Self-Realized Beings of Truth

From two of my favorite Teachers, Self-Realized Beings of Truth, these beautiful words...

“Simply stated, the problem is that there is a perception that there is an individual self which wants to extinguish itself so that the state of Realization will be revealed, but anything which this individual self tries to do to eliminate itself merely prolongs its own existence. If one sees spiritual practice as something that one does to attain Realization, then there is no solution to this problem; there is no solution because the whole problem stems from the totally false assumption that this individual self has a real existence.”– Sri Ramana Maharshi

All that a Guru can tell you is: ‘My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person you think yourself to be.’ Trust nobody, not even yourself. Search, find out, remove and reject every assumption till you reach the living waters and the rock of truth. Until you are free of the drug, all your religions and sciences, prayers and Yogas are of no use to you, for based on a mistake, they strengthen it. But if you stay with the idea that you are not the body nor the mind, not even their witness, but altogether beyond, your mind will grow in clarity, your desires—in purity, your actions—in charity and that inner distillation will take you to another world, a world of truth and fearless love.– Nisargadatta Maharaj

Beautiful words of true love, beautiful doves, beautiful that we are left this Truth on this dark and lonely small blue planet spinning somewhere in space, filled with the human race held captive by their own desires, we can destroy ourselves, and never Mother Earth, never Light, never Truth...Reality is our only salvation. –Judy Indira Parsons