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Quotes by Spiritual-leader


"The entire world is surviving only due to 'beliefs', not because of 'Knowledge' (Gnan). Every human being is (living) only because of beliefs."

"If we can somehow survive this world, we would've achieved something in this world."

"Little people make tall claims. As being this-that avatar or messiah. Some even say they're God. Well, if they are, I'm their grand-pop."

"Truth... has no obligation to console you."

"There is no god out there but Oneness of All That Is."


"A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? "I am Pure Soul, it is that Self."


"What does Jinmudra (Tirthankar God's sitting posture) say? The lotus position of Vitrag Lords, one hand and foot placed over the other, preaches, "Oh, humans! Understand this if you have the wisdom. You have already brought with you the food, drink and all things you need; therefore, let go of the awareness that 'I am the doer' and make effort to attain Moksha (ultimate liberation)!"

"The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false."

"So start with the waking state. When you are hungry eat, but always remember that it is the body that is hungry, not you. If you hurt your leg, wash and clean the wound, apply medication, but always remember that it is the body that is hurt, not you. This much remembrance " and you will find that ninety-nine percent of the pain has vanished. This slight knowledge, this little awareness removes so much of your suffering. One percent is bound to remain because the knowledge is not total. When knowledge becomes total all of the suffering disappears.Buddha said that an awakened person is beyond suffering. You can cut off the limbs of such a person, you can throw him in the fire, you can kill him, but you cannot make him suffer, because he stands apart from all that is happening around him."


"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"


"It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from that? Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] can show it, (which is) 'Pratikraman'."

"If you can cull an animal, or kill a human , and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal."


"The worldly life remains [and is not ending and one is not going to moksha] due to the pollution of the mind [bad mind/bad thoughts] and not due to the pollution of the body."

"We're shadows! of naught;living, dying! for what's not."

"With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you."

"Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God."

"Stand bloody tall - you're the All."

"Zen is a single step-the journey of one single step. You can call it the last step or the first step, it doesn't matter. It is the first and it is the last, the alpha and the omega. The whole teaching of Zen consists of only one thing: how to take a jump into nothingness, how to come to the very end of your mind, which is the end of the world."

"That you exist, is offense enough to arrest you."

"Be the celebrators, celebrate! Already there is too much-the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky-celebrate it! You are breathing and you are alive and you have consciousness, celebrate it!"

"The East has failed because it tried meditation without love. The West has failed because it tried love without meditation. My whole effort is to give you a synthesis, the whole-which means meditation plus love."


"When monetary dealing in religion stops, the religion will manifest its splendor!"


"That which comes forth, is present and cautions at all times is called 'Gnan' (Eternal knowledge). That indeed is the Soul [Our True Self]. The Soul is not separate from the Knowledge."

"Through understanding comes control. Through ignorance one goes on forcing and suppressing. Always do everything with understanding, and you never harm yourself or anybody else."


"Gnani' [the englightened one] gives freedom from all sufferings. Outside [world] reigns the cycle of antagonistic [painful] times, Kaliyug. On the contrary, it will even take away whatever happiness you may have."

"Strip yourself naked, of your fancied ideas about What Is. Then, seek "It". That Which Is. Otherwise, all you're going to find is dick."

"Were I but perfectly normal, I would just not be."


"When the mind and the Self (Soul) become engrossed (tanmayakar) only then it is called artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self), and also one does not become aware that artadhyan has occurred. And if one realizes that artadhyan has occurred, then it is not called artadhyan; then it is the mind."

"We are all copy cats. The only original 'thing' is God, And "him", hell, most of us know as little as we know cats."


"Right knowledge (samkit) means right vision. What does the wrong vision do? It will make one say, 'this person caused me a loss. This person profited me. That person insulted me. That person hurt me. This person made me happy.' There is no one out there giving you pain or pleasure! Indeed, it is all within you."


"What is the science of Vitraag (the enlightened ones free of attachment)? [It is that where] If one understands a single word of the Vitarag, there will be no pain. But one has not understood a single word of 'Vir', the Vitaraag Lord Mahavir [The 24th Tirthankar]."


"The slightest awareness of 'my-ness' is indeed egoism."


"Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion."


"A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a "Gnani [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one]."


"There is no pleasure in Jalebi (dessert), the pleasure is in your imagination."

"Transformation happens only when you put your total energy into it."


"This 'Knowledge' manifested in 1958! That day I became a 'Gnani' (the enlightened one)! The day before that, 'I' too was agnani (ignorant of the Self), wasn't I?"

"To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don't take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don't take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it."


"The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has."

"Reality never comes as a problem. It is only the ideas about reality that comes as a problem."


"When the servants break the cups and saucers, a 'puzzle' arises within. Who really breaks the cups and saucers? Who runs this world? One does not know that and inbetween, the 'guest' (of this world) does worries."


"To have a desire means to have dependency."


"Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."


"You cling on to the truth, no one in the world can shake your faith and devotion."

"There is no human-like god. If there were, he'd be as silly as you."


"People do not know what good deeds are. It is udaya karma,unfolding effects of past karma; that makes them do the deeds. The prakruti, the relative self, forces them to do them. What is your own thing [effort] in that? Doing good deeds; that too is mandatory (farajiyat)!"


"Only this much needs to be known: If you separate 'I' and 'my', you will have known all the scriptures! Then the whole universe will be known to you!"


"What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it."
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