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2. October 1990
the 29th anniversary of my journey to India.
a peacock in Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai
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repost from the old account - bronze statue of Sri Ramana Maharshi at his samadhi (grave shrine) at Shri Ramanashram, Tiruvannamalai, India.
Wishes for every one's peace and happiness! <3
Do not let the world show you anything that makes you fear or cause you to react! Rather begin to act from your own divinity. Know who you are! Always be aware of the Self which is you! There is absolutely nothing in this whole world, in this universe, that wants to hurt you! You have absolutely nothing to fear. - Then where does the fear come from, where do all these negative thoughts come from, these bad feelings we have sometimes. They come from miss-identification. ...
Robert Adams
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He never referred to an animal in the normal Tamil style as ‘it’ but always as ‘he’ or ‘she’. “Have the lads been given their food?” — and it would be the Ashram dogs he was referring to. “Give Lakshmi her rice at once” — and it was the cow Lakshmi that he meant. It was a regular Ashram rule that at meal-time the dogs were fed first, then any beggars who came, and last the devotees. Knowing Sri Bhagavan’s reluctance to accept anything that is not shared by all alike, I was surprised once to see him tasting a mango between meals, and then I saw the reason — the mango season was just beginning and he wanted to see whether it was ripe enough to give to the white peacock that had been sent from the Maharani of Baroda and had become his ward. There were other peacocks also. He would call to them, imitating their cry, and they would come to him and receive peanuts, rice, mango. On the last day before his physical death, when the doctors said the pain must be frightful, he heard a peacock screech on a nearby tree and asked whether they had received their food.
Squirrels used to hop through the window on to his couch and he would always keep a little tin of peanuts beside him for them. Sometimes he would hand a visiting squirrel the tin and let it help itself; sometimes he would hold out a nut and the little creature would take it from his hand. One day, when, on account of his age and rheumatism, he had begun to walk with the aid of a staff, he was descending the few steps into the Ashram compound when a squirrel ran past his feet, chased by a dog. He called out to the dog and threw his staff between them, and in doing so he slipped and broke his collar-bone; but the dog was distracted and the squirrel saved.
The animals felt his Grace. If a wild animal is cared for by people its own kind boycott it on its return to them, but if it came from him they did not; rather they seemed to honour it. They felt the complete absence of fear and anger in him. He was sitting on the hillside when a snake crawled over his legs. He neither moved nor showed any alarm. A devotee asked him what it felt like to have a snake pass over one and, laughing he replied “Cool and soft.”
from RAMANA MAHARSHI AND THE
PATH OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE by ARTHUR OSBORNE
(c) Sri Ramanasramam
from the roughly three thousand photos taken during the 60 days I stayed at Tiruvannamalai, this is one of my favorites. All the animals living at Sri Ramanasramam show such an amount of grace and dignity.
3rd. of January 2012
the path from Skandashram back to Ramanashram. For a moment the ever-present noise of the city dies down to almost perfect silence; only a few birds chirp now an then...
January 2nd 2012
peacock in Ramanashram, Tiruvannamalai, India.
for submission to theWorld Photography Day Contest 2021
seen from the Arunachala hill, not from top, but from the path which connects Skandashram with Shri Ramanashram. Late afternoon light. Fortunately the city has almost no high rise buildings.
Whatever happens, let it happen; whatever does not happen, let it not happen. A mind with this attitude will be well established in the Self.
(Padamalai 109)
Evening Puja at the inner sanctum of Matrubhuteshvara Temple, the samadhi (shrine/grave) of the mother of Sri Ramana Maharshi. January 2012
Of what avail is knowing things
Other than the Self? And the Self being known,
What other thing is there to know?
