Don Dada Quotes

#1. When others try to provoke (instigate) you and you don't get provoked, it is known as a spiritual victory.

Dada Bhagwan

#2. When you put faith in that which you know, it is called faith (shraddha). When you put faith in what you don't know; that is called ignorance-based faith [agnan- shraddha].

Dada Bhagwan

#3. Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.

Hannah Arendt

#4. All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

Maureen Duffy

#5. God said to accept whatever circumstances that come along. Circumstance is a natural thing. In it, 'Do this and don't do that'- should not be there. Circumstances are a 'scientific circumstantial evidence' ['Vyavasthit']. You should 'settle them with equanimity'.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Whether or not we know what we are creating or how we are creating it, when things do not turn out the way we desire, our human instincts drive us to look for someone to blame.

Iyanla Vanzant

#9. Abhorrence is the cause for conflicts. God has said, 'Do no abhorrence. If you don't like it, ignore it'.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. 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

#11. 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.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. The world is not going to stop whether you become 'emotional' or whether you don't become 'emotional'. The burden on one's head comes from becoming 'emotional'. Otherwise, the world continues to run, it will never stand still.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. You may have committed a very bad fault but if you repent for it a lot; if you repent 'heartily' for it; the fault will have to go away. But people don't repent 'heartily', do they? They just say superficially that 'it was my fault'!

Dada Bhagwan

#14. 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

#15. Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving.

Dada Bhagwan

#16. Knowledge' may be there but 'correctness' is required along with it. If you have 'knowledge' but don't have the 'correctness'; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!

Dada Bhagwan

#17. 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

#18. Desires are done by the 'Pudgal' (non-self mind-body-complex), so how can they be suppressed? If You (the Self) are the one doing the desiring, then why don't you stop it? But that doesn't happen therefore, desire is a matter pertaining to the Pudgal (non-self mind-body-complex).

Dada Bhagwan

#19. It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Sophocles

#20. All those that don't allow us to do things for the Soul (our True Self), they are our opposers (kashays); we shouldn't listen to them.

Dada Bhagwan

#21. The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano.

Peter Campbell

#22. There is no such thing as relationships in this world. It is really a self-created net. Do these cows-buffalos have any relationships? They don't have a mother-in-law, no father-in-law...

Dada Bhagwan

#23. The man who runs may fight again.

Menander

#24. Our people believe in God, don't they? And they also do secretive acts, don't they? How can you keep a secret from God [the absolute supreme self within us] that knows all your actions? If you want to realize God, then you cannot do secret acts.

Dada Bhagwan

#25. Don't some people say, 'You did not value me'? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocean, 'what is my worth?' You will be swept away with one wave. The owner of many waves has swept away many a people like you! Worth is in those people who have no attachment-abhorrence.

Dada Bhagwan

#26. How many troubles (oopadhi) should you keep? Do not invite those that do not come and don't stop the ones that are leaving.

Dada Bhagwan

#27. No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is 'vyavasthit' [result of scientific circumstantial evidences]. So don't tell anyone, 'you did wrong'. Not only should you not say this, you should not even think it.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. If you take an objection in the 'relative', it is intellectual rationalism. 'We' don't have intellectual rationalism. 'We' are abuddha (do not have intellect) in the 'relative', and we are a Gnani [the enlightened one] in the 'real'.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. 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

#30. Mama, rest in pieces, used to call it Dada's hibernation because sometimes people don't wake up from a coma.

Jonathan Dunne

#31. Once one's vision changes to, 'I don't have a sofa in my house', he will purchase the sofa with a loan and pay 1.5% interest on it. One should first make a note of how much is the 'necessity'.

Dada Bhagwan

#32. 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

#33. Things come into your memory even when you don't want them to; that is because 'pratikraman dosh' is pending (mistake for which pratikraman was not done yet).

Dada Bhagwan

#34. 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