Uradiance: If You Sing

3/05/2013

If You Sing

If you sing to God, whether you cry Allah, Jesus, Radhe or Shyam, I will listen.

If you dance with God, whether veiled or naked, I will play the drum.

If you shake your fist at God, I will say Amen, for that is also prayer.

If you move barefoot and silent through the forest, every step an offering, I will follow.

For the foot is sacred, the earth is sacred, the walk itself is God.

Whirl me in your sunbeam like a withered leaf; wash me in your mountain brook; bewilder the wild place in my soul.

But do not recite me dead men's letters, your ancient prophets, your holy scrolls; speak your own word.

I am not of the past, I do not believe; I taste and see, I feast on the living.

Words must be on fire to enter my chest, or made of roots and twigs, moonbeams, darkness.

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Puja: True Worship

"The Devatas, all the gods, reside within us. It is said that 330 million gods reside in every cell of our body. When we are peaceful and contented, that is Naivaidya, offering of food to the Divine. When the mind is filled with the light of knowledge, then that is the worship of the Divine. When we feel love for everybody, then that is Pushpanjali, offering of flowers to the Divine. What is Aarti, waving a lamp before the deity? It is when the lamp of knowledge lights up in your heart, when the awareness dawns in you that... 'I am pure Consciousness. I am neither born nor will I die. I am eternal. I am Sanatana, eternal and unchanging’." ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Heart Spaces

"Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart." ~Rumi

"When the bud breaks, it becomes a flower. When the heart breaks, it becomes divine." ~Sri Sri

"Come, live in my heart and pay no rent." (Arabic proverb)

"The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire."(Rumi)

"Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart." (Ramana Maharshi)

"My crown is in my heart, not on my head." ~Shakespear, Henry VI

"The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart." ~Charles Bukowski

"The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart." (Aristotle)

"The beginning of prayer is to let the mind descend into the heart." ('Philocalia,' Orthodox Church)

"An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart. " (Ramana Maharshi)

"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility." (Rumi)

"We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain." (Zen Master Suzuki Roshi)

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am. I am. I am." (Sylvia Plath)

"The heart has reasons that reason cannot know." (Pascal)

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing." (Marc Chagall)

"What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me, here, in my chest." (Rumi)

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." (Thomas Carlyle)

"Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts." (Rumi)

Hridayeh chitta-sanghattad
drishya-svapa-darshanam

"One who merges the mind into the heart-center perceives the external world as it truly is: a dreamlike projection of consciousness." (Shiva Sutras)

"Your heart and my heart are very very old friends." ~Hafiz

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." ~Thomas Carlyle

Secret of Guru Tattva

"If you have unshakeable faith in the Guru Tattva, then there is no need for anything else... But doing anything without faith in the Guru Tattva, does not bring any benefits. Without the presence of the Guru, there will be no use of practicing any tantra, spiritual practices or mantras. And if you have surrendered yourself completely to the Guru, then there is little need for all these methods. But if you wish to practice that too, there is no problem... Do some puja, light a lamp before the deity at home once in a while, sit silently in meditation sometimes. Meditation is the best among all practices. If there is love, meditation and a sense of surrender, then everything else simply follows." ~Shri Shri

Secrets of Love

"At a distance you only see my Light. Come closer and know that I am You." ~Rumi

"Whomsoever we fall in love with, we are really falling in love with our self." ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Every love affair is a failure. Your frustration is bound to happen, because your real love is for the eternal Self hidden behind the curtain. Everybody's great love is to know the secret of the eternal and immortal life. Because we don't find it in our so-called lovers, frustration arises. The eternal lover is within you. Once you have found it, you are absolutely content with yourself. You are no longer incomplete." ~Osho (LINK to hear)

"O my Lord, the stars glitter and the eyes of men are closed. Kings have locked their doors and each lover is alone with his love. Here, I am alone with you." ~Rabi'a

"The seeking itself is God. Love itself is the lover and the beloved." ~Nisargadatta

"Love is the voice beneath all silences." ~e. e. cummings

"O love, worlds dissolve into your stainless radiance. Make me your breath, your core." ~Rumi

Look within, approach with all devotion, stay as Heart.

Only adore yourself, worship your Self, and seek your Self, and the rest will be taken care of. Avoid useless activities and pleasures. Simply keep quiet, this is Sahaja Bhav, the natural state.

If you want to wake up, don't think and do not make effort. This is the only way. This may appear as Wisdom by inquiry,
or as Love by devotion, but both are the same. True wisdom is the love of Self.

The supreme Self, the dearest Love, the source of joy, must be meditated on day and night, whatever you are doing, if you want freedom now. Disregard everything else, see only That,
and all will be added to you.

