This is yet another poem written by the blogger way back. i use to write poems and compose in to the song on guitar and perform among the friends. Since all the songs were on philosophical aspect, one of my friend forced me to write a love song (those were college days, although i never studied in one, my friends did). and this was what came out, also on guitar it came out quite good.
OOH GIRL, COME AND LISTEN TO MY SONG,
'CAUSE I SING YOU THIS SONG FOR OUR LOVE, TONIGHT,
SO COMMON GIRL AND LISTEN TO MY SONG, 'CAUSE I SING YOU THIS SONG FOR OUR
LOVE,
ALLOW ME TO HOLD YOU TIGHT IN MY ARMS,
AND GET IN ANOTHER WORLD,
ALLOW ME TO KNOW ALL OF YOUR DREAMS,
AND REALIZE ALL YOUR FANTASIES,
ALLOW ME TO DROWN YOU IN MY LOVE,
AND GET OVER FLOODED WITH MY LOVE,
ALLOW ME GIVE YOU SOME PRECIOUS MOMENTS,
AND GET THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE,
I'VE GOT SO MUCH TO GIVE TO YOU BABY, SO PLEASE COME AND TAKE IT ALL FROM ME
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Self Consciousness
"Consciousness is always Self-consciousness. If you are conscious of anything, you are essentially conscious of yourself"
Sri Ramana Maharshi
Yes very true, whatever we are conscious of, basically we our conscious of our own self, the self is always involved. To be aware of what happening to the self in the present moment is very essential i feel. Most of the time we are lost, lost in thoughts, lost in the past and the future, bringing the consciousness to the present is what great teachers like Sri Ramana Maharshi wants from us, they are the awakener rather than the teachers.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
Yes very true, whatever we are conscious of, basically we our conscious of our own self, the self is always involved. To be aware of what happening to the self in the present moment is very essential i feel. Most of the time we are lost, lost in thoughts, lost in the past and the future, bringing the consciousness to the present is what great teachers like Sri Ramana Maharshi wants from us, they are the awakener rather than the teachers.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
The ignorance of I thought
* "The ignorance is identical with the "I"-thought. Find its source and it will vanish. The "I"-thought is like a spirit which is not palpable, and it rises up simultaneously with the body, flourishes on it and disappears with it."
* All these notes you are making of my sayings and so on, are useful for beginners, for friends and to answer the questions of others. But for yourself, you know that they are only pieces of paper. Dive into the Self and find all you want to know there!
*By repeated practice one can become accustomed to turning inwards and finding the Self. One must always and constantly make an effort, until one has permanently realized. Once the effort ceases, the state becomes natural and the Supreme takes possession of the person with an unbroken current. Until it has become permanently natural and your habitual state, know that you have not realized the Self, only glimpsed it.
* What need is there to explain the non-self? Take Vedanta, for instance: they say there are fifteen kinds of prana (breath, vital force, the upward flow of energy). The student is made to memorize their names and functions. The air goes up and is called prana, and when it comes down it is called apana (the downward flow of energy); it operates the indriyas (organs of sense) and is called something else. Why all this? Why do you classify, give names and enumerate the functions, and so on? Is it not enough to know that one prana does the whole work? The antahkarana (mind; the seat of thought and feeling) thinks, desires, wills, reasons etc, and each function is attributed to one name such as mind or intellect. Has anyone seen the pranas or the antahkaranas. Have they any real being? They are mere concepts. When and where will they end?
*Consider this: A man sleeps. He says on waking that he slept. The question is asked, "Why does he not say in his sleep that he is sleeping?" The answer is given that he is sunk in the Self and cannot speak, like somebody diving into a pool to bring something up from the bottom. The diver cannot speak. When he has actually recovered the article and emerges from the water, he speaks. Well, what is the explanation? When he is immersed in the water, it would gush into his mouth if he were to open it to speak. It's simple, isn't it? But the philosopher is not content with this simple fact. He explains it by saying that fire is the deity that presides over speech, and that it is inimical to water and therefore cannot function. This is called philosophy and students are struggling to learn all this. Isn't it a sheer waste of time? Again the gods are said to preside over the limbs and senses of the individual. So they talk about hiranyagarba (cosmic egg) etc. Why should confusion be created and then explained away? Those who do not involve themselves in this maze are lucky. I was very fortunate that I never took to it. If I had, I would probably be nowhere, always in confusion. Fortunately, my vasanas (inherent tendencies and conditioning) took me directly to the "Who am I?" enquiry.
