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Suffering Quotes by Dada Bhagwan

72 Suffering quotes by Dada Bhagwan

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Dada Bhagwan says doubt is a seed of misery, like a shadow that follows uncertainty. He teaches that misery fuels the soul while happiness nourishes the body, and that pure knowledge can lead to liberation. He also notes that fear signals a dangerous jungle, while joy marks a good path.

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“Misery is vitamin for the Soul (The Real-Self), and happiness is vitamin for the body (The Non-Self).”

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“Worries and sufferings are helpful for (one’s) spiritual development.”

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“When you are seated in your home with a long face, that is called a conflict.”

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“To take a beating and then forget. To take yet another beating and forget is called ‘Moha’ (Illusory attachment)!”

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“Moha (illusory attachment) will indeed keep on stinging you until you are completely exhausted!”

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“If we create an environment where someone is hurt, then it will create Conflict (affliction) within us.”

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“When it becomes above normal, the happiness derived from pudgal (non-Self) feels like misery.”

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“There is nothing which is worth ‘doing’ and any attempt to ‘do’ anything, increases bondage.”

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“Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if a person does not have Self-realization, new ones will be charged within.”

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“If one is put into trouble at some place and he makes his ‘adjustment’ then also this worldly life will look beautiful.”

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“One should get as much pleasure from spending money as one gets from earning it. But at that time, one says, ‘I…

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“Where one’s existence becomes established in the [Real] Self (swaroop sthiti), there the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] stops.”

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“He who has resolved once that 'I will certainly get rid of the mistakes that are left in me', can become Parmatma…

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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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“The lesser the artadhyan (mournful contemplation hurting the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others); lesser are the worldly…

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“Woman is not at fault, sex is not at fault; the fault is in your tendencies [vruti]. The tendencies indeed interfere and…

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“What is nature like? It does not allow any living being to do what it wants even to the slightest extent. But…

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“This worldly life is an ocean of unhappiness. It is just beyond comprehension how people have found happiness in it. Just as…

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“It is considered as artadhyan (adverse internal state that results in hurting the self) only when the mind and the Self (Soul)…

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“One creates ownership and then does egoism towards it, that is why suffering arises. No one is a boss/owner of anyone. Whose…

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“If these three genders (veds) were not involved in the play of nature, then you would be able to remain separate in…

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“Everything is indeed vyavasthit (the result of scientific circumstiantial evidences) for these birds, is it not! Whatever is necessary, that is exactly…

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“There are worldly judges everywhere in this world, but there is only one judge of karma (deeds), the ‘fault is of the…

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“Rotla (bread) and vegetables (food) are to be eaten for the purpose of putting out hunger, not for taste. If you eat…

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“Shukladhyan (internal state that renders the constant awareness of ‘I am pure Soul’) is the direct cause for moksha (liberation). Dharmadhyan (absence…

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“The worldly life (sansaar) means a museum of dependency.”

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“The infection of kusang (the company of bad people) is worse than tuberculosis. TB will kill a person for just one life…

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“There are two kinds of people in this world for whom worries come to end. One is the Gnani Purush (the Enlightened…

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“If this ego did not exist, then the world would not be this crazy. It is due to the ego that there…

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“Do not try to improve anyone, but try and improve your own self. Even the Tirthankars (Omniscients) had not done egoism of…

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“The pain that you do not fear, will not come before you at all. Neither do the gansters come, and nor does…

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“All the pains are caused from going against the ‘nature’! 'Nature' adjusts everything but one does 'egoism' against ‘nature’!”

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“Through pure knowledge is Moksha (ultimate liberation), through auspicious knowledge is worldly happiness, through wrong knowledge is misery.”

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“That which does not make one to do artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the…

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“That which blocks circumstances is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and that which pushes away circumstances is also artadhyan. To…

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“After deciding ‘Who am I?’ can one say ‘this is not mine’. A mistaken belief of ‘I’ (in the wrong place) has…

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“Do not protect weakness, just know that this is my weaknesses. So then weaknesses will exhaust. Protecting weaknesses causes them to multiply.”

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“No one can beat the one who does not beat any other living being. If he does not harass anyone, no one…

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“The saints have to ‘drink poison’ (worldly suffering) and the world has to ‘drink nectar’ (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak.”

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“When equanimity prevails amidst externally induced suffering (upadhi), then know that the bells of liberation are ringing!”

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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.”

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

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“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’.”