Worldly Life Quotes

“I know you feel too big for this place. But when you get out of here, you'll see how small you are in the world.”
― Hope Larson, Salt Magic

“This Gnan (Knowledge) of ‘ours’ is this world’s summary of what deeds begets happiness and what deeds brings unhappiness.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“The cure to every disaster is humanity in the world.”
― Neymat Khan

“Kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is the cause for the next life and vishay (sensual pleasure) is the result of the previous life!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Who Am I?

“Relative’ worldly life is Short-lived [going to end one day]. To claim one’s self to be in that which is going to end is, “wrong belief”.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Whatever Has Happened is Justice

“Mine’ and ‘yours’, is interaction of the worldly life. If you like the interaction where the other person is being verbally abusive, then you can do the same. Continue the ‘give-and-take’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Death: Before, During After...

“What is the definition of ‘remaining untouched in the worldly life’? It means that one finds pleasure upon seeing something nice, but he is not to stuck there; he should move on. Then a cactus will appeal to him and a rose will appeal to him. But the world gets stuck there. Getting stuck itself is the pain!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Avoid Clashes!

“The Vitarag path, the path of the enlightened ones, is such that there is a gain for both the giver as well as the taker, whereas in the worldly path, the giver incurs a loss and the taker gains a benefit.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science of Money

“Your worldly interactions would be commendable if you conducted them with the understanding that you don’t know anything. And they will be ruined if you approached them with the belief that you understand how to conduct them.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science of Money

“One’s worldly interaction should be ideal. If one becomes ‘sticky’ (does attachment-abhorrence) in his worldly interactions, he will become kashayi (develop anger-pride-deceit-greed). The worldly life is like a boat. In this boat, you can eat snacks, drink tea. But you should know that with this boat, we have to reach the shore.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Guru and the Disciple

“Where there are kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed), there is worldly life. As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed exist; one is a sansaari [living a worldly life] regardless of whether one is an ascetic or a family man. And where anger-pride-deceit-greed are absent, one is regarded as being asansaari [non-worldly], be he an ascetic or a family man.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani 6

“There are two types of worldly life: renouncing [tyaag] is a worldly life and family life [gruhasti] is also a worldly life. Those who renounce are constantly in the knowledge of ‘I am renouncing…I am renouncing’. And the family man prevails in the knowledge of ‘I am acquiring…I am taking…I am giving’. But the one, who attains knowledge of the self [soul], will attain liberation (moksha). Where does one acquire Knowledge of the Self? From the ‘Gnani Purush’ [the Enlightened One].”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-4

“In this world, no one is ‘Your’ true relative. All family and relatives are in the form of ‘relations’, they all are from a relative view point. They make you cry needlessly!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Harmony In Marriage

“No one will attain moksha as long as the madness of the world remains. As much madness as there is, there are that many obstacles – as if one is possessed by a ghost.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“In this worldly life, man is a prisoner of everything. He is a prisoner of the mind, a prisoner of the intellect, a prisoner of the chit, a prisoner of the anger-pride-deceit-greed; how can a prisoner of all these ever become free?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Harmony In Marriage

“The whole world can be happy on us. The world is not wrong. Our hunger gets in the way. When the hunger gets over, one will become free from all boundaries.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Guru and The Disciple

“All this is duality. The “Gnani” [the enlightened one] is beyond duality and duality itself means the worldly life.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“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

“The world is existing on which basis? It is the mistake of atikraman (aggression through thoughts, speech or action). There is no problem with kraman (neutral or natural action, actions that do not have any good or bad implications), but if atikraman occurs, then you have to do ‘pratikraman’ for it.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Flawless Vision

“Bear ‘beating’ in this world. Therein is the taste of the Soul [the Atma]. There is no taste [feeling of goodness, happiness] in giving it [beating others, giving pain to others]. This world has come into existence because of giving [beating others, giving pain to others].”
― Dada Bhagwan, Avoid Clashes!

“What is the worldly life like? People will cook out the vegetables of you [people will take your benefit]; If a mango is unripe, they will grate and make pickle; If a mango is ripe, they will suck out all the juice and pulp from it. That is why the worldly existence with these people is very difficult. Instead one would fare well even if he were to remain in satsang.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Worries

“This is indeed the nature of worldly life, isn’t it? We anticipate happiness in old age. But in old age we develop severe back pain, which will not let us sit peacefully. That is why people are searching for moksha [ultimate liberation]; once we reach our own place, there will be no problems, right?”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Guru and The Disciple

“The result of external penance and renunciation is worldly life, meaning that one acquires material pleasures and gradually one even attains the path to liberation. However, there is no liberation without Knowledge of the Self (Atma Gnan).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Through the perspective of complete awareness, the world is orderly (vyavasthit), and through the perspective that lacks awareness, it appears to be disorderly (avyavasthit).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The world is changing from moment to moment. The Self is steady and that which is unsteady is to be Seen. That which is steady does not need to be Seen; the fun lies in Seeing that which is unsteady! Keep Seeing one after another!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“1 star today means WONDERFUL JOB if you have Haters!”
― Pamela Martin

“I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.”
― Nash Grier

“It doesn’t matter how much wealth, fortune, and properties you have acquired throughout your life but what really matters is whether or not you have found the purpose of your soul on this earth if so what have you learned and if acquired what have you given back to the community”.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“The word for the world has already been spoken.”
― Aron Micko H.B

“To maintain our freedom from alcoholism, we must separate ourselves from worldly influences that can draw us back into sin. We must be careful not to be yoked with unbelievers or partner with those who can lead us astray (Ephesians 6:14-17, 2 Corinthians 6:14-17).”
― Shaila Touchton