Top 100 Dada Bhagwan Quotes

#1. The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you," says God.

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#2. Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).

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#3. One who does not join in with the unfolding karmic effects (karma oodai) is a Gnani (Self-realized), and an agnani (non-Self-realized) cannot indeed refrain from joining in with the unfolding karmic effects.

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#4. The mind doesn't harass you; your attachment-abhorrence harasses you!

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#5. It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult.

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#6. What fear do you have? You, yourself are the absolute Self! If absolute-Self becomes fearful, then the whole universe will have fear! 'We' are on the other side of the prakruti [relative self's world].

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#7. 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!

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#8. If you are only 'moral' or only 'sincere', even then you will go to moksha!

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#9. One who lives with one's own (Soul's) support is the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma). One who lives with the body complex (relative self's) support is the embodied (mortal) self (Jeevatma).

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#10. As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements.

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#11. Circumstances will change but (True) Knowledge [Gnan] will not change.

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#12. When you 'oblige' someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone, things will happen against your wishes.

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#13. The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one's kashays are gone, then he becomes the 'owner' of the whole universe.

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#14. Principle' [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle.

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#15. Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise.

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#16. Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it.

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#17. The Soul has never become impure not even for a second and if it had become impure then no one in this world would have been able to purify it.

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#18. Where do you see conflict in this world? Only where there is infatuation (attachment).

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#19. The one who has developed a habit of taking a lot of respect from others [relish pride], will get cheated.

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#20. Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive.

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#21. Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage.

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#22. Who is considered as reputable in God's language? The one who can do 'world's salvation' just through his eyes!

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#23. As illusory attachment (moha) spread, one sunk deeper and deeper into the pit.

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#24. If God were the doer, when will there be an end?! (If) God is the creator and he made us, we become his toys, so that is the end? When will we become liberated? No one is your superior and no one is your 'underhand' (subservient to you).

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#25. The paramanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech and body are effective. That is why things appear as good or bad. It shows good as being bad and bad as being good. And because of that, opinions are formed. The parmanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech-body themselves express opinions.

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#26. Each pain indeed comes with its time limit.

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#27. Where there is conflict, there is no God.

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#28. In reality, the outer instruments (hands, feet, eyes, etc) are not the hindrance (for liberation); it is the inner instrument (mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is obstructive.

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#29. In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

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#30. Instead of living together (in a joint family) with a difference of opinions, it is better to live separately and live with unity.

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#31. 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.

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#32. One who experiences prasantta [blissful happiness] within, he will have prasantta [blissful happiness] externally. The mind is a mirror (reflection) for the external.

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#33. Mind is indeed that which takes one to Moksha, and it is also the mind that makes one wander around in the worldly life. One needs to just turn it in the right direction. It had been turned in the wrong direction, and so it needs to be turned in the right direction.

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#34. Undecided thoughts' is called the mind. 'Decided thoughts' is called the intellect.

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#35. 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'].

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#36. There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

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#37. The inner intent one has of 'may everyone attain salvation', will bring salvation to himself first.

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#38. If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.

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#39. 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.

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#40. The worldly life [the relative] means 'superfluous'. Instead of superfluous, people believe it to be real (of nischaya) and then they even say, 'this is indeed the way it should be, that is indeed the way it should be done.

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#41. Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present 'at a time' exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul).

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#42. 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?

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#43. Where there is love, there are no faults. Where the love of give-and-take (dealer) arose, all faults will be seen there.

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#44. 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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#45. Sincerity' and 'morality' is the main road to go to God, the rest are the 'by-ways'.

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#46. Nothing will be attained from actions of hundreds of thousands of lives. Moksha (liberation) is attained through 'absolute humility' (param vinaya). The 'gates of understanding' are opened with 'absolute humility'. 'Absolute humility' arises only when the ego is dissolved.

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#47. When one does not like to have 'underhand', then automatically, he will not have a superior. That is its result.

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#48. As long as one is the doer of the actions, there is agnan [all other knowledge other than one's own true self, wordly knowledge]. Agnan is the cause for the worldly life.

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#49. How many types of 'my-ness' (mamata) are there?! There is my-ness in each & every hair. If a single hair is pulled out, he will become upset that my hair was pulled.

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#50. People take worship (bhakti) into the relative plane. They consider singing religious songs as worship. Worship [bhakti] can never be without knowledge (gnan). Worship will make one become the one who he worships.

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#51. If we break someone's ego, then we can't be happy. Egoism is his life!

