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Spiritual Wisdom: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
What is spiritual wisdom other than being gentle and easy with oneself and others in awareness?
Gain and loss, pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, are threads of life.
Life lived in awareness is the only meditation.
Our talents and strengths do not raise us above anyone. Our shortcomings do not diminish our original nature. That is just how it is.
Sages see action and inaction, speech and silence to be the same. So there is no need to struggle.
To simply be aware of oneself as pure and clear being is the true meditation.
The steadiness of awareness and balance is a gift of grace. It is the blessing of love that springs forth from the heart of sages.
In the company of good and wise people who know the nature of reality, the ego gradually loses its hold and pure awareness reveals itself as the eternal presence.
That is the real meditation.
Namaste
The True Master
A True Master does not tell you to do this or that.
Already, you are bewildered going to motivational speakers, satsang teachers, and visiting one guru after another.
The Master simply brings attention to your nature as Being-Awareness, and invites you to rest in your own Heart.
Ego’s Death
Sri Ramana emphasizes that the true renunciation does not involve going to some special place like a forest or ashram to meditate.
The real giving up, is letting go of the ego, the sense of doership, the identification with our mental fluctuations due to attachments and expectations.
It Is Just You!
Sri Ramana used to say that the Eternal Divine nature cannot be present at one time and absent at another.
So we must become aware of our Self in this present moment.
It is only in the present that the Self is Realized.
That is because the very nature of the Self is Pure Presence.
It is Pure Being.
Self is Bliss
The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him.
That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings.
Hence it is called the Heart.
~ Sri Ramana.
The Method of Self-Realization in Advaita Vedanta: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar
The Method of Self-Realization in Advaita Vedanta
The Language Of Silence
Bhagavan Sri Ramana used to say that the highest spiritual teaching and transmission is only in silence.
True Silence comes when there is complete surrender to God without any reservation.
Then there is no room for anxiety, worry, or any other mental noise.
In this sublime silence filled to the brim with peace and contentment, the fullness of awareness spontaneously reveals ItSelf as the Universal Intelligence.
It is the Pure Infinite Being whose very nature is Bliss.
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Editor’s note: The photo art is from Eden Kailash fb page.
The Nature of Now
Without a calm mind, one cannot experience the ultimate reality, the underlying oneness, as one’s own Self.
Spiritual practices (prayer, meditation, deep breathing, yoga) have value because they remove the agitation of the mind.
A peaceful mind, steady in awareness, can understand the purest teaching at the most subtle level.
Therefore the practical advice of the sages is to not bother anyone and not be bothered by others.
To reach the highest state and to know one’s own Heart as the Self, one has to become absolutely indifferent to both external and internal perceptions.
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