enlightened

People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.

We must not fall asleep in the present because the now moment is the only reality we truly have.

The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.

Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.

Who is free from illusory attachment (nirmohi)? The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one). He can see flesh and bones, through and through.

Regardless of how much wealth [material pleasures] one has, if he does not like bondage even for a moment, then he has become qualified to understand the science of the Vitarags [the enlightened one__].

What is the value of the Gnani__ [the enlightened one__] feet? It is a value that is immeasurable. The Gnani__ feet is one & the only solvent to dissolve egoism.

If only one word of the __nani Purush_ [the enlightened one] is understood, then your welfare [that which liberates] is done.

What is the science of Vitraag (the enlightened ones free of attachment)? [It is that where] If one understands a single word of the Vitarag, there will be no pain. But one has not understood a single word of __ir_, the Vitaraag Lord Mahavir [The 24th Tirthankar]

Whatever one knows, he knows on the basis of his egoism. The __nani_ [The enlightened one], who doesn__ know how to do anything; has no egoism whatsoever.

This [worldly life] is a huge entanglement; every sub-atomic particle of it is an entanglement and it is impossible to break free from it. Which is why the Lord has said, __f you encounter a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one], remain with Him_.

One's liberation begins once he does the darshan of kashaya-free (absence of inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) Gnani purush [the enlightened one]. Who is considered kashaya-free? The one whose state is that where there was no kashaya, there is no kashaya, and there never will be any. The one who is never in the state of the non-Self. Doing darshan of such a One brings ultimate well being.

Everyone knows how to subtract the gross form of __y_ (tangible __y_). But how can he know how to subtract the subtle, subtler and the subtlest forms of __y_? That is the work of the __nani Purush_ [the enlightened one].

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

Gnani_ [the enlightened one] is He who gives proof of whatever He says. He would not say, __ll that I have said is correct; you will have to accept it_.

What does egoism mean? It means to become blind through one__ own vision. The Gnani [the enlightened one] removes the egoism.

We_ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) would never say to anyone, __isten to me!_ because that is indeed not under his control.

To see things (vastu) __s it is_ in its purest form, is called samkit (enlightened view; right belief), and to see it any other way is called mithyatva (wrong belief).