Top 100 Quotes About Worldly Life

#1. Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).

Dada Bhagwan

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#2. Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Vincent Van Gogh

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#3. I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.

Bob Shaw

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#4. The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, 'you can keep on burning!

Dada Bhagwan

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#5. As long as you are the owner ('I am Chandubhai and all this is mine'), the worldly life remains. When does the ownership go away? When the wrong belief goes away.

Dada Bhagwan

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#6. I am Chandubhai' is good or bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upyoga). 'I am Pure Soul', is the focused pure applied awareness of the Self (shuddha upayog). With good-bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upayog) instillation in the worldly life occured.

Dada Bhagwan

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#7. God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!

Dada Bhagwan

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#8. To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

Dada Bhagwan

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#9. Violent intent (Hinsak bhaav) is indeed worldly life (sansar). When there is no Violent intent (hinsak bhaav) within us while the worldly life is going on, then we become free from all responsibilities.

Dada Bhagwan

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#10. Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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#11. Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#12. That such people could accomodate conflicting worldly labels... was a talent of postcolonial life, evidence of adaptation by people who have had many different categories foisted on them by outsiders.

Eliza Griswold

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#13. Worldly life (sansar) means to get tired and to rest.

Dada Bhagwan

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#14. No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.

Dillon Burroughs

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#15. That which reduces our flawed vision is called religion [dharma]. It is non-religion [adharma] that increases a flawed vision. The worldly life is indeed the result of a flawed vision.

Dada Bhagwan

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#16. If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished.

Dada Bhagwan

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#17. The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free.

Dada Bhagwan

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#18. Let our virtuous deeds, keep us afloat as a well maintained ship and safely, cross this ocean of worldly life.

Rajen Jani

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#19. The intellect perpetuates the worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

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#20. The worldly life has arisen through the ego. One is indeed free if the ego dissolves. What is the foundation on which the ego stands? It is the ignorance of the Self.

Dada Bhagwan

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#21. There is only one way to be happy in this worldly life. Relinquish 'my' and go after [help to] people.

Dada Bhagwan

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#22. He was simply an early lover of humanity, and that he adopted the monastic life was simply because at that time it struck him, so to say, as the ideal escape for his soul struggling from the darkness of worldly wickedness to the light of love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#23. ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful become hurtful and destructive.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

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#24. There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul].

Dada Bhagwan

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#25. In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.

Isaac Asimov

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#26. 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

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#27. As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.

Dada Bhagwan

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#28. The worldly life (sansar) means a basket full of worries.

Dada Bhagwan

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#29. Wherever one has to 'do' anything, there is worldly life (sansaar) there.

Dada Bhagwan

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#30. Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life--the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within--can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

George Eliot

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#31. Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Johann Arndt

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#32. Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].

Dada Bhagwan

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#33. One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.

Francis De Sales

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

Dada Bhagwan

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#35. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#36. The path people know, is not the path of liberation. It is the path of the worldly life. The path of liberation is not one of imagination. It is a pure path. Where there are no worries, no externally created problems. There is bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst all external problems.

Dada Bhagwan

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#37. The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Marianne Williamson

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#38. The mind that does inner intentions (bhaav-mann) is the 'charge' mind. The mind that is getting exhausted (dravya-mann) is the 'discharge' mind. Bhaav-mann creates the worldly life. Dravya-mann brings an end to the worldly life. When egoism goes away, bhaav-mann vanishes.

Dada Bhagwan

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#39. Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

Martin Walser

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#40. And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine,
Since the world can in no way answer our craving,
I will loosen my hair tomorrow and take to a fishingboat.

Li Bai

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#41. It is vital to understand that however positive this worldly life, or even a small part of it, may appear to be, ultimately it will fail because absolutely nothing genuinely works in samsara.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

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#42. Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.

James Hillman

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#43. If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.

Christine De Pizan

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#44. This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

William Law

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#45. [Mankind has] allowed worldly desires and pleasures to fill the heart and mind. Whatever the sin, we need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ in faith for forgiveness and new life.

Billy Graham

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#46. 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

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#47. If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

Etty Hillesum

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#48. In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

Dada Bhagwan

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#49. Is there not some arrangement (neutral gear) in the car, where the wheels do not turn, but the car keeps running? Similarly, one should do something, whereby worldly life continues and (karmic) 'causes' stops.

