That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Why should I care?’ – The one who says this is the greatest offender of nature.
The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don’t straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?
There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment).
Energies are to be expressed precisely with the person you don’t get along with. The energies are already there in dealing with the person you do get along with. ‘Not being able to get along’ is a weakness.
I am unable to tolerate’, to say this is the lack of ability to tolerate and ‘I am able to tolerate’ is itself the ability to tolerate.
The person who tolerates ‘exactly’ (with understanding) hands over his ‘case’ to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him.
Tolerance is an attribute of egoism.
Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you. It will set your free.
~ Mumford And Sons
To know worldly relations as being ‘relation’ (temporary) will resolve everything. However, if they are believed to be true (real) relations, there will be insistence. In relative relations, one is not to prove ‘I am correct’. One has to bring about a closure by saying, ‘you are correct’.
Everybody knows basically what is right and what is wrong. Everybody knows better than to hate others. In fact, most people teach against it, and yet we still see it on the daily. But why do you think that is? It is because the problem was never really humans not loving humans enough; the problem was humans not loving righteousness enough. We must empty our own love for the world so that it can be replaced by the love of Christ; only then will we begin to love people as Christ loves people, as He always intended.
~ Criss Jami
There is no Gnan (True Knowledge) where there is ‘egoism’ and where there is Gnan, there is no ‘egoism’.
Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that.
When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth.
How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, ‘You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.’ That way you will sit on God’s side.
One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts, one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation].
The mind that does inner intentions (bhaav-mann) is the ‘charge’ mind. The mind that is getting exhausted (dravya-mann) is the ‘discharge’ mind. Bhaav-mann creates the worldly life. Dravya-mann brings an end to the worldly life. When egoism goes away, bhaav-mann vanishes.
What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!
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.
Sometimes answers come to you in ways that only you can understand. That is why it is so important to have a clear mind to receive and understand the message.
~ Sheila M. Burke
A thinking puppet is the mind of life: Its choice is the work of elemental strengths That know not their own birth and end and cause And glimpse not the immense intent they serve. In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull, Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things, The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways And feels the push but not the hands that drive. For none can see the masked ironic troupe To whom our figure-selves are marionettes, Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp, Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Money is energy and in the right hands can help heal the world.
~ Nikki Rowe
Getting rid of the wrong understanding and attaining the right understanding is indeed bliss.
The spirit of the way is surely there, in the wish to wander through the world in order to escape it and to find others where there is nobody.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.
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.
