Quotes by Dada Bhagwan

“In this world we do not have to become the doer, we have to become nimit [an instrument, one of the many scientific circumstantial evidence, not the whole and sole doer].”

“Everyone has excess awareness in one or two things. In everything else, he does have awareness indeed. If one has equal awareness in everything, he will indeed become a Gnani [the enlightened one].”

“To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a sign of going to a lower life form in the next birth.”

“When you slander someone [talk negatively about people], you earn a debit in your account and that person will earn a credit. Who would do these kinds of business?”

“Gnan is that which does not let kashays arise when ones pocket is picked.”

“You benefit when you do not further entangle (confuse) an already entangled person or you benefit when you remove his entanglement. But what happens when you entangle the one who is already entangl...”

“Merely by doing darshan of just one kashay free person, ones paap (sins; demerit karmas) get washed away! There can be no kashay-free person other than a Gnani.”

“If you say, Now I look like an old man, you will start to look like an old man. If you say, No, I look like a young man now, you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you wi...”

“Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).”

“It is a mistake to believe other person to be estranged. They all are our own Selfs-forms. However, that has to be realized, right? To believe the other person to be an alien means giving him a bea...”

“Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).”

“Spirituality [Nischay] means complete truth and worldly interactions means truth to a certain extent.”

“Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?”

“Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.”

“The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.”

“Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).”

“There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.”

“Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are gui...”

“Many people suffer great miseries but if you ask them in front of others, 'you went through great difficulty, didn't you?', then they will respond, 'no, no I didn't have any suffering'. Then they f...”

“From the moment one encounters bad company (kusang), there is nothing but unhappiness, thus run away from the bad company. When you feel unhappy inside, know that this is bad company so run from th...”