Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh quote: "I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom."

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness
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Needs can be fulfilled, but desires cannot be. Desire is a need gone mad. Needs are simple, they com...
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There is a story told of one old wise man, whose name was Mencius. He was a follower of Confucius an...
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I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without ...
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Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.
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In pain you can be more meditative than in pleasure.”
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The master does not give you any answer that you can doubt. This non-questioning consciousness is th...
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If what I am saying has anything of truth in it, it will be understood by your heart. But the mind h...
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Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things.
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My message of love is absolutely simple; nothing can be more simple than that.
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If I want to walk I use my legs, if I don't want to walk I don't use my legs. Exactly in the same wa...
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One should become so capable that even the closest instrument of mind can be put aside and can be pu...
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When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.
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When you are witnessing, the mind remains, but not constantly working. Your identity is broken.
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I don't have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing - b...
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I am neither for this nor for that. I would like you to become so capable that you can remain in the...
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Drop the mind and you will become available to God.
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Be true to your inner being and all religions are fulfilled.
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A mother is something absolutely new.
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Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, althoug...
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When you don't have a mind, then you have a heart. When you don't have a mind only then your heart s...
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The whole existence is simple, but man's mind has been cultivated, conditioned, educated, programmed...
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You are the watcher; the mind is the watched. It is a beautiful mechanism, one of the most beautiful...
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I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the si...
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We exist solely because we have a body and a mind – a mind that arises out of the body. If this we...
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But your mind is very complex, very tricky. It makes simple things complicated. -- that's its work. ...
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I am happy whatever you become; just remain truthful and sincere to your own being.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

But the TRUTH is, I AM, therefore I think! We exist first and then express ourselves as bodies in ph...
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I am saying something about the ineffable. I am saying something about the ultimate mystery. You can...
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I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you...
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From this point, silence and intelligence are just two aspects of the same thing.
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Laughter brings you to the earth, brings you down from your stupid ideas of being holier-than-thou.
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I'm not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not ...
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I am not here to help you. You may be here to be helped, but I am not. I am just enjoying my thing. ...
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I am all for jokes, I am all for laughter.
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We where created to discover Love - the only reality.
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From now on, do whatsoever you want, but do it with awareness. Easy and natural are the keys. Don't ...
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The mind is a beautiful instrument if you know how to be a no-mind too.
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Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimen...
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I am nobody's disciple. I don't belong to any belief system. I love people from all over the world a...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

I would like you to relate with people, to love, to move in millions of relationships -- because the...
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I have never been a serious person.... I am not serious at all because existence is not serious. It ...
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The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory,...
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When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize what you were ...
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Only that which is attained through effortlessness will never be a burden to you, and only that whic...
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My vision of a real humanity is of a world consisting not of families, not of nations, not of races,...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

As far as I am concerned, I have never planned anything; I have simply lived, wondering what is goin...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

Up to now, nobody has said, that there is anything beyond enlightenment. That's why I say, I am a mi...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, bu...
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We transcend the illusions of body and mind, and the separation perpetuated by these illusions. In t...
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When you are working in your office, I am not telling you to be a no-mind. When you are working in y...
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I would simply like to be forgiven and forgotten. There is no need to remember me. The need is to re...
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I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering....
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, “I am the watcher, I am not sadne...
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We are all one. In the human form we are pioneers embarked on a wonderful journey, exploring and exp...
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I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of exist...
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... And listen carefully, when you don't need the other, you can love. And that love will not bring ...
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You don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is.
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Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

Now everything is done by machines, technology has relieved you of much work. What to do? You become...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleas...
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The root problem of all problems is mind itself. The first thing to be understood is what this mind ...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

Laughter brings you to reality as it is. The world is a play of God, a cosmic joke. And unless you u...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

I am not going to give you a destination. I can only give you a direction - awake, throbbing with li...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

Move into the vast, into the infinite, and by and by, learn to trust it. Leave yourself in the hands...
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Your mind is continuously projecting – projecting itself
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My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any rela...
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A person can use his mind when working on matter; then logic is a great instrument. And the same per...
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I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest -- you alon...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

I am not a philosopher who is trying to make a system of thought. I am a mystic who is trying to con...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do ...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

The true love is very momentary – but what a moment.
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We live the perfect process created by the Universe, and we do that perfectly—whether we realize i...
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When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody c...
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Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

I am here simply to make you alert and aware. That is, to be here now - with all the insecurity that...
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Drop this ego, drop this idea that you are somebody special.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

The stronger a person's "I" is, the smaller his capacity to become one with anybody. The "I" is a wa...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say, “I am angry.” S...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

So when I say it I mean it, and it is not a hypothesis. I have experienced It that way. The mind can...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

