“Skills (learning) or lack of skills is all egoistic knowledge (ego based knowledge). Ego-free Knowledge is called (true) Knowledge [Gnan].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The wrong understanding is unhappiness and the right understanding is happiness. One has to see which kind of understanding he is getting.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Understanding is the conduct. “I” tell you not to bring it into conduct. Nothing will be gained from teaching forced conduct. To… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The nature of the Atma, the Self (Soul) is bliss indeed. So it does not want unpleasant feelings at all, does it?… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Your worldly interactions would be commendable if you conducted them with the understanding that you don’t know anything. And they will be… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One has proceeded according to people’s understanding therefore he is bound (to the worldly life). The one who proceeds according to Gnani’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Kramic means doership. 'Akram Vignan' only needs to be understood. That which has arisen through lack of understanding, will be dispelled through… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“What is worth doing and what is not worth doing in this world? What is worth knowing and what is not worth… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I do not even ask you to do intent. I ask you to understand. To know ‘this is wrong’ is Knowledge.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When will the Soul be realized? As long as the wrong understanding of, ‘I am the doer, ’There are things I can… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The conduct [of today] is ignorance of the past [life] whereas understanding (samjhan) is the stock carried forward from many past lives!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Understanding always makes one contented [absorbed]. At the last degree of contentment, there is Moksha [Liberation]. Intellect causes one to overflow and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Renunciation is actually a result of the unfolding karma, whereas saiyam, a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence, is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Complete understanding’ is considered ‘Absolute Vision’ (keval darshan) and when it manifests in one’s conduct, it is considered ‘Absolute Knowledge' (keval gnan).… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“By acquiring Gnan (true worldly knowledge) one can tell 'what is right' and 'what is wrong', it makes one have discretion between… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Satsang (association with the Self) means to understand, 'What this world is and what it is not.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The worldly life is created through wrong understanding and is dissolved through understanding. The Gnani Purush (Enlightened One) gives all types of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Intent of complete surrender (devotion) is worship itself. Complete surrender with (full understanding and real) knowledge is a very high level of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“By spending time with a Gnani Purush (One who has realized the Self and is able to do the same for others), the wrong intellect… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One with higher 'revolutions' of intellect has a higher power of understanding. He will understand before explanation becomes necessary. Laborers do not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When will final Liberation [Moksha] occur?! It is when your knowledge, your understanding [darshan] becomes mistake-free. You have been stuck because of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There is happiness in “pure” understanding and unhappiness in “impure” understanding.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If one 'understands' his own Self, he is himself a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Soul).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Who we are’ and ‘what is our own’ that we have to understand; it is not something we have to tell others.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Who is the 'mother' of Gnan (knowledge)? It is understanding. Where can that understanding be acquired from? Understand that from a Gnani… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One may have knowledge of every subject in the world, but egotistic knowledge goes into intellect, and non-egotistic knowledge goes into Gnan… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“However much understanding one has, that much contentment he has done. As much contentment he does, that much liberation he has. It… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“That which gives results is Gnan (practical and experiential knowledge). That which does not give results is theoretical knowledge (shooshka-gnan).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“In saying the word ‘Sachchidanand’ [sat-chit-anand, eternal knowledge and vision leading to bliss], it has great ‘effect’. There is an ‘effect’ even… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“That which comes into understanding is darshan (vision) and that which comes into experience is Gnan (knowledge).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Fruit of effort is the worldly life and fruit of understanding is moksha [the ultimate liberation].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It is said to be an understanding when one accepts other’s dialogs of wisdom. How can there be dialogs of wisdom in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If you follow the understanding of a person who is free (from worldly bondages), you will become free. If you follow the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“At the time when it comes into one's conduct, that very understanding becomes effective as Knowledge. The understanding always continues to make… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Samkit (enlightened view; right belief) is not Knowledge (Gnan); it is an understanding.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Initially, you grasp [knowledge] through the ‘light’ of the intellect and then the understanding arises, and thereafter a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“All attributes of the prakrut (relative self) in the world have arisen due to wrong understanding. All this has arisen due to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Through steadiness in the Self (sthirata), Conduct as the Self (Charitra) manifests and through awakened awareness (jagruti), the level of understanding (Darshan)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Where there is doubt (shanka), there is misery. The moment one begins to doubt the knowledge that, 'I am Chandubhai,' misery arises. Once one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The worldly [spiritual] science is methodic (kramic) in nature; one progresses “step by step”; one has to ascent one step at a time. Whereas… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Where there are kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed), there is worldly life. As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed exist; one is a sansaari [living a worldly life] regardless of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If one does not know how to read the account (karmic) book, then he will start to have doubts, and doubts lead to unhappiness.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Skills (learning) or lack of skills is all egoistic knowledge (ego based knowledge). Ego-free Knowledge is called (true) Knowledge [Gnan].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“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… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“A variety of difficulties will come your way. But at the time of difficulty, you will be able to find a ready made medicine… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Suppose you want to go to Juhu (suburb in Mumbai) from here, and you come across two paths, which of the two paths is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The Soul (our true Self) has to be experienced, the Soul known through scriptures will not do. Work will not be completed through scriptural… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If God were the doer, when will there be an end?! (If) God is the creator and he made us, we become his toys,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image