Spiritual Liberation Quotes

#1. A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Stanislav Grof

#2. 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

#3. Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent upon liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he is ever freed.

The Bhagavad Gita

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

Dada Bhagwan

#5. What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

#10. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Only Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) will give liberation. All other instruments (& practices) create bondage.

Dada Bhagwan

#15. As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].

Dada Bhagwan

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

Dada Bhagwan

#17. 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

#18. In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.

Jaggi Vasudev

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

Dada Bhagwan

#20. 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

#21. It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.

Frederick Lenz

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

Jaggi Vasudev

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

#31. All these objections are raised by people, has God raised them? He who wants to be free (attain Liberation) has no objections, and he who wants to be bound, he will have nothing but objections. People become addicts of objections.

Dada Bhagwan

#32. Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.

Dada Bhagwan

#33. Every action ('doing') causes bondage. 'Doing' is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, 'action' of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.

Dada Bhagwan

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

Dada Bhagwan

#35. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

#37. 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

#38. Freedom is the liberation of my spirit and my soul from unpleasant condition.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

Rabindranath Tagore

#40. Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.

Ashim Shanker

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

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

Dada Bhagwan

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

Dada Bhagwan

#48. 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

#49. Man has obeyed commands of the Mother, the Father, the Guru; but he has not obeyed the commands of 'God' (Bhagwan). Had he obeyed 'God's' commands, his work (for liberation) would have been accomplished. Alas! He will follow his boss's commands and even his wife's commands!

Dada Bhagwan

#50. The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness of I am pure Soul [gnan bhaav, knowledge intent], will grant liberation.

Dada Bhagwan

#51. If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

Jaggi Vasudev

#52. This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names ...

Jamaica Kincaid

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

#57. 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

#58. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

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

Dada Bhagwan

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

Dada Bhagwan

#62. You are in charge of your own karma, your own life, your own spiritual path, and your own liberation, just as I am in charge of mine.

Lama Surya Das

#63. 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

#64. Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

Jaggi Vasudev

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

#71. The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

Frederick Lenz

#72. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

#74. The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.

Allan Boesak

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

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

Dada Bhagwan

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.

Jaggi Vasudev

#82. There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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