2,964 Quotes by Dada Bhagwan

Do you want to remove your chit (focus) from worldly objects? Who can remove it? You, can, right? You meaning Chandubhai? How can you remove it without first deciding, ‘Who are you?

Graha (things getting accumulated) are not to be reduced. Parigraha, murchha-bhaav (being swooned by material objects or by living beings) needs to be reduced. Graha is a gneya (something to be known while remaining in the state of pure soul).

There is no problem if graha (things getting accumulated) does not turn into parigraha (acquisitiveness; that what takes one away from the Self). Parigraha leaves when murchha (spiritual unconsciousness) leaves. And when you become a non-doer (akarta), arambha (beginning of any action) leaves. Kevalgnan (absolute knowledge) occurs when arambha-parigraha leaves.

One who knows sankalp (I) - vikalp (my) is nirvikalp (Pure Soul, the Real Self). To believe the function (dharma) of the mind as one’s own function, is sankalp (I) –vikalp (my). And to know the function of the Self to be his own, is nirvikalp (Pure Soul, the Real Self). When one becomes nirvikalp (Pure Soul), he attains the state of fearlessness.

The Self is kalpswaroop (becomes what it contemplates). If kalpswaroop remains nirvikalp (free from I-ness and my-ness), then it is a parmatma, and if it remains as vikalp (I-ness), then it is sansari (worldly living being). To live as nirvikalp, it is difficult to attain that even in millions of lifetimes. Only when one meets a Gnani Purush (the enlightened one), such a state can be attained.

Only the Self (the soul) is worth knowing. Knowing other things increases vikalp (I-ness; wrong belief increases).

Intellect (Buddhi) illuminates the Non-Self (Non-Soul), the Self (Soul) illuminates the Self (Soul), as well as the Non-Self (Non-Soul).

That which harms in the spiritual path (& progress) and benefits the worldly life, it is called deluded intellect (viprit buddhi). And enlightened intellect (samyak buddhi) helps in both, the spiritual as well as worldly realm.

Sadbuddhi (positive intellect which helps in spiritual path & helps in adjustment in worldly life) means that it will not give rise to any contradiction. Sadbuddhi arises when you sit with a Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) for an hour.