That which takes one away from religion (dharma) is bad company (kusang).
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DADA BHAGWAN Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality an...
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UNKNOWN Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist ...
DADA BHAGWAN For the one whose association improves, everything indeed improves. Everything indeed gets ruined, f...
DADA BHAGWAN The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own o...
JA RULE Dharma is something that one discovers, because one cannot create something that is already there.
VD. Dharma is something that one discovers because one cannot create something that is already there.
VD. From the Dharma should one see the Buddhas, From the dharma-bodies come their guidance. Yet dharma's...
BUDDHA Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted
ANDRE MALRAUX This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.
CHARLES FROHMAN With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...
STEVEN WEINBERG Dharma (function or properties) of the mind, dharma of the intellect, dharma of the chit, dharma of ...
DADA BHAGWAN What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
GEORGE HERBERT Dada covers things with an artificial tenderness. It is snowing butterflies that have escaped from a...
TRISTAN TZARA Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma
China could not have invaded.
(in reference to violation of Bu...
DALAI LAMA Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things...
STEVEN WEINBERG Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from
JOHN ERSKINE That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generati...
JOHN A. WIDTSOE But it takes me away from my expertise. It's not intellectual capital, which is what we're allegedly...
BRAD SASSER Dharma is found because one cannot create what is already there.
VD. The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
SOL LEWITT Justin's had a bad calf and a bad Achilles' for about five weeks. That takes away a little bit of yo...
MIKE HEIMERDINGER I think (the layoff) hurt us. Having that layoff is good to nurse injuries, but it also kind of take...
LON BALUM Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away
HAROLD KUSHNER My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada...
NIGEL BARKER A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person ...
AMISH TRIPATHI Anger and blaming others takes a lot of energy away from healing. One of the most powerful emotions ...
CANDACE PERT Whatsoever things that are positive, think on these things. Positive adds value, negative takes away...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE You may be able to get away with bad habits 10 times. But all it takes is one time and the law of av...
JAY OFSANIK One of the big benefits is getting our kids away from home, sharing (motel) rooms. The camaraderie, ...
GREG GARRISON The mama of dada
CLIFTON FADIMAN There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, yo...
KAREN ARMSTRONG Les gens créent de gros problèmes à partir de rien. Vous les créez car sans problème vous vous ...
DHARMA Irony takes nothing away from pathos.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Seagull you fly against the horizon
Into a misty morning sun
Seagull you must have known
The shape o...
MEMBERS OF BAD COMPANY A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion...
MOHANDAS GANDHI atrociously bad behavior from a company with a history of atrociously bad behavior.
CRAIG CONWAY The fire company helps out when it can, but any money they spend on the quick-response service (take...
FRANK THOMPSON My son is going through a Daddy thing. It's always Dada, Dada, Dada. I'm like, 'What about me? Mama!...
HELENA BONHAM CARTER My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pr...
MAHATMA GANDHI It is strange to see a human being has two faces! The second one always takes excuses from the first...
DEVASKI The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
BODHIDHARMA But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from ...
BIBLE But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from he...
BIBLE Walk away from anything or anyone who
takes you away from your joy. Life is too short to
put up with...
GUNDO MULAUDZI Oh beloved, Take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything,...
ZEESHAN NAJAFI The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of t...
ANITA RODDICK It is a negatively developing story. When a company cuts its dividend, that screams 'run away from t...
JOHN ATKINS Any religion which claims to be the only right one is the wrong one.
RAIN BOJANGLES Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The nature of things is dharma.
MAHAVIRA A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
JAMES FEIBLEMAN No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. [John 10:18]
BIBLE Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
VERONICA ROTH Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
PAT BUCKLEY A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
C.S. LEWIS I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of Ameri...
JOSEPHINE BAKER Instead of living together (in a joint family) with a difference of opinions, it is better to live s...
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DADA BHAGWAN People have the right to criticize you. You do not have the right to criticize anyone.
