Spiritual Quotes Quotes

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

Pure love’ means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not increase when you give him garlands of flowers, it is ‘Pure Love’. ‘Pure love’ is considered Paramatma prem (Love of God). That is indeed true religion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The ultimate form is the embodiment of love (Premswaroop)! The love of these (so called) lovers (Romeo-Juliet) does not work there. The Love of God (the Lord) is ‘Pure Love’. That which increases or decreases is infatuation [asakti]. There is no increase or decrease in ‘Pure Love’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of ‘Pure Love’ arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in totality. This is the only way.

~ Dada Bhagwan

I don’t intend to fight with anyone; I have only one weapon of love. I want to win the world with love. What the world calls love, is really worldly love. [True] Love is when even if you curse me, I would not get ‘depressed’ and when you garland me with flowers, I would not become ‘elevated’. In true love, there would not be any changes. Changes can occur in the intent and feelings (bhaav) of the body, but not in ‘pure love’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Eternal love’ (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is asakti [infatuation], there accusations cannot refrain from happening. That is indeed the nature of asakti [infatuation].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where you don’t see pure love, there is indeed no path to moksha [ultimate liberation] there. Where there is a fee, there is no pure love there!

~ Dada Bhagwan

One can become ‘Embodiment of Love’ [Prem Swaroop], only when there is no my-ness [mamata].

~ Dada Bhagwan

The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become confused. Woman has some work from men and men has some work from women. All this has arisen because of work (expectations). If work does not get completed, all within will complain and form an attack. Not for even a second has anyone become one’s own. Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] will become yours. That is why the Lord has said, ‘Every living being is an orphan’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Compassion is an ordinary intent that is felt for everywhere in this world and it is the intent that, ‘the whole world is trapped in worldly miseries; how can their miseries be alleviated?

~ Dada Bhagwan

The fruit of worldly love is indeed revenge (vengeance).

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as parmanus (subatomic particles) match, there is oneness, and then it turns into revenge (vengeance). Wherever there is infatuation, there will indeed be revenge there.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who becomes free from all kinds of beggary is bestowed the state of a ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Only after beggary (bhikh) goes away completely, can one see this world ‘as it is’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Everything in the world has a life span and We (the Self) are without a life span, so how can the two correlate? To make association with those with a life span (mortal), we too have to become one with a life span. And that has created all this fiasco.

~ Dada Bhagwan

By saying ‘this is wrong’, one is selling (wasting away) an invaluable human life!

~ Dada Bhagwan

What do the Vitaraag [the enlightened one] say? ‘If you want to continue to remain in the worldly life, then do what people say, but if you want to attain Moksha [ultimate liberation], then do only what I say, then only you can go to Moksha!

~ Dada Bhagwan

The Lord has said to the worldly people, if someone possesses certain energies, by recalling that person, the same energies will arise within you. If you don’t know how to ask for godly energies, but if you want to jump, then by recalling a monkey and asking for energies from him, you will be able to do so. If you want to bark, you have to ask for the energy from a dog! The Gnani [The Enlightened One] has infinite energies; if you recall Him, you will attain all those energies!

~ Dada Bhagwan