Self Realisation Quotes

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your colour, class, gender - and so on - these are quite narrow things. You are not the ideas you are given and gather. You are not what you own or lay claim to. You are not even your life story - for that changes through time, perspective, emphasis and many things. You are what resides before, between and beyond all these things. - R. Ogunlaru

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

lots of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the path of self realisation.The truth is we all are travellers in the life's eternal journey, to meet for a short while,to care and share but we tend to forget that nothing lasts forever.if only we could cultivate a sense of detachment,life would have been much easier.

~ Chitralekha Paul

As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Be daring curious.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is only by persistent focus on your dreams you will pull all the divine forces for the passion of fulfilled dream.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.

~ Anita B. Sulser Phd

In the moment of quietness, my strength re-energized

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I will be a fisher of souls!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We ought to test for the living water.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When a man’s trust is violated, he will leave even his friend. Hey, you shouldn’t leave him! There is the energy of the absolute Self within and if the knowledge of the Self is attained, one may even attain the state of the absolute-Self!

~ Dada Bhagwan

One achieves the Self-state (swa-artha) while searching for the highest truth (param-artha). The search for the highest truth is solely for the purpose of attaining the Self, and once the Self is attained there is no need to search for the highest truth.

~ Dada Bhagwan

A true swarthi (interested in the Self) will become the absolute Self! This is considered paraartha (for the non-Self). A swarthi will attain the ‘Self’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where the Self [Soul] is forgotten, that place is not ours.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Knowledge that brings closure [settlement] to the mind in every way is Absolute Knowledge and it indeed is the all encompassing Knowledge that always gives complete closure [settlement, solutions].

~ Dada Bhagwan

One is said to be enlightened with the Right Knowledge when his conduct is appropriate in any situation.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One who does wrong is considered illusioned (mithyatvi - ignorance of the Self). One who does right is considered enlightened (samkit).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The person whose attention is in the ‘pure Soul’ is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an ‘above normal’ state.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal,’ it should be ‘normal’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Worshipping ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is equal to worshiping the Pure Soul and it is indeed same as the worship of absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). And it is the main cause for moksha [final liberation].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Why is there so much problem just to know one’s own Soul? The Soul resides in one’s own abode (body), but one doesn’t know it and then he says, ‘I know this and I know that so’. Instead why don’t you get to know your own ‘Self’?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What does ‘experience of the soul’ mean? It is a state of constant eternal bliss.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Samkit’ (right belief) means knowing the Soul (self).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The greatest wonder of this world is the “Soul”. Once It is realized (attained), everything is attained!!!

~ Dada Bhagwan

To ‘us’, nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one’s own ‘boundary’ (to not remain as the Self).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Natural Self is the Soul and illusion is the relative self [prakruti].

~ Dada Bhagwa

Once a person starts seeing his own mistakes, he starts to become Parmatma, (absolute supreme Self)!

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as one finds faults with the world, he won’t be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Nothing can be attained until all supports other than those of the pure Soul have been eliminated.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Even a child cannot sit here without support. Some support will be necessary. No one can live without the support from the material world. After getting the support from one’s own Soul, one doesn’t need the support from the material world. ‘He’ will then become independent [support-free].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Keep one goal only and that is ‘to know thy Self [Soul]’. Do not be insistent about ‘I want to do this and do that’. Whatever happens, at whatever time, is correct.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Sufferings lead a man to his soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reach out to your great spirit and soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Music empowers the soul with great strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you feel that others are lacking and failing ....first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit with which you yourself play the game.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.

~ 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

What is the benefit of egoism? It is only through the benefit of egoism that people get their daughters married, get their sons married, walk around as a father and say ‘mine, mine’! The entire world is enjoying the benefit of egoism. The Gnanis (Self-realized) enjoy the benefit of the Self.

~ Dada Bhagwan