Learning Quotes by Dada Bhagwan

“Who is the 'mother' of Gnan (knowledge)? It is understanding. Where can that understanding be acquired from? Understand that from a Gnani…

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“Samkit (enlightened view; right belief) is not Knowledge (Gnan); it is an understanding.”

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“One has proceeded according to people’s understanding therefore he is bound (to the worldly life). The one who proceeds according to Gnani’s…

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“The understanding of knowledge that increases intoxication (of ‘I Know’) is terrible ignorance. Intoxication (of ‘I know’) is dissolved with (right) knowledge.”

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“It is said to be an understanding when one accepts other’s dialogs of wisdom. How can there be dialogs of wisdom in…

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“Fruit of effort is the worldly life and fruit of understanding is moksha [the ultimate liberation].”

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“There is happiness in “pure” understanding and unhappiness in “impure” understanding.”

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“The understanding that gives rise to intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”); that is not the talks of the enlightened one’s…

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“Intent of complete surrender (devotion) is worship itself. Complete surrender with (full understanding and real) knowledge is a very high level of…

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“Understanding is the conduct. “I” tell you not to bring it into conduct. Nothing will be gained from teaching forced conduct. To…

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“When will the Soul be realized? As long as the wrong understanding of, ‘I am the doer, ’There are things I can…

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“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…

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“By acquiring Gnan (true worldly knowledge) one can tell 'what is right' and 'what is wrong', it makes one have discretion between…

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“Understanding always makes one contented [absorbed]. At the last degree of contentment, there is Moksha [Liberation]. Intellect causes one to overflow and…

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“If you follow the understanding of a person who is free (from worldly bondages), you will become free. If you follow the…

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“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…

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“One with higher 'revolutions' of intellect has a higher power of understanding. He will understand before explanation becomes necessary. Laborers do not…

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“In saying the word ‘Sachchidanand’ [sat-chit-anand, eternal knowledge and vision leading to bliss], it has great ‘effect’. There is an ‘effect’ even…

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“When will final Liberation [Moksha] occur?! It is when your knowledge, your understanding [darshan] becomes mistake-free. You have been stuck because of…

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“The wrong understanding is unhappiness and the right understanding is happiness. One has to see which kind of understanding he is getting.…

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“Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we…

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“If you go to 'do' anything, then bondage will happen there. Wherever you 'do', there is bondage and with understanding, there is…

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“What is worth doing and what is not worth doing in this world? What is worth knowing and what is not worth…

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“Who we are’ and ‘what is our own’ that we have to understand; it is not something we have to tell others.”

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“That which comes into understanding is darshan (vision) and that which comes into experience is Gnan (knowledge).”

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

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“That which gives results is Gnan (practical and experiential knowledge). That which does not give results is theoretical knowledge (shooshka-gnan).”

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“The conduct [of today] is ignorance of the past [life] whereas understanding (samjhan) is the stock carried forward from many past lives!”

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“If one 'understands' his own Self, he is himself a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Soul).”

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“Satsang (association with the Self) means to understand, 'What this world is and what it is not.”

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“What one understands is darshan (vision) and to give that understanding to others (so that he also understands) it is Gnan (knowledge).”

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“Whatever knowledge a person acquires, that is how one ends up functioning. If right knowledge is acquired, then that is how one…

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“I do not even ask you to do intent. I ask you to understand. To know ‘this is wrong’ is Knowledge.”

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“With true understanding, intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) will come down. Intoxication will not come down with wrong understanding.”

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“The nature of the Atma, the Self (Soul) is bliss indeed. So it does not want unpleasant feelings at all, does it?…

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“Kramic means doership. 'Akram Vignan' only needs to be understood. That which has arisen through lack of understanding, will be dispelled through…

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“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…

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“To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a…

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“Complete understanding’ is considered ‘Absolute Vision’ (keval darshan) and when it manifests in one’s conduct, it is considered ‘Absolute Knowledge' (keval gnan).…

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“At the time when it comes into one's conduct, that very understanding becomes effective as Knowledge. The understanding always continues to make…

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