01c. 1948 ADOne 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1948 ADIt is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
03c. 1948 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
04c. 1948 ADIf one understands (realizes) his own Self, then he himself is an Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma).Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
05c. 1948 ADWhen 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1948 ADThe world is not a ‘thing’ (eternal element). It is a wrong belief (vikalp) of the Soul.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
08c. 1948 ADReal happiness and peace is attained only if one comes into one’s true Self.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
09c. 1948 ADHappiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will ‘realize’ true happiness.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
10c. 1948 ADPeace is the nature of the mind. And bliss is the nature of the Soul!Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
11c. 1948 ADThe value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
12c. 1948 ADIf you do pratikraman of a tiger, then even the tiger will do as you ask it to. There is no difference between a tiger and a human being. The difference is in your vibrations! That is why he gets affected.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
13c. 1948 ADThe talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world].Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
14c. 1948 ADWhere there is no ‘superior’, no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vitaraag Lords [the enlightened ones] that I would like to have.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
15c. 1948 ADWorldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
16c. 1948 ADAs long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
17c. 1948 ADFor seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
18c. 1948 ADWhat is the nature of the worldly life (sansar)? God lives in every living being of the world, that means if you oppress any living being or cause misery to them, then adharma (unrighteousness, irreligion) will occur. The result (effect) of adharma will be against your desires and the result of dharma (righteousness, religion) will be favorable to your desires.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
19c. 1948 ADWhen you ‘oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone, things will happen against your wishes.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
20c. 1948 ADThe world is like a mirror; it reflects (shows) everything exactly the way it is. If there is a defect, it will reflect (show) that defect.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
21c. 1948 ADIf you are lost while travelling on the road, then if you ask a guide of the road, you will find the right way. Similarly, people have become lost on their way to moksha. They will find a solution when they meet the One (Gnani, the Enlightened One) who is familiar with the way to moksha. ‘We’ are that guide to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
22c. 1948 ADThe religions of the world believe abandh (discharge part) as bandh (bondage; charging of new karma) and they have no idea about what causes bandh (bondage, charging of new karma).Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
23c. 1948 ADThe whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
24c. 1948 ADWhen 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.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