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Life in human form fails in its purpose if it ends without the Supreme Realization. #Swami #Tapovan #Maharaj #Chinmaya #Mission

This universe has not been created by any extra-cosmic God, nor is it the work of any outside genius. It is self-creating, self-dissolving, self-manifesting, One Infinite Existence, the Brahman. - Swami Vivekananda {CWSV-3 : Lectures From Colombo to Almora : The Vedanta} #VivekanandaKendra #Spirituality

Only when the ego is destroyed does one become a Devotee; only when the ego is destroyed does one become a Jnani; only when the ego is destroyed does one become God; and only when the ego is destroyed does Grace blaze forth. ~ Ramana Maharshi Guru Vachaka Kovai

“When your inner life deepens through the practice of meditation, alignment comes naturally and eventually becomes the very character of your presence. At its fullest potential, spiritual life has no off switch.” ~ Daaji

No other way to succeed than to draw mind back every time it turns outwards and fix it in the Self. No need for meditation, mantra, japa or anything because these are our real nature. All that is needed is to give up thinking of objects other than the Self. Sri #Ramana #Maharshi

Meditation is the oxygen of your soul. Meditation nourishes the soul. Meditation connects you to yourSelf by yourSelf. #SNtial_Gyan #spiritual #gyan #spirituality #knowledge #truth #wisdom #quote #quotes #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #DailyQuote #SpiritualQuotes

As rivers flow into the sea and in so doing lose name and form, so even the wise man, freed from name and form, attains the Supreme Being, the Self-luminous, the Infinite. He who knows Brahman becomes Brahman. ~ Mundaka Upanishad

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Come to India. Work with us. Design in India. Develop in India. And create solutions for the world. @BharatInnov2026

You are the infinite consciousness, which is free from all names and forms, and which is untouched by the modifications of the mind. Remain in that state, free from anxiety. ~ Yoga Vasishtha

Do not waste your life in roaming outside, pursuing wonders and courting enjoyments; to know the Self through Grace, and to thus abide firmly in the Heart, is alone worthwhile. ~ Ramana Maharshi Guru Vachaka Kovai

He the Hookah and I - Shri P. Rajagopalachari - Rev. #Chariji's Q&A Talk in July 2007. [#HTHAI] Watch: youtu.be/_qNWpOSBzaM The Sahaj Marg facebook.com/groups/thesahaj… YouTube: youtu.be/_qNWpOSBzaM

Our kingdom is inside us. It is an infinite kingdom. It can hold infinite treasures within it. Rev. #Chariji Shri #ParthasarathiRajagopalachari #SahajMarg #Sahaj #Marg #SRCM Shri #Ram #Chandra #Mission #spirituality #spiritual #gyan #truth #quote #SpiritualQuotes #yoga #RajYoga

As flowing rivers disappear into the sea, losing their names and forms, so a wise man, freed from name and form, attains the Purusha, who is greater than the Great. #AdiShankaracharya #AdiShankara

You cannot get rid of your shadow, but you need not believe that it is who you really are. "When the nature of the mind is watched uninterruptedly, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. This is the direct path for all". ~ Sri #Ramana $Maharshi Verse 17, Updesha Saram

THE FILM OF CREATION AND DISSOLUTION Every moment [i.e., many millions of times in a second] each atom [in the universe] is destroyed and newly created. Since this is going on unceasingly, it appears as if they [the objects of the universe] are the same [objects] existing continuously. Know thus. - 'Guru Vachaka Kovai': 667 Sadhu Om: "Though each frame of a cinema film which is projected onto the screen consists of only one unmoving picture, since many such frames are projected in a second and since the speed of their projection is faster than the grasping power of our eyes, it seems to us as if the film contains one continuously moving picture. Likewise, since everything in this universe, which is under the sway of the five functions of God, is created and destroyed by the inexpressible power of God many crores of times in a second, and since the speed with which they are created and destroyed is faster than the grasping power of our mind [that is, since our mind is unable to grasp the interval between each destruction and the subsequent new creation], it seems to us as if the universe is existing continuously. "It will be useful here to note what is in fact meant in this verse by the creation and destruction of each atom of the universe. In verse 6 of Ulladu Narpadu Sri Bhagavan asks, "Can there be a world apart from the mind?", and in Who am I? He says, "Other than thoughts, there is no such thing as the world". Therefore, since the universe is nothing but thoughts, the rising of thoughts is the creation of the universe and the setting of thoughts is its destruction. All thoughts, which are nothing but second and third persons, rise and set only to the mind, which is nothing but the first thought, ‘I am the body’. Therefore, since all other thoughts can rise only after the mind rises, and since they must set when the mind sets, their rising and setting must necessarily be even more rapid than the rising and setting of the mind, the thought ‘I’, which, through the inexpressible and wonderful power of God, itself rises and sets many crores of times in a second. But since the mind is so fickle that it is unable to grasp or cognize even its own rising and setting, how can it grasp the rising and setting of other thoughts? It is because the mind is thus unable to grasp the speed with which other thoughts rise and set, that it appears to the mind as if there is existing continuously something as the universe. Only when the mind scrutinizes itself, the first person, with a keen and subtle attention, and only when it is thereby able to cognize its own rising and setting, will it cease to rise and instead become motionless [achala]. And only in that state of motionlessness, in which the mind is no longer a mind but Self, will it be able to understand the rising and setting of the world, the second and third person thoughts, and will it have the supreme power not to allow any thought to rise. It is because Bhagavan Ramana is such a One who ever remains firmly established in Self as Self, that He was able to discover and thus reveal the truth about creation, sustenance destruction and so on." @nandhiji

A few of you have mentioned that my posts can be quite long. I accept the charge! True history & scientific methods require depth; you cannot bust centuries of myths in a 10 word soundbite. However, I respect your time. From now on, I will provide the Crux right at the start. If it grips you, stay for the full breakdown. If not, feel free to skip & scroll further! Think refined white sugar was a Western invention/imported from China (just because we call it Cheeni)? It is a case of identity theft. - In 350 CE, Gupta-era Indian chemists invented the exact pH-balancing technology needed to turn raw cane juice into white crystals (Śarkarā). - In 647 CE, Chinese Emperor Taizong sent a state mission to Bihar specifically to learn this chemical process. - We call it Cheeni today only because China later mass-produced a specific ultra-white variety & traded it back to us. Here is the complete breakdown: The English word Sugar, the Spanish Azúcar, the Arabic Sukkar & the Latin Saccharum all track back to a single linguistic ancestor: the Sanskrit word Śarkarā (which originally meant gravel/grit, referring to the look of sugar crystals). If the West/the Middle East/China invented refined sugar, why are they all using a Sanskrit word to describe it? Before the 4th century CE, the world only knew how to boil sugarcane juice down into a sticky, dark, unrefined mass (what we call Gur/Jaggery). Keeping it liquid/semi-solid meant it spoiled quickly & could not be transported across vast distances. During the Gupta Dynasty (c. 350 CE), Indian scholars turned food into chemistry. They discovered that by adding specific alkaline clarifying agents like lime/plant ash to the boiling cane juice, they could alter its pH level. This caused the impurities to separate & float to the top to be skimmed off. Once cooled, the pure sucrose did something miraculous: it precipitated & crystallized into hard, white granules. So why do we call it Cheeni today? Let us look at the imperial records of the Chinese Tang Dynasty. In 647 CE, Emperor Taizong sent an official state mission to Magadha (modern day Bihar). Their goal was not political, it was industrial espionage. They came to study the scientific methods of sugar refining. The Chinese took this tech back, optimized it over the centuries for mass factory production & eventually exported a specific variety of ultra-white sugar back to India. Because it came via Chinese traders, locals began calling it Cheeni. China did not invent sugar refining; they went to university in Bihar to learn it. The next time you stir a spoonful of sugar into your milk, remember: you are not using a Western/Chinese invention. You are witnessing a 1000s yr old triumph of Indian chemistry.

NGC2244 Rosette nebula in monoceros constellation by @astrofalls .