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In everything all around, there is God and only God -NM

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nirupana 16
Sunday, March 19, 1978

‘I am not the body, I am the Self ‘. If you meditate like this, you will become God. This great mantra is the same as pure consciousness. Do not worship it by giving it a form. The idea that you are the body must go. Then the rest will be fine.

You say, ‘I forgot to meditate’, but the one who says it has not forgotten it.
Just as gold is the source of ornaments, similarly, the sense ‘I am’ is the source of all words. When consciousness realizes itself, it is called the grace of the Guru.

One must be the proof of the Guru’s words.
The initiation with mantra establishes a special relationship with the Guru. Hence, you must have faith in the Guru. One could die anytime. Then how can he neglect the Guru’s words?

Real devotees are illumined by Self-knowledge. Their existence is like that of space. When the stage of the seeker evolves, his behavior also changes. Some behave in a peculiar fashion. Some go about naked, some keep silent, and some become very abusive. As they are Self-realized they do not behave consciously.
A Self-realized person has no concern with how the body behaves. His conduct is not governed by any rule of law.

The flavor of your beingness is the holy presence of God. The concern about the individual self can be compared to a snakebite. Sages do not consider themselves as the body, so they are not bitten. The Self is beyond light and darkness. Only the body or the mind gets stained.

Bhagavan means light. The light of Bhagavan is a big void of light. Is there a difference between that light and your own light? When you know your consciousness and become a witness, you will understand that the sky is your light. There is nothing beyond the light of God. The natural quality of God is your own consciousness.

As soon as consciousness arises, the five elements are created along with the world. Your sight has the same color as that of space. All the names are of the incarnations of God. Were there any names prior to that? Bhagavan means the manifested consciousness. That by which you know ‘you are’ is the same as His nature. Embrace it tightly.

In everything all around, there is God and only God. Does this light see any difference between a man and a woman? All this, one and all, in its totality is consciousness. That taste or knowledge of self-existence is
Bhagavan. To understand this means to see God in every living being.

Forget that you are a human being. Your light is the light of Bhagavan. In all that appears, what is the underlying luminous Source? It is this light alone. It is present even in a stone but it is prominently
expressed in you.

In all things there is only one true quality. It is consciousness. It demonstrates existence. All other knowledge comes about because of knowingness. Paramatman means ‘I, myself, am Atman’. He is not a
deity. Deities worship Him. It is my own Self. It is the direct, correct knowledge. It is there before a single word is uttered.

The one that rises and the one that sets finds his rest in Paramatman. People are awed by the knowledge of Paramatman. How can it even be felt when one has no body? The enlightened devotee says, ‘I
am not the body’. Then who is it that became enlightened? (When a person becomes realized, he no longer considers himself a body. Then who says, ‘I have become realized’? In other words, there is no one who has become enlightened. There is neither knower, nor known. No one is born, no one dies, nothing has happened.)
The experience can be described in many ways but the experiencer cannot be described. When words are silent, there is no sense in enumerating the divine names.

🕉 MEDITATIONS WITH
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

If you can only learn to love -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“If you can only learn to love enough, if you can turn within yourself and love yourself with all your heart, with all your might, with all your being, then when you look at the world you will see yourself. For isn’t that what you’re seeing right now? You’re only seeing yourself when you look at this world. You believe you’re seeing something else, but you’re not. You believe you see trees, people, sky, mountains, rain.

You’re only seeing yourself. Whatever you think of certain people, whenever you look at people, whatever conclusion you come to about people it’s your self you’re talking about. This is the first metaphysical principle of Advaita Vedanta. There is only one Self and you are that! So how can you possibly see something else? Ponder this. Think about this.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

No world, soul, God – only Self -RM

Ramana Maharshi

What is the nature of the Self?

“What exists in truth is the Self alone.
The world, the individual soul, and God
are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-
of-pearl, these three appear at the same
time, and disappear at the same time. The
Self is that where there is absolutely no “I”
thought. That is called “Silence”. The Self
itself is the world; the Self itself is “I”; the
Self itself is God; all is Shiva, the Self.

