"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Thursday, September 5, 2019

General Instructions

Sri Sarada Devi

From time immemorial, innumerable people have worshipped images and thereby attained liberation. Does not that count for anything? Sri Ramakrishna never cherished such narrow ideas of differentiation. Brahman exists everywhere.

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Wherever virtue or vice is discussed, everyone present must take some share at least of that.

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One should not trifle with a thing, though it may be very insignificant. If you respect a thing, the thing also will respect you. One should perform even an insignificant work with respect.

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The power of the Guru is transmitted through the Mantra to the disciple. That is why the Guru at the time of initiation takes on himself the sins of the disciple and suffers so much from physical maladies. It is extremely difficult to be a Guru for he has to take the responsibility for the disciple’s sins.

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However spiritual a man may be, he must pay the tax for the use of the body to the last farthing.

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The difference between a great soul and ordinary man is this: The latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death is a mere play to him.

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
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