Doership Quotes

“In deep meditation, individual consciousness merged with the cosmic consciousness. In the absence of doer, the lotus blossoms.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a ‘collector’, what will he do? He will throw you in a jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate in front of God? God won’t put you in jail, but his contentment towards you will break away.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“I WILL NOT ALLOW MY NEGATIVE FEELINGS TO CONTROL ME; I WILL REMAIN POSITIVE"

-Stephanie”
― Stephanie A. Colavalla, Clean Up Your Home To Clean Up Your Life & Say Hello To Aromatherapy: Restore Your Sanctuary, Regain Your Peace, Ignite Your Senses

“Frequent action increases predictability.”
― Cristina Imre

“Religion will not take you to moksha, science (of spirituality) will take you to moksha. Religion and science are two different things. Religion is all doership, non-religion (sins & wrong doings) is doership too, and science gives rise to non-doership, which leads one to moksha.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Essence Of All Religion

“Two lines, a line of knowledge and a line of action, run separately. But if you mix tea and buttermilk, it becomes unsavory. In the same way, in those people who live in illusory vision & do not have Self-realization (agnani), these two lines of Knowledge and action have become one and that is why they have been in a disturbed state.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Wherever there is doer-ship in this world, whether one is the doer of religion, doer of the scriptures or doer of learning; they are all lost. They have strayed from the path to ultimate liberation (moksha).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“There is nothing which is worth ‘doing’ and any attempt to ‘do’ anything, increases bondage.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Whatever consolation you accept, that much penance will be deficient.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“You’ have to ‘see’ what ‘Chandubhai’ is doing; that is prurshartha (real independent Self effort). What is illusory effort? ‘What inner intent (bhaav) was there and what inner intent was not there’ in whatever is happening is illusory effort. In illusory effort, intent comes in the middle and in the exact, real effort, there is ‘knowing-seeing’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“While experiencing effect (prarabdha – effect of past lives causes) the seed of illusory self effort (bhrant purushartha) is sown because one has the awareness [belief] of ‘I am the doer’. Otherwise, one simply experiences the effect and after then attains liberation!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The understanding of knowledge that increases intoxication (of ‘I Know’) is terrible ignorance. Intoxication (of ‘I know’) is dissolved with (right) knowledge.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The one whose self-interests (selfishness) in this world goes away, he will become the Absolute Supreme Self (parmatma), provided he does not become intoxicated about it (that “I Know”, “I am something”).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“With true understanding, intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) will come down. Intoxication will not come down with wrong understanding.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“It is considered ignorance of the Self (ignorance of I am the soul) where intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) increases.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“How is intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) recognized? It is when one says, ‘Yours is wrong’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“One will keep on charging new karma as long as there is the awareness of ‘I am the doer’. In the ‘akram-marg’ (step-less, direct path to Self-realization), ‘We’ (enlightened one, Dadabhagwan) dissolve your ‘doer-ship’. The awareness that ‘I am the doer’ goes away and the understanding of ‘who the doer is’ is given. Therefore, the charging (of karma) stops! What is left now? Only the form of ‘discharge’ is left.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“When the charging (of karma) stops, the binding of new 'sansar' (worldly life) ends. The state that 'I am the doer' never leaves without a 'Gnani' (Enlightened one).”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“A person is not a ‘doer’ in this world. When one believes that ‘I am the doer’ is when the ‘charging’ (of karma) occurs. When one tastes egoistic pride of, “I did this samayik (spiritual introspection), I did these activities,” is when the ‘charging’ occurs. The taste of egoistic pride is very sweet.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Egoism is not required to run sansar (worldly life). Egoism is required to create our next life. If you do not want to create next life, the sansar can be run without the ego. Entire sansar is in the form of ‘discharge’. That’s why the ‘discharge’ will happen on its own.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“People exercise egoism that "I cannot maintain control" for that which is in the form of 'discharge'. It is also egoism to say that ‘I am able to control’. We have taken the troubles that do not belong to us on our head. Because of this, one wanders around in a troubled-state!”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Where there is activity, there is egoism; one can’t be free from activity through use of egoism.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“If you use obstinacy against obstinacy in this world; you will never come up with a solution. Simplicity against obstinacy will bring about the solution.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The one who has egoism and 'my-ness'; the one who believes that “I am the doer,” are all considered to be ‘jiva’ (living beings). And the ones who have realized that “I am not the doer, I am simply the ‘knower and seer’ with the form of eternal-bliss,” is the Soul!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“There are only two things: Circumstances and the Soul. If you become ‘one’ with the circumstances, the worldly life will come into existence. If you become the ‘Knower’ of the circumstances, then you are ‘God’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Whatever actions that are seen in this world, are the discharging of karma that has previously been charged. A person has nothing to do with it. There, he does the egoism that I have done samayik (introspective analysis as Self). One binds karma there, and gets entrapped. He is indulged in the pride of doership there!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“If a person does five samayiks (introspective analysis by being as Self) he will say, ‘I did five’. This is how he will taste the sweet pride of doer-ship. Actually, he should say “it was due to God’s grace that five samayiks were done.” He should not taste the sweet pride of doer-ship.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“A person tastes the sweet pride of doer-ship by saying ‘I did this so well’. The taste of this subtle pride seems to be very sweet. There is suffering with the false imputation (of doer-ship). God is in the state of eternal bliss, and that is indeed the nature of the Self!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The body is doing the action, body’s spare-parts are doing the action, and the egoism simply does the egoism of, ‘I did’! A sweet taste of subtle pride arises from this and one lives on the basis of this. He simply tastes the subtle pride of ‘I did’, ‘I suffered that pain’, ‘I enjoyed that happiness’. The one who becomes free from this subtle pride is liberated. Why does one keep tasting this subtle pride for infinite lives? Because one has never tasted the sweetness of the Soul.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“No one in this world is a ‘doer’. To say that ‘I am doing,’ is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the umbrella of egoism.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization