Dada Bhagwan Quotes

Where there is not the slightest of misery, that is where the Soul is.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Happiness that comes and never leaves, it is called the bliss of the Soul.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Real happiness and peace is attained only if one comes into one’s true Self.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will ‘realize’ true happiness.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you do pratikraman of a tiger, then even the tiger will do as you ask it to. There is no difference between a tiger and a human being. The difference is in your vibrations! That is why he gets affected.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is no ‘superior’, no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vitaraag Lords [the enlightened ones] that I would like to have.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.

~ Dada Bhagwan

For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is the nature of the worldly life (sansar)? God lives in every living being of the world, that means if you oppress any living being or cause misery to them, then adharma (unrighteousness, irreligion) will occur. The result (effect) of adharma will be against your desires and the result of dharma (righteousness, religion) will be favorable to your desires.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When you ‘oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone, things will happen against your wishes.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The world is like a mirror; it reflects (shows) everything exactly the way it is. If there is a defect, it will reflect (show) that defect.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you are lost while travelling on the road, then if you ask a guide of the road, you will find the right way. Similarly, people have become lost on their way to moksha. They will find a solution when they meet the One (Gnani, the Enlightened One) who is familiar with the way to moksha. ‘We’ are that guide to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!

~ Dada Bhagwan

The religions of the world believe abandh (discharge part) as bandh (bondage; charging of new karma) and they have no idea about what causes bandh (bondage, charging of new karma).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).

~ Dada Bhagwan

When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression ‘I am somewhat different from this [the body?]’ And when dehadhyas, the belief of ‘I am the body, the relative self’, goes away; that is when spirituality is complete.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Worries and sufferings are helpful for (one’s) spiritual development.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one wants to go to Mumbai from Baroda, he will ‘like’ all the signs towards the south. And if he wants to go to Delhi, he will like all the signs towards the north. One can tell what path he is on from what he ‘likes’. There are many paths, not just one. As many minds as there are, there are that many ways and they are all intellect-based opinions. Where one is guided by the intellectual opinions, there is nothing but aimless wandering there. Only the opinions of the Vitaraag Lords (the enlightened ones) is a “safe side”!

~ Dada Bhagwan

The Celestial (Heavenly Gods) become pleased with the one who isn’t hungry for fame and recognition. The whole world can be pleased with us, but because of our hunger they are not pleased with us.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To whom does Mataji (Mother Goddess) appear? It is to the one who becomes natural and spontaneous [sahaj swabhavi]. Mataji is said to have come if the mind, speech and the body become naturally blissful. It can be said that the natural spontaneous energies (adhya shakti) have arisen.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To whom should you surrender? The one who takes the responsibility for you right till the ‘end’ (moksha, the ultimate liberation). Surrender to the one who is tatharoop [attained the highest spiritual state]. Surrender to the one whom you consider a ‘Virat Purush’ [magnificent human being], otherwise there is no point of surrendering.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Here’, I am a disciple just as you are. The one you see is not ‘Dada Bhagwan’; it is ‘A. M. Patel’, a Patidaar from the town of Bhadran. The one sitting within is ‘Dada Bhagwan’. ‘I’ myself make everyone do jai jai kar of Dada Bhagwan [sing praise of Dada Bhagwan]. Therefore, ‘I’ too am a devotee, as are you.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is the justice of this world like? It is that the world will call him as God (Bhagwan), the one who has no thoughts about money (wealth), no thoughts of sensual pleasures and one who remains separate from his body at all times.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You yourself are indeed Bhagwan [God], but the qualities of God have not yet manifested.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One who turns his face towards Bhagwan [God], turns towards him; he will receive the bliss and the light. God does not do anything else.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Bliss should come from within. We do not want the bliss that arises from looking on the outside. We want bliss that is eternal (sanatan anand).

~ Dada Bhagwan

When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Gnani’s [The enlightened one’s] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate liberation]. And the worldly people’s sangna [directions] is the compass then it will make you wander in the worldly life.

~ Dada Bhagwan

No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply ‘Sees’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

By not knowing what we needed to know and knowing what we did not need to know, that verily has made us cry (suffer) in this world. This indeed increases our burden.

~ Dada Bhagwan

On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of ‘apratikraman' (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Things come into your memory even when you don’t want them to, that is because ‘pratikraman dosh’ is pending (mistake for which pratikraman was not done yet).

~ Dada Bhagwan

When you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done.

~ Dada Bhagwan

A man who repents after doing any action, he will certainly become pure one day, that is definite.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You (must) do plenty of ‘pratikraman’. Do the ‘pratikraman’ for an hour every day of everyone who is living around you, whomever you have harassed.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What happens by doing ‘pratikraman’? The interferences that we have done (in the past), and its ‘reaction’ which will come (now), on that (reactions), we will not feel like interfering again.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we scold someone for what they do. If you scold him, he will do it even more. (Instead) You should explain to him with love. All diseases will disappear with love. You will get pure love either from the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] or his followers!

~ Dada Bhagwan

God requires two things: ‘pure love’ and ‘true justice’. Everywhere else there is relative justice. Where ‘pure love’ and ‘true justice’ exist, there comes the grace of God!

~ Dada Bhagwan