Spiritual Quotes On divisiveness

What should concentration (ekagrata) be like? Even whilst getting up-sitting down, eating-drinking or quarreling, concentration does not falter. Throughout the entire body, there is indeed no other divisiveness due to differences of opinions (matabheda)!

What swachchhand (to act according to one’s own will and intellect) does is that it creates divisiveness where the intellect without divisiveness (abhed buddhi) has arisen. It will create divisiveness by showing, ‘If I do it this way, only then will my value be maintained.’ If someone were to become upset and non-communicative (risavu) with me, then why would this happen? It is when divisiveness has arisen. This is indeed what is referred to as maya.

Divisiveness due to difference of opinion (matbhed) means the presence of the ego.

If there is divisiveness due to difference of opinion (matbhed) at the foundation, then it divides [people’s] minds. When people question each other’s intelligence, there divisiveness due to difference of opinion occurs at the foundation. One has to remain cautious there.

On the path of the Vitaraag (those absolutely free from attachment and abhorrence), there is no divisiveness due to difference of opinion (matbhed). Where there is divisiveness due to difference of opinion, there the path of the Vitaraag does not exist.