833 Quotes About Speech

RIGHT TO SPEECHis subjugate to theDUTY TO LISTEN

Let’s talk about goal presentations in high school classes. We will be brief because there aren't any. Many students get through high school without ever having to practice and perform a single speech before a real audience." page 112.

When does the foundation for speech which accepts all viewpoints and does not hurt anyone's viewpoint (syadvaad vani) arise? It is when the ego becomes zero, when the entire world appears flawless, when no fault is seen to the slightest extent of any living being, when no one’s foundation of religious beliefs is hurt to the slightest extent.

Sugar-coated words used in worldly speech make one slip (spiritually), and melodious speech which accepts all viewpoints and never hurts anyone’s viewpoint makes one rise higher (spiritually)!

Without purification of worldly interactions, speech that accepts all viewpoints and does not hurt anyone's viewpoints (syadvaad vani) will not come forth.

Syadvaad (accepted by all, and accepting of all) is referred to that speech through which nothing within the body opposes. The mind does not oppose it, the intellect-chit-ego, none of them oppose it.

What is nature like? It does not allow any living being to do what it wants even to the slightest extent. But the one through whom no-one is hurt even to the slightest extent, be it through mind, speech or conduct, nature gives such a person all the authority to do what they want.

What Vyavasthit (the result of Scientific Circumstantial Evidences) says is that, ‘The stock is ready such that You (as the Self) do not have to do anything. You (as the Self) just continue Seeing. This mind-speech-body are under the control of Vyavasthit.

The One whose body, mind and speech become saiyamit (under his control), He Himself has become the absolute Self (Parmatma)!