*All relative knowledge belongs to the mind, not the Self. It is therefore illusory, not permanent. A scientist who formulates the theory that the earth is round, for instance, may prove it incontrovertibly, but when he falls asleep the whole idea vanishes: his mind is left blank. What does it matter if the world is round or flat when he is asleep? So you see the futility of all such relative knowledge. Real knowledge is to go beyond all relative knowledge and abide in the Self. Realize that the Self transcends intellect; the intellect itself must vanish to reach the Self.
*The jnanis (one who has realized the Self) point out that the yogi assumes the existence of the body and its separateness from the Self, and therefore advises effort for their reunion by the practice of yoga. In fact, the body is in the mind, which is seated in the brain; the brain functions by light borrowed from another source, as admitted by the yogis themselves in their fontanelle theory (that the life-current enters the body through the fontanelle, the soft spot in the head at birth). The jnani argues that if the light is borrowed, it must come from its original source. Go to the source directly and do not depend upon borrowed resources. An iron ball needs fire to come into being separate from the mass of iron. Later, it cools down relinquishing the fire, but it must be heated once again if it is to reunite with the mass. So, the cause of separation from the Self must also be its means of union.
* All these notes you are making of my sayings and so on, are useful for beginners, for friends and to answer the questions of others. But for yourself, you know that they are only pieces of paper. Dive into the Self and find all you want to know there!
*By repeated practice one can become accustomed to turning inwards and finding the Self. One must always and constantly make an effort, until one has permanently realized. Once the effort ceases, the state becomes natural and the Supreme takes possession of the person with an unbroken current. Until it has become permanently natural and your habitual state, know that you have not realized the Self, only glimpsed it.
* What need is there to explain the non-self? Take Vedanta, for instance: they say there are fifteen kinds of prana (breath, vital force, the upward flow of energy). The student is made to memorize their names and functions. The air goes up and is called prana, and when it comes down it is called apana (the downward flow of energy); it operates the indriyas (organs of sense) and is called something else. Why all this? Why do you classify, give names and enumerate the functions, and so on? Is it not enough to know that one prana does the whole work? The antahkarana (mind; the seat of thought and feeling) thinks, desires, wills, reasons etc, and each function is attributed to one name such as mind or intellect. Has anyone seen the pranas or the antahkaranas. Have they any real being? They are mere concepts. When and where will they end?
*Consider this: A man sleeps. He says on waking that he slept. The question is asked, "Why does he not say in his sleep that he is sleeping?" The answer is given that he is sunk in the Self and cannot speak, like somebody diving into a pool to bring something up from the bottom. The diver cannot speak. When he has actually recovered the article and emerges from the water, he speaks. Well, what is the explanation? When he is immersed in the water, it would gush into his mouth if he were to open it to speak. It's simple, isn't it? But the philosopher is not content with this simple fact. He explains it by saying that fire is the deity that presides over speech, and that it is inimical to water and therefore cannot function. This is called philosophy and students are struggling to learn all this. Isn't it a sheer waste of time? Again the gods are said to preside over the limbs and senses of the individual. So they talk about hiranyagarba (cosmic egg) etc. Why should confusion be created and then explained away? Those who do not involve themselves in this maze are lucky. I was very fortunate that I never took to it. If I had, I would probably be nowhere, always in confusion. Fortunately, my vasanas (inherent tendencies and conditioning) took me directly to the "Who am I?" enquiry.
*All relative knowledge belongs to the mind, not the Self. It is therefore illusory, not permanent. A scientist who formulates the theory that the earth is round, for instance, may prove it incontrovertibly, but when he falls asleep the whole idea vanishes: his mind is left blank. What does it matter if the world is round or flat when he is asleep? So you see the futility of all such relative knowledge. Real knowledge is to go beyond all relative knowledge and abide in the Self. Realize that the Self transcends intellect; the intellect itself must vanish to reach the Self.
