“When does the foundation for speech which accepts all viewpoints and does not hurt anyone's viewpoint (syadvaad vani) arise? It is when… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Ownership of speech is the greatest ego. Ownership of the body prevails naturally, but the main self prevails in speech.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Speech is a phase (avastha) of the non-Self complex (pudgal); it is not its intrinsic property that has a specific function (gunadharma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“These are peculiar times. It is not worth interfering with anybody. No one knows how to talk nicely! People talk in a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“By not hurting anyone through one's mind, speech and action, all the vows (vrat) are encompassed in this!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“To speak in a way that causes the other person to get disturbed is the greatest crime. On the contrary, if someone… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The mind-speech-body are effective. When will they not have effect on one? It is when one realizes one’s own [True] Self. It… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“A disciplined mind (saiyamit mun), a disciplined body (saiyamit deha) and a disciplined speech (saiyamit vani), these three will not allow You… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The Lord says, ‘use your mind, speech, body and the soul (the relative self, the worldly self) for others. Then if you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Mine’ and ‘yours’, is interaction of the worldly life. If you like the interaction where the other person is being verbally abusive,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Without purification of worldly interactions, speech that accepts all viewpoints and does not hurt anyone's viewpoints (syadvaad vani) will not come forth.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Where there is partiality (pakshapaat), there is violence (himsa); it is speech that hurts (himsak vani). Where there is impartial speech (nishpakshapati… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It is necessary for those who are sensitive to remain silent. However, rather than remaining silent, it is much better if it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Where there is speech that accepts all viewpoints and does not hurt anyone's viewpoint (syadvaad vani), there is Knowledge of the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Do not meddle with Gnani’s words. To do so carries grave liability. If just one word is absorbed and ‘digested’, it will… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Who is worthy of Moksha? When one says exactly as his mind thinks, and also acts like that, when he becomes like… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“A vow of silence (maun) taken for a worldly purpose is considered non-silence (amaun). Anything that is spoken for the purpose of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When the mind is not spoilt, the speech is not spoilt, the conduct is not spoilt, that is absolute humility [param vinaya].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Besides the Vitaraag Lords (absolutely detached Ones) and the speech of the Vitaraag Lords, there is indeed no other path that will… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When ownership of speech ends, there is the end of ‘us’ (relative self).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When one does ‘Everywhere Adjust’, one is said to have completely attained the talk of the Vitrags (The Enlightened Ones).” — 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
