Real and Unreal

“Fools, dwelling in darkness, but wise in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind men led by the blind.” – Mundaka Upanishad

“Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.” Ecclesiastes,the Holy Bible.

Don’t tell me your tales of triumph and glory – did you forget that everything ends?

This world is a story spun from illusion, a “tale told by a madman, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Beyond word and thought, beyond knowing and not-knowing, there is a bottomless abyss.

Once you fall into that void, you disappear.

What remains is that which always is, the eternal truth, untouched, unchanging.

Drop the veil of ignorance and see clearly:

Beginnings and endings belong only to the unreal.

The real is immortal,immaculate,blissful perfection.

The real is divine love, the infinite, all-powerful intelligent energy pervading everything.

Nothing else really exists. 

  “The solution for misery experienced in a dream is to wake up – not to examine or attempt to analyse that which is seen in the dream!” Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi.

The Heart

In the depths of being, warmed by the sunshine of grace, the Heart-lotus blossoms.
Floating on an infinite ocean of peace, under endless skies of freedom,
this is the kingdom of heaven, the source, the immortal flame.

Here the Self dances in joyous delight and the fragrance of sat-chit-ananda fills the air.

Here, no darkness or fear or doubt can ever arise; here, all suffering ends, all sadness dissolves in the warmth of compassionate bliss.

Here there is no space, no time, no birth, no death.

Here the Divine One sits in eternal samadhi, abiding in perfect peace.

Be still. Be silent. Be thought-free.
Sink deep into yourself and surrender at His feet.

Guru Poornima Prayer

“Praise to the holy feet of him who assigned the moon its coolness, the sun its heat, and the mind its discrimination.
Supreme consciousness of the Self, whose divine radiance shines fulsomely within the Heart as an inextinguishable lamp.
You are light! You are darkness! You are the reality that is neither of these!
You are the Supreme that is the refuge for us your devotees.

You are jnana! You are the brilliance of jnana! You are grace’s clear serenity!
Yours is the greatness of the all-transcending space of consciousness. 
You are one! You are two! You are the beauteous temple of mauna standing beyond both of these.
You are medicine! You are a jewel! You are the exalted holy mantra.

You are love, deep and bliss-bestowing, arising first as the source of all that is!
You are the infinitude that abides immovably as Sivam.”
Ramana Puranam

“ What is meant by moksha? Do the heavenly world and heavenly bliss exist somewhere in the sky? Are these to be experienced in some other body and in some other world after leaving this world and this body? The supreme world is only the Heart. Tranquility in the form of supreme silence is supreme bliss, the happiness of liberation. Cessation of worries is the attainment of the supreme state. Through the state of being-consciousness, the life of perfect bliss can be attained at all times and in all states in this very world and in this very body.” Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharishi.

No words can describe the infinite glory of the Guru.

The Guru is a cosmic principle, the Light that banishes all darkness, the Grace-bestowing power of God.

The Guru is the Self, the shining Brahman that dwells at the very heart of all beings, the source and the substance of everything.

The Guru is the embodiment of unconditional, infinite love, the mountain of  unshakable peace, the ocean of divine bliss.

The Guru is the purifying fire, the transforming flame, the fountain of all blessings.

Father, mother, protector, beloved, teacher, God…..the Guru is all these and more.

The Guru is the wish-fulfilling tree whose shade grants immortal, eternal joy.

Let go your fear, your guilt, your sadness, your doubt - surrender with loving devotion at the Guru’s lotus feet.

This is enough : nothing more needs to be done.                                   

“The eternal, unbroken, natural state of abiding in the Self is jnana. To abide in the Self you must love the Self. Since God is  verily the Self, love of the Self is love of God; and that is bhakti. Jnana and Bhakti are thus one and the same.” Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi, Maharishi’s Gospel.