Pudgal Quotes

“The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that ‘I died’. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The mud of this body-complex (pudgal - that which charges and disharges) is such that the harder one tries to get out, the deeper and deeper he sinks into it.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“It is wrong to be dependent on the body-complex [pudgal]. One should depend only on the Soul.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“These are all ‘ghosts’. If you are afraid, the ghosts will possess you. If there is inner fear of ‘what if they hang me?’; then one should say, ‘yes, that is correct’. The Soul can never be hung; nothing [worldly] can touch the Soul. All the doings are that of the pudgal (matter; non-Self). The noose for hanging is pudgal and the one doing hanging (the hangman), is also pudgal. The Soul has never been hung. This [fact] does not fit one’s vision and that is why he has fear. But once his vision becomes like the Gnani’s [the enlightened one], then it’s over! For that, one has to stay in touch with the Gnani [the enlightened one].”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Once the egoism has gone (stopped), all the worldly ‘matter’ of the body-complex [pudgal] are renounced! Where there is egoism, there is my-ness and where there is my-ness, there is a hidden egoism. When ‘Knowledge of the Self’ is attained, egoism and my-ness goes away. Only the dramatic (discharge) ‘egoism’ and ‘my-ness’ will remain.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The body is the eater. The eater does not Know and the Knower does not eat. Actions are carried out by another element (partattva) and the Knower is the element of the Self! The one who steals and the one being robbed are both the non-Self (anatma)!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“To keep Knowing is Your intrinsic nature. To keep getting spoiled is the nature of the non-Self complex (pudgal).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“All actions are of the non-Self complex (pudgal), they are of the prakruti (relative self) and they are not under Your control.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“To Know and understand only the pudgal (the non-Self complex of input and output), that is called the Knower (Gnata).”
― Dada Bhagwan