2,964 Quotes by Dada Bhagwan

What is the discovery of the Vitarags, the fully enlightened Ones? It is: ‘the slightest violence is the sign of losing. Even the slightest negative thought about someone is the sign of losing. God resides in every living being; how can this hidden fact be known? The Vitarags have called the elemental Self (the Soul), the most hidden element.

At the time of death, one says, ‘Dear Lord, extend my life for two more hours, so that a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] comes and I can do his darshan.’ He complains in this way. Do not complain now. Why are you pleading now? When you had the control, you didn’t do anything and now that you no longer have the control, you are making demands?

We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) would never say to anyone, ‘listen to me!’ because that is indeed not under his control.

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

What is normality? The demarcation of 'likes' should not remain and the demarcation of 'dislikes' should also not remain.

Normality is itself the absolute element (paramtattva) of the world!

When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion.

Like-dislike, good-bad, profit-loss; who gave rise to all these dualities? The society did. As far as God is concerned, there is no duality. If there are grains of food on one side and excrement on the other, in God’s eyes, they are both “material (matter)”. What does God say about this? “All are materials!

It is a mistake to believe other person to be estranged. They all are our own Self’s-forms. However, that has to be realized, right? To believe the other person to be an alien means giving him a beating and that hurts our own-Self.