Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 255

When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.
Dada Bhagwan
You will especially not find anyone who speaks bitterly to you. All the 'diseases' [worldly suffering] remains due to the sweetness. Bitterness will remove the disease, sweetness will increase it. Your life should be such that you will not have to listen to bitter words. If however, you have to listen to bitter words, then you should listen to it. It is always beneficial.
Dada Bhagwan
Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence upon it, others will accept it in their hearts. And if it is the truth and you nag or insist upon it, it will not touch others.
Dada Bhagwan
The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.
Dada Bhagwan
Caution others, only if your cautioning does not hurt them. If it does, then do not caution them.
Dada Bhagwan
No one asks about the truth and non-truth. Should one not think ‘why don’t others accept it even when I am right?’ It is because there is insistence and nagging behind that truth.
Dada Bhagwan
The Lord says that abhorrence is beneficial. Love-attachment [Prem-raag] will never leave. The entire world is trapped in the suffering due to love-attachment (prem-parishaha). Just say your greetings from afar and become free.
Dada Bhagwan
No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!
Dada Bhagwan
Because of anger-pride-deceit-greed, selfishness [self-interest] remains and consequently one has no awareness of who dies or who takes birth. It is simply a wrong belief that has arisen. But after a long time, as one progresses, if he meets a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one], he will acquire the awareness that birth and death is simply a phase.
Dada Bhagwan
What is the nature of human beings? When someone does something wrong to them, they will go after him [to punish, to fight].
Dada Bhagwan
One's ‘life’ is ‘fractured’; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate liberation (moksha) if he wants moksha.
Dada Bhagwan
Man (human life form) is a 'second-hand' quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self].
Dada Bhagwan
If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer.
Dada Bhagwan
Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all.
Dada Bhagwan
One becomes Parmatma (absolute supreme self) if he comes into the True Self even for a fraction of time.
Dada Bhagwan
Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know what benefit a person will bring.
Dada Bhagwan
The bigger the ‘flat’ [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the ‘flat’ is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?
Dada Bhagwan
The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill.
Dada Bhagwan
The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.
Dada Bhagwan
Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness.
Dada Bhagwan
Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature?
Dada Bhagwan
You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we ‘say’, it is ‘egoism’. The whole world is in order [in control].
Dada Bhagwan
Boredom is itself worry.
Dada Bhagwan
When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.
Dada Bhagwan
The greatest policy is where there are no policies!
Dada Bhagwan
Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married.
Dada Bhagwan
Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts.
Dada Bhagwan
Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.
Dada Bhagwan
If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within.
Dada Bhagwan
Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.
Dada Bhagwan
If you want to attain moksha (ultimate liberation), then you cannot give unsolicited advice. Give advice only when it is asked for. In order to give advice, you have to become the chief!
Dada Bhagwan
Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?
Dada Bhagwan
Advice should only be given when it is sought, otherwise our own worthiness gets assessed.
Dada Bhagwan
Accept only as much ‘cleanliness’ that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain ‘cleanliness’ such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage.
Dada Bhagwan
Eternal joy arises by living in the 'permanent room'. Living in the 'temporary room' gives temporary joy.
Dada Bhagwan
This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one’s causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.
Dada Bhagwan
Don’t speak of action [effect]. Don’t serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause.
Dada Bhagwan
The path of the vitarags [the enlightened ones] is not one of ‘objection’. It is a path of giving ‘no objection’. They remain indifferent if circumstances for objection arises.
Dada Bhagwan
When you maintain silence, you would have said to have understood the world.
Dada Bhagwan
In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.
Dada Bhagwan
However much silence you behold, that amount of intellect will stop.
Dada Bhagwan
There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right.
Dada Bhagwan
All the words thrown on to others will eventually fall on you, so speak such pure words so that pure words will indeed fall on you.
Dada Bhagwan
In this world, no word is being uselessly spoken.
Dada Bhagwan
Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.
Dada Bhagwan
What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone.
Dada Bhagwan
How is power of speech (vacchanbud) attained? It is when, not a single word is uttered to make fun of others; when not a single word is uttered for wrong selfish motives, material self-gain; when speech has not been misused; when speech has not been used to gain recognition or importance from others - that is when one's power of speech is attained.
Dada Bhagwan
How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own ‘safeside’?
Dada Bhagwan
What do the vitarags [the enlightened one] say? This world will keep on running, You do not interfere with anything in it. If you want to attain ultimate liberation (moksha) then you will have maintain a state of vitaragta (state free of attachment).
Dada Bhagwan
If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.
Dada Bhagwan
To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities].
Dada Bhagwan
Merit karma is a credit amount and demerit karma is a debit amount [owe the amount to repay]. One is free to spend his accumulated amount wherever he wants.
Dada Bhagwan
If the fruit (of your effort) is to your expectations, it is the effect (prarabdha, result) of your merit karma [punya karma], if it is not to your expectation, then it is the effect of your demerit karma [paap karma].
Dada Bhagwan
In the act of selfishness, you bind demerit karma and in the act of sacrificing your own self-interest for the sake of others [selflessness], you bind merit karma. Nevertheless, they are both karma, aren’t they? The fruit of merit karma is shackles of gold and fruit of demerit karma is shackles of iron but they are both indeed shackles, aren’t they?
Dada Bhagwan
Speech’ is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats).
Dada Bhagwan
Every spoken word carries great risk. Therefore, it is better to remain silent if one does not know how to talk. Talking about religion carries religious risks, talking about worldly matters, carries worldly risks. The worldly risk will go away, but religious risk is very heavy; it creates grave obstacles in regards to religion.
Dada Bhagwan
(Spoken) words are considered an ‘expense’. ‘Speech’ should not be spent away. Speech is wealth. It should be 'counted' upon spending. Does anyone ever give out money without counting it?
Dada Bhagwan
Don’t calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don’t stop to do calculation, just keep on moving.
Dada Bhagwan
It is possible for one to receive all the glory of the world provided there is absolutely no ill intent, within him.
Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life means a puzzle of ‘wrong beliefs’.
Dada Bhagwan