*POINTS TO PONDER* - Self-reform automatically brings about social reform. Con­fine yourself to self-reform. Social reform will take care of itself. ~Ramana Maharshi

M: Let activities go on. The do not affect the pure Self. The difficulty is that people think they are the doer. This is a mistake. It is the higher power which does everything and people are only its tools. If they accept that position they will be free from troubles, otherwise they court them.

The sculptured figure on the temple tower shows great strain, but really, the tower rests on the ground, and that supports the figure. The figure is a part of the tower, but is made to look as if it is bearing the weight of the tower. Is it not funny? It is the same with the person who takes on himself the sense of doing.

Q: What is your opinion of social reform?
M: Self-reform automatically brings about social reform. Con­fine yourself to self-reform. Social reform will take care of itself.

Somebody commented that the Gita preached karma yoga, because it taught that one should act with selfless motives.

M: No. This can only be achieved after knowing the illusori­ness of ego, i.e. jnana. Hence it really taught jnana yoga,which is the highest, and that we should act by letting the universal act through us.

Q: I am a doctor. How can I best heal people?

M: The permanent cure is jnana; the patients must realize it for themselves, and that depends on their maturity. Otherwise when one disease goes another will come.

Conscious Immortality

*WORDS OF WISDOM* - 'Self-Realization' is sometimes called the immortal state because it never ends and because it is never destroyed or even altered. If you keep your attention on the Self you can attain this immortality. If you attain it, in that ultimate state of being you will find that there is no birth, no death, no desires, no fears, no worries, no mind and no world. - Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p. 294

CONSCIOUSNESS IS NEVER DESTROYED

I have a sister who believes that the world is about to end in a nuclear holocaust. Many other people feel the same. Does Swami have any views on this?

Annamalai Swami: I do not think that the world will be destroyed in the near future. But even if it is about to be destroyed it is not something that you should think about or worry about. Keep your attention in the present; keep it on the Self. If you establish yourself in the Self you need not worry about the future of the world. If you realize the Self, nothing can touch you. You can destroy a jnani’s body, you can destroy the world that he lives in, but you cannot touch or change his Self-awareness.

The disappearance of the entire universe will not affect the jnani because jnana is indestructible. Consciousness, the substratum of the universe, cannot be changed in any way. When the world appears in consciousness, consciousness doesn’t undergo any change. So, even when the universe disappears, consciousness is unaffected.

Everything that appears will one day disappear. There is no permanence in the world of forms. But that unchangeable consciousness in which all forms appear can never be diminished, destroyed or altered in any way. If you learn to be that consciousness you come to understand that nothing can touch or destroy you. …

Ignorance causes us to worry about the possible destruction of the body. If you make your well-being dependent on the well-being of the body, you will always be worrying and suffering. When you know, from direct experience, that you are the Self, you realize that there is no birth and death. You realize that you are deathless and immortal. Self-realization is sometimes called the immortal state because it never ends and because it is never destroyed or even altered. If you keep your attention on the Self you can attain this immortality. If you attain it, in that ultimate state of being you will find that there is no birth, no death, no desires, no fears, no worries, no mind and no world.
- Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p. 294

*WORDS OF WISDOM*- Seek my grace within the Heart. I will drive away your darkness and show you the light. This is my responsibility. ~Ramana Maharshi

BHAGAVAN'S PROMISES

When devotees surrendered their problems to Sri Ramana, it was the same as surrendering them to God. They were submitting to the same divine authority, surrendering to a living manifestation of that same power. Here are some statements that Sri Ramana made on this subject. I have taken them from a book I am currently working on. Each sentence was originally recorded by Muruganar in Tamil verse:

My devotees have the qualifications to rejoice abundantly, like children of an emperor.

Abandon the drama [of the world] and seek the Self within. Remaining within, I will protect you, ensuring that no harm befalls you.

If you inquire and know me, the indweller, in that state there will be no reason for you to worry about the world.

For the cruel disease of burning samsara to end, the correct regimen is to entrust all your burdens on me.

