Brahmacharya: Celibacy Attained with Understanding
Dada Bhagwan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You are free to enjoy what is yours, but happily enjoying what is not yours will bind a strong karmic knot, and ruin many more future births. But that knot will loosen up through pratikraman (apology) and one will have the opportunity to become free.”
“Wherever there is attraction, there is delusionary attachment (moha). Maintain pure awakened awareness of the Soul (shuddha upyoga) where there is attraction. Then that place will not bother you.”
“When can it be considered as Knowledge of the Self (AtmaGnan)? When it comes into effect. Otherwise, by saying, "I am a diamond," the diamond cannot be 'attained' [realized]. In the same way, in order to realize the Knowledge of the Self, the Self has to be Known with its intrinsic functional properties; and if the properties come into effect, then the Knowledge of the Self will be attained.”
“What is worth winning in this world? The three veds (sufferings). The one who has conquered ved (sufferings), he has conquered the whole world. What are the three veds (the sufferings)? The male, the female and the neutral gender.”
“To see as, ‘this is a woman’, is a man’s disease, and to see as, ‘this is a man’, is a woman’s disease. There is moksha (liberation) for the one who becomes free of such a disease.”
“To cause terrible harm to one’s own Self is known as ignorance of the Self (agnan). Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) is that which removes all that is detrimental to the Self thus making it completely beneficial to one’s own Self, after which One can indeed attain final liberation. ”
“There is nothing in this world that will bind you. Only where one enjoys the women other than his own wife, that will bind one.”
“There is no need to find a solution. 'You' just have to keep Seeing! Keep Seeing how much the anger has increased, how much it has decreased. As the goal (upey; the Self) has been attained, there is no need to find a solution. By looking for a solution, the Self's function as the Knower (Gnatapanu) goes away, meaning that the real benefit goes away. 'This much tension has arisen, it has increased by this much, now it has gone away;' You have to keep Seeing all these gneyos (objects to be known). Remain as the Knower whereas by finding solutions, mental peace (thandak) will prevail [temporarily].”
“There are two types of energies; one in the domain of the Real Self and the other in the domain of the non-Self. The energies of the Real Self’s domain can shake the Universe, whereas the energies of the non-Self domain can’t break even a papad (lentil wafer). It is vyavasthit shakti [the energies of scientific circumstantial evidences] that governs everything [in the non-Self domain].”
“The sense pleasure of the sex (vishaya) is like nature of the mud. If you can remember only the Self, then it is not a vishaya. Otherwise, everything that you remember, are all vishayas.”
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