
07/06/2024
"If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So, first find peace within, and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace.
That ocean of eternal peace is you. What is the difficulty that we suffer from? It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.
What is purification of the mind? No thought. This thought-less mind, sattvic mind, no mind, can be called Consciousness itself. Self itself.
Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don’t give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
The only way is to look within. Be Silent by directing your mind toward its Source. Mind directed toward objects of the senses is suffering. The same mind must investigate its Source; the “I” must face its Source, the Self.
This is true austerity, true practice, and true meditation.. This is home, the holy company of the Self.
Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Just get rid of the concept, “I am the body, separate from the Source.” You return to what you always were.
You have to be very careful, to be vigilant, to see what is coming from the mind, and to see the happiness that is coming from the Self.
Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don’t give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
The Self alone can give you happiness. all happiness is from the Self. All trouble, sorrow and suffering is from the mind.
When we use the word “I”, there is ego. Then there is the mind, then there is a body, then there are senses, then there are sense objects, and then all manifestation arises.
Meditation is to effortlessly turn the mind toward that energy which energizes mind.
Self is what you are. You are That Fathomlessness in which experience and concepts appear. Self is the Moment that has no coming or going. It is the Heart, Atman, Emptiness. It shines to Itself, by Itself, in Itself.
Self is what gives breath to Life. You need not search for It, It is Here. You are THAT through which you would search. You are what you are looking for! And That is All it is.
You are the unchangeable Awareness in which all activity takes place.
Abide as the Self and do your duties in the world without being attached to them in any way.
It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.
Stillness of mind comes from giving up all attachments except [for connection] to Self.”
Papaji (Sri H. W. L. Poonja) - 'This' - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpnx5J0hGHg&t=324s