2,111 Quotes About Self-realization

The Self is not what people believe it to be, or what the intellect can grasp. It is immeasurable. Where there is no measure, there is no scale, there is nothing at all that will work here! The Self is such that It can only be Known through the Knowledge of the Self. It is actually only through the Knowledge of the Gnani that the Self can be realized.

When can it be considered as Knowledge of the Self (AtmaGnan)? When it comes into effect. Otherwise, by saying, "I am a diamond," the diamond cannot be 'attained' [realized]. In the same way, in order to realize the Knowledge of the Self, the Self has to be Known with its intrinsic functional properties; and if the properties come into effect, then the Knowledge of the Self will be attained.

The nature of the 'Purush' (Soul) is to be a 'knower'; and the nature of the 'prakruti' (relative self, made of inherent traits) is to 'dance around'.

It is more than enough if one becomes a ‘Purush’ (Pure Soul) even for a second! One will become a Parmatma (absolute supreme Soul) if he were to become a ‘Purush’ even for a second. No one has become a ‘Purush’ even for a second.

The relative is based on support. When you say, ‘I am Chandubhai’ the relative remains standing. When you attain the awareness that, ‘I am pure Soul’, you stop giving support to it (relative), and therefore, it will indeed fall off.

All Jains believed in one thing; what is worth worshipping? The answer is the right belief (samkit). There are endless reincarnations to attain the right belief. Samkit (right belief) means the right vision, whereas this is the wrong vision. And this false belief (mithya darshan) of yours of ‘I am Chandubhai’ is your false faith (mithya shraddha).

Whatever you do in your worldly life, is all worldly vision. Until the line of demarcation (between the real and relative vision) is drawn, you have attained nothing.

When one understands that he cannot ‘do’ anything in this world and that everything is vyavasthit [result of scientific circumstantial evidence], and if this has come into his experience; he is said to have attained Self-realization.

Women have an encircling wall of deceit around them; therefore, they are not aware of deception, it is their natural attribute. Men have the entanglement of egoism; egoism does not let them see that entanglement. After attaining the Knowledge of the Self, men have to keep ‘seeing’ the egoism and the women have to keep seeing the deceit.