Spiritual Quotes

No one can bother the one who has not interfered in the slightest with anyone. If such a person were to go into a town of robbers, the robbers will welcome him with respect and offer him food. No matter how many diamonds he would have with him, the robbers would not be able to touch them. Otherwise they would rob even the one who is accompanied by ten policemen.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Whatever the world does, is indeed all a natural discharge [disposal of karma]. You may chant God’s name, you may do penance; it is all nature’s discharge. If someone garlands you, how is he obliging you? And if someone picks your pocket, how is he hurting you? One is instrumental in the charging (creation of new karma), but in the discharge, it is only nature’s doing. This is the ultimate vision of the Vitraags, the Enlightened ones free of attachment.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The crying that is done in this world is due to wrong understanding and the laughing is also due to wrong understanding. This world is not worth the crying or laughing. This world is beautiful [which one needs to know and see].

~ Dada Bhagwan

All the pains in this world are assumed pains. It is ‘wrong belief’! People have the illusion of pain. This illusion is being experienced. What was seen with the eyes is not being experienced. To have illusory experience means to spend the entire night ‘dying’ in the fear of ghosts. That is what it is.

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

~ Anne Lamott

The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped, thank God.

~ Anne Lamott

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

Nothing should go un-noticed.

~ John Lundin

If we care for our spiritual needs, we shall find strength for any other well-being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita