Spiritual Quotes On present

That which liberates you from all miseries is known as true dharma (religion). Where egoism departs, where wrong beliefs depart, that is where true dharma lies. If wrong beliefs are present, it cannot be true dharma.

If you cause matbhed (divisiveness due to difference of opinion) to arise with someone, then would [the state as] the Self prevail? Where there is matbhed, there the Self can never manifest. Wherever the ego is present, there the opinions are bound to be present.

Who is able to prevail in the present? The One who says, "Yes."

Wherever there is ego, meditation (dhyan) does not exist. The inherent nature of the ego is such that dhyan does not exist when the ego is present. Therefore, when dhyan arises it is a resultant state, it is not an activity. Dhyan is the effect that arises from whatever activity the ego does.

Where there is no solution, there One should keep Seeing-Knowing. If one has not attained Atmagnan (Knowledge of the Self), even then he can keep seeing through indriya gnan (knowledge attained through the medium of the sense organs). However, there is a difference between seeing through indriya gnan and Seeing through the Knowledge of the Self. In seeing through indriya gnan, egoism is present!

There is no mention of the Soul (Atma) at all in all that which is present in the world. To See-Know (jovu-jaanvu) the worldly interaction (vyavahar; the relative), that is indeed known as the Soul!

In renunciation, egoism is present; [but] there is no egoism in saiyam (a state in which there is absence of anger, pride, deceit, greed and attachment-abhorence).

If the knowledge of the future can be Seen today, then it indeed becomes the present period. The future period no longer remains! To be able to See the future is not Knowledge, it is intuition (sooj).