Spiritual Quotes Quotes

God has said for us to know bad, as bad and good, as good. But while knowing the bad, there should not be the slightest abhorrence towards it and while knowing the good, there should not be slightest attachment towards it. Without knowing bad, as bad, the good cannot be known as good.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in ‘Us’ whatsoever!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Insistence on one’s own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on one’s own opinion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There should be no tenacity of insistence or obstinate insistence of any kind. If there is any tenacity, it should be the kind that will go away if you tell it to!

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one, who does not have the ‘poison’ of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (karmic).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Every human being needs security. The one, who does not have security, will be in fear. So he will look for security outside if he does not get it at home. The Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] is the only one who does not need any security. The Gnani is considered to be free from all dependency (niralamb). Others will take support from Him, but He will not take any support. Only the Gnani Purush can remain free from dependency in this world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you walk around proudly when someone greets you with respect or says, ‘welcome, welcome’, you will suffer a loss, right? Here, it was the other person’s duty [social obligation] to welcome you, but you shouldn’t fall short. So you should immediately check your balance-sheet (of karma) to find out where you sustained a loss!

~ Dada Bhagwan

A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a “Gnani” [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].

~ Dada Bhagwan

One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?

~ Dada Bhagwan

A person with a large tuber of self-pride remains engrossed in the fear of, ‘Someone is going to insult me…someone is going to insult me’ or ‘From where can I get respect? From where can I get the respect?

~ Dada Bhagwan

After getting respect, one will get an equal amount of insult, if not in this life then the next. If you taste even the slightest of pleasure from this body-complex [pudgal], you will have to pay back an equivalent amount. Therefore become attachment-free (vitarag).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The higher one sits, the greater the fear of fall.

~ Dada Bhagwan

It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult.

~ Dada Bhagwan

How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one knows how to ‘digest’ an insult after attaining Self-realization, he will become a ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one]. And if he ‘digests’ an insult before attaining Self-realization, he will become shameless (impudent).

~ Dada Bhagwan

To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Awareness’ will not arise where there is deceit along with self-pride (maan). If there is deceit with self-pride, then one can never see the self-pride.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

~ Dada Bhagwan

He insulted me’ -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?

~ Dada Bhagwan

One has to attain an ego-less state (nir-ahankari), attaining a nir-maani state (a desire-free state that wants importance from others) is not enough. The egoism one has of being nir-mani is very subtle. The external ‘horns’ are worn down but the internal ones still remain. The inner ‘horns’ will cause an internal biting.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Even if you insult him, he gives you his blessings; such a one only is the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one]!

~ Dada Bhagwan

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that ‘this should not be so’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The slightest awareness of ‘my-ness’ is indeed egoism.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no ‘my’ in ‘I’. ‘My’ is outside of the ‘I’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Egoism [Ahamkar: Aham=I; kar=did] means ‘I did’. Where one is not the doer and he says, ‘I did’; that is egoism. To do egoism and to walk around with an inflated chest is pride (maan) and then to go on telling others ‘I did it myself’, is known as pride with my-ness (abhiman).

~ Dada Bhagwan

It is the body-complex that eats and one just does the egoism of ‘I ate.’ He is not aware that there is another entity. One simply takes on the suffering of another.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Who can go beyond the mind? The one who has conquered the mind.

~ Dada Bhagwan