Awareness Quote by Dada Bhagwan

“Worldly efforts (laukik purusharth) are all an effect (prarabdha – effect of past life causes). To work in one’s profession is an effect (prarabdha).…

— Dada Bhagwan

“When all the circumstances come together and the work gets done, it is called prarabdha (ordained effect of previous lives causes). And when the…

— Dada Bhagwan

“You’ have to ‘see’ what ‘Chandubhai’ is doing; that is prurshartha (real independent Self effort). What is illusory effort? ‘What inner intent (bhaav) was…

— Dada Bhagwan

“That which keeps one steady in false attribution of the belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’ is intoxicated pride. To take pleasure in the false attribution of the…

— Dada Bhagwan

“There are two types of purushartha (self effort): those with wrong beliefs have self effort (purusharth) with illusory vision and the enlightened one’s have…

— Dada Bhagwan

“The One who knows the exact line of demarcation between prarabdh (effect of past life karma) and purusharth (effort that charges karma) is the…

— Dada Bhagwan

“When does Purusharth (real spiritual effort to progress as the Self) arise? It begins after the Gnani Purush (enlightened One) makes you a Purush…

— Dada Bhagwan

“The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

“The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim “fake it till you make…

— Cordelia Fine

“A person is rendering service to others, that is the disposition of the prakruti (relative Self); whereas another person is rendering disservice to others,…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Actions related to the non-Self (prakrut kriya) are vyavasthit (result of scientific circumstantial evidences) and effects related to the non-Self are also vyavasthit. Then,…

— Dada Bhagwan

“When the wrong belief [of ‘I am Chandubhai’] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is the result…

— Dada Bhagwan