*The jnanis (one who has realized the Self) point out that the yogi assumes the existence of the body and its separateness from the Self, and therefore advises effort for their reunion by the practice of yoga. In fact, the body is in the mind, which is seated in the brain; the brain functions by light borrowed from another source, as admitted by the yogis themselves in their fontanelle theory (that the life-current enters the body through the fontanelle, the soft spot in the head at birth). The jnani argues that if the light is borrowed, it must come from its original source. Go to the source directly and do not depend upon borrowed resources. An iron ball needs fire to come into being separate from the mass of iron. Later, it cools down relinquishing the fire, but it must be heated once again if it is to reunite with the mass. So, the cause of separation from the Self must also be its means of union.
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote on Love
"Love alone can transform the present madness and insanity in the world - not systems, not theories, either of the left or of the right. You really love only when you do not possess, when you are not envious, not greedy, when you are respectful, when you have mercy and compassion, when you have consideration for your wife, your children, your neighbour, your unfortunate servants."
From: The first and the Last freedom.
Here J. Krishnamurti, points how love alone can transform the present madness we see in the world. All the theories to solve the problems, have failed as we see, cause theories can never bring about a inner change in humanity. Theories are learned be the mind and the inner totality is never touched by what is learned only through the theories. Love is the quality that is needed in human, only that is the answer to the wars and all the crimes and insanity going on in the world. Because a man with a loving heart cannot harm or even think to harm anybody, in anyway, now mentally, nor physically. He always looks for a harmony and peace. Further J. Krishnamurti also shows what love is not? because it is in discovering what love is not, that we find what love is, which is our essential nature. Most of us misunderstand the nature of possession as love, while possession is perhaps the opposite of love as it binds what we think we love, the object of love becomes a thing and love is such a vast process that it cannot be possessed nor it posses. Similarly when we are envious or greedy we should know that we are far away from love. These things are the wall for the love to flower. And when we have the quality of compassion, mercy we should know that we love. Compassion and mercy not just for whom we called are nearer and dear ones and for ones whom we think that we love. But for every living being in general. Even the servants we should be compassionate and should be careful not to hurt them. Even for the animals there must be a feeling of compassion. Those who feel for each and every living being can be called transformed by love and not those who would rob and cheat other for the sake of so called loved ones.
From: The first and the Last freedom.
Here J. Krishnamurti, points how love alone can transform the present madness we see in the world. All the theories to solve the problems, have failed as we see, cause theories can never bring about a inner change in humanity. Theories are learned be the mind and the inner totality is never touched by what is learned only through the theories. Love is the quality that is needed in human, only that is the answer to the wars and all the crimes and insanity going on in the world. Because a man with a loving heart cannot harm or even think to harm anybody, in anyway, now mentally, nor physically. He always looks for a harmony and peace. Further J. Krishnamurti also shows what love is not? because it is in discovering what love is not, that we find what love is, which is our essential nature. Most of us misunderstand the nature of possession as love, while possession is perhaps the opposite of love as it binds what we think we love, the object of love becomes a thing and love is such a vast process that it cannot be possessed nor it posses. Similarly when we are envious or greedy we should know that we are far away from love. These things are the wall for the love to flower. And when we have the quality of compassion, mercy we should know that we love. Compassion and mercy not just for whom we called are nearer and dear ones and for ones whom we think that we love. But for every living being in general. Even the servants we should be compassionate and should be careful not to hurt them. Even for the animals there must be a feeling of compassion. Those who feel for each and every living being can be called transformed by love and not those who would rob and cheat other for the sake of so called loved ones.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
A poem MYSTERY WOMAN
This one was also written in those days when i might be around 20. This poem never got a chance to get composed into a song with music.