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#52. Vitarag's [the enlightened one's] 'water' (knowledge) will remove any kind of (karmic) 'stains'.

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#53. 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.

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#54. 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.

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#55. When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done.

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#56. Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).

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#57. People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?

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#58. Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.

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#59. If you want moksha (ultimate liberation), then you simply need to understand what the Vitraag Lords (The Enlightened Ones) say. Just understand what the Vitraag Lords are saying, that is what they are saying, nothing else they want to say.

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#60. There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with 'toys' (interaction with people).

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#61. To believe 'I' where 'I' is not, is known as tirobhav (concealed or hidden belief). To believe 'I'-ness where 'I' is, it is known as Aavirbhav (visible or manifest belief).

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#62. Causes for attachment are created at the very time abhorrence occurs. Familiarity (acquaintance) up to a certain point will result in attachment and if it reaches 'ridge point' & goes past further, it will result in abhorrence.

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#63. 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'.

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#64. You cannot indeed say anything to anyone in this world. Whatever we 'say', it is 'egoism'. The whole world is in order [in control].

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#65. To know 'as it is' is Real Knowledge (Gnan).

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#66. When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort (purushartha) can be made. But instead, people push it aside.

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#67. There is no problem if there is 'egoism'. But, it should be 'normal'. 'Normal' egoism means that it does not hurt anyone.

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#68. To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in 'Us' whatsoever!

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#69. The by-product that is created while following the religion of the Self [Soul] is the worldly life. It is gained free of cost.

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#70. When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression 'I am somewhat different from this [the body?]' And when dehadhyas, the belief of 'I am the body, the relative self', goes away; that is when spirituality is complete.

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#71. To believe the non-Self's intent as the Self's intent is indeed an illusion. To believe that 'I am the doer'; where the doer is someone else is indeed an illusion.

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#72. The thoughts that arise because of 'depression' or 'elevation' are all wrong thoughts. The thoughts that arise in 'normality' are 'correct'.

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#73. Any good thing will be ruined by talking negatively about it; similarly bad thing will improve by speaking positive about it.

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#74. Insistence on one's own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation.

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#75. 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'.

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#76. Worrying is the greatest egoism!

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#77. Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.

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#78. Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life; the cause of it is moha (illusory vision).

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#79. When there is no attachment-abhorrence; one is on the path of liberation [moksha].

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#80. The one whose 'alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)' are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization).

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#81. 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.

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#82. Without the 'applied awareness' of the Soul, 'happiness' cannot arise.

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#83. Charge' means coming together of all the circumstances and 'discharge' means the circumstances get over.

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#84. Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.

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#85. As many opinions you bound about a person, if you let go of them, you will attain a natural state. For whomever and for whatever matter, you have bound opinions, those opinions will continue to sting you and when you let go of those opinions, you can become natural.

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#86. What has God called a religion? Renunciation is not religion. To be free of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is religion; or to have feeble (tamed) kashays is religion. That's all. Only these two are religion.

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#87. Many preach that do this way, do that way, have faith, speak the truth, have patience. These are all results (effects). How can results be changed?

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#88. From the moment you realize, 'I am the most worthless person in this world'; you become valuable.

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#89. Unity does not exist in the world. Only when the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants moksha [liberation], does unity arise. Unity cannot prevail without Gnan [knowledge of the self].

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#90. If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.

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#91. Eternal joy arises by living in the 'permanent room'. Living in the 'temporary room' gives temporary joy.

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#92. Only the 'Right belief' gives rise to non-contradicting principle and that which is free from contradiction is known as 'Principle'.

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#93. All your future needs are ready for you, because within [us] resides the Supreme Lord. Provided there is no interference from [our] mind-speech-body!

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#94. People will not refrain from criticizing. But one should not keep on criticizing. The world is such that it will run smoothly without any criticism. This world is not worth interfering in. It is just worth 'Knowing'.

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#95. People live for two reasons. There are those who live for the Soul; such people are very rare. All others live for money. All day is spent for money, money, money!

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#96. The one whose ego of doer-ship in the unfolding karma effect (oodai no garva) is gone; he is said to have attained the Self.

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#97. All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.

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#98. The one who does not have the control for even a minute, he does not have the control forever.

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#99. What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!

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#100. If the inner [intent] is not spoilt, it means "Our Own Self" did not spoilt. That which has become spoilt on the outside will burn in the funeral pyre; whether it improves or not.

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