Quotes by Spiritual Leaders - Page 32

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].
Dada Bhagwan
If a prisoner paints his cell in the prison, does it mean that he likes the prison? Why does he do so? It is because he has no choice. Similarly, one has no choice in the worldly life, and that is why he builds a house, buys car, builds a bungalow.
Dada Bhagwan
The one who becomes free from all kinds of beggary is bestowed the state of a ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].
Dada Bhagwan
You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.
Yogi Bhajan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life.
Dada Bhagwan
Wrong belief is what bites one from the inside. There is no one biting him on the outside.
Dada Bhagwan
Those who eat what is rightfully theirs, will incarnate as humans. Those who take what is not theirs by right, will incarnate as animals. Those who give away to others, what is rightfully their own, will incarnate as celestial beings. Those who hurt others and take away from them what is not theirs by right; will take birth in hell.
Dada Bhagwan
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’.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
He whose speech, behavior and humility captivates people’s minds, becomes worthy of worship by people.
Dada Bhagwan
So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.
Gautama Buddha
There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right.
Dada Bhagwan
Clashes should not occur whatsoever. Due to conflicts only have the energies diminished. Regardless of what may happen to the body, do not ever enter into conflicts. The body is not going to go away just because someone says so, or if someone casts a curse on it. The body is under the control of vyavasthit [scientific circumstantial evidences].
Dada Bhagwan
Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan—the holy air—which renews all by its breath. Woniya, woniya wakan—spirit, life, breath, renewal—it means all that. Woniya—we sit together, don’t touch,but something is there; we feel it between us, as a presence. A good way to start thinking about nature, talk about it. Rather talk to it, talk to the rivers, to the lakes, to the winds as to our relatives.
John (Fire) Lame Deer
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.
Dada Bhagwan
If ‘pratikraman’ happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad).
Dada Bhagwan
How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.
Marianne Williamson
It is in the stillness of the mind that we perceive the heart with clarity. By constantly observing the inner weather, we steer through life wisely, steadfastly, sans regrets.
Daaji
There is no means other than vitrag-science (science that frees us from all attachments) that will give Final-Liberation [Moksha]. Other means [methods, instruments] will cause bondage; they only help to pass the time; [whereas] means to attain the Eternal Thing (experience of Pure Soul) can be attained from the ‘Gnani Purush’ (the enlightened one).
Dada Bhagwan
This’ path is not to be followed through force. It is to be followed through understanding.
Dada Bhagwan
Know the one who wants nothing to be the wealthiest.
Radhe Maa
Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, non-harming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others.
Dalai Lama
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.
Dada Bhagwan
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
Black Elk
We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences.
Dalai Lama XIV
True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.
Mata Amritanandamayi
Love is God, and the one that believes in love, believes in God.
Radhe Maa
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.
Dada Bhagwan
People don't realise that to be free means to be firmly attached to a system, that discipline is the road to a higher freedom.
Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.
Sri Chinmoy
What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!
Dada Bhagwan
No one is a doer in this world. To claim, ‘I am doing’ is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the umbrella of egoism.
Dada Bhagwan
If you won't improve yourself, who will?
Radhe Maa
The Gnani Purush simply makes the separation in one’s vision: ‘This is the vision of the Soul, the real Self’ and ‘this is the vision of the worldly self’. Otherwise a person can never make this change in his vision. One’s vision of ‘I am Chandubhai’ (vikalpi drashti) will never become the vision of ‘I am the Pure Soul’ (nirvikalpi drashti).
Dada Bhagwan
You will not realize the absolute supreme Self (parmatma) unless the weakness departs. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the weaknesses.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
Even if I say something, do not believe this nonsense, but do not disbelieve it either. Just see, "Someone is willing to sit in front of so many people and talk absolute nonsense, something that is totally absurd. Let me see what this is about." If you keep that much openness, the possibility is alive in your life. If you believe it, you will kill it. If you disbelieve it, you will kill it.
Sadhguru
If you keep the burden on your head, God (Bhagwan) will move away.
Dada Bhagwan
Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point?
Dada Bhagwan
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
Gautama Buddha
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life.
Sri Chinmoy
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.
Dada Bhagwan
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Guatama Buddha
The thing [vastu, eternal element] itself is just one. But a ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ occurs due to illusion, because everyone’s viewpoint is different.
Dada Bhagwan
Your Real Self is the permanent atom of your identity, the rock of ages that remains unmoved by the restless tides of life.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn.
Dalai Lama XIV
It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of th
Gautama Buddha
The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle.
Dada Bhagwan
A king will say 'I killed thousands of people'. He is simply doing egoism; he is taking pleasure in taking credit of doership (garva ras). They were killed by those who were on the battle field. Why does the king needlessly take on the liability [of new karmic causes]? In doing so, those who did the killing are set free. The rule is that the liability falls upon the one doing egosim [of doerhip].
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
In reality, those who cheat are indeed the ones who get cheated. Those who are cheated will gain experience and develop (spiritually) in the process. Only money earned dishonestly will be taken away (by nature) from one; rightfully earned money will be put to good use!
Dada Bhagwan
if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.
Dalai Lama XIV
Spirituality [Nischay] means complete truth and worldly interactions means truth to a certain extent.
Dada Bhagwan
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’.
Dada Bhagwan
When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
Gratitude is pure happiness.Happiness is sure perfection.
Sri Chinmoy
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?
Dada Bhagwan
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama XIV