That one light that shines as many selves,
Seeing this Self within
As Awareness' lighting flash;
The play of Grace; the ego's death;
The blossoming of Bliss.
from Atma Vidya (Self Knowledge) of Sri Ramana Maharshi
statue of Sri Ramana in the samadhi hall
coinciding with a dream I had years before, a few days after this picture was taken, one of the ashram peacocks suddenly descended, flying just above my head to land somewhere behind me on the ground. The puff of air I felt on my head felt like a blessing ...
view from Mother's shrine to the samadhi hall of Sri Ramanashram. In the foreground are seen the heavy brass chandeliers which are lit at certain times of Puja or festivities.
today it is 30 years ago that I travelled to India for the first time. In the night that followed the decision to go for it (seven months prior), I dreamed of a peacock.
I have been interested in dreams and their meaning ever since I read of C.G. Jung in the mid 80ies. So I was in the habit of seeing meaning in dreams, but Jung himself said, that an intellectual understanding is not really important, as the "soul" learns sth simply by experiencing the dream pictures rather directly and not via the intellect. As he did with his patients, I started to paint my dreams, develop them as well as researching about deeper meanings of symbols, which he said can be found in art, literature and cultural traditions of humankind, forming what he described the collective unconscious, where similar symbols appear again and again - the archetypes.
In that dream I saw myself sitting in a small south Indian village, playing a "buzzing" stringed instrument. It was a very beautiful morning, lots of greenery, palm trees etc around, when suddenly a big bird flew over my head almost touching my head. It felt like a blessing.
Some months later still before "India" I received an aerogram from a friend who was just there. There was a printed stamp which showed a bird similar to my dream bird - it was the mystic garuda - a bird also shown in the Indonesian airlines emblem. - I just found it on the net:
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Now, I went to India in order to learn the sitar, which I did during the next five or six years, but music was somehow - as in my life before- just a helping guide. So in the coming years I went on doing a teacher's training in yoga and finally, via some stages, found my spiritual line and with that, the purpose of my life.
12 years later in 2012 I spent two months in Tiruvannamalai. It was on my birthday in January that I sat outside the big hall at the Sri Ramanashram, where the sage Sri Ramana Maharshi lived, as suddenly a peacock descended from the roof top of the hall, and I relived the feeling of an intensive blessing. For me the meaning in the first dream was: you are doing the right thing!
when it descended it flew just over my head and landed behind, I felt the wave of air ... <3
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I met the Swami back in 2012 on the day of my birthday at Sri Ramanashram.
He passed away on December 10th 2020.
Here is a biography taken from Sharanagati, January 2021 published by Sri Ramanasramam.
Born in Rangoon, Burma, in 1938, Swami Ramanananda was named Seshadri. He had one elder brother and two younger sisters. He came to India from Burma in 1942 during the War years as a refugee and did his schooling at the Besant Theosophical High School in Chennai. He excelled in athletics, painting, and, above all, music. In school, he was fortunate to have good teachers such as Rukmini Devi Arundale and the Carnatic maestro Tiger Varadachariar as well as classmates like M.D. Ramanathan. This helped him develop his singing skills, and he once had the chance to sing a song on All India Radio.
After his examinations, he joined the family in Calcutta, and served as a draftsman’s apprentice in a British company that specialized in constructing bridges for the Indian Railways. While still in his teens, he came across Arthur Osborne’s Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge which had a great effect on him. In the late 1950s, he met Ananda Mayi Ma at Ranchi who advised him to go to Ramanasramam. When he suffered an injury to his leg, he was forced to leave his job and came to Tiruvannamalai as she had
suggested. Here he met Hugo Maier who treated his condition with some success. After a lengthy stay, he made up his mind to settle permanently at Arunachala. His gentle nature made him the favourite of older devotees like Muruganar, Swami Viswanathan and K. Natesan. In the early 1970s he served Muruganar during his last years when his health deteriorated. He also helped in the construction of Bhagavan’s Samadhi mantapam and worked in the Ashram Dispensary preparing compounds. In 1973, he left the ashram to be more independent and stayed a year at Guhai Namasivya with Albert Frahm, a close friend who had been living there for some time. The following year, he and Hugo Maier moved out near Nirvritti Lingam onto four acres of land Seshadri’s father had purchased for him, and on which the present day Shantimalai is now established.
