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“Tapascharya, spiritual practice means: accepting the truth that you are alone; that there is no way one can have a friend, a companion. No matter how much you long for it, regardless of how much you close your eyes and dream of them � you will still remain alone. For lives you built a home, you built a family, and then you lost it � and all through that you have always remained alone. Not even slightly has your aloneness been ever affected. So one who has known, one who has accepted that he is alone, for him there is an indication in this sutra: CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEING. Only being is yours, nothing else.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“Shiva is saying: the body is a product of nature and your will to do. The nature is merely the source, the womb. Your ego functions like a seed in it. Your will to do this or that, to achieve this or that, to become this or that � acts like a seed. And the moment the art of your doing meets the womb of nature, a body is formed.
Therefore, buddhas say: ”Give up all desires, only then will you be liberated.: If you desired for heaven, you will become an angel, but that won’t be liberation either. Because as long as desires persist, there can never be any liberation. All desires lead to the formation of bodies.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
Therefore, buddhas say: ”Give up all desires, only then will you be liberated.: If you desired for heaven, you will become an angel, but that won’t be liberation either. Because as long as desires persist, there can never be any liberation. All desires lead to the formation of bodies.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with so many situations that demonstrate that this is so.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ATMAN, THE SOUL.
The first meaning is: in this world, only consciousness is yours. The word atman means: that which is your own. Regardless of how much the rest may appear to you as your own, it is alien. All of that which you otherwise claim as yours � friends, loved ones, family, wealth, fame, high position, a great empire � it is all a deception. Because one day death will snatch it all away from you. So death is the criterion for determining who is your own and who is the stranger. That which death can separate you from, know that it didn’t belong to you, and that which it can’t, was indeed your own.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
The first meaning is: in this world, only consciousness is yours. The word atman means: that which is your own. Regardless of how much the rest may appear to you as your own, it is alien. All of that which you otherwise claim as yours � friends, loved ones, family, wealth, fame, high position, a great empire � it is all a deception. Because one day death will snatch it all away from you. So death is the criterion for determining who is your own and who is the stranger. That which death can separate you from, know that it didn’t belong to you, and that which it can’t, was indeed your own.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“As soon as you are filled with awareness, the first thing that will happen is you will begin to see misery, the hell around you. Because you are the one who has created it. However, if you remain courageous and pass through the misery consciously, you will have cut the crop. You won’t have to go through the same miseries again. Once you have gone through this chain of miseries � the chain of karmas, the chain tied around your soul.... If you could pass through it without losing your consciousness, courageously, unworried; if you could determine, ”whatever misery I have created, I’ll go through it, I’ll go to the end of it. I want to arrive at that initial moment when I was innocent and the journey of suffering had not started yet, when my soul was absolutely pure and I had not gathered any misery � I am determined to penetrate up to that point regardless of any consequences, pain, or sorrow.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“No injustice ever takes place in this universe. Whatsoever happens is always just and right, for there is no human being sitting up there doing either justice or injustice. The universe is ruled by certain laws, and these laws constitute religion.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“Your life is like a car which moves sometimes with jerks caused by the dirt in its gas as if it has hiccups. That’s ordinarily how you live � piecemeal. Your energy moves in fits and starts, bit by bit, it never comes to an integrated whole. It’s a matter of utilizing your full energy � in anything. For example, if you are a painter and if you were to devote your entire energy into painting a picture � without holding back even a bit � you will attain liberation there and then. Such application of total energy is udyama. As soon as the circuit is complete, you become bhairava. If you are a sculptor and have poured into your sculpture all that you have � so much so that only the sculpture remains, you disappear � the energy circuit completes. So when you use your total energy in any work � it becomes meditation. Then the bhairava is close, the temple is nearby.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“So start with the waking state. When you are hungry eat, but always remember that it is the body that is hungry, not you. If you hurt your leg, wash and clean the wound, apply medication, but always remember that it is the body that is hurt, not you. This much remembrance � and you will find that ninety-nine percent of the pain has vanished. This slight knowledge, this little awareness removes so much of your suffering. One percent is bound to remain because the knowledge is not total. When knowledge becomes total all of the suffering disappears.
Buddha said that an awakened person is beyond suffering. You can cut off the limbs of such a person, you can throw him in the fire, you can kill him, but you cannot make him suffer, because he stands apart from all that is happening around him.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
Buddha said that an awakened person is beyond suffering. You can cut off the limbs of such a person, you can throw him in the fire, you can kill him, but you cannot make him suffer, because he stands apart from all that is happening around him.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“How can I know these trees, how can I know you, how can I know the other if I myself am unknown to me, if I am myself ignorant; when I do not know who I am.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“Whenever you’ll open your eyes, you will find nothing but ugliness and misery all around you. Everything looks fine when you are in an unconscious state. This is the reason why you find it difficult to conceive: CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEING. You say, ”Impossible!� That’s why one needs to go through pain. That is called tapascharya, spiritual practice. Whenever one begins to become aware, first he will have to go through suffering. For lives you have created misery around you, who else would pass through it if not you? That is what we have called the karma.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“Has it ever occurred to you that the last thought before your falling asleep at night becomes the first thought on waking up in the morning? All night long, while you remain asleep, the thought stays within you in a seed form. And so, that which is the last thing at night becomes first in the morning. At the moment of your death all your desires will come together and become a seed. That very seed will consequently be the new life in the womb. You start fresh from where you left off.
