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What is the nature of human beings? When someone does something wrong to them, they will go after him [to punish, to fight].
— Dada Bhagwan
One's ‘life’ is ‘fractured’; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate liberation (moksha) if he wants moksha.
— Dada Bhagwan
Man (human life form) is a 'second-hand' quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self].
— Dada Bhagwan
If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer.
— Dada Bhagwan
Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all.
— Dada Bhagwan
One becomes Parmatma (absolute supreme self) if he comes into the True Self even for a fraction of time.
— Dada Bhagwan
Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know what benefit a person will bring.
— Dada Bhagwan
The bigger the ‘flat’ [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the ‘flat’ is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?
— Dada Bhagwan
The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill.
— Dada Bhagwan
The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.
— Dada Bhagwan
Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness.
— Dada Bhagwan
Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature?
— Dada Bhagwan
You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we ‘say’, it is ‘egoism’. The whole world is in order [in control].
— Dada Bhagwan
Boredom is itself worry.
— Dada Bhagwan
When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.
— Dada Bhagwan
The greatest policy is where there are no policies!
— Dada Bhagwan
Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married.
— Dada Bhagwan
Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts.
— Dada Bhagwan
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Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.
— Dada Bhagwan
What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There is no liability if one calls a whore a virtuous woman!
— Dada Bhagwan
If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, ‘when will the train leave, when will it leave?’ This world is not worth getting impatient restless about.
— Dada Bhagwan
Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment.
— Dada Bhagwan
God is where there are no ‘fees’ being charged, where there is no botheration and where there is no scolding; that is where God is.
— Dada Bhagwan
To remain lying on thorns (kanta) is called boredom (kantado).
— Dada Bhagwan
Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.
— Dada Bhagwan
God says that the one who does not find the worldly life boring at all, is not worthy of moksha [the ultimate liberation] at all. While earning money one gets bored, while not earning money one gets bored, everywhere one gets bored, then he is considered worthy of moksha.
— Dada Bhagwan
Each pain indeed comes with its time limit.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no such thing as destruction in this world. Eternal Thing [vastu] is not destroyed, its phase state (avastha) is destroyed.
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who comes to know [the eternal truth], will awaken. The one who is wrongly believing will not awaken.
— Dada Bhagwan
What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is Liberation.
— Dada Bhagwan
When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.
— Dada Bhagwan
You will especially not find anyone who speaks bitterly to you. All the 'diseases' [worldly suffering] remains due to the sweetness. Bitterness will remove the disease, sweetness will increase it. Your life should be such that you will not have to listen to bitter words. If however, you have to listen to bitter words, then you should listen to it. It is always beneficial.
— Dada Bhagwan
Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others will accept it in their hearts. And if it is the truth and you nag or insist upon it, it will not touch others.
— Dada Bhagwan
The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.
— Dada Bhagwan
Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.
— Dada Bhagwan
No one asks about the truth and non-truth. Should one not think ‘why don’t others accept it even when I am right?’ It is because there is insistence and nagging behind that truth.
— Dada Bhagwan
Criminal’ pompousness will not do
—  ‘civil’ pompousness is acceptable.
The Lord says that abhorrence is beneficial. Love-attachment [Prem-raag] will never leave. The entire world is trapped in the suffering due to love-attachment (prem-parishaha). Just say your greetings from afar and become free.
— Dada Bhagwan
No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!
— Dada Bhagwan
We have not come [here] for fame
—  we have come [here] for the salvation of others.
Who we are’ and ‘what is our own’ that we have to understand
—  it is not something we have to tell others.
Because of anger-pride-deceit-greed, selfishness [self-interest] remains and consequently one has no awareness of who dies or who takes birth. It is simply a wrong belief that has arisen. But after a long time, as one progresses, if he meets a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one], he will acquire the awareness that birth and death is simply a phase.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone’s worldly authority. People abuse their acquired authority and consequently loose their right for human birth (manushyapanu). Accept whatever authority one has.
— Dada Bhagwan
At the time of death, one says, ‘Dear Lord, extend my life for two more hours, so that a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] comes and I can do his darshan.’ He complains in this way. Do not complain now. Why are you pleading now? When you had the control, you didn’t do anything and now that you no longer have the control, you are making demands?
— Dada Bhagwan
To believe the control is in your hands when it is in the hands of some other power, is indeed a wrong belief (bhranti, illusion). If one were to understand even this much, he will find a solution. When people begin to understand that the power is in the hands of something else, then the wrong belief [illusion] will go away to a little extent.
— Dada Bhagwan
People lose their powers (siddhi) by nagging; therefore know ‘as it is’. Know all these relations as being worldly (laukik, of the non-Self), and do not believe them to be beyond-worldly relations (alaukik, of the Self). Discover that something whereby you experience peace amidst the puzzle. This discovery is indeed within you.
— Dada Bhagwan
We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) would never say to anyone, ‘listen to me!’ because that is indeed not under his control.
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who does not have the control for even a minute, he does not have the control forever.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one attains awareness of own’s own Self’s authority [power], even for a moment, he can become a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Self).
— Dada Bhagwan
To see things (vastu) ‘as it is’ in its purest form, is called samkit (enlightened view; right belief), and to see it any other way is called mithyatva (wrong belief).
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who has enlightened view (right belief; samkiti), he indeed does not have any problems, anywhere. He remains only the Knower-Seer everywhere. As long as there is any problem or objection, it cannot indeed be called samkit (enlightened view, right belief).
— Dada Bhagwan
Civility (sabhyata,) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquette is the sign of one with a wrong belief (deluded view, bhranti).
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is even a trace of etiquette, there is no religion of moksha [ultimate liberation] there, nor any other religion. Religion is to be found in naturalness (saahajeekta)
— Dada Bhagwan
Civility must be a natural thing
—  all the rest is considered etiquette. The path of moksha [ultimate liberation] means there must be simplicity. There should be no ‘ghosts of etiquette’ there.
When the servants break the cups and saucers, a ‘puzzle’ arises within. Who really breaks the cups and saucers? Who runs this world? One does not know that and inbetween, the ‘guest’ (of this world) does worries.
— Dada Bhagwan
Is there not some arrangement (neutral gear) in the car, where the wheels do not turn, but the car keeps running? Similarly, one should do something, whereby worldly life continues and (karmic) ‘causes’ stops.
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.
— Dada Bhagwan
All who die, are all worldly beings (sansari – believing the worldly life to be real).
— Dada Bhagwan
Worldly life (sansar) means to get tired and to rest.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].
— Dada Bhagwan
He who has conquered his internal enemies, to such an Arihant, I bow down to them. Learn to recognize the inner enemies. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the inner enemies.
— Dada Bhagwan
Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).
— Dada Bhagwan
One creates ownership and then does egoism towards it, that is why suffering arises. No one is a boss/owner of anyone. Whose things and whose goods? However many fishes one catches from the sea, they are his. After he catches them, he gives rise to its ownership, he creates a liability for it.
— Dada Bhagwan
Wherever there is ownership, there is upadhi (externally induced problems).
— Dada Bhagwan
Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death, whomever you've had excessive intent of ownership, it will all become painful.
— Dada Bhagwan
Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one’s own Self.
— Dada Bhagwan
Rather than the one who gets angry, the world is more afraid of the one who does not get angry. Why? When anger ceases, grandeur of authority (pratap) arises. Such is the law of nature. Otherwise there would never be any protection for those who don't get angry. Anger provides protection during one’s conduct in ignorance of the self.
— Dada Bhagwan
During anger, the parmanus (subatomic particles) are fiery and fierce and during greed, there are parmanus (subatomic particles) of attraction towards money.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you become angry with someone today, it is a discharge kashaya (karma effect of anger-pride-deceit-greed). But in that [discharge karma] your intent is for it, which “charges” a [new] karmic seed.
— Dada Bhagwan
Getting angry means setting fire to your own wealth.
— Dada Bhagwan
You will not realize the absolute supreme Self (parmatma) unless the weakness departs. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the weaknesses.
— Dada Bhagwan
Understanding spirituality means that every day anger, pride, deceit and greed continue to decrease, will not increase.
— Dada Bhagwan
One's liberation begins once he does the darshan of kashaya-free (absence of inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) Gnani purush [the enlightened one]. Who is considered kashaya-free? The one whose state is that where there was no kashaya, there is no kashaya, and there never will be any. The one who is never in the state of the non-Self. Doing darshan of such a One brings ultimate well being.
— Dada Bhagwan
Doing Kashaya[anger, pride, deceit and greed] means to stumble. If artadhyan (adverse meditation) and raudradhyan (wrathful meditation) occurs, it is called stumbling.
— Dada Bhagwan
What do worldly (non Self-realised) people do? They feel uneasy the moment a guest arrives. The husband tells his wife, 'you just show that you are upset, so then he will leave!' You get upset or even if you verbally abuse him, the guest will not leave. How can he when it was meant to happen [it is decided]? By getting upset, you are gathering stock (of karma) for the next life, you’ll need something to spend in your next life [won’t you]?
— Dada Bhagwan
No one should feel hurt by you, you should make everyone happy and leave.
— Dada Bhagwan
We have to help the one who has fallen, we should not question ‘why did you fall?
— Dada Bhagwan
When does one qualify (for moksha)? It is when he never has any conflict in the worldly life.
— Dada Bhagwan
This [worldly life] is a huge entanglement; every sub-atomic particle of it is an entanglement and it is impossible to break free from it. Which is why the Lord has said, ‘If you encounter a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one], remain with Him’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Only those with whom you have bound karmic accounts, in the past life, will be able to live with you together.
— Dada Bhagwan
If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished.
— Dada Bhagwan
Everyone in this world perform their ‘duty’. But when one performs the ‘duty’ and he also intimidates [scolds] someone in the process, he will reincarnate in the animal life form. If he carries out his duties with understanding, he will return to the human life form. And if he performs them with humbleness, he will reincarnate into the celestial world.
— Dada Bhagwan
From the moment you realize, ‘I am the most worthless person in this world’; you become valuable.
— Dada Bhagwan
One becomes independent (free) from the moment one realizes the principle that, ‘No living being is able to interfere with another living being to the slightest’.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you try to do that which is not ‘our’ duty [the Self’s duty], it will create interference.
— Dada Bhagwan
When you do not bother anyone at night, does anyone bother you? No one scolds you at night, do they? During the daytime, you create interferences, and that is why you suffer. Nature’s law is such that not a single difficulty will affect you, provided you do not interfere. All that affects you is your own interferences.
— Dada Bhagwan
It is certain that if there is someone to hurt you on one side, there is also someone to help you on the other side. Just as you cannot see the one that hurts you, you also cannot see the one that helps you. If the one that hurts you cannot last more than four or five years, neither will the one that helps you.
— Dada Bhagwan
One gets ‘headaches’, because he gives headache to others.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you are straightforward, then others will have no choice but to be straightforward with you. If someone curses you, is he doing so at your responsibility? Is he doing so at God’s responsibility? No. He curses you at his own responsibility. And if you were to curse back, then it will be at your responsibility.
— Dada Bhagwan
If a prisoner paints his cell in the prison, does it mean that he likes the prison? Why does he do so? It is because he has no choice. Similarly, one has no choice in the worldly life, and that is why he builds a house, buys car, builds a bungalow.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one sides with pickpockets by saying, ‘what’s wrong with what he is doing? He doesn’t have any food so of course he’ll pick pockets!’ Now even when he is not a pickpocket himself, by supporting such actions, he will become a pick pocket in his next life. The poor man, although he makes the mistake in ignorance (in darkness, within), the price he will pay in brightness [that can be seen with 5 senses, the outer world].
— Dada Bhagwan
There should not be opinion regarding anything. Opinion means you are supporting it. ‘Know’ the wrong as wrong, ‘Know’ right as right. There should not be any attachment (raag) towards the right, and abhorrence (dwesh) towards the wrong. There is no such thing as right or wrong. Right and wrong is a duality, it is illusionary vision, it is a societal belief. God does not see it that way. In God’s view, having a dinner on the table or going to toilet, they are both the same.
— Dada Bhagwan
Refuting anything in this worldly life is tantamount to refuting God. Even refuting stealing is tantamount to refuting God. This Stealing is a kind of laxative. It cleanses us and leaves.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one does not interfere in the obtained worldly life, then worldly life will run straight forward & smoothly. But one keeps interfering in the obtained worldly life. From the moment he wakes up, he interferes. If there is no interference in the unfolding circumstances one has obtained, then God’s control will prevail, but by interfering one takes over the control himself.
— Dada Bhagwan
Disturbing anything [situation] results in damage. To improve, you do not need to disturb anything that is natural and has turned bad. You need to make way out; you need to find a solution.
— Dada Bhagwan
Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar).
— Dada Bhagwan
It is very wrong to make fun of anyone because you make fun of the Lord residing within. It doesn’t matter if it is a donkey, but after all, (finally) who is he? He is God.
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is conflict, there is no God.
— Dada Bhagwan
What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict.
— Dada Bhagwan
The world is the puzzle, itself. The one who solves this ‘puzzle’ attains the degree of Parmatma [the Absolute Supreme Self].
— Dada Bhagwan
Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don’t plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether.
— Dada Bhagwan
If we break someone’s ego, then we can’t be happy. Egoism is his life!
