Self Realization Quotes

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

If you want to know the answer to ‘Who am I?’, then you will have to go to a Gnani purush [the enlightened one]. The Gnani Purush will give you Knowledge of your real Self [Who Am I] in the presence of the egoism. Thereafter your accounts (karmic) will be settled [& things will start falling in place].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be a loving soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The Knower of the Soul is considered Self Realized (The Enlightened one). The knower of all the eternal elements is known as Omniscient (sarvagna).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

~ Amit Ray

Every soul craves to fill the void.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you know, love, obey and serve the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A gentle soul is spiritual.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May my soul radiate light and love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love with all your heart, soul and mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May the Creator ignite the spark of light within our soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The spirit awaken, the soul revive.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will find rest on Sabbath day for your soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

~ Abhijit Naskar

Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward and onward, until the Self within you morphs into Krishna – until the Self morphs into Buddha – until the Self turns into Christ.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Only you can save yourself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming to know oneself. Without society to rebel against and to sail away from, there would be no advances in civilization; there would be no need for healers and mystics, priests and artist, or shaman and writers. It is our curiosity and refusal to be satisfied with the status quo that compels us to challenge ourselves to learn and continue to grow. We only establish inner peace of mind with acceptance of the world, with the recognition of our connection to the entirety of the universe, and understanding that chaos and change are inevitable. We must also love because without love there are no acts of creation. Without love, humankind is a spasmodic pool of brutality and suffering. Love is a balm. It cures human aches and pains; it unites couples, families, and cultures. Love is a creative force, without love there is no art or religion. Art expresses thought and feelings, an articulation of adore and reverence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster