"On several occasions I used to pray mentally to him that on opening his eyes, he would look at me and I must say I was never disappointed. So, it was crystal...
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Sep 3, 2009 8:30 pm
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"A Higher Power is leading you. the Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust It." --Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi-- [Non-text portions of this...
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Sep 4, 2009 10:05 am
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"Bhagavan Ramana was the most simple, natural, unassuming of men; he was what a man should be, quite without affectation, like a child; and at the same time...
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Sep 4, 2009 10:09 am
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"Then, for the first time in my life, I began to understand what the grace and blessings of a guru could mean. My love and devotion to Bhagavan deepened. I...
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Sep 4, 2009 8:38 pm
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"The universe is beginning to look more like a great thought than a great machine." --Sir James Johns, 20th century British astrophysicist-- "The treasure I...
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Sep 5, 2009 12:24 am
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"A phenomenon cannot be a reality simply because it serves a purposes or purposes. Take a dream, for example. The dream creations are purposeful; they serve...
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Sep 5, 2009 10:15 am
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"But there are some, the really lucky ones, .....it gnaws away at them and gives them no rest day or night..... The dogmas of the creeds, the empty conceit of...
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Sep 6, 2009 1:05 am
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"Surrender should not be verbal nor conditional. Prayer is not verbal; it is from the Heart. To merge into the Heart is prayer. That is also Grace." Grace is...
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Sep 6, 2009 11:36 am
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"What you [we] are looking for is what's looking." --Author unknown to me-- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Sep 6, 2009 11:44 am
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"This is what the Maharshi says, 'There is no alternative for you but to accept the world as unreal, if you are seeking the Truth and the Truth alone.' Why...
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Sep 6, 2009 9:05 pm
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"You say you concentrate but do not succeed. 'You' means the 'Self.' On what do you concentrate? Where do you fail? Are there two selves, for the one to...
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Sep 7, 2009 9:43 am
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"A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness...
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Sep 7, 2009 10:09 am
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"We are indeed lucky to have the Maharshi in our midst. It will be a thousand pities if a spiritual dynamo like that of Sri Ramana is not utilized to its...
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Sep 7, 2009 11:59 pm
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"One may seem to go out of the body, but the body itself is not more than our thought. There can be no body in the absence of thought; no outgoing or in- ...
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Sep 8, 2009 9:11 am
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"He was Divine Grace in human form. While fully human, he was fully in Samadhi, fully divine, alike when talking and when sitting silent. He merely responded...
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Sep 8, 2009 8:43 pm
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"Everything is new for me now. My mind is new, the moon, the sun, The whole world looks washed with water, washed in the rain of I AM THAT. Lalla leaps and...
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Sep 9, 2009 12:58 am
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"Again, consider it from another point of view: You create a dream-body for yourself in your dream and act with that dream-body. That body is falsified in the...
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Sep 9, 2009 10:09 am
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"I saw him in a humorous mood; I have seen him play the host with delicate grace. I have seen him quickly, motionlessly, challenging and defeating injustice or...
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Sep 9, 2009 8:01 pm
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"Think of Bhagavan. How would the affairs of the world distract Him? You and they are in Him." ************* "If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, ...
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Sep 10, 2009 8:05 am
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"The graciousness of Bhagavan's reception melted the heart and awakened a feeling of guilt as to how great was the reward for so little effort made. I was...
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Sep 10, 2009 7:22 pm
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Yes i think we need a living master. Visit www.yogeeshashram.org for consideration, maybe it is useful for our growth.Thanks......
"The world is only spiritual. Since you are identifying yourself with the physical body, you speak of this world as being physical and the other world as...
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Sep 11, 2009 8:57 am
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"Heart of my being, seen outwardly as one in human form, to draw my human love, Lord Ramana, Guru, the risen Sun. Self Manifest, the guide of all who rove lost...
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Sep 12, 2009 12:05 am
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"You are already the Self. No elaborate science is necessary to establish it. The cessation of such thoughts is the realization of the Self. One does not see...
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Sep 12, 2009 9:33 am
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"I had been reading the works of Sri Ramana and was struck with wonder at the style..... But my immediate quest at the time was for peace and solace. I came...
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Sep 12, 2009 6:40 pm
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[a favorite reference text of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi] Chapter One: 1. Salutations to that calm effulgence which is endless and unlimited by space, time,...
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Sep 13, 2009 10:29 am
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Chapter One 6. Not a day should be spent in a place which does not possess the tree of a wise knower of Truth with its good fruit and cool shade. 7. The sages...
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Sep 14, 2009 9:00 am
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Chapter One 16. That perverted man who, even after knowing that worldly objects are deceptive, still thinks of them, is an ass not a man. 17. Even the...
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Sep 15, 2009 10:32 am
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Chapter One. 22. When pots are broken the space within them becomes unlimited. So also when bodies cease to exist the Self remains eternal and unattached. 23....