Bondage and Salvation

Treating the body and other matters as one's own, is bondage, and not accepting them as own, means salvation. All are free to accept or reject this relationship.

All relations with the world, may lead either to salvation or bondage. But the contract for the spiritual path (service to others) leads to salvation, and the link for selfishness, brings about bondage.

By maltreating a human body, man gets bound, and by its good use, he is freed. For selfish reasons, causing harm to others, is misusing the human body, while by giving up selfish interest and doing good to others, is its beneficial use.

To give importance to the perishable, is bondage.

Whatever is granted, do not accept it as your own, then salvation would come, naturally.

The world comprises the favourable and unfavourable. Man gets bound by being happy or otherwise in the favourable and unfavourable state, and in not being happy or otherwise, it liberates him.

The body is a part of the world and we ourselves are a fraction of God. So dedicate the body to the world or use it for service to the world and consecrate the self to God, then salvation occurs the same day.

By the desire for salvation, keenness for the body does not subsist. If it does, then there is no desire for salvation.

By acting for others without thought of reward, salvation comes, and acting with thought of reward for oneself, creates bondage. It means that man should act without thought of expectation in discharging his duties.

If you want to free yourself from bondage, then give up the possessive spirit in acquired things, as well as, desire for not acquired ones.

God's creation never binds one, nor gives pain. Man-made (I-ness and my-ness) binds and gives pain.

Doing, what should not be done, and worrying about what could not be done are two special fetters.

To get a thing or not to get it, does not cause bondage, but acceptance of a link with the same, does.

To treat the world for service to one's self, facilitates bondage, while beholding oneself for service to the world, is favourable for salvation.

Bondage does not arise from action, but from desire.

The desire for an unacquired thing and feeling of myness for the acquired, means bondage and subjugation.

To renounce the desire for pleasure craving for liberation is necessary. But to seek liberation with desire for the same, becomes an impediment.

Man does not get bound by his actions as such, but by the attachment and selfishness inherent in his actions.

By associating selfishness with any action, such an act becomes lowly and causes bondage.

It is a principle that, until man keeps on acting for himself, he does not exhaust the acts and gets bound by them.

So long as there is a link with nature, till then to act or not to act, both are acts which create bondage.

Salvation is of the soul and not of the body. On achieving salvation, the body does not separate from the world, only the self, remains separate from the body and the world.

Salvation does not come from outside renunciation, but by inward detachment.

"I do not have to take anything"-only with this, I could gain salvation.

Liberation is easy and natural, bondage is subject to doings.

In reality, it is the liberated that achieves salvation- a bounded one does not.