Dada Bhagwan Quotes

Where there is the slightest insistence, there is no religion there!

Insistence on one’s own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation.

There should be no tenacity of insistence or obstinate insistence of any kind. If there is any tenacity, it should be the kind that will go away if you tell it to!

There is no truth in this world that is worth insisting upon! Anything that is insisted upon is not the truth at all!

The one, who does not have the ‘poison’ of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (karmic).

A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a “Gnani” [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].

One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?

The higher one sits, the greater the fear of fall.

It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult.

How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.

To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself.

Awareness’ will not arise where there is deceit along with self-pride (maan). If there is deceit with self-pride, then one can never see the self-pride.

What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’.

Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

He insulted me’ -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.

Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.

In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.

One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.

One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that ‘this should not be so’.

As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.

The slightest awareness of ‘my-ness’ is indeed egoism.

There is no ‘my’ in ‘I’. ‘My’ is outside of the ‘I’.

It is the body-complex that eats and one just does the egoism of ‘I ate.’ He is not aware that there is another entity. One simply takes on the suffering of another.

Who can go beyond the mind? The one who has conquered the mind.

Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions.

The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free.

The mind can be won over if it is kept separate from things that appeal to it.

As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms.

No one is a doer in this world. To claim, ‘I am doing’ is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the umbrella of egoism.

The rule is that when one’s mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person’s mind in that subject.

Where our own mind doesn’t listen to us, how can other’s minds follow what we say? One should not have such expectation at all.

When there is no venom (poison) of any kind in your eyes, when a liberated smile is seen, then people will do your darshan (will come to see you with intent of worship).

He whose speech, behavior and humility captivates people’s minds, becomes worthy of worship by people.

The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires.

What is called true happiness? It is 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit). The person who has attained 'chit prasannta', he need not beg for anything in this world!

When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done.

The thoughts that arise because of 'depression' or 'elevation' are all wrong thoughts. The thoughts that arise in 'normality' are 'correct'.

Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If ‘oneself’ gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive.

When the mind gets a solution [settlement], it is considered religion. It is considered irreligion when the mind does not get a solution.

I know’, is a big ghost. ‘This is mine’, is a huge demonic possession!

Only the ‘Right belief’ gives rise to non-contradicting principle and that which is free from contradiction is known as ‘Principle’.

That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle.

When there is no argument [dispute] over a talk, it is called ‘Principle’.

Who is considered as reputable in God’s language? The one who can do ‘world’s salvation’ just through his eyes!

The inner intent one has of ‘may everyone attain salvation’, will bring salvation to himself first.