01c. 1948 ADWorries and sufferings are helpful for (one’s) spiritual development.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
02c. 1948 ADIf one wants to go to Mumbai from Baroda, he will ‘like’ all the signs towards the south. And if he wants to go to Delhi, he will like all the signs towards the north. One can tell what path he is on from what he ‘likes’. There are many paths, not just one. As many minds as there are, there are that many ways and they are all intellect-based opinions. Where one is guided by the intellectual opinions, there is nothing but aimless wandering there. Only the opinions of the Vitaraag Lords (the enlightened ones) is a “safe side”!Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
03c. 1948 ADThe Celestial (Heavenly Gods) become pleased with the one who isn’t hungry for fame and recognition. The whole world can be pleased with us, but because of our hunger they are not pleased with us.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
04c. 1948 ADTo whom does Mataji (Mother Goddess) appear? It is to the one who becomes natural and spontaneous [sahaj swabhavi]. Mataji is said to have come if the mind, speech and the body become naturally blissful. It can be said that the natural spontaneous energies (adhya shakti) have arisen.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
05c. 1948 ADTo whom should you surrender? The one who takes the responsibility for you right till the ‘end’ (moksha, the ultimate liberation). Surrender to the one who is tatharoop [attained the highest spiritual state]. Surrender to the one whom you consider a ‘Virat Purush’ [magnificent human being], otherwise there is no point of surrendering.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
06c. 1948 ADHere’, I am a disciple just as you are. The one you see is not ‘Dada Bhagwan’; it is ‘A. M. Patel’, a Patidaar from the town of Bhadran. The one sitting within is ‘Dada Bhagwan’. ‘I’ myself make everyone do jai jai kar of Dada Bhagwan [sing praise of Dada Bhagwan]. Therefore, ‘I’ too am a devotee, as are you.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
07c. 1948 ADWhat is the justice of this world like? It is that the world will call him as God (Bhagwan), the one who has no thoughts about money (wealth), no thoughts of sensual pleasures and one who remains separate from his body at all times.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
08c. 1948 ADYou yourself are indeed Bhagwan [God], but the qualities of God have not yet manifested.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
09c. 1948 ADOne who turns his face towards Bhagwan [God], turns towards him; he will receive the bliss and the light. God does not do anything else.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
10c. 1948 ADBliss should come from within. We do not want the bliss that arises from looking on the outside. We want bliss that is eternal (sanatan anand).Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
11c. 1948 ADWhen you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
12c. 1948 ADGnani’s [The enlightened one’s] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate liberation]. And the worldly people’s sangna [directions] is the compass then it will make you wander in the worldly life.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
13c. 1948 ADNo one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply ‘Sees’.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
14c. 1948 ADOn what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of ‘apratikraman' (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done).Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
15c. 1948 ADWhen you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
16c. 1948 ADA man who repents after doing any action, he will certainly become pure one day, that is definite.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
17c. 1948 ADYou (must) do plenty of ‘pratikraman’. Do the ‘pratikraman’ for an hour every day of everyone who is living around you, whomever you have harassed.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
18c. 1948 ADWhat happens by doing ‘pratikraman’? The interferences that we have done (in the past), and its ‘reaction’ which will come (now), on that (reactions), we will not feel like interfering again.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
19c. 1948 ADWhatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we scold someone for what they do. If you scold him, he will do it even more. (Instead) You should explain to him with love. All diseases will disappear with love. You will get pure love either from the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] or his followers!Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
20c. 1948 ADGod requires two things: ‘pure love’ and ‘true justice’. Everywhere else there is relative justice. Where ‘pure love’ and ‘true justice’ exist, there comes the grace of God!Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
21c. 1948 ADThe ultimate form is the embodiment of love (Premswaroop)! The love of these (so called) lovers (Romeo-Juliet) does not work there. The Love of God (the Lord) is ‘Pure Love’. That which increases or decreases is infatuation [asakti]. There is no increase or decrease in ‘Pure Love’.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
22c. 1948 ADThe amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of ‘Pure Love’ arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in totality. This is the only way.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
23c. 1948 ADI don’t intend to fight with anyone; I have only one weapon of love. I want to win the world with love. What the world calls love, is really worldly love. [True] Love is when even if you curse me, I would not get ‘depressed’ and when you garland me with flowers, I would not become ‘elevated’. In true love, there would not be any changes. Changes can occur in the intent and feelings (bhaav) of the body, but not in ‘pure love’.Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
24c. 1948 ADEternal love’ (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation].Dada Bhagwan / quote ↗
