Words of a Master

Bhagavan, Ramanamaharshi!

What a saint. So Today I wish to share some words of a master, or two.

SOLITUDE
A man attached to the things of life cannot get solitude where ever he may be.

LOVE
True surrender is love of god for teh sake of love and nothing else; not even liberation.

I am missing satsang tonight (sat-truth of being, sangha-association with)…so in essence I am missing the association with, or the sitting with the truth of being! makes me want to get up and run out my door. But I need rest for real. And listening with devotion and attentiveness requires health and stamina, deeply. So I figure rest and meet in the morning.

This subject of surrender, or saranagati in sanskrit…is sharp in mind. The ability or inner affinity for dropping before the life inside us and surrendering all our personal notions and expectations takes a great deal of discernment and love. What discernment? Between the real and the unreal. I wonder now whether to even post such a thing, but it IS. What is unreal? According to the buddha, my guru and my own experience: the world, my limited sense of self and the person I often assume myself to be. What is real? That which does not change. The awareness that witnesses this body/mind in the world. Think of it in relation to dream state. (This is the most powerful contemplation in my life right now.) When we “shut down” the sense and mind at night, in essence we are saying…yeah, yeah, I really love all this (my family, my belongings) but not so much that I can’t check out of this world all together. I go to sleep. There is an awareness that I have slept (meaning that the awareness that I am was present for the sleep). In the dream, the mind begins to spin- and what happens? a whole world and my own dream version of mind body goes on experiencing this dream world. I fall back into sleep, I awaken, how do I know I awaken…because that which I truly am is witness to the whole blessed thing. Waking. dream. sleep. waking. dream. sleep. And when I awaken, what is the very first thing I cognize? I am. then, I am awake. This is my waking world, waking room, now I am going to …..blah blah blah. the mind kicks into gear, the mind starts making associations, remembering the past (in the present only) and thinking of the future.

But what is is the awareness witnessing the whole blessed thing, my personality in relation to the world. Not just the world. Therefor, I am seeing this world/mind/body as a waking dream. and when I fade into sleep- another dream- fade into sleep- waking dream….Do I want to wake up: Lucid dreaming in real life??

This is Self-realization in the words of a master. There is nothing to gain, you already are, you just need to realize what you are not!

You have to wake up from your dream to know you are dreaming.

How does this apply in transactions/ in daily practical life….nothing could possible disturb the one who knows this, as knowing this means that all appearances, all others are in your mind-made existence alone. They are not other then the self. They just don’t know they are dreaming, you just don’t know you are dreaming.

In the wake of sillyness of human condition, why not just let all the problems and parades of the seen-world pass by. Love and let go, you know.