The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.
Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).
There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.
Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong.
Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one’s real Self) does.
One who experiences prasantta [blissful happiness] within, he will have prasantta [blissful happiness] externally. The mind is a mirror (reflection) for the external.
As long as one is ruled by illusion, one’s thinking process is also illusory and that is nothing but misery. In Gnanis’ [the enlightened one’s] language, there is no such thing as happiness or unhappiness.
The law of nature is such that everyone gets happiness according to their needs. The ‘tender’ that everyone (of us) fills out, is indeed fulfilled.
The ‘egoism’ that is used to hurt others will hurt one’s own self. The ‘egoism’ that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness.
Jalebi (dessert) makes tea taste bland [tasteless]. Similarly, when one tastes the happiness of the Self, it makes worldly happiness bland. One cannot break free from the worldly life until one finds worldly happiness bland.
A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes ‘I am right’, causes a lot of pain to others.
Without the ‘applied awareness’ of the Soul, ‘happiness’ cannot arise.
If someone says, “the Gnani Purush is happy in the ‘Real’ but happy or unhappy in the ‘relative’”, then I would say, “No, the Gnani Purush Knows the ‘relative’ as being the ‘relative’, and therefore He is happy in the relative as well.
Gnani’ [the englightened one] gives freedom from all sufferings. Outside [world] reigns the cycle of antagonistic [painful] times, Kaliyug. On the contrary, it will even take away whatever happiness you may have.
Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!
Intellectuals cannot find the bottom (base) of the faith. It is not possible to do both together, to remain afloat and (also) measure the ocean depth at the same time.
When you put faith in that which you know, it is called faith (shraddha). When you put faith in what you don’t know; that is called ignorance-based faith [agnan- shraddha].
Many preach that do this way, do that way, have faith, speak the truth, have patience. These are all results (effects). How can results be changed?
If one attains only the faith in the Self, he will not experience fear anywhere at all, fear will go away.
Gnan [True Knowledge] means the Guru’s experiential talks.
Worldly things (laukik) are perceived through the senses (indriya-gamya). That, which is beyond the world (alaukik), is perceived [through the knowledge which is] beyond the senses (atindriya-gamya).
Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti).
That which comes forth, is present and cautions at all times is called ‘Gnan’ (Eternal knowledge). That indeed is the Soul [Our True Self]. The Soul is not separate from the Knowledge.
Only Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) will give liberation. All other instruments (& practices) create bondage.
Unity does not exist in the world. Only when the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants moksha [liberation], does unity arise. Unity cannot prevail without Gnan [knowledge of the self].
Even the slightest criticism of others is an impediment (hindrance) to Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan, Absolute Enlightenment). It also hinders Atmagnan (Knowledge of the Self), also hinders Samkit (Self-realization).
Vitarag’s [the enlightened one’s] ‘water’ (knowledge) will remove any kind of (karmic) ‘stains’.
The knowledge, which makes you ‘emotional’, is worldly awareness. True awareness does not make you ‘emotional’.
The entire world is surviving only due to ‘beliefs’, not because of ‘Knowledge’ (Gnan). Every human being is (living) only because of beliefs.
You have to recognize the Knowledge of the Gnanis’ [the enlightened ones]. You have to recognize the world from the perspective of love (prem swaroop).
Worship without ‘Gnan’ [True Knowledge] will give material pleasures in the world and worship accompanied by ‘Gnan’ [True Knowledge] is known as ‘Gnan’ [True Knowledge] which gives the result of moksha [ultimate liberation].
We can never have Knowledge (Gnan) without worship (bhakti). Such knowledge would be considered shushka-gnan [unproductive knowledge]. It cannot be considered True Knowledge.
People take worship (bhakti) into the relative plane. They consider singing religious songs as worship. Worship [bhakti] can never be without knowledge (gnan). Worship will make one become the one who he worships.
The essence of the world is Sachchidanand [sat-chit-anand, eternal knowledge and vision leads to bliss].
Where there is no Sachchidanand [sat-chit-anand, eternal knowledge and vision leading to bliss], there is night (darkness).
It is Vitaraag vignan [the Spiritual Science of the Enlightened Ones] to look at gain, and to see losses is the knowledge of worldly wanderings.
Where there is lack of ‘Gnan’ (Knowledge and experience of the Self; real Knowledge) there is worldly existence and where there is ‘Gnan’ (Real Knowledge), there is no worldly existence.
To see from all the “view points” is called ‘Gnan’ [True Knowledge].
Gnan’ [True Knowledge, Knowledge of one’s own self], is freedom itself. It keeps one in Moksha [liberated state] and prevents [karmic] bondage.
Circumstances will change but (True) Knowledge [Gnan] will not change.
Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) ‘Knowledge’.
That which the entire world regards as ‘mine’, it is [really] ‘not mine’; this Knowledge itself is the Self, the Soul.
To have seen something means it has come into one’s understanding. To have known something means it has come into one’s knowledge. There is a vast difference between ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’.
As long as one is the doer of the actions, there is agnan [all other knowledge other than one’s own true self, wordly knowledge]. Agnan is the cause for the worldly life.
This ‘Knowledge’ manifested in 1958! That day I became a ‘Gnani’ (the enlightened one)! The day before that, ‘I’ too was agnani (ignorant of the Self), wasn’t I?
The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness of I am pure Soul [gnan bhaav, knowledge intent], will grant liberation.
In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to ‘disadjustments’.
As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.
In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge.
Ignorance’ (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and ‘Knowledge’ (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations.
God has been pushed aside by the non-Self complex. Vibrations have arisen from vibrations. ‘We’ now give you the Knowledge of how to stop the vibrations.
This (Knowledge of Akram Vignan) is the ‘real’ thing and it is the absolute truth and the absolute truth is always functional (gives results).
Union with [True] Knowledge is ‘Principle’ [Established Truth] and union with the three [mind, speech and body] is ‘non principle’ [absence of principle].
Decided knowledge is not called ‘knowledge’. Decided knowledge is called Principle.
Knowledge’ may be there but ‘correctness’ is required along with it. If you have ‘knowledge’ but don’t have the ‘correctness’; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!
What is the body complex (pudgal)? It is influx and outflow (puran-galan); it is credit and debit. And if you attain knowledge of the Soul, the Self, then you will attain Moksha (liberation).
Kashays [anger-pride-deceit-greed] will not leave by suppressing them, they go away through Gnan (Enlightened Knowledge).
I am Chandubhai’ is an illusion itself and from that are karmas charged. When does ‘charging’ of new karmas stop? When one attains the exact awareness of ‘who I am?’.
Attachment-abhorrence is the foundation for the worldly life and the foundation for ‘Knowledge’ is a state free of all attachments (vitragta).
The scriptures are the instruments and how to use these instruments is a science itself. One goes wandering around for infinite lives because he doesn’t have the knowledge of this science!
Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage.
Knowledge (Gnan) is not attained first first the ego departs.
That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge.
Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan).
Infinite knowledge, infinite vision, infinite energy of the Soul is in the same state even today. The Soul has never been a sinner. The Soul is absolutely pure.
To know ‘who I am and who I am not’ is called Absolute knowledge (Gnan).
Without ‘Gnan’ (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away.
Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path.
Who is the ‘mother’ of ‘Knowledge (Gnan)’? It is ‘Understanding’ (samaj). Where can ‘understanding’ be acquired from? It is acquired from Gnani Purush (The Enlightened one).
Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses.
Business has two ‘children’. One is called ‘loss’ and the other ‘profit’. No one likes the one called ‘loss’, but both are indeed there. They are born together.
Worldly relationships are not true [are not real] it is a ‘business arrangement’.
There is no such thing as relationships in this world. It is really a self-created net. Do these cows-buffalos have any relationships? They don’t have a mother-in-law, no father-in-law…
People with Sweet Relationships [those favoring you, always talk good] with you, will make you stumble.
When people break off relationships, they break them both from the outside and from within. The external spoils because of circumstances, but the inner [inside] must not spoil.
This ‘science’ is prem swaroop (embodiment of love). There is nothing else in love; nothing like anger-pride-deceit-greed are to be found in love. If they are present, till then, love will not be there.
Religion [Dharma] means to do good for others and non-religion [Adharma] means to hurt others. This is referred to as religion-nonreligion [Dharma-Adharma]. Science is to transcend religion and non-religion.
