Liberation is giving up of the unreal. Let us suppose you want a
cup of fruit juice. Unless you throw away the water already in
the cup, you cannot pour the juice in the cup. Similarly,
unless you give up materialism, Atma bhava (spiritual
attitude) cannot come to you. Moksha (Liberation) is
not a distinct and different spiritual discipline. It is only giving
up unnecessary desires. Ignorance is the cause of jealousy, and jealousy is the cause of disharmony. And disharmony is the cause of anger.
Through anger, wisdom is lost. The real spiritual wisdom is
seeing "One in All" at all times. If there is duality or
differences, wisdom declines.
- Divine Discourse,
Sep 21, 1980.