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01c. 1948 AD

Wealthy people build palaces with nine floors. At the time of their departure (dying), the palace jests with them, ‘You are going and here we remain standing!’ The palaces are not the only palaces, are they? The wife, the children – they are all palaces indeed!

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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02c. 1948 AD

People do not know what good deeds are. It is udaya karma,unfolding effects of past karma; that makes them do the deeds. The prakruti, the relative self, forces them to do them. What is your own thing [effort] in that? Doing good deeds; that too is mandatory (farajiyat)!

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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03c. 1948 AD

What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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04c. 1948 AD

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 / quote

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05c. 1948 AD

People get absorbed in chitchats with whomever they meet. They simply have to meet someone. Infinite energies are wasted in such chitchatting.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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06c. 1948 AD

What harm does lying cause? One loses people’s trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless.

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07c. 1948 AD

People say, 'that bump caused me to trip', but the bump says, 'I am where I have always been. It's the wretched ones who can't see, they come my way and trip over!

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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08c. 1948 AD

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’.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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09c. 1948 AD

People have the right to criticize you. You do not have the right to criticize anyone.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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10c. 1948 AD

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.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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11c. 1948 AD

A king will say 'I killed thousands of people'. He is simply doing egoism; he is taking pleasure in taking credit of doership (garva ras). They were killed by those who were on the battle field. Why does the king needlessly take on the liability [of new karmic causes]? In doing so, those who did the killing are set free. The rule is that the liability falls upon the one doing egosim [of doerhip].

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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12c. 1948 AD

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

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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13c. 1948 AD

People on the worldly path, to them ‘we’ say, ‘Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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14c. 1948 AD

In this world, it is not possible to forget about obligation of these three people: father, mother and guru; the one who has made us walk on the correct path.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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15c. 1948 AD

Vitragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments] is the only way to ‘swim’ across lifetimes.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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16c. 1948 AD

What is the sign of the person residing in his own Self as Pure Soul? Vitaragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments]!

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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17c. 1948 AD

What would you ask for if you were given the freedom to chose something of your own volition (marjiyaat)? There is nothing in [all] mandatory (tasks) in which one can remain still. One after another, the needs will continue. It is only in the state of own’s own Self [the Soul], that one can remain burden-free.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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18c. 1948 AD

Freedom is ‘Self-earned’ and worldly life is ‘earned by egoism’!

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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19c. 1948 AD

The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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20c. 1948 AD

In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.

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21c. 1948 AD

For how long will you keep on wandering around for infinite lifetimes? Your own light is not there. For how long will you keep on wandering in the dark? One has walked for billions and billions of miles and yet he has not seen the light. He has not found the right path. The truth will have to be known, will it not?

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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22c. 1948 AD

The body is doing the action, body’s spare-parts are doing the action and the egoism simply does the egoism of, ‘I did’! Subtle-pride of egoism is created from this doer-ship and one is living due entirely on this basis. He simply tastes the subtle-pride of doer-ship; ‘I did’, ‘I suffered this pain’, ‘I enjoyed that happiness’. The person who gets rid of this subtle-pride will get freedom. Why does one taste this sweetness of subtle-pride of doership from infinite lives? He does this because he has never before tasted the sweetness of the Soul.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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23c. 1948 AD

For men, women are their ‘counter weights’ and when that is not enough, their daughters are their ‘counter weights.’ One can’t do without a counter weight. Otherwise, he will fall over.

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24c. 1948 AD

There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning.

Dada Bhagwan / quote

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