Body Complex Quotes

“I hate hating my body. Actually, I don’t even hate my body. I just worry everyone else might.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“The matters of eating, drinking and dwelling are of pudgal (non-Self complex). All the people in the world have these three things only. They have been given numerous names. The food and drink items are limited, but the dwelling is unlimited. The entire world is dwelling in the non-Self complex (pudgal ramnu)!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Who Am I?

“You' yourself are the absolute Self (Parmatma), but You have not realized, 'Who you are.' That is why one says, "I am a woman." A woman is in fact a packing, a donkey is a packing, a dog is a packing, everything is a packing. One believes the packing to be One's real form.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“No matter how wise a person is, but that is still an attribute of the non-Self, isn't it? And if one becomes attached to the attributes of the non-Self, then he has become attached to the non-Self!!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Where saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) does not leave a clear impression, there the vitaraag dharma (the religion prescribed by the absolutely realized Self, which is at 360 degrees, is impartial, incorporates all viewpoints, does not hurt anyone else's viewpoint or religion) will not work. Even if soil were to be thrown into your lentil soup, yet you do not lose saiyam, that is referred to as vitaraag dharma. If displeasure is shown on your face, yet closure and inner satisfaction prevails within, then there is no problem. That [displeasure on the face] is considered as a defect of the non-Self complex (pudgal). When such defects of the non-Self complex no longer remain, that is an altogether different matter!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Worries

“Saiyam parinaam (a resultant state that is free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) means a state where both, Atma parinaam (the result of the Selfl) and pudgal parinaam (the result of the non-Self) remain separate exactly as they should.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“What is saiyam parinaam? It is when the Self (Atma) does not become one in with the non-Self (pudgal); It continues to prevail separately. If the Self is allowed to become one [with the non-Self], then that becomes a violent intent (himsak bhaav).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Worries

“The entire world is in parparinati (the belief of ‘I am doing’ in what are results of the non-Self), no one has seen Swa-parinati (the natural state of the Self). Swa-parinaam (the resultant state as the Self) is verily the state of the absolute Self (Parmatma pad).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The body is pudgal parinaam (the resultant state of that which is continuously undergoing change through the process of input and output) and Swa-parinaam (the resultant state as the Self) is within. The entire world is pudgal parinaam.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Guru and The Disciple

“When can one really say that pudgal (non-Self complex of input and output) is the doer? It is after one attains Self-realization. Otherwise, he would go in the wrong direction. After attaining Self-realization, as one prevails in the Gnani's Agna (five directives that preserve the awareness as the Self in Akram Vignan), only after that is the pudgal considered as the doer of everything, and only then can it be considered that You [as the Self] are not liable. If one were to say this [the pudgal is the doer] without that [Self-realization and prevailing in the Gnani's Agna] then everyone would go on the wrong path.  ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Adjust Everywhere

“Those prakrutis (relative self, made of inherent traits) that do not adjust with people are all wrong prakrutis.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Adjust Everywhere

“The prakruti (relative self, made of inherent traits) will decrease as you ‘see’ it. Until you do not see the prakruti, it will not decrease.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“A ‘Gnani’’ (Enlightened one) is also in ‘prakruti’ (relative self, made of inherent traits). However, the one who remains separate despite staying in a ‘prakruti’ is a ‘Gnani’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Who Am I?

“This ‘prakruti’ (relative self, made of inherent traits) seems to be alive, but it is not alive in reality. Whatever interactions or the disturbances that people may get into, that too do not have life in it. There is only a wrong belief that “I did it.” All this happens in the presence of a Soul. There is only presence. Who is responsible in this? What is the mistake in this? ‘Someone else’ is doing it, yet one says that “I am doing it”; that is the mistake. If this mistake is corrected, then solution can be achieved.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Intoxication caused by whatever one possesses is all (part of) body-complex (pudgal); be it education, knowledge or anything else, that is all maya (deceit). When one becomes possessed by this maya, when will it ever let go?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Noble Use of Money

“No one has been able to attain the state of ‘Jitendriya-Jin’ (one who has attained victory over all senses) through the medium of the body complex. One can only become Jitendriya-Jin when he attains the Knowledge of the Self. The senses can never be conquered as long as there is ignorance of the Self, because the nature of the senses is to charge and discharge. Conquer one and another erupts.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy

“You are Soul’ and this is Pudgal [the body-complex, the one that charges-discharges]! If you become afraid, the body-complex will attack you! The whole world may do anything but you should not get startled! This body may get paralyzed or get burned but ‘I (the Self) never incurs any loss’. If loss occurs, it will occur to the body-complex, ‘In our home [We’ (the Self)] never incur any loss. Each’s business is separate, interactions are separate and the shop is separate.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Noble Use of Money

“This ‘good’ and ‘bad’ that we see; are the states of the body complex, the non-Self (pudgal). Do not separate them into ‘this is good’ and ‘this is bad’. Such distinctions have been made by, those believing in dualities. These dualities are vikalps (intellectual ideas; contrary thoughts; not reality). The nirvikalpi, one with awareness of the Self, sees both the good and the bad as vibhavik avastha, as states of the non-Self.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Anger

“Where the world is inactive, the ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one] is active, and where the world is engaged in activities, there is inactivity on the ‘Gnani’s’ [the enlightened one] part! The activity of the world is run by the prakruti (relative self) only!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-5

“How much is the absence of ownership of the mind-body-speech complex (pudgal, the relative self), that much is the experience of the ownership of Real Self.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Guru and The Disciple

“When you scold someone, it is your prakruti [your relative self], there is nothing wrong with that. But if you do ‘pratikraman’ for that, then it is a ‘positive’ offence! And if you do not do ‘pratikraman’, then it is a ‘negative’ offence!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani 6

“The words that we speak, they come forth even when we do not wish to. The prakruti [our relative self] dances and such a storm arises. It is only when countless ‘pratikraman’ is done, will the prakruti stop!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“Pudgal’s [Complex of intake and output; body complex] nature is input (puran) and output (galan). If preference is given to smooth things, the same thing will come back being rough. Therefore make “friendship” with roughness. Make likable the very things you will not like. The Soul [Atma] has infinite facets. Whichever facet one turns to, He [The Soul] becomes like that facet.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Who doesn’t allow one to attain the ultimate liberation? The pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body). Similarly, what doesn’t let a gourd that is covered with mud to float atop? It is the mud. Bad ‘parmanu’ (subatomic particles of body complex) weigh very heavily. They drag the Soul (the Self) lower.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Mud of the pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body) is such that the harder one tries to get out, the deeper and deeper he sinks into it.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body) is a jail for the Soul.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“What is pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body)? It is influx and outflow; it is credit and debit. And if you ‘know’ the Soul (get Self-realized), you will attain liberation.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The one who protects the pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body) is not a Gnani (enlightened one). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul, the attributes of the Self.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Sansar (worldly life) has been alive by imitating the movements of the world, and is liberated by opposing it.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Everyone's body shamed!”
― Tina Sequeira, Bhumi: A Collection of Short Stories