SHE IS SITTING IN THE DARK, IN THE CANDLE LIGHT,
HER HAIR ARE LONG, HER EYES GOT THE GLEAM,
HER HANDS GOT THE POWER, SHE'S GOT A CRYSTAL BALL,
HER VOICE GOT THE DEPTH, SHE WON'T TELL YOU WHAT SHE MEANS,
SHE IS MYSTERY WOMAN
SHE IS WEARING RED GOWN, IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT,
SHE'S YOUNGER THAN YOU THINK, LIKE SHE'S FROM OTHER WORLD,
SHE'LL CREATE FIRE IN YOUR HEART, THAT WILL BURN UP YOUR PAST,
SO YOU BETTER BE AWARE, 'CAUSE SHE CAN KILL YOU IN THE NIGHT,
SHE IS MYSTERY WOMAN
BUT IF YOU WANT TO BE MYSTIFIED, YOU LET HER WORK HER WAY,
SHE WILL FILL YOU WITH HER MAGIC, THAT COULD EXPLODE YOUR HEAD,
YOU KEEP YOUR EYES ON HER, AND WATCH HER EVERY MOVE,
SHE COULD HIT YOU WITH THE LIGHTENING, RIGHT BETWEEN YOUR EYES,
SHE IS MYSTERY WOMAN
SHE IS SITTING IN THE DARK, IN THE CANDLE LIGHT,
HER HAIR ARE LONG, HER EYES GOT THE GLEAM,
HER HANDS GOT THE POWER, SHE'S GOT A CRYSTAL BALL,
HER VOICE GOT THE DEPTH, SHE WON'T TELL YOU WHAT SHE MEANS,
SHE IS MYSTERY WOMAN
SHE IS WEARING RED GOWN, IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT,
SHE'S YOUNGER THAN YOU THINK, LIKE SHE'S FROM OTHER WORLD,
SHE'LL CREATE FIRE IN YOUR HEART, THAT WILL BURN UP YOUR PAST,
SO YOU BETTER BE AWARE, 'CAUSE SHE CAN KILL YOU IN THE NIGHT,
SHE IS MYSTERY WOMAN
BUT IF YOU WANT TO BE MYSTIFIED, YOU LET HER WORK HER WAY,
SHE WILL FILL YOU WITH HER MAGIC, THAT COULD EXPLODE YOUR HEAD,
YOU KEEP YOUR EYES ON HER, AND WATCH HER EVERY MOVE,
SHE COULD HIT YOU WITH THE LIGHTENING, RIGHT BETWEEN YOUR EYES,
SHE IS MYSTERY WOMAN
Friday, June 8, 2007
RUNNING FOR NOTHING
This was the first ever poem i wrote, it was written for a purpose of transforming into a song since i was learning guitar and wanted to do something creative, something original, as such things were loved. And it was also the first composed song of my own.
AS THEY DO I'VE BEEN RUNNING FOR HEAVEN,
EACH TIME I ENDED TO THE HELL'S GATE,
IT WAS ENOUGH OF IT WHEN I HEARD A MAD MANS WORDS,
HE SAYS, RUN FOR NOTHING,
RUN FOR NOTHING,
I DID GAVE HIM A CHANCE,
SINCE I'VE BEEN RUNNING, RUNNING AND RUNNING,
I'VE BEEN RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
ITS SO TEMPTING, SO ORGASMIC, SO FILLED,
THIS NOTHING,
SO I'VE BEEN RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING
AS THEY DO I'VE BEEN RUNNING FOR HEAVEN,
EACH TIME I ENDED TO THE HELL'S GATE,
IT WAS ENOUGH OF IT WHEN I HEARD A MAD MANS WORDS,
HE SAYS, RUN FOR NOTHING,
RUN FOR NOTHING,
I DID GAVE HIM A CHANCE,
SINCE I'VE BEEN RUNNING, RUNNING AND RUNNING,
I'VE BEEN RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
ITS SO TEMPTING, SO ORGASMIC, SO FILLED,
THIS NOTHING,
SO I'VE BEEN RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING,
RUNNING FOR NOTHING
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Meditation Ramana Maharshi
Few quote from Ramana Maharshi on meditation and self inquiry
‘The same line you take in meditation will be expressed in your activities.’
‘If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.’
‘Inquiring, "Who am I that is in bondage?" and knowing one's real nature alone is liberation.’
‘If one resorts uninterruptedly to remembrance of one's real nature until one attains the Self, that alone will be sufficient.’
Sri Ramana Maharshi
Uninterrupted remembrance of the self requires much aliveness and vigilance from our part. To be aware of everything that is happenings to the self, the past and the future affecting the mind, the environment affecting the mind, and in the midst of that remembering the self can be quiet arduous. The grace of the God or Guru or perfect Master helps much. Also Sai Baba of Shirdi use to say many times "You need not go far or anywhere in search of Me. Barring your name and form, there exists in you, as well as in all beings, a sense of Being or Consciousness of Existence. That is Myself. Knowing this, you see Me inside yourself, as well as in all beings. If you practise this, you will realize all-pervasiveness, and thus attain oneness with Me."
‘The same line you take in meditation will be expressed in your activities.’
‘If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.’
‘Inquiring, "Who am I that is in bondage?" and knowing one's real nature alone is liberation.’
‘If one resorts uninterruptedly to remembrance of one's real nature until one attains the Self, that alone will be sufficient.’
Sri Ramana Maharshi
Uninterrupted remembrance of the self requires much aliveness and vigilance from our part. To be aware of everything that is happenings to the self, the past and the future affecting the mind, the environment affecting the mind, and in the midst of that remembering the self can be quiet arduous. The grace of the God or Guru or perfect Master helps much. Also Sai Baba of Shirdi use to say many times "You need not go far or anywhere in search of Me. Barring your name and form, there exists in you, as well as in all beings, a sense of Being or Consciousness of Existence. That is Myself. Knowing this, you see Me inside yourself, as well as in all beings. If you practise this, you will realize all-pervasiveness, and thus attain oneness with Me."
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
CALL FOR HORIZON
This version of poem was composed in a song with a rock rhythm and was sung in a couple of rock shows
I WANNA FLY LIKE EAGLE,
FLYING HIGHEST,
I WANNA KNOW THE DANGERS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,
I WANNA KNOW ALONENESS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,
I WANNA FLOW LIKE RIVER,
ALWAYS FLOWING,
YEAH FLOWING,
AND FLOWING,
THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS,
THROUGH THE PLAINS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,
I WANNA MELT AND MERGE IN,
INTO OCEAN,
I WANNA FLY OVER THE,
OVER THE HILLS,
I WANNA MOVE ON,
UNTRODDEN PATHS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON
I WANNA FLY LIKE EAGLE,
FLYING HIGHEST,
I WANNA KNOW THE DANGERS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,
I WANNA KNOW ALONENESS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,
I WANNA FLOW LIKE RIVER,
ALWAYS FLOWING,
YEAH FLOWING,
AND FLOWING,
THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS,
THROUGH THE PLAINS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,
I WANNA MELT AND MERGE IN,
INTO OCEAN,
I WANNA FLY OVER THE,
OVER THE HILLS,
I WANNA MOVE ON,
UNTRODDEN PATHS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON
I WANNA FLY LIKE EAGLE,
FLYING HIGHEST,
I WANNA KNOW THE DANGERS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,
I WANNA KNOW ALONENESS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,
I WANNA FLOW LIKE RIVER,
ALWAYS FLOWING,
YEAH FLOWING,
AND FLOWING,
THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS,
THROUGH THE PLAINS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,
I WANNA MELT AND MERGE IN,
INTO OCEAN,
I WANNA FLY OVER THE,
OVER THE HILLS,
I WANNA MOVE ON,
UNTRODDEN PATHS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON
I WANNA FLY LIKE EAGLE,
FLYING HIGHEST,
I WANNA KNOW THE DANGERS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,
I WANNA KNOW ALONENESS,
OF THE HEIGHTS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,
I WANNA FLOW LIKE RIVER,
ALWAYS FLOWING,
YEAH FLOWING,
AND FLOWING,
THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS,
THROUGH THE PLAINS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON,
I WANNA MELT AND MERGE IN,
INTO OCEAN,
I WANNA FLY OVER THE,
OVER THE HILLS,
I WANNA MOVE ON,
UNTRODDEN PATHS,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
HAI HAI YAUGH,
ITS A CALL FOR HORIZON
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
SITTING BY RIVER SIDE
About 18 years ago when i was about 20 years of age used to write poems, and compose them into songs. Few songs were sung i local rock shows and others just while with friends. All these the poems will be posted under the label blogger's poems will be posted.
