No language is the language of Truth. All language is the language of untruth alone.
-Sri Atmananda
MICHAEL: All words are mind. Start from Silence.
Q: Wouldn’t that make this quote ‘untrue’?
MICHAEL: Yes, all words are untrue including these. However, what they are pointing to is ever-present/eternal, but not noticed when we are lost in mind/stories/imagination/the untrue.
THE ONE
We do not know one another, He alone knows us all.
-Anandamayi Ma
MICHAEL: What you think of as yourself is not yourself, and what you think of as the other is not the other, for there is only ever The One.
SELF-REALIZATION: SEEING THE ONE IN ALL
The supreme duty, the real calling of every man and woman as a human being is to realize his Self, to realize the One manifested in all. Among the countless hosts of different creatures of the universe, the human being alone is endowed with the capacity to become aware of his own Divinity, to know THAT which lies concealed within all the infinite forms and shapes and modes of being.
-Anandamayi Ma
MICHAEL: In order to become one pointed on God and forget yourself,
repeat this short, but powerful mantra throughout the day/night as often as possible:
*BRAHMAN IS ALL THEREFORE I AM BRAHMAN.
BRAHMAN IS ALL THEREFORE I AM BRAHMAN.
BRAHMAN IS ALL THEREFORE I AM BRAHMAN.
(*And if the word Brahman doesn’t resonate for you, pick one that does. For example: God, Source, Infinite-Intelligence, Life, The-Tao, All-that-is, etc.
Because no word is “it”, any word that points to everything and nothing, that which has no limitation, no qualities, no beginning or ending, will work. Keep repeating, with feeling, until the mind begins to accept it at which point it will begin to quiet down.)
Anandamayi Ma (1896-1982)
DELIGHTING IN THE PLAY OF BRAHMAN AS ALL FORMS
“I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants and animals, all human beings, all higher mind-bodies are playing about in this garden in various ways each has its own uniqueness and beauty; their presence and variety give me great delight. Every one of you add with your special feature to the glory of the garden.”
-Anandamayi Ma
FROM HATE TO LOVE
“The positive proof that the aspirant is centered in God is that he ceases to hate any person or object, and that good qualities such as love, forgiveness, patience, forbearance go on increasing in him. When this change takes place in an aspirant, he will come to see that the One Brahman pervades each and every form…”
-Anandamayi Ma
TURNING THE MIND INWARD
“The same mind that identifies itself with the body can be turned towards the Eternal…”
-Anandamayi Ma
MICHAEL: You have forgotten your true identity. Your attention is constantly on the temporary. Put it on what is looking out your eyes, what is ever-present, and remember that is what you are, what you’ve always been.
WHAT IF NO ONE HAS EVER DIED BECAUSE NO ONE WAS EVER BORN?
“There is an agreed upon, consensus reality which almost the entire human race shares. The world has been around a long time; it is ancient. Into this world, you are born as an individual; you grow, learn, experience life, and die. There is some disagreement concerning what happens after that, except that for everyone else, life will go on – until they also die. Everybody thinks they know this – or some local variation of this. But in fact when you were ‘born’ you did not know this. You LEARNED this. Everyone else learned it too and so it is an almost universally shared idea. But everybody believing something doesn’t make it true.
From eternity, without time, I Am, the unborn. Just as a dream begins at some point during sleep, so ‘at some point’ That which I Am appears as Consciousness here, and this world comes into being. I open my eyes: there is experiencing of life in this apparent body/mind. After a certain span of experiencing, I close my eyes: the world ceases to be, and from eternity I Am, the unborn. What could be simpler, or more obvious?
Every once in a while someone will come along and try to tell folks this, but a consensus reality is tough to crack. It is self-reinforcing and has built-in ways to deal with cognitive dissonance. One way is to call the offenders ‘crazy.’ Another, just as effective, is to call them ‘mystics.’ Either way the illusion of separation, the consensus reality, is maintained.”
-David Carse
Perfect Brilliant Stillness
MICHAEL: That you were born is so universally believed that to even question it seems insane. But what if it is only the body that is born and not You? If you were born, how come you don’t remember being born? “Because I was too young” is the common reply. But what if the real reason is because you weren’t. What are the implications? If you were never born then how can you die? What if no one has ever died because no one was ever born?
THE ONE DREAMING
What you think of as your life is actually a long dream. It’s the One dreaming…
What you think of as you in your mind is not the real you, but a reflection, a temporary appearance, an idea.
It’s a limited, timebound appearance of that which is unlimited and timeless.
Time is a reflection, a temporary manifestation of the true timeless, unmanifested You.
Time only appears to exist. Without the appearance of time, nothing is happening.
Michael Jeffreys
Now has no story. Which means You have no story. All stories are for the illusory me.
Michael Jeffreys
THE ILLUSORY ME NEVER WAS
Having a healthier self-esteem is for the person… but there isn’t one.
Michael Jeffreys
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