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Liberation Quotes
"They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself."
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"Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation]."
8
"I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias."
7
"Eternal love' (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation]."
7
"What is the one going to Moksha (attaining Liberation) like? He is someone who enjoys only the bliss of the 'Self'."
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"All these objections are raised by people, has God raised them? He who wants to be free (attain Liberation) has no objections, and he who wants to be bound, he will have nothing but objections. People become addicts of objections."
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"Liberate yourself from any mental captivity."
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"And oft the blessed time foretellsWhen all men shall be free;And musical, as silver bells,Their falling chains shall be."
6
"When one remains 'sincere', no type of fear will come to him in the worldly life (sansar) and it will lead him to moksha (ultimate liberation)!"
6
"Do not hold on to circumstances."
5
"By doing actions, one will not attain Liberation [Moksha]; through understanding leads one to Liberation. The fruit (effect) of action is the worldly life [sansaar]."
5
"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?"
5
"If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be. If you want to completely liberate a child, all you have to do is grow them into the person they were created to be. The former cannot see God in the child. The latter can see nothing less."
5
"When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!"
4
"When there is no attachment-abhorrence, one is on the path of liberation [moksha]."
4
"Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make."
4
"If God were the doer, when will there be an end?! (If) God is the creator and he made us, we become his toys, so that is the end? When will we become liberated? No one is your superior and no one is your 'underhand' (subservient to you)."
4
"A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings."
4
"Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be 'above normal' or 'below normal,' it should be 'normal'."
4
"Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation)."
4
"The worldly life just goes round and round; there is no end to it. If you want to bring an end to it, ask the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one], 'How long do I have to keep on wandering? I have been going round and round like the ox running the millwheel. Tell the Gnani Purush 'please bring about a resolution for me!"
4
"When one decides that I want to get rid of the mistakes which are in me, he can become the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma)."
4
"One's liberation begins once he does the darshan of kashaya-free (absence of inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) Gnani purush [the enlightened one]. Who is considered kashaya-free? The one whose state is that where there was no kashaya, there is no kashaya, and there never will be any. The one who is never in the state of the non-Self. Doing darshan of such a One brings ultimate well being."
4
"Quitting a job can be like an exorcism where you cast out a demon. The demon is the foreign spirit who occupies you through your occupation."
3
"The path to freedom is illuminated by the bridges you have burned, adorned by the ties you have cut, and cleared by the drama you have left behind. Let go. Be free."
3
"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."
3
"Down play religion, get yourself free from religion."
3
"When does one qualify (for moksha)? It is when he never has any conflict in the worldly life."
3
"What is the body complex (pudgal)? It is influx and outflow (puran-galan); it is credit and debit. And if you attain knowledge of the Soul, the Self, then you will attain Moksha (liberation)."
3
"Who is considered as not living in the worldly life? The person who doesn't have focus on the non-Self. 'I' (the Gnani Purush) do not live in the worldly life even for one moment. Liberation (Moksha) is to be found through the one who does not live in the worldly life. What can you not attain through the grace of such a person?"
3
"If a person is not free, his right is restricted."
3
"Faith is the resplendent key that liberates me from the impregnable confines meticulously constructed from the raw material of my disbelief."
3
"Indoctrination is dangerous."
3
"In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me."
3
"What is it that doesn't allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!"
3
"People create sins out of nothing and in doing so have enslaved their fellow man! Man is not bound by sin but man is bound by the idea that almost everything he is doing is a sin!"
3
"The path people know, is not the path of liberation. It is the path of the worldly life. The path of liberation is not one of imagination. It is a pure path. Where there are no worries, no externally created problems. There is bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst all external problems."
3
"We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul."
3
"We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would be disavowing the entire peace-loving Muslim population of the world. We cannot leave our Muslim sisters and brothers behind to be oppressed by their own priestly tyrants, while the rest of the world keeps progressing with an open mind. The entire civilized society of the world, must put their heart and soul to get Islam liberated from the shackles of fundamentalism. Conscience must triumph over orthodox barbarianism, otherwise there would be no hope for the progress and wellbeing of humanity as a truly wise species."
3
"If you want to travel on the path of moksha (ultimate liberation), 'You' (the Self) do not have to 'do' anything. And if you want to wander in the worldly life, 'You' have to 'do' everything."
3
"The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind."
3
"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)."
3
"No bird in a cage has ever come to know what the mountain winds feel like, by staring at the free flying birds, wishing that they would fall from the sky!"
2
"And for a moment, for a split second, everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own."
2
"We have to bring in captivity every high thing in people's mind."
2
"Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be 'that' [Liberation]."
2
"If one's mind becomes conflict-free, that is 'moksha'; conflict filled mind, that is worldly life."
2
"Scientific understanding of nature, doesn't make a person religious or atheist. It makes a person liberated of all labels. Moreover it makes a person kind and understanding."
2
"Where you don't see pure love, there is indeed no path to moksha [ultimate liberation] there. Where there is a fee, there is no pure love there!"
2
"A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free."
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