— Dada Bhagwan
Until pride (vanity) leaves, there is nothing but pain, pain and more pain!
— Dada Bhagwan
What does egoism mean? It means to become blind through one’s own vision. The Gnani [the enlightened one] removes the egoism.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the greatest weakness? ‘Egoism’. No matter how virtuous one may be, as long as the egoism is present; it is all useless. A virtuous person is only of use if he is humble.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no problem if there is ‘egoism’. But, it should be ‘normal’. ‘Normal’ egoism means that it does not hurt anyone.
— Dada Bhagwan
Why does one ruminate about the past? He is treating his wounded egoism.
— Dada Bhagwan
Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one’s work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it.
— Dada Bhagwan
One simply goes around doing egoism and then ultimately he ends up on the wood of the funeral pyre; such is the pitiful state. And if one is a very good person, he will be cremated with sandalwood. But it is all wood in the end. The true victor is the one who never dies.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no value to anything in this world, at the same time there is no need to ‘devalue’ anything.
— Dada Bhagwan
What has more value in this world? That which is in shortage.
— Dada Bhagwan
The rupee becomes cheap [of less value] and is that why man becomes expensive [valuable] and when the rupee becomes expensive, man becomes cheap. At present, man has become cheap; he will become expensive again.
— Dada Bhagwan
How beautiful are these bangles! But if you put them on a man, he will not like it because he has assessed his own worth. One cannot be the ‘thermometer (gauge)’ as well as the ‘fever’, both cannot be one.
— Dada Bhagwan
Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! ‘Live’ as a ‘friend’ with the ‘wife’. You are her ‘friend’ and she is your ‘friend’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Whether you practice craftiness in your business, you will have profit and if you do not practice craftiness, then also you will have [same] profit. Craftiness creates a liability for the next life. So God had said not to do craftiness. There is no benefit in it and there is infinite suffering.
— Dada Bhagwan
When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault.
— Dada Bhagwan
Everything is happening according to the ‘drawing’ [past causes], You just have to ‘see’ them. Desires are ‘drawings’ too.
— Dada Bhagwan
One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob him. One’s own intention does the stealing; the thief is simply instrumental (nimit) in that. Really, the account is one’s own.
— Dada Bhagwan
Anything you strive to correct, it will increasingly become wrong. So just let go of that which does not turn out right.
— Dada Bhagwan
We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have the time to prove that ‘ours’ is correct; nor do ‘we’ have the time to make you correct as well.
— Dada Bhagwan
No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is ‘vyavasthit’ [result of scientific circumstantial evidences]. So don’t tell anyone, ‘you did wrong’. Not only should you not say this, you should not even think it.
— Dada Bhagwan
Gnani’ [the enlightened one] is He who gives proof of whatever He says. He would not say, ‘All that I have said is correct; you will have to accept it’.
— Dada Bhagwan
The world’s existence is with common intent. No one has ownership of it. One may do whatever suits him. You cannot criticize him; you cannot say, ‘This is wrong’. You cannot even think it. Everything is under nature’s management.
— Dada Bhagwan
Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities.
— Dada Bhagwan
Saints guide people on the path of religion [dharma] and the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants ‘liberation’ (moksha).
— Dada Bhagwan
The greatest religion [dharma] is that we keep everyone pleased.
— Dada Bhagwan
Moral conduct in the worldly life [vyavahaar charitra] is to behave in a way that hurts no woman and to not look at a woman lustfully.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret
—  are addictions. Those that are openly visible cannot be called addiction.
Nothing in this world is ‘by chance’. There are “covered causes” (hidden) within. ‘By chance’ is also the result of an effort.
— Dada Bhagwan
Even brahmins [people belonging to the caste who follow ritual practices] will not delve in the past and yet these intellectuals keep remembering, ‘This person cheated me. This man called me stupid!’ The flow of speech is like the flow of water. How can we ask it, ‘How did you come here tumbling down?
— Dada Bhagwan
Who is considered a person [vyakti]? The one who has manifested (expressed) a little in the embodied self [vyakt] can be known as a person [vyakti]. If he is manifested (expressed) completely, he is known as a special person.
— Dada Bhagwan
The saints have to ‘drink poison’ (worldly suffering) and the world has to ‘drink nectar’ (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak.
— Dada Bhagwan
In a place of purity, if one does not follow the conduct of that place, there will be tremendous (karma) bondage. He will bind a life in hell!
— Dada Bhagwan
Every person has to prepare himself to the point where no place would be burdensome for him. The place may get bored with him, but he will not get bored; he has to get prepared to that extent. Because otherwise these are infinite places; there is no end to the places. Infinite places are there.
