Quotes About The Atma

#1. The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#2. I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.

Anonymous

#3. Happiness that comes and never leaves; it is called the bliss of the Soul.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. Unless there is a 'clear evident experience of the True Self' [spasthvedan], till then 'Principle' cannot be attained.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. Shuddha upayog (applied awareness of the Self, The Soul) means to be able to see the Soul and the Body of the other person as separate. The constant contemplation of 'I am pure Soul (Shuddhatma)' is shukladhyan (pure contemplation as the Self).

Dada Bhagwan

#6. One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the 'Knowledge' [of the Soul, one's True Self] is to be enjoyed.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. He who can see his own mistake can become absolute supreme Self (Parmatma)!

Dada Bhagwan

#8. Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan).

Dada Bhagwan

#9. If you experience bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst complete problematic stage, then know that you have met a "Gnani Purush" [the enlightened one]!

Dada Bhagwan

#10. It is wrong to be dependent on the body-complex [pudgal]. One should depend only on the Soul.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. To be unattached in every phase of one's life is indeed full enlightened bliss of the Self (Purna samadhi)!

Dada Bhagwan

#12. When is bliss of the self (Samadhi) experienced? It is when one does not want anything, when all the tubers of one's greed goes away, then the bliss of the self (Samadhi) is experienced. Give away, how much you give (your things to others), that much (happiness) will be yours !

Dada Bhagwan

#13. Other's power, other's enjoyments, other's space, people have become the owners of that which does not belong to one's self. If they become the owners of 'Self', death is no more; One is himself, the Absolute Supreme Soul.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. Man is indeed the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma); it is possible for infinite divinity to arise within. The moment he has a desire, he becomes a human! Otherwise, he can acquire whatever he wants, but he is unable to do so because of impediments (antray).

Dada Bhagwan

#15. When the outside intent (other than the intent of Pure Soul, Parbhaav) stops, he attains enlightened bliss of the Self (samadhi).

Dada Bhagwan

#16. There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma).

Dada Bhagwan

#17. The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones).

Dada Bhagwan

#18. My-ness (mamta) is indeed parigrah [attachment to material objects]; material object is not a parigrah. Gnani doesn't have My-ness (mamata), He has the eternal element (experience of Pure Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#19. If Brahman an infinite ocean, then Atma a wave within be,
Ocean not different from its waves, the waves as ocean be;
They are but one and the same very similar in actuality,
So Brahman and Atma are one and the same in reality.
960

Munindra Misra

#20. How far is the Soul from attaining moksha (ultimate liberation)? Only the obstructive (antray) karmas.

Dada Bhagwan

#21. Awareness (of the Self) prevails in matters where one becomes attachment-free (vitrag), and where one has attachment-abhorrence, there his awareness will not prevail.

Dada Bhagwan

#22. We knot our imagination to fear to creat aham. Tapasya and yagna are two tools that can help us unknot the mind, outgrow fear and discover atma, our true self.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#23. Samkit' (right belief) means knowing the Soul (self).

Dada Bhagwan

#24. Gnan (knowledge of the Self) can never become agnan (knowledge other than the self, of relative world). It is called agnan only when the focused applied awareness of the Self changes.

Dada Bhagwan

#25. 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!

Dada Bhagwan

#26. In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods; the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is not there. 'Gnani' has the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul]. Knowledge about the goal, which is the Soul, is obtained as a result of the 'Gnani's' grace.

Dada Bhagwan

#27. Worldly life is not an impediment; your obstinacies and your ignorance of the self are only the impediments.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul!

Dada Bhagwan

#29. To 'us', nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one's own 'boundary' (to not remain as the Self).

Dada Bhagwan

#30. We' are the self (chetan, Soul) and obstruction (antray) are non-self (achetan, non-Soul); therefore, the Self (chetan, Soul) shall win in the end!

Dada Bhagwan

#31. Pure Soul and circumstances; there are only these two; but the disturbance of egoism does not allow it to be at peace.

Dada Bhagwan

#32. If one can exactly see the world 'as it is'; if one can exactly see the 'relative' and the 'real', it is shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#33. The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'!

Dada Bhagwan

#34. Only when there is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others) in the body, then there is shukladhyan in the Self (contemplation as the Self, the Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#35. The one with 'egoism' and 'my-ness' (mamata); the one with the awareness that 'I am the doer'- are all called 'Jiva' [living beings] and he who has attained the realization that 'I am not the doer, I am the Knower-Seer and I am the form of the eternal-bliss', then he is the 'Soul'!

Dada Bhagwan

#36. When is one considered to be in the awareness of 'one's own Self'? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens).

Dada Bhagwan

#37. Infinite knowledge, infinite vision, infinite energy of the Soul is in the same state even today. The Soul has never been a sinner. The Soul is absolutely pure.

Dada Bhagwan

#38. Tremendous my-ness' [mamta] is bound in the presence of Soul [Atma], and it is also in the presence of Soul that this my-ness is tremendously dissipated.

Dada Bhagwan

#39. Focused awareness of the Self in one direction (upayog) is considered enlightened awareness (jagruti).

Dada Bhagwan

#40. Soul (Atma) remains very far from where kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are created, the Soul is quite far from there. Where there is absence of kashays, there lies the 'religion of Vitrags (the enlightened ones)', and where kashays are present, lies the 'relative religion'!

