Quotes About Moksha

#1. The worldly life remains [and is not ending and one is not going to moksha] due to the pollution of the mind [bad mind/bad thoughts] and not due to the pollution of the body.

Dada Bhagwan

#2. Insistence on one's own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. Saints guide people on the path of religion [dharma] and the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants 'liberation' (moksha).

Dada Bhagwan

#4. God says that the one who does not find the worldly life boring at all, is not worthy of moksha [the ultimate liberation] at all. While earning money one gets bored, while not earning money one gets bored, everywhere one gets bored, then he is considered worthy of moksha.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. When you become worthy of people's worship, you will be able to attain moksha (liberation), you cannot go to moksha just like that. Reproach (criticism) by people is the cause of a life in the lower realms.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. Dream of the impossible: dream of surpassing yourself, dream of nirvana, dream of moksha, dream of the kingdom of God. Only then will you start working and moving towards it, and only then with that dream, will your feet have the quality of dance.

Osho

#7. The Lord states, 'What can one do to go to moksha? He can go if he attains the right belief of the Self; or if he attains the grace of the Gnani Purush'.

Dada Bhagwan

#8. If one's mind becomes conflict-free, that is 'moksha'; conflict filled mind, that is worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. One's 'life' is 'fractured'; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate liberation (moksha) if he wants moksha.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. If you want to travel on the path of moksha (ultimate liberation), 'You' (the Self) do not have to 'do' anything. And if you want to wander in the worldly life, 'You' have to 'do' everything.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. Moksha (ultimate liberation) cannot be attained until purity arises. To attain purity one has to realize 'Who am I?

Dada Bhagwan

#12. If you want moksha (ultimate liberation), then you simply need to understand what the Vitraag Lords (The Enlightened Ones) say. Just understand what the Vitraag Lords are saying, that is what they are saying, nothing else they want to say.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness.

Rajneesh

#14. The one who blesses the winner, after having lost himself, will attain liberation (moksha); he will become "complete".

Dada Bhagwan

#15. If you are not able to 'adjust everywhere', then even the moksha,that you have in your hand, will go away.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!

Dada Bhagwan

#18. When they say that, 'God takes avatar (reincarnates)' is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels 'I did it'!

Dada Bhagwan

#19. What is it that doesn't allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!

Dada Bhagwan

#20. Eternal love' (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation].

Dada Bhagwan

#21. One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts; one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation].

Dada Bhagwan

#22. The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don't straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?

Dada Bhagwan

#23. Knowledge' may be there but 'correctness' is required along with it. If you have 'knowledge' but don't have the 'correctness'; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!

Dada Bhagwan

#24. Anyone who wants a Prakruti (relative self) that brings worldly benefits, they should worship Mataji,the goddess mother. And those who want Moksha [ultimate liberation] should worship the Soul [Real Self]. Those who want both should worship both.

Dada Bhagwan

#25. The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.

Dada Bhagwan

#26. Wherever there is kashay, there is no religion of the Vitarag at all. God does not want one to renounce anything. One needs to become free from kashays. Kashay-free state is considered the religion of moksha, while renouncing is considered religion of the world.

Dada Bhagwan

#27. Freedom - or mukti or moksha - is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.

Sadhguru

#28. Moksha (ultimate liberation) means that you just have to change your vision.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be 'that' [Liberation].

Dada Bhagwan

#30. Unity does not exist in the world. Only when the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants moksha [liberation], does unity arise. Unity cannot prevail without Gnan [knowledge of the self].

Dada Bhagwan

#31. Grace of the Gnani' [the enlightened one] will take you to moksha [ultimate liberation] and 'Grace of God' will give you worldly happiness. God will not take you to moksha, because God cannot be realized without a 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], can he? He remains hidden.

Dada Bhagwan

#32. If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won't work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh).

Dada Bhagwan

#33. Where there is no 'superior', no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vitaraag Lords [the enlightened ones] that I would like to have.

Dada Bhagwan

#34. As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life.

Dada Bhagwan

#35. By doing actions, one will not attain Liberation [Moksha]; through understanding leads one to Liberation. The fruit (effect) of action is the worldly life [sansaar].

Dada Bhagwan

#36. When there is no attachment-abhorrence; one is on the path of liberation [moksha].

Dada Bhagwan

#37. No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!

Dada Bhagwan

#38. If you want liberation [moksha], you will have to be rid of the duality of 'right-and-wrong'. If you want to attain an auspicious (good) state, then have abhorrence for the 'wrong', and attachment for the 'right'. There is no attachment or abhorrence in the pure state [shuddha].

Dada Bhagwan

#39. What should a man strive for? Kama - love, dharma - duty, artha - wealth, and moksha - salvation.

Ashwin Sanghi

#40. What do the Vitaraag [the enlightened one] say? 'If you want to continue to remain in the worldly life, then do what people say, but if you want to attain Moksha [ultimate liberation], then do only what I say, then only you can go to Moksha!

Dada Bhagwan

#41. If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is 'relative'. And "All these relatives are temporary adjustments".

Dada Bhagwan

#42. If you remain 'insincere' to one person, then that person will hold you back from going to moksha!

Dada Bhagwan

#43. What is the body complex (pudgal)? It is influx and outflow (puran-galan); it is credit and debit. And if you attain knowledge of the Soul, the Self, then you will attain Moksha (liberation).

Dada Bhagwan

#44. Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation].

Dada Bhagwan

#45. Mind is indeed that which takes one to Moksha, and it is also the mind that makes one wander around in the worldly life. One needs to just turn it in the right direction. It had been turned in the wrong direction, and so it needs to be turned in the right direction.

