Spiritual Quotes - Page 50

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!

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].

The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become confused. Woman has some work from men and men has some work from women. All this has arisen because of work (expectations). If work does not get completed, all within will complain and form an attack. Not for even a second has anyone become one’s own. Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] will become yours. That is why the Lord has said, ‘Every living being is an orphan’.

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].

Everything in the world has a life span and We (the Self) are without a life span, so how can the two correlate? To make association with those with a life span (mortal), we too have to become one with a life span. And that has created all this fiasco.

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)!

What do the Vitaraag [the enlightened one] say? ‘If you want to continue to remain in the worldly life, then do what people say, but if you want to attain Moksha [ultimate liberation], then do only what I say, then only you can go to Moksha!

The Lord has said to the worldly people, if someone possesses certain energies, by recalling that person, the same energies will arise within you. If you don’t know how to ask for godly energies, but if you want to jump, then by recalling a monkey and asking for energies from him, you will be able to do so. If you want to bark, you have to ask for the energy from a dog! The Gnani [The Enlightened One] has infinite energies; if you recall Him, you will attain all those energies!

The tolerance power is the mother of egoism!

People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti).

In both pleasant experience producing karma effect (shata vedaniya) and unpleasant experience producing karma effect (ashata-vedaniya), there is indeed a constant inner burning (antardaah, inner suffering). But because one has moorcha (worldly engrossment/fascination due to deluded worldly view), one does not notice it; he remains in a state similar to being unconscious.

Why is there inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] present? Inner Burning [Antardaah] is not dependent/based on merit or demerit karma (paap-punya). Inner Burning [Inner suffering] is indeed present in both suffering producing karmas, unpleasant (ashata vedaniya) as well as pleasant (shata vedaniya). Inner Burning [Inner suffering] is dependent upon the wrong belief.

Here’, I am a disciple just as you are. The one you see is not ‘Dada Bhagwan’; it is ‘A. M. Patel’, a Patidaar from the town of Bhadran. The one sitting within is ‘Dada Bhagwan’. ‘I’ myself make everyone do jai jai kar of Dada Bhagwan [sing praise of Dada Bhagwan]. Therefore, ‘I’ too am a devotee, as are you.

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]!

Gnani’s [The enlightened one’s] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate liberation]. And the worldly people’s sangna [directions] is the compass then it will make you wander in the worldly life.

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.

Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we scold someone for what they do. If you scold him, he will do it even more. (Instead) You should explain to him with love. All diseases will disappear with love. You will get pure love either from the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] or his followers!

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 ultimate form is the embodiment of love (Premswaroop)! The love of these (so called) lovers (Romeo-Juliet) does not work there. The Love of God (the Lord) is ‘Pure Love’. That which increases or decreases is infatuation [asakti]. There is no increase or decrease in ‘Pure Love’.

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.

I don’t intend to fight with anyone; I have only one weapon of love. I want to win the world with love. What the world calls love, is really worldly love. [True] Love is when even if you curse me, I would not get ‘depressed’ and when you garland me with flowers, I would not become ‘elevated’. In true love, there would not be any changes. Changes can occur in the intent and feelings (bhaav) of the body, but not in ‘pure love’.

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].

Life is spiritual voyage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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?

What is the nature of the worldly life (sansar)? God lives in every living being of the world, that means if you oppress any living being or cause misery to them, then adharma (unrighteousness, irreligion) will occur. The result (effect) of adharma will be against your desires and the result of dharma (righteousness, religion) will be favorable to your desires.

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