Dada Bhagwan Quotes

To remain lying on thorns (kanta) is called boredom (kantado).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.

~ Dada Bhagwan

God says that the one who does not find the worldly life boring at all, is not worthy of moksha [the ultimate liberation] at all. While earning money one gets bored, while not earning money one gets bored, everywhere one gets bored, then he is considered worthy of moksha.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Each pain indeed comes with its time limit.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no such thing as destruction in this world. Eternal Thing [vastu] is not destroyed, its phase state (avastha) is destroyed.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who comes to know [the eternal truth], will awaken. The one who is wrongly believing will not awaken.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You will especially not find anyone who speaks bitterly to you. All the 'diseases' [worldly suffering] remains due to the sweetness. Bitterness will remove the disease, sweetness will increase it. Your life should be such that you will not have to listen to bitter words. If however, you have to listen to bitter words, then you should listen to it. It is always beneficial.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others will accept it in their hearts. And if it is the truth and you nag or insist upon it, it will not touch others.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.

~ Dada Bhagwan

No one asks about the truth and non-truth. Should one not think ‘why don’t others accept it even when I am right?’ It is because there is insistence and nagging behind that truth.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Criminal’ pompousness will not do, ‘civil’ pompousness is acceptable.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The Lord says that abhorrence is beneficial. Love-attachment [Prem-raag] will never leave. The entire world is trapped in the suffering due to love-attachment (prem-parishaha). Just say your greetings from afar and become free.

~ Dada Bhagwan

We have not come [here] for fame, we have come [here] for the salvation of others.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Who we are’ and ‘what is our own’ that we have to understand, it is not something we have to tell others.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Because of anger-pride-deceit-greed, selfishness [self-interest] remains and consequently one has no awareness of who dies or who takes birth. It is simply a wrong belief that has arisen. But after a long time, as one progresses, if he meets a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one], he will acquire the awareness that birth and death is simply a phase.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone’s worldly authority. People abuse their acquired authority and consequently loose their right for human birth (manushyapanu). Accept whatever authority one has.

~ Dada Bhagwan

At the time of death, one says, ‘Dear Lord, extend my life for two more hours, so that a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] comes and I can do his darshan.’ He complains in this way. Do not complain now. Why are you pleading now? When you had the control, you didn’t do anything and now that you no longer have the control, you are making demands?

~ Dada Bhagwan

To believe the control is in your hands when it is in the hands of some other power, is indeed a wrong belief (bhranti, illusion). If one were to understand even this much, he will find a solution. When people begin to understand that the power is in the hands of something else, then the wrong belief [illusion] will go away to a little extent.

~ Dada Bhagwan

People lose their powers (siddhi) by nagging; therefore know ‘as it is’. Know all these relations as being worldly (laukik, of the non-Self), and do not believe them to be beyond-worldly relations (alaukik, of the Self). Discover that something whereby you experience peace amidst the puzzle. This discovery is indeed within you.

~ Dada Bhagwan

We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) would never say to anyone, ‘listen to me!’ because that is indeed not under his control.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who does not have the control for even a minute, he does not have the control forever.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one attains awareness of own’s own Self’s authority [power], even for a moment, he can become a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Self).

~ Dada Bhagwan

To see things (vastu) ‘as it is’ in its purest form, is called samkit (enlightened view; right belief), and to see it any other way is called mithyatva (wrong belief).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who has enlightened view (right belief; samkiti), he indeed does not have any problems, anywhere. He remains only the Knower-Seer everywhere. As long as there is any problem or objection, it cannot indeed be called samkit (enlightened view, right belief).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Civility (sabhyata,) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquette is the sign of one with a wrong belief (deluded view, bhranti).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is even a trace of etiquette, there is no religion of moksha [ultimate liberation] there, nor any other religion. Religion is to be found in naturalness (saahajeekta)

~ Dada Bhagwan

Civility must be a natural thing, all the rest is considered etiquette. The path of moksha [ultimate liberation] means there must be simplicity. There should be no ‘ghosts of etiquette’ there.

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When the servants break the cups and saucers, a ‘puzzle’ arises within. Who really breaks the cups and saucers? Who runs this world? One does not know that and inbetween, the ‘guest’ (of this world) does worries.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Is there not some arrangement (neutral gear) in the car, where the wheels do not turn, but the car keeps running? Similarly, one should do something, whereby worldly life continues and (karmic) ‘causes’ stops.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.

~ Dada Bhagwan

All who die, are all worldly beings (sansari – believing the worldly life to be real).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Worldly life (sansar) means to get tired and to rest.

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].

~ Dada Bhagwan

He who has conquered his internal enemies, to such an Arihant, I bow down to them. Learn to recognize the inner enemies. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the inner enemies.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).

~ Dada Bhagwan

One creates ownership and then does egoism towards it, that is why suffering arises. No one is a boss/owner of anyone. Whose things and whose goods? However many fishes one catches from the sea, they are his. After he catches them, he gives rise to its ownership, he creates a liability for it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Wherever there is ownership, there is upadhi (externally induced problems).

~ Dada Bhagwan