Dada Bhagwan Quotes

What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other ‘flaws’.

All that is ‘free of cost’ is compulsory (farajeeyat).

The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours’, isn’t it?

One cannot see one’s own mistakes in matters where his interest lies.

If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.

This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do?

If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within ‘why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only.

As long as this belief, ‘I am the doer’ is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state.

If one takes responsibility for the mistakes, he is the true person, isn’t it? Do not insist. Instead of insisting, instead of blaming others, take the responsibility of the mistakes on your head!

Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand).

That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.

Why should I care?’ – The one who says this is the greatest offender of nature.

There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment).

The person who tolerates ‘exactly’ (with understanding) hands over his ‘case’ to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him.

Tolerance is an attribute of egoism.

There is no Gnan (True Knowledge) where there is ‘egoism’ and where there is Gnan, there is no ‘egoism’.

Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that.

What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!

The chit is semi-animate (half-alive) and the mind is completely physical.

What is the value of the Gnani’s [the enlightened one’s] feet? It is a value that is immeasurable. The Gnani’s feet is one & the only solvent to dissolve egoism.

As long as there is the egoism of ‘I-ness’ (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards ‘my-ness’ (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?

If you say a word against a ‘sensitive’ person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a ‘record’ playing.

Getting rid of the wrong understanding and attaining the right understanding is indeed bliss.

What is the difference between disrespect (avinay) and despise (viradhana)? Disrespect (avinay) means one shows lack of respect and to despise (viradhana) means one becomes an adversary (opponent).

Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault.

Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] has the [knowledge of the-Self] essence of all religions.

One becomes bad himself when he sees or calls others bad. When others appear good to him, he will become good himself.

To see others’ faults is a terrible mistake!

Scriptures are as ‘helping problem’. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine?

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.

The one who has developed a habit of taking a lot of respect from others [relish pride], will get cheated.

Till the chit is in blissful state, the world does not come in one's remembrance (one forgets the world till that time).

A circumstance is not easy to come by and when it does, there are causes behind it. Therefore I do those things which bring an end to all the causes.

The true instrument is that, with the help of which, the egoism and my-ness goes away.

Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.

One who speaks ‘completely’ negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and ‘positive’ does not create any obstruction (antray).

We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing ‘Jagat kalyan’ (world’s salvation).

Why is it that ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have any obstruction (antray)? It is because ‘we’ are in a desire-free state (Nirichchhak dasha).

Obstacles (antray) are indeed due to desires. As desires keep on decreasing, so do the obstructions (antray) keep on getting destroyed. Then, everything is acquired (at that stage).

Where there is even the subtlest desire, the ‘Eternal Thing’ cannot be attained.

Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again.

Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.

What is it that doesn’t allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!

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.