Spiritual Quotes Quotes

All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!

~ Dada Bhagwan

How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the ‘Knower’ of experience of pleasure and pain.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You may have committed a very bad fault but if you repent for it a lot; if you repent ‘heartily’ for it; the fault will have to go away. But people don’t repent ‘heartily’, do they? They just say superficially that ‘it was my fault’!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Like-dislike, good-bad, profit-loss; who gave rise to all these dualities? The society did. As far as God is concerned, there is no duality. If there are grains of food on one side and excrement on the other, in God’s eyes, they are both “material (matter)”. What does God say about this? “All are materials!

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who has won over duality is adwait (non-duality; state of oneness, free from duality-state). With a transparent inner vision one can attain a state beyond duality.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you want liberation [moksha], you will have to be rid of the duality of ‘right-and-wrong’. If you want to attain an auspicious (good) state, then have abhorrence for the ‘wrong’, and attachment for the ‘right’. There is no attachment or abhorrence in the pure state [shuddha].

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurity of the vision. It is indeed illusion [mithyatva], it is indeed a poisoned vision.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!

~ Dada Bhagwan

The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this world, when no dualities affect one, when nothing affects him, and he attains the awareness of ‘I am absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma)’; one’s well-being [spiritual work] is done.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see ‘as it is’, and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God’s maya is gone, the solution is found.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Not knowing one’s real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In nature, there is no pain or suffering neither in the spiritual life nor in the worldly life. The worldly life has become painful due to lack of this understanding. One does not know how to interact in life. He should remain untouched in the worldly life. When one remains untouched in the worldly life, there is no end to the bliss that arises!

~ Dada Bhagwan

The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence that one has memory.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is the goal of a human being? An Indian person can truly achieve a state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma, the Lord]. To achieve one’s own Absolute Supreme Self state is the ultimate goal!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Whatever one knows, he knows on the basis of his egoism. The ‘Gnani’ [The enlightened one], who doesn’t know how to do anything; has no egoism whatsoever.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The worldly life [the relative] means 'superfluous'. Instead of superfluous, people believe it to be real (of nischaya) and then they even say, ‘this is indeed the way it should be, that is indeed the way it should be done.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no pleasure in Jalebi (dessert), the pleasure is in your imagination.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.

~ Dada Bhagwan

People’s mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others?

~ Dada Bhagwan

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 Gnanis [The enlightened ones] have said that if one lives as if he is dead, death will never come to him.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The moment one is born, the ‘saw starts cutting’. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To have the inner intent to die early is artadhyan (adverse contemplation) as well as raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation) and to have the inner intent to not die is also artadhyan and raudradhyan.One should disembark when the ‘station’ arrives. Do not have the inner intent to die and also to not die.

~ Dada Bhagwan

How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is ‘egoism’, there is no God. Where there is God, there is no ‘egoism’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Undecided thoughts’ is called the mind. ‘Decided thoughts’ is called the intellect.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn’t it? The one who proceeds with caution will win.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect.

~ Dada Bhagwan

It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in the bank but becomes unhappy when the money is gone. There is nothing in this world worth being relieved about because it is all temporary.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If your monetary wealth accumulates naturally and spontaneously, then let it accumulate, but do not lean on it for support. You may take its support and feel a sense of relief, but there is no telling when that support will move away. Therefore, conduct yourself with caution from the beginning so that you are not shaken up during time of painful experiences.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the one who has purity of mind, body and speech.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one’s kashays are gone, then he becomes the ‘owner’ of the whole universe.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one whose ego of doer-ship in the unfolding karma effect (oodai no garva) is gone, he is said to have attained the Self.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma, true religion is indeed not present there. There is no merit or demerit karma in true religion. True religion is where merit and demerit karma are considered worthy of abandonment and that which is worthy of acceptance is one’s Self-form.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What has God called a religion? Renunciation is not religion. To be free of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is religion, or to have feeble (tamed) kashays is religion. That’s all. Only these two are religion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Freedom from all types of pain and misery is the exact (proper) religion. It is exact (proper) religion when egoism departs and all ‘wrong beliefs’ go away. If the ‘wrong’ beliefs’ are there, true religion cannot be there.

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is not possible for egoism to decrease.

~ Dada Bhagwan