Puzzles’ are bound to arise for everyone, but how does the puzzle get solved, that much science if people get to know, it is more than enough.
This ‘Akram science’ does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutely within it’s reality, It does not scorn the worldly interaction. Not scorning worldly interaction is itself a thing of principle.
The whole world has constantly wandered around in ‘negativity’ and died. This ‘Akram’ [science] is a fine ‘positive’ path.
The mind-speech-body’s atoms [indivisible part of matter] are ‘effective’. What does the [spiritual] ‘science’ say? Why do you experience the ‘effect’? You just have to ‘know’ the ‘effect’.
In this world we do not have to become the doer, we have to become nimit [an instrument, one of the many scientific circumstantial evidence, not the whole and sole doer].
Everyone has excess awareness in one or two things. In everything else, he does have awareness indeed. If one has equal awareness in everything, he will indeed become a Gnani [the enlightened one].
To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a sign of going to a lower life form in the next birth.
When you slander someone [talk negatively about people], you earn a debit in your account and that person will earn a credit. Who would do these kinds of business?
Gnan is that which does not let kashays arise when one’s pocket is picked.
You benefit when you do not further entangle (confuse) an already entangled person or you benefit when you remove his entanglement. But what happens when you entangle the one who is already entangled? God is sitting within him, isn’t he?
Merely by doing darshan of just one kashay free person, one’s paap (sins; demerit karmas) get washed away! There can be no kashay-free person other than a Gnani.
Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).
It is a mistake to believe other person to be estranged. They all are our own Self’s-forms. However, that has to be realized, right? To believe the other person to be an alien means giving him a beating and that hurts our own-Self.
Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).
Spirituality [Nischay] means complete truth and worldly interactions means truth to a certain extent.
When one remains ‘sincere’, no type of fear will come to him in the worldly life (sansar) and it will lead him to moksha (ultimate liberation)!
There is nothing to fear in this world. Whatever happens, it happens to the body-complex [relative-self], right?
When one has no fear of insults, no one will insult him; that is the rule. The ‘transactions’ will continue as long as there is fear. The moment fear is gone, the transactions will end.
If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone.
Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life.
Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind.
Do not have so much fear of this world that it will ruin the next incarnation.
When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.
What fear do you have? You, yourself are the absolute Self! If absolute-Self becomes fearful, then the whole universe will have fear! ‘We’ are on the other side of the prakruti [relative self’s world].
Seeing the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma) in everyone is itself an intent of friendship towards the entire world.
What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it.
People get absorbed in chitchats with whomever they meet. They simply have to meet someone. Infinite energies are wasted in such chitchatting.
What harm does lying cause? One loses people’s trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless.
People say, ‘that bump caused me to trip’, but the bump says, ‘I am where I have always been. It’s the wretched ones who can’t see, they come my way and trip over!
People will not refrain from criticizing. But one should not keep on criticizing. The world is such that it will run smoothly without any criticism. This world is not worth interfering in. It is just worth ‘Knowing’.
People have the right to criticize you. You do not have the right to criticize anyone.
When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort (purushartha) can be made. But instead, people push it aside.
People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?
In this world, it is not possible to forget about obligation of these three people: father, mother and guru; the one who has made us walk on the correct path.
Vitragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments] is the only way to ‘swim’ across lifetimes.
What is the sign of the person residing in his own Self as Pure Soul? Vitaragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments]!
Freedom is ‘Self-earned’ and worldly life is ‘earned by egoism’!
The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency.
In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.
For men, women are their ‘counter weights’ and when that is not enough, their daughters are their ‘counter weights.’ One can’t do without a counter weight. Otherwise, he will fall over.
There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning.
What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!
Things get ruined the moment you say, ‘What will become of me? It means that you have no regard for the Soul. The Soul within has infinite energy, why not ask the Soul for strength [power]?
Living for the Self [the Soul] is merit karma (you bind merit karma) and living for the worldly life is nothing but demerit karma (you bind demerit karma).
Profit is vitamin of the body and loss is vitamin of the Soul [The Self]. So where is a loss anywhere?
The human life is the only one in which one can experience the Soul [One’ own Real Self]. There is no other life form, not even that of the celestial beings that can attain the experience of the Self [Self Realization].
The energy of the Soul (Atma) is such that it will give you all the solution for how to behave every time in any situation. And what is more, you will not forget it, after the Self [Soul] has been realized.
Imaginary (thinking) leads to bliss of the mind and the true (real thinking) leads to bliss of the Self (Soul).
All the (sickness and) diseases of the worldly life disappear with the innate bliss of the Soul, the Self. Grief gives rise to the diseases.
Nothing worldly will ever become the Self (the Soul). The Self [the Soul] will never become worldly. Both are separate things.
There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma).
With egoism at the center, the awareness of all worldly things can be set beautifully. The awareness of ‘I am Pure Soul’ can never setup with ego being at the center.
If egoism is there, the benefit of the Self cannot be obtained and if the Self is there, the benefit of egoism cannot be obtained.
Religion of the Self [Soul] is that where no difficulty or trouble arises for anyone or any living being of ‘our’ own accord.
The Knower of ‘taste’ is the Soul. The enjoyer of ‘taste’ is not the Soul.
There is no Soul, where there is give and take. Wherever there is give and take, it is a stock market.
There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul].
We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self].
Enlightened view (samyak darshan) is that which shows you the ‘eternal’ (the pure soul), and deluded vision (mithya darshan) is that which shows you the ‘temporary’.
The ‘relative’ delights the mind (manoranjan), the ‘real’ delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan).
The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you,” says God.
One can have awareness of the Soul (Atmalakshi) after realizing ‘Who am I?
Chit impurity is due to the relative vision. When the vision becomes real (enlightened), purification of chit occurs.
When a man’s trust is violated, he will leave even his friend. Hey, you shouldn’t leave him! There is the energy of the absolute Self within and if the knowledge of the Self is attained, one may even attain the state of the absolute-Self!
After coming into the human life form, if one stays as the Self [Soul] and does not interfere in the discharging karmas, he will indeed go to moksha. And if he interferes, he will incarnate in a different life form.
By one fact, the Self [Soul] is the creator [of new karma]. From another fact, the Self [Soul] is not the creator.
The mind-speech and body remain ‘effective’, the outer environment is also ‘effective’ and when the Self (Soul) remains ‘un-effective’; that is the ultimate stage!
The by-product that is created while following the religion of the Self [Soul] is the worldly life. It is gained free of cost.
A true swarthi (interested in the Self) will become the absolute Self! This is considered paraartha (for the non-Self). A swarthi will attain the ‘Self’.
Knowledge that brings closure [settlement] to the mind in every way is Absolute Knowledge and it indeed is the all encompassing Knowledge that always gives complete closure [settlement, solutions].
One is said to be enlightened with the Right Knowledge when his conduct is appropriate in any situation.
One who does wrong is considered illusioned (mithyatvi – ignorance of the Self). One who does right is considered enlightened (samkit).
In order to make the egoism non-existent [zero], the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] establishes the awareness of the Pure Soul within.
The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself].
Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal,’ it should be ‘normal’.
Worshipping ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is equal to worshiping the Pure Soul and it is indeed same as the worship of absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). And it is the main cause for moksha [final liberation].
What is the nature of the Self (Soul)? To ‘see’ the dharma (function) of everything, to see ‘who is performing what function, and how that function is being performed.’ To ‘see’ it, is called the function of the Self (Soul).
Why is there so much problem just to know one’s own Soul? The Soul resides in one’s own abode (body), but one doesn’t know it and then he says, ‘I know this and I know that so’. Instead why don’t you get to know your own ‘Self’?
One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the ‘Knowledge’ [of the Soul, one’s True Self] is to be enjoyed.
As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing the Self (Soul), there is bliss of the Soul.
If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world!
Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal.
What does ‘experience of the soul’ mean? It is a state of constant eternal bliss.
Who am I?’- Not knowing this is the greatest death to the Soul (one’s own self)!
Samkit’ (right belief) means knowing the Soul (self).
The greatest wonder of this world is the “Soul”. Once It is realized (attained), everything is attained!!!
To ‘us’, nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one’s own ‘boundary’ (to not remain as the Self).
The Soul’s doership has arisen due to ignorance. Because of this, the inner working components of antaskaran [mind, intellect, chitta and ego] have arisen, and so has the relative-self [prakruti].
Once a person starts seeing his own mistakes, he starts to become Parmatma, (absolute supreme Self)!
As long as one finds faults with the world, he won’t be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself!
When one sees one’s own faults, he attains a state of an abode of Self-illuminated Bliss!
A wife and a husband! For infinite lifetimes this is all one has done. And in doing so, one has lost his Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!
Nothing can be attained until all supports other than those of the pure Soul have been eliminated.
It is wrong to be dependent on the body-complex [pudgal]. One should depend only on the Soul.
Keep one goal only and that is ‘to know thy Self [Soul]’. Do not be insistent about ‘I want to do this and do that’. Whatever happens, at whatever time, is correct.
The one whose egoism is gone, he becomes God. One is a mortal (jivatma) as long as there is egoism and if his egoism goes away, he becomes the eternal Absolute Supreme Soul (Paramatma).
If ‘one’ really were the sufferer or the enjoyer, then he would get tired. But the Self in reality is not experiencing anything. He simply does egoism only.
Pure-chit itself is the Absolute Supreme Soul (parmatma).
The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the ‘enlightened one’ (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it’s natural attributes.
One’s Use of Life’, if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion).
What I am saying is, ‘Know the science’. Know what is Soul (The True Self) and Non-Soul (Everything other than the Soul). Upon knowing this, all desires will vanish.
He who wants to go to moksha (Final Liberation), he will have to realize his own self. Otherwise no matter how much of anything else he does, he will not attain moksha (liberation).
Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).
One should take care of one’s own [True] Self and do supervision of everything else.
Other’s power, other’s enjoyments, other’s space, people have become the owners of that which does not belong to one’s self. If they become the owners of ‘Self’, death is no more; One is himself, the Absolute Supreme Soul.
Unless there is a ‘clear evident experience of the True Self’ [spasthvedan], till then ‘Principle’ cannot be attained.
A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? “I am Pure Soul”, it is that Self.
The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones).
Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul).
Awareness (of the Self) prevails in matters where one becomes attachment-free (vitrag), and where one has attachment-abhorrence, there his awareness will not prevail.
Attachment-abhorrence is an ‘effect’ and ignorance (of the self) is the ‘cause’!
Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves.
There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).
All those that don’t allow us to do things for the Soul (our True Self), they are our opposers (kashays); we shouldn’t listen to them.
Until ignorance, of one’s own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away.
To be unattached in every phase of one’s life is indeed full enlightened bliss of the Self (Purna samadhi)!
When the outside intent (other than the intent of Pure Soul, Parbhaav) stops, he attains enlightened bliss of the Self (samadhi).
When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed.
If you experience bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst complete problematic stage, then know that you have met a “Gnani Purush” [the enlightened one]!
True peaceful state is that when one has inner peace amidst total lack of peace on the outside. Bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst external turmoil is ‘tested’ samadhi.
The ‘Gnani’ is in the form of an instrument to attain the goal (Experience of Pure Soul). The goal is the scientific form of Soul (vignan swarup atma).
Scripture is one of many instruments to attain the Goal (experience of pure Soul). How can it be discarded?
Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul!
Keep on doing whatever it is that you have been doing; but, do no attachment-abhorrence. If ‘You’ stay in ‘Your [Pure Soul] state’; attachment-abhorrence will not occur.
My-ness (mamta) is indeed parigrah [attachment to material objects]; material object is not a parigrah. Gnani doesn’t have My-ness (mamata), He has the eternal element (experience of Pure Soul).
As long as the egoism is alive, ‘my-ness’ remains within the self.
Tremendous my-ness’ [mamta] is bound in the presence of Soul [Atma], and it is also in the presence of Soul that this my-ness is tremendously dissipated.
When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens).
How far is the Soul from attaining moksha (ultimate liberation)? Only the obstructive (antray) karmas.
People live for two reasons. There are those who live for the Soul; such people are very rare. All others live for money. All day is spent for money, money, money!
Focused awareness of the Self in one direction (upayog) is considered enlightened awareness (jagruti).
Keeping ‘pure focused applied awareness of the Self (Soul)’ (shuddha upayog) is the same as being in the Absolute Supreme Self-form (Parmatma swaroop).
We’ are the self (chetan, Soul) and obstruction (antray) are non-self (achetan, non-Soul); therefore, the Self (chetan, Soul) shall win in the end!
Nothing in this world can touch or affect the one who remains in the focused pure applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayogi).
Only when there is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others) in the body, then there is shukladhyan in the Self (contemplation as the Self, the Soul).
If one can exactly see the world ‘as it is’; if one can exactly see the ‘relative’ and the ‘real’, it is shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul).
To constantly see one’s own self as ‘Pure’, and to see other’s self as ‘pure’, is focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayog).
The Knower of the Soul is considered Self Realized (The Enlightened one). The knower of all the eternal elements is known as Omniscient (sarvagna).
To eat, drink, arise, awake etc. are all religion (dharma) of the body. One has not come into one’s own Self Religion (atma dharma) even for a second. Had he done so, he would never ever leave God.
One who lives with one’s own (Soul’s) support is the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma). One who lives with the body complex (relative self’s) support is the embodied (mortal) self (Jeevatma).
Soul (Atma), Absolute Knowledge (Gnan) and the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma) are one and the same element.
It is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known.
The Soul has never become impure not even for a second and if it had become impure then no one in this world would have been able to purify it.
If one understands (realizes) his own Self, then he himself is an Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma).
When one decides that I want to get rid of the mistakes which are in me, he can become the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma).
The world is not a ‘thing’ (eternal element). It is a wrong belief (vikalp) of the Soul.
What is suspicion? It is a tool to ruin one’s own Soul.
Real happiness and peace is attained only if one comes into one’s true Self.
Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will ‘realize’ true happiness.
Peace is the nature of the mind. And bliss is the nature of the Soul!
The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.
If you do pratikraman of a tiger, then even the tiger will do as you ask it to. There is no difference between a tiger and a human being. The difference is in your vibrations! That is why he gets affected.
The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world].
Where there is no ‘superior’, no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vitaraag Lords [the enlightened ones] that I would like to have.
Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!
As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.
For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?
When you ‘oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone, things will happen against your wishes.
The world is like a mirror; it reflects (shows) everything exactly the way it is. If there is a defect, it will reflect (show) that defect.
The religions of the world believe abandh (discharge part) as bandh (bondage; charging of new karma) and they have no idea about what causes bandh (bondage, charging of new karma).
The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).
Worries and sufferings are helpful for (one’s) spiritual development.
The Celestial (Heavenly Gods) become pleased with the one who isn’t hungry for fame and recognition. The whole world can be pleased with us, but because of our hunger they are not pleased with us.
What is the justice of this world like? It is that the world will call him as God (Bhagwan), the one who has no thoughts about money (wealth), no thoughts of sensual pleasures and one who remains separate from his body at all times.
You yourself are indeed Bhagwan [God], but the qualities of God have not yet manifested.
One who turns his face towards Bhagwan [God], turns towards him; he will receive the bliss and the light. God does not do anything else.
Bliss should come from within. We do not want the bliss that arises from looking on the outside. We want bliss that is eternal (sanatan anand).
When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!
No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply ‘Sees’.
On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of ‘apratikraman’ (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done).
When you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done.
A man who repents after doing any action, he will certainly become pure one day, that is definite.
You (must) do plenty of ‘pratikraman’. Do the ‘pratikraman’ for an hour every day of everyone who is living around you, whomever you have harassed.
What happens by doing ‘pratikraman’? The interferences that we have done (in the past), and its ‘reaction’ which will come (now), on that (reactions), we will not feel like interfering again.
God requires two things: ‘pure love’ and ‘true justice’. Everywhere else there is relative justice. Where ‘pure love’ and ‘true justice’ exist, there comes the grace of God!
The amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of ‘Pure Love’ arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in totality. This is the only way.
Eternal love’ (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation].
Where there is asakti [infatuation], there accusations cannot refrain from happening. That is indeed the nature of asakti [infatuation].
Where you don’t see pure love, there is indeed no path to moksha [ultimate liberation] there. Where there is a fee, there is no pure love there!
When there is not a trace of worldly love that is called ‘absolute ultimate love’ [paramarth prem]!
