Non-Violence Quotes

“I am doing good deeds (punya)', 'I am doing bad deeds (paap)'; both (beliefs) are egoism.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence

“There is nothing more powerful than non-violence (ahinsa) and nothing weaker than violence (hinsa). Who is weak in this world? One who is egoistic. Who is powerful in this world? One who is non-egoistic.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“What is the violent intent (bhaav-hinsa)? Violence (hinsa) against your real Self through anger-pride-deceit-greed; meaning anger-pride-deceit-greed that causes bondage to your Self, therefore first have pity on your self. First you need non-violent intent (bhaav-ahinsa) for your own Self and then for others.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“One will not bleed at all if hit by an arrow shot by someone with a non-violent intent (ahinsak bhaav) but a flower thrown by someone with a violent intent (hinsak bhaav) will make him bleed. Neither the arrow or the flower are not as effective as the violent intent are.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Whom will you commit violence against? The Supreme Lord resides in every living being, so whom will you hurt?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan) can never be attained without the domain of non-violence (ahinsa). Full awareness will not be attained without non-violence (ahinsa).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Non-violence is called that when despite having the full power if someone does something to him, he does not do anything to that person.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“The enlightened ones (Vitraag Lords) tells us to use the weapon of non-violence (ahinsa) against violence (hinsa). Violence cannot be conquered with violence. It can only be conquered with non-violence.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“If we have a higher degree of Non-violence within us, a lion will forget its violent intent towards us.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Non-violence (Ahimsa) is a very big thing. There is no non-celibacy (sexual pleasures) in Non-violence. There is no possession (parigraha) in Non-violence. There is no falsehood (asatya) in Non-violence. There is no covertness or stealing (chori) in Non-violence.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“What people say is not wrong; it is worldly (laukik). Where there are people, there will always be worldly things, however talks that are beyond the world (alaukik), is completely different from these worldly talks. Everything that you have learnt so far, from the perspective of alaukik [that which is beyond the world] knowledge, is incorrect. Therefore from today onwards, put a cross over it and discard the old knowledge.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Pudgal’s [Complex of intake and output; body complex] nature is input (puran) and output (galan). If preference is given to smooth things, the same thing will come back being rough. Therefore make “friendship” with roughness. Make likable the very things you will not like. The Soul [Atma] has infinite facets. Whichever facet one turns to, He [The Soul] becomes like that facet.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Where anger-pride-deceit-greed is absent, the worldly interactions are pure. Or else, if there is attentive awareness [upayog] over them, till then it is acceptable.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Whose pain will go away? He who does the ‘operation’ of material [physical] pleasures; his pain will go away!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence

“Who gives the support to this world? One’s own self does. And then he wants liberation! Hence, he will have to stop supporting it.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence

“After any thing has come into Knowledge, it can never revert back into ignorance; contradictions do not arise. By helping every established principle (siddhant) one by one, the established principle continues to move forward. It does not break any established principle, contradictions do not arise.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“The Lord has said that the relative (vyavahaar) is entirely that which needs to be settled (discharge). Hence, it is not worth holding onto it, it should be settled promptly.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Nobody has spoiled your vyavahaar (worldly interactions). You yourself have spoilt it. You are whole and sole responsible for your vyavahaar.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“The fruit [result] of renunciation is not liberation, the fruit of Knowledge of the Self is liberation.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Renunciation (tyaag) should be natural and spontaneous. [That which is to be renounced] should fall off on its own indeed.   ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Who has the right to say, "Vyavasthit" (result of scientific circumstantial evidences) ahead of time? It is one who does not interfere at all with the attributes of the prakruti (non-Self complex)!!   ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“Worldly life is a path of evolutionary development for all embodied living beings. It is a very long path. So in the past life, you kept moving and in this life, you keep moving. On this path, whatever knowledge you see, your faith gets established on that knowledge. That faith then manifests as an effect (roopak). In the next life, a different kind of knowledge is acquired, but the effect that manifests is from the knowledge of the past life! This gives rise to the delimma that, 'Why doesn't the effect that manifests come in accordance to the mind?' Whatever amount of knowledge is accumulated, that much delimma arises.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“The very importance of the manifest living Gnani is that energies within you will manifest merely by seeing Him. The energies will simply arise by just seeing (darshan) Him. Upon seeing the manifest Gnani, one becomes just like Him.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“What is the measure of the fact that one has realized One's own state as the Self (nijswaroop)? It is in accordance to the saiyam parinaam (resultant state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrene) that prevails for One.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“This Akram Vignan has been disclosed 'as it is'. This 'Vyavasthit' (result of Scientific Circumstantial Evidences) is exactly 'vyavasthit' (as it should be). 'We' have Seen, 'How much has been done, and how much still needs to be done' in this world. What is the point of repeatedly grinding away at that which has already been done?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“If you believe God (Ishwar) to be the doer, then why do you believe yourself to be doer?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“The 'pure' (shuddha) state is on the opposite shore to the 'auspicious-inauspicious' (shubha-ashubha)state. There is no 'sense of doership' (kartabhaav) there. If one realizes that, 'I am not the doer,' then he can become free.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa

“The fear that, 'What will people think?' should not be given a platform. It is better to keep your own room clean instead. The moment a thought worthy of worldly criticism arises, wash it off and clear it.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence

“This satsang (association with the Self) is the only thing that can establish a state that is free of fear. Otherwise, no one else can free us of fear.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence

“Can you disembark before the 'station' arrives? Actually, the 'station' has arrived, that is why 'we' show you the way to disembark. Otherwise, if the 'station' has not arrived, then you will have to just stay put where you are, won't you? You indeed keep on wandering around, don't you?!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Non-Violence: Ahimsa