Dada Bhagwan Quotes

Imaginary happiness has an “end” and real happiness is “permanent”.
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Moksha (ultimate liberation) cannot be attained until purity arises. To attain purity one has to realize ‘Who am I?
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The entire path of the Vitraag Lords (the enlightened one) is one of humility (vinaya). The practice of humility (vinaya dharma) begins from Hindustan (India). There are endless practices of humility, starting from putting two hands together (in the gesture of Namaste) to prostrating. And ultimately when one attains absolute humility (param vinaya), he attains moksha (ultimate liberation).
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What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage.
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Nothing will be attained from actions of hundreds of thousands of lives. Moksha (liberation) is attained through ‘absolute humility’ (param vinaya). The ‘gates of understanding’ are opened with ‘absolute humility’. ‘Absolute humility’ arises only when the ego is dissolved.
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Worry is the destroyer of understanding.
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The person who knows how to adjust to others, he will not have any suffering. ‘Adjust everywhere’.
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The suffering that is there in this world is such that it will fall off (go away), but people give support to it.
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If you want to travel on the path of moksha (ultimate liberation), ‘You’ (the Self) do not have to ‘do’ anything. And if you want to wander in the worldly life, ‘You’ have to ‘do’ everything.
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This’ path is not to be followed through force. It is to be followed through understanding.
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To misuse wealth is a great fault.
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As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements.
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Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).
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Self Effort (Purushartha) is that which will bear fruits, without fail.
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Moksha (ultimate liberation) means that you just have to change your vision.
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Worry is the greatest seed [cause] for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest egoism. If the egoism leaves, then worries will go away.
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Absence of conflict creating intents is itself Moksh (Ultimate Liberation).
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Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a ‘weakness’.
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Gnani (The Enlightened one) means without Ego.
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While following religion, where ‘any thing’ is required, they are all called ‘relative’ paths.
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Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion.
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Gnani Purush’ (The Enlightened one) is pure, so one becomes pure by just seeing him.
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As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.
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When you walk around with a long face in the house, that is called conflict.
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If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only.
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One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family).
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Absence of worldly misery - that is called eternal bliss.
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Gnan (knowledge of the Self) can never become agnan (knowledge other than the self, of relative world). It is called agnan only when the focused applied awareness of the Self changes.
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The person who wants to progress on the path of Vitrag (the enlightened ones), should keep the focus of the awareness to progress from the non-auspicious (bad) to the auspicious (good). And if one wants to go to final Liberation [moksha], he should keep ‘pure focus as the Self (Soul)’ (shuddha upayog). The person, who wants to go to Moksha, should not concern himself with the auspicious (good) or the inauspicious (bad). He should keep them both as the things to be cleared out.
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Who is considered as not living in the worldly life? The person who doesn’t have focus on the non-Self. ‘I’ (the Gnani Purush) do not live in the worldly life even for one moment. Liberation (Moksha) is to be found through the one who does not live in the worldly life. What can you not attain through the grace of such a person?
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Shukladhyan (pure contemplation of the Self, the Soul) is the direct cause for moksha (liberation). Dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to hurt no one, give happiness to others) is the indirect cause for moksh (liberation). Artadhyan (inner mournful contemplation that hurts the self) is a cause for a birth in animal life form (non-human). Raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others) is a cause for a life in hell.
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We’ win over ‘negative’ with ‘positive’.
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Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale.
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If worries begin, then realize that the task at hand is going to be disturbed and if worries do not occur, then know that the task will not be disturbed. Worries are obstacles to the work.
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When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.
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Fewer the necessities, better your life will be.
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Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side.
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That what keeps us supported is dharma (religion).
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When does complete awareness occur? When the ego departs.
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Worrying is the greatest egoism!
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Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.
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Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it.
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What does Jinmudra (Tirthankar God’s sitting posture) say? The lotus position of Vitrag Lords, one hand and foot placed over the other, preaches, “Oh, humans! Understand this if you have the wisdom. You have already brought with you the food, drink and all things you need; therefore, let go of the awareness that ‘I am the doer’ and make effort to attain Moksha (ultimate liberation)!
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Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.
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Where there is even the subtlest desire, the ‘Eternal Thing’ cannot be attained.
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Obstacles (antray) are indeed due to desires. As desires keep on decreasing, so do the obstructions (antray) keep on getting destroyed. Then, everything is acquired (at that stage).
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Why is it that ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have any obstruction (antray)? It is because ‘we’ are in a desire-free state (Nirichchhak dasha).
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We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing ‘Jagat kalyan’ (world’s salvation).
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One who speaks ‘completely’ negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and ‘positive’ does not create any obstruction (antray).
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Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.
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Everything that is experienced through the five senses is all ‘discharge’. It is due to one’s merit karmas that everything works according to one’s wishes, but he claims, ‘I did it’ and when one faces losses, he will say, ‘God did it’ or ‘my horoscope is unfavorable’.
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Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances get over.
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It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes.
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As long as the awareness of ‘doer-ship’ is there, till then, one keeps on ‘charging’ (karma). In the Akram-path, ‘we’ (the Gnani Purush) destroy your doer-ship. The awareness that ‘I am the doer’ goes away and we give the understanding of ‘who the doer is’. Therefore, ‘charging’ (of karma) stops! What is left now? Only the ‘discharge’ is left.
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Where the ‘charging’ (of karma) stops, there lies the symptoms (signs) of attaining moksha.
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One’ is not a doer in this world. Where he believes that he is the doer, there is ‘charging’ (of karma). When one tastes egoistic pride of, “I did this samayik, I did these activities”, he will ‘charge’ (karma). The taste of egoistic pride is very sweet.
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Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if one does not have ‘knowledge of True Self’ (realization of the self), then he ‘charges’ new karmas within.
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To run the worldly life, Egoism is not required. To bind [karma] for the next life, Egoism is required. If one doesn’t want the bondage for the next life, then also it is possible to conduct the worldly life without egoism. Entire worldly life is in the ‘discharge’ form. So it will continue to ‘discharge’ by itself.
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This is not suitable for me”- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say ‘will not suit’ is an offense.
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To say that, “I will not agree (will not accept)” is great egoism!
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