There is no problem if the other person pushes us but we have to make sure that we do not push the other person. Only then will we obtain the love of the other person!
One can become ‘Embodiment of Love’ [Prem Swaroop], only when there is no my-ness [mamata].
Compassion is an ordinary intent that is felt for everywhere in this world and it is the intent that, ‘the whole world is trapped in worldly miseries; how can their miseries be alleviated?
The fruit of worldly love is indeed revenge (vengeance).
As long as parmanus (subatomic particles) match, there is oneness, and then it turns into revenge (vengeance). Wherever there is infatuation, there will indeed be revenge there.
The one who becomes free from all kinds of beggary is bestowed the state of a ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].
Only after beggary (bhikh) goes away completely, can one see this world ‘as it is’.
Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].
By saying ‘this is wrong’, one is selling (wasting away) an invaluable human life!
To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!
People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti).
When the wrong belief [of ‘I am Chandubhai’] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is the result of the illusion [of ‘I am Chandubhai’].
As long as you are the owner (‘I am Chandubhai and all this is mine’), the worldly life remains. When does the ownership go away? When the wrong belief goes away.
What is ‘common sense’? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!
Enmity [Revengeful Karma] is the main seed of conflict [clash].
When you do pratikraman after conflict, the conflict is erased. When you give rise to new conflicts, the energies that had arisen will disappear again.
If ‘pratikraman’ happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad).
One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive – till then power of God will remain.
To become God (Khuda) one does not need weapons. One needs to recognize his [True] Self (Khud). The one who knows one’s own Self (khud), is God (khuda).
Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the main road to go to God, the rest are the ‘by-ways’.
Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the basement of this world.
Sincerity’ and ‘morality’, if you completely (from all angles) learn these two words then everything is completed!
Religion tells you to be sincere to yourself and be sincere to everyone else otherwise you cannot assimilate [attain] religion.
Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That is the ultimate meaning of morality.
The man who is not ‘sincere’ to others is not ‘sincere’ to his own self!
If you are only ‘moral’ or only ‘sincere’, even then you will go to moksha!
First live to be ‘sincere’ then ‘morality’ will follow.
Things that you have remained ‘sincere’ to, those many things you have won. The world has to be won; only then will it let you go to moksha!
How much is your sincerity, that much will be ‘Our’ divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace.
If you remain ‘insincere’ to one person, then that person will hold you back from going to moksha!
When you make ‘adjustments’ with everyone, that indeed is the highest of all religion (dharma).
If you are not able to ‘adjust everywhere’, then even the moksha,that you have in your hand, will go away.
In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work without adjusting?
We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has ‘adjusted everywhere’.
In a constructive policy, there is ‘adjust everywhere’ and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment.
The worldly life remains [and is not ending and one is not going to moksha] due to the pollution of the mind [bad mind/bad thoughts] and not due to the pollution of the body.
Violent intent (Hinsak bhaav) is indeed worldly life (sansar). When there is no Violent intent (hinsak bhaav) within us while the worldly life is going on, then we become free from all responsibilities.
Wherever one has to ‘do’ anything, there is worldly life (sansaar) there.
Pointing out people’s mistakes, having intention to take advantage of people, keeps one bound to a worldly life (sansaar).
The worldly life (sansar) means a basket full of worries.
The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, ‘you can keep on burning!
In marriage, at home and everywhere else, one is to remain superfluous. That is where people go in deep into; that is called the worldly life (sansaar).
Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.
When you give decision that the guilty is not guilty, only then will the guilty become not guilty.
There are only two things to understand in this world. First is, one’s own True Self, and the other is, our faults from the past [life]. Won’t these faults have to be broken?
If there was no such thing as a mirror in this world, then seeing our face ‘exactly’ would be considered a huge wonder.
The world is not going to stop whether you become ‘emotional’ or whether you don’t become ‘emotional’. The burden on one’s head comes from becoming ‘emotional’. Otherwise, the world continues to run, it will never stand still.
As long as kashay’s (anger, pride, deceit, greed) do not go away, you have not attained God’s religion even a little bit. Religion of the vitarags [the enlightened ones] means absence of kashay (anger, pride, deceit, greed).
Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.
Is it atikraman [Hurtful karma] if we eat, cut our hair or brush our teeth? No, it is not like that. Anger-pride-deceit-greed is considered atikraman [Hurtful karma]. If you do pratikraman [Ask for forgiveness], they will all go away.
If you are in ‘motion’ than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are ‘emotional’ than you are in an agitated state.
In this world, there is no such thing as good or bad. If there is flower shop on one side and a butcher’s shop on the other, why should we keep spitting? You have to leave away both the bad as well as the good.
Our talk is right and the other person’s talk is wrong, however if a conflict occurs, then it is wrong.
For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter.
When one does not like to have ‘underhand’, then automatically, he will not have a superior. That is its result.
The one, who likes to have an ‘underhand’, will inevitably come across a ‘boss’!
If we protect the ‘underhand’ [those working under us], then the ‘boss’ will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the ‘underhand’, then the boss will constantly reprimand us.
No living being can ever “hitch” another living being. If one were able to “hitch” another, then we can say that the principle of this world is false! In this world, no one being is a superior over another.
Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become a Gnani [the enlightened one].
If you keep the burden on your head, God (Bhagwan) will move away.
Instead of living together (in a joint family) with a difference of opinions, it is better to live separately and live with unity.
If you take an objection in the ‘relative’, it is intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ don’t have intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ are abuddha (do not have intellect) in the ‘relative’, and we are a Gnani [the enlightened one] in the ‘real’.
All these objections are raised by people, has God raised them? He who wants to be free (attain Liberation) has no objections, and he who wants to be bound, he will have nothing but objections. People become addicts of objections.
To object/protest (vandha), create difficulties (vachka), and wrong beliefs (agnan) – these three are the reasons the world’s delusion remains. It is to eradicate just these three things that all the worldly scriptures have been created.
In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything.
There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit.
Where there is contempt/scornful rejection and slander, there wealth will not remain.
What do the vitarags [the enlightended one] say? If you want to be beaten up, then beat others. If you want to be slandered, then slander someone.
Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the state of ‘shuddh upyog’ [pure awareness of pure soul].
If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.
To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities].
Merit karma is a credit amount and demerit karma is a debit amount [owe the amount to repay]. One is free to spend his accumulated amount wherever he wants.
If the fruit (of your effort) is to your expectations, it is the effect (prarabdha, result) of your merit karma [punya karma], if it is not to your expectation, then it is the effect of your demerit karma [paap karma].
Speech’ is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats).
(Spoken) words are considered an ‘expense’. ‘Speech’ should not be spent away. Speech is wealth. It should be ‘counted’ upon spending. Does anyone ever give out money without counting it?
Don’t calculate the world.” This world is untruthful. Don’t stop to do calculation, just keep on moving.
It is possible for one to receive all the glory of the world provided there is absolutely no ill intent, within him.
The worldly life means a puzzle of ‘wrong beliefs’.
The whole world is immersed in ‘wrong belief’. Even though ‘belief’ is wrong, one truly believes it is his own, doesn’t he? He believes it to be completely true, doesn’t he?
The worldly life is not the trouble, the ‘wrong belief’ is the trouble [oopadhi]. What happens when you believe that which is not yours, as being yours? You will be in trouble.
How many troubles (oopadhi) should you keep? Do not invite those that do not come and don’t stop the ones that are leaving.
The worldly life (sansar) is the thing created through delusion [wrong belief]. Therefore when you come to know about this wrong belief, it will go away.
There is no place for beggary [wanting things from others] in the current era. The law of vyavasthit [scientific circumstantial evidences] is such that one who has decided never to beg, will never have situation to beg.
I’ have not had to borrow or beg for years. This world is indeed all yours. If you know how to ‘see’, if you know how to view the world, if you know how to understand the world, then the world is truly all yours. You are truly the Owner.
What is trust? It is when there is no objection in the ‘parliament’ (comprised of mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is within; when there is agreement amongst all; that is called trust.
Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.
If you want to attain moksha (ultimate liberation), then you cannot give unsolicited advice. Give advice only when it is asked for. In order to give advice, you have to become the chief!
Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don’t say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn’t it?
Advice should only be given when it is sought, otherwise our own worthiness gets assessed.
Accept only as much ‘cleanliness’ that it won’t cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain ‘cleanliness’ such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage.
