Death is the Doorway

“It's not how much profound knowledge we know intellectually. It's how much we don't know. We have to transcend the mind that wants to be worthy and profound. We have to go beyond that to wake up. As long as your mind is filled with beautiful poetry and beautiful quotations and profound knowledge you can never become free. The idea is to give it all up. Then in your freedom you know all these things but there is nothing to say. “
Robert Adams, devotee of Sri Ramana Maharishi.

When the pain of samsara became unbearable, I wept and prayed,
I threw myself at the feet of the Lord in my heart and begged for grace.
I surrendered body and mind and spirit and sought rest and refuge.

The silence spoke:

“Stop trying to think, to figure things out, to preach or teach.
Drop all your piety, your saintliness, your spiritual ego-trip.
Truth is beyond the mind, beyond all concepts, all language.
Be still. Be quiet. Just BE! "


There is only one doorway to immortality, to freedom, to infinite, eternal peace.
If I would attain the Self, I must lay my neck on the altar of renunciation and let the sword of Brahman chop off my head!

Like river merging in ocean, I must merge in Him.

I must drop all emotional and intellectual activity.

I must die – before the body dies.
There is no other way.

The Source is Silence

“Man can dive so deep within himself that he can touch the depths where he is united with the whole of life, with all souls, and from that source he can derive harmony, beauty, peace and power.” Hazrat Inayat Khan

Inside every human being, there is a hidden portal to a higher dimension.
Beyond mind, beyond time and space and knowledge, the Real shines unchanging, forever.

This is the gift of Grace that you were born with, your own window to your true Self.
This is the doorway to the kingdom of heaven, to the fearless, divine life, to infinite, blissful peace.

Like a pearl-diver, dive into the depths of your own being and seek the source of “I”;
dive deep, deeper than thought or feeling, dream or sleep, until, suddenly, something stirs, something awakens.
Now a gentle power seizes you, embraces you, dissolves you in the ocean of the One.

This is the thought-free state of jnana, the ecstatic bliss of non-duality.
This is the source of all that exists, the vast emptiness that contains the universes, the Tao.

This is who you really are.
Here you dwell forever in wholeness, in sacred perfection.

Imperishable, unknowable, indescribable is that Silence!

An Ordinary Man

I am not special, Lord, I’m just an ordinary man, like any other:
A human being, with a beating heart, blood flowing in my veins, time running out.

I feel pain…and joy and love and fear and hope and all the other feelings.
I eat when I am hungry and I drink when I’m dry.
And, one day, I know I will die.

I try to live my life with wisdom and balance; may I be kind, may I be compassionate, may I be true.
May I not let anger drive me to hurtful acts nor let sorrow drive me to despondency.
May I walk gently on this earth and treat all my fellow living beings with deep love and respect.

I know now that I have been dreaming for a thousand lifetimes.
Like a sun rising, Grace unveiled the unsayable splendour of You shining in my Heart.
At last, I awoke:
O Lord, I have discovered your secret: you dwell forever within me as Me!

Now I have known your perfection, tasted your infinite bliss, how can I ever find words to describe this??
So now I live each day rejoicing, giving thanks, just being the best I can.

Now I wander the earth singing your praise, so glad to be an ordinary man!