Dada Bhagwan Quotes

Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Advice should only be given when it is sought, otherwise our own worthiness gets assessed.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Accept only as much ‘cleanliness’ that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain ‘cleanliness’ such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Eternal joy arises by living in the 'permanent room'. Living in the 'temporary room' gives temporary joy.

~ Dada Bhagwan

This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one’s causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Don’t speak of action [effect]. Don’t serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The path of the vitarags [the enlightened ones] is not one of ‘objection’. It is a path of giving ‘no objection’. They remain indifferent if circumstances for objection arises.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When you maintain silence, you would have said to have understood the world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.

~ Dada Bhagwan

However much silence you behold, that amount of intellect will stop.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right.

~ Dada Bhagwan

All the words thrown on to others will eventually fall on you, so speak such pure words so that pure words will indeed fall on you.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this world, no word is being uselessly spoken.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone.

~ Dada Bhagwan

How is power of speech (vacchanbud) attained? It is when, not a single word is uttered to make fun of others; when not a single word is uttered for wrong selfish motives, material self-gain; when speech has not been misused; when speech has not been used to gain recognition or importance from others - that is when one's power of speech is attained.

~ Dada Bhagwan

How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own ‘safeside’?

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is the nature of human beings? When someone does something wrong to them, they will go after him [to punish, to fight].

~ Dada Bhagwan

One's ‘life’ is ‘fractured’; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate liberation (moksha) if he wants moksha.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Man (human life form) is a 'second-hand' quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self].

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One becomes Parmatma (absolute supreme self) if he comes into the True Self even for a fraction of time.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know what benefit a person will bring.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The bigger the ‘flat’ [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the ‘flat’ is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?

~ Dada Bhagwan

The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature?

~ Dada Bhagwan

You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we ‘say’, it is ‘egoism’. The whole world is in order [in control].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Boredom is itself worry.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts.

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What else is there besides puran (input, influx, charge, cause) and galan (out put, discharge, effect)?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There is no liability if one calls a whore a virtuous woman!

~ Dada Bhagwan

If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, ‘when will the train leave, when will it leave?’ This world is not worth getting impatient restless about.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment.

~ Dada Bhagwan

God is where there are no ‘fees’ being charged, where there is no botheration and where there is no scolding; that is where God is.

~ Dada Bhagwan