Eternal joy arises by living in the ‘permanent room’. Living in the ‘temporary room’ gives temporary joy.
This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one’s causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone’s ‘claim’ is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.
Don’t speak of action [effect]. Don’t serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause.
The path of the vitarags [the enlightened ones] is not one of ‘objection’. It is a path of giving ‘no objection’. They remain indifferent if circumstances for objection arises.
When you maintain silence, you would have said to have understood the world.
In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.
However much silence you behold, that amount of intellect will stop.
There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right.
All the words thrown on to others will eventually fall on you, so speak such pure words so that pure words will indeed fall on you.
Become ‘tested’ in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.
What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone.
How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own ‘safeside’?
What is the nature of human beings? When someone does something wrong to them, they will go after him [to punish, to fight].
One’s ‘life’ is ‘fractured’; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate liberation (moksha) if he wants moksha.
Man (human life form) is a ‘second-hand’ quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self].
Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all.
One becomes Parmatma (absolute supreme self) if he comes into the True Self even for a fraction of time.
Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know what benefit a person will bring.
The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.
Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness.
Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature?
You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we ‘say’, it is ‘egoism’. The whole world is in order [in control].
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!
Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married.
Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts.
What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There is no liability if one calls a whore a virtuous woman!
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.
God is where there are no ‘fees’ being charged, where there is no botheration and where there is no scolding; that is where God is.
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.
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.
Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others will accept it in their hearts. And if it is the truth and you nag or insist upon it, it will not touch others.
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.
The Lord says that abhorrence is beneficial. Love-attachment [Prem-raag] will never leave. The entire world is trapped in the suffering due to love-attachment (prem-parishaha). Just say your greetings from afar and become free.
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).
To see things (vastu) ‘as it is’ in its purest form, is called samkit (enlightened view; right belief), and to see it any other way is called mithyatva (wrong belief).
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)
When the servants break the cups and saucers, a ‘puzzle’ arises within. Who really breaks the cups and saucers? Who runs this world? One does not know that and inbetween, the ‘guest’ (of this world) does worries.
Is there not some arrangement (neutral gear) in the car, where the wheels do not turn, but the car keeps running? Similarly, one should do something, whereby worldly life continues and (karmic) ‘causes’ stops.
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.
From the moment you realize, ‘I am the most worthless person in this world’; you become valuable.
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.
Disturbing anything [situation] results in damage. To improve, you do not need to disturb anything that is natural and has turned bad. You need to make way out; you need to find a solution.
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.
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].
If we break someone’s ego, then we can’t be happy. Egoism is his life!
Until pride (vanity) leaves, there is nothing but pain, pain and more pain!
What does egoism mean? It means to become blind through one’s own vision. The Gnani [the enlightened one] removes the egoism.
What is the greatest weakness? ‘Egoism’. No matter how virtuous one may be, as long as the egoism is present; it is all useless. A virtuous person is only of use if he is humble.
There is no problem if there is ‘egoism’. But, it should be ‘normal’. ‘Normal’ egoism means that it does not hurt anyone.
Why does one ruminate about the past? He is treating his wounded egoism.
There is no value to anything in this world, at the same time there is no need to ‘devalue’ anything.
What has more value in this world? That which is in shortage.
The rupee becomes cheap [of less value] and is that why man becomes expensive [valuable] and when the rupee becomes expensive, man becomes cheap. At present, man has become cheap; he will become expensive again.
How beautiful are these bangles! But if you put them on a man, he will not like it because he has assessed his own worth. One cannot be the ‘thermometer (gauge)’ as well as the ‘fever’, both cannot be one.
When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault.
Everything is happening according to the ‘drawing’ [past causes], You just have to ‘see’ them. Desires are ‘drawings’ too.
One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob him. One’s own intention does the stealing; the thief is simply instrumental (nimit) in that. Really, the account is one’s own.
Anything you strive to correct, it will increasingly become wrong. So just let go of that which does not turn out right.
We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have the time to prove that ‘ours’ is correct; nor do ‘we’ have the time to make you correct as well.
Gnani’ [the enlightened one] is He who gives proof of whatever He says. He would not say, ‘All that I have said is correct; you will have to accept it’.
The world’s existence is with common intent. No one has ownership of it. One may do whatever suits him. You cannot criticize him; you cannot say, ‘This is wrong’. You cannot even think it. Everything is under nature’s management.
Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities.
Saints guide people on the path of religion [dharma] and the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants ‘liberation’ (moksha).
The greatest religion [dharma] is that we keep everyone pleased.
Moral conduct in the worldly life [vyavahaar charitra] is to behave in a way that hurts no woman and to not look at a woman lustfully.
Nothing in this world is ‘by chance’. There are “covered causes” (hidden) within. ‘By chance’ is also the result of an effort.
Who is considered a person [vyakti]? The one who has manifested (expressed) a little in the embodied self [vyakt] can be known as a person [vyakti]. If he is manifested (expressed) completely, he is known as a special person.
The saints have to ‘drink poison’ (worldly suffering) and the world has to ‘drink nectar’ (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak.
In a place of purity, if one does not follow the conduct of that place, there will be tremendous (karma) bondage. He will bind a life in hell!
Know the other person’s viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence.
All your future needs are ready for you, because within [us] resides the Supreme Lord. Provided there is no interference from [our] mind-speech-body!
Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal?
Everyone is born with the nimit (karmic evidentiary instruments). I too, am born with nimit. With this body, so and so number of tasks [work] will be done by him, such is the nimit!
If the inner [intent] is not spoilt, it means “Our Own Self” did not spoilt. That which has become spoilt on the outside will burn in the funeral pyre; whether it improves or not.
If nothing on the inside spoils, nothing on the outside will either. This is the hidden secret of this world.
When a person’s debt increases a lot, at first he will feel he wants to pay it all back, later he will think, ‘Why give back?’ That spoils from within. We should not sign from within.
In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.
There aren’t any ‘relative’ (worldly) things that is worth inviting. So what is worth inviting? The ‘place’ where we have to go is worth knowing.
God doesn’t need to be a witness. He doesn’t need to go to a court, does he? ‘You’ are the one who has to attain a witness state, so that there’s no karma bondage. And ‘God’ only keeps on ‘seeing’!
God does remain in a state of witnessing (sakshibhav), but that is a worldly God. Worldly God means witnessing through ‘egoism’. If one constantly remains in the witnessing state, then he would not bind karma.
Only this much needs to be known: If you separate ‘I’ and ‘my’, you will have known all the scriptures! Then the whole universe will be known to you!
I’ is in the form of the eternal element (vastu swaroop) and ‘my’ is in the form of circumstances (saiyog swaroop). Circumstance form and eternal element form are two different things.
Once you have learned how to subtract the gross form of ‘my’, subtract the subtle form of ‘my’. Thereafter, subtract the subtler and the subtlest forms. After subtracting all that, ‘I’ [Self] will be separate!
I’ is your own Self, only this much is to be ‘realized’!
Everyone knows how to subtract the gross form of ‘my’ (tangible ‘my’). But how can he know how to subtract the subtle, subtler and the subtlest forms of ‘my’? That is the work of the ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one].
I’ with ‘my’ is known as the embodied Soul [Jivatma]. ‘I am’ and ‘All this is mine’ is the state of an embodied Soul [Jivatma]. And ‘I indeed am’ and ‘All this is not mine’, is the state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!!!
I’ means the Self and ‘my’ means what belongs to the self. All that is ‘my’ is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry.
I’ and ‘my’ are two separate tracks. They never unite. One may say, ‘this is my wife, we both are one [united]’. But we can’t say they are ‘one’, can we? Both the ‘I’ are indeed separate, aren’t they?
There is only one way to be happy in this worldly life. Relinquish ‘my’ and go after [help to] people.
As long as your mind has the contemplation ‘the tiger is a violent animal’, it will remain violent. And if your contemplation is, ‘the tiger is a pure soul’, then it will not remain violent. Everything is possible.
There is no point in worrying about the effect [result], which has already occurred. It is worth paying attention to the facts (causes) upon which the effects [results] are based.
He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.
If one maintains the intent of, ‘no one should have the slightest difficulty on my account’, then his work will be considered to be done.