In 1983, Seshadri got the blessing of the Paramacharya Sankaracharya of Kanchipuram to take sannyas when the latter was traveling nearby. In a ceremony at Bhagavan’s Samadhi, Kunjuswami placed ochre robes on Bhagavan’s Samadhi overnight and on the following day, Seshadri simply clad himself in them. He stood before Bhagavan’s Samadhi and took the name Swami Ramanananda. After doing the traditional yatra to the mahakshetras of North India, he returned to Tiruvannamalai and stayed for some time at Skandasramam. Eventually Ramanananda built a hermitage named Ramana Padam on the hill-round road near the Varuna Lingam. This came about by the initiative of Moopanar Swami who organised a sannyasin to stay at each of the ashtalingams and their abutting temple land. He gave Swami Ramanananda the choice where he wanted to live since he had helped him renovate the eight lingams.
Ramanananda had agamic knowledge of samadhi construction and helped in conducting abhishikam and puja while interring the mortal remains of Muruganar, Ramaswami Pillai and others. In 1996, he became the principal organizer of the Adiannamalai Temple Maha Kumbhabhsiekam and with permission from the Ashram management, based his fundraising efforts out of Ramanasramam. His enthusiasm for the project got numerous devotees
involved and all participated in the event with relish. He also helped the ARS in its early days. His kuti, Ramana Padam was home to snakes, squirrels and monkeys, but like Bhagavan, Ramanananda was quite at home with his many animal friends. When not practising sadhana, he occupied himself with water- colour painting. His innocent child-like temperament, charitable disposition and great sense of humour allowed him to converse with people of all ages. He was approached by a diverse range of visitors who felt inspired by his understanding of Bhagavan’s teachings and never spoke ill of anyone. Following long months of poor health, on 10th December 2020 at the age of 82, Swami Ramanananda Saraswati attained the lotus feet of Arunachala. —
I met the Swami back in 2012 on the day of my birthday at Sri Ramanashram.
He passed away on December 10th 2020.
Here is a biography taken from Sharanagati, January 2021 published by Sri Ramanasramam.
Born in Rangoon, Burma, in 1938, Swami Ramanananda was named Seshadri. He had one elder brother and two younger sisters. He came to India from Burma in 1942 during the War years as a refugee and did his schooling at the Besant Theosophical High School in Chennai. He excelled in athletics, painting, and, above all, music. In school, he was fortunate to have good teachers such as Rukmini Devi Arundale and the Carnatic maestro Tiger Varadachariar as well as classmates like M.D. Ramanathan. This helped him develop his singing skills, and he once had the chance to sing a song on All India Radio.
After his examinations, he joined the family in Calcutta, and served as a draftsman’s apprentice in a British company that specialized in constructing bridges for the Indian Railways. While still in his teens, he came across Arthur Osborne’s Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge which had a great effect on him. In the late 1950s, he met Ananda Mayi Ma at Ranchi who advised him to go to Ramanasramam. When he suffered an injury to his leg, he was forced to leave his job and came to Tiruvannamalai as she had
suggested. Here he met Hugo Maier who treated his condition with some success. After a lengthy stay, he made up his mind to settle permanently at Arunachala. His gentle nature made him the favourite of older devotees like Muruganar, Swami Viswanathan and K. Natesan. In the early 1970s he served Muruganar during his last years when his health deteriorated. He also helped in the construction of Bhagavan’s Samadhi mantapam and worked in the Ashram Dispensary preparing compounds. In 1973, he left the ashram to be more independent and stayed a year at Guhai Namasivya with Albert Frahm, a close friend who had been living there for some time. The following year, he and Hugo Maier moved out near Nirvritti Lingam onto four acres of land Seshadri’s father had purchased for him, and on which the present day Shantimalai is now established.
