From Swami Ramdas books -2
A man who has surrendered himself to God is happy beyond measure, for he has found the fountain of eternal bliss within himself.
Seek and find out this centre of bliss, Ram.
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Give up everything, sacrifice everything,
forsake everything, abandon everything, for the sweet, nectar-like love of Ram.
It is so precious, it is so mighty, it is so blissful.
O Ramdas, swim in it, dance in it, be thoroughly mad with it.
There is no gain higher than this love;
no achievement greater than this love; no attainment more desirable than this love.
Therefore, Ramdas, live for ever and for ever in the ecstasy of this maddening love.
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18. The Right Path:
What is the right path?
It is the path of self-suffering,
self-mortification,
self-sacrifice and finally self-surrender
that leads the devotee to the highest goal, God - Love - Ram.
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While on the path, tread upon the thorns bravely; jump over the obstacles fearlessly; overcome all obstructions boldly; face dangers courageously; march onward and faint not - “stop not till the goal is reached.”
Give up the ego, crush it out, and go forward to embrace the Lord Ram.
The ego sets up the thorns, the obstacles, the obstructions and the dangers along the path.
With the Lord’s help fight out this ego, and come out victorious;
then unending, uninterrupted bliss and freedom are thine.
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First the repetition of Ram’s name;
then the realisation of His presence in all things and beings;
lastly the state of Samadhi,
in which names and forms are dropped – a state of bliss and peace – and the Eternal is attained.
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14. Individual Will Has No Place In One's Life Spiritual
“Really, man has no will of his own.
There is only one Divine will at work everywhere and in all.
It is a mistake to think that we, as individuals, have got any power to do anything.
God is behind everything.”
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20. Witness Consciousness Dissolves The Mind
“Really, to stand apart from mind and watch its activities, is a blissful exercise.
The moment the dissociation becomes complete, that is to say,
one's identification with the watcher or the witness becomes perfect,
that very moment the mind dissolves, and you attain Samadhi, i.e. absolute peace and bliss.”
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Ramana:
from subtle self of vivekchudamani
What is needed is to fix the attention on the pure ‘I’ after the subsidence of all thoughts and not to lose hold of it.
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Sam:
The strong hold of self preservation deep in the core ...that doesn't allow you to cling to God.
That is what disallows Grace to be showered on you.
All your 'efforts' can only do harm to you...not any good.
It is not easy to reach that state of non hankering.
It is not that easy to open up your heart for Grace.
Most people are so petty...when it comes to opening up for Grace.
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The strong, strong, strong tendency that asserts self preservation and self existence should vanish.
I believe in an entity is self assertion.
And I make extreme efforts to continue with that possibility to self assert is what could in this context be termed as self assertion.
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When that strong strong strong tendency of self assertion and self preservation is dismantled, one becomes a 'prey' to God's Grace.
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Unless you are completely 'devoured' by God's Grace,
there is not even the faintest inkling of the concept of 'God.'
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It's All or None.
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Grace is either in Full or None.
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Grace doesn't allow you to go left or right.
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It takes you where IT wants you to take.
And you have no choice.
In fact it is Grace only when you have No choice.
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If there is choosing
Then it is not grace.
It is something else.
And something else doesn't take you to where you should be going.
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If prayers exist, Grace cannot function.
If belief in the unreal exists, Grace cannot exist.
If clinging for self preservation exists,
Grace cannot enter.
If you are taking care of yourself,
Grace cannot exist.
If you are still the Doer,
Grace cannot exist.
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The only thing to do is to stay as the Self.
Nothing else.
Stay as who you are.
Not as who you are not.
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gvk:
30/ 14:30
Formless worship only if you are qualified. otherwise you only have an idea of formlessness which is nothing but a kind of form
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For those first grade sadhus who aspire only to reach the feet of lord shiva, it is better to live as an object to be pitied in the eyes of the worldly people
rather than to be envied.
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if jiva's actions acceopted as shiv'as actions then jiva cannot remain separate from shiva.
in such a state jiva will lose all his individual existence.
when jiva has thus surrendered there will be no separate ego.
state of surrender is the state of complete destruction of the ego.
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M turned completely Self wards is moksha
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sam:
Surrender is not that easily understood.
if one cannot understand self enquiry, it is not easy to understand self surrender.
self surrender is dissociating that clinging to self preservation,
dismantling that software program that is going on in the background 24/7
which essentially constitutes
fear, anxiety
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