Swami Prajnanpad Quotes
As an individual, a specific entity, you have physical, mental, and nervous limits, among others. If you know you own limits and try to stay within these limits, you are free.
When a man has an idea of what he must be and how he must act, and undermines this by not ceasing to act in the opposite way, he must realize that his principles, his beliefs, his ideals, will inevitably fall prey to hypocrisy and dishonesty. It is the ideal that begets the opposite of itself.
How is this dream to be broken, how shall we wake up from this dream that we are little mean and women, and all such things?
Everyone is but a manifestation of the Impersonal, the basis of all being, and misery consist in thinking of ourselves as different from this Infinite, Impersonal Being; and liberation consists in knowing our unity with this wonderful impersonality.
The idea of a duty to understand violence engenders for me a great vitality and passion for knowledge. But to transcend this violence, I need not repress it, nor deny it, nor say to myself; it has become a part of me, I can do nothing about it, or, I wish to reject it. I must observe it, study it, enter into it intimately, and for that purpose I need neither condemn it nor justify it. And yet, it is this that we do. I would ask you, then, to suspend for an instant you judgments on the subject.
It is only when we give complete attention to a problem, and solve it immediately – never carrying it over to the next day, the next minute – that there is solitude. To have inward solitude and space is very important because it implies freedom to be, to go, to function, to fly.
To live completely, fully, in the moment is to live with what is, the actual, without any sense of condemnation or justification – then you understand it so totally that you are finished with it. When you see clearly the problem is solved.
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self – fulfillment. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
You are never alone because you are full of all the memories, all the conditioning, all the mutterings of yesterday; your mind is never clear of all the rubbish it has accumulated. To be along, you must die to the past. When you are alone, totally alone, not belonging to any family, any nation, any culture, any particular continent, there is that sense of being an outsider. The man who is completely alone in this way is innocent and it is this innocence that frees the mind from sorrow.
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Never under any circumstance ask “how” When you use the word “how” you really want someone to tell you what to do, some guide, some system, someone to lead you by the hand so that you lose your freedom, your capacity to observe, your own activities, your own thoughts, your own way of life.
Not only must we be aware of the nature and structure of the problem and see it completely, but meet it as it arises and resolve it immediately, so that it does not take root in the mind. If one allows a problem to endure for a month or a day, or even for a few minutes, it distorts the mind.
In his essence, man is not a slave to himself, nor to the world; he is a lover. His freedom and accomplishment are in love, which is another name for perfect understanding. In this ability to understand, in this impregnation of everything that is, he is one with the Spirit that penetrates everything, and that is also the breath of the soul.
Oh, if you only knew yourselves! You are souls; you are gods. If every I feel [that I am] blaspheming, it is when I call you man.
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self – fulfillment. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
You are never alone because you are full of all the memories, all the conditioning, all the mutterings of yesterday; your mind is never clear of all the rubbish it has accumulated. To be along, you must die to the past. When you are alone, totally alone, not belonging to any family, any nation, any culture, any particular continent, there is that sense of being an outsider. The man who is completely alone in this way is innocent and it is this innocence that frees the mind from sorrow.
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Never under any circumstance ask “how” When you use the word “how” you really want someone to tell you what to do, some guide, some system, someone to lead you by the hand so that you lose your freedom, your capacity to observe, your own activities, your own thoughts, your own way of life.
To go from opinion to perception, from imagination to fact, from illusion to reality, from something that is not there, to something that is that is the way forward.
Truth resides in the heart of every man. And it is there that he must seek it, in order to be guided by it so that, at the least, it will appear to him. But we do not have the right to force others to see the Truth in our way.
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