The Divine Treasure

There is nothing outside ourselves. Everything like planes, heavens, universes, earth, beings and things are all within us. The Master gives the aspirant nothing that is not already latent in him; he is only instrumental in rousing the aspirant to the awareness of the divine treasure within him. He shows us the treasure that is already there.

Meher Baba in Lord Meher, Vol. 2, page 475

                             

Weep for God

Live in the world but, in order to realize God, hold fast to His Lotus Feet with one hand and with the other do your duties. When you get a respite from your duties cling to God’s Lotus Feet with both hands -- live in solitude and meditate on Him and serve Him ceaselessly.

Pray to God in secret and with yearning, that you may have that passionate attachment and devotion to Him. Shed tears for Him. A man sheds a jugful of tears because his wife is sick or because he is losing money or because he is worrying about getting a job. But tell me, who ever weeps for God?

Sri Ramakrishna in The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, pages 627 & 628

Let Love Choke My Throat

Keep me wide, I beseech you, every moment let love choke my throat, let me cast myself on the ground. 

Actions of good report are neglected; we forget everything.  

Tuka says, We should gaze on thee with the fondness of lawless passion.

Tukaram in The Poems of Tukarama, page 222

Attaining Liberation

When one gets beyond birth and death, it is getting beyond the bondage, i.e., attaining liberation. To get into the world and to be tied down to its ways and affairs as also desires and passions, is nothing short of rigorous imprisonment.

All of you really speaking are undergoing rigorous imprisonment; your vision however being very much limited, i.e., being of a gross type, you are not able to see it -- you are not conscious about it. Your atma* however is conscious of this imprisonment. It is your atma that wants to get out of  that imprisonment.   .   .   .

The body itself is like a jail. If one behaves according to the dictates of his Sadguru* one is able to get beyond this jail, and this getting out of it is called Mukti -- liberation. Death of the gross physical body is not mukti; because after that the Jiva* has to take another body according to his desires. To take to any desire is the crime for which one has to go to jail, i.e., get imprisoned in a body.

Upasni Maharaj in The Talks of Sadguru Upasani-Baba Maharaja, Volume II, Part B, pages 396 & 397

• atma = soul

* Sadguru = Perfect Master

* Jiva = to be in the state of experiencing existence

There He Makes His Dwelling Place

Here no other effort is needed, to go to meet God; accept him with a mind intent on that alone. Empty your bodily frame. Exhaust your heart of the six passions. Tuka says, Where desire ceases to exist, there he makes his dwelling place.

Tukaram in The Poems of Tukarama, page 167

                                                                   

I Have Found a Sea of Love

I have found a sea of love, an inexhaustible flood; I have opened a treasure of spiritual knowledge, it diffuses the lustre of a million suns, arisen in thy worshipper’s souls. 

Unexpectedly, without any effort, I have heard the eternal secret, I have learned to know God. The seed of the high reunion has been enfolded in my own destiny. 

I have now beheld him in whose sight is all goodness, a sea of happy augury, the supreme power of mystic words. I have attained him, whose name is nectar, whose nature is pure, intellect free from passion. 

The very joy of peace and compassion is found in the joy, that accompanies the knowledge of the being and knowing God. 

Tukaram in The Poems of Tukarama, page 193

When the Sun of Love Manifests

All that frightens and confuses you and grips you with despair is your own shadow. When the Sun of Love manifests in its glory and all faces are turned toward that Radiance, all shadows will have disappeared -- even the memory of them will have vanished!

Meher Baba in Lord Meher, page 6423

Meher Baba