Spiritual Quotes - Page 58

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).

A sacred soul is a spiritual being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

The soul that knows it soul is sacred.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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 are so many things in this world. If we put it in short (succinctly), then what will remain? The ‘pure Soul’ and ‘circumstances’. Moreover, to disperse is the nature of circumstances. Therefore, the Pure Soul will not have to tell them to go away.

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.

The light within ignite the spirit of my soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What is within is untouchable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

Who doesn’t allow one to attain siddh gati (the final state of Liberation, moksha)? The body-complex (pudgal - that which charges and discharges). Similarly, what doesn’t let a gourd covered with mud, to go on top and float on water? The mud. The negative atoms, they weigh very heavily. They drag the Soul, the Self lower down.

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).

Mastering my mind one thought at a time.

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.

In suffering, we resurrect our souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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).

Search deeply in your soul, you will find love, peace and joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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).

A strong soul recovers from any suffering.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep seeking the spirituality of thy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In suffering, I got to know my soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In deep suffering, I got to know divinity within my soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Music is the soul food.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not forget to care for your body, soul and spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The strength of the spirit sustains the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Seek the truth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you do not sow good deeds, you fail to flourish your soul garden.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Human strength fails, but the divinity within strengthen the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

All the material wealth cannot satisfy the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

If you want to know the answer to ‘Who am I?’, then you will have to go to a Gnani purush [the enlightened one]. The Gnani Purush will give you Knowledge of your real Self [Who Am I] in the presence of the egoism. Thereafter your accounts (karmic) will be settled [& things will start falling in place].

A soul is a vast collection of experiences. The unification of lessons. The accumulation of events designed to help us evolve and grow through love.

Brownell Landrum

Sacred soul radiates inner light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is a sacred soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I did this so well’- one says this and tastes the sweetness of subtle pride of doership. One enjoys the sweetness of this subtle pride. There is pain [suffering] with projection of doer-ship. God is eternal bliss and that indeed is the nature of the Self!

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).

The sacred duty of every soul is to fear God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Even a child cannot sit here without support. Some support will be necessary. No one can live without the support from the material world. After getting the support from one’s own Soul, one doesn’t need the support from the material world. ‘He’ will then become independent [support-free].

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.

I’m drawn to the Jewish notion of the soul, nephesh, which is not something preexistent but emergent—forming in and through physicality and relational experience. This suggests that we need our bodies to claim our souls. The body is where every virtue lives or dies, but more: our bodies are access points to mystery. And in some way that barely makes sense to me, I’m sure that we have to have feet planted on the ground, literally and metaphysically, to reach towards what is beyond and above us.

There’s an infant part in our souls which longs for the lullaby truths of life every night for a tranquil slumber.

If this world always made sense and there wasn't the gloomy dark nights that awakened your soul, you would never grow ~ you would never become, nor seek greater version of yourself.

I don't care what anyone says, the stars give you hope on a dark and gloomy night.

People underestimate the stars and the connectedness they bring between spirit and matter. More often than not, when lost, we seek solitude in staring into the darkness hoping something speaks back to us, usually through a feeling, a thought or a rare occurrence of a shooting star.

Natural Self is the Soul and illusion is the relative self [prakruti].

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 you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.

He who can see his own mistake can become absolute supreme Self (Parmatma)!

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!

Don't lose heart, we're just rusty angels.

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]!

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