Shri Ramana Maharshi

Do your part!!! -RM

Ramana Maharshi

Grant Me Salvation, Swami

One afternoon a lady from Kumbhakonam sat near Bhagavan and exclaimed: “How glad I am that I have met you, Swami. I have craved to see you for a long time, Swami. Not that I want anything, Swami. Only please be kind and grant me salvation, Swami.” With that she got up and went away. Bhagavan had a hearty laugh.
“Look at her – all she wants is salvation. Give her salvation, she wants nothing else.”
I said: “Is it not what we all want?”

He replied: “Is salvation something to be handed over on request? Do I keep bundles of salvation concealed about me, that people should ask me for salvation? She said ‘I do not want anything.’ If it is sincere, that itself is salvation. What is there I can give and what is there they can take?”

Somebody brought a bell to be rung at the arati ceremony and it was put into Bhagavan’s hands. He tried its sound in various ways and laughed: “God wants us to make a fire of our past evil deeds and burn our karma in it. But these people burn a copper worth of camphor and hope to please the Almighty. Do they really believe that they can get something for nothing? They do not want to bend to God, they want God to bend to them. In their greed they would swallow God, but they would not let him swallow them. Some boast of their offerings. What have they got to offer ? The idol of Vinayaka (Ganesha) is made of jaggery. They break off a piece of it and offer it to Him. The only offering worthy of the Lord is to clear the mind of thoughts and remain steady in the peace of Self.”

✅ As I Saw Him – No.5. My Life, My Light
by Varanasi Subbalakshmi.
Source: THE MAHARSHI.
Nov / Dec 1991. Vol.1 No.5

Had to get this out -rjs

Robin Starbuck

SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON’T QUITE “GET” ME. I don’t want to write a post about me but Papa says I gotta do it so here goes. I didn’t ever want to say this coz I so strongly dislike religious terminology but I believe I’m “anointed”. Good grief I said it!! Now all’s I gotta do is vindicate my statement, then I’m done, right Papa? Okay here goes.
I had more on my shoulders than most adults do in a lifetime, not expected to live time and again and I was like 5, 10, 15 years old. I can’t bear to relive the pain of being left so all alone – with a bible!!! – to heal myself when it was so beneficial to keep me down. I don’t know how I survived but I sure did learn to rely entirely on God.
Not physical rape but emotional dogged me since forever, and yet I can smile victoriously as I learned to use each and every incident as a stepping stone to deeper/ higher/ farther exploitations of Holy Spirit than I ever deemed possible.
I guess somewhere along the way I discovered that my niche was in the very process of dis–covering my spiritual being and abode commencing almost at birth!
Btw, lest I forget, you precious reader are not one iota less anointed than I am. Now I think I’ve said it all.

Sat (Existence) -Chit (Consciousness) -Ananda (Bliss)

Gitas besides Baghavad

Everything is Sat-Chit-Ananda -Self only

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Whatever is found to exist is Sat (Existence) only.
Whatever is pleasurable is Ananda (Bliss) only.

One should ever abide in the
bedrock bhavana of Sat-Chit-Ananda.

Never for once should oneslip,
even inadvertently,
into the disastrous bhavana that one is the
body and that the world is real.

🕉 Ribhu Gita. Ch.25, v.12

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Satchitananda (Sanskrit: सच्चिदानंद, IAST: Saccidānanda) or Sacchidānanda representing “existence, consciousness, and bliss” or “truth, consciousness, bliss”, is an epithet and description for the subjective experience of the ultimate unchanging reality, called Brahman, in certain branches of Hindu philosophy, especially Vedanta.

Etymology

Satchitananda (Sanskrit: सच्चिदानन्द) is a compounded Sanskrit word consisting of “sat”, “chit” and “ananda”, all three considered as inseparable from the nature of ultimate reality called Brahman in Hinduism. The different forms of spelling is driven by euphonic (sandhi) rules of Sanskrit, useful in different contexts.

