Self Quotes

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

When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self’s (Soul’s) abode, it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti).

~ Dada Bhagwan

In order to make the egoism non-existent [zero], the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] establishes the awareness of the Pure Soul within.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself].

~ 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

Chit’s tendencies can become pure [transparent] in front of God, but people don’t have this knowhow. The easiest solution to purify chit’s tendencies is to associate with a person who has the least amount of desires and the ultimate solution to make them pure is the inner visual contemplation (niddidhyasan) of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones who are free of all attachments).

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is the nature of the Self (Soul)? To ‘see’ the dharma (function) of everything, to see ‘who is performing what function, and how that function is being performed.’ To ‘see’ it, is called the function of the Self (Soul).

~ 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

One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the ‘Knowledge’ [of the Soul, one’s True Self] is to be enjoyed.

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing the Self (Soul), there is bliss of the Soul.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world!

~ 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

Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] has become ‘Soul’ (Atma, Self) while staying with the body.

~ 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 you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

When one sees one’s own faults, he attains a state of an abode of Self-illuminated Bliss!

~ Dada Bhagwan

A wife and a husband! For infinite lifetimes this is all one has done. And in doing so, one has lost his Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

~ Dada Bhagwan

It is wrong to be dependent on the body-complex [pudgal]. One should depend only on the Soul.

~ 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

Love, the exotic bird, came and went.Heart forgot love.Joy, the majestic willow, wept and died.Mind forgot joy.Hope, the basement lamp, fell and broke.Soul forgot hope.Self, the anxious caterpillar, took flight and dropped.Self forgot self.You, my all, became all my reasons.Reasons left.You left.I never forgot.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The one whose egoism is gone, he becomes God. One is a mortal (jivatma) as long as there is egoism and if his egoism goes away, he becomes the eternal Absolute Supreme Soul (Paramatma).

~ Dada Bhagwan

If ‘one’ really were the sufferer or the enjoyer, then he would get tired. But the Self in reality is not experiencing anything. He simply does egoism only.

~ 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

Pure-chit itself is the Absolute Supreme Soul (parmatma).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the 'enlightened one' (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it’s natural attributes.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One’s Use of Life’, if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion).

~ Dada Bhagwan

What I am saying is, ‘Know the science’. Know what is Soul (The True Self) and Non-Soul (Everything other than the Soul). Upon knowing this, all desires will vanish.

~ Dada Bhagwan

He who wants to go to moksha (Final Liberation), he will have to realize his own self. Otherwise no matter how much of anything else he does, he will not attain moksha (liberation).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).

~ Dada Bhagwan

One should take care of one’s own [True] Self and do supervision of everything else.

~ Dada Bhagwan