Quotes by Spiritual Leaders - Page 23

If you are in ‘motion’ than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are ‘emotional’ than you are in an agitated state.
Dada Bhagwan
In this world, there is no such thing as good or bad. If there is flower shop on one side and a butcher’s shop on the other, why should we keep spitting? You have to leave away both the bad as well as the good.
Dada Bhagwan
Our talk is right and the other person’s talk is wrong, however if a conflict occurs, then it is wrong.
Dada Bhagwan
Those who believe the worldly life interactions (vyavahaar) to be the real/true; developed high blood pressure, heart attacks and other such ailments. And those who believe it to be false, they became fat. Those living on both the shores, became lost wanderers. Although living the worldly life, ‘we’ are non-attached (vitaraag, the enlightened one).
Dada Bhagwan
For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter.
Dada Bhagwan
When one does not like to have ‘underhand’, then automatically, he will not have a superior. That is its result.
Dada Bhagwan
The one who has become free from all mistakes, he has no superior over him; he needs no one to reprimand him. He can become whatever he desires. Our path (Akram Vignan) is a path in which a person can become such that there will be no one to reprimand him.
Dada Bhagwan
The one, who likes to have an ‘underhand’, will inevitably come across a ‘boss’!
Dada Bhagwan
If we protect the ‘underhand’ [those working under us], then the ‘boss’ will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the ‘underhand’, then the boss will constantly reprimand us.
Dada Bhagwan
No living being can ever “hitch” another living being. If one were able to “hitch” another, then we can say that the principle of this world is false! In this world, no one being is a superior over another.
Dada Bhagwan
Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become a Gnani [the enlightened one].
Dada Bhagwan
Man has obeyed commands of the Mother, the Father, the Guru; but he has not obeyed the commands of ‘God’ (Bhagwan). Had he obeyed ‘God’s’ commands, his work (for liberation) would have been accomplished. Alas! He will follow his boss’s commands and even his wife’s commands!
Dada Bhagwan
How much is your sincerity, that much will be ‘Our’ divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace.
Dada Bhagwan
If you remain ‘insincere’ to one person, then that person will hold you back from going to moksha!
Dada Bhagwan
When you make ‘adjustments’ with everyone, that indeed is the highest of all religion (dharma).
Dada Bhagwan
If you are not able to ‘adjust everywhere’, then even the moksha,that you have in your hand, will go away.
Dada Bhagwan
In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work without adjusting?
Dada Bhagwan
We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has ‘adjusted everywhere’.
Dada Bhagwan
In a constructive policy, there is ‘adjust everywhere’ and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment.
Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life remains [and is not ending and one is not going to moksha] due to the pollution of the mind [bad mind/bad thoughts] and not due to the pollution of the body.
Dada Bhagwan
We live here for five to fifty years (in this world, in the relative) and we are searching for beautiful houses there, while where we have to live permanently (moksha; in the Real, Self), there is no work being done for it; and no one is even inquiring about that (place). The world is baseless/disorderly. ‘Do something for here and do something for there’. We are not saying not to do anything for here. Do both. Don’t you have two hands?
Dada Bhagwan
Violent intent (Hinsak bhaav) is indeed worldly life (sansar). When there is no Violent intent (hinsak bhaav) within us while the worldly life is going on, then we become free from all responsibilities.
Dada Bhagwan
Wherever one has to ‘do’ anything, there is worldly life (sansaar) there.
Dada Bhagwan
Pointing out people’s mistakes, having intention to take advantage of people, keeps one bound to a worldly life (sansaar).
Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life (sansar) means a basket full of worries.
Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, ‘you can keep on burning!
Dada Bhagwan
In marriage, at home and everywhere else, one is to remain superfluous. That is where people go in deep into; that is called the worldly life (sansaar).
Dada Bhagwan
If anyone comes to me complaining about others that “this person is like this”, I will question that person first. ‘Why did you come complaining to me?’ You come complaining therefore you are the guilty one. If anyone comes complaining without being asked, then you should disregard him completely.
Dada Bhagwan
Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.
Dada Bhagwan
When you give decision that the guilty is not guilty, only then will the guilty become not guilty.
Dada Bhagwan
Everything is present in the world. However, your ‘emotional state’ does not allow it to come to you. ‘Emotional’ as in instability. While going to eat, one will worry, 'will I get food or not?' That indeed is instability. If you remain stable, then everything will come to you.
Dada Bhagwan
If you have a complaint about someone, then you become the accuser and the other becomes the accused. Never complain about anyone. He who brings a complaint is at fault, you should understand that first, then comes next, the talk about the accused.
Dada Bhagwan
When the wrong belief [of ‘I am Chandubhai’] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is the result of the illusion [of ‘I am Chandubhai’].
Dada Bhagwan
As long as you are the owner (‘I am Chandubhai and all this is mine’), the worldly life remains. When does the ownership go away? When the wrong belief goes away.
Dada Bhagwan
What is ‘common sense’? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!
Dada Bhagwan
A ‘sensitive’ person will not have common sense.
Dada Bhagwan
How does ‘common sense’ arise? Through conflicts. During conflicts, if one does not clash with anyone, even if the other person comes clashing with him, he should not clash with him. If one is able to remain this way, ‘common sense’ will arise. Otherwise, whatever ‘common sense’ there is, it too will disappear!
Dada Bhagwan
Clashes should not occur whatsoever. Due to conflicts only have the energies diminished. Regardless of what may happen to the body, do not ever enter into conflicts. The body is not going to go away just because someone says so, or if someone casts a curse on it. The body is under the control of vyavasthit [scientific circumstantial evidences].
Dada Bhagwan
Enmity [Revengeful Karma] is the main seed of conflict [clash].
Dada Bhagwan
When you do pratikraman after conflict, the conflict is erased. When you give rise to new conflicts, the energies that had arisen will disappear again.
Dada Bhagwan
If ‘pratikraman’ happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad).
Dada Bhagwan
One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive – till then power of God will remain.
Dada Bhagwan
To become God (Khuda) one does not need weapons. One needs to recognize his [True] Self (Khud). The one who knows one’s own Self (khud), is God (khuda).
Dada Bhagwan
Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the main road to go to God, the rest are the ‘by-ways’.
Dada Bhagwan
Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the basement of this world.
Dada Bhagwan
Sincerity’ and ‘morality’, if you completely (from all angles) learn these two words then everything is completed!
Dada Bhagwan
Religion tells you to be sincere to yourself and be sincere to everyone else otherwise you cannot assimilate [attain] religion.
Dada Bhagwan
Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That is the ultimate meaning of morality.
Dada Bhagwan
The man who is not ‘sincere’ to others is not ‘sincere’ to his own self!
Dada Bhagwan
If you are only ‘moral’ or only ‘sincere’, even then you will go to moksha!
Dada Bhagwan
First live to be ‘sincere’ then ‘morality’ will follow.
Dada Bhagwan
Things that you have remained ‘sincere’ to, those many things you have won. The world has to be won; only then will it let you go to moksha!
Dada Bhagwan
Where you don’t see pure love, there is indeed no path to moksha [ultimate liberation] there. Where there is a fee, there is no pure love there!
Dada Bhagwan
When there is not a trace of worldly love that is called ‘absolute ultimate love’ [paramarth prem]!
Dada Bhagwan
There is no problem if the other person pushes us but we have to make sure that we do not push the other person. Only then will we obtain the love of the other person!
Dada Bhagwan
One can become ‘Embodiment of Love’ [Prem Swaroop], only when there is no my-ness [mamata].
Dada Bhagwan
The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become confused. Woman has some work from men and men has some work from women. All this has arisen because of work (expectations). If work does not get completed, all within will complain and form an attack. Not for even a second has anyone become one’s own. Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] will become yours. That is why the Lord has said, ‘Every living being is an orphan’.
Dada Bhagwan
Compassion is an ordinary intent that is felt for everywhere in this world and it is the intent that, ‘the whole world is trapped in worldly miseries; how can their miseries be alleviated?
Dada Bhagwan
The fruit of worldly love is indeed revenge (vengeance).
Dada Bhagwan
As long as parmanus (subatomic particles) match, there is oneness, and then it turns into revenge (vengeance). Wherever there is infatuation, there will indeed be revenge there.
Dada Bhagwan