Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

Excerpt from: Yoga & Meditation for Self Healing

Pgs 32-33

“Behind the object, behind the friend whom we love there is the vibration of true inner life with which we are absolutely unfamiliar.  In other words, we love the furniture and we neglect the owner.  And that is the reason for restlessness, lawlessness, confusion, chaos and energy crisis.  

Meditation is the process of going beyond the universe of objective phenomena.  The moment we go beyond the object we also go beyond the subject, because they exist in togetherness.  Subjectivity and objectivity are two poles of our thinking.  Whenever there is an object around us we automatically become the subject in relation to that.  But through meditation we are aware of consciousness alone, without any object.  Then there is no subject in us.  When the object is lost then the subject is also lost.  

For example in deep sleep there is no objective universe.  Therefore there is no subjective universe either.  Meditation is very similar to deep, dreamless sleep.  It is a subjectless, objectless universe.  It is the universe of vibration of pure energy.  When the mind returns from the meditative state, it has the power and capacity to understand the universe of relativity exactly as it is.”

Note:  The above statement has a similar correlation to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra in Book 1, Sutra 48 -

Translation Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

Rtam-Bharaa Tratra Prajnaa.

“In Nirvicaara Samaadhi, mental consciousness is filled with natural truth, intuitive knowledge, direct feeling and knowing, the spontaneous pulsation of light.”

Yoga & Meditation for Self Healing -  Copyright Baba Bhagavandas Publication Trust – 2000

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali -  Translation by Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati - Copyright Baba Bhagavandas Publication Trust Jan 1987

“You are not this body and mind, although you have a body and mind.  You are something more.”

~ Srhri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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“Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.”

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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“Experience One pulsation.”

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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“Wherever your attention is, that is where you are.”

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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“What is for the ordinary man a drama is for God (Rama) a play.”

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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“The greatest mantra is ‘mind your own business.’

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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“Feel everything. Translate nothing."

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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“Watch how the Stick (mind) moves:  I like/I don’t like.”

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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Silent Healing is the foundation of holistic health.  Holistic health is based on the harmony of the body, mind and consciousness.  The whole world is the process of the finite striving to become infinite.  This tension is found in the individual self also, the mind.  The mind is the meeting point of the whole universe -- past present, and future.  The individual mind is the battlefield on which all dark forces and divine forces meet to fight to overcome our problems.

Man is higher than all other aspects of the universe, and his destiny is realized when he becomes one with infinite consciousness, Spirit.  Nature has life concealed in it, and when life develops, then nature's work is perfected.  Life has consciousness concealed in it.  When consciousness is liberated, life's destiny is fulfilled.  And human consciousness has organizing wisdom concealed in itself.  When organizing wisdom is blossomed, then the destiny of human consciousness is fulfilled.  Hell and heaven are both within the mind.  When the spirit is manifested, the mind's destiny is fulfilled.

The main emphasis in silent healing is on your spirit, consciousness.  When spirit is operating naturally, then the healing of body and mind happens automatically as a by product.

Excerpted from "Silent Healing"

by Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati, written in 1984.

Included in

Highlights from Five Decades,

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"Without answering the question 'Who Am I?' real life has not begun."

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

"The process of Self-analysis is nothing but the removal of darkness and discovery of Self."

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

from The Textbook of Yoga Psychology - pg 40

"The more highly evolved you are, the more you have awakening, the better breathing you have, and the more you have life.  When the soul leaves the body, this breathing goes with it. Breathing goes with you, because breathing came from you: it was not given by your mother.  In the womb of the mother, the baby never breathes. That is the beauty - a baby has its own breathing.  Breathing is given by your own power.  Very great mystery."

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

“All items of knowledge, containing images and ideas, are a subtle part of matter.  Knowledge-stuff is illumined by the Principle of Consciousness.  As dust particles shine in light and indicate the path of light although the real nature of light is unknown, so each particle of knowledge-stuff carries its own manifestation and awakening in the light of Consciousness.  Figuratively speaking, it is manifestation of the Principle of Consciousness.”  

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

From: The Textbook of Yoga Psychology ( pg – 37)

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“Meditation is refinement of knowledge-stuff and mind stuff.  Revelation and awakening do not apply to Self but to blind and unconscious knowledge-stuff and mind stuff which are the subtlest part of matter.”

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

From: The Textbook of Yoga Psychology ( pg– 38)

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"Analysis begins with experience. "

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

"Whatever is limited is dependent on something else."

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati, Textbook of Yoga Psychology, C 1963

"The natural way of meditation is not to know many things but to forget everything."

~Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

"The real book is mind. If one can read that, one does not need to read any other book."

The Textbook of Yoga Psychology, Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati, 1963.

"As long as there is no change in the unconscious plane, a student of Yoga cannot have any progress.  The essential part of Self-analysis is to explore the unconscious, to reorganize the conscious, and to bring them into harmony in the super-conscious state..."

Textbook of Yoga Psychology, Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

‎"Consciousness of one's body and of objects of the external universe make us know that subject and object are here but that at the same time there is a great part of our existence and of the external universe of which we are not conscious at all."

~ Textbook of Yoga Psychology, Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

"Meditaiton is to be natural, and to be natural means to be in life as it is."

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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"There is nothhing one has to search for outside, because the world is nothing but the manifestation and projection of the mind.  Those who sincerely seek the truth regarding the world should seek within their own heart and mind."

~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

“Stand by the bank of a river and examine this fact:  constantly and continuously the current of the river is flowing before you.  The present current is passing away and away, and a new current of water is coming into your vision in every moment.  Thus rivers, oceans, mountains, plants, herbs, vegetables, animals, the sun, moon and stars, all are changing.  Light and electricity are changing with fantastic speed.  It is truthfully said, “Even this shall pass away.”"

Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

From:  Highlights from Five Decades

Selected Writings by Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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We know that in reality nothing can be destroyed and nothing can be created.  We can only have exchange of energy from one form into another.  We know that we cannot carry trees in our pocket, but in the form of seeds, we can carry numberless trees easily.  In the same way, if we know how to transform all manifestations back into their respective causes, and all causes back into the ultimate cause, that is Prakriti, then our work will be very easy, simple and scientific.

From:  Highlights from Five Decades

Selected Writings by Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

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