Brahman

It cannot be seen or heard or touched....no senses can explore it.
It cannot be imagined or dreamed or thought of...no mind can hold it.
No image can show its perfection , no sound display its tune.
No words can describe it , no intellect can conceive it.
It is the light within all light, the life within all life
Forever infinite and single, it is the source and the substance of all the ten thousand things.
If you would know it, be still. be silent. be empty.

Just be.

Healing

A human being is an incredibly complex and marvellous creation.
 Layers within layers, systems within systems, levels within levels – all naturally designed to function effortlessly and perfectly for a lifetime. And, at every level, a marvelous ability to strengthen and protect, to mutate and re-generate, to heal and return to balance.
 Body, mind, spirit ; muscles, nerves, bones; cells, organs, glands ; atoms, molecules,chemical, biological and electrical energy; thoughts,feelings,vibrations - from the subtle to the gross, all interwoven in perfection, all working together in elegant harmony.
Surely an intelligent energy underlies and controls all the mysteries of our complex life-form, acts as the conductor of the orchestra, ensuring such harmony.
Disease is what happens when dis-harmony occurs at any level. Some instrument or player is out of tune, the music sounds off-key, the software gets corrupted. This results in the mechanisms misfunctioning at the molecular or cellular level.
The best way to treat such disease would be at the root..at the subtle information level. This is what homeopathy attempts to do- to function at the information layer.
 To touch this level, we need to return to inner harmony.
For this, stillness and silence can help focus one’s attention and awareness deep within oneself. The breath slows, the thoughts cease, the entire system grows very still.
It is almost like falling into a deep and dreamless sleep – except that a tiny light of awareness stays on, experiencing, witnessing this deep and total rest.
A state of waking sleep. Pure thoughtless consciousness.
In this state, we touch the innermost layer…at this level, the mere intention of healing can fix the root of disease. So we can retune ourselves to return to harmony.
Thus can we heal ourselves. And others.

Resonance

Living Light

“He who ascends to the sahasrara chakra through the path called Archis with the help of Amrutha Nadi gains immediate liberation due to the power of sahasrara which is the place of enlightenment. This happens to a loving devotee of well-ripened mind entirely due to Divine Grace.” Ramana Gita, Chapter 14.

Praise to the Jivanmukta, the living Light.
His silence speaks to yearning heart to show the way.
Follow the clues with faith and love.
Dive deep, ever deeper, seeking the source of "I".
Like bee seeking nectar,burrow deep in  the bud of the Heart- lotus.
Surrender, like drop in ocean, lover in beloved, dissolve like salt in that sea.
Ah - bliss beyond words in that final embrace of Self!
Lotus blooms with the kiss of the risen Sun.
The ecstatic union fountains upward in the direct path of Archis,
Straight from Heart to Atma-Nadi
Rising inexorably up into the thousand-petalled seat of Parabrahman,
the place of moksha, the divine sahasrara.
Here the Lord of Lords shines with the glory of a million suns!

Tend the Ox

It is said that, in the old days, Kuei Shan asked Lazy An, " What work do you do during all the twenty four hours of the day?"
Lazy An said, "I tend the ox."
Kuei Shan asked " How do you tend it?"
Lazy An answered, "Whenever it gets into the rice-grass, I pull it back by the nose."
Kuei Shan said, "You are really tending the Ox!"

Tend your ox. Half-measures are pointless.
Turn within..all the time.

The Heart

“In the center of the Heart Cave, Brahman shines alone as “I “ , “ I” , the Self.

Enter the Heart through Self-inquiry, or by sinking and merging in the Heart or by breath control and become rooted as That.”

Ramanna Gita Chapter 2.

Let the mind dissolve in the Self in the Heart.

Stillness of mind, stillness of breath,

sinking into the Heart, merging in the Heart- all happen together.

Being rooted in the Self

Nothing more is needed.

All else is automatically taken care of.

Practice continues until the rooting becomes effortless and permanent, one’s natural state.

 “ Firmly established in the Self, undisturbed by the least ripple of thought, as still as an idol of stone or wood, dissolved completely in Brahman-Self, even as water is in milk, with awareness devoid of all impurities of thought and  drowsiness, standing clear as the pure sky, the grandeur of the Jnani’s nishta ( the Enlightened One’s firm stance in the Self) defies all thoughts and expression.”

Ribhu Gita, Chapter 19, verse 21

BE HERE NOW

I wake. I sleep. I dream. I experience deep, dreamless sleep. I wake again.

I live each day as it comes.

I am not a cog in a machine. I am not a statistic. I am not an ID card.

I am a unique individual with my own feelings, needs, style and purpose.

I dream my own dreams, sing my own song.

I am what I am. I exist, I belong.

In my mind, there is a story, woven of thoughts and feelings, memories and fantasies, wishes,hopes and fears. A story of ancestors and descendants, caste and nationality, family and society.

A story of the past..and of how it will be in the future.

This is not real…just a story.

The main character in this story is an imaginary person- I forget my true being and identify with this unreal character, this ego.

“This is My movie- and I am the STAR…no matter the circumstances of my life, I am the Main Character- it’s all about ME!”

Thus begins my descent into hell, into unconsciousness and projection and duality and fantasy.

The past is dead and gone. The future is still unborn. There is only Now.

This moment. The most precious gift, the only treasure, the pearl beyond all price.

“Why does everyone like the Tao so much? Perhaps it is because we find all that we seek and are forgiven our sins? Perhaps it is because we find the  infinite peace and wonder and joy that underlies all creation?”

To find this treasure, the imaginary ego must be erased…revealing the true Self that is always at the core of my being.

I must return to the simple, the essential , the eternal core.

And just BE HERE NOW.

I am

I am a human being, a child of nature, a citizen of planet earth.
 I am laughter and joy, alert awareness centered in Being.
 I am consciousness becoming aware of itself, the formless taking form, the eye that God has become to look upon Herself and wonder!
 I am Divine spark in human body, intimately connected to stars and galaxies, earth and water and fire and air, birds and beasts, insects and bacteria, plants and trees – an integral part of the magical web of life .
 I am the part – and yet, I am always, also, the whole.
 I am the microcosm that contains the macrocosm.
 Within this body of blood and flesh and bones, of nerves and muscle and sinews, I am a symphony of intelligent Love playing this human role.
 I am matter and energy both, dancing one into the other.
 I am Life expressing itself through emptiness and form, light and darkness, sound and silence.
 I am nothing flowering into everything in self-awareness.
 When I discover who I truly am, I AM THAT I AM!