Quotes from Dada Bhagwan

To become God (Khuda) one does not need weapons. One needs to recognize his [True] Self (Khud). The one who knows one's own Self (khud), is God (khuda).

Sincerity' and 'morality' is the main road to go to God, the rest are the 'by-ways'.

If you keep the burden on your head, God (Bhagwan) will move away.

Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.

It is very wrong to make fun of anyone because you make fun of the Lord residing within. It doesn't matter if it is a donkey, but after all, (finally) who is he? He is God.

Where there is conflict, there is no God.

God doesn't need to be a witness. He doesn't need to go to a court, does he? 'You' are the one who has to attain a witness state, so that there's no karma bondage. And 'God' only keeps on 'seeing'!

Where there is 'egoism', there is no God. Where there is God, there is no 'egoism'.

The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one's kashays are gone, then he becomes the 'owner' of the whole universe.

One whose faith (nishtha) is set in God, he is known as Brahma-nishtha (settled in the Self).

When does one think of God? It is when he gains something from Him, when love for Him arises!

God is the Knower and not the sufferer of pain.

One who keeps an 'open mind' will be able to see God!

Who is considered as reputable in God's language? The one who can do 'world's salvation' just through his eyes!

The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one's real Self) does.

One who experiences prasantta [blissful happiness] within, he will have prasantta [blissful happiness] externally. The mind is a mirror (reflection) for the external.

The 'egoism' that is used to hurt others will hurt one's own self. The 'egoism' that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness.

A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes 'I am right', causes a lot of pain to others.

Without the 'applied awareness' of the Soul, 'happiness' cannot arise.

Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal.

What does 'experience of the soul' mean? It is a state of constant eternal bliss.