Existence cannot know Non-Existence

 Where to find God?

Where I 'sense' Existence.

'I' sense existence. 

so I has to be existence

I , devoid of the phenomenon.

The Pure i is existence.

Only the Pure I can sense existence.

Not the impure or the phenomenal I 

which goes by names like, mind, jiva, or an 'entity' in general

.......

only that which is of the nature of reality can reach reality.

I exist, not as the phenomenon.

But that which is at the substratum of the phenomenon.

I am conditioned to think existence as the nature of movement.

As that which occupies space and time.

existence untouched by these phenomenon is pure existence

that I am.

that i always was.

that is my real nature.

breathing, chanting, movement, bathing, cognizing, getting into intellectual discussions is not my real nature.

My real nature is being,

devoid of any phenomenon.

if i sense phenomenon and i get the urge to access it or hold it or use it as a support,

...then i shall fall a 1000 feet

be established in Existence.

because that's what you really are.

why do you try to be who you are not

and then cry?

how long have you been doing this?

why do you get attracted towards things that do not constitute existence?

..

tear off all the phenomenon.

Then is-ness will transpire as is-ness

not otherwise.

This, i am not.

i am not

should be your natural tendency 

towards any phenomenon

what remains is what always was.

God.

You.

As non different from each other

how can externalising the mind in any phenomenon allow you to reach that; 

which is just not internalised, 

but even further amalgamated with you?

........

Dis-interestedness towards the world, its activities

towards one's individuality,

towards oneself

towards the activities of the mind

would this not be a mandatory step

towards self realisation?

It is.

Mind has to be made niruapadhika

because all what mind thinks is anatma, avidya.

It just doesn't have any range to reach the truth

mind includes the so called 'pet' viz. the 'intellect'

.......

unless you realise that anything in this world, anything in sansar is nothing but a burning ball of fire, mind wouldn't automatically turn towards the Self.

a girl from a high class society, when she finds herself in a a college, where no one belongs to her socio eco status and intellectual level,

craves internally every moment to meet at least one person who belongs to her intellectual level.

although she mixes with 'these' people, she knows, that she obviously doesn't belong to 'them'.

such is the intellect of a dnyani.

every moment he knows he doesn't belong to the world of 'phenomenon'

he belongs only to the substratum

never to to the phenomenon.

the moment that girl finds someone of her calibre, she suddenly becomes extroverted and mixes and mingles with that person or that group

which stuns everyone

because she was completely introverted or so it appeared to the other group.

A dnyani is disinterested in the phenomenon.

he cannot co-mingle with the lot.

he has lost that ability.

no matter how hard he tries, he just cannot.

But, he blends with 'existence' very naturally.

smooth as a silky cream.

he knows it is his natural state.

a state that is sahaja

a state that cannot have any vikalpa

because all kalpa-na and vikalpa have been left far behind 

like a plane that rises to 28000 feet has left the city far behind.

you see the skeletal edges of the city through the mist, barely

never to touch it ever again.

the sambandha has been broken.

why should gold go in search of copper to enhance its value?

how can existence truly reach non existence?

how can sun reach darkness?

you are the truth

you are samadhi

you are grace

you are god

truth, grace god, guru cannot be distinct or other than existence.

breathing is my real nature you say.

no. it is the real nature of the body.

you can exist without that.

.........

narada parivrajika upanishad

'the one desirous of attaining atma should live with the help of atma alone.'

this is real sadhana or tapas.

for an unawakened, this is poetry

for an awakened, it seems for him  to be the natural conclusion of the vedas

and is able to abide by it at least to some extent.

As nothing in adhyatma is possible without 'extra ordinary' amounts of 'sattva'

Atma ramo bhavati

stabdho bhavati

matto bhavati

you do need that unmada, 

otherwise the mind doesn't let go the phenomenon and its attachment to it.

without matto, you cannot be atma ramo

and then stabdho shall never follow.

all things in adhyatma are so easy to understand.

but as difficult to follow as as much as how easy they are to understand.

