Quotes about fake gurus

A fake guru wants his followers to believe that he is God Himself—that's why he tries to impress them with his mystic powers. If the disciple of a phony guru were to express doubts about his guru's lordship, the guru would surely be angered. So how did Brahma react when Narada asked the questions, “Under whose protection are you standing? And under whom are you working? What is your real position?” And how did he react when Narada asked, “Yet we are moved to wonder about the existence of someone more powerful than you when we think of your great austerities in perfect discipline”? In response, Brahmaji was not angry. In fact, he was extremely pleased.

~Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

Culture of Knowledge

The wise have explained that one result is derived from the culture of knowledge, and that a different result is obtained from the culture of nescience.

~Sri Ishopanishad, Mantra Ten

For one who lives a hedonistic life, a life in which nescience is cultivated, the results are envy, anger, greed, impatience, disrespect for others, anxiety, depression, hatred, ever-increasing lust, forgetfulness, frustration, dissatisfaction, duplicity, fear of death, and so on.

~Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

(On the other hand), for a person who cultivates wisdom or true knowledge, the results are inner peace, satisfaction, patience, respect for others, freedom from duplicity, compassion, joyfulness, remembrance of his spiritual identity, freedom from the fear of death, freedom from anxiety and depression, and so on.

~Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

Karma

Everyone is engaged in action. The law of karma means that there are reactions to every action and that a person must endure the reactions to his actions.

~Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
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"Who Are You? Discovering Your Real Identity", published by the Identity Institute. Author: Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda (Chris Butler)

The physical body is made up of countless numbers of tiny material particles called molecules and atoms. These material particles are constantly being replaced by material particles from the outside environment (in the form of food, water, air, and so on). Over a period of five to seven years, this process of metabolism brings about a complete change of the matter that makes up your body.
~ Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

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The body is yours — but it is not you. The body is a garment that you are wearing, a machine that you are using, a vehicle that you are driving. The body is your possession. Just as a person does not identify himself as being the shirt he is wearing, he also should not identify himself with the body that he is wearing.
~ Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

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No matter how much sensual pleasure people have, no matter how much they consume, they always want more. This endless personal craving manifests as ever increasing material consumption.
~ Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

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The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge.
~ Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

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Many people believe that a person is the brain or some part of the brain. You may be one of them. If so, the following should boggle your mind:

Recent studies on the turnover of the molecular population within a give nerve cell have indicated that … their macromolecular contingent is renewed about ten thousand times in a lifetime.*

In other words, the matter making up each brain cell is completely renewed every three days. Your brain — that mass of matter which is contained in your skull today — is not the same brain that was in your skull last week.
~ Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation
_{*Paul Weiss, “The Living System: Determinism Stratified,” in Arthur Koestler and J.R. Smythies, eds., Beyond Reductionism (London: Hutchinson, 1969), p. 13.}

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There is more than enough food, water, fuel and so on to satisfy the actual needs of everyone on the planet. But there is not enough to satisfy everyone's greed. Even if it were physically possible for you to consume all the food, water, and fuel in the world, you still would not be satisfied. "Material food" cannot satisfy spiritual craving. Since the materialist is never satisfied, he never feels that he has had enough.
~ Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

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Let me ask you a few simple questions: Do you exist at this moment? Did you exist five years ago? Are you your body? Most people would answer "yes" to all three questions. But if you identify your body as yourself, and simultaneously accept that you exist now and also existed five years ago, then you have a problem: The body you had five years ago does not exist today. There is a dynamic turnover of atoms and molecules which make up your body. There isn't a single particle of matter — not one atom — present in your body today that was present five years ago. The body you have today is not the same body you had five years ago. It's not that the body you had still exists but has now changed somewhat. No. The body you had is gone. That collection of atoms appearing as flesh, bone, blood, hair, and so on no longer exists. Yet you still exist.
~ Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

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If life is materially based, then why don't we see it springing from matter in the natural world? And why can't we create life from matter in our laboratories?
~ Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

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Perfection means being in tune with reality. The first thing we must understand is reality — the reality of my identity, i.e., my essence, position and function. Who am I? Just as a person does not identify himself as being the shirt that he is wearing, he also should not identify himself with the body that he is wearing.
~ Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa (Chris Butler)
Science of Identity Foundation

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