The mind is samsara / world ; the mind is bondage; the body is activated by the mind .The only God to be conquered is the mind. Its conquest attains everything. All other efforts are fruitless.To man even the conquest of the three worlds, without the conquest of the mind, is in vain.
Association with the wise, abandonment of latent impressions, self-enquiry, control of breathing — are the means of conquering the mind.
When the mind dissolves, everything that is dual or single is dissolved. What remains after that is the Supreme Brahman, peaceful, eternal and free from misery.There is nothing equal to the supreme joy felt by a person of pure mind who has attained the state of pure consciousness and overcome miseries of life.
I am the whole universe; the undecaying Supreme Self. There is neither past nor future apart from me’ — reflect in this manner. Everything is the One Brahman, pure Consciousness, the Self of all, indivisible and immutable’ think this manner. There is neither I nor any other thing, only Brahman exists always full of bliss everywhere.’ — meditate this way. The sense of seer and seen is common to all but the Yogi worships the One Self. The Self is pure Consciousness, eternal, omnipresent, immutable and self-effulgent like the light of the sun. The omnipresent Self, the substratum of all, is non-different from the effulgent Consciousness like heat from fire. It can only be experienced (not known).
Pure Consciousness, the Supreme Self, illuminates all, the indivisible, pervading (everything) within and without, is the firm support of all. The Self is absolute Consciousness. It is pure awareness, undecaying, free from all ideas of acceptance or rejection and not limited by space, time or genus.
Just as the air in the universe pervades everything, so also the Self,
The Consciousness which exists in the expanse of earth, in the ornaments, in the sky and in the sun, also inside the worms lying in their shells under the earth.There is neither bondage nor liberation, neither duality nor non-duality. There is only Brahman / Consciousness. Awareness is Brahman; world is Brahman, various elements are Brahman; I am ; my enemy is Brahman; my friends and relatives are. The idea of a consciousness and an object of consciousness is bondage; freedom from it is liberation. Consciousness, the object of consciousness and everything else is the Self; this is the gist of all systems of philosophy.
There is only consciousness here; this universe is nothing but consciousness; you are consciousness; I am; the worlds are consciousness - is the conclusion.
That which exists and that which shines are all the Self; anything else which seems to shine does not (really) exist. Consciousness alone shines by itself. Ideas of knower and known are idle postulates.Supreme Bliss cannot be experienced through contact of the senses with their objects. The supreme state is that in which the mind is annihilated through one-pointed enquiry. Abandoning the ideas of seer, seen and sight along with latent desires (vasanas) of the past, we meditate on that Self which is the primal light that is the basis of sight. The Self shines by itself as the one boundless ocean of consciousness agitated by waves of thought.
Just as the ocean is nothing but water the entire world of things is nothing but consciousness filling all the quarters like the infinite space.
Brahman and space are alike as to their invisibility, all-pervasiveness and indestructibility, but Brahman is also consciousness. All this is truly Brahman; all this is Atman. Do not cut up Brahman into ‘I am one thing’ and ‘this is another. As soon as it is realized that Brahman is all- pervasive and indivisible this vast samsara is found to be the Supreme Lord.
One who realizes that everything is Brahman truly becomes Brahman
After eliminating everything as ‘not this’, ‘not this’, the Supreme Being (lit. state) which cannot be eliminated remains. Think ‘I am That’ and be happy
When one thinks ‘I am pure consciousness’ it is called meditation and when even the idea of meditation is forgotten it is samadhi. Just as a pillar is said to be devoid of the statue , when it has not actually been carved out, so also Brahman is said to be void when it is devoid of the impression of the world.
Just as still water may be said to contain or not contain ripples, so also Brahman may be said to contain or not contain the world. It is neither void nor existence.
Pure Consciousness, the Supreme Self, illuminates all, the indivisible, pervading (everything) within and without, is the firm support of all. The Self is absolute Consciousness. It is pure awareness, undecaying, free from all ideas of acceptance or rejection and not limited by space, time or genus.
Just as the air in the universe pervades everything, so also the Self,
The Consciousness which exists in the expanse of earth, in the ornaments, in the sky and in the sun, also inside the worms lying in their shells under the earth.There is neither bondage nor liberation, neither duality nor non-duality. There is only Brahman / Consciousness. Awareness is Brahman; world is Brahman, various elements are Brahman; I am ; my enemy is Brahman; my friends and relatives are. The idea of a consciousness and an object of consciousness is bondage; freedom from it is liberation. Consciousness, the object of consciousness and everything else is the Self; this is the gist of all systems of philosophy.
There is only consciousness here; this universe is nothing but consciousness; you are consciousness; I am; the worlds are consciousness - is the conclusion.
That which exists and that which shines are all the Self; anything else which seems to shine does not (really) exist. Consciousness alone shines by itself. Ideas of knower and known are idle postulates.Supreme Bliss cannot be experienced through contact of the senses with their objects. The supreme state is that in which the mind is annihilated through one-pointed enquiry. Abandoning the ideas of seer, seen and sight along with latent desires (vasanas) of the past, we meditate on that Self which is the primal light that is the basis of sight. The Self shines by itself as the one boundless ocean of consciousness agitated by waves of thought.
Just as the ocean is nothing but water the entire world of things is nothing but consciousness filling all the quarters like the infinite space.
Brahman and space are alike as to their invisibility, all-pervasiveness and indestructibility, but Brahman is also consciousness. All this is truly Brahman; all this is Atman. Do not cut up Brahman into ‘I am one thing’ and ‘this is another. As soon as it is realized that Brahman is all- pervasive and indivisible this vast samsara is found to be the Supreme Lord.
One who realizes that everything is Brahman truly becomes Brahman
After eliminating everything as ‘not this’, ‘not this’, the Supreme Being (lit. state) which cannot be eliminated remains. Think ‘I am That’ and be happy
When one thinks ‘I am pure consciousness’ it is called meditation and when even the idea of meditation is forgotten it is samadhi. Just as a pillar is said to be devoid of the statue , when it has not actually been carved out, so also Brahman is said to be void when it is devoid of the impression of the world.
Just as still water may be said to contain or not contain ripples, so also Brahman may be said to contain or not contain the world. It is neither void nor existence.
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