🌿True Surrender🌿

Bhagavan Ramana said, “The spark of jnana will easily consume all creation as if it were a mountain-heap of cotton. All the crores of worlds being built upon the weak (or no) foundation of the ego, they all topple down when the atomic bomb of jnana comes down upon them.”

Bhagavan further said, “All talk of surrender is like pinching jaggery from the jaggery image of Lord Ganesa and offering it as naivedya to the same Lord Ganesa. You say you offer your body, soul and all possessions to God. Were they even yours to begin with, that you could offer them?

At best, you can only say, ‘I falsely imagined till now that all these which are yours (God’s), were mine. Now I realise they are yours. I shall no more act as if they are mine.’ And this knowledge that there is nothing but God or Self, that 'I' and 'mine' don’t exist and that only the Self exists, is jnana.”

~Day by Day with Bhagavan, 22-11-45, Afternoon

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When Sadhu Vaswani was asked, "Which way do you follow to reach God? The Gita speaks of Karma Yoga, Bhakti yoga, Gyana yoga and Raja yoga and other yogas. There are so many other paths, what is the path that you follow?"

He said, "My Yoga, the path that I follow is Alpa Marga."

And they asked him, "What is Alpa Marga? We have not heard of it."

He said, "Alpa means small. My way is the little way."

What are the sadhanas on this path? Alpa Bolan, Alpa Ahar, Alpa Nidra- these are the three sadhanas.

•Alpa bolan means speak less.
•Alpa ahar means eat less.
•And Alpa nidra means sleep less.

This Alpa Marga can go together with Bhakti Marga. The two are allied. I have tried other Yogas too. But I have found that the Alpa Yoga is one of the easiest way for beginners of Yoga.

~Conversations with Dada Vaswani

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​​Fundamentally, the very karmic walls are always like this. They are like sheets of glass. If they were like walls of brick, you could see them and you could break them, but they’re sheets of glass. Everything is open, but when you try to reach out, you are locked in; that’s how it is.

Now, what can I do to break that? Why sadhana is always set up – apart from any teaching – is just because of this: any teaching, after a certain period of time, becomes a block by itself, in a certain sense. You will twist it to your convenience. You can twist all teachings in the world.

Initially, a teaching has an impact on you because it’s new and you have no clue as to how it works, so it works; but over a period of time, as you begin to understand, then you will start twisting it to your convenience. You will see how the teaching supports you. The teaching is not about supporting you [your ego]; the teaching is about demolishing you [your ego], but you will start using the teaching as a support for yourself [your ego].

Once that happens, the teaching is no good anymore. That is why a Guru is constantly talking from different dimensions. It is Truth, but they are so contradictory that he does not allow you to settle anywhere, because the moment you settle, you start using it to your advantage. Apart from this process, the sadhana is always there – just the simple things. A kriya – in the morning you sit and breathe in a certain way – it can slowly decimate these blocks.

~Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

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​​🌿Consciousness and Matter🌿
🌻The Subtlest and the most Gross🌻

🍃At the start of creation, the hitherto unmanifested Spirit projected two natures—one, consciousness, and the other, matter. They are Its two vibratory expressions. Consciousness is a finer, and matter a grosser, vibration of the one transcendental Spirit. Consciousness is the vibration of Its subjective aspect, and matter is the vibration of Its objective aspect. Spirit, as Cosmic Consciousness, is potentially immanent in objective vibratory matter, and manifests Itself subjectively as the consciousness present in all forms of creation, reaching Its highest expression in the human mind with its countless ramifications of thoughts, feelings, will, and imagination. The difference between matter and Spirit is in the rate of vibration—a difference of degree, not of kind. This point may be better understood by the following example. Although all vibrations are qualitatively alike, vibrations from 16 to 20,000 cycles per second are gross enough to be audible to man’s sense of hearing, but vibrations below 16 or over 20,000 are generally inaudible. There is no essential difference between audible and inaudible vibrations, though a relative difference does exist. Through the power of maya, cosmic illusion, the Creator has caused the manifestations of matter to appear so distinct and specific that to the human mind they seem unrelated in any way to Spirit.

🍃Within the gross vibration of flesh is the fine vibration of the cosmic current, the life energy; and permeating both flesh and life energy is the most subtle vibration, that of consciousness. The vibrations of consciousness are so subtle that they cannot be detected by any material instrument; only consciousness can comprehend consciousness. Human beings are aware of the myriad vibrations of consciousness issuing from other human beings—expressed by word, act, look, gesture, silence, attitude, and so on. Each man is stamped with the vibratory signature of his own state of consciousness, and emanates a characteristic influence on persons and things. For example, a room in which a man lives is permeated with his thought vibrations. These may be distinctly felt by other persons if they possess the required degree of sensitivity. Man’s ego (his sense of I-ness; the distorted mortal reflection of the immortal soul) cognizes consciousness directly; and congnizes matter (the human body and all other objects in creation) indirectly, through mental processes and through sense perceptions. That is, the ego is always aware of possessing consciousness; but the ego is not aware of matter, even of the body it inhabits, until it takes thought about it. Thus a man in deep concentration on any subject is conscious of his mind but not of his body.

~Paramahansa Yogananda

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🌿Develop Power of Intuition🌿

🪔By Paramahansa Yogananda🪔

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​​🌿"Syazar; Pazar; Shvazar" - One should cultivate and preserve the three virtues of righteous moral conduct, viz straightforwardness, honesty and purity in thought, word and deed.

🌿Even one of the 700 verses of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita can be one’s Guru.

🌿“Mehnat Panyein beyi Guru-Kripa chhe zarori Brahmaboda baapat” – One’s own conscious efforts [purushaarath] & Guru’s grace is indispensible for God realization.

🌿Ahamkar [Ego] or “I” feeling means the belief that I am the perceiver, feeler, thinker, doer & enjoyer. But the true “I” is Omkar which leads to self-realization – by meditating on Aum [🕉]; we will be able to realize our divine reality.

~Bhagavan Gopinath

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