Spiritual Quotes

Boredom is itself worry.

When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.

The greatest policy is where there are no policies!

Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts.

If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, ‘when will the train leave, when will it leave?’ This world is not worth getting impatient restless about.

To remain lying on thorns (kanta) is called boredom (kantado).

Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.

Each pain indeed comes with its time limit.

There is no such thing as destruction in this world. Eternal Thing [vastu] is not destroyed, its phase state (avastha) is destroyed.

The one who comes to know [the eternal truth], will awaken. The one who is wrongly believing will not awaken.

What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation.

When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.

No one asks about the truth and non-truth. Should one not think ‘why don’t others accept it even when I am right?’ It is because there is insistence and nagging behind that truth.

No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!

We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) would never say to anyone, ‘listen to me!’ because that is indeed not under his control.

The one who does not have the control for even a minute, he does not have the control forever.

If one attains awareness of own’s own Self’s authority [power], even for a moment, he can become a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Self).

Civility (sabhyata, ) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquette is the sign of one with a wrong belief (deluded view, bhranti).

Where there is even a trace of etiquette, there is no religion of moksha [ultimate liberation] there, nor any other religion. Religion is to be found in naturalness (saahajeekta)

The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.

All who die, are all worldly beings (sansari – believing the worldly life to be real).

Worldly life (sansar) means to get tired and to rest.

As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].

He who has conquered his internal enemies, to such an Arihant, I bow down to them. Learn to recognize the inner enemies. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the inner enemies.

Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).

Wherever there is ownership, there is upadhi (externally induced problems).

Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, it will all become painful.

Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one’s own Self.

During anger, the parmanus (subatomic particles) are fiery and fierce and during greed, there are parmanus (subatomic particles) of attraction towards money.

If you become angry with someone today, it is a discharge kashaya (karma effect of anger-pride-deceit-greed). But in that [discharge karma] your intent is for it, which “charges” a [new] karmic seed.

Getting angry means setting fire to your own wealth.

You will not realize the absolute supreme Self (parmatma) unless the weakness departs. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the weaknesses.

Understanding spirituality means that every day anger, pride, deceit and greed continue to decrease, will not increase.

Doing Kashaya[anger, pride, deceit and greed] means to stumble. If artadhyan (adverse meditation) and raudradhyan (wrathful meditation) occurs, it is called stumbling.

No one should feel hurt by you, you should make everyone happy and leave.

We have to help the one who has fallen, we should not question ‘why did you fall?

When does one qualify (for moksha)? It is when he never has any conflict in the worldly life.

Only those with whom you have bound karmic accounts, in the past life, will be able to live with you together.

If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished.

One becomes independent (free) from the moment one realizes the principle that, ‘No living being is able to interfere with another living being to the slightest’.

If you try to do that which is not ‘our’ duty [the Self’s duty], it will create interference.

One gets ‘headaches’, because he gives headache to others.

Refuting anything in this worldly life is tantamount to refuting God. Even refuting stealing is tantamount to refuting God. This Stealing is a kind of laxative. It cleanses us and leaves.

Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar).

It is very wrong to make fun of anyone because you make fun of the Lord residing within. It doesn’t matter if it is a donkey, but after all, (finally) who is he? He is God.

Where there is conflict, there is no God.

What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict.

The world is the puzzle, itself. The one who solves this ‘puzzle’ attains the degree of Parmatma [the Absolute Supreme Self].