What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!
~ Dada Bhagwan
The chit is semi-animate (half-alive) and the mind is completely physical.
What is the value of the Gnani’s [the enlightened one’s] feet? It is a value that is immeasurable. The Gnani’s feet is one & the only solvent to dissolve egoism.
As long as there is the egoism of ‘I-ness’ (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards ‘my-ness’ (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?
In reality, the outer instruments (hands, feet, eyes, etc) are not the hindrance (for liberation); it is the inner instrument (mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is obstructive.
If you say a word against a ‘sensitive’ person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a ‘record’ playing.
Getting rid of the wrong understanding and attaining the right understanding is indeed bliss.
What is the difference between disrespect (avinay) and despise (viradhana)? Disrespect (avinay) means one shows lack of respect and to despise (viradhana) means one becomes an adversary (opponent).
Not to be able to find one’s ‘own’ faults, this is called the world.
Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault.
To be able to see one’s own faults, this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit, Self-realization, right belief).
Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion.
Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] has the [knowledge of the-Self] essence of all religions.
One becomes bad himself when he sees or calls others bad. When others appear good to him, he will become good himself.
If you praise the virtues of the person who is two degrees higher than you, if you worship him, if you serve him; this is known as aradhana (veneration; worship). If you say bad things about him, defame him; it is known as viradhana (despise). Viradhana (despise) results in your down fall and aradhana (worship) results in your rise upwards.
What is the difference between aradhana (worship) and bhajana (to be one with)? Aradhana (worship) means the attention will go over and over again there, and bhajana (oneness) means continuous engrossment. One is to do aradhana (worship) and bhajana (oneness) for only one’s own Self; everything else will carry on naturally.
All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects.
Despise (viradhana) of a Gnani [the enlightened one] creates hindrance in (acquiring right) Knowledge-Vision-Conduct (Gnan-Darshan-Charitra).
One will bother you only if you have a karmic account with him. No one can bother you without your signature (karmic cause). All this is due solely to your signature.
To worship means to go higher. If you join the one who has gone higher, you will go higher and if you speak ill of that person, you will fall down.
In this world, it is not worth finding anyone’s faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults.
The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (relative self, prakruti), is the manner in which they will be untwisted.
Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence, the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence.
Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.
One can give ‘correct’ opinion only if one has an open mind.
Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. ‘We’ are separate and the relative self is separate from us. ‘We’ should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn’t get involved with those problems.
Quarrels and differences of opinions are solely due to a flawed-vision.
When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others’ faults.
This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.
One should become free of mistakes so that there will be no superior over him.
Where there is love, there are no faults. Where the love of give-and-take (dealer) arose, all faults will be seen there.
As many opinions you bound about a person, if you let go of them, you will attain a natural state. For whomever and for whatever matter, you have bound opinions, those opinions will continue to sting you and when you let go of those opinions, you can become natural.
Love is the bridge between the earth and the spiritual.
~ Grace Sara
Being dependent on this world will lead to betrayal. It will deceive us at the right time. It is better to depend on a pillow, at least it will not move away from us at the right time. The one that is living will move away.
Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.
God had said to listen to what five people tell you and don’t hold on to your own opinion. The person who holds on to his opinion is isolated. If you insist upon it, it will harm you as well as others. This true-false is a relative truth; it is a mundane [worldly] truth. One should not insist upon it.
In this world, there is nothing that is right. Anything that people raise objection to, is wrong. Do people raise objection in every matter?
As long as there is insistence of the truth, one cannot know the Vitarag Lord [the enlightened one].
Where there is insistence, there is worldly life.
Where there is the slightest insistence, there is no religion there!