— Dada Bhagwan
Know the other person’s viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence.
— Dada Bhagwan
All your future needs are ready for you, because within [us] resides the Supreme Lord. Provided there is no interference from [our] mind-speech-body!
— Dada Bhagwan
Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal?
— Dada Bhagwan
To change from inauspicious [bad] to auspicious [good] can be done, through egoism. But egoism is not required to come to pure-state from auspicious-state. From there, one will not be able to know where to find the staircase to climb up the steps! That’s why, all this has stopped from going further.
— Dada Bhagwan
How can one go from good [auspicious state] to pure (state)? There are no words for it. It will happen when the Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) gives the awareness of the Self
—  it will happen when He bestows God’s grace upon you.
In this life, you only need to do this much: You must know that the other person is instrument (nimit, in bringing you the results of your own karmas) so you must remain silent. Do not let the mind spoil in the slightest. If it does, then ask for forgiveness: ‘Dear Instrument! You are simply an instrument. I ask for forgiveness for spoiling my mind.’ You have to do only this much! That is the effort [purusharth]!
— Dada Bhagwan
Everyone is born with the nimit (karmic evidentiary instruments). I too, am born with nimit. With this body, so and so number of tasks [work] will be done by him, such is the nimit!
— Dada Bhagwan
One man told me, ‘My tooth is hurting’. Why would ‘your’ tooth hurt you? This is considered a contradicting statement. What is yours, it will never give you pain and what is not yours will always give you pain. If you expound on this, you will have the solution!
— Dada Bhagwan
Patience is not something that you keep
—  patience is something that you learn. How is patience learnt? By sitting with those who have patience and by observing those who have patience.
If the outside [our outside circumstances] has become spoilt so be it, don’t let the inside [our inner intent] spoil. If you don’t have the money to pay off your debt, keep the intent pure within that you want to pay it off. Because you did not let the inner intent spoil, the time to pay off the debt will come.
— Dada Bhagwan
If the inner [intent] is not spoilt, it means “Our Own Self” did not spoilt. That which has become spoilt on the outside will burn in the funeral pyre; whether it improves or not.
— Dada Bhagwan
If nothing on the inside spoils, nothing on the outside will either. This is the hidden secret of this world.
— Dada Bhagwan
When a person’s debt increases a lot, at first he will feel he wants to pay it all back, later he will think, ‘Why give back?’ That spoils from within. We should not sign from within.
— Dada Bhagwan
In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.
— Dada Bhagwan
There aren’t any ‘relative’ (worldly) things that is worth inviting. So what is worth inviting? The ‘place’ where we have to go is worth knowing.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is a vast difference between sakshibhaav [being a witness; witnessing state] and Gnata-Drashta bhaav [Knower-Seer state]. Some saints may have attained sakshibhaav but they [still] have to make efforts to progress further. Despite sakshibhaav, their illusion [bhranti] has not gone. The ultimate state is the one of Gnata-Drashta.
— Dada Bhagwan
God doesn’t need to be a witness. He doesn’t need to go to a court, does he? ‘You’ are the one who has to attain a witness state, so that there’s no karma bondage. And ‘God’ only keeps on ‘seeing’!
— Dada Bhagwan
God does remain in a state of witnessing (sakshibhav), but that is a worldly God. Worldly God means witnessing through ‘egoism’. If one constantly remains in the witnessing state, then he would not bind karma.
— Dada Bhagwan
Only this much needs to be known: If you separate ‘I’ and ‘my’, you will have known all the scriptures! Then the whole universe will be known to you!
— Dada Bhagwan
I’ is in the form of the eternal element (vastu swaroop) and ‘my’ is in the form of circumstances (saiyog swaroop). Circumstance form and eternal element form are two different things.
— Dada Bhagwan
Once you have learned how to subtract the gross form of ‘my’, subtract the subtle form of ‘my’. Thereafter, subtract the subtler and the subtlest forms. After subtracting all that, ‘I’ [Self] will be separate!
— Dada Bhagwan
I’ is Absolute
—  it has been possessed by the ghosts of ‘my’!
I’ is your own Self, only this much is to be ‘realized’!
— Dada Bhagwan
Everyone knows how to subtract the gross form of ‘my’ (tangible ‘my’). But how can he know how to subtract the subtle, subtler and the subtlest forms of ‘my’? That is the work of the ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one].