....

mastan swami; 'let cinders be poured on your head, one shouldn't allow the life in atma to get disturbed'

..

by staying with existence, you know existence

..

by staying with existence alone, you know existence,

not otherwise

..

Paap = non understanding = excruciating suffering

it is due to paap that i identify myself with the spark

ans not the fire

it is due to paap that I identify myself with the wave 

and not the ocean

it is due to paap that i identify myself with the elephant

and not the wood

It is due to paap that I identify myself with the necklace

and not the gold

it is due to paap that I identify myself with the entity I

and not the real I, the Self

...........

Let cinders be poured on the head, one shouldn't let the life in atma to get disturbed.

If you can stay as the Self, no other sadhana is required.

Irrespective of prarabdha, every moment one gets a chance to choose the Self or non self

Extra ordinary ability to hold on to the Self at all times,

under all circumstances

.............

I breathe , therefore I am

Nay.

I am 

Therefore I breathe

.....

Hold on to not what you think exists,

But due to which it exists.

Can you?

....

Ram is with you. 

Due to paap, however, you are able to relate to only the A-ram in you, the entity

.....

so easy to see that which the electricity makes move, like the fan

But electricity is not remembered or sought.

......

So easy to see maya and the world,

But not easy to focus 'due to which' it stands

..

That 'due to which' is You.

That You is Him

I am That

I am.

.................

period

......

What is really Self Enquiry

 It means surrender of the 'concept of an entity'.

It follows surrender of individuality, personality, likes , dislikes.

Wants, desires.

They have no place in Self Enquiry.

Nisarga: you will get atmadnyan-

If you only Want That 

And nothing else.

This 'nothing else' is important.

Which means absolutely no distraction towards the non Self

No activities, interests of anatma, avidya

As anatma, avidya equates with 'sankat', total destruction.

If you can Abide as the Self, no other sadhana is reqd

B to A

....

prob is we are distracted

why ...due to vasanas

which means concepts

we have spiritual ADD is the prob.

.....

Tendency to forego everything

 and be in the hands of prarabdha = superlative

The Best sadhana

very few can do it.

only the select few

the ones who have extra ordinary amounts of sattva can do it.

For the rest it is millions of miles away.

Just a dream or a figment of imagn

or something they will ask;

whats the use doing it.

ill do sadhana instead.

they are the ones who have no clue what sadhana is

and shall never do sadhana in a million years

they will complain, complain, complain

life after life

golden opportunities will come and go.

but they will remain kupa manduk- a frog in the well

the classic crow from YV

one who knows, senses what is sadhya, he does the requisite sadhana 

as he alone knows what it constitutes.

.......

man's hypocrisy is at the core of all his problems

again and again he only falls back to diff levels and types of hypocricy

he knows in his sub conscious what games he is playing

but a man without the requisite amounts of sattva is bound to be his own enemy for eons

he has no choice.

......

once he knows God is the doer,

his anxiety should cease.

Prarabdha should so naturally and spontaneously be treated as the Gift of God

in fact not doing that

and making some planned intellectual effort shows 

chronic non understanding.

be simple 

simpler than the simplemost.

so an exercise find which is the simplest thing.

and try to be simpler than that

which means more insignificant 

lower than that

humbler than that

more useless than that.

you have to be a lot more useless than the most useless fellow you have met

to be loved in the eyes of God

For only then can the almighty's eyes be your eyes.

else you will have the eyes that 'seek'

which are the ignorant's eyes.

Do you not know that ' You are the Sought?'

If you dont realize that, many lifetimes of miseries await you.

..

The one who is the doer, naturally becomes the sufferer.

He cannot save himself from the agonies that follow.

One who has given up doership 

stays atma trupta

Abides as the Self.

..

the one who has not changed himself 

wants to change the world.

for the one who has changed himself,

there is no world.

........

even he doesn't exist.

so what to do

'with what' and 'to whom'.

when  these concepts have themselves vanished.

..

God make me more insignificant and thereby lighter than a dried up fluttering leaf.

Else How could I be carried away by the wind of your grace.

