Enlightened-one Quote by Dada Bhagwan

“Real' means without [relative] contact (sansarg) whereas 'relative' means with [relative] contact. No one can realize that the 'relative' is so filled with [relative]…

— Dada Bhagwan

“The relative (vyavahaar) is taught by one's mother and the Real (Nischay; the Self) is given by Gnani. Thereafter, nothing else remains to be…

— Dada Bhagwan

“The 'real' has to be revered, and 'the relative' has to be known; One has to dwell in 'the real'.”

— Dada Bhagwan

One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Real means elemental (tattva). Relative means circumstantial (avastha). With elemental vision (tattva drashti), the value of circumstances disappears. If the elemental vision is attained,…

— Dada Bhagwan

“A ‘Gnani’’ (Enlightened one) is also in ‘prakruti’ (relative self, made of inherent traits). However, the one who remains separate despite staying in a…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Accepting both the real (the true self, pure soul) and the relative is called syadvaad (does not hurt any one’s viewpoint to the slightest…

— Dada Bhagwan

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is…

— Gillian Anderson

“Knowledge (gnan) is that which tells you ‘it is’ to ‘that what it is’ and ‘it is not’ to ‘that what is not’. And…

— Dada Bhagwan

“In this world, ‘I am the doer’ and ‘I know it’’ - that which brings these two inner intents together is called illusion (bhranti).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“The imagination is not a faculty for the creation of illusion; it is the faculty by which alone man apprehends reality. The ‘illusion’ turns…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

“To not be able to see ‘as it is’ and to see it in some another form is called illusion (bhranti).”

— Dada Bhagwan