731 Quotes About Liberation

Do not be stuck in the bushes, if you want to attain moksha. If your clothing gets stuck in it, let it tear, but you tug on it and move on. Continue to move on, even if it comes off completely.

I am myself an Absolute Supreme Self (Parmatma)’, if one attains this awareness, he can attain moksha (ultimate liberation). Otherwise he cannot realize moksha, then it is called just a slight vision (darshan).

Vitrag speech begins when one attains Samyakatva (the right belief that I am Pure Soul), and it becomes absolute when Keval Gnan (absolute enlightenment) occurs.

Kashaya (anger-pride-deceit-greed) filled worldly interaction is a worldly life, and to becomes kashaya-free is moksha (ultimate liberation).

Liberation is not possible even after a million lifetimes. Your work [of liberation] is getting done only because you have met a living Gnani Purush. The absolute Gnani is One for whom nothing in this world remains to be known. He is constantly conversing with the absolute Self (Parmatma); such a Gnani can do whatever he wishes!

A guru helps one traverse worldly life. The Gnani gives liberation. The Gnani has himself become the real form as the Self (Atmaswaroop) despite having a physical body.

The free man knows people don’t ask for him. They ask for things: work, your hands – never you.

Who doesn’t allow one to attain the ultimate liberation? The pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body). Similarly, what doesn’t let a gourd that is covered with mud to float atop? It is the mud. Bad ‘parmanu’ (subatomic particles of body complex) weigh very heavily. They drag the Soul (the Self) lower.

Freedom is a pair of trousers and a buttoned coat. A man's tunic and a tricorne hat. If only she had known.