In order that your needless anxieties cease, make sure that all your burdens are placed on me through the brave act of depending totally on grace.

If you completely surrender all your responsibilities to me, I will accept them as mine and manage them.

When bearing the entire burden remains my responsibility, why do you have any worries?

Long ago you offered your body, possessions and soul to me, making them mine, so why do you still regard these things as 'I' and 'mine' and associate yourself with them?

Seek my grace within the Heart. I will drive away your darkness and show you the light. This is my responsibility.

David Godman, Interviews

*WORDS OF WISDOM* - SRI RAMAKRISHNA TOLD A STORY!

Once a Sannyasini came to the royal court of Janaka. To her the king bowed, without looking at her face. Seeing this the Sannyasini said, "How strange it is, O Janaka, that you have still so much fear of woman ! When one attains to full Jnana one's nature becomes like that of a little child - one sees no distinction between male and female.

*WORDS OF WISDOM*- Be the 'Self', be the peace that is your real nature, and it will not matter what comes up. ~ Annamalai Swami in 'Final Talks'

Remember , nothing that happens to mind is 'you', and none of it is your business. You don't have to worry about thoughts that rise up inside you. Its enough that you remember that the thoughts are not you.

Thoughts will come as long as the potential for them is inside you. Good thoughts, bad thoughts, they will keep coming.

There is nothing you can do about this flow, but at the same time, this flow of thoughts need not be a problem. Be the 'Self', be the peace that is your real nature, and it will not matter what comes up.

Annamalai Swami in 'Final Talks'

'SAHAJA-SAMADHI' is 'Peace-Inherent'. Deserve and Own it. ~Swaathmaaraaman

We are peace always. To get rid of the notion that we are not peace is all that is required. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

*Arunachalam* represents the 'static' (siva) and dynamic (sakthi) aspects of our consciousness in 'dynamic equilibrium' (siva-sakthi)- the 'ATHMA LINGAM'. ~Swaathmaaraaman

ARUNACHALA

Sri Arunachala Mahatmya
(The Glory of Sri Arunachala)

Nandi said:
‘That is the holy place! Of all Arunachala is the most sacred! It is the heart of the world! Know it to be the secret and sacred Heart-centre of Siva! In that place he always abides as the glorious Aruna Hill!
‘That day on which the ancient and wonderful linga of Arunachala took shape is the asterism of Ardra in the month of Mrigasira. And the day on which Vishnu and the other devas worshipped the Lord who emerged from the effulgence is the day of Maha Sivaratri.’

Skanda Purana

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*WORDS OF WISDOM* - 'KOHAM' (Who am I ?) brings about 'SOHAM' (I am Siva or pure consciousness). ~Swaathmaaraaman

WHAT IS PRACTICE?

D.: What should one think of when meditating?

M.: What is meditation? It is expulsion of thoughts. You are perturbed by thoughts which rush one after another. Hold on to one thought so that others are expelled. Continuous practice gives the necessary strength of mind to engage in meditation.

Meditation differs according to the degree of advancement of the seeker. If one is fit for it one might directly hold the thinker; and the thinker will automatically sink into his source, namely Pure Consciousness.

If one cannot directly hold the thinker one must meditate on God; and in due course the same individual will have become sufficiently pure to hold the thinker and sink into absolute Being.
~Ramana Maharshi

*POINTS TO PONDER*- 'Ramana Maharshi'

A Vaishnava devotee, who was a high official at Simla, brought all the idols that he worshipped daily, and handed them to Sri Bhagavan, probably desiring the sanctity of Sri Bhagavan’s touch. Sri Bhagavan seemed much interested in examining them. The devotee said, “Bhagavan, people scoff at me, calling me a ‘superstitious idolater.’ “ Sri Bhagavan told him, “Why don’t you retort by calling them worse idolaters? For do they not wash, dress, embellish, feed and thus ‘worship’ their body so many times every day. Is not the body the biggest idol? Then who is not an idol worshiper?”

