All Quotes By Tag: Gnan
“Scriptures have been written for one to Know. Nothing needs to be done for that which is to be Known. ‘I cannot do it, I cannot do it’ – is the way people have made everything. ‘Ingesting poison kills’ – you only need to know this knowledge, you don’t have to do anything else. The knowledge that comes into action is true knowledge. What good is knowledge that does not manifest in one’s actions?”
“I am doing’ is referred to as parparinati. To believe any results of the non-Self (parparinam) to be one’s own, is parparinati. After attaining this Akram Gnan [Knowledge of Self-realization] parparinati does not arise at all.”
“It is known as Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) when equanimity (samata) prevails in adverse conditions.”
“With the support of the knowledge of Vyavasthit (result of Scientific Circumstantial Evidence) and the awakened awareness (jagruti) of One’s own Real form (Swaroop), One can observe saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) completely.”
“The Knowledge in which no doubt (shanka) is placed is known as doubtfree Knowledge (nihshank Gnan). Nishank Gnan is Knowledge of the absolute pure Soul.”
“Agnan (ignorance) is gnan (knowledge) also. Agnan is nothing else- it is not darkness. But it is a light to illuminate the non-Self. It is the light to show the non-Self. And Gnan illuminates the Self and the non-Self.”
“Agnan will not let one know ‘Who he is,’ and Gnan lets one know his own Self.”
“In the state of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self), the Atma (Self) is the non-doer (akarta), in the state of ignorance of the Self, Atma (Self) is the doer (karta).”
“I brought the knowledge of vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidences) right from birth! It is my discovery of infinite past lives!!”
“One is not the doer at all. Vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidences) is the doer. I have revealed this knowledge and that is why we refer to it as the ‘lift’ (elevator) path!”
“If a person who has dispassion for worldly life (vairaag) attains an instrument such that it helps him aquire the Knowledge of the Self (Gnan), then it is worthwhile; otherwise dispassion for worldly life (vairaag) brings about lifelessness.”
“Where Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) prevails and where dispassion for worldly life (vairaag) reaches its pinnacle, that is when the state of absolute detachment (vitaraagata) arises. To not harbor any attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) where the world experiences attachment-abhorrence is considered the state of absolute detachment.”
“What is this satsang (in Akram) like? Here, there are no such botherations of, ‘do this’, ‘do good’, ‘do that’, ‘ask for forgiveness’, ‘do introspection’, ‘do chanting’, ‘do penance’. Here, One does not have to ‘do’ anything. Here, One just needs to Know and to understand. The right belief of ‘I am pure Soul’ (Samkit) can be attained only through understanding and Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) arises through Knowing. And the One who has Known and understood, He can have the right Conduct as the Self (samyak Charitra).”
“If you go to ‘do’ anything, then bondage will happen there. Wherever you ‘do’, there is bondage and with understanding, there is freedom.”
“Why can jiva (living being) not attain the self? It is because agnan is dear to it.”
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