  • sat (सत्): In Sanskrit sat means “being, existence”, “real, actual”, “true, good, right”, or “that which really is, existence, essence, true being, really existent, good, true”.
  • chit (चित्): means “consciousness”.
  • ānanda (आनन्द): means “happiness, joy, bliss”, “pure happiness, one of three attributes of Atman or Brahman in the Vedanta philosophy”. Loctefeld and other scholars translate ananda as “bliss”.

Satchitananda is therefore translated as “Truth Consciousness Bliss”, “Reality Consciousness Bliss”, or “Existence Consciousness Bliss”.

Discussion

The term is contextually related to “the ultimate reality” in various schools of Hindu traditions. In theistic traditions, sacchidananda is same as God such as Vishnu, Shiva or Goddess in Shakti traditions. In monist traditions, sacchidananda is considered directly inseparable from nirguna (attributeless) Brahman or the “universal wholeness of existence”, wherein the Brahman is identical with Atman, the true individual self. Satchitananda or Brahman is held to be the source of all reality, source of all conscious thought, and source of all perfection-bliss. It is the ultimate, the complete, the destination of spiritual pursuit in Hinduism.

Textual references

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (c. 800–600 BCE) is among the earliest Hindu texts which links and then discusses Atman (soul), Brahman (ultimate reality), awareness, joy and bliss such as in sections 2.4, 3.9 and 4.3. The Chandogya Upanishad (~800-600 BCE), in section 3.14 to 3.18, discusses Atman and Brahman, these being identical to “that which shines and glows both inside and outside”, “dear”, “pure knowing, awareness”, “one’s innermost being”, “highest light”, “luminous”. Other 1st-millennium BCE texts, such as the Taittiriya Upanishad in section 2.1, as well as minor Upanishads, discuss Atman and Brahman in saccidananda-related terminology.

An early mention of the compound word sacchidananda is in verse 3.11 of Tejobindu Upanishad, composed before the 4th-century CE. The context of sacchidananda is explained in the Upanishad as follows:

The realization of Atman.

(…) I am of the nature of consciousness.
I am made of consciousness and bliss.
I am nondual, pure in form, absolute knowledge, absolute love.
I am changeless, devoid of desire or anger, I am detached.
I am One Essence, unlimitedness, utter consciousness.
I am boundless Bliss, existence and transcendent Bliss.
I am the Atman, that revels in itself.
I am the Sacchidananda that is eternal, enlightened and pure.— Tejobindu Upanishad, 3.1-3.12 (Abridged)

Vedanta philosophy

Main article: Vedanta

The Vedantic philosophy understands saccidānanda as a synonym of the three fundamental attributes of Brahman. In Advaita Vedanta, states Werner, it is the sublimely blissful experience of the boundless, pure consciousness and represents the unity of spiritual essence of ultimate reality.

Saccidānanda is an epithet for Brahman, considered indescribable, unitary, ultimate, unchanging reality in Hinduism., 

Vaishnava philosophy

Main article: Vaishnavism

Tulsidas considers Rama as Satcitananda.

Just simply be free! -RAdams

Adams, Robert

It takes a simple mind to awaken. When your mind is too complicated, when you’re filled with theoretical knowledge, abstract knowledge, psychological knowledge any kind of knowledge, this is what keeps you bound to maya [illusion]. Yet you keep holding on to this knowledge because you feel that if you let go of it you’ll be a fool or a vegetable. Nothing is further from the truth. The truth is that the more you give up, the greater the happiness and peace that comes to you. For your very nature is happiness and peace.
Do not be concerned about what anyone else is doing. Leave everyone alone, leave people alone, leave things alone. Always realize you are in your right place. Do not strive to be in somebody else’s place. You have nothing to fight, nothing to fear. Everything is on your side. There is no thing that wants to hurt you. Keep your life simple. Do not make this teaching complicated. Do not calculate the reason behind this teaching. Leave everything alone. Awaken and be free. All is well.
~ Robert Adams