Heavy loaded Sinner that I am 

with concepts and precepts

And stubbornness

And a donkey load of abnormalities,

By Your Grace turn me humbler than a worm,

lighter than a dust particle of an idiot's feet.

For that's where I truly belong.

because I have sinned.

Life after life due to non understanding/ ignorance.

...

Ignorance is rust. 

Whatever i shall find in that tool box, 

will only be rusty and thereby useless.

god, please give me that simple wisdom 

to understand something so simple.

despite this awareness, why do I keep accessing the rusty toolbox, to scoop out an arrow of intellect.

It shall not serve my purpose.

How do i still not allow myself to be aware of that?

..

Why despite tall talks of surrender

repeatedly, over and over again

I seem to be doing exactly opposite of that?

What's this bad evil spell on me

who cast it?

Please drive it away with your mercy, O Lord Ramana.

..

I am hard like a stone, nay like a diamond.

How can my heart melt? 

Unless you scorch it with the blazing fire of your Grace.

Burn me Punish me O Lord 

to be fit to flow with your gaze 

as it moves, when it moves.

I have stayed like a stone far too long.

Stubborn and obstinate with my precepts.

those precepts have disallowed me to flow in your river of grace.

Where so many others were carried by you to the ocean of enlightenment 

Only because they had the wisdom to melt

In you.

Lord Ramana , when shall you give that wisdom.

To be light, so that I may see the Light

That you really are.

.........

My Likes, My desires, My needs, My convenience.

yes.

My obstinacy, my inability to change

Has single - handedly destroyed me

Although I might blame the world

And even You, O Ramana

Why not?

for a sinner that I am, what better can I do?

A man with food poisoning only 'pukes'

Whether he wishes to or not.

Slap me, scorn me Destroy me O Ramana

For if I remain,

Its only a poisonous wriggling insignificant worm that remains

which is of know use to anyone,

Even itself.

Which questions the purpose of it coming in to existence

every moment.

Wouldn't that indirectly mock you, O Ramana? 

Why would you allow that in the kingdom of your Grace?

So Ramana, obliterate that worm 

Just like a patient is euthanised by a compassionate doctor.

Do not delay

In the least.

Even by a moment.

For I have suffered too long.

Too long

Way too long.

Ramana, do not win the award of the most merciless king in the world.

That is not your style.

..

When the personality pops up

Its the pestilence that pops up.

..

when I pops up, 

its the end of everything.

The one who has gained that wisdom, verily watches from where that scornful, regrettable I pops up again and again

like an infestation that refuses to go.

Watching from where that I comes,

Is tantamount to closing the hole from where it rises, 'forever'.

These are the teachings my merciful Anna taught me.

Watch watch watch...with all your vigilance\

with all your might,

From where that I springs.

So that it might never rise again.

A girl madly in love with a boy wishes that the other girl he is attracted to, never existed.

'She' is the source of all her misery.

every moment of her existence.

Ramana, that other girl correspond to the feeling of this entity 'I'.

This 'other I' should go.

Its source will have to be scorched out 

by non stop vigilant attention

Also called by a holy name of Tapas.

This is what you taught me Ramana.

So why do you not give me the wisdom and strength 

To reach that Source.

From where that evil I springs.

Why do you wait?

That 'waiting', that 'Pause' is so unnerving,

So inappropriate.

Do you not see that O Ramana?

Do I really have to make a fool of myself with my childish blabber-

to request You to 'stop' 'waiting'/ 'pausing'?

For how can I ever articulate those words properly?

A dimwit that I am.

Even the most heartless person has a compassion to help a toddler

 who repeatedly falls off the stairs.

Where is Your compassion, Ramana?

..........cont.........

Make me lighter than a feather. 

The sharp arrows of personality, individuality come to tear my own flesh from within me.

To surrender means to pay no heed to them

Then they shall dissolve in their own potion.

Let me not have any favourites and non favourites.

No likes, dislikes.

No favourable, unfavourable.

Let me have tremendous patience

'sheela'.

Best sheel = sahan sheela

whether I'm under a tree or in a cave,

let me remind myself 

that by Your grace, even these days shall pass.

only you are the saviour.

none else.

take no one else's help.

