1,027 Quotes About Illusion

Old wounds heal within, because of moha (infatuation due to illusion). Otherwise, one would be overcome by dispassion for the worldly life (vairagya).

There is moksha (ultimate liberation) for the one who goes outside the moha (infatuation due to illusion). Moha is a vikalp (belief that ‘I am the body’). End of moha is nirvikalp (free from the wrong belief ‘I am the body’ & with right belief that I am Pure Soul).

Illusion is an intellectual knowledge (buddhijanya). Intellectual knowledge is vikalpi (uncertain, with wrong belief of the self). Whereas, the Real Knowledge (Gnan) is nirvikalpi (Certain, free from I-ness & My-ness). There is no feeling of differences in it. Therefore one is to only understand the real knowledge.

Everything in the world is vitrag (free from attachment), but one ‘himself’ has become attached through attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh), and then he says, ‘I am possessed by maya (illusionary vision), maya is not leaving me’.

And that is why novels, even when they are about wicked people, can solace us: they suggest a more comprehensible and thus more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of perspicacity and of power.

No one does any deed independently; one has to do it due to dependency. One is guilty only when he does something independently. When one does it due to dependency, then he has to experience its consequence with dependency. It is an illusion to see any man guilty or wrong in this world.

That what makes us spiritually unconscious is called moha (infatuation due to illusion).

Moha (infatuation due to illusion) means spiritual unconsciousness. Unconsciousness means not knowing your Self identity.

Not to see ‘what is’, and to see ‘what is not’, that is moha (infatuation due to illusion).