Always remember that I am a poet, not a philosopher. Remember always that I am not a missionary, but...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

I am not here to give you a dogma. A dogma makes one certain.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

I am not interested at all to convert anybody to my ideology - I don't have any.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

Your life is enough, don’t be concerned with others. And I tell you that if you can live unconcern...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…Â“I am...
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH

As far as I am concerned, I have never planned anything; I have simply lived, wondering what is goin...
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH

The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH

I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without ...
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH

Up to now, nobody has said, that there is anything beyond enlightenment. That's why I say, I am a mi...
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH

My whole effort is to help you release the energy called love-intelligence. If love-intelligence is ...
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH

I would simply like to be forgiven and forgotten. There is no need to remember me. The need is to re...
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH

Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things.
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH

I am not interested at all to convert anybody to my ideology - I don't have any.
BHAGWAN RAJNEESH

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
RAJNEESH

Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman d...
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen f...
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I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring ...
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying y...
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I a...
RAJNEESH

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any...
RAJNEESH

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
RAJNEESH

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist -Rajneesh- (Love's Light...
RAJNEESH

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather w...
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle ...
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarit...
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Instead of living together (in a joint family) with a difference of opinions, it is better to live s...
DADA BHAGWAN

I’ and ‘my’ are two separate tracks. They never unite. One may say, ‘this is my wife, we bot...
DADA BHAGWAN

Civility (sabhyata,) is the sign of one with the right belief (enlightened view, samkit) and etiquet...
DADA BHAGWAN

People on the worldly path, to them ‘we’ say, ‘Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do tha...
DADA BHAGWAN

Each pain indeed comes with its time limit.
DADA BHAGWAN

What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power...
DADA BHAGWAN

To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through...
DADA BHAGWAN

This entire environment is filled with parmanu (the smallest, most indivisible and indestructible pa...
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People have the right to criticize you. You do not have the right to criticize anyone.
DADA BHAGWAN

Dehadhyas (the belief that ‘I am the body’) is to continue believing you are someone that you re...
DADA BHAGWAN

The worldly life just goes round and round; there is no end to it. If you want to bring an end to it...
DADA BHAGWAN

Why is there inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] present? Inner Burning [Antardaah] is not d...
DADA BHAGWAN

As long as your mind has the contemplation ‘the tiger is a violent animal’, it will remain viole...
DADA BHAGWAN

Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Do...
DADA BHAGWAN

Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlighten...
DADA BHAGWAN

To know worldly relations as being ‘relation’ (temporary) will resolve everything. However, if t...
DADA BHAGWAN

The worldly life means something superficial. When people speak during their interactions, they put ...
DADA BHAGWAN

In the act of selfishness, you bind demerit karma and in the act of sacrificing your own self-intere...
DADA BHAGWAN

All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.
DADA BHAGWAN

Things of the world are not in a ‘seed’ form; they are in a form of a ‘fruit’. One has come ...
DADA BHAGWAN

If anyone comes to me complaining about others that “this person is like this”, I will question ...
DADA BHAGWAN

If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have ...
DADA BHAGWAN

The Lord states, ‘What can one do to go to moksha? He can go if he attains the right belief of the...
DADA BHAGWAN

When there is no argument [dispute] over a talk, it is called ‘Principle’.
DADA BHAGWAN

The path of spirituality is a path where one has to keep on reducing his wishes for worldly happines...
DADA BHAGWAN

When there is not a trace of worldly love that is called ‘absolute ultimate love’ [paramarth pre...
DADA BHAGWAN

The ultimate form is the embodiment of love (Premswaroop)! The love of these (so called) lovers (Rom...
DADA BHAGWAN

Krupa (divine grace) means ‘every time sincere’. Without becoming suitable for naimitik krupa (a...
DADA BHAGWAN

Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives natural...
DADA BHAGWAN

What do the vitarags [the enlightened one] say? This world will keep on running, You do not interfer...
DADA BHAGWAN

This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one’s causes stops. T...
DADA BHAGWAN

One's ‘life’ is ‘fractured’; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essenc...
DADA BHAGWAN

God says that the one who does not find the worldly life boring at all, is not worthy of moksha [the...
DADA BHAGWAN

Civility must be a natural thing; all the rest is considered etiquette. The path of moksha [ultimate...
DADA BHAGWAN

One's liberation begins once he does the darshan of kashaya-free (absence of inner anger, pride, dec...
DADA BHAGWAN

Anything you assume ownership of, it will strike back at you. Ultimately, even at the time of death,...
DADA BHAGWAN

As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultima...
DADA BHAGWAN

One simply goes around doing egoism and then ultimately he ends up on the wood of the funeral pyre; ...
DADA BHAGWAN

There is a vast difference between sakshibhaav [being a witness; witnessing state] and Gnata-Drashta...
DADA BHAGWAN

