Best 107 quotes in «balance in life quotes» category

The entire world lives for someone else (other than his own true self). No one belongs to us. And it is only with others, does one create problems before he dies.

The innate problem of humankind is the inability to find equilibrium. Equanimity and equilibrium. These are what humans cannot seem to attain. Honour without soul will lead to destruction. Soul without honour will lead to destruction. But humans cannot seem to understand this. Or understand the state of equilibrium in anything at all! All honour and no passion is death. All passion and no honour is death. This is why people always die. Because everyone is always running to either extreme end of the pendulum. Everybody wants to be all black or all white. Who is a balanced man? Bring him to me! I will have found a unicorn!

The Lord himself called it kusang (company of bad people)! He did not do it out of abhorrence. Nor has he called it ‘satsang’ (company of enlightened one) out of attachment. He spoke with non-attachment ‘this is satsang’ and ‘this is kusang’. The scars of kusang (company of bad people) do not go away for thousands of life times. That is why we tell you to ‘remain seated in satsang’.

The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart. The Priory of Sion believed that it was this obliteration of the sacred feminine in modern life that had caused what the Hopi Native Americans called koyanisquatsi - "life out of balance" - an unstable situation marked by testosterone-fueled wars, a plethora of misogynistic societies, and a growing disrespect for Mother Earth.

The mind works like a radar. If you try to destroy the mind, you will become absent minded. The mind takes you to moksha. You are not to get rid of it. When the mind shows fear, you should get back into the ‘cave’ of Pure Soul (our True Self).

The marriage and all other worldly occasions have to be dealt with. You do it and so do ‘I’. You deal with them by getting engrossed in them and ‘I’ deal with them by remaining separate. Only the location (involvement) has to be changed.

The mind, speech, and body are effective, so the effect that one experiences, he believes as ‘this effect is mine’. This creates attachment-abhorrence and thus creates a karmic cause. But if one knows that the effect is ‘not mine’, then he will not have any attachment or abhorrence and consequently will not create karmic causes.

The one who begins to have doubts, for him complete destruction occurs. Having doubts is a sign of timidity. The entire world is ‘scientific circumstantial evidence’. Where is the basis for doubts then? You are the owner of the entire universe; ‘I’ am ready to give you proof.

The one who is afraid of doing wrong (paap) that is considered to be a Great Knowledge.

There are as many things as there are vikalps (I-ness & My-ness), there is no vikalp (no I-ness & My-ness) for a thing that does not exist.

The Prakruti (Relative Self) is dependent on external power, not dependant on the Real Self (Soul). He who understands the ‘prakruti’ becomes the Absolute Self (parmatma). Prakruti can be understood if one knows the Purush – the real Self.

The one, who worries, does not believe in God and the one who believes in God, he will not worry.

There is no individual in the world who is a single doer. It is “federal causes” i.e. it is collective causes called scientific circumstantial evidence.

There are three kinds of ‘alcohols’ [intoxications]. 1. (Intoxication due to) sexual desires. 2. Drinking alcohol, 3. The alcohol of egoistical intoxication; the one that claims ‘I am…I am…

There is a great difference between actions that ‘happen’ and actions that ‘should be done’. You may carry out actions that come as a karmic effect. But do not plan for actions that do not come as karmic effect, saying ‘this action must be done; we have to do this way only’, otherwise that same action will come as a karmic effect (in the next life; karma will be charged).

These are all faults of the relative self, but one believes them to be of the Self (Chetan). That is why this worldly life has remained in existence.

There should be normality in the worldly life. It should not be such that a relative of yours comes to be a friend with you once and fight with you next time.

The whole worldly life is in the form of net (which catches us). One frees himself from nylon net and becomes entangled in a silk one. Only a free man can free us from these nets.

The worldly life can never be crossed with the worldly vision (lok-drashti). The worldly life can be crossed with the enlightened one’s vision (Gnani’s vision).

The worldly life is an ‘ocean’. People have drowned in it without any water in it. One can be saved if he drowns in the ocean water, but how can he be saved if he has drowned in this ocean of worldly life?

This happened to me, I am doing this’ not like that, but when ‘I know this’ prevails, if one remains the ‘knower-seer ‘, then no causes will be formed.

