GANGAJI

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Posted June 16th, 2008 by iamlove
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GANGAJI 

You are already free. You are pure, uninterrupted consciousness. Somehow in the play of yourself, of consciousness itself, there has been a veiling of the inherent truth of freedom. Consciousness somehow hides from itself and pretends it is lost. In a certain moment of the play, there arises the desire to end the game of hiding and begin being eternally found. The desire to be found is the desire to awaken in the dream...

 

 

"Realize that you are that which is everywhere, and you realize that any boundary that appears to separate you from anything is illusory. A feeling or a thought of separation is illusion. As illusion, thoughts and feelings arise and disappear. You are that which does not arise and does not disappear. You are present regardless of thoughts and feelings."
-- Gangaji, in 'You are That'

 

 

The choiceless truth of who you are
is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything.
Not a thing and not separate from anything.

 

 

The most sublime truth of all
has never been stated or written or sung.
Not because it is far away and can not be reached,
but because it is so intimately close,
closer than anything that can be spoken.
It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being
too close to be described, too close to be objectified,
too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge.
The truth of who you are is yours already.
It is already present...

 

 

When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfillment: the truth of who you are.

 

 

"At the core of everything in the universe there is an infinite sky of Stillness. In an instant, you can recognize what has always been and is Still."

 

Gangaji is an American-born spiritual teacher dedicated to sharing the path of freedom through simple and direct self-inquiry, as taught by the legendary sage Sri Ramana Maharshi of India. In 1990, Gangaji (then Antoinette Roberson Varner) entered this lineage through Sri H.W.L. Poonjaji. Since that time, she has traveled the world, holding gatherings and retreats with spiritual seekers of all faiths.   www.gangaji.org

 

“You are Already Free” ~ Interview with Gangaji ~ http://www.netmar.com/~maat/archive/may2/gangaji.htm