Shri S N Tavaria Quotes

Truth has great strength.
Birth is the result of a prior cause -- intense desire to live. One form becomes the cause of a subsequent form and one life the cause of a subsequent life. If, however, attraction to sense objects is brought to an end, when one outgoing life does not crave for another incoming life, the desire for life and living slows down and ultimately ceases -- there is then no need for further life and form. But first the desire to die consciously must arise and practices to that effect must be undertaken.
Improper thoughts and emotions lead to improper actions.
Moksha, or Transcendence, is the eternal nature of man. It is not something that has to be accomplished or attained to, some time in the future, nor is it an intellectual concept. It is a rediscovery of what is already there. It is through "unborn knowledge" that the "unborn Self" is realized.
The truth of non-duality will always remain beyond intellectual comprehension, for intellectual comprehension is mind and mind is dual and many-faceted. With its help we can never approach the idea of Advaita or Turiya.
All this world and the universe is perceived through the individual mind, a creation of cosmic mind, Chittie. But when the mind ceases to play and ceases to be mind, i.e. when mind becomes of itself "no-mind", duality is no longer perceived!
There is no known beginning to anything in Nature. How many times the Universe with its complex structure has been winding and unwinding, each movement over billions of years, and for how long each individual must be winding and unwinding over the last billions of years -- there is no count.
The non-dual, unchanging reality is Turiya (even giving it a name is false understanding).
Thoughts that are contrary to yoga are: harmfulness, falsehood, theft, incontinence and avarice, whether committed personally, caused to be committed or approved of, whether arising from avarice, anger or ignorance; whether slight in doing, middling or great. These result always in excessive pain and ignorance. For this reason, the contrary thoughts
must be cultivated.
Creation is, always was, and ever will be. Creation, as we understand, stands for Param Satyam (ever true); therefore, no part of it is ever dissolved and no part of it does ever get created. There is no end nor beginning in Creation. It is always the same.
To maintain harmlessness (ahimsa) is not easy, especially under provocation. When one is strong, then ahimsa has virtue; if one is weak, it is only a cover. Mere preaching of ahimsa, or non-violence, can only lead to great himsa or violence. In the country of Sri Rama and in our modern days, Mahatma Gandhiji, we see unprecedented violence throughout the country. Unless ahimsa, has seeped into every pore of the body and in every cell of the complex structure of the human body/brain system, enmity will not cease.