Surrender, the fundamental virtue. Where there is no surrender, there is ignorance. devote: Is it possible to speak to Iswara (God) as Sri Ramakrishna did? Sri Ramana Maharishi: When we can speak to each other why should we not speak to Iswara in the same way? devote: Then why does it not happen with us? Sri [...]
We are fullness, why then, keep on playing hide and seek with our own Self? The ‘me’ is very cunning, impossible to escape. He hides even behind the non-hiding. The doer hides also behind the non-doing. […]
The natural state, the effortless space, the space without imagination has to have your priority. When you find it, you cannot go back to ignorance… it arises suddenly, on its own accord and from there any attempt to think or stop thinking drops, any idea to reach a destination will naturally [...]
The natural state is supreme knowledge. If the seeker ask, ‘what is light, what is liberation?’, the teacher gives a method, such as meditation. Meditation is not intellectual, but starts to work on the seeker, it will enable him to see. Meditation doesn’t give answers, doesn’t tell us what is liberation, [...]
To comunicate we need to find a kind of communication that dissolves any other kind of communication. We need to meet where thinking does not want to think anymore. To rest in that impossibility to activate mind…. in that place where there is only mystery and any idea of ‘me’ and ‘my personal story’ is [...]
Meditation is a shift beyond the mind. To evolve in a dimension of consciousness where the experience of the ‘me’ that lives imprisoned in space and time is dissolved into the void. There is no more duality and every fragmented relationship between ‘me and the world’, ‘I and you’ ‘us and them’ falls down. [...]
Silence has to become the priority in our life, and everything else we do should never limit our aspiration to the Real. It all becomes so simple when we fall in love with meditation. […]
The essence of meditation and enquiry is diving to the source, and stay in the silence, not giving any space to mind. Then how easy it is to realize that suffering and pleasure is only mind. All is mind! […]
To keep on chewing on what has been and fantasizing on what may never will be, prevent you from a clear perception. If you are too much concerned with your particular problems, you cannot see the totality of the problem. Empty your vision from expectations, resistances, prejudices and various ideas, Look! [...]
You can call it peace, you can call it beauty, you can call it love. It is the same innocent, pure, authentic and untouched joy. It has always been yours, you have nothing to do to reach it, only to be what you are. […]