If I do, let me have the presence of mind to know,

That I shall the perish.

its obvious.

to a man of wisdom.

.......

with my mind scattered I'm akin to a ball of puffy cotton.

but by disciplined training, its become taut to be made a garment of.

..........

what is grace

what is atma

they are the same.

they are that which abide everywhere.

every moment.

in every minute particle

its the light which lights the light.

.........

.....

Prarabdha = god's choice 

to train you in a specific way.

Because otherwise you will not learn

the very simple things 

That Nature offers to teach

...

that which exists everywhere is atma.

that which exists everywhere is grace.

Which means god's most merciful vision.

......

Only He exists.

So all what happens,  is what He does.

So why do you interfere?

Why do you have the urge to interfere?

Can you be quiet?

Try.

No pull. 

No complain. 

No resistance.

No whisper.

isn't that mauna?

....

Can you stay like a fluttering leaf 

That doesn't flutter on its own.

But flutters only due to prarabdha/ Grace flowing through it.

Can you be unmoved like that?

.....

Mauna is the wisdom that transpires from your core to the surface,

When you know that you are not the doer.

...

Is your Love Pure?

Love for 'Another' is Always impure.

Love for the Self is the Purest form of Love.

A Love that doesn't spring from anywhere.

And doesn't reach any particular object.

A Love that is Full, Perfect. 

Which is nothing but Being or Existence personified.

A Love that cannot cease,

By making attempts to cease it from emerging.

A dad can force her daughter to stop meeting a guy.

But he cannot make her not think of him.

Even she doesn't have that ability to cease thinking of him.

That Love is Grace.

Which is born of Wisdom.

When the clumsiness of personality,  individuality vanishes.

Due to the kindling of the Inner Fire.

......

Wants, desires  Plans 

Are for the 'lowly'.

For the ones who have not been introduced to the Inner Grace.

They waddle through knee deep waters

As if they are crossing oceans of Purushartha.

They only make a fool of themselves in the eyes of the wise.

Watch them waddle through knee deep waters with a sense of purpose with a life jacket on.

The dirty, muddy waters gnarling down their throats due to their stupidity.

Pity them. 

Ignore them.

There is nothing to learn from them.

A Wise man should refuse to look at them.

...........,

Where do they reach with alltheir planned efforts?

Just on the other side of the gutter.

But blind are they.

They write novels and blogs as to how they crossed the ocean.

And fools are greatly impressed by their vocabulary.

......

My Ramana breathes for me.

My Ramana feeds me.

Even when I stay hungry. 

My Ramana plans for me and takes care of me.

.....

The point is 'Only Ramana' takes care of me.

Not even me.

Intelligence is knowing that I cannot take care of me. Only He can and He does.

Wisdom is 'being able to Abide by that Truth'.

....

The personality pops up to demand ' me and my sadhana'.

That is a kind of ignorance.

 A very discreet kind of ostentatiousness.

Of a subtle kind of self deceit.

.....

Trace the I, the thief back to its source .

That is sadhana taught Ramana.

All else is futile.

When you have an idea of what sadhana is, it's essentially a wrong idea.

...

Aham far higher than even Om,

Taught Ramana.

I I I.....I I

That's all

All else futile.

.....

Practice till the I is denuded of its excrecenses.

And gives way to the Real I.

....

All your cares and concerns confirm only 1 thing. You have not understood the basics.

......

'Nirmala' is the norm.

Mala removed is the criteria.

 ...

To put yourself in the hands of God is wisdom.

.,..

