So, one time I said to Siddhi Maa… I said, Maa, Maharajji said he has the keys to the mind. So, to me that means that I am where he has placed me – where he wants me to be. So, is it all his doing? Is it all Grace or is my effort required?
I mean everybody asks this question: Grace or Effort?
She gave the best answer in the world. She looked at me and said, “Krishna Das, it’s all Grace but you have to act like it isn’t . We don’t know that it’s all Grace. We hope it is, we’d like to believe it is, but we don’t experience that directly. So, because you think you’re you and I think I’m me, we have effort to make until such time as those thoughts don’t arise.”
Beautiful answer!
– Krishna Das, Interview on Neem Karoli Baba
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Never mind the mind
It’s the nature of the mind to wander. You are not the mind. The mind expands and sinks. It is impermanent, transient, while you are Eternal. There is nothing but Being. Getting into the Self is the thing. Never mind the mind. If your source is sought, the mind will disappear, leaving the Self (Being) unchanged.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi (from Lecture 79; 19 November 1935)
It is very important to speak the Truth. God is the Truth. Being truthful, a person draws near to Him.
Anandamayi Ma
There is no Big Bang… He bangs all the time.
Because; The entire universe is being created moment by moment, constantly. Everything comes from nothingness, comes from emptiness, which is beyond any usual understanding. We are part of an infinite New creation every moment.
– Hans Peter Dürr, director of the same Max Planck Institute of Physics Albert Einstein was also director in Munich, Germany. He went around the world to prove that Albert Einstein was right: Matter doesn’t exist.
The thing to do is to focus on the seer and not on the seen, not on objects, but on the Light that reveals them.
Ramana Maharshi