We’ had come to identify who was behind all the prodding and the pushing. Everything that happens to you, is really your very own. “Nobody is responsible for ‘you’. ‘You’ are whole and sole responsible for yourself.
This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is “round” (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it.
Once one’s vision changes to, ‘I don’t have a sofa in my house’, he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the ‘necessity’.
The thing [vastu, eternal element] itself is just one. But a ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ occurs due to illusion, because everyone’s viewpoint is different.
The meaning of worldly life is external problems [upadhi, problems arising out of external situations]. There is nothing in it which belongs to us. Seeds (causes) of external problems are sown, and external problems grow again.
The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries.
The ‘one’ who does no ‘egoism’, the worldly life ends for him!
In all animals, egoism is in a seed-form. It bears effect as a tree in the human life form! If the egoism is destroyed, ‘one’ becomes the ‘Absolute Supreme Self’[parmatma]!
What is the nature of egoism? It spends away everything in its power!
That which reduces our flawed vision is called religion [dharma]. It is non-religion [adharma] that increases a flawed vision. The worldly life is indeed the result of a flawed vision.
The mind-speech-body are effective. When will they not have effect on one? It is when one realizes one’s own [True] Self. It is when one attains the awareness, ‘I am indeed absolute Supreme Self (Parmatma).
Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].
To believe ‘I’ where ‘I’ is not, is known as tirobhav (concealed or hidden belief). To believe ‘I’-ness where ‘I’ is, it is known as Aavirbhav (visible or manifest belief).
If you make an inner-intent to remain steady in a completely unsteady atmosphere, you will be able to remain steady. This is because steadiness is indeed the quality of your own Self-form. So then, what do You have do with what is unsteady?
Inauspicious intents (ashubh bhaav) binds demerit karma (paap), auspicious intents (shubh bhaav) binds merit karma (punya) and pure intents (shuddh bhaav) results in liberation (moksha).
Knowledge of the [five] senses (indriya gnan) creates all kinds of intents. Knowledge beyond senses (ati-indriya gnan) doesn’t allow any intent to occur!
Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).
The world is our own reflection. As long as there is deceit in you, others will deceive you.
The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable.
In the beginning [in older days], if I were to say something that hurt the other person, I would turn it around by telling him, ‘Dear brother, my mind has been this way from the start!!!’ So the other person then becomes happy.
If we want to be free [get liberated], don’t compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.
Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall].
No one has been able to win this world. That is why ‘we’ have made a very profound discovery that will help win this world. ‘‘We’ sit here defeated; if you want to win, then come [to me]’.
To speak in a way that causes the other person to get disturbed is the greatest crime. On the contrary, if someone else speaks in that way, you should suppress it; that is considered a human.
The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop.
If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you.
The crying that is done in this world is due to wrong understanding and the laughing is also due to wrong understanding. This world is not worth the crying or laughing. This world is beautiful [which one needs to know and see].
All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!
How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the ‘Knower’ of experience of pleasure and pain.
You may have committed a very bad fault but if you repent for it a lot; if you repent ‘heartily’ for it; the fault will have to go away. But people don’t repent ‘heartily’, do they? They just say superficially that ‘it was my fault’!
The one who has won over duality is adwait (non-duality; state of oneness, free from duality-state). With a transparent inner vision one can attain a state beyond duality.
What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!
The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.
In this world, when no dualities affect one, when nothing affects him, and he attains the awareness of ‘I am absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma)’; one’s well-being [spiritual work] is done.
Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see ‘as it is’, and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God’s maya is gone, the solution is found.
Not knowing one’s real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.
The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence that one has memory.
What is the goal of a human being? An Indian person can truly achieve a state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma, the Lord]. To achieve one’s own Absolute Supreme Self state is the ultimate goal!
Whatever one knows, he knows on the basis of his egoism. The ‘Gnani’ [The enlightened one], who doesn’t know how to do anything; has no egoism whatsoever.
The worldly life [the relative] means ‘superfluous’. Instead of superfluous, people believe it to be real (of nischaya) and then they even say, ‘this is indeed the way it should be, that is indeed the way it should be done.
The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.
People’s mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others?
How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.
The Gnanis [The enlightened ones] have said that if one lives as if he is dead, death will never come to him.
The moment one is born, the ‘saw starts cutting’. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.
How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal.
Where there is ‘egoism’, there is no God. Where there is God, there is no ‘egoism’.
Undecided thoughts’ is called the mind. ‘Decided thoughts’ is called the intellect.
To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn’t it? The one who proceeds with caution will win.
Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are.
One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect.
It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in the bank but becomes unhappy when the money is gone. There is nothing in this world worth being relieved about because it is all temporary.
When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the one who has purity of mind, body and speech.
Neither the world nor one’s actions cause obstructions; kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) cause obstruction!
The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one’s kashays are gone, then he becomes the ‘owner’ of the whole universe.
Freedom from all types of pain and misery is the exact (proper) religion. It is exact (proper) religion when egoism departs and all ‘wrong beliefs’ go away. If the ‘wrong’ beliefs’ are there, true religion cannot be there.
As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion?
Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is not possible for egoism to decrease.
One who does not join in with the unfolding karmic effects (karma oodai) is a Gnani (Self-realized), and an agnani (non-Self-realized) cannot indeed refrain from joining in with the unfolding karmic effects.
God says that, ‘Either you tell me that you want only God, or you tell me that you want this worldly life; then I will give it to you.’ Do these people really want God? They actually want a house, they want wife and children.
One whose faith (nishtha) is set in God, he is known as Brahma-nishtha (settled in the Self).
When Self (Khuda) is realized, egoism (Aap-khudi) goes away.
When does one think of God? It is when he gains something from Him, when love for Him arises!
When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained.
Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, ‘Sir, these are the kind of mistakes I make’, so he will show you the solution.
Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it.
If God were the doer, when will there be an end?! (If) God is the creator and he made us, we become his toys, so that is the end? When will we become liberated? No one is your superior and no one is your ‘underhand’ (subservient to you).
No one in this world is your boss! Yet people walk around with a perplexed look, thinking ‘someone will take away my things!’ Hey, you are the owner of the whole universe. Who can take away what is yours?
The one who never rebukes his underhand will have no boss in this world!
Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swasatta) cannot arise.
Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point?
For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things
It is considered as conduct when it comes into exact understanding.
People remain glued in worldly interactions and that is their mistake. It is because they have become glued, they have to suffer the beating from the world.
The puzzle that is created by seeing the ‘relative’ is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the ‘Real’.
Until the ‘wrong belief’ leaves, we will continue to be robbed.
There is only supreme bliss in the Soul, our True Self. But this bliss is obstructed because of impure inner intents.
If one departs from the bliss of the Eternal, he will come across the happiness that is obtained from the temporary.
Why should one ever get pain? One is the Absolute Supreme Self (parmatma), how can one have any pain? It is the egoism that causes pain and it is also the egoism that suffers the pain! The absolute Supreme Self doesn’t have any suffering!
If you give pain to someone out there, you will start to feel the pain within you! Such is the science of the Vitraags [the enlightened ones]. If you take everyone’s pain for one lifetime, it will make up for losses of infinite lifetimes!
One, who has passed through one pain, gets the strength to pass through many pains. Then he becomes the expert in passing through the pains.
Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation].
The mind’s nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say ‘Why did you come at this wrong time?’ And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.
The Agna, liberating instructions of the ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one], purifies the mind. Knowledge of the Self [self realization] will give the mind, solutions in every circumstance.
If one discloses everything in speech he ‘designs’ in his mind, he will attain Moksha [liberation] sooner. The mind is so restless that it will create whatever design it wants and ruin countless [future] lives.
This whole world is functioning on the foundation of [karmic] ‘effect’. God has no hand in this. People did not understand this and that is why they put this on God’s head (blamed God).
If the ‘effect’ is experienced, [karmic] bondage is created. If one experiences the ‘effects’ alone by himself, the [karmic] bondage will not be sticky. If he involves another person in it, the karmic bondage will be sticky.
Right understanding is that which finds happiness in the state of unhappiness.
By doing actions, one will not attain Liberation [Moksha]; through understanding leads one to Liberation. The fruit (effect) of action is the worldly life [sansaar].
The owner of actions [doer] is called a worldly person [sansaari].
Where there is anger-pride-deceit-greed [kashay], there is fire, and as long as there is fire, there will be scorching pain of the furnace.
