Dada Bhagwan Quotes

All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.

The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.

To say ‘I’ where I’ is not - is the greatest illusory attachment (raag).

If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is ‘relative’. And “All these relatives are temporary adjustments”.

To care for others is called humanity.

When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion.

To imagine the Self where it is not, is called maya (deceit).

Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form.

When ‘my’ and ‘I’ are gone, it is known as a state free of wrong beliefs (nirvikalp)!

To attain the Self is indeed called the right belief (samkit).

The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion).

When the ‘right belief’ occurs, the world will appear quite different. ‘Right belief’ will take one towards the Eternal (Self), and the ‘wrong belief’ will take one towards the worldly life.

The worldly life has arisen through the ego. One is indeed free if the ego dissolves. What is the foundation on which the ego stands? It is the ignorance of the Self.

This world stands on the foundation of the relationship between the support and the support-taker. If the support is removed, the support-taker will be released.

Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.

If only one word of the ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is understood, then your welfare [that which liberates] is done.

If you try to win, you bind (create) enmity, and if you acknowledge defeat, you will be freed from enmity.

There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is ‘Gnan’, (true) Knowledge.

To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.

Where there is use of the buddhi [intellect], there is no Moksha [Liberation], and where there is Moksha, there the intellect is not needed. Samaj [Understanding] is needed.

That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn’t allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do ‘everywhere adjustment’.

The buddhi [intellect] is today’s gain, it is today’s experience! Whereas, akkal [insight, wisdom] is a nature’s gift!

The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self.

The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality.

One who keeps an 'open mind' will be able to see God!

As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.

The one who can see all the viewpoints of the world is a savior (tarantaranhaar – one who has attained liberation and graces others with the same).

To say, ‘he lacks understanding’, about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed).

Where there is anger-pride-deceit-greed [kashay], there is fire, and as long as there is fire, there will be scorching pain of the furnace.

The owner of actions [doer] is called a worldly person [sansaari].

Right understanding is that which finds happiness in the state of unhappiness.

This whole world is functioning on the foundation of [karmic] ‘effect’. God has no hand in this. People did not understand this and that is why they put this on God’s head (blamed God).

The Agna, liberating instructions of the 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], purifies the mind. Knowledge of the Self [self realization] will give the mind, solutions in every circumstance.

The mind’s nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say ‘Why did you come at this wrong time?’ And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.

Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation].

One, who has passed through one pain, gets the strength to pass through many pains. Then he becomes the expert in passing through the pains.

God is the Knower and not the sufferer of pain.

If one departs from the bliss of the Eternal, he will come across the happiness that is obtained from the temporary.

There is only supreme bliss in the Soul, our True Self. But this bliss is obstructed because of impure inner intents.

I’ is in the form of the eternal element (vastu swaroop) and ‘my’ is in the form of circumstances (saiyog swaroop). Circumstance form and eternal element form are two different things.

He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.

There is no point in worrying about the effect [result], which has already occurred. It is worth paying attention to the facts (causes) upon which the effects [results] are based.

There is only one way to be happy in this worldly life. Relinquish ‘my’ and go after [help to] people.

I’ means the Self and ‘my’ means what belongs to the self. All that is ‘my’ is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry.

I’ is your own Self, only this much is to be ‘realized’!

There aren’t any ‘relative’ (worldly) things that is worth inviting. So what is worth inviting? The ‘place’ where we have to go is worth knowing.

When a person’s debt increases a lot, at first he will feel he wants to pay it all back, later he will think, ‘Why give back?’ That spoils from within. We should not sign from within.

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

If one maintains the intent of, ‘no one should have the slightest difficulty on my account’, then his work will be considered to be done.

God doesn’t need to be a witness. He doesn’t need to go to a court, does he? ‘You’ are the one who has to attain a witness state, so that there’s no karma bondage. And ‘God’ only keeps on ‘seeing’!