आत्मसाक्षात्कार Quotes

“This world is a museum. You can see and know, eat and drink, but you cannot take anything out of it. Do not get attached. Enjoy everything, but if you take anything with you, you will have to come back to the 'museum' (this world).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“God only says one thing that “if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“If you can afford to live in this worldly life, then there is nothing you need to understand further, and if you find the worldly life bothersome then you need to understand spirituality. In spirituality, we need to know the nature of the Self (Soul). When ‘who am I?’ is known then all puzzles will be solved.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“What is Gnan (true knowledge)? There should be solutions from all sides and no contradictions should arise. A non-contradictory principle is the one whose sentence will exactly match even if it is spoken after fifty years. No contradiction would arise.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“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 am Chandubhai’ (name used by Dadashri to refer to the relative self) is indeed an illusion, and the karma charges because of this illusion. When does the charging of new karma stop? It happens when one attains exact realization of ‘who I am’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Only when there is dharmadhyan (absence of adverse internal state of being that hurts the self and others) in the body, there will be shukladhyan (Internal state that renders the constant awareness of ‘I am pure Soul’) in the Self (Soul).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Misery is an unpleasant painful experience (ashata vedaniya); result of misery is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Anything you do to prevent inauspicious contemplation (durdhyan, to hurt others by mind,body,speech,etc.) is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation, to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The lesser the artadhyan (mournful contemplation hurting the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others); lesser are the worldly difficulties.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Good inner intent, higher inner intent, is one’s ‘positive’ effort with which one will go to higher life forms. And wrong inner intent is one’s negative effort, which will take one to the lower life forms. And the real self effort is that which one does after he becomes the Self (Pure Soul) which takes one to moksha.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“This worldly life is very difficult. Mother-in-law comes, mother of the mother-in-law comes, sister of mother-in-law comes, aunt of mother-in-law comes. How many mother-in-laws come? One husband and how many mother-in-laws will come with him? Hey, crazy one, why do you have to be here? Just for one husband, you have to be haunted by all these ‘ghosts’?!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Intoxication over material thing is parigraha (acquisitiveness; it takes one away from the Self), not having intoxication for material thing is aparigraha (non-acquisitiveness).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The Soul has never become impure, not even for a second. If it had become impure, then no one in this world would have been able to purify it.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“There are two types of purusharth (effort): one is the purusharth that arises from prarabdh (effect of past life karma), relative effort. The seeds that are sown from prarabdh give rise to relative effort. The second purusharth is the effort that arises after one attains Purush (the Self), real effort. With whatever intent one suffers the effect of past life karma, that intent is bhrant purusharth (illusory effort)!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“When the mind is not spoilt, the speech is not spoilt, the conduct is not spoilt, that is absolute humility [param vinaya].”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The one whose egoism is gone, he becomes God. One is a Jeevatma (mortal self) as long as there is egoism. If the egoism leaves, he becomes a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme 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

“As many people as there are, there are that many types of egoism.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“Agnan (ignorance of the Self) creates vibration, and the Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) stops the vibration.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“This (Science of Akram Vignan) is a real thing, it is the truth, and every truth will always bring results.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Without the attainment of Soul (Self-realization), there is no place that is worth having a fanatic attachment to a viewpoint. It is not worth holding on, or being stuck at a single place.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Action is bondage in itself. Action is not needed to attain moksha (liberation). Gnan kriya (activity of the Self to See and Know) is required for moksha. Agnan kriya (Activity of the non-Self) is bondage. Activities done with egoism is called Agnan kriya, and activities done without egoism is called Gnan kriya.”
― 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

“The Self has been impacted by the non-Self complex. Vibrations have been formed from vibrations. ‘We’ give the Knowledge on how to stop the vibrations.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The mind can be won over if it is kept separate from things that it likes.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization