Spiritual Quotes

Since you become engrossed in the mind, you experience not only misery but also happiness. And when You do not become engrossed in either situation, You experience eternal bliss (parmanand).

To nurture good intents, to nurture elevated intents is considered positive purusharth (spiritual effort in the relative sense). Through that, one will ascend to a higher life-form in the next life. To nurture negative intents is considered negative purusharth. Through that, one will regress to a lower life-form in the next life. And if after coming into the state as the Self (Purush), One engages in Real Purusharth (the Real spiritual effort to progress in the experience as the Self), then He will attain moksha (ultimate liberation)!

There are two paths to realize Bhagwan (God; the absolute Self): one is indirect worship (paroksh bhakti) of Bhagwan, and the other is direct worship (pratyaksh bhakti) of Bhagwan. In paroksh bhakti, the tendencies of the chit do not remain engrossed in Bhagwan. In pratyaksh bhakti, the tendencies of the chit remain constantly engrossed in Bhagwan. Without realizing who Bhagwan is in the Real sense, pratyaksh bhakti cannot arise.

Despite making a firm resolve, if it starts to waver, then you should make the firm resolve over and over again. But you should never say things like, “I cannot do this, I cannot do that.” By saying such things, [the energies of] the [worldly-interacting] self shatter to pieces.

Nowadays, most of the quarrels at home are arising from suspicion. Suspicion gives rise to vibrations, which in turn give rise to sparks. Whereas if one becomes free of suspicion, then these sparks will extinguish on their own. How can the sparks extinguish if both people are full of suspicion? There is no choice but for one of the two to become free of suspicion!

All these people are marrying for the sake of happiness, however, the poor things are actually feeling miserable from within! The reason being, to be happy or to be miserable is not something that is under one's own control. That is purely dependent on the karma that one has charged in the previous life. Moreover, one has no choice in the matter, those karma certainly have to be suffered.

He who becomes weary of the pleasures of worldly life is eligible to attain moksha.

A person who is not sincere to others is being insincere to his own Self!