— Dada Bhagwan
I’ with ‘my’ is known as the embodied Soul [Jivatma]. ‘I am’ and ‘All this is mine’ is the state of an embodied Soul [Jivatma]. And ‘I indeed am’ and ‘All this is not mine’, is the state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!!!
— Dada Bhagwan
I’ means the Self and ‘my’ means what belongs to the self. All that is ‘my’ is acquisition [parigrah]. You should keep [only] whatever acquisition you are able to carry.
— Dada Bhagwan
I’ and ‘my’ are two separate tracks. They never unite. One may say, ‘this is my wife, we both are one [united]’. But we can’t say they are ‘one’, can we? Both the ‘I’ are indeed separate, aren’t they?
— Dada Bhagwan
There is only one way to be happy in this worldly life. Relinquish ‘my’ and go after [help to] people.
— Dada Bhagwan
All which is regarded as ‘my’, belongs to the non-Self. ‘I’ is the Self and ‘my’ is of the non-Self; it is pudgal, the body-complex. There is nothing wrong with saying ‘this is mine’ in the worldly interactions, but the ‘I’, ‘who am I?’, must be decided from within.
— Dada Bhagwan
The paramanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech and body are effective. That is why things appear as good or bad. It shows good as being bad and bad as being good. And because of that, opinions are formed. The parmanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech-body themselves express opinions.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as your mind has the contemplation ‘the tiger is a violent animal’, it will remain violent. And if your contemplation is, ‘the tiger is a pure soul’, then it will not remain violent. Everything is possible.
— Dada Bhagwan
Even if just once, the inner intent spoils towards someone, as in ‘I will put him in his place’, it is a statement made with God as your witness, so how can it go to waste? There is no problem if the inner intent does not spoil. Everything will become silent. Everything will stop.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no point in worrying about the effect [result], which has already occurred. It is worth paying attention to the facts (causes) upon which the effects [results] are based.
— Dada Bhagwan
He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one maintains the intent of, ‘no one should have the slightest difficulty on my account’, then his work will be considered to be done.
— Dada Bhagwan
We’ had come to identify who was behind all the prodding and the pushing. Everything that happens to you, is really your very own. “Nobody is responsible for ‘you’. ‘You’ are whole and sole responsible for yourself.
— Dada Bhagwan
This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is “round” (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it.
— Dada Bhagwan
Once one’s vision changes to, ‘I don’t have a sofa in my house’, he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the ‘necessity’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Do not say
—  ‘Its’ ok’. Say ‘Its’ good’ and then it will indeed be good.
The thing [vastu, eternal element] itself is just one. But a ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ occurs due to illusion, because everyone’s viewpoint is different.
— Dada Bhagwan
If Christians read Holy Scripture, they will grow in the Knowledge of Christ. And be filled with the grace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who eat what is rightfully theirs, will incarnate as humans. Those who take what is not theirs by right, will incarnate as animals. Those who give away to others, what is rightfully their own, will incarnate as celestial beings. Those who hurt others and take away from them what is not theirs by right; will take birth in hell.
— Dada Bhagwan
The meaning of worldly life is external problems [upadhi, problems arising out of external situations]. There is nothing in it which belongs to us. Seeds (causes) of external problems are sown, and external problems grow again.
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life runs easily due to the egoism which is the by-production of the worldly life. By increasing the egoism there, one has incurred endless worries.
— Dada Bhagwan
The ‘one’ who does no ‘egoism’, the worldly life ends for him!
— Dada Bhagwan
Once the egoism has gone (stopped), all the worldly ‘matter’ of the body-complex [pudgal] are renounced! Where there is egoism, there is my-ness and where there is my-ness, there is a hidden egoism. When ‘Knowledge of the Self’ is attained, egoism and my-ness goes away. Only the dramatic (discharge) ‘egoism’ and ‘my-ness’ will remain.
— Dada Bhagwan
In all animals, egoism is in a seed-form. It bears effect as a tree in the human life form! If the egoism is destroyed, ‘one’ becomes the ‘Absolute Supreme Self’[parmatma]!
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the nature of egoism? It spends away everything in its power!
— Dada Bhagwan
That which reduces our flawed vision is called religion [dharma]. It is non-religion [adharma] that increases a flawed vision. The worldly life is indeed the result of a flawed vision.
— Dada Bhagwan
This [worldly suffering] is indeed the result of a flawed-vision. When this flawed-vision goes away, the world will be seen “As it is”. By sitting with the ‘Experienced Person’ whose flawed-vision is gone, our flawed-vision will go away. Nothing else will make it go away.