This one was called Sitting by Riverside
SITTING BY RIVER SIDE, I SEE THE STARS SHINES BRIGHT,
WATCHING BENEATH MY SHOES, IS THE GRASS SO GREEN,
WATER RUNNIN' GOT, GOT THE SOUND SO RIGHT,
WIND BLOWING MAKES, MAKES ME FEEL ALL RIGHT,
SITTING BY RIVER SIDE
WALKING TROUGH THE DESERT, I SEE THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT,
BELOW MY FEET IS, IS THE SAND SO HOT,
DISTANT HORIZON, MAKES ME FEEL SO HIGH,
HALLUCINATION, TRYING TO TAKE ME AWAY,
WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT
PASSING THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS, THE AIR IS SO THIN,
BELOW MY EYES ARE, THE VALLEYS SO DEEP,
MOUNTAIN PEAKS AT DISTANCE, WANNA MAKE ME REACH SO HIGH,
I DON'T KNOW DESTINATION, 'CAUSE ITS LIKE THE CALL FROM THE UNKNOWN,
This one was called Sitting by Riverside
SITTING BY RIVER SIDE, I SEE THE STARS SHINES BRIGHT,
WATCHING BENEATH MY SHOES, IS THE GRASS SO GREEN,
WATER RUNNIN' GOT, GOT THE SOUND SO RIGHT,
WIND BLOWING MAKES, MAKES ME FEEL ALL RIGHT,
SITTING BY RIVER SIDE
WALKING TROUGH THE DESERT, I SEE THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT,
BELOW MY FEET IS, IS THE SAND SO HOT,
DISTANT HORIZON, MAKES ME FEEL SO HIGH,
HALLUCINATION, TRYING TO TAKE ME AWAY,
WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT
PASSING THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS, THE AIR IS SO THIN,
BELOW MY EYES ARE, THE VALLEYS SO DEEP,
MOUNTAIN PEAKS AT DISTANCE, WANNA MAKE ME REACH SO HIGH,
I DON'T KNOW DESTINATION, 'CAUSE ITS LIKE THE CALL FROM THE UNKNOWN,
Monday, June 4, 2007
Love and Attachment
* 'Love is a dangerous thing, it brings the only revolution that gives complete happiness. So few of us are capable of love, so few want love. We love on our own terms, making of love a marketable thing. We have the market mentality and love is not marketable, a give-and-take affair. It is a state of being in which all man’s problems are resolved. We go to the well with a thimble and so life becomes a tawdry affair, puny and small.'
* 'When you get rid of attachment, there will be LOVE.' 'LOVE can not exist where there is attachment.'
* 'Attachment gives a sense of belonging, identification with something, a sense of reality, of being. When that is threatened, there is fear, anger, envy, jealousy, pain. Is all this love?'
Jiddu Krishnamurti
* 'But true Bliss can come only to one who would take courage in his hands and become free of all attachment to forms, which are nothing but the illusions of duality. Only then can he get united with his true Beloved, who is God as the eternal and abiding Truth behind all forms, including what he regards as his own body.'
* 'Often wars are carried on by a form of love, but a love that has not been properly understood. In order that love may come into its own it must be free, untrammeled and unlimited. Love exists in all phases of human life, but usually it is latent; or it is limited and poisoned by personal ambition, racial pride, narrow loyalties and rivalries, and attachment to sex, nationality, sect, caste or religion. For the resurrection of humanity the heart of man must be unlocked so that adulterated love may be manifested in it — a love uncorrupted and free from "me" and "mine".'
Meher Baba
Avoid attachment to both what is pleasant
And what is unpleasant.
