Dada Bhagwan Quotes - Page 14

To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!
Dada Bhagwan
What do the Vitaraag [the enlightened one] say? ‘If you want to continue to remain in the worldly life, then do what people say, but if you want to attain Moksha [ultimate liberation], then do only what I say, then only you can go to Moksha!
Dada Bhagwan
The Lord has said to the worldly people, if someone possesses certain energies, by recalling that person, the same energies will arise within you. If you don’t know how to ask for godly energies, but if you want to jump, then by recalling a monkey and asking for energies from him, you will be able to do so. If you want to bark, you have to ask for the energy from a dog! The Gnani [The Enlightened One] has infinite energies; if you recall Him, you will attain all those energies!
Dada Bhagwan
The tolerance power is the mother of egoism!
Dada Bhagwan
People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti).
Dada Bhagwan
In both pleasant experience producing karma effect (shata vedaniya) and unpleasant experience producing karma effect (ashata-vedaniya), there is indeed a constant inner burning (antardaah, inner suffering). But because one has moorcha (worldly engrossment/fascination due to deluded worldly view), one does not notice it; he remains in a state similar to being unconscious.
Dada Bhagwan
Why is there inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] present? Inner Burning [Antardaah] is not dependent/based on merit or demerit karma (paap-punya). Inner Burning [Inner suffering] is indeed present in both suffering producing karmas, unpleasant (ashata vedaniya) as well as pleasant (shata vedaniya). Inner Burning [Inner suffering] is dependent upon the wrong belief.
Dada Bhagwan
Here’, I am a disciple just as you are. The one you see is not ‘Dada Bhagwan’; it is ‘A. M. Patel’, a Patidaar from the town of Bhadran. The one sitting within is ‘Dada Bhagwan’. ‘I’ myself make everyone do jai jai kar of Dada Bhagwan [sing praise of Dada Bhagwan]. Therefore, ‘I’ too am a devotee, as are you.
Dada Bhagwan
What is the justice of this world like? It is that the world will call him as God (Bhagwan), the one who has no thoughts about money (wealth), no thoughts of sensual pleasures and one who remains separate from his body at all times.
Dada Bhagwan
You yourself are indeed Bhagwan [God], but the qualities of God have not yet manifested.
Dada Bhagwan
One who turns his face towards Bhagwan [God], turns towards him; he will receive the bliss and the light. God does not do anything else.
Dada Bhagwan
Bliss should come from within. We do not want the bliss that arises from looking on the outside. We want bliss that is eternal (sanatan anand).
Dada Bhagwan
When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!
Dada Bhagwan
Gnani’s [The enlightened one’s] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate liberation]. And the worldly people’s sangna [directions] is the compass then it will make you wander in the worldly life.
Dada Bhagwan
No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply ‘Sees’.
Dada Bhagwan
On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of ‘apratikraman' (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done).
Dada Bhagwan
When you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done.
Dada Bhagwan
A man who repents after doing any action, he will certainly become pure one day, that is definite.
Dada Bhagwan
You (must) do plenty of ‘pratikraman’. Do the ‘pratikraman’ for an hour every day of everyone who is living around you, whomever you have harassed.
Dada Bhagwan
What happens by doing ‘pratikraman’? The interferences that we have done (in the past), and its ‘reaction’ which will come (now), on that (reactions), we will not feel like interfering again.
Dada Bhagwan
Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we scold someone for what they do. If you scold him, he will do it even more. (Instead) You should explain to him with love. All diseases will disappear with love. You will get pure love either from the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] or his followers!
Dada Bhagwan
God requires two things: ‘pure love’ and ‘true justice’. Everywhere else there is relative justice. Where ‘pure love’ and ‘true justice’ exist, there comes the grace of God!
Dada Bhagwan
The ultimate form is the embodiment of love (Premswaroop)! The love of these (so called) lovers (Romeo-Juliet) does not work there. The Love of God (the Lord) is ‘Pure Love’. That which increases or decreases is infatuation [asakti]. There is no increase or decrease in ‘Pure Love’.
Dada Bhagwan
The amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of ‘Pure Love’ arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in totality. This is the only way.
Dada Bhagwan
I don’t intend to fight with anyone; I have only one weapon of love. I want to win the world with love. What the world calls love, is really worldly love. [True] Love is when even if you curse me, I would not get ‘depressed’ and when you garland me with flowers, I would not become ‘elevated’. In true love, there would not be any changes. Changes can occur in the intent and feelings (bhaav) of the body, but not in ‘pure love’.
Dada Bhagwan
Eternal love’ (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation].
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Where there is asakti [infatuation], there accusations cannot refrain from happening. That is indeed the nature of asakti [infatuation].
Dada Bhagwan
The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world].