. 

dakshinamurthy refs

 

https://greenmesg.org/stotras/shiva/dakshinamurthy_stotram.php

विश्वं दर्पणदृश्यमाननगरीतुल्यं निजान्तर्गतं

पश्यन्नात्मनि मायया बहिरिवोद्भूतं यथा निद्रया ।
यः साक्षात्कुरुते प्रबोधसमये स्वात्मानमेवाद्वयं
तस्मै श्रीगुरुमूर्तये नम इदं श्रीदक्षिणामूर्तये ॥१॥
Vishvam Darpanna-Drshyamaana-Nagarii-Tulyam Nija-Antargatam
Pashyann-Aatmani Maayayaa Bahir-Ivo[a-U]dbhuutam Yathaa Nidrayaa |
Yah Saakssaat-Kurute Prabodha-Samaye Sva-[A]atmaanam-Eva-Advayam
Tasmai Shrii-Guru-Muurtaye Nama Idam Shrii-Dakssinnaamuurtaye ||1||

Meaning:
(Salutations to Sri Dakshinamurthy Who Awakens the Glory of the Atman within us through His Profound Silence)
1.1: The Entire World is Like a City Seen within a Mirror, the Seeing happening within One's Own Being,
1.2: It is a Witnessing happening within the Atman, (the Witnessing) of the Externally Projected World; Projected by the Power of Maya; As if a Dream in Sleep,
1.3: One Experiences this Directly (this Play of Maya) during Spiritual Awakening within the Non-Dual Expanse of One's Own Atman,
1.4: Salutations to Him, the Personification of Our Inner Guru Who Awakens This Knowledge through His Profound Silence; Salutation to Sri Dakshinamurthy.

Self enquiry notes sep 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymvj01q44o0

00:40 

Ultimate aim to be continuously aware of I. First thought, then feeling...then it vanishes. individuality ceases to exist. 

Experience of being where individuality temporarily ceases to operate. 

Experience intermittent at first.

 But by repeated practise becomes easier and easier to reach and maintain. 

When self enquiry reaches this level, there is an effortless awareness of being.in which individual effort is not possible since i who makes the effort temporarily ceases to exist. It is not Self Realistion. ..since the I thought periodicaly self asserts itself. ...but is the highest level of practise.

 Repeated experiece of this state of being weakens and destroys the vasanas Power of Self destroys residual tendencies...that the I thought never rises again. This is the final and irreversible state of self realisation.

........

32:00

When one thus practices more and more..the mind becomes exceedingly pure by removal of defects ...and the practise becomes so easy that the purified mind will plunge into the heart as soon as the enquiry is commenced.

........

33:00 r

degree of removal of thoughts...= measure of progress towards Self Realisation

.....

Transcript from first 4 minutes of video Self enquiry Practise Beginners in self enquiry were advised by Sri Ramana to put their attention on the inner feeling of I

......and to hold that feeling as long as possible.

They would be told that if their attention was distracted by other thoughts, they should revert to the awareness of the I thought, when ever they became aware that their attention had wandered.

He suggested various aids to assist this process. One could ask ones self: Who am I? Or where does this I come from?  But the ultimate aim was to be continuously aware of the I. Which assumes that it is responsible for all the activities of the body and the mind.

In the early stages of practice the attention to the feeling I is a mental activity, which takes the form of a thought or a perception.

As the practice develops the thought I gives way to a subjectively experienced feeling of I. When this feeling ceases to connect and identify with thoughts and objects it completely vanishes. What remains is an experience of being in which the sense of individuality has temporarily ceased to operate.  The experience may be intermittent at first but with repeated practice it becomes easier and easier to reach and maintain. When self enquiry reaches this level there is an effortless awareness of Being. In which individual effort is no longer possible since the I who makes the effort has temporarily ceased to exist. It is not self realisation, since the I thought periodically reasserts itself but is the highest level of practice.  Repeated experience of this state of Being weakens and destroys the Vasana, mental tendencies which cause the I thought to rise and when their hold has been sufficiently weakened, the power of the Self destroys the residual tendencies so completely that the I thought never rises again.  This is the final and irreversible state of Self realisation. This practice of self attention or awareness of the I thought is a gentle technique. Which bypasses the usual repressive methods of controlling the mind. It is not an exercise in concentration nor does it aim at suppressing thoughts.  It merely evokes the awareness of the source from which the mind springs.

The method and goal of self enquiry is to abide in the source of the mind and to be aware of what one really is by withdrawing attention and interest from what one is not.

