Spirituality in Speech Quotes

“The prevalence of the application as the Self in the applied awareness as the Self is absolute Knowledge.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“All that you speak is considered as egoism. Speech is open egoism. It is 'double the egoism' to say, "I have done, and I will do.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“No one in this world can imitate that which is still (acchad – the Pure Soul, Self). That which can be imitated is all unsteady (chanchad, the non-Self). The whole world’s worship is of that which is unsteady (unstill) - the relative. That is why this speech can be imitated (reproduced) through the ‘tape record’. Speech is chanchad (unstill). It can never have the attributes of the Soul – The Still.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“Ownership of speech is the greatest ego. Ownership of the body prevails naturally, but the main self prevails in speech.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“Whatever is being spoken by me, it is not ‘I’ (the true self) who is speaking it. It is the “original tape record” that is speaking. Not even for a second, do I become the owner of this speech. That is why solutions for any problem becomes possible.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“The words that we speak, they come forth even when we do not wish to. The prakruti [our relative self] dances and such a storm arises. It is only when countless ‘pratikraman’ is done, will the prakruti stop!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

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

“These are peculiar times. It is not worth interfering with anybody. No one knows how to talk nicely! People talk in a way that gives others a 'headache'.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“When one understands that he cannot ‘do’ anything in this world and that everything is vyavasthit [result of scientific circumstantial evidence], and if this has come into his experience; he is said to have attained Self-realization.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“If your singular aim for Liberation is strong, you will certainly attain that path. One who speaks of Liberation but has various other worldly goals internally, will never attain that path.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“The ‘Knowledge’ that doesn’t allow doubts to arise is the ‘doubt-free knowledge’ (nirvikalp) and it is same as the doubt-free Soul; and it is same as the absolute Self (parmatma)!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“So long as one has not met the Gnani Purush, until then it is 'worth doing' vyavahaar (worldly interaction); and after having met the Gnani Purush, the vyavahaar is that which needs to be settled (nikaali).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“What is to be renounced? The adverse internal state of being that results in hurting oneself (artadhyan) and the adverse internal state of being that hurts oneself and others (raudradhyan). If these two have not been renounced, then nothing at all has been renounced.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“The only difference between a Gnani and a renunciate is that the Gnani prevails in a state of saiyam (absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence), whereas a renunciate follows a set discipline. No one besides a Gnani can remain in saiyam.  ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“Even though [an ascetic] may wear white or ochre attire, yet vikalp (the belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’ and all the relative ‘I-ness’ that stems from it) does not go away. A householder will have false notions (vikalp) that, 'I am aquiring things,' whereas an ascetic will have false notions that 'I am renouncing.' Just imagine, there is nothing but vikalp, vikalp, and vikalp! In such a situation, how can one become nirvikalp (free from the belief that, ‘I am Chandubhai’ and with the right belief that, ‘I am pure Soul’)?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“It is due to the inspiration from 'vyavasthit' (result of scientific circumstantial evidences) that the pudgal (non-Self complex) becomes the 'doer'. Outwardly, the pudgal appears to be the 'doer', but that is due to the evidence of 'vyavasthit' and in that too, it can happen only if the Soul (Atma) is present.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“It is not even governed by ‘nature’. It is simply a natural adjustment! ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“The Knowledge that manifests in conduct; that is true Knowledge. The rest are considered as knowledge without substance (shushka gnan). This Akram Vignan is such that it will manifest in conduct!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“If You [the Self] remain as the Knower-Seer of all the kriya (activities of the mind-speech-body), then all the activities are in the form of galan (discharge). Bad habits and good habits are all in fact in the form of discharge.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“Dehabhaav (the belief that 'this is my body') has to be cleared entirely. Manobhaav (the belief that 'this is my mind') has to be cleared entirely. Vanibhaav (the belief that 'this my speech') has to be cleared entirely. The entire dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has to be cleared.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“The one who carries on with doubts (shanka) cannot escape a beating.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“You' yourself are the absolute Self (Parmatma), but You have not realized, 'Who you are.' That is why one says, "I am a woman." A woman is in fact a packing, a donkey is a packing, a dog is a packing, everything is a packing. One believes the packing to be One's real form.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“Nature has made such arrangements that only the good will happen for you, but if you unnecessarily become afraid then things go bad.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“Each person has a crazy ego within. That crazy ego makes the good appear to be bad. The crazy ego even makes those at home appear to be bad. What does the scientist of the abosolutely detached state say? Win over the prakruti (relative self) of those at home, the world outside is not to be won over.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“If you go to 'do' anything, then bondage will happen there. Wherever you 'do', there is bondage and with understanding, there is freedom.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“It is only when the 'sense of doership' (kartabhaav) leaves that the attentive awareness of 'I am pure Soul' sets in.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“In a drama, does one see what comes forth in front of him or does he see after remembering the past? If you go to look at the past, you will lose the present.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“We' too are carrying out 'our' worldly obligations, but how do 'we' do it? Without the sense of 'I-ness' (aham) and 'my-ness' (mamat)! Dramatically!!!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“If you go to analyze it, then you will not find any joint partnership with anyone. If your son wants to go relieve himself, and you say, "Will it be ok with you if I go do it for you?" No. It will not do. That is how this is! How can there be a joint partnership over there? In the 'relative' sense everything is indeed separate and in the 'real' sense, everything is indeed one.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech

“Syadvaad (accepted by all, and accepting of all) is referred to that speech through which nothing within the body opposes. The mind does not oppose it, the intellect-chit-ego, none of them oppose it.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Spirituality in Speech