Spiritual Quotes

I’ and ‘my’ are two separate tracks. They never unite. One may say, ‘this is my wife, we both are one [united]’. But we can’t say they are ‘one’, can we? Both the ‘I’ are indeed separate, aren’t they?

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is only one way to be happy in this worldly life. Relinquish ‘my’ and go after [help to] people.

~ Dada Bhagwan

All which is regarded as ‘my’, belongs to the non-Self. ‘I’ is the Self and ‘my’ is of the non-Self; it is pudgal, the body-complex. There is nothing wrong with saying ‘this is mine’ in the worldly interactions, but the ‘I’, ‘who am I?’, must be decided from within.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The paramanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech and body are effective. That is why things appear as good or bad. It shows good as being bad and bad as being good. And because of that, opinions are formed. The parmanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech-body themselves express opinions.

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as your mind has the contemplation ‘the tiger is a violent animal’, it will remain violent. And if your contemplation is, ‘the tiger is a pure soul’, then it will not remain violent. Everything is possible.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Even if just once, the inner intent spoils towards someone, as in ‘I will put him in his place’, it is a statement made with God as your witness, so how can it go to waste? There is no problem if the inner intent does not spoil. Everything will become silent. Everything will stop.

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no point in worrying about the effect [result], which has already occurred. It is worth paying attention to the facts (causes) upon which the effects [results] are based.

~ Dada Bhagwan

He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one maintains the intent of, ‘no one should have the slightest difficulty on my account’, then his work will be considered to be done.

~ Dada Bhagwan

We’ had come to identify who was behind all the prodding and the pushing. Everything that happens to you, is really your very own. “Nobody is responsible for ‘you’. ‘You’ are whole and sole responsible for yourself.

~ Dada Bhagwan

This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is “round” (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Once one’s vision changes to, ‘I don’t have a sofa in my house’, he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the ‘necessity’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Do not say, ‘Its’ ok’. Say ‘Its’ good’ and then it will indeed be good.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The thing [vastu, eternal element] itself is just one. But a ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ occurs due to illusion, because everyone’s viewpoint is different.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If Christians read Holy Scripture, they will grow in the Knowledge of Christ. And be filled with the grace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who eat what is rightfully theirs, will incarnate as humans. Those who take what is not theirs by right, will incarnate as animals. Those who give away to others, what is rightfully their own, will incarnate as celestial beings. Those who hurt others and take away from them what is not theirs by right; will take birth in hell.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The meaning of worldly life is external problems [upadhi, problems arising out of external situations]. There is nothing in it which belongs to us. Seeds (causes) of external problems are sown, and external problems grow again.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The ‘one’ who does no ‘egoism’, the worldly life ends for him!

~ Dada Bhagwan

Once the egoism has gone (stopped), all the worldly ‘matter’ of the body-complex [pudgal] are renounced! Where there is egoism, there is my-ness and where there is my-ness, there is a hidden egoism. When ‘Knowledge of the Self’ is attained, egoism and my-ness goes away. Only the dramatic (discharge) ‘egoism’ and ‘my-ness’ will remain.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In all animals, egoism is in a seed-form. It bears effect as a tree in the human life form! If the egoism is destroyed, ‘one’ becomes the ‘Absolute Supreme Self’[parmatma]!

~ Dada Bhagwan

That which reduces our flawed vision is called religion [dharma]. It is non-religion [adharma] that increases a flawed vision. The worldly life is indeed the result of a flawed vision.

~ Dada Bhagwan

This [worldly suffering] is indeed the result of a flawed-vision. When this flawed-vision goes away, the world will be seen “As it is”. By sitting with the ‘Experienced Person’ whose flawed-vision is gone, our flawed-vision will go away. Nothing else will make it go away.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The mind-speech-body are effective. When will they not have effect on one? It is when one realizes one’s own [True] Self. It is when one attains the awareness, ‘I am indeed absolute Supreme Self (Parmatma).

~ Dada Bhagwan

give me the worldbut for Christ's sake,do not sugercoat it.give me it rawand gleaming withtruth.i want the madnessto twirl me around untili can no longer stand.i refuse to be drunkon a soft world.the world is cruel,my love,you must understandthat,but in that understandingyou must understand this,too, just because it is crueldoes not mean it is notbeautiful.

~ Christopher Poindexter

Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].

~ Dada Bhagwan

To believe the non-Self’s intent as the Self’s intent is indeed an illusion. To believe that ‘I am the doer’, where the doer is someone else is indeed an illusion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To believe ‘I’ where ‘I’ is not, is known as tirobhav (concealed or hidden belief). To believe ‘I’-ness where ‘I’ is, it is known as Aavirbhav (visible or manifest belief).

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you make an inner-intent to remain steady in a completely unsteady atmosphere, you will be able to remain steady. This is because steadiness is indeed the quality of your own Self-form. So then, what do You have do with what is unsteady?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Inauspicious intents (ashubh bhaav) binds demerit karma (paap), auspicious intents (shubh bhaav) binds merit karma (punya) and pure intents (shuddh bhaav) results in liberation (moksha).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).

~ Dada Bhagwan

That for which, you are deserving; will come before you effortlessly. Your purity is required. What is required for your purity? [The intent of] ‘May no living being in this world be hurt by me’. If anyone hurts you, it happens as per the law [nature’s law].

~ Dada Bhagwan

The world is our own reflection. As long as there is deceit in you, others will deceive you.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Even if one incurs a loss, he should expose this fact to the other person. This way the intent the other person does, will dispel the [negative] atoms and one will, become lighter himself. Otherwise suffering alone increases the mental burden.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In the beginning [in older days], if I were to say something that hurt the other person, I would turn it around by telling him, ‘Dear brother, my mind has been this way from the start!!!’ So the other person then becomes happy.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If we want to be free [get liberated], don’t compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall].

~ Dada Bhagwan

No one has been able to win this world. That is why ‘we’ have made a very profound discovery that will help win this world. ‘‘We’ sit here defeated; if you want to win, then come [to me]’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To speak in a way that causes the other person to get disturbed is the greatest crime. On the contrary, if someone else speaks in that way, you should suppress it; that is considered a human.

~ Dada Bhagwan