Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 128

Moksha (ultimate liberation) means that you just have to change your vision.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
Absence of conflict creating intents is itself Moksh (Ultimate Liberation).
Dada Bhagwan
Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a ‘weakness’.
Dada Bhagwan
Gnani (The Enlightened one) means without Ego.
Dada Bhagwan
While following religion, where ‘any thing’ is required, they are all called ‘relative’ paths.
Dada Bhagwan
Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion.
Dada Bhagwan
Gnani Purush’ (The Enlightened one) is pure, so one becomes pure by just seeing him.
Dada Bhagwan
As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.
Dada Bhagwan
When you walk around with a long face in the house, that is called conflict.
Dada Bhagwan
If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only.
Dada Bhagwan
One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family).
Dada Bhagwan
Absence of worldly misery - that is called eternal bliss.
Dada Bhagwan
Don't seek, let go & what you are searching for will find you.
Shilpa Menon
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.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
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?
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
We’ win over ‘negative’ with ‘positive’.
Dada Bhagwan
Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.
Dada Bhagwan
Fewer the necessities, better your life will be.
Dada Bhagwan
Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side.
Dada Bhagwan
That what keeps us supported is dharma (religion).
Dada Bhagwan
When does complete awareness occur? When the ego departs.
Dada Bhagwan
Worrying is the greatest egoism!
Dada Bhagwan
Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.
Dada Bhagwan
Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it.
Dada Bhagwan
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)!
Dada Bhagwan
Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.
Dada Bhagwan
Where there is even the subtlest desire, the ‘Eternal Thing’ cannot be attained.
Dada Bhagwan
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).
Dada Bhagwan
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).
Dada Bhagwan
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).
Dada Bhagwan
One who speaks ‘completely’ negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and ‘positive’ does not create any obstruction (antray).
Dada Bhagwan
Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.
Dada Bhagwan
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’.
Dada Bhagwan
Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances get over.
Dada Bhagwan
It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
Where the ‘charging’ (of karma) stops, there lies the symptoms (signs) of attaining moksha.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
To say that, “I will not agree (will not accept)” is great egoism!
Dada Bhagwan
To have a desire means to have dependency.
Dada Bhagwan
The true instrument is that, with the help of which, the egoism and my-ness goes away.
Dada Bhagwan
Scriptures are as ‘helping problem’. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine?
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
Ego will always conduct itself to make sure that it does not appear bad.
Dada Bhagwan
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!
Dada Bhagwan
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).
Dada Bhagwan
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).
Dada Bhagwan
What is it that doesn’t allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan
Once the entrancement (Infatuation; Deluded state), in material objects, is gone; the loss in spirituality stops!
Dada Bhagwan
If one has egoism without my-ness, he will go to moksha; all this entrapment is there because of egoism with my-ness!
Dada Bhagwan
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.
Dada Bhagwan