For conscious people
Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world. Silence is also conversation. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself. – Sri Ramana Maharshi
More quotes by Sri Ramana Maharshi – https://stillchemy.com/bhagwan-sri-ramana-maharshi-quotes/
Everything is spirit, spiritual. Everything is consciousness.
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Almost everybody is trapped in conceptual reality. Far too much for peace of mind and wisdom at least. Why? Then we go back to theory of stupidity aka group think. We humans are group animals.
13 If I speak human or angelic languages
but do not have love,
I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy
and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith
so that I can move mountains
but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,
and if I give my body in order to boast[a]
but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,
5 does not act improperly,
is not selfish, is not provoked,
and does not keep a record of wrongs.
6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness
but rejoices in the truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends.
But as for prophecies,
they will come to an end;
as for languages, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will come to an end.
9 For we know in part,
and we prophesy in part.
10 But when the perfect comes,
the partial will come to an end.
11 When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put aside childish things.
12 For now we see indistinctly,[b] as in a mirror,[c]
but then face to face.
Now I know in part,
but then I will know fully,
as I am fully known.
13 Now these three remain:
faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.
Alertness, awareness, mindfulness. What am I should not be answered verbally. One should just meditate on "what am I".
Matthew 17:21
However this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”
Luke 17:21
Neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there. For lo, the kingdom of God is within you.
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Luke 17:20-21
Is it consciousness, Atman, something beyond words and human understanding, love? “Man know thyself.” Psalm 45:10 “Be still and know that I am god; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Yogananda did say in the book The Second Coming of Christ;
“In the human consciousness, the soul experiences itself as identified with the physical body, name, titles, possessions, nationality, and so forth. In the subconscious state, the soul cognizes itself as the restless power of dreams or as the formless peace of deep sleep. In the superconscious state, the soul feels itself as undiluted, formless, ever-new joy. In the state of Christ Consciousness, the soul, emerging from its three dead bodies, feels the Christ Intelligence in all Creation as the conscious, supreme, princely intelligence guiding all other kingly powerful forces which govern the earth and all matter.”