Everything that you feel, hear, touch, smell and taste is maya.
Everything is maya, the grand illusion.
Most of us really do not understand what maya really is.
My trying to explain maya is maya.
Everything that your eyes behold,
that you believe is so important, is maya.
Everything that you hear,
Everything that you read,
Everything that you try to do to better yourself,
It’s all maya.
The water in the mirage, that is maya,
something that appears to be real,
but upon your investigation you find it’s not.
The whole world is like that.
The whole universe is like that.
Do not be fooled again.
Do not take anything seriously.
Turn within, do not react.
The turmoil, the chaos that appears to be in this world,
is not the truth. It is not Reality.
It is something that comes and goes.
This too shall pass.
But your center is God, Consciousness,
Absolute Reality, Brahman.
Those are all synonymous.
That is the Peace that exists.
Robert Adams (Thank you very much for sharing Tobiji!)
Nisargadatta Maharaj (via ashramof1)
From the story of Lila in Yoga Vasistha:
Saraswati said: …There is no essential difference between the experiences of this world and those of another - all this being thought-forms in the infinite consciousness. They are like two waves in the same ocean. Since these worlds were never created, they will never cease to be: such is the law. Their real nature is consciousness.
…This world and this creation is nothing but memory and dream.
(Photo taken by me)
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems.
~Arthur O’Shaughnessy
(Photo by Victor Periakin)
That which you see is not: and for that which is, you have no words.
Unless you see, you believe not: what is told you you cannot accept.
He who is discerning knows by the word; and the ignorant stands gaping.
Some contemplate the Formless, and others meditate on form: but the wise man knows that Brahma is beyond both.
That beauty of His is not seen by the eye: that metre of His is not heard by the ear.
Kabîr says:
“He who has found both love and renunciation never descends to death.”
~Kabir, translated by Rabindranath Tagore
(Photo by Andris Eglitis)
Effort contained in illusory desire on the part of an illusory individual to achieve an illusory goal! All that was necessary was to turn his gaze inward, whereas all his effort was necessarily directed outward. Mind, when turned inward, ceases to conceptualize, and the ceasing of conceptualizing is tantamount to liberation because the conceptualizing itself was the creation of bondage.
~Ramesh Balsekar
(Photo by Mikko Lagerstedt)
Mind is like the sky that confronts everything. Difficult to define, mind is everything, though not the ultimate thing.
~Avadhoota Gita, I:9
(Photo by Andris Eglitis)
There is no such thing as the troublesome mind, no world of names and forms, nor the least bit of ego. All these are nothing but the perfect Self, “I am.” In this conviction, one should abide firmly until one achieves the state of sleepless sleep which is alert, peace-eternal.
~Ribhu Gita (16.7)
(Photo: by Lori Pond)
(Source: noornalini)
Wei Wu Wei, from Posthumous Pieces, 1968
Be Still, it is the wind that sings
I am a pipe the wind blows through,
Be still, it is the wind that sings.
The course of my life and the things that I do
And the seeming false and the seeming true
Are the tune of the wind that neither knows
Good and ill, nor joys and woes.
But the ultimate awe is deeper yet
Than song or pipe or storm;
For pipe and tune are the formless wind
That seemed for a while to take form.
And words are good to escape from words
And strife to escape from strife,
But silence drinks in all the waves
Of song and death and life
~Arthur Osborne
(Photo by Aeioux)
(Source: noornalini)
The collapse of mind as it tries to ‘see’ or ‘understand’ Consciousness, reveals the ever-present Consciousness that the very activity of seeking was veiling.
~Rupert Spira
(Photo by Zbroy)
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