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Enlightenment Quotes
"The world needs teachers " teachers who have broken their own shackles of indoctrination " teachers who can go beyond the narrow-mindedness of the society. A handful of these young, brave and zealous teachers in every nation, shall be enough to rekindle the spark of pure knowledge in the entire species."
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"There are several grave consequences that come with lack of knowledge, the paramount is destruction."
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"Vitarag's [the enlightened one's] 'water' (knowledge) will remove any kind of (karmic) 'stains'."
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"Enlightenment is a paradoxical phenomenon. You need to be commited to become enlightenment, and to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. But at the same time you can not force enlightenment to happen by sheer will. It is like the situation with happiness: you can not force happiness to happen, but you can create the right circumstances for happiness tohappen. You need to be willing to die, to let go of your limited sense of "I, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being."
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"Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experiencer is lost. The "I", the ego is lost.Enlightenment is more like an experiencing. It is a process. It begins, but it never ends. You enter it, but you can never possess it. It is a deep merging and melting with Existence. It is a oneness. It is like a drop dropping into the Ocean."
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"Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi."
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"To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole."
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"Stars shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them."
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"Knowledge is the switch that turns on the light, wisdom is the battery that powers it."
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"Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World."
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"So throw off all desires, remove all the dust from your eyes, be at ease within, not longing for something, not even for God. Every longing is the same, whether for a big car, or God, or a big house, makes no difference. Longing is the same. Don't long " just be. Don't even look " just be! Don't think! Let this moment be there, and you in it, and suddenly you have everything " because life is there. Suddenly everything starts showering on you, and then this moment becomes eternal and then there is no time. It is always the now. It never ends, never begins. But then you are in it, not an outsider. You have entered the whole, you have recognized who you are."
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"Enlightenment " whether defined as spiritual awakening, liberation, or other form of illumination and attentiveness " requires inner transformation brokered by study of our limitations and application of a welcoming spirit of conscious appreciation. Self-knowledge commences by looking for the sacred light of awareness essential to spawn profound change in a person's character."
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"To be unattached in every phase of one's life is indeed full enlightened bliss of the Self (Purna samadhi)!"
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"She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves."
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"A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices."
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"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]."
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"It is time for us to open our eyes. It is time for us to awaken to new possibilities and make them real. It is time for us to awaken our dormant spirituality-first as individuals, then as whole nations, and finally as the whole of humanity-and raise up our collective consciousness.-Healing Society: A Prescription for Global Enlightenment."
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"The path of the vitarags [the enlightened ones] is not one of 'objection'. It is a path of giving 'no objection'. They remain indifferent if circumstances for objection arises."
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"Follow the path that leads to understanding. Only then, will you illuminate the way for others. Once you open your mind and gain knowledge, truth, you'll leave the darkness and enter into the light of wisdom."
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"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart."
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"I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself."
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"There are no crash courses on 'enlightenment', you only crash in a course like that."
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"The one, whose worldly entanglements have gone, is called the 'Absolute Person' (Sampoorna Purush)."
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"The day you discover the GOD within, your quest to meet GOD outside stops!!!"
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"We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God."
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"Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue."
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"If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled."
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"Illusion (maya) cannot enter where there is 'light' (enlightenment, awareness). Once darkness falls, illusion will enter there. The Gnani Purush can arrange for your illusion to go away permanently."
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"Light is what we are called to preach. Our lord and saviour called himself light of the world."
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"Gnani Purush' [the enlightened one] has become 'Soul' (Atma, Self) while staying with the body."
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"Where there is no Sachchidanand [sat-chit-anand, eternal knowledge and vision leading to bliss], there is night (darkness)."
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"The worldly [spiritual] science is methodic (kramic) in nature; one progresses "step by step; one has to ascent one step at a time. Whereas this here, is Akram Vignan, a path of step-less spiritual science; it is a science that has arisen after 10 Lac (a million) years. In this path, one travels in only an 'elevator'. There is no effort to climb stairs here. Thereafter, one is constantly in the uninterrupted bliss of the Self (samadhi). There is constant bliss amidst mental affliction (aadhi), internal suffering (vyadhi) and externally induced affliction (oopadhi)."
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"It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! (character of Siddhartha, speaking to the Buddha)."
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"The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets."
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"Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it..."
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"You have a light in your heart and that is your love, it can shine like a sun to enlighten the whole world."
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"Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance."
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"A person desires to leave a mark of goodness on earth before death arrives. All artists are creators in the face of death. All of life a person seeks to salvage something worthwhile and enduring from living a tragic life. We must eventually dance with death. A person begins on a road leading to personal enlightenment by giving up false beliefs, quelling destructive desires, overcoming fearfulness, and by seeking truth. In order to lead an evocative life full of truth, I must stop living a false life, conquer my fearfulness, and begin expressing love, wonder, and gratitude for all the beauty and splendor of the world."
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"In this world, when no dualities affect one, when nothing affects him, and he attains the awareness of 'I am absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma)'; one's well-being [spiritual work] is done."
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"Light does not have to beg darkness to shine."
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"An enlightened person strives to live a meaningful life, defined by their personal humility joy, passion, and profound reverence for life."
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"Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe."
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"Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva's old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity."
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"Ancient wisdom is a present blessing."
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"Everyone knows how to subtract the gross form of 'my' (tangible 'my'). But how can he know how to subtract the subtle, subtler and the subtlest forms of 'my'? That is the work of the 'Gnani Purush' [the enlightened one]."
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"Once you emerge from the state of absolute divinity, the self within you becomes Christ " it becomes Buddha " it becomes Moses " it becomes Krishna. The sage who emerges from the state of non-duality begins to perceive the self as Christ, not Christ as Christ " the self as Moses, not Moses as Moses " the self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed " the self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna."
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"Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings."
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"If I see darkness in the Church I bring light to it."
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"The ambitious strive to be well known, the enlightened strive to be worth knowing."
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