(From 'Sri Ramana Reminiscences' By Prof. G. V. Subbaramayya)

A prayer for all time:

Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the Real.
Oh God, lead us from darkness to light.
Oh God, lead us from death to immortality.
Shanti, Shanti, Shanti unto all.
Oh Lord God almighty, may there be peace in celestial regions.
May there be peace on earth.
May the waters be appeasing.
May herbs be wholesome, and may trees and plants bring peace to all.
May all beneficent beings bring peace to us.
May the Vedic Law propagate peace all through the world.
May all things be a source of peace to us.
And may thy peace itself bestow peace on all and may that peace come to you and me also.

*Points to Ponder*- Ramana Maharshi.

The ocean of divine 'GRACE' rushes forth, back into the river of one`s own individual 'SELF'- deluging the 'EGO'-  resulting in 'Self-Realization'- 'Sahaja Samadhi' (Peace-Inherent) and 'Liberation-in-Life'- when there is 'Self-Inquiry' (Who am I ?) ~ Swaathmaaraaman


'Grace rushes forth, spouting as from a spring, from within you'. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

*Words of Wisdom* - 'GOD' plus 'EGO' = 'MAN' and 'MAN' minus 'EGO' = 'GOD' ~ Swaathmaaraaman

Ultimately when we want to be one with God, what do we need?
Ego with all it's qualifications and disqualifications has to "Let go."
~Swami Amar Jyoti, Be Still and Know.

*WORDS OF WISDOM*- Ramana Maharshi

Find out ‘Who am I?’ The pure ‘I’ is the reality, the Absolute Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. When That is forgotten, all miseries crop up; when that is held fast, the miseries do not affect the person.
~Ramana Maharshi

When there occurs the merger of the three-fold division of 'KNOWER'- 'KNOWN'- and 'KNOWLEDGE' ('Thriputeelayam'), there occurs 'Self-Realization 'Sahaja Samadhi and 'Lberation-in-Life'~ Swaathmaaraaman

There are no distinctions such as “Knower”, the “Knowledge” and
the “Object of Knowledge” in the Supreme Self.
On account of Its being of the nature of endless Bliss,
It does not admit of such distinctions within Itself.
It alone shines by Itself.

He who has realized the Supreme, discards all his identification
with the objects of names and forms.

Thereafter he dwells as an embodiment of
the Infinite Consciousness and Bliss.

He becomes the Self.

