Enlightened Ones Quotes

“Soul (Atma) remains very far from where kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are created, the Soul is quite far from there. Where there is absence of kashays, there lies the ‘religion of Vitrags (the enlightened ones)’, and where kashays are present, lies the ‘relative religion’!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The Gnanis [The enlightened ones] have said that if one lives as if he is dead, death will never come to him.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Whatever the world does, is indeed all a natural discharge [disposal of karma]. You may chant God’s name, you may do penance; it is all nature’s discharge. If someone garlands you, how is he obliging you? And if someone picks your pocket, how is he hurting you? One is instrumental in the charging (creation of new karma), but in the discharge, it is only nature’s doing. This is the ultimate vision of the Vitraags, the Enlightened ones free of attachment.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The Gnani Purush (the Self-realized One who can help others attain Self-realization) is in fact considered as a sevak (person who renders service without any selfish motive) and a Sevya (fit to be served, enlightened Lord) of the entire world. Not only am 'I' serving the entire world but 'I' am also partaking service from the entire world. If you understand this, then all your work can be done!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Whatever Has Happened is Justice

“No one in this world has ever been enlightened by reading a single book, or taking a single trip or working with a single teacher! The way to enlightenment is to drink water from every fountain, not from just one!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The Upanishads have minutely classified every stage of spiritual advancement:

- Jivanmukta ("freed while living")

- a siddha ("perfected being") has progressed from the state of jivanmukta ("freed while living") to that of:

- a paramukta ("supremely free" - full power over death); the latter has completely escaped from the mayic thralldom and its reincarnational round. The paramukta therefore seldom returns to a physical body; if he does return, he is:

- an avatar, a divinely appointed medium of supernal blessings on the world. An avatar is unsubject to the universal economy; his pure body, visible as a light image, is free from any debt to Nature. The casual gaze may see nothing extraordinary in an avatar's form; but, on occasion, it casts no shadow nor make any footprint on the ground. These are outward symbolic proofs of an inward freedom from darkness and material bondage. [...] Krishna, Rama, Buddha and Patanjali were among the ancient Indian avatars. [...] Agastya, a South Indian avatar.

- Mahavatar (Great Avatar) - Babaji's mission in India has been to assist prophets in carrying out their special dispensations. He thus qualifies for the scriptural classification of Mahavatar (Great Avatar). [...] Babaji is ever in communion with Christ; together they send out vibrations of redemption and have planned the spiritual technique of salvation for this age. The work of these two fully illumined masters is to inspire the nations to forsake wars, race, hatreds, religious sectarianism, and the boomerang evils of materialism.[...]
Only one reason motivates Babaji in maintaining his physical form from century to century: the desire to furnish humanity wit ha concrete example of its own possibilities. Were man never vouchsafed a glumpse of Divinity in the flesh, he would remain oppressed by the heavy mayic delusion that he cannot transcend his mortality.

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pg305-310, Chapter 33, Babaji, Yogi-Christ of Modern India”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi