{"quotes":[{"text":"You will especially not find anyone who speaks bitterly to you. All the 'diseases' [worldly suffering] remains due to the sweetness. Bitterness will remove the disease, sweetness will increase it. Your life should be such that you will not have to listen to bitter words. If however, you have to listen to bitter words, then you should listen to it. It is always beneficial.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["beneficial","diseases","life","spiritual","spiritual","suffering","worldly"],"id":12419,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["control","gnani-purush","interaction","self","spiritual","spiritual","worldly"],"id":28062,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"These are all ‘ghosts’. If you are afraid, the ghosts will possess you. If there is inner fear of ‘what if they hang me?’; then one should say, ‘yes, that is correct’. The Soul can never be hung; nothing [worldly] can touch the Soul. All the doings are that of the pudgal (matter; non-Self). The noose for hanging is pudgal and the one doing hanging (the hangman), is also pudgal. The Soul has never been hung. This [fact] does not fit one’s vision and that is why he has fear. But once his vision becomes like the Gnani’s [the enlightened one], then it’s over! For that, one has to stay in touch with the Gnani [the enlightened one].","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["fact","ghosts","gnani","gnani-purush","inner-fear","pudgal","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual","the-hangman","worldly"],"id":37389,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Involvement with the eight worldly dharmas keeps beings imprisoned in the realms of samsara and renders them susceptible to the hosts of emotions. The eight worldly dharmas are: praise and blame, gain and loss, fame and disgrace, happiness and suffering. The eight worldly dharmas constitute our attachment to hopes and fears: We hope for praise, gain, fame, and happiness while fearing blame, loss, disgrace, and suffering. Entangled in these eight concerns, we give our energy and intelligence to the pursuit of these hopes and the avoidance of these fears. Our way of thinking is completely dominated by these eight concerns, which the world proclaims to be of utmost importance. But Śāntideva reminds us that to achieve true peace of mind, one must '... Turn this thinking upside down,' becoming indifferent to hope and unmoved by fear.","author":"Dharma Publishing","tags":["buddhism","dharmas","emotionalism","sutra","worldly"],"id":42187,"author_id":"Dharma+Publishing"},{"text":"The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for sister-hood is no more,for her to adore!While pangs the beating world in a lamenting voice;their remembering loss of the 'one' they embrace most and when the crepuscule came like a phantom,the mournful,gathered birds swiftly flew in gloom.","author":"Nithin Purple","tags":["adore","altar","beloved","birds","crepuscular","crepuscule","death","embarrassment","embrace","faint","gathering-darkness","gloom","gloominess","gloomy","lament","life","literature","loss","love-lost","mournful","mournfulness","muted","nithin-purple","nithinpurple","pangs","patience","peace","phantom","poems","poems-on-life","poetry","poetry","remembered","sister-love","sisterhood","swift","swiftly","tears","teary","world","worldly","writers"],"id":51416,"author_id":"Nithin+Purple"},{"text":"Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...But because of your love.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["acceptance","fear","inspirational","life-lessons-spiritual-wonder","love","motivational","rasheed-ogunlaru","worldly","worldly-advice"],"id":55624,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["attachments","ownership","spiritual","spiritual","worldly"],"id":60854,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["blind","child","experience","experiment","knowing","limit","materialism","moment","moment-lost","mysterious","mystery","sight","supernatural","things","truth","wisdom","world","worldly","wrap"],"id":75545,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The Gnani Purush simply makes the separation in one’s vision: ‘This is the vision of the Soul, the real Self’ and ‘this is the vision of the worldly self’. Otherwise a person can never make this change in his vision. One’s vision of ‘I am Chandubhai’ (vikalpi drashti) will never become the vision of ‘I am the Pure Soul’ (nirvikalpi drashti).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["drasti","gnani","gnani-purush","nirvikalpi-drasti","self","spiritual","spiritual","vikalpi-drasti","vision-of-soul","who-is-i","worldly"],"id":82392,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"When one gathers all the books of all worldly religions, when one beholds (dharan) them, then the phenomenon of religious upholding (dharma dharan) occurs. When that religious upholding becomes 100% strong, then the essence [marma] begins to manifest. When the essence becomes 100% strong, then the extract of the Knowledge [gnanark] begins to manifest. Here, we make you ‘drink’ (absorb) directly, the ‘Extract of the Knowledge’.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["drink","knowledge","religion","spiritual","spiritual","worldly"],"id":86269,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}