Dada Bhagwan

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#50. Don't let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose

Sunday Adelaja

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#51. The worldly life (sansar) is the thing created through delusion [wrong belief]. Therefore when you come to know about this wrong belief, it will go away.

Dada Bhagwan

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#52. 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

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#53. She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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#54. A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light.

Hong Zicheng

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#55. Worldly life is based on 'action' and the spiritual life is based on 'knowing'. One does the action and the other 'sees'. The 'doer' and the 'knower' can never be the same, they are always separate. They were separate, they are separate and they will remain separate.

Dada Bhagwan

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#56. If a prisoner paints his cell in the prison, does it mean that he likes the prison? Why does he do so? It is because he has no choice. Similarly, one has no choice in the worldly life, and that is why he builds a house, buys car, builds a bungalow.

Dada Bhagwan

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#57. Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

Sathya Sai Baba

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#58. Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.

Uthman Ibn Affan

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#59. He was only my Savior. My life was His, yet my love was bound in a selfish and worldly heart and it would take years to manage it loose.

Chila Woychik

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#60. One's Use of Life', if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion).

Dada Bhagwan

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#61. In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by the thoughts and emotions that which you harbor. Expand.

Will Barnes

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#62. Life's irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open for them to flow to you.

Neale Donald Walsch

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#63. The worldly life [the relative] means 'superfluous'. Instead of superfluous, people believe it to be real (of nischaya) and then they even say, 'this is indeed the way it should be, that is indeed the way it should be done.

Dada Bhagwan

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#64. Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.

Walter Raleigh

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#65. When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life.

Tejomayananda

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#66. Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

Jonathan Raban

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#67. Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

Dogen

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#68. Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

John Cowper Powys

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#69. In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

Virchand Gandhi

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#70. Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.

Fethullah Gulen

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#71. One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.

Dada Bhagwan

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#72. Education can so easily unseat one's confidence about the truth of the world, Mal noted privately.

Trish Mercer

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#73. Where there is insistence, there is worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

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#74. I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

Howard Jacobson

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#75. 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

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#76. The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.

Abdu'l- Baha

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#77. Worry is the greatest seed [cause] for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest egoism. If the egoism leaves, then worries will go away.

Dada Bhagwan

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#78. Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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#79. Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.

C.S. Lewis

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#80. The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties ...

Meher Baba

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#81. Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

William Law

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#82. As long as one is the doer of the actions, there is agnan [all other knowledge other than one's own true self, wordly knowledge]. Agnan is the cause for the worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

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#83. The meaning of worldly life is external problems [upadhi, problems arising out of external situations]. There is nothing in it which belongs to us. Seeds (causes) of external problems are sown, and external problems grow again.

Dada Bhagwan

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#84. Pointing out people's mistakes, having intention to take advantage of people, keeps one bound to a worldly life (sansaar).

Dada Bhagwan

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

Dada Bhagwan

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#86. 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

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#87. The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

Laozi

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#88. No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened.

Jason Dias

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#89. If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

John H. Vandenberg

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#90. I've come to realize that worldly light brings more popularity in someone's life then spiritual light.

Hyrum A Yeakley

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#91. Life is fleeting, and the wonder can be lost within the confusion of worldly reality.

Steven Redhead

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#92. Tiny Giggles
Silly giggles of laughter
I store upon a shelf
I give some to other
I save some for myself
I am rich beyond all measure
Though not with worldly wealth
I store up these treasures
For my heart and soulful health.

Muse

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#93. Worldly possessions didn't matter much to him, but his freedom did. He could come and go as he pleased, with nothing more than the backpack underneath his seat. It was a simple existence for a simple man.

Rose Wynters

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

Dada Bhagwan

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#95. I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

Kiana Tom

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#96. Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.

T. Scott McLeod

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#97. There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is 'Gnan', (true) Knowledge.

Dada Bhagwan

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#98. Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!

Dada Bhagwan

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#99. When the 'right belief' occurs, the world will appear quite different. 'Right belief' will take one towards the Eternal (Self), and the 'wrong belief' will take one towards the worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

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#100. Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar).

Dada Bhagwan

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