Non-Dual quotes from religious texts

[Staples]

I really liked the passage from Leo's latest blog posts.

Does anyone know any other great examples of biblical texts referencing nonduality?

Open to all sacred texts - not just the bible of course.

[Prabhaker]

 

[Prabhaker]

 

[Guest Quanty]

Almost all the texts in the bible are. 

Edited July 8, 2018 by Quanty

[Prabhaker]

Ashtavakra’s message is crystal clear. You won’t be able to add even a small bit of your own interpretation to it.

”IF YOU CAN SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THE PHYSICAL BODY, AND REST IN CONSCIOUSNESS, THEN THIS VERY MOMENT YOU WILL BE HAPPY, AT PEACE, AND FREE OF BONDAGE. "

”OH EXPANSIVE ONE, RELIGION AND ATHEISM, HAPPINESS AND MISERY – ALL ARE OF THE MIND, THEY ARE NOT FOR YOU. YOU ARE NOT THE DOER NOR THE ENJOYER. YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LIBERATED.”

”YOU ARE THE ONE OBSERVER OF ALL, AND IN REALITY ALWAYS FREE. YOUR BONDAGE IS THIS: YOU SEE THE OTHER – NOT YOURSELF – AS THE OBSERVER."

” ’I AM THE DOER,’ THUS HAS THE BLACK SERPENT OF EGO BITTEN YOU. ’I AM NOT THE DOER,’ DRINK THIS NECTAR OF TRUST AND BE HAPPY."

”THIS IMAGINARY WORLD IS PROJECTED LIKE A SNAKE ON A ROPE. KNOWING THIS YOU ARE BLISS, ULTIMATE BLISS, THUS WANDER HAPPILY. HE WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF FREE IS FREE, AND HE WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF BOUND IS BOUND; BECAUSE IN THIS WORLD THE PROVERB IS TRUE: ’AS YOU THINK SO YOU ARE’. "

”ATMA IS THE WITNESS, ALL-PERVADING, PERFECT, ONE, FREE, CONSCIOUS, FREE FROM DOING, NONATTACHED, DESIRELESS, PEACEFUL. BECAUSE OF ILLUSION, IT LOOKS LIKE THE WORLD."

” ’I AM AN INDIVIDUALLY PROJECTED LIFE,’ DROP THIS ILLUSION AND ALSO THE FEELING OF INNER AND OUTER, AND AWAKEN IN THE THOUGHT THAT YOU ARE THE UNCHANGING, CONSCIOUS, NON-DUAL ATMA.” 

From Ashtavakra Mahageeta (It is not Krishna's Geeta)

[Prabhaker]

”O son, long have you been caught in the noose of body-consciousness. Cut this noose with the sword of knowing ’I am awareness’ and be happy. That which is born, remains, increases, changes, deteriorates and perishes: you are not that. You are alone, void of action, self-illuminated and innocent. Your bondage is this: that you practice samadhi."

”This universe is permeated by you, it is strung on the thread of you. In reality you are pure consciousness by nature, do not become small-minded. You are unconcerned, unchanging, void of form, of cool disposition, fathomless intelligence, unperturbed. Thus have faith only in consciousness."

”Know that which has form is false, and know the formless as unchangeable and everlasting. From this teaching of the truth it is not possible to be born in the world again. Just as a mirror is the same inside and outside the image reflected in it, god is the same inside and outside this body. Just as the one all-pervading sky is the same inside and outside a pot, the eternal everlasting brahma is the same in all things.”

From Ashtavakra Mahageeta

 

[Highest]

There is truth in the scriptures, not all of it has been corrupted. The truth has existed as long man has existed, so one will find non-duality in the scriptures. This are verified existential experiences put into words. 

Say, “He, God, is One, God, the Eternally Sufficient unto Himself. He begets not; nor was He begotten. And none is like unto Him.'' He is the First, and the Last, and the Outward, and the Inward; and He is Knower of all things. To God belong the East and the West.  Wheresoever you turn, there is the Face of God; God is All-encompassing, Knowing. All upon it passes away. And there remains the Face of thy Lord, Possessed of Majesty and Bounty. We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.

Say, “Truth has come, and falsehood has vanished. Truly falsehood is ever vanishing.” And say: “The Real has come and the unreal has vanished away; surely the unreal is ever certain to vanish.” We shall show them Our signs upon the horizons and within themselves till it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. We shall show them Our signs upon the horizons and in themselves, until it is clear to them that He is the Real. He created the heavens and the earth in truth. He created the heavens and the earth through the Real. [16:3] And they will know that God is the Manifest Truth. [24:25] And they shall know that God is the Evident Real.

This is beauty from the Quran. 

 

[Highest]

Actually the characteristics described to Allah (God) is pretty near consciousness, which is the ultimate truth. And I have no doubt that Mohammad experienced the ultimate. With a clear eye this not difficult to see, the Quran clearly is speaking about consciousness, which Mohammad rightly took to be God. He is aware, the all seeing, all hearing, creator of everything, knower of all things, he is the manifest. Clearly consciousness.

[Prabhaker]

The eyes cannot approach it, neither can speech nor mind. We do not, therefore, know it, nor do we know how to teach it. It is different from what is known and it is different from what is unknown. Thus we have heard from our predecessors who instructed us about it.

What speech cannot reveal but what reveals speech - know thou that alone as brahman and not this - anything objective - that people worship here.

What mind does not comprehend but what comprehends the mind – know thou that alone as Brahman and not this that people worship here.

From Kenopanishad

[Prabhaker]

Into a blinding darkness go they who worship action alone.

Into an even greater darkness go they who worship meditation.

For it is other than meditation,
it is other than action.

This we have heard from the enlightened ones.

Meditation and action -
he who knows these two together,
through action leaves death behind and
through meditation gains immortality.

Into a blinding darkness go they who idolize the absolute,
into an even greater darkness go they who dote on the relative.

For it is other than the relative,
it is other than the absolute.

This we have heard from the enlightened ones.

From Isha Upnishad

[Prabhaker]

If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you.

If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. 

Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you.

When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father.

But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.

~Gospel of Thomas (Saying 3)