To say, ‘he lacks understanding’, about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed).
The whole world dislikes kashays (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed) and yet, all the kashays of the world are done willfully. One doesn’t like to be angry and yet he claims anger is necessary.
The one who can see all the viewpoints of the world is a savior (tarantaranhaar – one who has attained liberation and graces others with the same).
As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.
One who keeps an ‘open mind’ will be able to see God!
As the Self [Pure Soul], one never dies; it is only the beliefs that die.
The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality.
The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one’s own self.
The buddhi [intellect] is today’s gain, it is today’s experience! Whereas, akkal [insight, wisdom] is a nature’s gift!
That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn’t allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do ‘everywhere adjustment’.
Where there is use of the buddhi [intellect], there is no Moksha [Liberation], and where there is Moksha, there the intellect is not needed. Samaj [Understanding] is needed.
To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.
There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is ‘Gnan’, (true) Knowledge.
No one has been successful in this ‘race course’. One simply dies of exhaustion from running. ‘We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) never take part in this race. ‘We’ would simply tell, ‘Dear Man, I am not capable.
The one who blesses the winner, after having lost himself, will attain liberation (moksha); he will become “complete”.
If you try to win, you bind (create) enmity, and if you acknowledge defeat, you will be freed from enmity.
If only one word of the ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is understood, then your welfare [that which liberates] is done.
Charging [creation of new karma] is under ‘your’ control and discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature’s control. Therefore, if you want to charge, charge positively. Whatever you have charged, nature will not refrain from discharging.
Discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature’s hands. That’s why there is restlessness. That is why these are the pains of dependency [association]. There are such times man has to face that it becomes difficult for him to pass even one hour.
Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.
This world stands on the foundation of the relationship between the support and the support-taker. If the support is removed, the support-taker will be released.
The worldly life has arisen through the ego. One is indeed free if the ego dissolves. What is the foundation on which the ego stands? It is the ignorance of the Self.
This whole world is running solely on the foundation of ‘wrong belief’. Why is there suffering in the world? It is because one has acquired the ‘wrong belief’. With the ‘right belief’, there is no suffering at all.
When the ‘right belief’ occurs, the world will appear quite different. ‘Right belief’ will take one towards the Eternal (Self), and the ‘wrong belief’ will take one towards the worldly life.
The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion).
To attain the Self is indeed called the right belief (samkit).
When ‘my’ and ‘I’ are gone, it is known as a state free of wrong beliefs (nirvikalp)!
Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form.
To imagine the Self where it is not, is called maya (deceit).
The Lord states, ‘What can one do to go to moksha? He can go if he attains the right belief of the Self; or if he attains the grace of the Gnani Purush’.
When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion.
If a man keeps on talking negatively and we scold him, what is that tantamount to? It is like kicking the door of a latrine because it smells bad; will kicking it make it smell good?
If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is ‘relative’. And “All these relatives are temporary adjustments”.
The Gnani Purush [The enlightened one] always remains untouched in his worldly interactions. Everything will get resolved for us if we go to Him. He shows us what is ‘correct’ and what is ‘incorrect’.
When everyone in the family is united, when they resolve their issues with each other and unite; it is called vitarag bhav, attachment-free intent. And to disunite is to have raag-dwesh, attachment-abhorrence remain.
To say ‘I’ where I’ is not – is the greatest illusory attachment (raag).
The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.
All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.
As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then.
Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.
The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani!
There should be no restlessness within, no matter what the circumstances. If there is restlessness within, know that the kashays have not left yet.
Wrong belief is what bites one from the inside. There is no one biting him on the outside.
No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery.
You have a habit of having an ‘underhand’, and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world.
What is the one going to Moksha (attaining Liberation) like? He is someone who enjoys only the bliss of the ‘Self’.
Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise.
Religion is that which becomes the religion and gives results. When can we say it is this way? It is when it helps when someone insults you. It will not let you be affected by it.
Not doing attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) while experiencing the unfolding of karma is religion.
Everyone’s unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis’ (Self-realized person’s) duty.
Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?
God has said not to create any accounts (karmic). Create accounts (only) if you have the knowledge of the future. Hey! If you want to start an account, then why don’t you account for the possibility that you may die tomorrow?
The one who knowingly gets cheated is entitled to liberation!
There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle.
For the one who ‘enjoys’ (worldly) happiness, there will come a time for him to endure sorrow.
There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with ‘toys’ (interaction with people).
The one, whose worldly entanglements have gone, is called the ‘Absolute Person’ (Sampoorna Purush).
The world is entrapped through uneasiness, not through diseases (illnesses). Diseases (illnesses) are caused by uneasiness. Do the trees get any diseases (illnesses)? Do the crows become paralyzed or have high blood pressure?
Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins.
If there is true ‘Selfishness,’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).
Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own.
When monetary dealing in religion stops, the religion will manifest its splendor!
What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other ‘flaws’.
All that is ‘free of cost’ is compulsory (farajeeyat).
The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours’, isn’t it?
One cannot see one’s own mistakes in matters where his interest lies.
If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.
He who does propaganda for something will become famous about it, and if he remains incognito about it, he will become renowned. The value is for the renowned state and not for that of a famous state.
This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do?
If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within ‘why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only.
As long as this belief, ‘I am the doer’ is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state.
If one takes responsibility for the mistakes, he is the true person, isn’t it? Do not insist. Instead of insisting, instead of blaming others, take the responsibility of the mistakes on your head!
Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand).
That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.
Why should I care?’ – The one who says this is the greatest offender of nature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.
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 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.
In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on one’s own opinion.
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?
A person with a large tuber of self-pride remains engrossed in the fear of, ‘Someone is going to insult me…someone is going to insult me’ or ‘From where can I get respect? From where can I get the respect?
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.
If one knows how to ‘digest’ an insult after attaining Self-realization, he will become a ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one]. And if he ‘digests’ an insult before attaining Self-realization, he will become shameless (impudent).
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 will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.
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?
Even if you insult him, he gives you his blessings; such a one only is the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one]!
For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.
There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that ‘this should not be so’.
As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.
The slightest awareness of ‘my-ness’ is indeed egoism.
There is no ‘my’ in ‘I’. ‘My’ is outside of the ‘I’.
It is the body-complex that eats and one just does the egoism of ‘I ate.’ He is not aware that there is another entity. One simply takes on the suffering of another.
Who can go beyond the mind? The one who has conquered the mind.
Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions.
The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free.
The mind can be won over if it is kept separate from things that appeal to it.
Until Self-realization is attained; it is not worth having a fixed-view at any place, it is not worth having habitual-devotion at any place and it is not worth stopping anywhere.
As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms.
No one is a doer in this world. To claim, ‘I am doing’ is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the umbrella of egoism.
The rule is that when one’s mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person’s mind in that subject.
Where our own mind doesn’t listen to us, how can other’s minds follow what we say? One should not have such expectation at all.
When there is no venom (poison) of any kind in your eyes, when a liberated smile is seen, then people will do your darshan (will come to see you with intent of worship).
When you become worthy of people’s worship, you will be able to attain moksha (liberation), you cannot go to moksha just like that. Reproach (criticism) by people is the cause of a life in the lower realms.
He whose speech, behavior and humility captivates people’s minds, becomes worthy of worship by people.
The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires.
What is called true happiness? It is ‘chit prasannta’ (blissful state of chit). The person who has attained ‘chit prasannta’, he need not beg for anything in this world!
God has called ‘chit prasannta’ (blissful state of chit) as happiness. Even when someone swears at you, picks your pocket; the ‘chit prasannta’ doesn’t go away! Even at two o’clock in the morning, the ‘chit prasannta’ does not go away.
A place where the mind can attain stillness meaning doing darshan (seeing with the intent of worship) of a great person who has stillness of the mind, can still the mind of other person, however the chit is not steady there.
When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done.
The thoughts that arise because of ‘depression’ or ‘elevation’ are all wrong thoughts. The thoughts that arise in ‘normality’ are ‘correct’.
Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If ‘oneself’ gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive.
Regardless of how much wealth [material pleasures] one has, if he does not like bondage even for a moment, then he has become qualified to understand the science of the Vitarags [the enlightened one’s].
When the mind gets a solution [settlement], it is considered religion. It is considered irreligion when the mind does not get a solution.
