Spiritual Quotes Quotes

Man (human life form) is a 'second-hand' quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self].

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One becomes Parmatma (absolute supreme self) if he comes into the True Self even for a fraction of time.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know what benefit a person will bring.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The bigger the ‘flat’ [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the ‘flat’ is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?

~ Dada Bhagwan

The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature?

~ Dada Bhagwan

You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we ‘say’, it is ‘egoism’. The whole world is in order [in control].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Boredom is itself worry.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What else is there besides puran (input, influx, charge, cause) and galan (out put, discharge, effect)?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There is no liability if one calls a whore a virtuous woman!

~ Dada Bhagwan

If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, ‘when will the train leave, when will it leave?’ This world is not worth getting impatient restless about.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment.

~ Dada Bhagwan

God is where there are no ‘fees’ being charged, where there is no botheration and where there is no scolding; that is where God is.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To remain lying on thorns (kanta) is called boredom (kantado).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.

~ Dada Bhagwan

God says that the one who does not find the worldly life boring at all, is not worthy of moksha [the ultimate liberation] at all. While earning money one gets bored, while not earning money one gets bored, everywhere one gets bored, then he is considered worthy of moksha.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Each pain indeed comes with its time limit.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no such thing as destruction in this world. Eternal Thing [vastu] is not destroyed, its phase state (avastha) is destroyed.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who comes to know [the eternal truth], will awaken. The one who is wrongly believing will not awaken.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You will especially not find anyone who speaks bitterly to you. All the 'diseases' [worldly suffering] remains due to the sweetness. Bitterness will remove the disease, sweetness will increase it. Your life should be such that you will not have to listen to bitter words. If however, you have to listen to bitter words, then you should listen to it. It is always beneficial.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others will accept it in their hearts. And if it is the truth and you nag or insist upon it, it will not touch others.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.

~ Dada Bhagwan

No one asks about the truth and non-truth. Should one not think ‘why don’t others accept it even when I am right?’ It is because there is insistence and nagging behind that truth.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Criminal’ pompousness will not do, ‘civil’ pompousness is acceptable.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The Lord says that abhorrence is beneficial. Love-attachment [Prem-raag] will never leave. The entire world is trapped in the suffering due to love-attachment (prem-parishaha). Just say your greetings from afar and become free.

~ Dada Bhagwan

We have not come [here] for fame, we have come [here] for the salvation of others.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Who we are’ and ‘what is our own’ that we have to understand, it is not something we have to tell others.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Because of anger-pride-deceit-greed, selfishness [self-interest] remains and consequently one has no awareness of who dies or who takes birth. It is simply a wrong belief that has arisen. But after a long time, as one progresses, if he meets a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one], he will acquire the awareness that birth and death is simply a phase.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone’s worldly authority. People abuse their acquired authority and consequently loose their right for human birth (manushyapanu). Accept whatever authority one has.

~ Dada Bhagwan