Master Swami VIJAYANANDA 

 The purpose of life: The path to happiness

- Inner search.

- Serious and absolute commitment.

- Giving oneself an impulse towards the spiritual.

- Listening, perceiving.

- Correcting these defects.

- Simplicity (being close to oneself)

- Praying with emotion, love.

- Philosophy (self-government).

- Yoga is not easy. (problem of the mind)

- The mind varies, changes. It is necessary to make the effort to go towards the goal to reach meditation.

- To awaken something in oneself to find a superhuman happiness, a treasure.

- To help oneself, to go on the path.

- To realise God is to realise that he is in one's heart.

- To see lucidly what we feel, what bothers us around us.

- To be in the right direction to find something.

- To be spiritual, intuitive, human.

- To look for the nuance in things in order to perceive.

- A well-established faith always involves doubt. (Doubt is a test.)

- Faith is tested.

- Initiation: Master - Disciple

                     - Disciple - Apprentice Disciple

- Do not dream of being a sage. (The way is more important than anything else.)

- To be free.

 

- Be patient (Do not be afraid of defeat.)

- Endure suffering, depression.

- Perseverance.

- Accepting the encounter, the coincidences, the guiding powers.

- Action is through the Divine, seek the Divine nature within us. (the atman)

- Liberation is the obliteration of the consciousness of the limited self.

- One must lose more than one gains.

- Through practice, one becomes physically, emotionally and spiritually consolidated.

- The disciple must have the determination to overcome himself. (A perfect correction to find one's spiritual self...)

- Have a healthy mind. (Liberation, complete awareness, joy)

- To get rid of pathological disease.

- Going beyond fear (Fear of the mind, fear of the outside world)

- Going beyond fatigue.

- Silence to God - No duality. All is one.

Silence, solitude slows down the movements of the mind. It allows one to observe, to go beyond fear. 

- One must have question marks to evolve.

- Suffering is one of the best things. It is the awakening to impermanence: Wake up, you are in a dangerous place!

- Find happiness beyond pain, beyond suffering.

- To remove the refusal to suffer. So that in the very heart of suffering, the non-suffering awakens. 

- To seek happiness, to find what you really want, something other than comfort, wealth. ( I have everything but I feel miserable)

- Absence of fear.

- To have the conviction of not losing peace.

- To be free from the future.

- To bathe in love.

- Loving those who appear as enemies.

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Master Chandra Swami

The art of realisation

Self-mastery reveals that capacity of the soul whereby the body is consciously mastered and the mind and senses restrained from engaging in acts which would test the conscience. Thus a self-controlled man is one who is able to turn his senses and mind away from any object he chooses at will and to fix them wherever it is convenient to do so.

 

 

Mastery of the senses and mastery of the mind are interdependent. It is through the mastery of the mind that complete mastery of the senses is made possible, and the mastery of the senses helps us to ensure the mastery of the mind, for it is most often through the senses that the mind escapes mastery and goes astray. Turbulent by nature, the senses of even a wise man necessarily divert his mind.

When the rambling senses divert the mind, they also divert the intellect - just as a strong wind drags a boat across the water. The intellect stands above the senses and the mind and must subdue them to the point of total subjection by close reasoning and right discrimination.

 

 

Meditating on the true nature of the Atman is of great help in discovering and realising the relationship between body, mind, senses and soul. Identify with the true "I" and you will be free.

 

You are the immortal and eternal soul. Why should you, the infinite spirit, become a slave to the nose, eyes and ears? Do not put the cart before the horse. Stand up, take action and turn the tide.

 

By securing the alliance of the intellect, engage in a crusade against the senses and the tumultuous mind, and win.

 

 

It is through self-mastery alone that daily peace as well as the Great Peace that passes all understanding can be found and lived permanently."

"The perfect Way is not at all difficult

If one avoids choosing.

When there is no more love or hate,

It is revealed in all its clarity.

 

 

But if one deviates, even by a hair's breadth, a deep chasm immediately separates one from the other,

A deep chasm immediately separates heaven and earth.

 

 

If you wish the way to manifest,

Disregard, the pros and cons,

That is the disease of the mind.

 

 

Until you reach the source of all things

Your troubled mind will exhaust itself in vain."

 

 

"A special transmission beyond the Scriptures

Depend on neither words nor concepts

Point directly to the heart of man

Contemplate his own nature and thus realise the state of the Buddha".

 

 

BODHIDHARMA (500 AD)