In the early stages, effort in the form of transferring the attention from the thoughts to the thinker is essential,

but once awareness of the 'I' feeling has been firmly established, then further effort is counter productive.

From then on, it is more a process of being than doing.

Of effortless 'being' rather than an effort to Be.

Being what one already is is effortless since being-ness is always present and always experienced. On the other hand, Pretending to be what one is not, ie. the body and the mind requires continuous mental effort even though the effort is nearly always at a subconscious level.

It is therefore that in the higher stages 

22:00

Temporary lulling of thoughts.

water water yogi long samadhi when he woke up

...

Enquire as to who it is that experiences this stillness.

for sadhakas it is difficult to distinguish between manolaya and manonasha

Therefore, one should watch their progress carefully.

.......

Atmabodha notes

 2 bodha anya sadhana 

as opposed to other spiritual practices

self knowledge is the direct means of enlightenment.

just as fire is the direct means of cooking 

enlightenment is impossible without self knowledge.

sa vid ....ya vimuktaye

.......

3 avirodhitaya karma

other spiritual practices can co exist with ignorance

na vidyam vini vartayet

so they cannot remove ignorance

vidya vidya nihantyeva

self knowledge alone removes ignorance

tejas timir sanghavat

like light removes darkness.

....

4

parichanna iva dnyanat

since, the true self is hidden

tan nashe sati kevalaha

when that ignorance is removed

swayam prakashate hyatma

atma reveals itself

megha paye m shuman iva

like the sun reveals itself when clouds drift away

5

adnyann kalusham jivam

a person tainted by ignorance

dnyana bhyasat vinirmalam

is purified when ignorance vanishes due to  self knowledge

krutva dnyanam svyam nashyej

then that self knowledge itself vanishes

jalam katak renuvat

like alum dissolves

....

6

sansar swapnotulyohi

the world is like a dream

raga dvesha adi sankulaha

filled with pleasant and unpleasant experiences

svakale satya d bhati

it seems real

prabhode satya sadbhavet

until you wake up and discover its not

...

tavat satyam jagat bhati

the world seems absolutely real

shukti kaa rajatam yatha

similar to a glittering sea shell which seems like a piece of silver

yavan na dnyayate bramha

until bramha is discovered

sarvadhishtanam advayam.

as the world's underlying non dual reality

........

8

sacchidatma anusyute

created from the sentient underlying reality

nitye visshnau prakalpitaha

eternal and pervasive

vyaktayo vividha sarva

are all things that exist

haatake katakaadivata

like a bracelet made from gold.

.......

9 

yatha kasho rishikesho

like the space in many pots

nanopadhi gato vibhuh

all pervasive consciousness dwells in many bodies

tad bhedad bhinnavat bhati

and seems divided by them

tan nashe kevalo bhavet

in the absence of pots and bodies,

space and consciousness remain undivided

10

nanopadhivashadeva

the attributes of bodies

jati varnaashrama dayaha

like caste color status etc

atmanya aropitas toye

are superimposed on atma

rasa varandi bhedavat

like diff tastes and colours are superimposed on water

......

........

51

Although embodies, the enlightened ones move like moodha, fools in the ocean of unawakened individuals.

They move like space, unaffected by whatever.

moving without attachment like the wind.

..........

53 gaining which nothing remains to be attained,

no other happiness

no other knowledge

that bramha should be realized

...

parallel with nbs 

yat prapya na kinchit vanchati na shochati na ramate notsahi bhavati

.....

54

seeing which nothing remains to be seen

becoming which there is no rebirth

knowing which nothing remains to be known

that bramha should be realized.

.....

64

atma is discovered with the eye of wisdom

one without the eye of wisdom cannot discover it

like the blind cannot see the sun

..

67

yaha swa atma tirtham bhajate vinishkriyaha

by worshipping at this holy pilgrimage site within yourself

sa sarvavit sarva gato mruto bhavet

one becomes enlightened, limitless and immortal.

