Spiritual Quotes

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.

Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity.

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).

Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault.

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.

To see others’ faults is a terrible mistake!

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.

One gets recurrent thoughts about things he had insisted upon and about matters he formed opinions!

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.

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.

All this has been created from self-fault and self-imagination!

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.

God predestined His chosen people.

Love is the bridge between the earth and the spiritual.

Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.

Joy is our native conditionLet go all non-joy and there is joy

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!

Insistence on one’s own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation.

There should be no tenacity of insistence or obstinate insistence of any kind. If there is any tenacity, it should be the kind that will go away if you tell it to!

There is no truth in this world that is worth insisting upon! Anything that is insisted upon is not the truth at all!

The one, who does not have the ‘poison’ of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (karmic).

A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a “Gnani” [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].

One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?

The higher one sits, the greater the fear of fall.

It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult.

How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.

To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself.

Awareness’ will not arise where there is deceit along with self-pride (maan). If there is deceit with self-pride, then one can never see the self-pride.

What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’.

Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

He insulted me’ -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.

Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.

In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.

One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?