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“Man was not truly seeking liberation All the time, he was trying to become immortal. The idea of liberation — mokṣa or nirvāṇa is often misunderstood, because it implies the complete dissolution of the individual self. If liberation of the self were the only goal,
a single mantra would have been enough. Then why did we develop
sophisticated mantras, yantras, and tantras? Why yoga, āsanas, meditation,
disciplined living, and eating healthy? These were not created to dissolve life,
but to sustain it. Everything was designed
to preserve energy, refine the body,
and extend life to live here, consciously, in the physical body. The real pursuit was not liberation, but to endure life and become immortal”

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Book:Be the Best Version of Yourself: Words of Wisdom to Transform Your Life
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“The unification or “yog” of all humans in the psyche of the humans, that rises through simple human action or karma, with pure nonconflicted devotion or bhakti to the action and the self, while learning through healthy, effort-less effort or hatha and knowledge or gyana, is the king of all yoga, that is, raja yoga. This unification among humans is the real samadhi or nirvana in the civilized society of thinking humanity.”

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Book:Saint of The Sapiens
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“We meditate not just to achieve this Divine Oneness, bliss, nirvana or ecstasy, but to continually ascend to higher consciousness to penetrate a higher vision and purpose accompanied by the empowering intelligence and substance of that plane or consciousness we tapped into.”

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Book:Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely
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“The I-less Continuum (Sonnet 2456) When a 3 pound brain drops on a bigot in its complete vastness, bigotry don't just blush, it's blasted to ashes. When a 10 ounce heart drops on a racist in its complete wholeness, the very idea of race is blown out of existence. Neurons are the prophets of reality, consciousness is the scripture. I don't see the turn of the universe, I cause the universe to turn. Beyond culture, religion and nation, there's my homeland called human - beyond faith, intellect, reason and ritual, existence blooms in I-less continuum.”

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Book:Sonnets From The Mountaintop
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“We find “Nirvana” rendered by “annihilation” (no one stops to ask of what?), though the word means “despiration”, as Meister Eckhart uses the term. I accuse the majority of Christian writers of a certain irresponsibility, or even levity, in their references to other religions. I should never dream of making use of a Gospel text without referring to the Greek, and considering also the earlier history of the Greek words employed, and I demand as much of Christian writers. To THE NEW ENGLISH WEEKLY, LONDON - January 8, 1946”

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Book:Selected letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
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“There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause. And it is all because people never attempt to reach the fountain-head. They are content only to comply with the customs of their forefathers and instructions on some books, and want others to do the same. But, to explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.”

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Book:Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
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“We even, at the worst, reach the state for which Buddhism, in the East presents most ably the case: as in the West, does James Thomson (B.V.) in The City of Dreadful Night ; we come to wish for—or, more truly to think that we wish for "blest Nirvana's sinless stainless Peace" (or some such twaddle—thank God I can't recall Arnold's mawkish and unmanly phrase!) and B.V.'s "Dateless oblivion and divine repose." I insist on the "think that you wish," because, if the real You did really wish the real That, you could never have come to exist at all! ("But I don't exist."—"I know—let's get on!") Note, please, how sophistically unconvincing are the Buddhist theories of how we ever got into this mess. First cause: Ignorance. Way out, then, knowledge. O.K., that implies a knower, a thing known—and so on and so forth, through all the Three Waste Paper Baskets of the Law; analysed, it turns out to be nonsense all dolled up to look like thinking. And there is no genuine explanation of the origin of the Will to be. How different, how simple, how self-evident, is the doctrine of The Book of the Law !”

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Book:Magick Without Tears
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“Bello era il mondo a considerarlo così: senza indagine, così semplicemente, in una disposizione di spirito infantile. Belli la luna e gli astri, belli il ruscello e le sue sponde, il bosco e la roccia, la capra e il maggiolino, fiori e farfalle. Bello e piacevole andar così per il mondo e sentirsi cosi bambino, così risvegliato, così aperto all'immediatezza delle cose, così fiducioso.”

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Book:Siddhartha
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“Ništa od toga nije posebno i novo, pak nijedna ideja, nikakva vizija ni grijeh. Živio si ranije, lovio si ranije, čak si prije svega i umro, a tok se nastavljao neometano, i nedirano raskajanošću, ni bijesom, uopće uskrata neodnosna tobom, ti si mislio da si zarobljen, a stubokom, sve vrijeme, nisi tu ni bio, kao sjena bivanja, sjeti se, gdje li se izbavljenju stremi, ne mora li biti opisana jednako i sjena, želiš li što pustiti, objasni što ispuštaš, čega li se odričeš - ocrtaj, opiši - je li memorija, laž, samo nada u laž, od čega to još zajednički, svaki ovaj dan mi bježimo...”

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Book:Veliki pad
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“Nježni ponent hujeći poja zibljući polugole grmove pri tajanstvenu, istrajno živu, živopisno čarovitu odsječku ovozemnog postojanja, isto nekako vrckavo, nemirno u višebojnom, brzajućem, titravom razmetanju kojim eto i govori, izjašnjava se neodstupajuće da i on je tu. Oko nas srebro stijenja, vrtača, vododerinama se raspada smeđezelena mrtva mahovina, gdješto je prljavohrđava, prlja bjeljavinu kamenja kano je drobljiva kaluga. U taktu takvoga postojanja, ja slušam glas Atre: “Naveo si me na nešto čemu sam se protivio, čemu sam od početka zapravo bio i neprijatelj. Zatražio si me da posegnem i ocrtam ti svrhu. Da kažem dostojanstveno što je krv postojanja. Jer i ono je uvjetovano time, ja osjećam da se ti osjećaš uvrijeđeno, poniženo u neograđenosti samoga sebe, tebi je zbilja i mučna ova sloboda. Ja bih zaista volio, bio bih i počašćen, kad bi ti prihvatio, a zašto ne i sada u ovom životu, evo sada dok hodamo prema niskom suncu, da je postojanje garantirano nepostojanjem, jedno je odraz drugoga i taj garant je jedini okov koji ti se može ponuditi. “Atra... ali mene izluđuje neprestajuća nepredviđenost, beskrajno snalaženje, već mi je bljutava moja vlastitost i oslon na nju, zašto misliš kad bih pristao, ako bih već i mogao, a znam da ne mogu, da bi to bilo išta manje od mrcvarenja. Jedno jastvo rastegnuto između potpunih ispraznosti, pak na njima izgrađeno, dograđeno, uzdignuto prema jalovim visinama, a tako niskim visinama... U jednom životu sam ti o moći pripovijedao, o njezinoj ukupnosti, sadržini koja negira nepovredivost postojanja, čovjeka negira i oskvrnjuje ga, dokle istodobno njegova pojava, sam taj proces da je on tu, finalni jamac je bezvlasnog sljepila; moje već prisuće poriče ultimativni identitet i ono nije neopasno, unatoč tomu što sam sve vrijeme doista samo ja tu.” Prepoznat ću da izgovaranje riječi ako i rovito, razdrta glasa u razgaru misli me prikučuje ipak snažnije svemu onomu izvanjskom, kroz rastinje vukući tijelo čak i tako uz himbu smjelosti ustuk sam oćutio marazma duše i ja opažam pod progalinom kao polazište, plamsaj svega posvemašnjeg ne više no nemir neprilježni, tako posve opušteno, stuporozno, stupidno prolazim zarudjelim trnjakom makije, zuljećim u ćuhu vjetra, svrstavajući nepomirljivost, ratoljublje, krvoločje drzovito kao čak posljednjeg zastupnika svega onostranog. Ali u tom razumijevanju, krvlju crljeno izmrljanom lovcu ja svejedno sada govoriti prepuštam: “Ako se neka pojava trgne i odluči razglasiti da počinje naglašavati počelo stvari, recimo to, makar se time obraćala grotlu, mraku, samom koncu svega vlastitog - zbilja ona zbori eliminaciji sebe -, takva pojava zapravo prelako prilazi stupici kojoj upravo uz mene dolaziš i ti, pored toga što sam ti suputnik, pristojno se osvrćem na bogomračje, zaozbiljno i zatečen kako te zaobišla misao. Neprikladna je, teško prihvatljiva, veliki je pad čovjeka potreban kako bi se vidjelo i sa dna; u veličini vidjeti voljnost da sve nestane u bilo kojem trenutku, ali ne takvu ogorčenu težnju kakva je tvoja, već voljeti proces, biti proces, ja vrijedim onoliko koliko mi je malo stalo do toga, neogorčeno, ponavljam, ali dolično. Želiš izaći iz procesa, iz ritma, biti mrak, od čega sam ja recimo... a što dalje? Razumiješ li da fantazija - a mi znamo da je sve cilik perlica i šuštaj vea šarenih u svjetlu smrvljena zrcala, sve je i naivna sanja - razumiješ li da ona nije negacija niti opravdanje zazora stvarnosti, ono opipljivo i dalje je ozbiljno, i dalje šteti, ondje pak njeguje, uzdiže, sokoli, tu se nasiljem otimlje u borbi za život, ja ne moram biti stvaran da bih bio sirov, i mogu zaista naškoditi i onda kad me nema.”

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Book:Veliki pad
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“God is not a goal, nirvana is not a goal, enlightenment is not a goal, it is not an achievement -- just the contrary. When you have forgotten ALL goals, when you have dropped the whole achieving mind, enlightenment is -- enlightenment is a state of no-mind. And enlightenment is nothing special. It is the most ordinary, natural phenomenon. It looks special because you make a goal out of it. You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness. It is a state of no-action. It is a state of tremendous passivity, receptivity. and you are suddenly at home. Nothing is being missed. You are part, an organic part of this tremendous, beautiful whole. You are relaxed in it, surrendered in it. You don't exist separately -- all separation has disappeared. A great rejoicing happens, because with the ego disappearing there is no worry left, with the ego disappearing there is no anguish left, with the ego disappearing there is no possibility of death any more. This is what enlightenment is. It is the understanding that all is good, that all is beautiful -- and t is beautiful as it is. Everything is in tremendous harmony, in accord. The stars are in accord with the grass leaves, the earth is in accord with the sky, the rivers are in accord with the mountains. Everything is in such accord that existence is an orchestra. Everything is rhythmic, in tune. Existence is music. That experience is enlightenment. And you are not separate from it like an observer, like a spectator. The observer and the observed are one, the seer and the seen are one -- you are it! It is a great participation. You have fallen into she whole and the whole has fallen into you. The drop has dropped into the ocean and the ocean has dropped into the drop. It is impossible to say anything more about it. It is impossible to say, in fact, anything about it. It can only be experienced.”

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Book:The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty
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“Sanatan means eternal, timeless, deathless. These are our real qualities. We are never born and we never die. The body is only a shelter, we are not it. It is only like a garment which one has to change when it is too old. And we have changed the garment so many times. We differ from other people only if the form and the shape and the color and the size of the garment. The innermost reality is the same. To find it, to find that which is never born and never dies, is the real goal of all religious enquiry. One can call it god, liberation, nirvana, enlightenment. They are different names for the same phenomenon. And it is not to be searched for somewhere else, it is within you. It is you, so you have to dive deep into your own nature. Sannyas is a pilgrimage from the periphery to the center, from your own surface to your depth.”

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Author:Osho
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“Nirvana isn’t merchandise for sale. Any religion can sell a paradise, a pure land, or nirvāṇa. But is nirvāṇa a product that the Buddha and ancestral teachers want to sell us? Is it a promised land or paradise up in the sky, which people try to sell us saying: “If you follow our religion, if you become a member of our congregation, then after you die you will have nirvāṇa or the Kingdom of Heaven”? We can see clearly that it is not.”

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Book:Enjoying the Ultimate: Commentary on the Nirvana Chapter of the Chinese Dharmapada
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“The original mind already contains all wisdom and all virtuous qualities in their completeness. Therefore, it cannot properly be said that one has newly awakened or newly come to know something. If one must put it into words, the closest expression would be that it has been restored.”

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Book:AI Sage: Meditation Teaching Method to Personify a Non-Sentient Al as an Awakened Being
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