— Dada Bhagwan
The mind-speech-body are effective. When will they not have effect on one? It is when one realizes one’s own [True] Self. It is when one attains the awareness, ‘I am indeed absolute Supreme Self (Parmatma).
— Dada Bhagwan
give me the worldbut for Christ's sake,do not sugercoat it.give me it rawand gleaming withtruth.i want the madnessto twirl me around untili can no longer stand.i refuse to be drunkon a soft world.the world is cruel,my love,you must understandthat,but in that understandingyou must understand this,too, just because it is crueldoes not mean it is notbeautiful.
— Christopher Poindexter, Naked Human
Worldly Life [sansaar] means continuous-flow. The worldly life is that which is always changing [transforming].
— Dada Bhagwan
To believe the non-Self’s intent as the Self’s intent is indeed an illusion. To believe that ‘I am the doer’
—  where the doer is someone else is indeed an illusion.
To believe ‘I’ where ‘I’ is not, is known as tirobhav (concealed or hidden belief). To believe ‘I’-ness where ‘I’ is, it is known as Aavirbhav (visible or manifest belief).
— Dada Bhagwan
If you make an inner-intent to remain steady in a completely unsteady atmosphere, you will be able to remain steady. This is because steadiness is indeed the quality of your own Self-form. So then, what do You have do with what is unsteady?
— Dada Bhagwan
Inauspicious intents (ashubh bhaav) binds demerit karma (paap), auspicious intents (shubh bhaav) binds merit karma (punya) and pure intents (shuddh bhaav) results in liberation (moksha).
— Dada Bhagwan
Knowledge of the [five] senses (indriya gnan) creates all kinds of intents. Knowledge beyond senses (ati-indriya gnan) doesn’t allow any intent to occur!
— Dada Bhagwan
Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).
— Dada Bhagwan
That for which, you are deserving; will come before you effortlessly. Your purity is required. What is required for your purity? [The intent of] ‘May no living being in this world be hurt by me’. If anyone hurts you, it happens as per the law [nature’s law].
— Dada Bhagwan
The world is our own reflection. As long as there is deceit in you, others will deceive you.
— Dada Bhagwan
The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable.
— Dada Bhagwan
Even if one incurs a loss, he should expose this fact to the other person. This way the intent the other person does, will dispel the [negative] atoms and one will, become lighter himself. Otherwise suffering alone increases the mental burden.
— Dada Bhagwan
In the beginning [in older days], if I were to say something that hurt the other person, I would turn it around by telling him, ‘Dear brother, my mind has been this way from the start!!!’ So the other person then becomes happy.
— Dada Bhagwan
If we want to be free [get liberated], don’t compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.
— Dada Bhagwan
Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall].
— Dada Bhagwan
No one has been able to win this world. That is why ‘we’ have made a very profound discovery that will help win this world. ‘‘We’ sit here defeated; if you want to win, then come [to me]’.
— Dada Bhagwan
To speak in a way that causes the other person to get disturbed is the greatest crime. On the contrary, if someone else speaks in that way, you should suppress it; that is considered a human.
— Dada Bhagwan
No one can bother the one who has not interfered in the slightest with anyone. If such a person were to go into a town of robbers, the robbers will welcome him with respect and offer him food. No matter how many diamonds he would have with him, the robbers would not be able to touch them. Otherwise they would rob even the one who is accompanied by ten policemen.
— Dada Bhagwan
The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop.
— Dada Bhagwan
Whatever the world does, is indeed all a natural discharge [disposal of karma]. You may chant God’s name, you may do penance; it is all nature’s discharge. If someone garlands you, how is he obliging you? And if someone picks your pocket, how is he hurting you? One is instrumental in the charging (creation of new karma), but in the discharge, it is only nature’s doing. This is the ultimate vision of the Vitraags, the Enlightened ones free of attachment.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you.
— Dada Bhagwan
The crying that is done in this world is due to wrong understanding and the laughing is also due to wrong understanding. This world is not worth the crying or laughing. This world is beautiful [which one needs to know and see].
— Dada Bhagwan
All the pains in this world are assumed pains. It is ‘wrong belief’! People have the illusion of pain. This illusion is being experienced. What was seen with the eyes is not being experienced. To have illusory experience means to spend the entire night ‘dying’ in the fear of ghosts. That is what it is.
— Dada Bhagwan
All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!
— Dada Bhagwan
How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the ‘Knower’ of experience of pleasure and pain.
— Dada Bhagwan
You may have committed a very bad fault but if you repent for it a lot; if you repent ‘heartily’ for it; the fault will have to go away. But people don’t repent ‘heartily’, do they? They just say superficially that ‘it was my fault’!
