2021-12-12 09:16:29
Q: What is the easiest way and most effective way to do atma-vichara, self-inquiry?
M: “To always be aware consciously in all situations of the ‘I-am’.
No matter what you’re doing where you are be aware of the ‘I-am’ in your heart.
This is the most effective practice."
Talks with Bhagvan Sri #Ramana Maharishi
Before the mind, I am. "I am" is not a thought in the mind; the mind happens to me, I do not happen to the mind. And since time and space are in the mind, I am beyond time and space, eternal and omnipresent.
Sri #Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Just hold on to the knowledge ‘I am’, your sense of ‘being’ or ‘presence’. This feeling that ‘you are’ is the God in you, let it be you guide or Guru, there is nothing else to be done.”
Sri #Nisargadatta maharaj
Stabilize in the “I am”, then you are no more an individual.
#Nisargadatta Maharaj
To stabilize in the “I am”, which has no name and form, is itself liberation.
#Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you want to go beyond the body and mind, abide in the ‘I am’ only and understand that all that is ‘I am’ plus is false.
Abidance or meditation in the ‘I am’ is a process by which attention is kept focused on the substratum instead of the names and forms that are habitually imposed on it.
When you abide in the ‘I am’ ignorance vanishes. Ignorance is not knowing the ‘I am’ in its absolute purity.
Don’t regard the abidance in the ‘I am’ as a part-time activity. You must have a life-long commitment to get yourself established in it.
#Annamalai Swami, quotes from 'Final Talks'
The direct experience of ‘I am’ in its absolute purity or the Self is in all of us but the senses make us believe something that is completely untrue. We believe the senses and always ignore our direct experience.
#Annamalai Swami, LWB
“Think of the light of the sun flowing through a stained-glass window. All sunlight is the same, but is perceived as different colors as it is flows through the stained-glass window. Your body-mind is the window which colors how awareness is perceived. But ultimately your “I Am” is the same “I Am” as my “I Am.” That revelation is unity. And it’s already the case.”
#Adyashanti
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