2,964 Quotes by Dada Bhagwan

What is the main cause of karma? What binds karma? Karma is bound because of presence of doership. As long as there is a belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’, one will bind karma. ‘I am Chandubhai’ is aropit bhaav (deluded view; False attribution of the belief ‘I am Chandubhai’, on the Self), and thus it becomes a doership.

When the wrong belief of ‘doership’ is destroyed, then not only are You under shelter¸ You are everything.

What is there in the step-by-step path? It comprises of 360 degrees of beliefs. It makes you let go of one belief, and gives you another belief. Each single belief may take a thousand lifetimes to turn!

Relative’ worldly life is Short-lived [going to end one day]. To claim one’s self to be in that which is going to end is, “wrong belief”.

Your worldly interactions would be commendable if you conducted them with the understanding that you don’t know anything. And they will be ruined if you approached them with the belief that you understand how to conduct them.

To see things (vastu) ‘as it is’ in its purest form, is called samkit (enlightened view; right belief), and to see it any other way is called mithyatva (wrong belief).

Samkit (enlightened view; right belief) is not Knowledge (Gnan); it is an understanding.

Civility (sabhyata,) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquette is the sign of one with a wrong belief (deluded view, bhranti).

To believe ‘I’ where ‘I’ is not, is known as tirobhav (concealed or hidden belief). To believe ‘I’-ness where ‘I’ is, it is known as Aavirbhav (visible or manifest belief).