The Divine World

Know that to be the divine world where one is firmly established in the Divine.
Such a one is full (purna); he encompasses and transcends all that is manifest.
He is the substratum of the screen on which the whole manifestation runs like the picture film. Whether moving pictures run or not, the screen is always there and is never affected by the action of the pictures.

You are here and now in the divine world. You are like a thirsty man wanting to drink, while he is all the time standing neck deep in the Ganga.

Give up all efforts and surrender.

Let the 'I' that wants the divine world die, and the Divine in you will be realized here and now. For it is already in you as the Self, not different from the Divine (Brahman), nameless and formless. It is already in you, and how are you to obtain that which ever remains obtained? The Self (atman) in you is surely not different from US."

That is what one must do to drop the ego-sense. If that is done the Self will be experienced as 'I-I' here and now and at all times. There will be no going into the divine world or coming out of it. You will be as you really are. This is the practice (sadhana) and this is the perfection (siddhi) too.

When the subtle mind emerges through the brain and the senses, the gross names and forms are cognized.
When it remains in the Heart names and forms disappear.
If the mind remains in the Heart, the 'I' or the ego which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self, the Real, Eternal 'I' alone will shine. Where there is not the slightest trace of the ego, there is the Self.

Greedily begging for worthless occult powers (Siddhis) from God, who will readily give Himself, who is everything, is like begging for worthless stale gruel from a generous natured philanthropist who will readily give everything.

Your hands may do the work but your mind can remain still.

YOU ARE THAT WHICH NEVER MOVES.

Realize that and you will find that work is not a strain. But as long as you think that you are the body and that the work is done by you, you will feel your life to be an endless toil. In fact it is the mind that toils, not the body. Even if your body keeps quiet, will your mind keep quiet too? Even in sleep the mind is busy with its dreams."

As long as it is taken to be real, the dream cannot be recognized as one and therefore there is no awakening.

Ramana Maharshi