Be Still

"Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 46. The Holy Bible

“Stillness and tranquillity set things in order in the Universe.” Tao Te Ching

Be still.

Drop all the words. 

The word “God” cannot give you salvation, just as the word “food” cannot satisfy your hunger and the word “water” cannot quench your thirst.
Your intellectual knowledge is but a mirage, a reflection in a mirror: catch hold of the original!

All that is real is beyond the mind.
You cannot find the truth or know the truth.
You can only BE the truth.
Its all a matter of attention- stop looking outwards, turn inwards and focus your entire attention on the very source of Being.

This is the only way.

Grace is ever-present, ever-perfect, inevitable: it will act in the right way and at the right time.When you dive deep into your own being, Grace will embrace you, devour you, dissolve your mind in the silent bliss of pure existence.

Stay rooted forever in that silence.

Eternal Flame

“What is Gayatri? It really means ‘Let me concentrate on That which illumines all. “ Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi. 

Upon an altar in the cave of the Heart, a lamp-less flame burns eternally.
In this temple of the Divine, fuelled by the ever-flowing oil of heart-melting devotion, the light of Love reveals infinity.

Stillness and silence are the steps that lead to this mystic radiance, this ineffable perfection of Self.
Om reverberates here and the fragrance of sat-chit-ananda fills all space.

This is the real, the true, the One.

This is the source and the substance of all that exists.

This is the illumination of ultimate wisdom.

This is the jewel in the lotus, the secret gateway to transcendent immortality.

Sweet Lord of Grace!
Let me stay surrendered at this altar
until I am consumed like a moth in that flame. 

Searching for the Beloved

“Self-enquiry is really possible only through intense introversion of the mind. What is finally realised as a result of such enquiry into the source of aham vritti,
is verily the Heart as the undifferentiated light of Pure Consciousness, into which the reflected light of the mind is completely absorbed.”

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, Maharishi’s Gospel

In a waking dream, I fell into an abyss of profound and magical beauty, so perfect and so breath-taking as to be inconceivable by the human mind.
It was as if I drowned in an ocean of incandescent, ecstatic bliss.
Alas! My moment of ripeness was not yet upon me and so I was hurled forth, like a shell spat out by a whirlpool, back into samsara.

Now I wander the worlds, like a lover endlessly seeking for his Beloved, like an addict desperately searching for his drug; my life is nothing but a constant search within myself for the way back to that ocean.

I am not as other men, struggling to acquire the treasures of this world.
I am a fool for Love, weeping a river of tears, crying out for my Beloved:
I am driven by the haunting memory, the sweet, intoxicating echo, the unforgettable, lingering fragrance of the Divine.

Thus do I bow before the Absolute in beseeching prayer,
in abject humility,
in total and unconditional surrender.

“Even the blackest of crows,
when it alights upon beautiful golden Mount Meru,
is transformed into the form of pure gold. 

In just the same way, even those jivas 

who are entirely without distinction will, 

upon joining the presence of one’s own reality, Divine Consciousness,
attain, by its glorious majesty, the sublime form of the Self and shine. “
 Ramana Puranam.

Your Own Truth

“It is no true measure of one’s health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” J. Krishnamurti

“An indescribable state is attained by the sage whose mind has melted away and who is free from mind-display, delusion, dream or dullness.” Ashtavakra Gita.

Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

To live the best possible life, you must discover and experience your own unshakable truth.You have to do your own inner work: no one else can do it for you.It takes as long as it’s supposed to take: there are no shortcuts to ripeness.

The Buddha saw that life is marked by four qualities: impermanence, suffering, selflessness, peace. Accepting the impermanence and ultimate selflessness of our existence, we will stop suffering and realize peace.

You have to die before the body dies: this is the secret of immortality.
In your journey to the source, you must burn all your sheaths, your forms, your concepts: everything that changes must be offered to the sacrificial flame.

Anchor yourself deeply and permanently in the “I am “, pure Being: stay connected there in waking or dreaming or sleep. This is the eternal center, the unshakable, the true. All else will flow naturally and perfectly from this root.

The deeper you dive, the less there is that you can say about what you discover. Once you become that Silence, there is nothing to say.

Any attempt to describe it with words brings back the mind-world, the very illusion that you struggled so hard to destroy.

Just turn within- Self is Shiva, the transcendental experience of Self is Devi, they are ONE!
In this sweet Silence where the Guru shines in the heart, Being is all there is.
Here in this vast and perfect space of consciousness,there is no body, no mind, no person, no world, no God;
there is only blissful, ecstatic and infinite peace.

“The radiance of consciousness-bliss in the form of one awareness shining equally within and without is the supreme and blissful primal reality whose form is Silence and which is declared by Jnanis to be the final and un-obstructable state of true knowledge.” Ramana Maharishi

Return to the Source

“The Source is a point without any dimensions. It expands as the cosmos on the one hand and as Infinite bliss on the other. That point is the pivot. From it a single vasana starts and expands as the experiencer (‘I’), the experience and the experienced (the world).”

Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi speaking of the Heart, Gems from Bhagawan.

(Pic of Black Hole, courtesy NASA)

Astrophysicists tell us that this vast, ever-expanding Universe began at a single point, a singularity of infinite mass and zero dimensions.
The sage reveals an even more astounding truth: this singularity is the innermost core of every living being!
This is the Source, the Heart, the wondrous treasure we all own.

When the attention turns outwards, worlds without end are created in psychic, physical and temporal dimensions.
When the attention is focused inwards, one’s entire existence is compressed to a single point of pure Being. Like the black hole that is the core of the universe, the inexorable gravity of Divine Grace sucks you in, dissolves you, turns your existence inside out into an infinite expansion of blissful peace.

No more bubbles, waves, froth: only still, oceanic depths.
No more deaths and births.
No more time and space, no more duality, no more you: only the immortal Self, the radiant sahaja state of the jivan- mukta.

No more universe: only loving perfection shining like a thousand suns.

Return to this Source.