To break chanchadta (unsteadiness, unstillness) with chanchadta (unsteadiness, unstill) is called relative religion.

This world exists because of greed. If you like to eat ‘jalebi’ (Indian sweet), and you are given three pieces while another person is given four pieces; you will get agitated in your mind! This is greed indeed. If you have three saris and you go out and buy a fourth one, it is greed!

This worldly life will stick only if one likes it; it is not likely to stick otherwise.

Those who became God’s boss, achieved success and those who became wife’s boss, suffered torture and died!

This world is worth having compassion, not worth punishing anyone.

To give an opinion in this world that is changing from moment to moment, is one’s own mistake!

To remain continuously indulged in something that you have liking for is called greed. You will not be satisfied even after you obtain it.

To remain in ‘view point’, to adjust to the ‘view point’ (of others) and to remain in the center; it is a great thing.

What is the speed breaker (speed bump) on the road for? It is for your safety. Therefore, these difficulties that come on your path are for your benefit. If these obstructions are not there, people will speed through without stopping and cause accident. These obstructions are there to keep one within normality.

We believe that this is ‘our’ home and ‘our’ family. No, it is a ‘shop’ for us to settle our karmas. It is like a customer-businessman relationship.

We don't need to strive towards balance, we rather need to work on the obstacles that are preventing the natural flow of balance.

What does greed mean? It means to take away things that belong to others.

What is the violent intent (bhaav-hinsa)? Violence (hinsa) against your real Self through anger-pride-deceit-greed; meaning anger-pride-deceit-greed that causes bondage to your Self, therefore first have pity on your self. First you need non-violent intent (bhaav-ahinsa) for your own Self and then for others.

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.

What there is in this world, I think, is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout their sphere of influence. That's pretty much the whole of what I can say, looking back. There's the possibility of balance. Unbearable burdens that the world somehow does bear with a certain grace.

What is parigraha (acquisitiveness)? It is not really a graha (stars). If your vision is worldly, then parigraha (owning things other than the self) will latch on to you. If your vision is of the Self (Soul), then it will not latch on.

When can one go to the final destination of the religion? You will be allowed there if you attain the attribute of forgiveness, otherwise you will not be allowed entry.

Worldly efforts (laukik purusharth) are all an effect (prarabdha – effect of past life causes). To work in one’s profession is an effect (prarabdha). To give sermons, is also an effect. Even listening to this satsang is an effect. That in which there is dependency upon other things; it is all effect (prarabdha).

When does one experience the ‘Samadhi sukh’ (happiness of the blissful state)? When one does not want anything, when the entire ‘tuber’ of greed has been removed; thereafter the ‘Samadhi sukh’ shall prevail.Therefore, give away. As much as you give, that much will be yours!

When one is intoxicated by the worldly life, one is under illusion. When the intoxication wears away; everything will fall into place. What ‘one’ truly is; is what he will become (i.e. the pure soul).

When one is always doing wrong to himself, what good can he do for others? Only the one who does good for himself, can do good for others too.

When one says, ‘my opinion’, it creates a veil. Due to the veils of his opinions, one does not understand the opinions of other people, and so there he keeps on talking ill things only.

When there is greed within; a person shall fall into societal influence.

When we believe that the difference of opinion occurs due to only our own mistake; then we will reach the end of the worldly life. There is no other solution. To solve is our a hidden egoism. Why do you have to look for a solution?

When you become worthy of people’s reverence, you will be able to attain moksha (liberation), you cannot go to moksha just like that. Reproach by people is the cause of a lower life form.

Who doesn’t allow one to attain the ultimate liberation? The pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body). Similarly, what doesn’t let a gourd that is covered with mud to float atop? It is the mud. Bad ‘parmanu’ (subatomic particles of body complex) weigh very heavily. They drag the Soul (the Self) lower.

You should praise the one who brings you dislike (ill feeling). When you like someone, [mentally] peel away the skin and that liking will go away. The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) has the cure for every disease.

You have to see just one thing the “positive”. The world is on the path of the positive and the negative. Sooner or later, it will make the negative into positive. So why not make it positive right from the start?

You should never have suspicion about anyone in this world; not even if it is true. It is a terrible offence to have suspicion about someone.