“Only Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) will give liberation. All other instruments (& practices) create bondage.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If you become impressed by someone, you will become infected by his disease. Then you will become impressed by his attributes and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There is no problem if the other person pushes us but we have to make sure that we do not push the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The world is the puzzle, itself. The one who solves this ‘puzzle’ attains the degree of Parmatma [the Absolute Supreme Self].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“As long as there is even one superior above you, it is considered a dependency. How can you afford to have dependency?” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If one begins to worry, then realize that the task at hand will mess up and if worries do not occur, then… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“How much the inactivity of kashayas (i.e. anger, pride, deceit, and greed), there is that much activity of samadhi (state of inner… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The Lord himself called it kusang (company of bad people)! He did not do it out of abhorrence. Nor has he called… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Good inner intent, higher inner intent, is one’s ‘positive’ effort with which one will go to higher life forms. And wrong inner… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“What causes obstructions on the way to moksha (ultimate liberation)? Opinion. Leaving aside talk of Gnan (knowledge of the Self), Opinion does… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There is endless happiness in this world, but provided one knows the science behind it! ‘Science’ can give happiness. You have become… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Moksha (ultimate liberation) does not come; moksha is understood. ‘You’ are yourself moksha [the nature of the Self is liberation], but you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Is it atikraman [Hurtful karma] if we eat, cut our hair or brush our teeth? No, it is not like that. Anger-pride-deceit-greed… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“In this world, if you raise objections saying, ‘my mother-in-law harasses me. My father-in-law harasses me’, then there is no end to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Where there is no expectation of not even a single thing, there arises the (independent) bliss (that which does not depend upon… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“With true understanding, intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) will come down. Intoxication will not come down with wrong understanding.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Vitrag’ means that even if someone hurts him, swears at him, abducts his daughter, even then he remains unaffected. Vitrag is beyond… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“This ‘Knowledge’ manifested in 1958! That day I became a ‘Gnani’ (the enlightened one)! The day before that, ‘I’ too was agnani… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Freedom from ignorance of the Self is the intent moksha (bhaav-moksha) and then comes [into effect] the actual moksha (drayva-moksha).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It is considered equanimity when attachment does not arise towards someone who offers flowers and abhorrence does not arise towards someone who… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The entire world lives for someone else (other than his own true self). No one belongs to us. And it is only… — 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
“Human Beings cannot see their own mistake unless Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) shows him. This isn’t the only mistake. One is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One may even have ‘greed’ for self-respect. Greed gives rise to circumstances. When circumstance arises, worldly life arises.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“What is pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body)? It is influx and outflow; it is credit and debit. And if you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Nothing worldly will ever become the Self (the Soul). The Self [the Soul] will never become worldly. Both are separate things.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“A Gnani [the enlightened one] does not have to turn beads of a rosary; He turns the beads of own’s own Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Why worry about that for which there is no solution? There is no solution for death, so does anyone worry about that?” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“No matter how much difficulty one faces in satsang (the company of enlightened one) it is good but any amount of happiness… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The world is easy to win over but it is extremely difficult even for a second to remain separate from everyone including… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Unless there has been 'Spashtvedan' (exact experience of the Soul), 'Siddhant' (established principle) cannot be attained.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When you do pratikraman after conflict, the conflict is erased. When you give rise to new conflicts, the energies that had arisen… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“To constantly see one’s own (self) as ‘pure’, and to see other’s (self) as ‘pure’, is shuddha upayog (Pure applied awareness as… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Take a ride in a rickshaw and go on dropping money along the road. Your greedy nature will go away.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It is possible to get rid of the faults if one sees his own faults. The path of liberation (moksha) is to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When worries stop; that is called the beginning of the path of moksha [ultimate liberation] of the vitraag lords (the enlightened ones).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Accept only as much ‘cleanliness’ that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain ‘cleanliness’ such that and only… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“For those people whose association is harmful to the Self (kusangi), there is no better respectful fear (taap) than that of satsang (spiritual company).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share
“Forgiveness is not to be given by speaking. Forgiveness is natural and spontaneously there. Spontaneous forgiveness is a sign of having attained the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share
“Remaining absolutely non-acquisitive (aparigrahi) amidst all possessions is the ultimate ‘test examination’.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share