Dada Bhagwan Quotes

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

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.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To have the inner intent to die early is artadhyan (adverse contemplation) as well as raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation) and to have the inner intent to not die is also artadhyan and raudradhyan.One should disembark when the ‘station’ arrives. Do not have the inner intent to die and also to not die.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

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.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

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.

~ Dada Bhagwan

It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in the bank but becomes unhappy when the money is gone. There is nothing in this world worth being relieved about because it is all temporary.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If your monetary wealth accumulates naturally and spontaneously, then let it accumulate, but do not lean on it for support. You may take its support and feel a sense of relief, but there is no telling when that support will move away. Therefore, conduct yourself with caution from the beginning so that you are not shaken up during time of painful experiences.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Neither the world nor one’s actions cause obstructions; kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) cause obstruction!

~ Dada Bhagwan

All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the ‘protectors’. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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.

~ Dada Bhagwan

For infinite lives, one has been wandering around, and once in a while, he will attain a human birth. But there his back will hurt. He will have created obstacles such that he will not be able to eat, even when he is served a plate full of food. This is how it is! So think before you take any steps (before you do anything).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one whose ego of doer-ship in the unfolding karma effect (oodai no garva) is gone, he is said to have attained the Self.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma, true religion is indeed not present there. There is no merit or demerit karma in true religion. True religion is where merit and demerit karma are considered worthy of abandonment and that which is worthy of acceptance is one’s Self-form.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What has God called a religion? Renunciation is not religion. To be free of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is religion, or to have feeble (tamed) kashays is religion. That’s all. Only these two are religion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Freedom from all types of pain and misery is the exact (proper) religion. It is exact (proper) religion when egoism departs and all ‘wrong beliefs’ go away. If the ‘wrong’ beliefs’ are there, true religion cannot be there.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

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.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One who does not join in with the unfolding karmic effects (karma oodai) is a Gnani (Self-realized), and an agnani (non-Self-realized) cannot indeed refrain from joining in with the unfolding karmic effects.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Unfolding of karmic effect is self-resulting (swaparinami). Therefore, whatever the unfolding karmic effect does is correct. Do not be obstinate there. The unfolding of karmic effect indeed means that it has come before you to give the result. Why not stop interfering in it?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Good karmas are an illusion and bad karmas are also an illusion. Despite this, I am not telling you to stop doing good karma. Going from bad to good is a good thing. However, in spite of doing good; the illusion doesn’t go away. True religion begins after the illusion has gone away.

~ Dada Bhagwan

God says that, ‘Either you tell me that you want only God, or you tell me that you want this worldly life; then I will give it to you.’ Do these people really want God? They actually want a house, they want wife and children.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

People have no value in looking for God. They have not delved deep into it. They have delved deep into earning money. They look at the map and wonder which port to disembark? Then they search to see if they will find a “canteen” (restaurant) or not. They search for such things. But for them God has 'no value'. Should one not search for Him?

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

When will final Liberation [Moksha] occur?! It is when your knowledge, your understanding [darshan] becomes mistake-free. You have been stuck because of these mistakes. One says, ‘I am Chandulal. I am the husband of this woman. I am this boy’s father. I am eighty years old’. So many such mistakes are there! There is a series of such mistakes!! Mistake is indeed at the root of all that!!! ‘This’ is the only misunderstanding’ there is, and that is what has obstructed liberation. And through only one understanding there is liberation.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, ‘Sir, these are the kind of mistakes I make’, so he will show you the solution.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If God were the doer, when will there be an end?! (If) God is the creator and he made us, we become his toys, so that is the end? When will we become liberated? No one is your superior and no one is your ‘underhand’ (subservient to you).

~ Dada Bhagwan

No one in this world is your boss! Yet people walk around with a perplexed look, thinking ‘someone will take away my things!’ Hey, you are the owner of the whole universe. Who can take away what is yours?

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

Right knowledge (samikit) means right vision. What does the wrong vision do? It will make one say, ‘this person caused me a loss. This person profited me. That person insulted me. That person hurt me. This person made me happy.’ There is no one out there giving you pain or pleasure! Indeed, it is all within you.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

The ‘knowledge’ (gnan) that was resulting into ‘the things to be known’ (gneya), when that ‘knowledge’ results in the ‘Knower’ (gnata), this is known as Self-Realization [Atma Gnan].

~ Dada Bhagwan