To see a light, no other light is needed.

Words of Wisdom - Ramana Maharshi

Advice on Sadhana

The necessity of serious sadhana

1. In order that your mind should become firm, observe with full attention your duty, which is the practice of sadhana.


2. Instead of practicing sadhana superficially, follow it intensively in such a way that your mind is totally immersed in it.

3. Only the aspiration towards the fair firmament of supreme consciousness, which has no final goal other than mauna, is most worthy endeavor.

4. Grace will not combine with a bat-like mentality. Stick with
intensity to one [path].

Bats nibble at one fruit and fly away, looking for another fruit to nibble at. They never stay long enough in one place to finish a single fruit.

5 All meditation practices are the means that enable the attainment of the strength of mind that is necessary for Atmanishta.

- Padamalai

Question: How is the mind to be eliminated or relative consciousness transcended?

Bhagavan: The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating
it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from
distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit.
This is done by ignoring the external world and removing
the obstacles to peace of mind.

Question: How is restlessness removed from the mind?

Bhagavan: External contacts - contacts with objects other than itself - make the mind restless. Loss of interest in non-Self [vairagya] is the first step. Then the habits of introspection and
introspection and concentration follow. They are characterized by control of external senses, internal
faculties, [sama, dama, etc.] ending in samadhi
[undistracted mind].

- Talks 24

Words of Wisdom - Ramana Maharshi

Lectures and books are of little benefit and are useful only to
point out the way to beginners.

The real work is done in meditation.


As the Tamil Saint, Tayumanavar, points out in a poem, a person who sits still and silently can influence a whole country.

The force of meditation is infinitely more powerful than speech or writing. One who sits in silence, meditating on the Self, will draw a whole crowd of people to him, without his going out to anyone.

Even books like the Bhagavad Gita, and Light on the Path,
must be given up to find the Self by looking within.

Even the Gita says ,'Meditate on the Self.' It does not say:
“Meditate on the book of the Gita”.

I asked Maharshi why his books are in poem und song. He said
it was easier for people to learn and remember in this form.

Q: How do books help?

M: Only in that they may increase our spiritual aspiration. The study of the sacred books will not be enough to reveal the truth. So long as vasanas are latent in the mind, realization cannot be achieved.

Shastra learning is itself a vasana.
Samadhi alone can reveal realization.
Thoughts cast a veil over reality. and so it cannot be clear in states other than samadhi.

- Conscious Immortality

Mind-Watch

“Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realize that they know nothing”
-Sree Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

OSHO: Science and the Inner Journey: Self-Realization is nothing but shifting our attention from 'Universal Objectivity' to 'Universal Subjectivity' - GM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2u1g1dnKT8

OSHO: A Buddha Will Be Misunderstood (1 of 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nSMi0whFEA

'Buddha hood' or 'Enlightenment' can occur only in the living 'Present' since past and future are only unreal projections of the eternal 'Present'. As Osho puts it life has no other goals or purpose other than 'Self-Realization' or 'Enlightenment'. ~ GM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIA2YMpE8w