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Karma Quotes by Dada Bhagwan

144 Karma quotes by Dada Bhagwan

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Dada Bhagwan’s verses link ego to karmic bondage and stress that true liberation needs the ego to dissolve. They teach that clear decisions bear fruit, and that understanding what is correct helps avoid doubt and unhappiness. The quotes point out that we are not the doer, but the observer of karmic effects.

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“Enmity [Revengeful Karma] is the main seed of conflict [clash].”

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“Convenience is considered as “food” and inconvenience is considered as “vitamin”.”

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“An insult is a “vitamin”, and pride is “food”.”

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“Whatever consolation you accept, that much penance will be deficient.”

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“What is the ‘fruit’ (reward) of ‘relative religion’? It is merit karma; not liberation.”

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“He who does not get involved in good deeds and bad deeds is an enlightened one (Gnani).”

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“Charge' always keeps on worshipping the 'discharge'.”

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“The one who is afraid of doing wrong (paap) that is considered to be a Great Knowledge.”

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“What is punya (merit karma) and paap (demerit karma)? No one runs this world. But still, the circumstances of merit and demerit…

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“Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring…

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“Merely by doing darshan of just one kashay free person, one’s paap (sins; demerit karmas) get washed away! There can be no…

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“It is human religion (manav-dharma) when you give happiness to others, you will receive happiness and when you give unhappiness to others,…

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“Relation with another man or a woman, other than one’s own husband or a wife, is a direct cause for a life…

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“There are two things in the world: feeding the ego or breaking it. Everyone’s ego is either being fed or being shattered…

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“The greatest violence (hinsa) in this world is that of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul).”

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“Merit karma (punya) is fruit of action, demerit karma (paap) is also a fruit of action too, and moksha (ultimate liberation) is…

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“What do people say? They say count every karma and destroy them. When can that be ever accomplished? It is ‘our’ scientific…

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“Without attaining Gnan (Absolute Knowledge) through the path of yog, one cannot go to moksha. Without attaining Gnan, through the path of…

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“All these people get married for happiness, but the poor people become miserable within. That is because it is not under one’s…

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“Where there is True Knowledge, there Artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and…

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“I am Chandubhai’ (name used by Dadashri to refer to the relative self) is indeed an illusion, and the karma charges because…

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“Buddhi (intellect) makes one emotional. What would happen if this train were to become emotional? It will cause accident and kill many…

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“Like-dislike is a ‘discharge moha’ (illusory attachment that is dissipating and not binding new karma), while attachment-abhorrence is a ‘charge moha’ (illusory…

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“The circumstances of those things which you come across, that is prarabdh (effect of past life karma) while the bhaav-abhaav (like-dislike) that…

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“The Secret Knowledge (absolute knowledge) is not in the attention of this world. But everyone is aware of the knowledge of ignorance…

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“There are two types of purusharth (effort): one is the purusharth that arises from prarabdh (effect of past life karma), relative effort.…

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“He himself is ‘Absolute Supreme Soul’ (Parmatma), but he is involved in experiencing things which do not belong to him lawfully, and…

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“It is worth knowing the rules of vyavasthit (result of scientific circumstantial evidences). The invention of an aeroplane is not out of…

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“To say, "I did it" is in the form of an 'evidentiary doer' (nimit), it is (to be understood) 'as an evidentiary…

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“If your merit karma is unfolding, then the other person will speak well of you; and if your demerit karma is unfolding,…

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“However long one travels in the wrong direction in the worldly lie, that much of it is egoism. And as that egoism…

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“Karma alone does not take care of everything. One had made a desire of enjoying sex. He does that one karma. So…

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“It is considered pure ‘discharge’ (of karma) when a person does no ‘planning’. Charging occurs where there is planning. Discharge is of…

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“Who created merit and demerit karma (paap and punya)? The society? No. they are a natural phenomenon.”

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“Aropit bhaav (the belief ‘I am Chandubhai’) is karma and suffering is karma-effect. Aropit bhaav (the belief ‘I am Chandubhai’) indeed is…

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“There is no one in this world that can influence You. [However] If someone does ‘ignite’ you, then you are a ‘stove’!”

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“If you give the slightest pain to any living being, then in the form of pain, the pain-giving-karma will give you its…

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“Having made a firm decision not to slip, if one still slips, it is not a mistake but it is a mistake…

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

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“If someone rebukes us and let us go; that karmic relation is good. He will feel that how he cooled you down!…

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“If one does not know how to read the account (karmic) book, then he will start to have doubts, and doubts lead to unhappiness.”

“Skills (learning) or lack of skills is all egoistic knowledge (ego based knowledge). Ego-free Knowledge is called (true) Knowledge [Gnan].”

“Continue with whatever it is that you have been doing, except for attachment-abhorrence. If ‘we’ stay in our state of Pure Soul, attachment-abhorrence will…

“A variety of difficulties will come your way. But at the time of difficulty, you will be able to find a ready made medicine…

“Suppose you want to go to Juhu (suburb in Mumbai) from here, and you come across two paths, which of the two paths is…

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“If God were the doer, when will there be an end?! (If) God is the creator and he made us, we become his toys,…

“For those people whose association is harmful to the Self (kusangi), there is no better respectful fear (taap) than that of satsang (spiritual company).”

“Forgiveness is not to be given by speaking. Forgiveness is natural and spontaneously there. Spontaneous forgiveness is a sign of having attained the Self…

“Remaining absolutely non-acquisitive (aparigrahi) amidst all possessions is the ultimate ‘test examination’.”