Spiritual Quotes

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.

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.

How long should one accumulate material things? As long as they do not become a burden.

Remaining absolutely non-acquisitive (aparigrahi) amidst all possessions is the ultimate ‘test examination’.

Everything in the world is vitrag (free from attachment), but one ‘himself’ has become attached through attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh), and then he says, ‘I am possessed by maya (illusionary vision), maya is not leaving me’.