Dada Bhagwan

#46. Where there is even a trace of etiquette, there is no religion of moksha [ultimate liberation] there, nor any other religion. Religion is to be found in naturalness (saahajeekta)

Dada Bhagwan

#47. After coming into the human life form, if one stays as the Self [Soul] and does not interfere in the discharging karmas, he will indeed go to moksha. And if he interferes, he will incarnate in a different life form.

Dada Bhagwan

#48. Moksha (Liberation) is to become free from gathering & dispersing of circumstances.

Dada Bhagwan

#49. Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand).

Dada Bhagwan

#50. Things that you have remained 'sincere' to, those many things you have won. The world has to be won; only then will it let you go to moksha!

Dada Bhagwan

#51. If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world!

Dada Bhagwan

#52. Where there is use of the buddhi [intellect], there is no Moksha [Liberation], and where there is Moksha, there the intellect is not needed. Samaj [Understanding] is needed.

Dada Bhagwan

#53. What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!

Dada Bhagwan

#54. Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).

Dada Bhagwan

#55. When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!

Dada Bhagwan

#56. Where the 'charging' (of karma) stops, there lies the symptoms (signs) of attaining moksha.

Dada Bhagwan

#57. What is the one going to Moksha (attaining Liberation) like? He is someone who enjoys only the bliss of the 'Self'.

Dada Bhagwan

#58. Worship without 'Gnan' [True Knowledge] will give material pleasures in the world and worship accompanied by 'Gnan' [True Knowledge] is known as 'Gnan' [True Knowledge] which gives the result of moksha [ultimate liberation].

Dada Bhagwan

#59. If you are only 'moral' or only 'sincere', even then you will go to moksha!

Dada Bhagwan

#60. What do the vitarags [the enlightened one] say? This world will keep on running, You do not interfere with anything in it. If you want to attain ultimate liberation (moksha) then you will have maintain a state of vitaragta (state free of attachment).

Dada Bhagwan

#61. All actions are of the relative-self (prakrutik). Moksha (liberation) is the absence of attachment and abhorrence therein.

Dada Bhagwan

#62. He who wants to go to moksha (Final Liberation), he will have to realize his own self. Otherwise no matter how much of anything else he does, he will not attain moksha (liberation).

Dada Bhagwan

#63. How far is the Soul from attaining moksha (ultimate liberation)? Only the obstructive (antray) karmas.

Dada Bhagwan

#64. One is called a saiyami [those with inner control] when no intent of transgression remains within him. Even during anger-pride-deceit-greed when there is no violent intent; that is called saiyam. A saiyami will go to moksha.

Dada Bhagwan

#65. Civility must be a natural thing; all the rest is considered etiquette. The path of moksha [ultimate liberation] means there must be simplicity. There should be no 'ghosts of etiquette' there.

Dada Bhagwan

#66. The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.

Dada Bhagwan

#67. If one discloses everything in speech he 'designs' in his mind, he will attain Moksha [liberation] sooner. The mind is so restless that it will create whatever design it wants and ruin countless [future] lives.

Dada Bhagwan

#68. When one remains 'sincere', no type of fear will come to him in the worldly life (sansar) and it will lead him to moksha (ultimate liberation)!

Dada Bhagwan

#69. When does one qualify (for moksha)? It is when he never has any conflict in the worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

#70. The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated ... It is only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all these troubles. (117)

Swami Satchidananda

#71. Lakshmi is Vishnu's bhoga-patni, connecting him with the earthly needs of man. Saraswati is Vishnu's moksha-patni, connecting him with the spiritual needs of man.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#72. Gnan' [True Knowledge, Knowledge of one's own self], is freedom itself. It keeps one in Moksha [liberated state] and prevents [karmic] bondage.

Dada Bhagwan

#73. Nothing will be attained from actions of hundreds of thousands of lives. Moksha (liberation) is attained through 'absolute humility' (param vinaya). The 'gates of understanding' are opened with 'absolute humility'. 'Absolute humility' arises only when the ego is dissolved.

Dada Bhagwan

#74. Gnani's [The enlightened one's] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate liberation]. And the worldly people's sangna [directions] is the compass then it will make you wander in the worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

#75. If you want to attain moksha (ultimate liberation), then you cannot give unsolicited advice. Give advice only when it is asked for. In order to give advice, you have to become the chief!

Dada Bhagwan

#76. This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.

Dada Bhagwan

#77. Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Swami Sivananda

#78. Realization occurs only when samsara is witnessed, not reacted to. This is moksha.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#79. Where you don't see pure love, there is indeed no path to moksha [ultimate liberation] there. Where there is a fee, there is no pure love there!

Dada Bhagwan

#80. When there is no venom (poison) of any kind in your eyes, when a liberated smile is seen, then people will do your darshan (will come to see you with intent of worship).

Dada Bhagwan

#81. Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul!

Dada Bhagwan

#82. The one who knowingly gets cheated is entitled to liberation!

Dada Bhagwan

#83. Kama purusharth advocates desires fulfilled be,
Albeit in awareness, without harming anybody;

Munindra Misra

#84. As long as there is the egoism of 'I-ness' (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards 'my-ness' (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?

Dada Bhagwan

#85. Unless you are free from your own mind, you can never truly experience the freedom with life.

Roshan Sharma

#86. Absence of conflict creating intents is itself Moksh (Ultimate Liberation).

Dada Bhagwan

#87. In reality, the outer instruments (hands, feet, eyes, etc) are not the hindrance (for liberation); it is the inner instrument (mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is obstructive.

Dada Bhagwan

#88. If there is true 'Selfishness,' then there is 'liberation of the Self', and that indeed is one's own form (the Self).

Dada Bhagwan

#89. Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#90. Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity,
Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;
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Munindra Misra