is awake to his nature as bliss, what remains to be accomplished?
He does not see anything [as being] other than himself.
Who can comprehend his state?
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Frydman: What is manonasa ?
Bhagavan: Remaining permanently as one is
without the rising of any doubt or thought
such as, ‘Nothing is known,’ or ‘Something is known’, alone is manonasa .
Sam: Remaining As Is = Mano-nasha.
I am that consciousness which remains unchanged and unaffected by these appearances and disappearances.’
Stabilise yourself in that conviction.
That is all you need to do.
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part 2:
Continuous meditation is necessary for all those who want to stay in the Self.
Get rid of all these ideas and replace them with the single thought 'I' am the Self.
Hold on to that idea and don’t let go.
AS: If there are breaks in his Self-awareness this means that he is not yet a dnyani
Before one becomes established in this state without any breaks, without changes, one has to contact and enjoy this state many times.
By steady meditation it finally becomes permanent.
From part 3 AS:
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AS: To experience the Self you have to dive deep into the consciousness ‘I am’.
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When you cease to imagine that you are a body and a mind, reality shines of its own accord.
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You can never see the Self or Brahman, you can only be it.
Bhagavan said, ‘Keeping the mind in the Heart is self-enquiry’.
If you cannot do this by asking ‘Who am I?’ or by taking the T- thought back to its source,
then meditation on the awareness ‘I am the all-pervasive Self is a great aid.
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Bhagavan often said that we should read and study the Ribhu Gita regularly.
In the Ribhu Gita it is said: ‘That bhavana [mental attitude] “I am not the body, I am not the mind, I am Brahman, I am everything" is to be repeated again and again until this becomes the natural state.’
Only those who have learned how to be still
can abide in the Self.
AS: If you can focus your mind on this ‘I am’ you need not do anything else.
You do not have to cultivate a particular attitude towards it.
If you keep your attention on it, it will eventually reveal all its secrets to you.
When a calf is very young its mother gives it milk whenever it is hungry. But after it has learned to eat grass the mother gives it a kick whenever it tries to drink milk again.
After I had learned to make contact with the formless Self, Bhagavan gave me a kick when I still tried to carry on drinking the grace from his physical form. He wanted to wean me from his form.
He wanted me to get all my spiritual nourishment from the formless Self.
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Ultimately, one must learn to abide in the Self
by meditation on the Self
or by self-enquiry
or by complete surrender.
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