Dada Bhagwan Quotes

Knowledge of the [five] senses (indriya gnan) creates all kinds of intents. Knowledge beyond senses (ati-indriya gnan) doesn’t allow any intent to occur!

Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).

The world is our own reflection. As long as there is deceit in you, others will deceive you.

The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable.

If we want to be free [get liberated], don’t compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.

Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall].

The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop.

If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you.

All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!

Relative’ is a duality!

What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!

The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.

Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see ‘as it is’, and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God’s maya is gone, the solution is found.

The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence that one has memory.

What is the goal of a human being? An Indian person can truly achieve a state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma, the Lord]. To achieve one’s own Absolute Supreme Self state is the ultimate goal!

The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.

People’s mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others?

How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.

The Gnanis [The enlightened ones] have said that if one lives as if he is dead, death will never come to him.

The moment one is born, the ‘saw starts cutting’. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal.

Where there is ‘egoism’, there is no God. Where there is God, there is no ‘egoism’.

Undecided thoughts’ is called the mind. ‘Decided thoughts’ is called the intellect.

To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn’t it? The one who proceeds with caution will win.

Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are.

One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect.

When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the one who has purity of mind, body and speech.

The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one’s kashays are gone, then he becomes the ‘owner’ of the whole universe.

As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion?

Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is not possible for egoism to decrease.

One whose faith (nishtha) is set in God, he is known as Brahma-nishtha (settled in the Self).

When Self (Khuda) is realized, egoism (Aap-khudi) goes away.

When does one think of God? It is when he gains something from Him, when love for Him arises!

When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained.

Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it.

The one who never rebukes his underhand will have no boss in this world!

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swasatta) cannot arise.

Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point?

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

Maya (deceit) means ignorance of one’s own Self!

It is considered as conduct when it comes into exact understanding.

People remain glued in worldly interactions and that is their mistake. It is because they have become glued, they have to suffer the beating from the world.

The puzzle that is created by seeing the ‘relative’ is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the ‘Real’.

Until the ‘wrong belief’ leaves, we will continue to be robbed.

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

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

God is the Knower and not the sufferer of pain.

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.

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].

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.