Dada Bhagwan Quotes - Page 2

To have a desire means to have dependency.
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The true instrument is that, with the help of which, the egoism and my-ness goes away.
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Scriptures are as ‘helping problem’. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine?
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Whatever work you do in this world; the work itself has no value. If there is attachment-abhorrence behind that work, then only you are responsible for the next life. You are not responsible if attachment-abhorrence don’t occur.
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Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.
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God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!
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If you want to go to moksha (attain ultimate liberation), you will have to become simple and straightforward. Being obstinate won’t work there. You will have to remove all the tubers; become totally free from intellect (abudh).
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One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a ‘collector’, what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won’t put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away).
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What is it that doesn’t allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!
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One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity.
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Once the entrancement (Infatuation; Deluded state), in material objects, is gone; the loss in spirituality stops!
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If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!
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Gnani Purush’ (the enlightened one) is considered to be the owner of the whole universe. And yet, there is not the slightest egoism in Him. Where there is no authority, there is egoism and where there is authority, there is no egoism. This is the wonder of ‘Gnani Purush!’ ‘Gnani Purush’ is the manifest light.
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Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again.
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It is called equanimity when one has no attachment with the good (the auspicious) and no abhorrence for the bad (the inauspicious). The one without duality is in equanimity-state. In worldly interactions, people identify tolerance as equanimity!
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Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).
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Till the chit is in blissful state, the world does not come in one's remembrance (one forgets the world till that time).
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A circumstance is not easy to come by and when it does, there are causes behind it. Therefore I do those things which bring an end to all the causes.
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The one who has developed a habit of taking a lot of respect from others [relish pride], will get cheated.
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If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However, it is a different matter if that person has a habit of talking negatively, but generally that is not the case.
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Illusion (maya) cannot enter where there is ‘light’ (enlightenment, awareness). Once darkness falls, illusion will enter there. The Gnani Purush can arrange for your illusion to go away permanently.
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When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!
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The intellect perpetuates the worldly life.
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It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from that? Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] can show it, (which is) ‘Pratikraman’.
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One first celebrates a ‘silver jubilee’, then a ‘golden jubilee’, then a ‘diamond jubilee’, but even then he goes back again into a pile of wood (cremation).
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People say that a person has a fever, when [in reality] the fever is leaving! The fever which accumulated within the body as a result of abnormal food, the body’s vitality power then creates the fever for the purpose of purification.
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A thing or one’s eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!
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The worldly life just goes round and round; there is no end to it. If you want to bring an end to it, ask the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one], ‘How long do I have to keep on wandering? I have been going round and round like the ox running the millwheel. Tell the Gnani Purush ‘please bring about a resolution for me!
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One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that ‘they are mine...they are mine’.
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One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.
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The whole world has the illusory awareness of, ‘I am the doer’. In reality, everyone’s karmas are getting discharged, but one is not aware of this. One has no awareness of his own True Self.
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Where do you see conflict in this world? Only where there is infatuation (attachment).
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To see anything other than ‘as it is’ - that is called the world.
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The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle.
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The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world.
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The world is stuck because of the word ‘no’.
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In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; ‘here’, there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization).
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One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh).
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If one’s mind becomes conflict-free, that is ‘moksha’; conflict filled mind, that is worldly life.
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No difficulty can come to you (your way). If the mind wavers, difficulty will embrace you! That is all, the law of the universe is just this.
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The mind and the chit are discharging and the world has believed them to be ‘charge’. That is why they attempt to still the mind and the chit, but that is not possible.
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When anyone can still the minds of five, ten or hundred people, then work can be accomplished. Who can still the mind? It is the one whose own mind is still, he can still the minds of others.
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The awareness that ‘money will get spent’ must never be kept; whatever gets spent at whatever time is correct. That’s why it was told to spend money, so that they can be free from greed and they can give it again and again.
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Money is ‘limited’ and people’s demands are ‘unlimited’.
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Is it not necessary to eat? Is it not necessary to go to the toilet? They are necessary. In the same way, money is also required. Just as one does not have to think about going to the toilet; it happens automatically, in the same way, money comes without you having to think about it.
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Do you have to regret spending money when you earn money? And when it is time to spend, you should be strong that you got the opportunity to pay off your debt. Income is one’s responsibility and expense is the means to clear off the responsibility.
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If money is spent in the wrong way, then ‘control’ the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then ‘decontrol’ the spending.
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People are preoccupied only with money. They are looking to see where they can get it from. Hey, why are you looking for it in a ‘cemetery’? This worldly life has become like a cemetery. There is no love to be seen in it. The way in which money comes to one is a natural thing. It is (by way of) scientific circumstantial evidences. Why do we have to run after it? If it were to free (liberate) us itself, then it would be very good, right?
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Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction.
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Where one does not do planning, it is all pure ‘discharge’. ‘Charge’ occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it.
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When can one attain samadhi (eternal blissful continuous peace)? It comes when one lets go of the things that he loves the most.
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Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?
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Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.
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What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others.
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Those who have anger, they try to take control others with the heat of anger and those who do not have anger are able to take control of others with their strength of character known as sheel. Even it can take control of animals (with it’s strength)!!!
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Absence of Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is indeed bliss.
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When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves.
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Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].
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One does not see ‘what is there’ and sees ‘what is not there’, that is called moha (illusory vision).
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Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them.
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