Generation Gap

“If your son has grown up and talks back at you, realize that he is your ‘thermometer’ (gauge). Where can you get a ‘thermometer’ to gauge how much dharma (virtues) has resulted within you? When you have a ‘thermometer’ at home, you do not have to go out”

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“Prakruti (relative self) does not improve or come under control through fear or intimidation. Fear or intimidation is what has given rise to the world. It actually spoils the prakruti even more.”

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“If you have any compassion, then do not rebuke anyone in trying to improve them. He will surely meet someone who will crack his head to improve him.”

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“One is considered as a son if he were to remove all of his father's troubles.”

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“In a home, where the mother is strict, the son will be inept in proper worldly interactions.”

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“A father will not keep looking for faults in his children if he is very religious/pious. One should not see faults in a prakruti (relative self). When one does that, it reaches the God within that prakruti. Prakruti is predetermined, it is vyavasthit (result of scientific circumstantial evidence).”

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“Do not try to improve anyone, but try and improve your own self. Even the Tirthankars (Omniscients) had not done egoism of improving others, they had come just to give the gift of liberation.”

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“What is considered as a vow (vrat)? For this Dada [Gnani Purush], the five mahavrats (great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing, and celibacy as expounded by Lord Mahavir) prevail at all times! He lives in wordly life yet He prevails in the mahavrats, what must that be like? One in whom pudgal pariniti (the belief that 'I am doing' in what are the results of the non-Self) does not arise at all! Where there is mahavrat, there is no pudgal pariniti. And where there is anuvrat (observance of minor religious vows), there to a certain extent, pudgal pariniti is present and to certain extent, it has also decreased!”

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“The one who misses out on remaining as the Self (Nischay), his worldly interactions (vyavahaar) can never really be ‘vyavahaar’.”

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“What is saiyam? It is a state in which One remains unaffected by the effects of both, upsarga (externally induced suffering) and parishaha (internally induced affliction). And if one were to get affected, then One would simply continue to Know the effect but would not suffer (vedey) the effect. And even if he were to suffer the effect, He would still simply Know it; that is known as saiyam.”

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“Saiyam parinaam (a resultant state that is free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) means a state where both, Atma parinaam (the result of the Selfl) and pudgal parinaam (the result of the non-Self) remain separate exactly as they should.”

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“When certain circumstances of the body tend to happen, the time for insolvency begins. Everything indeed is going to go into insolvency. Therefore You should get your work done. As long as this 'shop' (the body) exists, complete all your transactions.”

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“You cannot baselessly say, "It is destined." Nor can you baselessly say, "It is not destined." That is a liability, it would be a fault. It [the outcome] is in between 'it is destined-it is not destined'. If the pocket gets picked even after taking all the precautions, to understand that as 'vyavasthit' is exact.”

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“Dispassion for worldly life (vairaag) will persist only if there is discretion (vivek) between that which is appropriate and that which is inappropriate, otherwise dispassion for worldly life can never last. The discretion between that which is appropriate and that which is inappropriate comes through the Knowledge of the Self (Gnan).”

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“If your merit karma is unfolding, then the other person will speak well of you; and if your demerit karma is unfolding, then the other person will curse at you. Who is at fault in this? Therefore, you should say, "It is definitely my unfolding karma and the other person is just an evidentiary doer (nimit)." By doing so, our karmic fault will fall off (discharge) and no new one will be bound.”

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“People understand the gross laws, that is why they abide by them. Those who understand the subtle laws, do not collide in subtle places. Those who abide by the subtler laws, do not collide in the subtler places and those who abide by the subtlest laws, do not collide in the subtlest places.”

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“The world is in its inherent nature (swabhaav). Satyug (era of the time cycle that is characterized by unity in thoughts, speech, and action), Kaliyug (the current era of the time cycle, which is characterized by lack of unity in thought, speech, and action) is based on the intents of people!”

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“We have to complete both tracks. The track of liberation (moksha) and the track of the relative (vyavahaar; worldly interactions). There should not be the slightest deficiency in the interactions of worldly life. Where there is a deficiency in the relative, there final liberation cannot be attained.”

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