Sage of Arunachala Sri Ramana Maharshi: By Dr. Harsh K. Luthar

April 20, 2010
Over a period of more than half a century, some of the greatest yogis and sages of India and even a few Shankracharyas had the good fortune to visit the Sage of Arunachala, also known as Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. The list of luminaries who sought Bhagavan’s grace over a period of 53 years would be too long to recite in this short piece.
So here was Sri Ramana, always sitting virtually naked except for a loin cloth. The sage of Arunachala was free of any aspirations for material comfort and led a humble life of poverty in the caves with a few devotees who gathered around him.  His life was one of simplicity and worship, of walking around Arunachala the holy mountain, and explaining the teachings of Self-Inquiry to those who visited him.
Although having nothing, Sri Ramana was serene, content, and care free. The yogis with the psychic and mystical powers and learned men of great knowledge and wisdom bowed before him. They knew they were in the presence of a great and a unique Sage.  A true Self-Realized master was sitting there in pure and perfect stillness before them.
After Sri Ramana arrived in Arunachala in his 17th year, he never felt the desire to go anywhere and give lectures, darshan, satsang and so forth. For 53 years, he stayed near the vicinity of Arunachala as a community gradually gathered around him.
The first few years at Arunachala, Sri Ramana was in perpetual samadhi as if one deeply intoxicated. Gradually his state of consciousness normalized to interact with others. Sri Ramana adapted to the people and the environment around him. He was completely natural in his expressions. Appearing ordinary in all ways, Bhagavan Ramana was full of life, humor, laughter.
Yet a silence that was the epitome of serene beauty was his eternal companion and was felt by the devotees.
One time, someone came to visit Sri Ramana while he was sitting all alone in front of his cave. The person asked Bhagavan “where is the swami”?  (Sri Ramana was sometimes referred to as the Swami and other times as Bhagavan. Swami is a common term used to refer to a holy person in India). Sri Ramana said that the swami had gone out somewhere.
That was Sri Ramana’s way. He did not consider himself any swami or different than anyone. So the person left and was climbing down the hill to go back to town when he ran into a Ramana devotee. This visitor told the devotee that although he visited Swami’s cave, he could not locate the Swami.
This long time devotee of Bhagavan then took this visitor to Ramana. The devotee pointed to Bhagavan Ramana and said,  “This is the Swami”!
The visitor had his Darshan of Sri Ramana, got his blessings, and then left.
The devotee who had brought the visitor back to Ramana now took Bhagavan to task.  The devotee asked Sri Ramana why he tricks people like that and tells them that the Swami has gone out somewhere when He is the Swami that they have come to see!!
Sri Ramana said, “what am I supposed to do, wear a bell on my neck or have a label posted on my forehead saying here is the swami.”
Ramana was the most natural Guru. His power and grace to open the Heart and make the devotees realize their own being was literally overwhelming.
Poor illiterate devotees who knew nothing of yoga, meditation, or the fine points of scriptures but were lucky enough to get his instructions on cooking and other minor things have recounted the old days. Many devotees said things like “He used to make us like Himself”.
It means that Sri Ramana would make them see their own Self in an instant, bypassing all spiritual practices! Sri Ramana is known as the Sage of Arunachala and had no equals.
The Heart had manifested in the human form as Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. He was simply present and his presence was the Heart-Presence. It opened the hearts of others.
In a very real way Sri Ramana made the devotees like his own Self, the very Heart of Existence.

'Vijnanabhairava Tantra'

All around you, in every moment,
The world is offering a feast for your senses.
Songs are playing, tasty food is on the table,
Fragrances are in the air.
Colors fill the eye with light.

You who long for union,
Attend this banquet with loving focus.
The outer and inner worlds
Open to each other.
Oneness of vision, oneness of heart.

Right here, in the midst of it all,
Merge with the elation
Become identical
With the ecstatic Essence
Embracing both worlds.

                   -Vijnanabhairava Tantra

'Self-Realization' is nothing but shifting our attention from 'AHAM-KARA' (EGO) to 'AHAM-BODHA' (SELF or 'I'-AM ness)~Swaathmaaraaman

This is no joke, but you can become ‘Parabrahman’ right now.
Only it is not a commodity that you can acquire. You, a hundred
years ago, were the ‘Parabrahman’. Give me all the information
about that state of a hundred years back. Focus your attention only on that consciousness ‘I am’. Don’t be led astray by all the so called spiritual disciplines and rigmaroles.

NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

'BRAHMA VIDYA' - 'HRUDAYA VIDYA' or 'ATHMA VIDYA' is nothing but the science of "I"-AM ness'~ Swaathmaaraaman

Consciousness is the sense of knowingness ‘I am’ without words,
and it appeared unknowingly and unsolicited. Only in the realm of
knowingness ‘I am’ – the consciousness – can a world be, and so
also an experience. Hold on to this knowingness ‘I am’ and the
fount of knowledge will well up within you, revealing the mystery
of the Universe; of your body and psyche; of the play of the five
elements, the three ‘gunas’ and ‘prakriti-purusha’; and of
everything else. In the process of this revelation, your
individualistic personality confined to the body shall expand into
the manifested universe, and it will be realized that you permeate
and embrace the entire cosmos as your ‘body’ only. This is known
as the ‘Pure Super-knowledge’ – ‘Shuddhavijnana’.

NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

"THOU ART THAT" -the omnipresent, omnipotent, all-pervading, eternal,immortal 'SELF'; beyond space, time and causation, unaffected by birth, growth, disease, old age and death- 'BRAHMAN'~ Swaathmaaraaman

The 'Kena Upanishad'

'The Self'

The student inquires: “Who makes my mind think?
Who fills my body with vitality?
Who causes my tongue to speak? Who is that
Invisible One who sees through my eyes
And hears through my ears?”