Dada Bhagwan

#41. Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away.

Dada Bhagwan

#42. The one whose egoism is gone, he becomes God. One is a mortal (jivatma) as long as there is egoism and if his egoism goes away, he becomes the eternal Absolute Supreme Soul (Paramatma).

Dada Bhagwan

#43. The 'knowledge' (gnan) that was resulting into 'the things to be known' (gneya); when that 'knowledge' results in the 'Knower' (gnata); this is known as Self-Realization [Atma Gnan].

Dada Bhagwan

#44. Soul (Atma), Absolute Knowledge (Gnan) and the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma) are one and the same element.

Dada Bhagwan

#45. As long as one finds faults with the world, he won't be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself!

Dada Bhagwan

#46. Satguru knows that there is no death to the disciple. Atma never dies. Even after death he continues to get direction on the path

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#47. One has to decide to know the nature of the Soul. Will one not have to know that? Nothing is attained by just saying, 'I am the Soul, I am the Soul.' The Soul has to come in to one's experience, until then the worldly problems will not go away, will they?

Dada Bhagwan

#48. Natural Self is the Soul and illusion is the relative self [prakruti].

Dada Bhagwan

#49. The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the 'enlightened one' (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it's natural attributes.

Dada Bhagwan

#50. 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

#51. Scripture is one of many instruments to attain the Goal (experience of pure Soul). How can it be discarded?

Dada Bhagwan

#52. Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away.

Dada Bhagwan

#53. 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.

Dada Bhagwan

#54. Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!

Dada Bhagwan

#55. When one decides that I want to get rid of the mistakes which are in me, he can become the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma).

Dada Bhagwan

#56. When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed.

Dada Bhagwan

#57. 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).

Dada Bhagwan

#58. I am Chandubhai' is good or bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upyoga). 'I am Pure Soul', is the focused pure applied awareness of the Self (shuddha upayog). With good-bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upayog) instillation in the worldly life occured.

Dada Bhagwan

#59. Keeping 'pure focused applied awareness of the Self (Soul)' (shuddha upayog) is the same as being in the Absolute Supreme Self-form (Parmatma swaroop).

Dada Bhagwan

#60. If 'one' really were the sufferer or the enjoyer, then he would get tired. But the Self in reality is not experiencing anything. He simply does egoism only.

Dada Bhagwan

#61. As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self.

Dada Bhagwan

#62. What I am saying is, 'Know the science'. Know what is Soul (The True Self) and Non-Soul (Everything other than the Soul). Upon knowing this, all desires will vanish.

Dada Bhagwan

#63. Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

#64. True peaceful state is that when one has inner peace amidst total lack of peace on the outside. Bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst external turmoil is 'tested' samadhi.

Dada Bhagwan

#65. To constantly see one's own self as 'Pure', and to see other's self as 'pure', is focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayog).

Dada Bhagwan

#66. There are so many things in this world. If we put it in short (succinctly), then what will remain? The 'pure Soul' and 'circumstances'. Moreover, to disperse is the nature of circumstances. Therefore, the Pure Soul will not have to tell them to go away.

Dada Bhagwan

#67. Once a person starts seeing his own mistakes, he starts to become Parmatma, (absolute supreme Self)!

Dada Bhagwan

#68. That which cannot be seen by the eyes, nor heard by the ears, is the Self (chetan, Soul). That which can be heard by the ears, 'Television' is seen, a 'record' is heard, that is not self (chetan, Soul) . The Self (chetan, Soul) can only be seen with the divine vision (divya chakshu).

Dada Bhagwan

#69. Nothing in this world can touch or affect the one who remains in the focused pure applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayogi).

Dada Bhagwan

#70. 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).

Dada Bhagwan

#71. I did this so well'- one says this and tastes the sweetness of subtle pride of doership. One enjoys the sweetness of this subtle pride. There is pain [suffering] with projection of doer-ship. God is eternal bliss and that indeed is the nature of the Self!

Dada Bhagwan

#72. To eat, drink, arise, awake etc. are all religion (dharma) of the body. One has not come into one's own Self Religion (atma dharma) even for a second. Had he done so, he would never ever leave God.

Dada Bhagwan

#73. What is the body complex (pudgal)? It is influx and outflow (puran-galan); it is credit and debit. And if you attain knowledge of the Soul, the Self, then you will attain Moksha (liberation).

Dada Bhagwan

#74. 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

#75. Where there is not the slightest of misery; that is where the Soul is.

Dada Bhagwan

#76. How much straight forward you are; that much bliss of the Self (Samadhi) will prevail within you.

Dada Bhagwan

#77. Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves.

Dada Bhagwan

#78. The energy of the Soul (Atma) is such that it will give you all the solution for how to behave every time in any situation. And what is more, you will not forget it, after the Self [Soul] has been realized.

Dada Bhagwan

#79. The 'Gnani' is in the form of an instrument to attain the goal (Experience of Pure Soul). The goal is the scientific form of Soul (vignan swarup atma).

Dada Bhagwan

#80. All our thought process should be concentrated on merger of soul with the vital life. When this realisation is achieved, it leads the soul from Atma to Paramatma, one in poccession of all.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal