833 Quotes About Speech

A disciplined mind (saiyamit mun), a disciplined body (saiyamit deha) and a disciplined speech (saiyamit vani), these three will not allow You (the Self) to come out of Your own 'cave'. 'You' should just enter into Your cave. Come out to drink tea and have snacks and thereafter go back into Your cave.

It is considered as becoming free from dehadhyas (the belief that, 'I am the body') when the atmabuddhi (the intellect oriented towards the Self) Knows [realizes] the Self.

If You [the Self] remain as the Knower-Seer of all the kriya (activities of the mind-speech-body), then all the activities are in the form of galan (discharge). Bad habits and good habits are all in fact in the form of discharge.

Words can hurt. Speech can harm. Always think through before you talk and you will save a heart from feeling bitter.

By not hurting anyone through one's mind, speech and action, all the vows (vrat) are encompassed in this!

These are peculiar times. It is not worth interfering with anybody. No one knows how to talk nicely! People talk in a way that gives others a 'headache'.

When ownership of speech ends, there is the end of ‘us’ (relative self).

Do not meddle with Gnani’s words. To do so carries grave liability. If just one word is absorbed and ‘digested’, it will take you all the way to moksha (Ultimate State of Liberation).

Our talk must ‘adjust’ to others. If our talk does not adjust to others, then it is our mistake only. It is not mistake in entirely, but there is some mistake of ours. If the mistake is destroyed, one will adjust. Vitrags (The Enlightened Ones) talk is of ‘Everywhere Adjustment’.