All Quotes By Tag: Spirituality

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

“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.”

“There is no such thing as a God Spot or God Module in the brain. Just like Consciousness is the product of collective activity of various regions of the brain, the God part of the Consciousness, which is the most blissful and inexplicable of all conscious states of the human mind, is also a product of complex electrical activity in various neural regions.”

“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.”

“Gnan (knowledge) of every living being of the entire world exists in a Soul. However, only the Gnan that is able to see the ego and everything as gneya (object to be known) is considered as ‘Gnan’. Yet, that is still ansh-gnan (partial knowledge), and is considered as upayog (applied awareness as the Self) from that moment on. Where there is Gnan, there is upayog, either partially or completely.”

“Complete shuddha upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self) is keval gnan (absolute Knowledge)”

“I am Chandubhai’ (name used by Dadashri to refer to the relative self) is good or bad upayog (applied awareness). ‘I am Pure Soul’ is shuddha upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self). Instillation of life in the world occurs with good or bad upayog.”

“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).”

“How can the body become Bhagwan (God)? The body is a ‘temple’ and Bhagwan (God) is Bhagwan (God) only.”

“Gnani Purush’ is an adjective-less state. To give him the adjective of ‘Bhagwan’ (God), is akin to lowering his status (low degree of status).”

“Through the wrong belief [of I am Chandubhai] there is worldly life, and when that wrong belief changes, one becomes God.”

“What stops artadhyan (mournful contemplation hurting the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others) is dharma (Religion of the Self). What keeps them alive is adharma (Non-Religion of the Self).”