The Great Event (Surpassing Love And Grace)
“Before some stars appear, light appears. After they vanish from vision light alone remains. That is the state of a jnani – his birth and death.”
“Before some stars appear, light appears. After they vanish from vision light alone remains. That is the state of a jnani – his birth and death.”
“The Mahatma who abides in the Self and gets release while yet alive, his life forces too get absorbed in the Self even here.”
When you do not know about yourself why do you try to know about God? First try to know yourself then you will be able to know everything about God.
. One day, I remember, there was a talk in the darshan hall about the potencies of the avatara-hood, the special incarnation of God, when Sri Bhagavan remarked, without a vestige of self-glorification, that an avatara was only a partial manifestation of Iswara, the Creator, whereas the jnani, the Self-realised man was Brahman Itself.
” Peace is our Nature (Swabhava). Just like a person who keeps a number of things in a room and complains that there is no space in the room, we say there is no peace. Is not the space obtained automatically when the things are removed?”
“Self-enquiry is certainly not an empty formula; it is more than the repetition of any mantra. If the enquiry ‘Who am l?’ were a mere mental questioning, it would not be of much value. The very purpose of Self-enquiry is to focus the entire mind at its source. It is not, therefore, a case of ‘I’ searching for another ‘I’. Self-enquiry is the one infallible means, the only direct one, to realize the unconditional absolute Being that you really are.”