Dada Bhagwan Quotes

What is attraction (akarshan) in this world? It is open fire and one should be aware of it. Attraction is the open fire. The root of illusory attachment (moha) is indeed attraction.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Greed has two teachers, one is a cheat [a crafty person] and the other one is financial loss. When one incurs loss, it will quickly destroy the tuber of greed.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Those who have anger, they try to take control others with the heat of anger and those who do not have anger are able to take control of others with their strength of character known as sheel. Even it can take control of animals (with it’s strength)!!!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Absence of Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is indeed bliss.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].

~ Dada Bhagwan

One does not see ‘what is there’ and sees ‘what is not there’, that is called moha (illusory vision).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life, the cause of it is moha (illusory vision).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Egoism’s nature is not Moha (Illusory attachment). Moha’s (Illusory attachment’s) nature is egoism. Moha is the origin of egoism.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

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Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is no peace, there is not the slightest religion there.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When can one attain samadhi (eternal blissful continuous peace)? It comes when one lets go of the things that he loves the most.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where one does not do planning, it is all pure ‘discharge’. ‘Charge’ occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction.

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Problem does not lie in being a husband, the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).

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People are preoccupied only with money. They are looking to see where they can get it from. Hey, why are you looking for it in a ‘cemetery’? This worldly life has become like a cemetery. There is no love to be seen in it. The way in which money comes to one is a natural thing. It is (by way of) scientific circumstantial evidences. Why do we have to run after it? If it were to free (liberate) us itself, then it would be very good, right?

~ Dada Bhagwan

The awareness that ‘money will get spent’ must never be kept; whatever gets spent at whatever time is correct. That’s why it was told to spend money, so that they can be free from greed and they can give it again and again.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Money is ‘limited’ and people’s demands are ‘unlimited’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Is it not necessary to eat? Is it not necessary to go to the toilet? They are necessary. In the same way, money is also required. Just as one does not have to think about going to the toilet; it happens automatically, in the same way, money comes without you having to think about it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Do you have to regret spending money when you earn money? And when it is time to spend, you should be strong that you got the opportunity to pay off your debt. Income is one’s responsibility and expense is the means to clear off the responsibility.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If money is spent in the wrong way, then ‘control’ the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then ‘decontrol’ the spending.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When anyone can still the minds of five, ten or hundred people, then work can be accomplished. Who can still the mind? It is the one whose own mind is still, he can still the minds of others.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The mind and the chit are discharging and the world has believed them to be ‘charge’. That is why they attempt to still the mind and the chit, but that is not possible.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one’s mind becomes conflict-free, that is ‘moksha’; conflict filled mind, that is worldly life.

~ Dada Bhagwan

No difficulty can come to you (your way). If the mind wavers, difficulty will embrace you! That is all, the law of the universe is just this.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh).

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; ‘here’, there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The world is stuck because of the word ‘no’.

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The whole world has the illusory awareness of, ‘I am the doer’. In reality, everyone’s karmas are getting discharged, but one is not aware of this. One has no awareness of his own True Self.

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Where do you see conflict in this world? Only where there is infatuation (attachment).

~ Dada Bhagwan

To see anything other than ‘as it is’ - that is called the world.

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The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle.

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Things of the world are not in a ‘seed’ form, they are in a form of a ‘fruit’. One has come with a ready farm, all he has to do is harvest the fruits now.

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The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world.

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Any good thing will be ruined by talking negatively about it, similarly bad thing will improve by speaking positive about it.

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One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.

~ Dada Bhagwan