Swami Ramsukhdasji maharaj- Amrit bindu

 http://www.swamiramsukhdasji.net/eBooks/ENGLISH/The%20Drops%20Nector/DON-Main.htm

July 2023- Swami Ramdas, Kabir's poems

 By a complete surrender to the 'Will of Ram', 

we lose consciousness of the body 

which keeps us aloof from Him,

 and find ourselves in a state of complete identification and union with Ram.

........

who is in us and everywhere around us. 

 In this condition, hatred which means consciousness of diversity, ceases, and 

Love, consciousness of Unity, is realised. 

This Divine Love can be attained by humbling ourselves to such a degree as to totally subdue our egoism, 

our self-assertion as a separate individual existence. 

Having reached this stage, we, by the awakened consciousness of Unity or Love, are naturally prompted to sacrifice all the interests that concern the body, 

for the welfare of our fellow-men and fellow-creatures who are all manifestations of the same Ram.

.............

............

Kabir's poems:

https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-14420

I said to the wanting-creature inside me:
What is this river you want to cross?
There are no travelers on the river-road, and no road.
Do you see anyone moving about on that bank, or nesting?

There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
There is no tow rope either, and no one to pull it.
There is no ground, no sky, no time, no bank, no ford!

And there is no body, and no mind!
Do you believe there is some place that will make the
soul less thirsty?
In that great absence you will find nothing.

Be strong then, and enter into your own body;
there you have a solid place for your feet.
Think about it carefully!
Don't go off somewhere else!

Kabir says this: just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.

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Awareness alone will overcome illusion.

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Where do you search me?
I am with you
Not in pilgrimage, nor in icons
Neither in solitudes
Not in temples, nor in mosques
Neither in Kaba nor in Kailash
I am with you O man
I am with you
Not in prayers, nor in meditation
Neither in fasting
Not in yogic exercises
Neither in renunciation
Neither in the vital force nor in the body
Not even in the ethereal space
Neither in the womb of Nature
Not in the breath of the breath
Seek earnestly and discover
In but a moment of search
Says Kabir, Listen with care
Where your faith is, I am there.

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Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads:
Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.

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PLAYED day and night with my comrades, and now I am greatly afraid.
So high is my Lord's palace, my heart trembles to mount its stairs: yet I must not be shy, if I would enjoy His love.
My heart must cleave to my Lover; I must withdraw my veil, and meet Him with all my body:
Mine eyes must perform the ceremony of the lamps of love.
Kabîr says: "Listen to me, friend: he understands who loves. If you feel not love's longing for your Beloved One, it is vain to adorn your body, vain to put unguent on your eyelids."

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What is seen is not the Truth
What is cannot be said
Trust comes not without seeing
Nor understanding without  words
The wise comprehends with knowledge
To the ignorant it is but a wonder
Some worship the formless God
Some worship His various forms
In what way He is beyond these attributes
Only the Knower knows
That music cannot be written
How can then be the notes
Says Kabir,  awareness alone will overcome illusion

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O HOW may I ever express that secret word?
O how can I say He is not like this, and He is like that?
If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed:
If I say that He is without me, it is falsehood.
He makes the inner and the outer worlds to be indivisibly one;
The conscious and the unconscious, both are His footstools.
He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed:
There are no words to tell that which He is.

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I went looking for Him
And lost myself;
The dropp merged with the Sea -
Who can find it now?

Looking and looking for Him
I lost myself;
The Sea merged with the dropp -
Who can find it now?

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My body is flooded
With the flame of Love.
My soul lives in
A furnace of bliss.

Love's fragrance
Fills my mouth,
And fans through all things
With each outbreath.

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Kabîr says, "O brother! he who has seen that radiance of love, he is saved."

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The young plant of Bhakti in Ram was thus nurtured in the electric atmosphere created by the influence of these great men on the mind of humble Ramdas. It was at this time that it slowly dawned upon his mind that Ram was the only Reality and all else was false. Whilst desires for the enjoyment of worldly things were fast falling off, the consideration of ‘me’ and ‘mine’ was also wearing out. The sense of possession and relationship was vanishing. All thought, all mind, all heart, all soul was concentrated on Ram, Ram covering up and absorbing everything.

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