Gnani Quotes
Discover the best quotes about Gnani. This collection showcases wisdom and insights on Gnani from various authors and personalities.
What is the benefit of egoism? It is only through the benefit of egoism that people get their daughters married, get their sons married, walk around as a father and say —mine, mine'! The entire world is enjoying the benefit of egoism. The Gnanis (Self-realized) enjoy the benefit of the Self.
Those who are in vyavahar (worldly interactions), and who are indeed conducting themselves in the vyavahar; are known as worldly people [sansaari]. And "Siddha' (absolutely enlightened Ones without a body) are not in the worldly conduct whatsoever. Therefore, they are known as the "non-worldly' people [asansaari]! Then there are those who are in the worldly life and yet whose conduct is not in the worldly life at all; such "Gnani Purush (the enlightened ones)' are called, "non-worldly' (asansaari).
Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called —Gnani' [the enlightened one].
If attachment becomes fixed on a 'Gnani' [The enlightened one], then it becomes Real attachment (prashastaraag). It will get one's work done. It will uproot attachment in all other places. Because the Gnani is Vitarag, attachment-free. Attachment for a Vitarag gives liberation from all the suffering.
Whatever one knows, he knows on the basis of his egoism. The —Gnani' [The enlightened one], who doesn't know how to do anything; has no egoism whatsoever.
If you are lost while travelling on the road, then if you ask a guide of the road, you will find the right way. Similarly, people have become lost on their way to moksha. They will find a solution when they meet the One (Gnani, the Enlightened One) who is familiar with the way to moksha. —We' are that guide to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!
No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply —Sees'.
Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become a Gnani [the enlightened one].
The one who becomes free from all kinds of beggary is bestowed the state of a —Gnani' [the enlightened one].
Worshipping —Gnani Purush' [the enlightened one] is equal to worshiping the Pure Soul and it is indeed same as the worship of absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). And it is the main cause for moksha [final liberation].
If you want to know the answer to —Who am I?', then you will have to go to a Gnani purush [the enlightened one]. The Gnani Purush will give you Knowledge of your real Self [Who Am I] in the presence of the egoism. Thereafter your accounts (karmic) will be settled [& things will start falling in place].
The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the 'enlightened one' (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it's natural attributes.
These are all —ghosts'. If you are afraid, the ghosts will possess you. If there is inner fear of —what if they hang me?'; then one should say, —yes, that is correct'. The Soul can never be hung; nothing [worldly] can touch the Soul. All the doings are that of the pudgal (matter; non-Self). The noose for hanging is pudgal and the one doing hanging (the hangman), is also pudgal. The Soul has never been hung. This [fact] does not fit one's vision and that is why he has fear. But once his vision becomes like the Gnani's [the enlightened one], then it's over! For that, one has to stay in touch with the Gnani [the enlightened one].
The —Gnani' is in the form of an instrument to attain the goal (Experience of Pure Soul). The goal is the scientific form of Soul (vignan swarup atma).
My-ness (mamta) is indeed parigrah [attachment to material objects]; material object is not a parigrah. Gnani doesn't have My-ness (mamata), He has the eternal element (experience of Pure Soul).
Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind.
In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods; the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is not there. "Gnani' has the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul]. Knowledge about the goal, which is the Soul, is obtained as a result of the "Gnani's' grace.
In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to —disadjustments'.
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.
If someone says, the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative', then I would say, No, the Gnani Purush Knows the 'relative' as being the 'relative', and therefore He is happy in the relative as well.