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साथी: जिन्दगीले तिमीलाई के सिकायो? म: दुःख। साथी: कठै। म: सोध्दैनौ, मैले आफैलाई के सिकाएँ? साथी: रुन? म: होईन, मुस्कुराउन। ************ साला, साहित्य भन्या के हो र। एक पेग खाए, दुइटा कविता मुफ्तमा मिल्छ।

Ramana Maharshi’s approach to the self is through the approach of negation. Suppose there is a stone and a sculpture is to make a statue of an elephant out of it, his approach is to remove what is not an elephant out of the stone, and then what remains becomes the elephant. A similar approach of negation of what is not self to reach the self is the approach in the Upanishads, where the gurus say  Neti, Neti...  not this, not that to reach the reality of the true self, Atman. Ramana Maharshi says:  “The gross body which is composed of the seven humors (dhatus), I am not; the five cognitive sense organs, viz. the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, which apprehend their respective objects, viz. sound, touch, color, taste, and odor, I am not; the five cognitive sense-organs, viz. the organs of speech, locomotion, grasping, excretion, and procreation, which have as their respective functions speaking, moving, grasping, excreting, and enjoying, I am not; the fiv...

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance -- letting come what comes and go what goes. By watching the influence of the tamas ( ignorance and sloth) and rajas (restlessness and desire) on you and in you. Being aware of them in operation, watching their expressions in your thoughts, words, and deeds, and gradually their grip on you will lessen and the clear light of sattva will emerge. It is neither difficult nor a protracted process; earnestness is the only condition of success. How can I make my mind steady? How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind. How is it done? Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and ...

Experience is unreal. Experiencer is real. We have our own set of perceptions and our own set of imaginations and we create our own set of concepts and contexts. Concepts and contexts are not reality. Realty is outside the concepts and contexts. They are in fact faulty translations of reality. They are not true. They are not real. But we make them real and they either inflict joy or pain on us. The experience of joy and pain or bittersweetness are unreal because the concepts and contexts they arise from are unreal. Experience is unreal. Only the experiencer is real. 5/6/2024 Meditation 2 Derrida says "Beauty only happens once". May be rest of the story is about clinging to it, and unsuccessfully trying to replicate it or make it happen one more time. Wise men create the unique beauty in every encounter. Beauty is always afresh and never stale. Always newborn and never grows old. 5/7/2024