— Dada Bhagwan
Like-dislike, good-bad, profit-loss; who gave rise to all these dualities? The society did. As far as God is concerned, there is no duality. If there are grains of food on one side and excrement on the other, in God’s eyes, they are both “material (matter)”. What does God say about this? “All are materials!
— Dada Bhagwan
Relative’ is a duality!
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who has won over duality is adwait (non-duality; state of oneness, free from duality-state). With a transparent inner vision one can attain a state beyond duality.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you want liberation [moksha], you will have to be rid of the duality of ‘right-and-wrong’. If you want to attain an auspicious (good) state, then have abhorrence for the ‘wrong’, and attachment for the ‘right’. There is no attachment or abhorrence in the pure state [shuddha].
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurity of the vision. It is indeed illusion [mithyatva]
—  it is indeed a poisoned vision.
What are dualities? They are what creates the worldly life [sansaar]. And if one attains Liberation [moksha], he will be beyond dualities!
— Dada Bhagwan
The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.
— Dada Bhagwan
In this world, when no dualities affect one, when nothing affects him, and he attains the awareness of ‘I am absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma)’; one’s well-being [spiritual work] is done.
— Dada Bhagwan
Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.
— Anne Lamott
The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped
—  thank God.
Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see ‘as it is’, and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God’s maya is gone, the solution is found.
— Dada Bhagwan
Not knowing one’s real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.
— Dada Bhagwan
In nature, there is no pain or suffering neither in the spiritual life nor in the worldly life. The worldly life has become painful due to lack of this understanding. One does not know how to interact in life. He should remain untouched in the worldly life. When one remains untouched in the worldly life, there is no end to the bliss that arises!
— Dada Bhagwan
The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence that one has memory.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the goal of a human being? An Indian person can truly achieve a state of the Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma, the Lord]. To achieve one’s own Absolute Supreme Self state is the ultimate goal!
— Dada Bhagwan
Whatever one knows, he knows on the basis of his egoism. The ‘Gnani’ [The enlightened one], who doesn’t know how to do anything; has no egoism whatsoever.
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life [the relative] means 'superfluous'. Instead of superfluous, people believe it to be real (of nischaya) and then they even say, ‘this is indeed the way it should be, that is indeed the way it should be done.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no pleasure in Jalebi (dessert)
—  the pleasure is in your imagination.
The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.
— Dada Bhagwan
People’s mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others?
— Dada Bhagwan
How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.
— Dada Bhagwan
The Gnanis [The enlightened ones] have said that if one lives as if he is dead, death will never come to him.
— Dada Bhagwan
The moment one is born, the ‘saw starts cutting’. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning.
— Dada Bhagwan
To have the inner intent to die early is artadhyan (adverse contemplation) as well as raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation) and to have the inner intent to not die is also artadhyan and raudradhyan.One should disembark when the ‘station’ arrives. Do not have the inner intent to die and also to not die.
— Dada Bhagwan
How can we afford to live in the world in which one has to die [one day]? We are eternal.
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is ‘egoism’, there is no God. Where there is God, there is no ‘egoism’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Undecided thoughts’ is called the mind. ‘Decided thoughts’ is called the intellect.
— Dada Bhagwan
To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn’t it? The one who proceeds with caution will win.
— Dada Bhagwan
Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are.
— Dada Bhagwan
One with more insight (sooj) is considered wise. To have more insight [sooj] is a natural gift. One may have more sooj but may have no intellect.
— Dada Bhagwan
Nothing should go un-noticed.
— John Lundin, Journey to the Heart of the World
If we care for our spiritual needs, we shall find strength for any other well-being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon’s care...in boundless amity..
— Munia Khan
It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in the bank but becomes unhappy when the money is gone. There is nothing in this world worth being relieved about because it is all temporary.
— Dada Bhagwan
If your monetary wealth accumulates naturally and spontaneously, then let it accumulate, but do not lean on it for support. You may take its support and feel a sense of relief, but there is no telling when that support will move away. Therefore, conduct yourself with caution from the beginning so that you are not shaken up during time of painful experiences.
— Dada Bhagwan
When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the one who has purity of mind, body and speech.
— Dada Bhagwan
Neither the world nor one’s actions cause obstructions; kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) cause obstruction!
— Dada Bhagwan
All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the ‘protectors’. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it.
— Dada Bhagwan
The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one’s kashays are gone, then he becomes the ‘owner’ of the whole universe.
— Dada Bhagwan