Awareness Quote by Dada Bhagwan

“Desire of the material things is all parigraha (acquisitiveness).”

— Dada Bhagwan

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

— Anne Rice

“There is no problem if graha (things getting accumulated) does not turn into parigraha (acquisitiveness; that what takes one away from the Self). Parigraha…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Intoxication caused by whatever one possesses is all (part of) body-complex (pudgal); be it education, knowledge or anything else, that is all maya (deceit).…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Where there is inner intent of ‘my-ness’, there is parigraha (acquisitiveness). When one says, ‘this is mine’, there is parigraha there. And when he…

— Dada Bhagwan

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

— Douglas William Jerrold

“It is only when a Christian recognizes that drinking is not only a harmful habit, but also a transgression of a God-given principle to…

— Samuele Bacchiocchi

“That which falls in parparinaam (the results of the non-Self), that which is in the form of discharge, there vitaraagata (a state of absolute…

— Dada Bhagwan

“The matters of eating, drinking and dwelling are of pudgal (non-Self complex). All the people in the world have these three things only. They…

— Dada Bhagwan

“and no illustration of the disastrous effects of reckless indulgence in intoxicating liquors appeals to an audience with such telling force as that of…

— Gilda O'Neill

“Parparinati means results that belong to the non-Self. To believe that which vyavasthit does to be one's own, is referred to as parparinati. To…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.”

— Daniel Waterman