{"id":497,"date":"2022-06-17T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/?page_id=497"},"modified":"2022-07-08T07:33:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T07:33:50","slug":"elementor-497","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/?page_id=497","title":{"rendered":"Elementor #497"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"497\" class=\"elementor elementor-497\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_ma_el_bg_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4f97c36 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"4f97c36\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_ma_el_bg_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-54abcd0 jltma-glass-effect-no\" data-id=\"54abcd0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd5bfbd jltma-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd5bfbd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:table --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:table --><!-- wp:table --><\/p>\n<figure>\n<table style=\"height: 23px;\" width=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td data-align=\"center\">\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":313,\"width\":458,\"height\":225,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"is-style-rounded\"} --><\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:table --><!-- \/wp:table --><!-- wp:table --><\/p>\n<figure>\n<table style=\"height: 78px;\" width=\"162\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td data-align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">RAMANA PADA VANDANAM\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:table --><!-- wp:image {\"align\":\"center\",\"id\":314,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"className\":\"is-style-rounded\"} --><\/p>\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/anandavakya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"225\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:table --><\/p>\n<figure>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h4>Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent. Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Let\u00a0come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.<\/h4>\n<h4>Who\u00a0am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain\u00a0will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also\u00a0will vanish with death.<\/h4>\n<h4>No\u00a0one succeeds without effort&#8230; Those who succeed owe their success to\u00a0perseverance.<\/h4>\n<h4>Our\u00a0own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.<\/h4>\n<h4>The\u00a0degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a\u00a0single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.<\/h4>\n<h4>Devotion\u00a0\u00a0complete culminates in knowledge supreme.<\/h4>\n<h4>The\u00a0greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature.<\/h4>\n<h4>Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are\u00a0his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.<\/h4>\n<h4>Time\u00a0and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and<\/h4>\n<h4>changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for\u00a0us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and\u00a0which always exists.<\/h4>\n<h4>Doubts\u00a0never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like\u00a0removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped\u00a0off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.<\/h4>\n<h4>The\u00a0Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures\u00a0move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the\u00a0picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely\u00a0pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.<\/h4>\n<h4>Without\u00a0understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?<\/h4>\n<h4>Mind\u00a0is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and\u00a0perfect.\u00a0\u00a0Later you take on limitations and become the mind.<\/h4>\n<h4>If\u00a0there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the<\/h4>\n<h4>second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not\u00a0rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.<\/h4>\n<h4>It\u00a0is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he\u00a0accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.<\/h4>\n<h4>Silence\u00a0is also conversation.<\/h4>\n<h4>Every\u00a0moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.<\/h4>\n<h4>There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.<\/h4>\n<h4>Time\u00a0is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks\u00a0like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is<br \/>existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of\u00a0Knowledge.<\/h4>\n<h4>All\u00a0activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time\u00a0of conception.<\/h4>\n<h4>Silence\u00a0is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it\u00a0cannot be touched by death.<\/h4>\n<h4>I\u00a0have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call\u00a0guru. He need not be in a human form.<\/h4>\n<h4>Suffering turns men towards their creator.<\/h4>\n<h4>When\u00a0there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is\u00a0meditation.<\/h4>\n<h4>The\u00a0mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it\u00a0becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.<\/h4>\n<h4>Self-reform\u00a0automatically brings about social reform.<\/h4>\n<h4>That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which\u00a0always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.<\/h4>\n<h4>The\u00a0Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self- . Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The<br \/>very thought of thinking will end in bondage.<\/h4>\n<h4>Even\u00a0as one and the same person is called by different names according to the\u00a0different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different\u00a0 : mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the\u00a0difference in the modes &#8211; and not because of any real difference.<\/h4>\n<h4>If\u00a0you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner\u00a0self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.<\/h4>\n<h4>Concentration\u00a0of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union\u00a0\u00a0of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new.\u00a0It must exist even now, and it does exist.<\/h4>\n<h4>God\u00a0has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.<\/h4>\n<h4>Think\u00a0of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires\u00a0disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a\u00a0very long time indeed.<\/h4>\n<h4>There\u00a0is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind,\u00a0like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both;\u00a0because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.<\/h4>\n<h4>All\u00a0bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results\u00a0by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is\u00a0free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.<\/h4>\n<h4>For\u00a0those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen\u00a0merely as a bondage causing imagination.\u00a0Like<\/h4>\n<h4>The practice of breath control, meditation\u00a0on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but\u00a0aids for rendering the mind quiescent.<\/h4>\n<h4>Even\u00a0the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is\u00a0subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual\u00a0soul, is subtler than the mind.<\/h4>\n<h4>You\u00a0need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts,\u00a0that is all.<\/h4>\n<h4>One\u00a0must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.<\/h4>\n<h4>The\u00a0best way to meditate is through meditation itself<\/h4>\n<h4>I\u00a0\u00a0am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.<\/h4>\n<h4>It\u00a0is every intelligent man&#8217;s experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner\u00a0or later.<\/h4>\n<h4>As\u00a0instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they\u00a0are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is\u00a0inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to\u00a0the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind&#8217;s nature is to remain pure like ether.<\/h4>\n<h4>Experiences\u00a0such as, &#8216;I went; I came; I was; I did,&#8217; come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness &#8216;I&#8217; is the subject of\u00a0those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one&#8217;s true\u00a0nature.<\/h4>\n<h4>The\u00a0means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should\u00a0gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of\u00a0mental modes that is natural and helpful.<\/h4>\n<h4>Society\u00a0is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs\u00a0help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite\u00a0with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action&#8230; One may see\u00a0to the good of one&#8217;s own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.<\/h4>\n<h4>Consciousness\u00a0is indeed always with us. 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