Losing the pleasant causes grief.
Dwelling on the unpleasant also causes grief.
Do not cling to the pleasant.
Let it pass,
So that the separation will not diminish you.
Clinging to what is dear brings sorrow.
Clinging to what is dear brings fear.
To one who is entirely free from endearment
There is no sorrow or fear.
Gautam Buddha
* 'A third motive is Kama, which is pleasure, love, or attachment. For this one neglects things and makes sacrifices. It is the main object in life. Yet pleasure is such that the desire for it is never satisfied. The more one experiences the pleasures of this earth, the more one wants to experience them. This pleasure is not lasting and it usually costs more than it is worth.'
* 'The attachment and love and affection of man are not very different from the attachment of the birds and animals. There is a time when the sparrow looks after its young and brings grains in its beak and puts them into the beak of its young ones, and they anxiously await the coming of their mother. And this goes on until their wings are grown, and once the young ones have known the branches of the tree and they have flown in the forests under the protection of their mother, they never again remember that mother who was so kind to them. There are moments of emotion, there are impulses of love, of attachment, of affection, but there comes a time when these pass; they pale and fade away. And there comes a time when a person thinks that there is something else he desires and something else he would like to love.'
Hazrat Inayat Khan
* 'You will feel restless for God when your heart becomes pure and your mind free from attachment to the things of the world. Then alone will your prayer reach God. A telegraph wire cannot carry messages if it has a break or some other defect.'
Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsha
* 'Let go of your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.'
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
* 'When you get rid of attachment, there will be LOVE.' 'LOVE can not exist where there is attachment.'
* 'Attachment gives a sense of belonging, identification with something, a sense of reality, of being. When that is threatened, there is fear, anger, envy, jealousy, pain. Is all this love?'
* 'In the denial of what love is not, love is'.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
* 'But true Bliss can come only to one who would take courage in his hands and become free of all attachment to forms, which are nothing but the illusions of duality. Only then can he get united with his true Beloved, who is God as the eternal and abiding Truth behind all forms, including what he regards as his own body.'
* 'Often wars are carried on by a form of love, but a love that has not been properly understood. In order that love may come into its own it must be free, untrammeled and unlimited. Love exists in all phases of human life, but usually it is latent; or it is limited and poisoned by personal ambition, racial pride, narrow loyalties and rivalries, and attachment to sex, nationality, sect, caste or religion. For the resurrection of humanity the heart of man must be unlocked so that adulterated love may be manifested in it — a love uncorrupted and free from "me" and "mine".'
Meher Baba
Avoid attachment to both what is pleasant
And what is unpleasant.
Losing the pleasant causes grief.
Dwelling on the unpleasant also causes grief.
Do not cling to the pleasant.
Let it pass,
So that the separation will not diminish you.
Clinging to what is dear brings sorrow.
Clinging to what is dear brings fear.
To one who is entirely free from endearment
There is no sorrow or fear.
Gautam Buddha
* 'A third motive is Kama, which is pleasure, love, or attachment. For this one neglects things and makes sacrifices. It is the main object in life. Yet pleasure is such that the desire for it is never satisfied. The more one experiences the pleasures of this earth, the more one wants to experience them. This pleasure is not lasting and it usually costs more than it is worth.'
* 'The attachment and love and affection of man are not very different from the attachment of the birds and animals. There is a time when the sparrow looks after its young and brings grains in its beak and puts them into the beak of its young ones, and they anxiously await the coming of their mother. And this goes on until their wings are grown, and once the young ones have known the branches of the tree and they have flown in the forests under the protection of their mother, they never again remember that mother who was so kind to them. There are moments of emotion, there are impulses of love, of attachment, of affection, but there comes a time when these pass; they pale and fade away. And there comes a time when a person thinks that there is something else he desires and something else he would like to love.'
Hazrat Inayat Khan
* 'You will feel restless for God when your heart becomes pure and your mind free from attachment to the things of the world. Then alone will your prayer reach God. A telegraph wire cannot carry messages if it has a break or some other defect.'
Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsha
* 'Let go of your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.'
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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