Dada Bhagwan
Where there is no ‘superior’, no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vitaraag Lords [the enlightened ones] that I would like to have.
Dada Bhagwan
Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!
Dada Bhagwan
As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.
Dada Bhagwan
For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?
Dada Bhagwan
What is the nature of the worldly life (sansar)? God lives in every living being of the world, that means if you oppress any living being or cause misery to them, then adharma (unrighteousness, irreligion) will occur. The result (effect) of adharma will be against your desires and the result of dharma (righteousness, religion) will be favorable to your desires.
Dada Bhagwan
When you ‘oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone, things will happen against your wishes.
Dada Bhagwan
The world is like a mirror; it reflects (shows) everything exactly the way it is. If there is a defect, it will reflect (show) that defect.
Dada Bhagwan
If you are lost while travelling on the road, then if you ask a guide of the road, you will find the right way. Similarly, people have become lost on their way to moksha. They will find a solution when they meet the One (Gnani, the Enlightened One) who is familiar with the way to moksha. ‘We’ are that guide to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!
Dada Bhagwan
The religions of the world believe abandh (discharge part) as bandh (bondage; charging of new karma) and they have no idea about what causes bandh (bondage, charging of new karma).
Dada Bhagwan
The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).
Dada Bhagwan
When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression ‘I am somewhat different from this [the body?]’ And when dehadhyas, the belief of ‘I am the body, the relative self’, goes away; that is when spirituality is complete.
Dada Bhagwan
Worries and sufferings are helpful for (one’s) spiritual development.
Dada Bhagwan
If one wants to go to Mumbai from Baroda, he will ‘like’ all the signs towards the south. And if he wants to go to Delhi, he will like all the signs towards the north. One can tell what path he is on from what he ‘likes’. There are many paths, not just one. As many minds as there are, there are that many ways and they are all intellect-based opinions. Where one is guided by the intellectual opinions, there is nothing but aimless wandering there. Only the opinions of the Vitaraag Lords (the enlightened ones) is a “safe side”!
Dada Bhagwan
The Celestial (Heavenly Gods) become pleased with the one who isn’t hungry for fame and recognition. The whole world can be pleased with us, but because of our hunger they are not pleased with us.
Dada Bhagwan
To whom does Mataji (Mother Goddess) appear? It is to the one who becomes natural and spontaneous [sahaj swabhavi]. Mataji is said to have come if the mind, speech and the body become naturally blissful. It can be said that the natural spontaneous energies (adhya shakti) have arisen.
Dada Bhagwan
To whom should you surrender? The one who takes the responsibility for you right till the ‘end’ (moksha, the ultimate liberation). Surrender to the one who is tatharoop [attained the highest spiritual state]. Surrender to the one whom you consider a ‘Virat Purush’ [magnificent human being], otherwise there is no point of surrendering.
Dada Bhagwan
If you do pratikraman of a tiger, then even the tiger will do as you ask it to. There is no difference between a tiger and a human being. The difference is in your vibrations! That is why he gets affected.
Dada Bhagwan
The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.
Dada Bhagwan
Peace is the nature of the mind. And bliss is the nature of the Soul!
Dada Bhagwan
Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will ‘realize’ true happiness.
Dada Bhagwan
The world is not a ‘thing’ (eternal element). It is a wrong belief (vikalp) of the Soul.
Dada Bhagwan
What is suspicion? It is a tool to ruin one’s own Soul.
Dada Bhagwan
Real happiness and peace is attained only if one comes into one’s true Self.
Dada Bhagwan
Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present ‘at a time’ exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul).
Dada Bhagwan
The Knower of the Soul is considered Self Realized (The Enlightened one). The knower of all the eternal elements is known as Omniscient (sarvagna).
Dada Bhagwan
To eat, drink, arise, awake etc. are all religion (dharma) of the body. One has not come into one’s own Self Religion (atma dharma) even for a second. Had he done so, he would never ever leave God.
Dada Bhagwan
One who lives with one’s own (Soul’s) support is the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma). One who lives with the body complex (relative self’s) support is the embodied (mortal) self (Jeevatma).
Dada Bhagwan
Soul (Atma), Absolute Knowledge (Gnan) and the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma) are one and the same element.
Dada Bhagwan
One has to decide to know the nature of the Soul. Will one not have to know that? Nothing is attained by just saying, ‘I am the Soul, I am the Soul.’ The Soul has to come in to one’s experience, until then the worldly problems will not go away, will they?
Dada Bhagwan
It is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known.
Dada Bhagwan
The Soul has never become impure not even for a second and if it had become impure then no one in this world would have been able to purify it.
Dada Bhagwan
If one understands (realizes) his own Self, then he himself is an Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma).
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