The teacher replies: “The Self is the ear of the ear,
The eye of the eye, the mind of the mind,
The word of words, and the life of life.
Rising above the senses and the mind
And renouncing separate existence,
The wise realize the deathless Self.

“Him our eyes cannot see, nor words express;
He cannot be grasped even by our mind.
We do not know, we cannot understand,
Because he is different from the known
And he is different from the unknown.
Thus have we heard from the illumined ones.

“That which makes the tongue speak, but cannot be
Spoken by the tongue, know that as the Self.
This Self is not someone other than you.

“That which makes the mind think, but cannot be
Thought by the mind, that is the Self indeed.
This Self is not someone other than you.

“That which makes the eye see, but cannot be
Seen by the eye, that is the Self indeed.
This Self is not someone other than you.

“That which makes the ear hear, but cannot be
Heard by the ear, that is the Self indeed.
This Self is not someone other than you.

“That which makes you draw breath, but cannot be
Drawn by your breath, that is the Self indeed.
This Self is not someone other than you.”

Translated by Eknath Easwaran

*POINTS TO PONDER* - OUR ephemeral life in this phenomenal world is nothing but a juggler`s show. We are all wayfarers, inside this INN. A ZEN story - 'Transient'.

A famous spiritual teacher came to the front door of the King's palace. None of the guards tried to stop him as he entered and made his way to where the King himself was sitting on his throne.

"What do you want?" asked the King, immediately recognizing the visitor.

"I would like a place to sleep in this inn,"
replied the teacher.

"But this is not an inn," said the King,
"It is my palace."

"May I ask who owned this palace before you?"

"My father. He is dead."

"And who owned it before him?"

"My grandfather. He too is dead."

"And this place where people live for a short time and then move on - did I hear you say that it is NOT an inn?"

*POINTS TO PONDER*

Even though the reality of the 'Self' has been stated in many ways, it remains untold. The Self is known only by actual Experience. That Experiential Awareness of the Self is prevented by the mind due to the firmly established conviction that "I am the body, ego/mind".

- Sri Ramana Maharshi

*WORDS OF WISDOM* - 'GIRI VALAM' for 'SELF-REALIZATION'-'SAHAJA SAMADHI' and 'LIBERATION-IN-LIFE'. THE HOLY HILL' ARUNACHALA' AND 'SANCHARA SAMADHI' ~ Ramana Maharshi

Sri Kunju Swami said, “Once Bhagavan pointed to the Holy Arunachala Hill and said: ‘This is the storehouse of all spiritual power. Going round it you benefit in all ways. Just as it is highly beneficial when you perform japa in Varanasi, so also by going round the Hill you get countless benefits. It is called 'sanchara samadhi'. While walking round the Hill the body is active but the mind is at rest at its source. The mind is then free from distractions. Through 'sanchara samadhi' one easily gets 'sahaja samadhi'. Hence, our forefathers praised the value of pilgrimages. A pilgrimage (on foot) enables one to get established in 'sanchara samadhi'.’ ”

Kunju Swami once asked Bhagavan, “If thoughts rise up while doing pradakshina, what are we to do?”
Bhagavan replied, “Just do nothing. Ignore them. Keep yourself away from them as you automatically do when a donkey or dog crosses you while walking round the Hill. If you ignore them they will go away of their own accord.”

Sri Bhagavan also joked at that time: “For you the problem is how to eradicate the thoughts; for us (meaning himself) the problem is how to bring forth thoughts, how to raise a thought!”

SRI MURUGANAR'S EXPERIENCE WHILE ON GIRIPRADAKSHINA

Some time after he came here, Sri Muruganar, one of the oldest devotees of Bhagavan, asked Bhagavan about the spiritual benefit of going round the Hill (giripradakshina). Bhagavan asked him to go round it first and then come to him. Sri Muruganar followed his
advice and told Bhagavan that he had lost his 'dehatma buddhi' (body-consciousness) after a while and regained it only after reaching Adi Annamalai. He reported to Sri Bhagavan that the experience was unexpected and unique.
Sri Bhagavan smiled and said, “Do you now understand?”