In 1983, Seshadri got the blessing of the Paramacharya Sankaracharya of Kanchipuram to take sannyas when the latter was traveling nearby. In a ceremony at Bhagavan’s Samadhi, Kunjuswami placed ochre robes on Bhagavan’s Samadhi overnight and on the following day, Seshadri simply clad himself in them. He stood before Bhagavan’s Samadhi and took the name Swami Ramanananda. After doing the traditional yatra to the mahakshetras of North India, he returned to Tiruvannamalai and stayed for some time at Skandasramam. Eventually Ramanananda built a hermitage named Ramana Padam on the hill-round road near the Varuna Lingam. This came about by the initiative of Moopanar Swami who organised a sannyasin to stay at each of the ashtalingams and their abutting temple land. He gave Swami Ramanananda the choice where he wanted to live since he had helped him renovate the eight lingams.
Ramanananda had agamic knowledge of samadhi construction and helped in conducting abhishikam and puja while interring the mortal remains of Muruganar, Ramaswami Pillai and others. In 1996, he became the principal organizer of the Adiannamalai Temple Maha Kumbhabhsiekam and with permission from the Ashram management, based his fundraising efforts out of Ramanasramam. His enthusiasm for the project got numerous devotees
involved and all participated in the event with relish. He also helped the ARS in its early days. His kuti, Ramana Padam was home to snakes, squirrels and monkeys, but like Bhagavan, Ramanananda was quite at home with his many animal friends. When not practising sadhana, he occupied himself with water- colour painting. His innocent child-like temperament, charitable disposition and great sense of humour allowed him to converse with people of all ages. He was approached by a diverse range of visitors who felt inspired by his understanding of Bhagavan’s teachings and never spoke ill of anyone. Following long months of poor health, on 10th December 2020 at the age of 82, Swami Ramanananda Saraswati attained the lotus feet of Arunachala. —
from Columbia, whom I met at Sri Ramanashram, sitting in front of the samadhi hall, waving good bye, after I took my last photo of Arunachala (see following photo).
"I am vertical...but I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.
Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars,
The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.
I walk among them, but none of them are noticing.
Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping
I must most perfectly resemble them--
Thoughts have gone dim.
It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me."
in "I am Vertical" by Sylvia Plath.
thank you so much for the wonderful poem dear Lara!
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after taking a nap under a huge banyan tree in the back area of Sri Ramanashram I woke up finding this little leaf on my stomach. It must have come from the upper portions of this gigantic tree finding its way through all layers or branches and canopy.
THERE IS A ruggedness about the scene. Boulders lie as though scattered by a giant hand. Dry thorn and cactus fences, sun-parched fields, small hills eroded into gaunt shapes; and yet huge shady trees along the dusty road, and here and there, near tank or well, the vivid green of paddy fields.
that is a quote from Arthur Osborne'sRAMANA MAHARSHI AND THE PATH OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE (c) Sri Ramanasramam. It was the first book I read on Sri Ramana and the sacred hill, back in 1994 and over the years it proved to be my favourite. (even one of my most favorite books of all). You can find a pdf version on the net.
At the time Osborne visited the ashram (I suppose in the 1940ies) the sacred hill was almost barren. Reforestation has started only as late as 1988 thanks to the Annamalai Reforestation Society.
This picture is taken in the late afternoon, on the way back from Skandashram to Sri Ramanashram
(still day 4)
Have a good day dear friends! :-)
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Arunachala Diary day 4
After two nights in the Shiva lodge I moved to Shri Ramanshram (or Sri Ramanasramam which is Sanskrit) where visitors are allowed to stay for three days, that is, if they have made a booking in advance. After the registration procedure the same friendly worker from the office led me to the dining hall. It is a tradition in the ashram since the beginning, that visitors are immediately provided with a meal on their arrival even if the regular mealtimes are over.
The above picture shows the path leading from the ashram to Skandashram the place where Bhagvan Sri Ramana Maharshi resided for many years before he settled down at the place where Shri Ramanashram developed. The path takes one away from the noise and bustle of the city as it winds its way for a while in-between the Arunachala hill and another smaller hill. There are some minutes when all noise dies down and only the chirping of unknown birds is heard. It's the most beautiful path in the world for me, but it is hot during noon; and as one is advised to walk barefoot it can be painful during these hours if one is a novice in barefoot walking.
