Enlightened Quotes

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What is the discovery of the Vitarags, the fully enlightened Ones? It is: —the slightest violence is the sign of losing. Even the slightest negative thought about someone is the sign of losing. God resides in every living being; how can this hidden fact be known? The Vitarags have called the elemental Self (the Soul), the most hidden element.
We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) are by nature, non-interfering. If —we', ourselves are non-interfering, then how can interfering people around —us' can touch —us'? All interferences go away in —our' [the Gnani's] presence. What problems can the one that dwells in the Self [the Soul], have? The worldly life does not hinder the one who dwells in the Self.
Chit impurity is due to the relative vision. When the vision becomes real (enlightened), purification of chit occurs.
Enlightened view (samyak darshan) is that which shows you the —eternal' (the pure soul), and deluded vision (mithya darshan) is that which shows you the —temporary'.
What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!
Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.
Criticizing anyone is tantamount to criticizing their worship or devotion (aradhana). It is a grave mistake. It is fine if you cannot support someone, but do not criticize them at all. If there is any criticism, then there is no science of the Vitarag Lords [the enlightened ones]; there is no religion there at all, there is no oneness at all.
The worldly life relationships are that of selfishness. All relationships are relative (temporary). Only the relationship with the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] is real. He has infinite compassion for you. He has become one with his soul [atma swaroop] and therefore he brings forth all your solutions (and liberates you).
Kashays [anger-pride-deceit-greed] will not leave by suppressing them, they go away through Gnan (Enlightened Knowledge).
Vitarag's [the enlightened one's] 'water' (knowledge) will remove any kind of (karmic) 'stains'.
Unity does not exist in the world. Only when the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants moksha [liberation], does unity arise. Unity cannot prevail without Gnan [knowledge of the self].
You have to recognize the Knowledge of the Gnanis' [the enlightened ones]. You have to recognize the world from the perspective of love (prem swaroop).
When someone picks the Gnani Purush's [the enlightened one's] —pocket', how does the Gnani Purush'' look at it? "Very well! This amount is now credited to my account"! Money spent for the home is money down the drain. How can anyone —see' this [fact] with the narrow inner intent of —mine and yours'? With an all encompassing [broader] intent, one will see —as it is', that is called —Gnan' [Knowledge].
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?
It is Vitaraag vignan [the Spiritual Science of the Enlightened Ones] to look at gain, and to see losses is the knowledge of worldly wanderings.
There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.
As long as one is ruled by illusion, one's thinking process is also illusory and that is nothing but misery. In Gnanis' [the enlightened one's] language, there is no such thing as happiness or unhappiness.
Grace of the Gnani' [the enlightened one] will take you to moksha [ultimate liberation] and "Grace of God' will give you worldly happiness. God will not take you to moksha, because God cannot be realized without a "Gnani' [the enlightened one], can he? He remains hidden.
Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).
The Vitarags (attachment-free enlightened one's) say, "Make whatever intents that are suitable to you. If you get sensual intents towards Me, then do those sensual intents and if you have celibate intents towards Me, do celibate intents and if you get religious intents, do religious intents; if you get reverence-intents, do reverence intents and if you want to curse, then curse me. I confront [challenge] no one." A person that doesn't confront goes to Moksha and the person who confronts, resides here [worldly life bondage].