World Quotes

In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this world, no word is being uselessly spoken.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we ‘say’, it is ‘egoism’. The whole world is in order [in control].

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no such thing as destruction in this world. Eternal Thing [vastu] is not destroyed, its phase state (avastha) is destroyed.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When the servants break the cups and saucers, a ‘puzzle’ arises within. Who really breaks the cups and saucers? Who runs this world? One does not know that and inbetween, the ‘guest’ (of this world) does worries.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Is there not some arrangement (neutral gear) in the car, where the wheels do not turn, but the car keeps running? Similarly, one should do something, whereby worldly life continues and (karmic) ‘causes’ stops.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.

~ Dada Bhagwan

This [worldly life] is a huge entanglement; every sub-atomic particle of it is an entanglement and it is impossible to break free from it. Which is why the Lord has said, ‘If you encounter a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one], remain with Him’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Everyone in this world perform their ‘duty’. But when one performs the ‘duty’ and he also intimidates [scolds] someone in the process, he will reincarnate in the animal life form. If he carries out his duties with understanding, he will return to the human life form. And if he performs them with humbleness, he will reincarnate into the celestial world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

From the moment you realize, ‘I am the most worthless person in this world’; you become valuable.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one sides with pickpockets by saying, ‘what’s wrong with what he is doing? He doesn’t have any food so of course he’ll pick pockets!’ Now even when he is not a pickpocket himself, by supporting such actions, he will become a pick pocket in his next life. The poor man, although he makes the mistake in ignorance (in darkness, within), the price he will pay in brightness [that can be seen with 5 senses, the outer world].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Refuting anything in this worldly life is tantamount to refuting God. Even refuting stealing is tantamount to refuting God. This Stealing is a kind of laxative. It cleanses us and leaves.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one does not interfere in the obtained worldly life, then worldly life will run straight forward & smoothly. But one keeps interfering in the obtained worldly life. From the moment he wakes up, he interferes. If there is no interference in the unfolding circumstances one has obtained, then God’s control will prevail, but by interfering one takes over the control himself.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The world is the puzzle, itself. The one who solves this ‘puzzle’ attains the degree of Parmatma [the Absolute Supreme Self].

~ Dada Bhagwan

There is no value to anything in this world, at the same time there is no need to ‘devalue’ anything.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What has more value in this world? That which is in shortage.

~ Dada Bhagwan

No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is ‘vyavasthit’ [result of scientific circumstantial evidences]. So don’t tell anyone, ‘you did wrong’. Not only should you not say this, you should not even think it.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The world’s existence is with common intent. No one has ownership of it. One may do whatever suits him. You cannot criticize him; you cannot say, ‘This is wrong’. You cannot even think it. Everything is under nature’s management.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Moral conduct in the worldly life [vyavahaar charitra] is to behave in a way that hurts no woman and to not look at a woman lustfully.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Nothing in this world is ‘by chance’. There are “covered causes” (hidden) within. ‘By chance’ is also the result of an effort.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If nothing on the inside spoils, nothing on the outside will either. This is the hidden secret of this world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

~ Dada Bhagwan

God does remain in a state of witnessing (sakshibhav), but that is a worldly God. Worldly God means witnessing through ‘egoism’. If one constantly remains in the witnessing state, then he would not bind karma.

~ 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

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

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

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

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

It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in the bank but becomes unhappy when the money is gone. There is nothing in this world worth being relieved about because it is all temporary.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (“Is heaven a place in the sky?”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

This whole world is functioning on the foundation of [karmic] ‘effect’. God has no hand in this. People did not understand this and that is why they put this on God’s head (blamed God).

~ Dada Bhagwan

In this world, all that which is on the outside, is also within! Faults that are seen on the outside [in other people] are the very faults that lie within [our own self]. The universe (Brahmand) that is on the outside is also within. When matters are settled with everyone on the outside, everything within will get settled. Thereafter none within will have complaints.

~ Dada Bhagwan