I know’, is a big ghost. ‘This is mine’, is a huge demonic possession!
Principle’ [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle.
Only the ‘Right belief’ gives rise to non-contradicting principle and that which is free from contradiction is known as ‘Principle’.
That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle.
When there is no argument [dispute] over a talk, it is called ‘Principle’.
Who is considered as reputable in God’s language? The one who can do ‘world’s salvation’ just through his eyes!
The inner intent one has of ‘may everyone attain salvation’, will bring salvation to himself first.
There can never be suffering in the home of a person who is working for world’s salvation.
The mud of this body-complex (pudgal – that which charges and disharges) is such that the harder one tries to get out, the deeper and deeper he sinks into it.
To see happiness of others, that is what is our religion.
Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to?
The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation?
Who is considered a great man is the one who can be the smallest of the small.
It is called understanding when one accepts other’s talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?
When others try to provoke (instigate) you and you don’t get provoked, it is known as a spiritual victory.
No matter what kind of circumstances come together, if one’s stillness is not shaken and his goal does not change; he is known to have attained religion.
Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and ‘this’ (akram vignan) is a science itself.
This’ is not called a religion, ‘This’ is called a science (vignan). Religion keeps changing, science does not change.
What does religion say? It says that if you care for others then you will meet others who will care for you and if you hit others, you will meet others who will hit you. This is what all relative religions say.
Religion begins from the time man starts to give happiness to others.
Only one kind of religion cannot give peace to everyone. Whatever ‘degree’ one is sitting at, that ‘degree’ of religion he requires.
True religion is that which does not let you stumble.
As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances.
When attachment increases too much, dislike will arise.
It is the nature of the circumstances to disperse. If there is attachment with the circumstance, there will be abhorrence when they get dispersed.
As illusory attachment (moha) spread, one sunk deeper and deeper into the pit.
Egoism has arisen due to circumstances and circumstances have survived due to egoism. The one whose egoism is gone, for him circumstances are gone. Everything has come into existence because of wrong belief.
Moksha (Liberation) is to become free from gathering & dispersing of circumstances.
Abhorrence is the cause for conflicts. God has said, ‘Do no abhorrence. If you don’t like it, ignore it’.
Who is free from illusory attachment (nirmohi)? The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one). He can see flesh and bones, through and through.
Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches ‘ridge point’ & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence.
What is attraction (akarshan) in this world? It is open fire and one should be aware of it. Attraction is the open fire. The root of illusory attachment (moha) is indeed attraction.
Illusory attachment (moha) is indeed what will keep on biting you until the point of your demise!
What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others.
Absence of Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is indeed bliss.
When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves.
Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].
One does not see ‘what is there’ and sees ‘what is not there’, that is called moha (illusory vision).
Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them.
To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).
Egoism’s nature is not Moha (Illusory attachment). Moha’s (Illusory attachment’s) nature is egoism. Moha is the origin of egoism.
Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?
When can one attain samadhi (eternal blissful continuous peace)? It comes when one lets go of the things that he loves the most.
Where one does not do planning, it is all pure ‘discharge’. ‘Charge’ occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it.
Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction.
The awareness that ‘money will get spent’ must never be kept; whatever gets spent at whatever time is correct. That’s why it was told to spend money, so that they can be free from greed and they can give it again and again.
Money is ‘limited’ and people’s demands are ‘unlimited’.
If money is spent in the wrong way, then ‘control’ the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then ‘decontrol’ the spending.
When anyone can still the minds of five, ten or hundred people, then work can be accomplished. Who can still the mind? It is the one whose own mind is still, he can still the minds of others.
The mind and the chit are discharging and the world has believed them to be ‘charge’. That is why they attempt to still the mind and the chit, but that is not possible.
If one’s mind becomes conflict-free, that is ‘moksha’; conflict filled mind, that is worldly life.
No difficulty can come to you (your way). If the mind wavers, difficulty will embrace you! That is all, the law of the universe is just this.
One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh).
In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; ‘here’, there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization).
The whole world has the illusory awareness of, ‘I am the doer’. In reality, everyone’s karmas are getting discharged, but one is not aware of this. One has no awareness of his own True Self.
Where do you see conflict in this world? Only where there is infatuation (attachment).
To see anything other than ‘as it is’ – that is called the world.
The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle.
The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world.
One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.
It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from that? Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] can show it, (which is) ‘Pratikraman’.
One first celebrates a ‘silver jubilee’, then a ‘golden jubilee’, then a ‘diamond jubilee’, but even then he goes back again into a pile of wood (cremation).
People say that a person has a fever, when [in reality] the fever is leaving! The fever which accumulated within the body as a result of abnormal food, the body’s vitality power then creates the fever for the purpose of purification.
A thing or one’s eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!
When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!
Illusion (maya) cannot enter where there is ‘light’ (enlightenment, awareness). Once darkness falls, illusion will enter there. The Gnani Purush can arrange for your illusion to go away permanently.
If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However, it is a different matter if that person has a habit of talking negatively, but generally that is not the case.
The one who has developed a habit of taking a lot of respect from others [relish pride], will get cheated.
Till the chit is in blissful state, the world does not come in one’s remembrance (one forgets the world till that time).
A circumstance is not easy to come by and when it does, there are causes behind it. Therefore I do those things which bring an end to all the causes.
The true instrument is that, with the help of which, the egoism and my-ness goes away.
Scriptures are as ‘helping problem’. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine?
Whatever work you do in this world; the work itself has no value. If there is attachment-abhorrence behind that work, then only you are responsible for the next life. You are not responsible if attachment-abhorrence don’t occur.
Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.
If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won’t work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh).
What is it that doesn’t allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!
Once the entrancement (Infatuation; Deluded state), in material objects, is gone; the loss in spirituality stops!
If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!
Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again.
Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).
Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.
Where there is even the subtlest desire, the ‘Eternal Thing’ cannot be attained.
Obstacles (antray) are indeed due to desires. As desires keep on decreasing, so do the obstructions (antray) keep on getting destroyed. Then, everything is acquired (at that stage).
Why is it that ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have any obstruction (antray)? It is because ‘we’ are in a desire-free state (Nirichchhak dasha).
We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing ‘Jagat kalyan’ (world’s salvation).
One who speaks ‘completely’ negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and ‘positive’ does not create any obstruction (antray).
Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.
Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances get over.
It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes.
Where the ‘charging’ (of karma) stops, there lies the symptoms (signs) of attaining moksha.
Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if one does not have ‘knowledge of True Self’ (realization of the self), then he ‘charges’ new karmas within.
This is not suitable for me”- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say ‘will not suit’ is an offense.
To say that, “I will not agree (will not accept)” is great egoism!
Gnan (knowledge of the Self) can never become agnan (knowledge other than the self, of relative world). It is called agnan only when the focused applied awareness of the Self changes.
Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale.
If worries begin, then realize that the task at hand is going to be disturbed and if worries do not occur, then know that the task will not be disturbed. Worries are obstacles to the work.
When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.
Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side.
That what keeps us supported is dharma (religion).
When does complete awareness occur? When the ego departs.
Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.
Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it.
As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements.
Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).
Self Effort (Purushartha) is that which will bear fruits, without fail.
Moksha (ultimate liberation) means that you just have to change your vision.
Worry is the greatest seed [cause] for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest egoism. If the egoism leaves, then worries will go away.
Absence of conflict creating intents is itself Moksh (Ultimate Liberation).
Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a ‘weakness’.
While following religion, where ‘any thing’ is required, they are all called ‘relative’ paths.
Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion.
Gnani Purush’ (The Enlightened one) is pure, so one becomes pure by just seeing him.
As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.
When you walk around with a long face in the house, that is called conflict.
If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only.
One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family).
Absence of worldly misery – that is called eternal bliss.
This’ path is not to be followed through force. It is to be followed through understanding.
If you want to travel on the path of moksha (ultimate liberation), ‘You’ (the Self) do not have to ‘do’ anything. And if you want to wander in the worldly life, ‘You’ have to ‘do’ everything.
The suffering that is there in this world is such that it will fall off (go away), but people give support to it.
The person who knows how to adjust to others, he will not have any suffering. ‘Adjust everywhere’.
What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage.
Moksha (ultimate liberation) cannot be attained until purity arises. To attain purity one has to realize ‘Who am I?
Imaginary happiness has an “end” and real happiness is “permanent”.