Whatsoever you are is of your own making. Don’t blame others. As a matter of fact, there is no one whom you can blame. Basically it is the cumulative effect of your own actions. Whatsoever you are � beautiful or ugly, happy or unhappy, man or a woman � it is all a result of your actions. You are the architect of your life. Don’t blame on your stars � you’ll be simply fooling yourself. This way you are dumping the responsibility on to someone else.
No need to say God has sent you � don’t dump the responsibility on God. That’s just a strategy to avoid your own responsibility. You alone are the cause for being imprisoned in this body. One who understands perfectly that he himself is responsible for being in this world, a transformation takes place in his life.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
Whatsoever you are is of your own making. Don’t blame others. As a matter of fact, there is no one whom you can blame. Basically it is the cumulative effect of your own actions. Whatsoever you are � beautiful or ugly, happy or unhappy, man or a woman � it is all a result of your actions. You are the architect of your life. Don’t blame on your stars � you’ll be simply fooling yourself. This way you are dumping the responsibility on to someone else.
No need to say God has sent you � don’t dump the responsibility on God. That’s just a strategy to avoid your own responsibility. You alone are the cause for being imprisoned in this body. One who understands perfectly that he himself is responsible for being in this world, a transformation takes place in his life.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“Breaking through the cyclical laws of physical nature is the basis of the spiritual process that Adiyogi explored.”
― Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga
― Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga

“So as long as you have not attained to desirelessness, as long as you have not renounced desires completely, you will go on taking births and wandering in different bodies. And howsoever different the forms of the body may be, their basic condition is always the same. The ills of the body are the same, regardless whether it’s a bird’s body or man’s. There is no difference in their miseries, because the fundamental misery is only one: the soul becoming confined in the body, the entering of the soul into the prison of body. A prison after all is a prison; it makes no difference whether its walls are circular or angular no matter what you think.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“Shiva says: UDYAMA IS BHAIRAVA. The day you begin your spiritual endeavor, you start becoming bhairava � you start becoming one with God. Your first rays of endeavor, and the journey toward the sun has begun; the first thought of liberation, and the destination is not far off. Because the first step is almost half of the journey.
Spiritual endeavor is bhairava. It will take time for you to attain it; it will be a while before you reach the destination. But as soon have begun the effort and the seed is sown: ”Let me get out of this prison and be free of this body, let me be relieved of all desires, let me not sow more seeds and increase my involvement in this world, let me not desire more births.� As soon as the feeling intensifies within you to overcome your unconsciousness, you start becoming bhairava”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
Spiritual endeavor is bhairava. It will take time for you to attain it; it will be a while before you reach the destination. But as soon have begun the effort and the seed is sown: ”Let me get out of this prison and be free of this body, let me be relieved of all desires, let me not sow more seeds and increase my involvement in this world, let me not desire more births.� As soon as the feeling intensifies within you to overcome your unconsciousness, you start becoming bhairava”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“Down the centuries, mystics have explored fragments of human consciousness. They have found one doorway here, one doorway there. But nobody has explored every possible doorway to human consciousness. No one did it before Adiyogi.
And no one has needed to do it since. His work remains alive for those who have the eyes to see it.”
― Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga
And no one has needed to do it since. His work remains alive for those who have the eyes to see it.”
― Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga

“UDYAMA IS BHAIRAVA � a very intense effort is needed. The sleep is very deep. Only a consistent hammering will be able to break it. So being lazy won’t help. You may destroy the sleep today but create a new one tomorrow. This way you will continue to wander from one birth to another. It would not do any good if you broke the sleep on the one hand and went on creating anew on the other � all your effort will be in vain. So udyama means you must make an all out effort.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“The fifth sutra is: ONE WHO APPLIES HIS TOTAL ENERGY, FOR HIM THE WORLD EXISTS NO MORE.
And if you have made the right effort, if you have harnessed your total energy into searching the truth, God, or soul, then the circuit of your energy becomes complete. Right now it is not a whole � it is torn and split.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
And if you have made the right effort, if you have harnessed your total energy into searching the truth, God, or soul, then the circuit of your energy becomes complete. Right now it is not a whole � it is torn and split.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“Transformation takes place the moment you apply your energy totally. Then you stand with your back to the world and face toward God. One flash of this experience and you are never the same again. Just a glimpse of it is enough to set your life on that journey.
So remember, drown yourself here completely � only then will something happen. If you will hold back even a little, all your effort will prove useless. Until the effort has become udyama � a total effort � you will not be able to attain to bhairava.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
So remember, drown yourself here completely � only then will something happen. If you will hold back even a little, all your effort will prove useless. Until the effort has become udyama � a total effort � you will not be able to attain to bhairava.”
― Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
“भोले बाबा, सिर्� भगवा� नही�, बल्क� जीवन का एहसा� है | पत� है, इनके पा� मै� सब भू� कर बच्च� सा बन जाता हु | इनको निहारत� हु मै� बच्च� सा, और सुरक्षित महसू� कर� इनके होने से |
मुझे आज भी या� है खीरगंग� के उस मंदि� के द्रश्य | वहां पहुँ� कर शि� जी के लि� चन्द� घिसन� मे� जो ख़ुशी मिली वो शायद मै� बयां भी नही� कर सकता |
सिर्� इतना कह सकता हु की, इनके पा� मै� सब भू� कर बच्च� सा बन जाता हु”
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मुझे आज भी या� है खीरगंग� के उस मंदि� के द्रश्य | वहां पहुँ� कर शि� जी के लि� चन्द� घिसन� मे� जो ख़ुशी मिली वो शायद मै� बयां भी नही� कर सकता |
सिर्� इतना कह सकता हु की, इनके पा� मै� सब भू� कर बच्च� सा बन जाता हु”
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