In this world, there is truly no one who is your relative. And those who are, are in the form of a '...
DADA BHAGWAN

In worldly life, no one will become our very own. It is only our Soul that is our very own. Where ev...
DADA BHAGWAN

When one prays to an image of Lord Krishna, it reaches the 'relative'. If one bows down here (at the...
DADA BHAGWAN

When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one ...
DADA BHAGWAN

We live here for five to fifty years (in this world, in the relative) and we are searching for beaut...
DADA BHAGWAN

In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work...
DADA BHAGWAN

If you take an objection in the ‘relative’, it is intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ don’t hav...
DADA BHAGWAN

There aren’t any ‘relative’ (worldly) things that is worth inviting. So what is worth inviting...
DADA BHAGWAN

Relative’ is a duality!
DADA BHAGWAN

The worldly life [the relative] means 'superfluous'. Instead of superfluous, people believe it to be...
DADA BHAGWAN

There is nothing to fear in this world. Whatever happens, it happens to the body-complex [relative-s...
DADA BHAGWAN

The puzzle that is created by seeing the ‘relative’ is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would n...
DADA BHAGWAN

If someone says, "the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative’",...
DADA BHAGWAN

If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is a...
DADA BHAGWAN

Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There shoul...
DADA BHAGWAN

It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in...
DADA BHAGWAN

Where one has become indifferent (nispruha), there pure love has not arisen. And where there is no p...
DADA BHAGWAN

To have indifference (nispruha) is also an offence and to be with inclination (saspruha) is also an ...
DADA BHAGWAN

If the outside [our outside circumstances] has become spoilt so be it, don’t let the inside [our i...
DADA BHAGWAN

Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).
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It is called equanimity when one has no attachment with the good (the auspicious) and no abhorrence ...
DADA BHAGWAN

Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) an...
DADA BHAGWAN

God said to accept whatever circumstances that come along. Circumstance is a natural thing. In it, �...
DADA BHAGWAN

When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone thro...
DADA BHAGWAN

Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unus...
DADA BHAGWAN

Control over anger-pride-deceit-greed is known as saiyam. Saiyam, in turn has two parts; in one, the...
DADA BHAGWAN

If you want to know the answer to ‘Who am I?’, then you will have to go to a Gnani purush [the e...
DADA BHAGWAN

The one, who does not have the ‘poison’ of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (...
DADA BHAGWAN

If the ‘effect’ is experienced, [karmic] bondage is created. If one experiences the ‘effects�...
DADA BHAGWAN

What should concentration (ekagrata) be like? Even whilst getting up-sitting down, eating-drinking o...
DADA BHAGWAN

Concentration (ekagrata) can only take place when, the unfolding of your karma assists you from with...
DADA BHAGWAN

What happens by doing ‘pratikraman’? The interferences that we have done (in the past), and its ...
DADA BHAGWAN

All these objections are raised by people, has God raised them? He who wants to be free (attain Libe...
DADA BHAGWAN

Grace of the Gnani’ [the enlightened one] will take you to moksha [ultimate liberation] and ‘Gra...
DADA BHAGWAN

If one wants to go to Mumbai from Baroda, he will ‘like’ all the signs towards the south. And if...
DADA BHAGWAN

If you are lost while travelling on the road, then if you ask a guide of the road, you will find the...
DADA BHAGWAN

Gnani’s [The enlightened one’s] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the ...
DADA BHAGWAN

It is Vitaraag vignan [the Spiritual Science of the Enlightened Ones] to look at gain, and to see lo...
DADA BHAGWAN

Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened ...
DADA BHAGWAN

The one who becomes free from all kinds of beggary is bestowed the state of a ‘Gnani’ [the enlig...
DADA BHAGWAN

You have to recognize the Knowledge of the Gnanis’ [the enlightened ones]. You have to recognize t...
DADA BHAGWAN

The worldly life relationships are that of selfishness. All relationships are relative (temporary). ...
DADA BHAGWAN

As long as kashay’s (anger, pride, deceit, greed) do not go away, you have not attained God’s re...
DADA BHAGWAN

Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understan...
DADA BHAGWAN

It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from t...
DADA BHAGWAN

The Lord has said to the worldly people, if someone possesses certain energies, by recalling that pe...
DADA BHAGWAN

What do the Vitaraag [the enlightened one] say? ‘If you want to continue to remain in the worldly ...
DADA BHAGWAN

Those who believe the worldly life interactions (vyavahaar) to be the real/true; developed high bloo...
DADA BHAGWAN

The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become conf...
DADA BHAGWAN

Absence of worldly misery - that is called eternal bliss.
DADA BHAGWAN

That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge.
DADA BHAGWAN

I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.

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I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.

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