Spiritual Quotes Quotes

In reality, those who cheat are indeed the ones who get cheated. Those who are cheated will gain experience and develop (spiritually) in the process. Only money earned dishonestly will be taken away (by nature) from one; rightfully earned money will be put to good use!

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Illusion (maya) makes one take birth, illusion makes one get married and illusion also makes one die. But here the condition is that it is not the reign of illusion. It is your own reign. It cannot happen unless you wish for it. Illusion gives the result (effect) of what you had consented to in your past life.

~ Dada Bhagwan

True happiness is devoid of any illusion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

For the one who ‘enjoys’ (worldly) happiness, there will come a time for him to endure sorrow.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with ‘toys’ (interaction with people).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one, whose worldly entanglements have gone, is called the ‘Absolute Person’ (Sampoorna Purush).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The world is entrapped through uneasiness, not through diseases (illnesses). Diseases (illnesses) are caused by uneasiness. Do the trees get any diseases (illnesses)? Do the crows become paralyzed or have high blood pressure?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If there is true ‘Selfishness,’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When monetary dealing in religion stops, the religion will manifest its splendor!

~ Dada Bhagwan

What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other ‘flaws’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

All that is ‘free of cost’ is compulsory (farajeeyat).

~ Dada Bhagwan

We need to become sidha (straightforward), there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours’, isn’t it?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Seeing the faults of others is indeed an echo of our own fault, the biggest fault is our own fault. That is known as the mad ego.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One cannot see one’s own mistakes in matters where his interest lies.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.

~ Dada Bhagwan

He who does propaganda for something will become famous about it, and if he remains incognito about it, he will become renowned. The value is for the renowned state and not for that of a famous state.

~ Dada Bhagwan

This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do?

~ Dada Bhagwan

If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within ‘why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only.

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as this belief, ‘I am the doer’ is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one takes responsibility for the mistakes, he is the true person, isn’t it? Do not insist. Instead of insisting, instead of blaming others, take the responsibility of the mistakes on your head!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand).

~ Dada Bhagwan

That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Why should I care?’ – The one who says this is the greatest offender of nature.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don’t straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Energies are to be expressed precisely with the person you don’t get along with. The energies are already there in dealing with the person you do get along with. ‘Not being able to get along’ is a weakness.

~ Dada Bhagwan

I am unable to tolerate’, to say this is the lack of ability to tolerate and ‘I am able to tolerate’ is itself the ability to tolerate.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The person who tolerates ‘exactly’ (with understanding) hands over his ‘case’ to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Tolerance is an attribute of egoism.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To know worldly relations as being ‘relation’ (temporary) will resolve everything. However, if they are believed to be true (real) relations, there will be insistence. In relative relations, one is not to prove ‘I am correct’. One has to bring about a closure by saying, ‘you are correct’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no Gnan (True Knowledge) where there is ‘egoism’ and where there is Gnan, there is no ‘egoism’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth.

~ Dada Bhagwan

How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, ‘You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.’ That way you will sit on God’s side.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts, one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation].

~ Dada Bhagwan

The mind that does inner intentions (bhaav-mann) is the ‘charge’ mind. The mind that is getting exhausted (dravya-mann) is the ‘discharge’ mind. Bhaav-mann creates the worldly life. Dravya-mann brings an end to the worldly life. When egoism goes away, bhaav-mann vanishes.

~ Dada Bhagwan