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“i never realized i lived in a body until it started to hurt—”

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Book:Sugarblood

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“The whole world is indeed trapped by misery. What is the misery about? Due to ignorance of one’s own Real Self (agnanta). Due to ignorance of one’s own Real Self (agnanta), attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) keeps on occuring, which leads to this misery. Only through Gnan [Knowledge of the Real Self] can one prevail in a misery-free state. There is no other solution at all.”

Pain Suffering Hurt Knowledge Ignorance Misery Attachment Gnan Abhorrence

Book:The Science Of Karma

Source: The Science Of Karma

“Woman is not at fault, sex is not at fault; the fault is in your tendencies [vruti]. The tendencies indeed interfere and cause misery.”

Pain Suffering Hurt Misery Free From Faults Tendency

Book:Autobiography of Gnani Purush - A M Patel

Source: Autobiography of Gnani Purush - A M Patel

“There is sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) when not a single living being is ever hurt even to the slightest extent through the mind, through the ego, through the antahkaran (the mind-intellect-chit-ego complex). Sheel arises for the one who maintains such an intent.”

Mind Suffering Hurt Misery Egoism Celibacy

Book:Aptavani-2

Source: Aptavani-2

“This worldly life is an ocean of unhappiness. It is just beyond comprehension how people have found happiness in it. Just as a drunken man sticks his hand in the gutter and says, "This feels very cool to me, it's very cooling;" similarly people are just believing that there is happiness in it!”

World Pain Happiness Suffering Hurt Pleasure Misery Worldly Life

Book:Right Understanding to Helping Others Benevolence

Source: Right Understanding to Helping Others Benevolence

“There are so many kinds of aggravations (kaid) in worldly life! All the aggravations will not aggravate all at once, they will aggravate one after the next! When one aggravation is over, then another will come and aggravate.The aggravations constantly aggravate!”

World Hurt Worldly Life

Book:Avoid Clashes!

Source: Avoid Clashes!

“Misery will not leave from where there is excessive bad or harmful associations with that which takes you away from the Self (kusang). Whereas happiness will not leave from where there is excessive association with Self-realized beings or spiritual discourses (satsang)!”

Pain Happiness Suffering Hurt Pleasure Misery Bad Company Satsang Bad Deeds Kusang

Book:Avoid Clashes

Source: Avoid Clashes

“The pain that you do not fear, will not come before you at all. Neither do the gansters come, and nor does God. Nothing happens to the one who has let go of fear.”

God Pain Suffering Hurt Misery

Book:Brahmacharya: Celibacy

Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“The fruit of the intent of serving others (sevabhaav) is worldly happiness, and the fruit of the intent of disserving others (kusevabhaav) is worldly misery. Your own 'I' (real Self) cannot be found through the intent of serving others. However, for as long as you do not realize your real Self, you should maintain an obliging nature.”

Happiness Hurt Pleasure

Book:Noble Use of Money

Source: Noble Use of Money

“What is nature like? It does not allow any living being to do what it wants even to the slightest extent. But the one through whom no-one is hurt even to the slightest extent, be it through mind, speech or conduct, nature gives such a person all the authority to do what they want.”

Mind Pain Suffering Nature Hurt Speech Behavior Misery Conduct

Book:Right Understanding To Help Others

Source: Right Understanding To Help Others

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