Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 249

That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.
Dada Bhagwan
Why should I care?’ – The one who says this is the greatest offender of nature.
Dada Bhagwan
The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don’t straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?
Dada Bhagwan
There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment).
Dada Bhagwan
Energies are to be expressed precisely with the person you don’t get along with. The energies are already there in dealing with the person you do get along with. ‘Not being able to get along’ is a weakness.
Dada Bhagwan
The person who tolerates ‘exactly’ (with understanding) hands over his ‘case’ to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him.
Dada Bhagwan
Tolerance is an attribute of egoism.
Dada Bhagwan
The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours’, isn’t it?
Dada Bhagwan
One cannot see one’s own mistakes in matters where his interest lies.
Dada Bhagwan
If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.
Dada Bhagwan
If there is true ‘Selfishness,’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).
Dada Bhagwan
Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own.
Dada Bhagwan
When monetary dealing in religion stops, the religion will manifest its splendor!
Dada Bhagwan
What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other ‘flaws’.
Dada Bhagwan
All that is ‘free of cost’ is compulsory (farajeeyat).
Dada Bhagwan
Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.
Gautama Buddha
Illusion (maya) makes one take birth, illusion makes one get married and illusion also makes one die. But here the condition is that it is not the reign of illusion. It is your own reign. It cannot happen unless you wish for it. Illusion gives the result (effect) of what you had consented to in your past life.
Dada Bhagwan
True happiness is devoid of any illusion.
Dada Bhagwan
For the one who ‘enjoys’ (worldly) happiness, there will come a time for him to endure sorrow.
Dada Bhagwan
There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with ‘toys’ (interaction with people).
Dada Bhagwan
The one, whose worldly entanglements have gone, is called the ‘Absolute Person’ (Sampoorna Purush).
Dada Bhagwan
The world is entrapped through uneasiness, not through diseases (illnesses). Diseases (illnesses) are caused by uneasiness. Do the trees get any diseases (illnesses)? Do the crows become paralyzed or have high blood pressure?
Dada Bhagwan
Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins.
Dada Bhagwan
Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual
Ramana Maharshi
The door is always open for you. You just need to open your mind and walk into the heaven of love.
Amit Ray
Spiritual learners too slowly graduate like students of normal education. If you are mentally elevated, you can grasp and appreciate complex teachings.
Girdhar Joshi
I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator.
Rajasaraswathii
To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential.
Osho
What is the own self of God? Where is the existence of God? He is within a human body. If any man achieves the Godhood, then his form will be manifested within others and transform them into his own form in the spiritual world. And that transformation does not occur after death
Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
God has said not to create any accounts (karmic). Create accounts (only) if you have the knowledge of the future. Hey! If you want to start an account, then why don’t you account for the possibility that you may die tomorrow?
Dada Bhagwan
In reality, those who cheat are indeed the ones who get cheated. Those who are cheated will gain experience and develop (spiritually) in the process. Only money earned dishonestly will be taken away (by nature) from one; rightfully earned money will be put to good use!
Dada Bhagwan
The one who knowingly gets cheated is entitled to liberation!
Dada Bhagwan
There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle.
Dada Bhagwan
No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery.
Dada Bhagwan
You have a habit of having an ‘underhand’, and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world.
Dada Bhagwan
One will have to know the Self. Unless Self is known, God [Allah] cannot be attained. The power of Self should be attained. The power of Self is an abode of infinite bliss. There is no unhappiness there at all. This happiness is there even if someone insults you!
Dada Bhagwan
Bhagwan’ (God, Self) and ‘Paramatma’ (Supreme or absolute Self); these two words are spoken. Muslims speak the two words-‘Khuda’ (God, Self) and ‘Allah’ (Supreme spirit, Absolute Self). Allah is used for Paramatma and Khuda is used for Bhagwan.
Dada Bhagwan
What is the one going to Moksha (attaining Liberation) like? He is someone who enjoys only the bliss of the ‘Self’.
Dada Bhagwan
Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise.
Dada Bhagwan
When they say that, ‘God takes avatar (reincarnates)’ is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels ‘I did it’!
Dada Bhagwan
Religion is that which becomes the religion and gives results. When can we say it is this way? It is when it helps when someone insults you. It will not let you be affected by it.
Dada Bhagwan
Is it wrong worldly interaction (avyavahar) when someone insults you? It is (correct) worldly interaction (vyavahar). Gnani (Self-realized person) will be pleased that he has become free from karma bondage, when someone insults Him; while a non Self-realized person will fight back.
Dada Bhagwan
Not doing attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) while experiencing the unfolding of karma is religion.
Dada Bhagwan
Everyone’s unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis’ (Self-realized person’s) duty.
Dada Bhagwan
Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?
Dada Bhagwan
There is infinite energy within you. Whatever you think within, that very same thing will happen on the outside! However, here one chases his thoughts and works hard for things and yet nothing happens on the outside, people have incurred so much loss! Kaliyug (the time-cycle with lack of unison of mind, speech and body) is upon us!
Dada Bhagwan
What do the Vitraag Lords say? “I am Chandulal” is a Gneya (that which is to be known) yet one believes himself to be the knower. When the knower comes into the ‘Knowing state (gnata padh) and that which is to be known, comes into the ‘state of being known (gneya padh)’, ‘we’ will call him ‘Jitendriya-Jin’.
Dada Bhagwan
The path people know, is not the path of liberation. It is the path of the worldly life. The path of liberation is not one of imagination. It is a pure path. Where there are no worries, no externally created problems. There is bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst all external problems.
Dada Bhagwan
The Lord states, ‘What can one do to go to moksha? He can go if he attains the right belief of the Self; or if he attains the grace of the Gnani Purush’.
Dada Bhagwan
When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion.
Dada Bhagwan
If a man keeps on talking negatively and we scold him, what is that tantamount to? It is like kicking the door of a latrine because it smells bad; will kicking it make it smell good?
Dada Bhagwan
To care for others is called humanity.
Dada Bhagwan
If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is ‘relative’. And “All these relatives are temporary adjustments”.
Dada Bhagwan
The Gnani Purush [The enlightened one] always remains untouched in his worldly interactions. Everything will get resolved for us if we go to Him. He shows us what is ‘correct’ and what is ‘incorrect’.
Dada Bhagwan
When everyone in the family is united, when they resolve their issues with each other and unite; it is called vitarag bhav, attachment-free intent. And to disunite is to have raag-dwesh, attachment-abhorrence remain.
Dada Bhagwan
To say ‘I’ where I’ is not - is the greatest illusory attachment (raag).
Dada Bhagwan
If attachment becomes fixed on a 'Gnani' [The enlightened one], then it becomes Real attachment (prashastaraag). It will get one’s work done. It will uproot attachment in all other places. Because the Gnani is Vitarag, attachment-free. Attachment for a Vitarag gives liberation from all the suffering.
Dada Bhagwan
The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.
Dada Bhagwan
All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.
Dada Bhagwan
As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then.
Dada Bhagwan