Quotes by Spiritual Leaders - Page 23

Without space, there could not have been God. Likewise, without chit the other three elements, manas, buddhi and ahankar cannot manifest.
Daaji
It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way.
Sri Chinmoy
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama XIV
We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) are by nature, non-interfering. If ‘we’, ourselves are non-interfering, then how can interfering people around ‘us’ can touch ‘us’? All interferences go away in ‘our’ [the Gnani’s] presence. What problems can the one that dwells in the Self [the Soul], have? The worldly life does not hinder the one who dwells in the Self.
Dada Bhagwan
Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.
Gautama Buddha
What do you mean by ‘Divine Consciousness’? It is achieving the knowledge of oneness, i.e., to know that outside we are many but inside all are one.‘Vedanta’ mentioned about ‘oneness’, but could not say what is oneness. When I am saying that I am a living being all your Vedanta’s, scriptures and traditional religions become extinct.
Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
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.
Dada Bhagwan
In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.
Mahavira
I know’, is a big ghost. ‘This is mine’, is a huge demonic possession!
Dada Bhagwan
One who keeps an 'open mind' will be able to see God!
Dada Bhagwan
There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.
Guru Nanak
If your monetary wealth accumulates naturally and spontaneously, then let it accumulate, but do not lean on it for support. You may take its support and feel a sense of relief, but there is no telling when that support will move away. Therefore, conduct yourself with caution from the beginning so that you are not shaken up during time of painful experiences.
Dada Bhagwan
Effective meditation must lead the meditator to the heights of the infinite sky of superconsciousness and facilitate the plunge into the deepest ocean of subconsciousness, and emerge the wiser. This way our consciousness evolves.
Daaji
The Knower of ‘taste’ is the Soul. The enjoyer of 'taste' is not the Soul.
Dada Bhagwan
Don't wait for the right conditions. All you need for your growth is available to you in this moment
Radhe Maa
To live without an aim is to wander in a wilderness.
Radhe Maa
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.
Dada Bhagwan
Walking on the path I met my Master, known by a million names in different cultures and places yet people have forgotten the way to HIM.
Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
If your instigations stop, then there will not be anyone to instigate you. All these are indeed the results of your own [past] instigations. 'You' are a King of the whole universe. 'You' do not indeed have anyone above you (as a boss, upari). 'You', yourself are the Parmatma (absolute supreme Soul).
Dada Bhagwan
Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. ‘We’ are separate and the relative self is separate from us. ‘We’ should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn’t get involved with those problems.
Dada Bhagwan
Do you want to be happy?Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.
Sri Chinmoy
Focused awareness of the Self in one direction (upayog) is considered enlightened awareness (jagruti).
Dada Bhagwan
If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama
Don't stop now. Keep going. The next time someone makes you feel though, winning as you are, perhaps you're getting too big for your britches; say to them silently, "i haven't even started yet.
Marianne Williamson
Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.
Sri Chinmoy
The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of Liberation, at which there is no more suffering. That’s genuine, lasting happiness. True happiness relates more to the mind and heart. Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it’s there, the next day it may not be.
Dalai Lama XIV
Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers
Radhe Maa
You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
Self Effort (Purushartha) is that which will bear fruits, without fail.
Dada Bhagwan
Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing just to satisfy your desires? If you cannot tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind by others' words and actions, what right have you to do the same to others through your words and deeds?Do unto others as you would like to be done by. Injury or violence done by you to any life in any form, animal or human, is as harmful as it would e if caused to your own self.
Mahavira
To attain the Self is indeed called the right belief (samkit).
Dada Bhagwan
Nothing can be attained until all supports other than those of the pure Soul have been eliminated.
Dada Bhagwan
To master life, control the mind. To control the mind, guard your speech.
Radhe Maa
Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.
Dada Bhagwan
Everyone’s unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis’ (Self-realized person’s) duty.
Dada Bhagwan
If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within.
Dada Bhagwan
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’.
Dada Bhagwan
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama XIV
Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind.
Dada Bhagwan
Worldly life (sansar) means to get tired and to rest.
Dada Bhagwan
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
Marianne Williamson
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
Gautama Buddha
No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!
Dada Bhagwan
To see anything other than ‘as it is’ - that is called the world.
Dada Bhagwan
People on the worldly path, to them ‘we’ say, ‘Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead.
Dada Bhagwan
One becomes Parmatma (absolute supreme self) if he comes into the True Self even for a fraction of time.
Dada Bhagwan
Moksha (ultimate liberation) means that you just have to change your vision.
Dada Bhagwan
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].
Dada Bhagwan
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]’.
Dada Bhagwan
Two thousand and five hundred years ago Lord Buddha announced, ‘By self- exertion we will achieve ‘Nirvana’, and then Hinduism announced, ‘By self-mortification and self-exertion we shall achieve the supreme knowledge. But this supreme knowledge means knowledge of oneness. No, not the knowledge of oneness, it is rather oneness only and that is achieved spontaneously.
Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
Dalai Lama XIV
Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swasatta) cannot arise.
Dada Bhagwan
Scriptures are as ‘helping problem’. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine?
Dada Bhagwan
When you give decision that the guilty is not guilty, only then will the guilty become not guilty.
Dada Bhagwan
When monetary dealing in religion stops, the religion will manifest its splendor!
Dada Bhagwan
For the one who ‘enjoys’ (worldly) happiness, there will come a time for him to endure sorrow.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan