All Quotes By Tag: Spiritual

“Firm decision is that which once made, will remain forever. Then you will find its link ahead. You will even find the right timing. If you change the decision, then you will not find the link ahead. If you make one decision, then you make another, then you will attain it but not on time. What is more, you will get it in pieces, it will not be smooth and continuous.”

“Whatever firm decisions (nischaya) you have made; only those will bear fruit. You do not have to do anything else.”

“How strongly determined we remain not to fall if we are walking on a treacherous narrow path surrounded by an ocean? There we do not have to keep reinforcing our decision not to fall. In that situation, once the decision is made, then you remain constantly aware!”

“Continue with whatever it is that you have been doing, except for attachment-abhorrence. If ‘we’ stay in our state of Pure Soul, attachment-abhorrence will not occur.”

“Equanimity is when abhorrence does not arise during the circumstances of abhorrence and attachment does arise during the circumstances of attachment.”

“Scriptures are instruments, and to know how to use these instruments is itself a science. One has wandered for infinite lives because of not knowing this science!”

“The knowledge of this world is not considered knowledge, it is worldly knowledge. Scriptural knowledge is considered as instrumental knowledge. Knowledge of the ‘ultimate goal’ (to experience Pure Soul) is the (real) knowledge. Scriptures are instruments and the knowledge within the scriptures is also an instrument. Whereas, the knowledge of the Self is the ultimate goal!”

“An instrument that does not help to attain the ultimate goal (Self realization) cannot be considered as spirituality at all!”

“Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) will not leave through suppression, they will leave through Gnan (Self-realization).”

“If a person wants to walk on the path of the Vitrag (Enlightened Ones), he should turn the upayog (applied awareness) from bad to good. And if the person wants to attain moksha (ultimate liberation), he should keep shudha upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self). The person who wants to attain moksha should not get into the intricacy of good or bad, and should keep them both as things to be ‘discharged’.”

“Shuddha Upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self) is the same as Parmatma Swaroop (embodiment of the absolute Self).”

“As much upayog (applied awareness) as one can keep, that much authority has been created. If one can keep upayog for five hours, then the authority for five hours has been created. If complete swa-satta (authority of the Self) occurs, then he has become God.”

“If the fascination towards material objects leave, the loss in spirituality also leaves!”

“Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present ‘at a time’ exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self).”

“When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild.”