Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of beingness with itself.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the simplicity and effortlessness of achieving a state of stillness in the mind, which brings about a profound sense of being.
Gangaji's quote suggests that true stillness of the mind is a naturally simple state that requires no effort to attain. In this state, individual identity and attachments fade away, allowing one to experience pure being without the constraints of past experiences, relationships, or societal labels. It invites individuals to embrace the essence of their existence, free from external definitions and judgments.
In practice
In a yoga class focusing on meditation, a teacher might say this quote to encourage students to find inner peace.
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.
If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.
I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?
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