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Quotes by Spiritual-leader
!["People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] 'pratikraman' does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say 'sorry' or 'thank you'. There is no significance in that; the significance is of 'alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan' (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively)."](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] 'pratikraman' does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say 'sorry' or 'thank you'. There is no significance in that; the significance is of 'alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan' (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively)."
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"Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted."
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"God of blind believers is most likely to be cock-eyed."
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"Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence."
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"Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault."
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"A totally new kind of education is needed in the world. The person who is born to be a poet is proving himself stupid in mathematics and the person who could have been a great mathematician is just cramming history and feeling lost. Everything is topsy-turvy because education is not according to your nature: it does not pay any respect to the individual. It forces everybody into a certain pattern."
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"Intent of complete surrender (devotion) is worship itself. Complete surrender with (full understanding and real) knowledge is a very high level of worship. Even the surrender done with relative knowledge (ignorance of one's own real self) can be called worship."
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"Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes."
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"If I bad mouth the Truth, and nothing but the Absolute Truth, then, kick my butt. Otherwise, ye of bad faith, keep your stupid trap shut."
27
"Circumstances will continue to change. They will not adjust to you; you will have to adjust to them. Circumstances are without inner-intent and you are with inner-intent. To make the circumstances favorable is our job. Unfavorable circumstances are indeed favorable. One feels exhausted going up the stairs, and yet why does he climb them? There is the inner-intent that he will be able to go up; he will be able to take advantage of what is up there; that is why!"
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"Any given day is a second chance, after yesterday. Make the best of it today."
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"Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present."
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"The path of love is not a tedious path. It's a path of joy. It's a path of singing and dancing."
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"Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival."
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"If you follow a foolish ism, how are you an intelligent being?"
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"One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob him. One's own intention does the stealing; the thief is simply instrumental (nimit) in that. Really, the account is one's own."
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"Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn."
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"In utter humility, bow to What Is. And in time, crying one's guts out, howling, bowing to IT, "knowing" comes. As a gift of the Divine."
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"Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct."
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"When we say "transformation," it means that nothing of the old has remained. Something totally new has flowered within you. Now you look at a rose plant that is full of thorns. Springtime came and rose flowers burst out - it is a transformation. The thorns are still there - there are more thorns than flowers - but we do not call it a thorn plant. We call it a rose plant because of that single rose. Everyone's attention goes more towards that single rose than a hundred thorns that are on the plant, isn't it? So all the thorns in you, maybe you cannot remove them right now, but if one rose flower blossoms, everyone is willing to overlook those things."
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"When attachment increases too much, dislike will arise."
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"No one dies pre-maturely. As is meant, happens naturally."
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"There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment."
22
"What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!"
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"Like-dislike, good-bad, profit-loss; who gave rise to all these dualities? The society did. As far as God is concerned, there is no duality. If there are grains of food on one side and excrement on the other, in God's eyes, they are both "material (matter). What does God say about this? "All are materials!"
22
"Hurry, your imaginary heaven is calling you up, my dear holier-than-thou religious nuts."
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"Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing."
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"Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them."
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"All is a forever."
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"The longing for peace has essentially come from troubled minds, minds that are torturing themselves. For them, peace is a big commodity that they have to seek. If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace? Would you seek the exuberance of life or would you seek peace? Only if you have become an expert in self-torture, peace seems to be the greatest thing."
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"Those who believe the worldly life interactions (vyavahaar) to be the real/true; developed high blood pressure, heart attacks and other such ailments. And those who believe it to be false, they became fat. Those living on both the shores, became lost wanderers. Although living the worldly life, 'we' are non-attached (vitaraag, the enlightened one)."
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"Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again."
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"Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment."
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"You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible. If you keep all your ideas, emotions and your nonsense aside, maybe you can take a step, move one inch. One little step existentially is worth more than all the scriptures that you can read on the planet. One little step is far more important than all the philosophies that you can spout."
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"In shukladhyan (Pure contemplation as the Self, the Soul), whole world begins to look faultless (nirdosh). In dharmadhyan, despite seeing the other person at fault; one will uphold him as being faultless that is 'dhramadhyan', 'what is the other person's fault? He is simply instrumental (nimit) in it. It is due to the effect of my own karmas that I have encountered him."
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"When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!"
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"When there is not a trace of worldly love that is called 'absolute ultimate love' [paramarth prem]!"
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"Love is not an Emotion, It is your very Existence."
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"War is massacre. It is 100 per cent negative."
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"I plan to live my own way. Hopefully, it is as per God's Way."
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"Living well is dying well."
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"I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good."
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"When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort (purushartha) can be made. But instead, people push it aside."
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"There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul]."
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"Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path."
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"Pure-chit itself is the Absolute Supreme Soul (parmatma)."
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"To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit."
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"What does egoism mean? It means to become blind through one's own vision. The Gnani [the enlightened one] removes the egoism."
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"This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator - you can just discard him, dump him - and still it goes on. So a true compliment to the Creator is when you forget about him. (Laughs) That is a real compliment to the wonderful piece of creation he has made; it is so perfect within itself that it does not need to draw from anything outside."
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