The view is towards the south, i.e. coming back from Skandashram.
a dog at Shri Ramanashram sleeping at the shrine/tomb of Sri Ramana at noon time.
see also the previous photo!
... on the roof of the kitchen / dining hall of Sri Ramanasramam (Shri Ramanashram) in Tiruvannamalai, this evening.
written in Sanskrit:
Om Sri Arunachalam
Sri Ramanasramam
1938
circling the mountain soon became a longed for every-day routine.. I walked either in the very early morning, in order to reach back home before the merciless sun became too hot (even in January!!) or, like here, in the late afternoon. This is the southern section of the road, just 15 minutes away from Shri Ramanashram. Bangalore-bound busses use this route. It is beautifully lush with mainly tamarind trees, occupied by big families of monkeys.
"To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent there will result good." Quote from "Who am I?" (Sri Rmanasramam)
The Awakening is an action of the Grace. As the tree never knows when its leaves will be swayed, we never know when this breath of the Grace will make us dance like leaves of trees at the mercy of the wind. ~ Master Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Despertar é o reconhecimento do sopro da Graça, esse dançar de pura celebração, esse festejo dessa Presença Divina; isso é pura liberdade." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Despertar é uma ação da Graça. Assim como a árvore nunca sabe quando suas folhas serão balançadas, nunca sabemos quando esse sopro da Graça irá nos fazer dançar, como folhas de árvores ao sabor do vento. ~ Mestre Gualberto (Foto: pôr do sol no Ramanashram Gualberto, Campos do Jordão/SP) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #mestregualberto #satsang #ramana #ramanamaharshi #awakening #enlightenment #faith #faithful #god #grace #pray #amen #knowledge #yogananda #trust #peace #calm #mind #transcendentalmeditation #tonyparsons #compassion #spiritual #thankful #meditation #life #meditate #gurdjieff #noego #source
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Esta Felicidade, esta Liberdade, o Ser, a Consciência é algo disponível aqui, nesse instante, porque esta é a sua Natureza Real, é a sua Natureza Verdadeira. ~M. Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Foto: Ramanashram Gualberto, Campos do Jordão/SP.⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This Happiness, this Freedom , the Self and the Consciousness are something available here , at this moment , because those are your Real Nature, your True Nature. ~M. Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photo: Ramanashram Gualberto, Brazil. ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #satsang #mestregualberto #ramana #ramanamaharshi #prana #gratitude #mindfulness #asana #namaste #selfrealization #selfinquiry #om #awareness #inspirationalquotes #mind #shiva #meditacao #meditation #paz #harmony ##eckharttolle #prembaba #samadhi #silence #enlightenment #buddha #gangaji #guruji #satchitananda
Our meetings are intended to investigate, together, the nature of this experience.We are here investigating the ultimate nature of this experience of hearing this speech, or looking at this screen, or sitting in the bedroom or in the living room or at the computer desk... This experience of expressing ideas, verbalizing words or listening to words... What does this experience mean? Where does it happen?~Master Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Nossos encontros têm o propósito de, juntos, investigarmos a natureza dessa experiência. Estamos, aqui, investigando a natureza última dessa experiência de ouvir essa fala, ou de olhar para essa tela, ou de estar sentado no quarto ou na sala ou diante da mesa do computador... Essa experiência de expressar ideias, verbalizar palavras ou ouvir palavras... O que significa essa experiência? Onde ela acontece? ~Mestre Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Foto: pôr do sol no Ramanashram Gualberto, Campos do Jordão/SP. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #mestregualberto #satsang #ramana #ramanamaharshi #awakening #advaita #nonduality #mahadeva #arunachala #artedeviver #jefffoster #ramdass #mooji #guidance #spiritualawekening #medidate #pray #prayers #mind #destiny #oracao #devotion #devocao #love #amor #liberdade #freedom #surrender #rebirthing ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The Miracle of Life is this Love that is present when this sense of separation, which is the mind searching for something, disappears. When the illusion is seen as illusion, it falls, and we witness That, which has never been absent: Love, that is this Mystery. Now, I speak about this Real Mystery, not the mystery imagined by the mind, but the Love that Life is.