39 Quotes About Body-complex

The pudgal (the non-Self complex) is a jail for the Atma (the Self).

It is wrong to be dependent on the body-complex [pudgal]. One should depend only on the Soul.

Mud of the pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body) is such that the harder one tries to get out, the deeper and deeper he sinks into it.

Once the egoism has gone (stopped), all the worldly ‘matter’ of the body-complex [pudgal] are renounced! Where there is egoism, there is my-ness and where there is my-ness, there is a hidden egoism. When ‘Knowledge of the Self’ is attained, egoism and my-ness goes away. Only the dramatic (discharge) ‘egoism’ and ‘my-ness’ will remain.

Sansar (worldly life) has been alive by imitating the movements of the world, and is liberated by opposing it.

No one has been able to attain the state of ‘Jitendriya-Jin’ (one who has attained victory over all senses) through the medium of the body complex. One can only become Jitendriya-Jin when he attains the Knowledge of the Self. The senses can never be conquered as long as there is ignorance of the Self, because the nature of the senses is to charge and discharge. Conquer one and another erupts.

Where the world is inactive, the ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one] is active, and where the world is engaged in activities, there is inactivity on the ‘Gnani’s’ [the enlightened one] part! The activity of the world is run by the prakruti (relative self) only!

What is pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body)? It is influx and outflow; it is credit and debit. And if you ‘know’ the Soul (get Self-realized), you will attain liberation.

Speech is a phase (avastha) of the non-Self complex (pudgal); it is not its intrinsic property that has a specific function (gunadharma).