RAMANA MAHARSHI

*POINTS TO PONDER*

This primary concept is the knowledge ‘I am’, it is the mother of
all other concepts. In order to get that satisfaction, you must find
the source of this primary concept ‘I am’. You should give
attention to the knowledge ‘I am’ and meditate on that itself.
Knowledge is to be got hold of knowledge only. This will produce
the seed, which, through this process of meditation, slowly grows
into a big tree, and that itself will give you all the knowledge. It
will not be necessary for you to ask anyone what is what.

NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

*Words of Wisdom*- 'GURU VACHAKA KOVAI' - Ramana Maharshi

If they see the many moving pictures, they do not see the one unmoving screen, the base. Those who see the unmoving screen do not see any of the pictures. This is the nature of a cinema theater.

In a cinema-theater, without the unmoving screen there cannot be any moving pictures. When scrutinized, that one unmoving screen is different from the moving pictures on the screen.

The screen, the unmoving base, alone is Brahman or Self. The soul, God and worlds are only the moving pictures on that unmoving screen. Therefore know that all that is seen on that screen is an illusion - maya.

-GURU VACHAKA KOVAI

*WORDS OF WISDOM* - Ramana Maharshi

By giving up activities is meant giving up attachment to activities or the fruits thereof, giving up the notion ‘I am the doer’. The activities for going through which this body has come, will have to be gone through. There is no question of giving up such activities, whatever one may or may not like.

*POINTS TO PONDER*- Seeing 'God' or the 'Self' is only being the Self or yourself. Seeing is being~ Ramana Maharshi.

"There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained.
You are the Self. You exist always.
Nothing more can be predicated of the Self than that it exists.
Seeing God or the Self is only being the Self or yourself.
Seeing is being.
You, being the Self, want to know how to attain the Self.
It is like a man being at his only home asking how many ways there are to reach that home and which is the best way for him.

All that is required of you is to give up the thought that you are this body and to give up all thoughts of the external things or the not-Self." - Sri Ramana Maharshi

Consciousness is always Self-consciousness. If you are conscious of anything you are essentially conscious of yourself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

             Nothing can be perceived , without the 'EYE' of Consciousness ~ Swaathmaaraaman

God 'Shiva' Instructs 'Narada Muni'- Recognize that the apparent is unreal, while the unmanifest is abiding. Through this initiation into truth you will escape falling into unreality again.”

“Burn down the forest of ignorance with the fire of understanding. Know ‘I am the one pure awareness.’ With such ashes now be happy, free from distress.

That in which all this appears is but imagined like the snake in a rope; that joy, supreme knowledge and awareness is what you are; now be happy.

Your real nature is one perfect, free, and action less consciousness, the all-pervading witness – unattached to anything, desire less, at peace. It is illusion that you seem to be involved in any other matter.

Meditate on yourself as motionless awareness, free from any dualism, giving up the mistaken idea that you are just a derivative consciousness; anything external or internal is false.

You are really unbound and action less, self-illuminating and spotless already. The cause of your bondage is that you are still resorting to stilling the mind.

All of this is really filled by you and strung out in you, for what you consist of is pure awareness – so don’t be small-minded.

You are unconditioned and changeless, formless and immovable, unfathomable awareness, imperturbable- such consciousness is unclinging.

Recognize that the apparent is unreal, while the unmanifest is abiding. Through this initiation into truth you will escape falling into unreality again.”

*POINTS TO PONDER*- In our life we refuse to come to the axle - to surrender to Narayana, meaning the Axle - but live ever on the circumference and thus at every short period get ourselves crushed by the very wheel of life to which we are hanging on for security!! ~ Swami Chinmayananda

To play on the rim of life without understanding the place of the hub in it, is to ignore the Reality and run after the shadow. To ride on the wheel is to get ourselves established at the center of the wheel; 'moving on the wheels' means traveling in a car or in a train and in both the places we are established on the axle of the wheels - perfectly established at the center of the wheel.