Only contemplate Existence. This contemplation is just To Be.
Go straight to the Light.

~Papaji

yoga vasista text and time lapse video (clik)

❝There are beings in this universe whose winking is of the duration of an epoch. Space and time have no fixed span, both are appearances, both imagination. Because the substratum is real; space too appears very real. Giving illusions of separateness between elements within itself. Time too arose as a notion (another dimension). Time is threaded and animated by the power of this reality. It is the finite space of individual consciousness that creates the divisions in time. ❞ ~ Yoga Vashishta

UBUNTU

"One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnect- edness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality, Ubuntu, you are known for your generosity. We think of our- selves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity." ~Archbishop Desmond Tutu

LOVE IS BEYOND GENDER

"Love is beyond gender. Attraction is only a reflection of love, a shadow of love, and love is divine. Such feelings and emotions come and go: don't give too much importance to them. Hold steadfast to the Spirit. It is only One. Then you transcend all the complexities of mind and emotions: move on to unity. It's only in uniting with the Spirit that the divinity can help you feel that you are not lonely. People, in spite of having partners in relationships, continue to feel lonely. Only unity in the Spirit can take away that feeling of loneliness." ~Sri Sri

Mantra: Science of sound

"Ananda, reverse your outward perception of hearing & listen inwardly for the intrinsic sound of your own Mind Essence. This method is supreme: Turn inward through this Dharma Door, the sense of hearing, to merge in the Transcendental Sound of Buddha nature. This is the way to Nirvana followed by all Tathagatas of the present, past & future." (Surangama Sutra)

"In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All creation was created through the Word." (Gospel of John)

"The sacred syllable OM is God, and the whole universe is also the sacred syllable OM. All that has ever been, all that is, all that will ever be, is contained in OM, and that which transcends creation is also OM." (Mandukya Upanishad)

By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all their hosts by his breath." (Psalms, Hebrew Bible)

Adau Brahman shabda rasahi: "In the beginning, God manifested as sound." (Vedic text)

Shabda gunaka mahaakasha: "Sound is the key to vast space."
"The mind gets absorbed in the Name and derives great peace and joy. Contact with the Name is contact with God, because Name and God are not different. Name is God and God is Name." ~Swami Ramdas

In the beginning, when God created the universe, what was God thinking? Maybe She wasn't thinking anything. She was just humming.

Silence

"Silence vibrating is Creation. Silence flowing is Love. Silence shared is Friendship. Silence seen is Infinity. Silence heard is Adoration. Silence expressed is Beauty. Silence maintained is Strength. Silence omitted is Suffering. Silence allowed is Rest. Silence recorded is Scripture. Silence preserved is the Guru's Lineage. Silence given is Initiation. Silence received is Joy. Silence alone is." (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)

"Above all things, love silence. Out of your silence will come something that draws you into deeper silence. If you practice this, inexpressible light will dawn upon you." (St. Isaac of Ninevah)

"Love, and be silent."(Cordelia, 'King Lear')
"Silence is the communion of a conscious soul with itself. If the soul attend for a moment to its own infinity, then and there is silence." (Thoreau)

"A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part."(Nisargadatta)

"See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.” (Mother Teresa)

"I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart." (Meister Eckhart)"Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing." ~Khalil Gibran

"I love your silences. They are like mine." ~Anais Nin

"Things that are real are given and received in silence." ~Meher Baba

"In meditation, silence is the mother." ~Amma Sri Karunamayi

Transcending Thought

"When thinking stops, love begins." (Shri Shri)

"To remain without thought in the waking state is the greatest worship." (Nisargadatta)

"You don't need to think, there is just awareness. Awareness and insight, but no thinking. No thinking is the secret. We can eat every morsel of our lunch in that way." (Thich Naht Hahn)

"Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any." (Nisargadatta)

"One does not know the Self owing to the interference of thoughts. The Self is realised when thoughts subside." (Ramana Maharshi)

"No one can think of God. Therefore leave everything that you may think of & choose for your love the thing that you cannot think. For God may be taken and held by love, but not by thought. Take just a little word of one syllable, with only a blind beholding unto the naked being of God." (Cloud of Unknowing, 13th C.)

"Thinking is the biggest mistake a Dancer could make." (Michael Jackson)

"Do not let the mind cast its shadow over the moon of your heart: let go of thinking." ~Rumi

"The important thing is not to think much, but to love much." (St. Theresa of Avila)

"Drop the story line, stay with the energy." (Pema Chodrin)

"Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realized this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal." (Eckhart Tolle)