~M. Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ O Milagre da Vida é esse Amor que está presente quando esse sentido de separação, que é a mente em busca de alguma coisa, desaparece. Quando a ilusão é vista como ilusão, ela cai, e temos presente Aquilo que nunca esteve ausente: o Amor, que é esse Mistério. Agora eu falo desse Mistério Real, não do mistério imaginado pela mente, mas do Amor que é a Vida ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Foto: nascer do sol no Ramanashram Gualberto, Campos do Jordão/SP; Julho de 2016. ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #mestregualberto #satsang #ramana #ramanamaharshi #bhagavan #presentmoment #selfawareness #openness #instagood #transcend #innerself #rumi #felizvida #hooponopono #meditacion #ravishankar #bestill #innerpeace #mindful #awakening #inspirationalquotes #stillness #mooji #osho #calmness #deus #consciencia #taonismo #kundalini
It is necessary to discover how to listen to your own heart, in simplicity and surrender. The truth only knows this way because there is no other for it to reveal itself. Do not think, do not analyze and do not speculate about it ... Just feel what I am saying or everything will remain the same. Here in Satsang, the perfume is from the heart and not from the head. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ O Despertar é literalmente o fim do sentido de separatividade, ou de “alguém” presente. O que fica é só esta Presença. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ É preciso descobrir como ouvir o próprio coração, em simplicidade e entrega. A verdade só conhece essa forma, porque não há outra para ela se manifestar. Não pense, não analise e nem reflita sobre isso... Apenas sinta o que estou dizendo ou tudo continuará na mesma. Aqui, em Satsang, o perfume é do coração e não da cabeça. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Foto: Ramanashram Gualberto, Campos do Jordão/SP ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #mestregualberto #satsang #ramana #ramanamaharshi #awakening #enlightenment #faith #faithful #god #grace #pray #amen #knowledge #yogananda #trust #peace #calm #mind #transcendentalmeditation #tonyparsons #compassion #spiritual #thankful #meditation #life #meditate #gurdjieff #noego #source⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ All your misery and unhappiness are in your head, not in your life. They are in this illusory and separatist mind; in this mind and its beliefs. Without this, there is no conflict, there is no fear and no suffering. The fear is only possible when the sense of separation is present... You are beyond the senses, beyond the experience "mind, body and world". ~Master Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Toda a sua miséria e infelicidade estão em sua própria cabeça, não em sua vida. Estão nessa mente ilusória, separatista; nessa mente e suas crenças. Sem isso, não há conflito, não há medo e não há sofrimento. O medo só é possível quando o sentido de separação está presente... Você está além dos sentidos, além da experiência “mente, corpo e mundo”. ~M. Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Foto: Ramanashram Gualberto, Campos do Jordão/SP, outubro de 2016. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #mestregualberto #satsang #ramana #ramanamaharshi #yogi #gratidão #namaste #god #zen #love #awareness #quoteoftheday #paradigmshift #wellness #Graça #loveandlight #omshanti #meditacao #osho #freedom #awakening #om #meditation #enlightenment #buddha #papaji #iamthat #nisargadattamaharaj ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
My talk is not to confuse you; it is to disperse the clouds that hide the clear and bright sky of the Present Reality, therein What You Are. Do you know which clouds theseare? The imagination, yourimaginary world, your life, yourexistence, in the thought... ~ M. Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Minha fala não é para confundir você; é para dispersar essas nuvens que encobrem o céu claro e luminoso da Realidade Presente nisto que Você É. Sabem que nuvens são essas? A imaginação, seu imaginário mundo, sua vida, sua existência, no pensamento…. ~ M. Gualberto (Foto: Ramanashram Gualberto, Campos do Jordão\SP) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #satsang #mestregualberto #ramana #ramanamaharshi #prana #gratitude #mindfulness #asana #namaste #selfrealization #selfinquiry #om #awareness #inspirationalquotes #mind #shiva #meditacao #meditation #paz #harmony ##eckharttolle #prembaba #samadhi #silence #enlightenment #buddha #gangaji #guruji #satchitananda
You never leave home, although you are busy all the time, involved with the outside world. Listen to what I'm telling you here. I am talking about this art of dealing with the outside world, of dealing with the external life, but always being present in this silence, in this stillness, in this undisturbed state of Being, that is you. ~Master Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Você jamais sai de casa, embora esteja o tempo todo ocupado, envolvido com o mundo externo. Escutem isso que estou dizendo pra vocês aqui. Estou falando dessa arte de lidar com o mundo exterior, de lidar com a vida externa, mas estar sempre presente nesse silêncio, nessa quietude, nesse imperturbável estado de Ser, que é Você. ~Mestre Gualberto⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Foto: pôr do sol no Ramanashram Gualberto. Campos do Jordão/SP. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #mestregualberto #satsang #ramana #ramanamaharshi #byronkatie #awakes #spiritualgrowth #lightworker #ubuntu #lifequotes #arunachala #iamthat #nisargadattamaharaj #wuhsin #advaitavedanta #jnani #amma #adyashanti #sadhguru #gurdjieff #jiddukrishnamurti #darshan #alanwatts #rebirthing #abrahamhicks #matrix #innerjourney ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Notice how many times you stand up for yourself not to get hurt, offended, rejected, abandoned.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You are always protecting yourself. You use self-defense, resistance, to keep yourself as being “someone”, and when you do that, there is no Freedom. This situation creates misery. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Without resistance, Freedom is present – this freedom that is the supreme intelligence of seeing what IS, of staying with what IS. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When there is Real Intelligence there is no choice, and everything is then a great divine play. There isn’t the weight of the seriousness, of getting it right and being afraid of making a mistake. In this non-resistance it is the end of fear.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ Facebook (Português): Mestre Gualberto - Facebook (Espanõl): Satsang con Marcos Gualberto - Facebook (English): Satsang with Marcos Gualberto - ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #mestregualberto #satsang #ramana #ramanamaharshi #sangha #guru #ramanashram #silence #enlightenment #buddha #awakening #whoami #zen #meditating #awareness #consciousness #nodualidad #felicidade #happiness #espiritual #spiritual #meditate #consciencia #peace #paz #gratitude #meditation
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Only this Consciousness is real: which knows but is never known, which is here and never disappear. ~ M. Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photo: The view from Ramanashram Gualberto, Brazil. ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Realização é a verificação do simples, do Natural Estado de Ser que é Você – sua Real Natureza. Somente essa Consciência é real: O que conhece, sem jamais ser conhecido; O que aí está, sem jamais desaparecer.. ~ M. Gualberto ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Foto: A vista do Ramanashram Gualberto. Campos do Jordão/SP. ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #ramanashramgualberto #mestregualberto #satsang #ramana #ramanamaharshi #bhagavan #presentmoment #selfawareness #openness #instagood #transcend #innerself #rumi #felizvida #hooponopono #meditacion #ravishankar #bestill #innerpeace #mindful #awakening #inspirationalquotes #stillness #mooji #osho #calmness #deus #consciencia #taonismo #kundalini
A great Tamil saint Pattinathar said in one of his verses, Kachi Ekamba Maalai, "Anna vicharam adhuve vicharam". It means the most primary or basic concern of any living being is food. Those who are guarenteed of next day's food do not worry much about that. But for the less affluent, whose next day's food remains a question mark, it is the concern uno numero..
This is beautifully (sadly, rather) expressed by these people.
The occassion is the daily food distribution in Ramanashram, Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu.
I chose the duotone of black and yellow
which brings out the mood of the picture rather brilliantly.
Look at the expression of the man with the long beard.