Spiritual Quotes Quotes

Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.

~ Dada Bhagwan

God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!

~ Dada Bhagwan

When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone throws stones, that is considered equanimity.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won’t work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh).

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you deal obstinacy with obstinacy in this world, resolution will not come. Simplicity against obstinacy will bring about resolution.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a ‘collector’, what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won’t put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Flowing egoism is not objectionable but if it is caught-up even a little-bit, it is known as obstinacy. Flowing egoism is dramatic egoism. It is not problematic.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Once the entrancement (Infatuation; Deluded state), in material objects, is gone; the loss in spirituality stops!

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Gnani Purush’ (the enlightened one) is considered to be the owner of the whole universe. And yet, there is not the slightest egoism in Him. Where there is no authority, there is egoism and where there is authority, there is no egoism. This is the wonder of ‘Gnani Purush!’ ‘Gnani Purush’ is the manifest light.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The worldly vision is filled with infinite infatuations and attachments and no one can escape from it, [hence] there is no alternative other than staying in Gnani’s feet [surrendering to the enlightened one is the only alternative].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When there is no attachment-abhorrence, one is on the path of liberation [moksha].

~ Dada Bhagwan

It is called equanimity when one has no attachment with the good (the auspicious) and no abhorrence for the bad (the inauspicious). The one without duality is in equanimity-state. In worldly interactions, people identify tolerance as equanimity!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).

~ Dada Bhagwan

What does Jinmudra (Tirthankar God’s sitting posture) say? The lotus position of Vitrag Lords, one hand and foot placed over the other, preaches, “Oh, humans! Understand this if you have the wisdom. You have already brought with you the food, drink and all things you need; therefore, let go of the awareness that ‘I am the doer’ and make effort to attain Moksha (ultimate liberation)!

~ Dada Bhagwan

The center of my sins stuck behind a blocked door, circled by hollow deeds spread on my lifetime’s floor

~ Munia Khan

Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is even the subtlest desire, the ‘Eternal Thing’ cannot be attained.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Obstacles (antray) are indeed due to desires. As desires keep on decreasing, so do the obstructions (antray) keep on getting destroyed. Then, everything is acquired (at that stage).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Why is it that ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have any obstruction (antray)? It is because ‘we’ are in a desire-free state (Nirichchhak dasha).

~ Dada Bhagwan

We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing ‘Jagat kalyan’ (world’s salvation).

~ Dada Bhagwan

One who speaks ‘completely’ negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and ‘positive’ does not create any obstruction (antray).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Everything that is experienced through the five senses is all ‘discharge’. It is due to one’s merit karmas that everything works according to one’s wishes, but he claims, ‘I did it’ and when one faces losses, he will say, ‘God did it’ or ‘my horoscope is unfavorable’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances get over.

~ Dada Bhagwan

It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes.

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as the awareness of ‘doer-ship’ is there, till then, one keeps on ‘charging’ (karma). In the Akram-path, ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush) destroy your doer-ship. The awareness that ‘I am the doer’ goes away and we give the understanding of ‘who the doer is’. Therefore, ‘charging’ (of karma) stops! What is left now? Only the ‘discharge’ is left.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where the ‘charging’ (of karma) stops, there lies the symptoms (signs) of attaining moksha.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Importance is not in ‘discharge’ (of karmas) that occurs, but it is in the contemplation (dhyan) within at that time in effect that is important.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One’ is not a doer in this world. Where he believes that he is the doer, there is ‘charging’ (of karma). When one tastes egoistic pride of, “I did this samayik, I did these activities”, he will ‘charge’ (karma). The taste of egoistic pride is very sweet.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if one does not have ‘knowledge of True Self’ (realization of the self), then he ‘charges’ new karmas within.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To run the worldly life, Egoism is not required. To bind [karma] for the next life, Egoism is required. If one doesn’t want the bondage for the next life, then also it is possible to conduct the worldly life without egoism. Entire worldly life is in the ‘discharge’ form. So it will continue to ‘discharge’ by itself.

~ Dada Bhagwan

This is not suitable for me”- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say ‘will not suit’ is an offense.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To say that, “I will not agree (will not accept)” is great egoism!

~ Dada Bhagwan

To have a desire means to have dependency.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence.

~ Ken Poirot

The Blessing #2:May love lead your eyes to look out for others,may love lead your ears to listen to others,may love lead your tongue to encourage others,may love lead your hands to help others,may love lead your mind to think of others,may love lead your heart to feel for others,and may love lead your soul to pray for others.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The Blessing #1:May your eyes be profitable,may your ears be dutiful,may your tongue be insightful,may your hands be successful.May your mind be fruitful,may your heart be blissful,may your soul be joyful,may your life be peaceful.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo