Spiritual Quotes

Despise (viradhana) of a Gnani [the enlightened one] creates hindrance in (acquiring right) Knowledge-Vision-Conduct (Gnan-Darshan-Charitra).

~ Dada Bhagwan

One will bother you only if you have a karmic account with him. No one can bother you without your signature (karmic cause). All this is due solely to your signature.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To worship means to go higher. If you join the one who has gone higher, you will go higher and if you speak ill of that person, you will fall down.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this world, it is not worth finding anyone’s faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (relative self, prakruti), is the manner in which they will be untwisted.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence, the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One can give ‘correct’ opinion only if one has an open mind.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. ‘We’ are separate and the relative self is separate from us. ‘We’ should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn’t get involved with those problems.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Quarrels and differences of opinions are solely due to a flawed-vision.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others’ faults.

~ Dada Bhagwan

This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One should become free of mistakes so that there will be no superior over him.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is love, there are no faults. Where the love of give-and-take (dealer) arose, all faults will be seen there.

~ Dada Bhagwan

God predestined His chosen people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As many opinions you bound about a person, if you let go of them, you will attain a natural state. For whomever and for whatever matter, you have bound opinions, those opinions will continue to sting you and when you let go of those opinions, you can become natural.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Heaven is thine and so it's mine. Elated, I cannot give to thee but receive it sublime. And if it's there to shine for all to see,.. Vast sea of love for us to seize. Ease the pain with a sweet kiss, water the Flowers...No shadows of a perfect bliss but the sunshine of ours.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Love is the bridge between the earth and the spiritual.

~ Grace Sara

Being dependent on this world will lead to betrayal. It will deceive us at the right time. It is better to depend on a pillow, at least it will not move away from us at the right time. The one that is living will move away.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.

~ Dada Bhagwan

God had said to listen to what five people tell you and don’t hold on to your own opinion. The person who holds on to his opinion is isolated. If you insist upon it, it will harm you as well as others. This true-false is a relative truth; it is a mundane [worldly] truth. One should not insist upon it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this world, there is nothing that is right. Anything that people raise objection to, is wrong. Do people raise objection in every matter?

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as there is insistence of the truth, one cannot know the Vitarag Lord [the enlightened one].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is insistence, there is worldly life.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is the slightest insistence, there is no religion there!

~ Dada Bhagwan

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

My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.

~ Krista Tippett

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

It is only those who do not know who wander the paths. A blind eye and a stout heart create a true wanderer. Those who seek the paths do so in vain, only those who can see deep might hope to wander.

~ Mary-Jean Harris

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