Excerpts from This
You are Consciousness,
not one who is conscious.
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The Teacher will not be recognized
by the diamonds on his head
or by the number of students he has.
Know the Teacher to be the One
whose presence gives you Peace
and removes all craving, attachment and desire.
The Teacher is one who knows the Truth
and can transmit this Truth to a humble one
by look, by touch, by thought,
or, as Arunachala does, by Silence.
This Silence is the Light that does not move.
The true Teacher has no students,
all Being and only Silence speaks.
The perfect Teacher has no teachings
because he knows that you are Free already.
So the true Teacher's non-teaching
is that there is no Teacher, no student, no teaching,
and that Nothing ever existed.
This Teaching must be without words
and must land in your Heart.
If you try to understand, it will only land in your head.
The Teaching can only be given by the Eternal
and received by the Eternal.
The Eternal has nothing to give the Eternal,
so there is no disciple and no teacher.
You are already THAT,
not the physical, emotional or mental.
Leave beside these forms and find out what is left,
and what it needs.
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Satsang is the association with Sat, the Truth.
Keeping association only with That
which will not destroy Love is Satsang.
Being Truth, Being with the Wise is Satsang.
It has no past, no future, no this, no that,
just your own nature, a field of Beauty.
The One who comes to Satsang is Happy;
even gods will take a human form in order to attend.
The Guru's part in Satsang is
to show you there are no parts.
When you do not inquire you are in parts
and you become that which can be destroyed.
Satsang in the human body is so precious and rare,
don't waste it by asking, "What is this and that."
Just humbly ask, "WHO AM I?"
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Look Within,
Approach with all Devotion,
Stay as Heart.
Only Adore yourself,
worship your Self, and seek your Self,
the rest will be taken care of.
Avoid useless activities and pleasures
and simply Keep Quiet.
This is the natural state.
If you want to wake up,
don't think and do not make effort.
This is the only way.
This may appear as Wisdom with inquiry
or as Love by devotion, but both are the same.
True Wisdom is the Love of Self.
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You are this Moment,
do not attach your mind to any direction.
No practices, no past, no future,
not even the Emptiness of your Heart, not even space.
To be free forever introduce yourself to this Moment.
This Moment is always this Now, It will not change.
It is Freedom, free from mind and concepts,
and is your fundamental birthright.
The best use of this Moment is to drown in It.
Keep Quiet, you are Inside of the inside.
Do not dwell anywhere and make no effort.
The concept of effort and practice is bondage.
Just Keep Quiet, wherever you are, just Keep Quiet.
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Vigliance is keeping aware of what enters the mind-house.
Do not fight with the arising of thoughts,
but simply watch them.
Do not disturb your mind, and do not divide it.
But even this watching is through mind,
so then strike at the root of the illusion
by inquiring, "Who is watching the thoughts?"
Otherwise a "doer" survives as a watcher and this is mind.
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What changes is not Real
and what is Real cannot change.
You are that Secret, that Purity
beyond change and description.
But touch the "I" and you are polluted with pride.
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You are the Light of Knowledge,
the One who gave the concept of creation to the creator.
Forget what can be forgotten and know yourself
to be that which can never be forgotten.
You are the Substratum on which everything moves,
let it move.
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Before a wave rises it is Ocean,
before desire moves it is Emptiness.
Destroy craving and bondage
by identifying as Experiencing, not experience,
as Seeing, not the seer.
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