2,964 Quotes by Dada Bhagwan

Kusang (the company of bad people) is that which takes you away from the religious path. Stay far away from it; Kusang is itself a poison.

The Lord himself called it kusang (company of bad people)! He did not do it out of abhorrence. Nor has he called it ‘satsang’ (company of enlightened one) out of attachment. He spoke with non-attachment ‘this is satsang’ and ‘this is kusang’. The scars of kusang (company of bad people) do not go away for thousands of life times. That is why we tell you to ‘remain seated in satsang’.

From the moment one becomes aware of ‘I am bound’, after that moment, he will desire to become free (from this worldly life & attain ultimate liberation).

I am Chandubhai’ is itself egoism. To claim ‘I am’ where you are not, is itself ego. If you remain in your own domain, then you are the Soul, and the projection of ‘I am Chandubhai’ in the wrong place is egoism.

The nature of pudgal (non-Self body complex, complex of intake and output) is to go down and the nature of the Self is to go higher. The pudgal’s (non-Self body complex’s) downward nature is not caused by it’s heavy weight; it is caused by an increase in egoism. One may be skinny, but his ego can be big enough to stretch all over the world.

Weakened anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul) is called religion and absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is called (True) Knowledge (Gnan). If a religion cannot reduce anger-pride- deceit-greed (kashays), then either the religion is wrong or you are wrong. Religion is the one of the enlightened ones (the Vitraags); how can it be called as wrong?

Humans have not known anything. Knowing is when no weakness remains.

If you want to become a true disciple [and] initially if you cannot remember God, then wherever you see a temple, go there to worship him there. Then as you begin to remember God, then start believing the Soul within you as God and then you will become a true disciple. And when your Soul (the True Self) within you, gives you the experience, then you will have become God (Yourself).

That which gives results is Gnan (practical and experiential knowledge). That which does not give results is theoretical knowledge (shooshka-gnan).