Dada Bhagwan Quotes

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

~ Dada Bhagwan

He insulted me’ -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.

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Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

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In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.

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In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

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In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.

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One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?

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One has to attain an ego-less state (nir-ahankari), attaining a nir-maani state (a desire-free state that wants importance from others) is not enough. The egoism one has of being nir-mani is very subtle. The external ‘horns’ are worn down but the internal ones still remain. The inner ‘horns’ will cause an internal biting.

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Even if you insult him, he gives you his blessings; such a one only is the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one]!

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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.

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There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that ‘this should not be so’.

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As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.

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The slightest awareness of ‘my-ness’ is indeed egoism.

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There is no ‘my’ in ‘I’. ‘My’ is outside of the ‘I’.

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Egoism [Ahamkar: Aham=I; kar=did] means ‘I did’. Where one is not the doer and he says, ‘I did’; that is egoism. To do egoism and to walk around with an inflated chest is pride (maan) and then to go on telling others ‘I did it myself’, is known as pride with my-ness (abhiman).

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It is the body-complex that eats and one just does the egoism of ‘I ate.’ He is not aware that there is another entity. One simply takes on the suffering of another.

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Who can go beyond the mind? The one who has conquered the mind.

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Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions.

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If a person does five samayiks (introspective meditation) he will say, ‘I did five’- and this is how he will taste the sweetness of the subtle-pride of doership. Actually what he should say is, ‘it was due to God’s grace that I was able to do five samayik’. He should not taste the sweetness of subtle pride of doership.

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The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free.

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The mind can be won over if it is kept separate from things that appeal to it.

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Until Self-realization is attained; it is not worth having a fixed-view at any place, it is not worth having habitual-devotion at any place and it is not worth stopping anywhere.

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Whatever activity one sees in this world, it is discharge of previously charged karma. Man has nothing to do with it. He only does egoism here of, ‘I did samayik (introspective meditation).’ He creates a karmic account! He becomes entrapped! He takes enjoyment from tasting sweetness of subtle pride of doer-ship.

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He who controls the minds of others is a ‘Gnani’ (the enlightened one). Only when your mind is completely under your control, can other’s mind come under your control. How can the other persons mind come under your control when one has disturbances himself.

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As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms.

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No one is a doer in this world. To claim, ‘I am doing’ is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the umbrella of egoism.

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The rule is that when one’s mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person’s mind in that subject.

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Where our own mind doesn’t listen to us, how can other’s minds follow what we say? One should not have such expectation at all.

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Nothing can get spoilt as long the mind is steady, and when it becomes restless, it will spoil. God doesn’t give or take from anyone, but because God is in the permanent blissful state, all external actions will go well when one’s mind is steadied in Him.

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If you do darshan (worship) of the one who has both stillness in his eyes and chit prasannta (blissful state of chit), you gain benefit.

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When there is no venom (poison) of any kind in your eyes, when a liberated smile is seen, then people will do your darshan (will come to see you with intent of worship).

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When you become worthy of people’s worship, you will be able to attain moksha (liberation), you cannot go to moksha just like that. Reproach (criticism) by people is the cause of a life in the lower realms.

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He whose speech, behavior and humility captivates people’s minds, becomes worthy of worship by people.

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The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires.

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What is called true happiness? It is 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit). The person who has attained 'chit prasannta', he need not beg for anything in this world!

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God has called 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit) as happiness. Even when someone swears at you, picks your pocket; the 'chit prasannta' doesn’t go away! Even at two o’clock in the morning, the 'chit prasannta' does not go away.

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There are no places in this world where the chit can be concentrated. Without the chit attaining steady-state, the chit can’t be blissful. There are places where the mind can attain a steady state but there are no places where chit’s steady-state can be attained.

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A place where the mind can attain stillness meaning doing darshan (seeing with the intent of worship) of a great person who has stillness of the mind, can still the mind of other person, however the chit is not steady there.

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