Dada Bhagwan Quotes

There can never be suffering in the home of a person who is working for world's salvation.

The mud of this body-complex (pudgal - that which charges and disharges) is such that the harder one tries to get out, the deeper and deeper he sinks into it.

To see happiness of others, that is what is our religion.

Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to?

The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation?

Who is considered a great man is the one who can be the smallest of the small.

When others try to provoke (instigate) you and you don’t get provoked, it is known as a spiritual victory.

Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and ‘this’ (akram vignan) is a science itself.

This’ is not called a religion, ‘This’ is called a science (vignan). Religion keeps changing, science does not change.

Religion begins from the time man starts to give happiness to others.

Only one kind of religion cannot give peace to everyone. Whatever ‘degree’ one is sitting at, that ‘degree’ of religion he requires.

True religion is that which does not let you stumble.

When attachment increases too much, dislike will arise.

It is the nature of the circumstances to disperse. If there is attachment with the circumstance, there will be abhorrence when they get dispersed.

As illusory attachment (moha) spread, one sunk deeper and deeper into the pit.

Moksha (Liberation) is to become free from gathering & dispersing of circumstances.

Abhorrence is the cause for conflicts. God has said, ‘Do no abhorrence. If you don’t like it, ignore it’.

Who is free from illusory attachment (nirmohi)? The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one). He can see flesh and bones, through and through.

What is attraction (akarshan) in this world? It is open fire and one should be aware of it. Attraction is the open fire. The root of illusory attachment (moha) is indeed attraction.

Illusory attachment (moha) is indeed what will keep on biting you until the point of your demise!

What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others.

Absence of Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is indeed bliss.

When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves.

Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].

One does not see ‘what is there’ and sees ‘what is not there’, that is called moha (illusory vision).

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

Egoism’s nature is not Moha (Illusory attachment). Moha’s (Illusory attachment’s) nature is egoism. Moha is the origin of egoism.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.

When can one attain samadhi (eternal blissful continuous peace)? It comes when one lets go of the things that he loves the most.

Where one does not do planning, it is all pure ‘discharge’. ‘Charge’ occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it.

Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction.

Money is ‘limited’ and people’s demands are ‘unlimited’.

If money is spent in the wrong way, then ‘control’ the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then ‘decontrol’ the spending.

When anyone can still the minds of five, ten or hundred people, then work can be accomplished. Who can still the mind? It is the one whose own mind is still, he can still the minds of others.

The mind and the chit are discharging and the world has believed them to be ‘charge’. That is why they attempt to still the mind and the chit, but that is not possible.

No difficulty can come to you (your way). If the mind wavers, difficulty will embrace you! That is all, the law of the universe is just this.

One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh).

The world is stuck because of the word ‘no’.

The whole world has the illusory awareness of, ‘I am the doer’. In reality, everyone’s karmas are getting discharged, but one is not aware of this. One has no awareness of his own True Self.

Where do you see conflict in this world? Only where there is infatuation (attachment).

To see anything other than ‘as it is’ - that is called the world.

The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world.

One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.

It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from that? Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] can show it, (which is) ‘Pratikraman’.

One first celebrates a ‘silver jubilee’, then a ‘golden jubilee’, then a ‘diamond jubilee’, but even then he goes back again into a pile of wood (cremation).

A thing or one’s eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!

When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!

The intellect perpetuates the worldly life.

Illusion (maya) cannot enter where there is ‘light’ (enlightenment, awareness). Once darkness falls, illusion will enter there. The Gnani Purush can arrange for your illusion to go away permanently.