In our life we refuse to come to the axle - to surrender to Narayana, meaning the Axle - but live ever on the circumference and thus at every short period get ourselves crushed by the very wheel of life to which we are hanging on for security!!

~ Swami Chinmayananda

'SELF-REALIZATION' or 'SAHAJA SAMADHI' is already attained by everybody; One has to re-recognize it through 'PRATHYABHINJNA ( The 'eye' of consciousness ), that`s all~Swaathmaaraaman

'Self Realization is not however a state which is foreign to you, which is far from you, and which has to be reached by you. You are always in that state. You forget it, and identify yourself with the mind and its creation. To cease to identify yourself with the mind is all that is required.

~Ramana Maharshi

*POINTS TO PONDER* - 'SAHAJA SAMADHI' is 'PEACE-INHERENT'; brought about by 'SELF-INQUIRY' OR 'SELF-SURRENDER'- RAMANA MAHARSHI on 'SAHAJA SAMADHI'

D, Then what is Samadhi ?

M. In Yoga the term Samadhi refers to trance and there are various kinds of Samadhi. But the Samadhi I speak of to you is different. It is 'Sahaja Samadhi'. For, here you have Samadhana, you remain calm and composed even while you are active ; you   realize that you are moved by the deeper Real Self within, and you do or think unaffected by what you do, speak or think. You have no worries, no anxieties, no cares. For here you come to realize that there is nothing belonging to you, the ego. And everything is done by Some thing with which you get into conscious union.

D. If this is 'Sahaja Samadhi' and the most desirable
condition there is no need for Nirvikalpa Samadhi ?

M. The 'Nirvikalpa Samadhi of Raja Yoga may have its use. But in Jnana this 'Sahaja Sthithi', or 'Sahaja Nishtta' itself is Nirvikalpa state. For in this state the mind is free from doubts. It has no need to swing between alternatives of possibilities and probabilities. It has no vikalpa of any kind. It is sure of the Truth. It feels the presence of the Real. Even when it is active, it knows it is active in the Reality, the Self, the Supreme being.

TALKS from 'SAT-DARSHANA' BHASHYA by 'RAMANA MAHARSHI'

*Glimpses of 'Self-Realization* - Constant abidance in one`s own 'SELF' (Truth-Being-Existence-Consciousness and Bliss) results in 'Self-Realization'- 'Sahaja-Samadhi'- and 'Liberation-in-Life'~`Swaathmaaraaman

This Supreme State is called the Unmanifest , Imperishable (avyakto akshara). That is My highest abode.
For those who attain to It, there is no return.

The undeluded, those who are free from pride and ignorance, who have overcome the evil of attachment, who are ever devoted to the Self, who have turned away from desires and are entirely beyond the dualities of pleasure and pain, attain that imperishable state.

He who abandons the injunctions of the scriptures and behaves according to the impulses of his desires, attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the highest state of salvation.

He who sees the Supreme Lord, residing equally in all beings -- the Imperishable One among the perishables -sees (truly).

BHAGAVAD GITA

The *SELF*- TRUTH- BEING-EXISTENCE- CONSCIOUSNESS and BLISS is beyond birth, growth, disease, old age and death~Swaathmaaraaman

 

Question: Is liberation to be achieved before the dissolution of the body or can it be had after death?
Bhagavan: Is there death for you? For whom is death? The body which dies, were you aware of it, did you have it, during sleep? The body was not, when you slept, but you existed even then. When you awoke, you got the body and even in the waking state you exist. You existed both in sleep and waking. But the body did not exist in sleep and exists only in waking. That which does not exist always, but exists at one time and not at another, cannot be real. You exist always and you alone are therefore real.

Liberation is another name for you. It is always here and now with you. It has not to be won or reached hereafter or somewhere. Christ has said, “The Kingdom of God is within you” here and now. You have no death.

 

~Ramana Maharshi