Dada Bhagwan Quotes

You benefit when you do not further entangle (confuse) an already entangled person or you benefit when you remove his entanglement. But what happens when you entangle the one who is already entangled? God is sitting within him, isn’t he?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Merely by doing darshan of just one kashay free person, one’s paap (sins; demerit karmas) get washed away! There can be no kashay-free person other than a Gnani.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you say, ‘Now I look like an old man’, you will start to look like an old man. If you say, ‘No, I look like a young man now’, you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you will see. Soul is the form of projection and if false projections are done, the worldly life is created! If you come to a state free of false belief (wrong projection), You will be in the state of the ‘Real form of the Self’ (mood swaroop).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).

~ Dada Bhagwan

It is a mistake to believe other person to be estranged. They all are our own Self’s-forms. However, that has to be realized, right? To believe the other person to be an alien means giving him a beating and that hurts our own-Self.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Spirituality [Nischay] means complete truth and worldly interactions means truth to a certain extent.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When one remains ‘sincere’, no type of fear will come to him in the worldly life (sansar) and it will lead him to moksha (ultimate liberation)!

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is nothing to fear in this world. Whatever happens, it happens to the body-complex [relative-self], right?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When one has no fear of insults, no one will insult him; that is the rule. The ‘transactions’ will continue as long as there is fear. The moment fear is gone, the transactions will end.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Until egoism reaches the non-existent state, there is nothing but fear in the worldly life.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Do not have so much fear of this world that it will ruin the next incarnation.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What fear do you have? You, yourself are the absolute Self! If absolute-Self becomes fearful, then the whole universe will have fear! ‘We’ are on the other side of the prakruti [relative self’s world].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Seeing the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma) in everyone is itself an intent of friendship towards the entire world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Wealthy people build palaces with nine floors. At the time of their departure (dying), the palace jests with them, ‘You are going and here we remain standing!’ The palaces are not the only palaces, are they? The wife, the children – they are all palaces indeed!

~ Dada Bhagwan

People will listen to you when you become the ‘Embodiment of Love’ [Prem Swaroop]. When can you become the ‘Embodiment of Love’? When you do not look for laws or rules, When you do not see anyone at fault.

~ Dada Bhagwan

People do not know what good deeds are. It is udaya karma,unfolding effects of past karma; that makes them do the deeds. The prakruti, the relative self, forces them to do them. What is your own thing [effort] in that? Doing good deeds; that too is mandatory (farajiyat)!

~ Dada Bhagwan

What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Don’t some people say, ‘You did not value me’? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocean, ‘what is my worth?’ You will be swept away with one wave. The owner of many waves has swept away many a people like you! Worth is in those people who have no attachment-abhorrence.

~ Dada Bhagwan

People get absorbed in chitchats with whomever they meet. They simply have to meet someone. Infinite energies are wasted in such chitchatting.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What harm does lying cause? One loses people’s trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless.

~ Dada Bhagwan

People say, 'that bump caused me to trip', but the bump says, 'I am where I have always been. It's the wretched ones who can't see, they come my way and trip over!

~ Dada Bhagwan

People will not refrain from criticizing. But one should not keep on criticizing. The world is such that it will run smoothly without any criticism. This world is not worth interfering in. It is just worth ‘Knowing’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

People have the right to criticize you. You do not have the right to criticize anyone.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort (purushartha) can be made. But instead, people push it aside.

~ Dada Bhagwan

A king will say 'I killed thousands of people'. He is simply doing egoism; he is taking pleasure in taking credit of doership (garva ras). They were killed by those who were on the battle field. Why does the king needlessly take on the liability [of new karmic causes]? In doing so, those who did the killing are set free. The rule is that the liability falls upon the one doing egosim [of doerhip].

~ Dada Bhagwan

People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?

~ Dada Bhagwan

People on the worldly path, to them ‘we’ say, ‘Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this world, it is not possible to forget about obligation of these three people: father, mother and guru; the one who has made us walk on the correct path.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You are on a certain ‘step’. This state is meant for only you, it is not applicable to other people. Others are on a different ‘step’. Therefore you cannot pressurize anyone. You cannot have any ‘objection’ towards them.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Vitragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments] is the only way to ‘swim’ across lifetimes.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What would you ask for if you were given the freedom to chose something of your own volition (marjiyaat)? There is nothing in [all] mandatory (tasks) in which one can remain still. One after another, the needs will continue. It is only in the state of own’s own Self [the Soul], that one can remain burden-free.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.

~ Dada Bhagwan

For how long will you keep on wandering around for infinite lifetimes? Your own light is not there. For how long will you keep on wandering in the dark? One has walked for billions and billions of miles and yet he has not seen the light. He has not found the right path. The truth will have to be known, will it not?

~ Dada Bhagwan

The body is doing the action, body’s spare-parts are doing the action and the egoism simply does the egoism of, ‘I did’! Subtle-pride of egoism is created from this doer-ship and one is living due entirely on this basis. He simply tastes the subtle-pride of doer-ship; ‘I did’, ‘I suffered this pain’, ‘I enjoyed that happiness’. The person who gets rid of this subtle-pride will get freedom. Why does one taste this sweetness of subtle-pride of doership from infinite lives? He does this because he has never before tasted the sweetness of the Soul.

~ Dada Bhagwan