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DADA BHAGWAN The path of spirituality is a path where one has to keep on reducing his wishes for worldly happines...
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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).
DADA BHAGWAN 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 Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also throug...
DADA BHAGWAN This worldly knowledge is not called (Real) Knowledge. It is worldly knowledge. The scriptural knowl...
DADA BHAGWAN He who has conquered his internal enemies, to such an Arihant, I bow down to them. Learn to recogniz...
DADA BHAGWAN People lose their powers (siddhi) by nagging; therefore know ‘as it is’. Know all these relation...
DADA BHAGWAN Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence ...
DADA BHAGWAN By acquiring Gnan (true worldly knowledge) one can tell 'what is right' and 'what is wrong', it make...
DADA BHAGWAN To reside in the place which makes you forget worldly life, and to move away from the place that ent...
DADA BHAGWAN Man has obeyed commands of the Mother, the Father, the Guru; but he has not obeyed the commands of �...
DADA BHAGWAN He insulted me’ -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.
DADA BHAGWAN Everything is happening according to the ‘drawing’ [past causes], You just have to ‘see’ the...
DADA BHAGWAN One will have to devoutly contemplate only about the destination he wants to arrive at, otherwise he...
DADA BHAGWAN What do worldly (non Self-realised) people do? They feel uneasy the moment a guest arrives. The husb...
DADA BHAGWAN When there is no peace in prosperity, then how can there be peace in misfortune? Happiness is not in...
DADA BHAGWAN Patience is not something that you keep; patience is something that you learn. How is patience learn...
DADA BHAGWAN In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become f...
DADA BHAGWAN No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!
DADA BHAGWAN Even if one incurs a loss, he should expose this fact to the other person. This way the intent the o...
DADA BHAGWAN No one can displease/aggravate others and yet attain moksha. Remain calm when someone displease/aggr...
DADA BHAGWAN Everything depends upon 'normality'. If there is normality, then not even the slightest difficulty w...
DADA BHAGWAN People understand the gross laws, that is why they abide by them. Those who understand the subtle la...
DADA BHAGWAN If the laws of traffic are honored, then the car will not collide anywhere. If you abide by all kind...
DADA BHAGWAN If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only.
DADA BHAGWAN Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a ‘weakness’.
DADA BHAGWAN The Lord has said that the relative (vyavahaar) is entirely that which needs to be settled (discharg...
DADA BHAGWAN The Lord is simply saying, "Worldly interactions should be conducted in such a way that it does not ...
DADA BHAGWAN Our opinion is, 'Nobody is at fault.' If someone appears to be at fault, then that is our weakness.�...
DADA BHAGWAN God doesn’t need to be a witness. He doesn’t need to go to a court, does he? ‘You’ are the o...
DADA BHAGWAN People say, 'that bump caused me to trip', but the bump says, 'I am where I have always been. It's t...
DADA BHAGWAN As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may ha...
DADA BHAGWAN The marriage and all other worldly occasions have to be dealt with. You do it and so do ‘I’. You...
DADA BHAGWAN Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality an...
DADA BHAGWAN The world is ‘charging’ by nature itself. The ‘discharge’ part is just a ‘reaction’.
DADA BHAGWAN Changes can be made at the time of planning (charging of new karma), however once those plans [disch...
DADA BHAGWAN If the new charging is going on [for next life by wrong belief that 'This is mine'], while [past lif...
DADA BHAGWAN The One who can make one forget (vismrut) the world, is indeed the very One who can bring an end to ...
DADA BHAGWAN The whole world can be explained in just one sentence. ‘What is being discharged (visarjan) is old...
DADA BHAGWAN To run the worldly life, Egoism is not required. To bind [karma] for the next life, Egoism is requir...
DADA BHAGWAN Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if one does not have ‘knowledge o...
DADA BHAGWAN One’ is not a doer in this world. Where he believes that he is the doer, there is ‘charging’ (...
DADA BHAGWAN Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances...
DADA BHAGWAN Where the ‘charging’ (of karma) stops, there lies the symptoms (signs) of attaining moksha.
DADA BHAGWAN The mind and the chit are discharging and the world has believed them to be ‘charge’. That is wh...
DADA BHAGWAN It is called as ‘discharge’ (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes.
DADA BHAGWAN Where one does not do planning, it is all pure ‘discharge’. ‘Charge’ occurs where there is p...
DADA BHAGWAN Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can...
DADA BHAGWAN True religion is that which does not let you stumble.
DADA BHAGWAN There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the m...
DADA BHAGWAN This ‘Akram science’ does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutel...
DADA BHAGWAN One becomes independent (free) from the moment one realizes the principle that, ‘No living being i...
DADA BHAGWAN On what basis is the entire worldly life in existence? It is due to conflicts.
DADA BHAGWAN View Point’ is that which gives rise to difference of opinions.
DADA BHAGWAN Where difference of opinions arises, to retract our words is a sign of a wise man.
DADA BHAGWAN When you do pratikraman after conflict, the conflict is erased. When you give rise to new conflicts,...
DADA BHAGWAN If at all the energies of the Soul (Atmashakti) gets wasted, it is due to conflicts. Endless energy ...
DADA BHAGWAN How does ‘common sense’ arise? Through conflicts. During conflicts, if one does not clash with a...
DADA BHAGWAN Criminal’ pompousness will not do; ‘civil’ pompousness is acceptable.
DADA BHAGWAN There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurit...
DADA BHAGWAN As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much ...
DADA BHAGWAN Where there is no ‘superior’, no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vita...
DADA BHAGWAN No living being can ever “hitch” another living being. If one were able to “hitch” another, ...
DADA BHAGWAN The one who has become free from all mistakes, he has no superior over him; he needs no one to repri...
DADA BHAGWAN When one does not like to have ‘underhand’, then automatically, he will not have a superior. Tha...
DADA BHAGWAN For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, ...
DADA BHAGWAN Does one have to get married just to get something to eat! The husband realizes, 'I can go earn mone...
DADA BHAGWAN Yet, the entire world is obligatory. Even getting married is obligatory. One cannot do without getti...
DADA BHAGWAN Just look at that, what kind of worldly life has arisen with the coming together of these two, jada ...
DADA BHAGWAN If you are in ‘motion’ than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are ‘emotional’ t...
DADA BHAGWAN Whatever one does without the right belief (samkit - Self-realization) will lead to karmic bondage. ...
DADA BHAGWAN Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the...
DADA BHAGWAN Charity (Daan) means to make another living being happy, whether it is a human being or some animals...
DADA BHAGWAN To give money towards a good cause is not under our control. You can have the intent (of giving), bu...
DADA BHAGWAN In fact, without renunciation (tyaag), nothing [no spiritual development] can happen. Renunciation ...
DADA BHAGWAN In saying the word ‘Sachchidanand’ [sat-chit-anand, eternal knowledge and vision leading to blis...
DADA BHAGWAN Clashes should not occur whatsoever. Due to conflicts only have the energies diminished. Regardless ...
DADA BHAGWAN In this world we do not have to become the doer, we have to become nimit [an instrument, one of the ...
DADA BHAGWAN You can remain faultless only when you constantly remain as a nimit [instrument, one of the doer and...
DADA BHAGWAN There is no place for beggary [wanting things from others] in the current era. The law of vyavasthit...
DADA BHAGWAN No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world ...
DADA BHAGWAN What is the difference between disrespect (avinay) and despise (viradhana)? Disrespect (avinay) mean...
DADA BHAGWAN There are two kinds of beliefs in this world. Impure beliefs are illusory beliefs. The pure belief i...
DADA BHAGWAN Who is able to prevail in the present? The One who says, "Yes.
DADA BHAGWAN The one with form (sakaar; self) will have to be made formless (nirakaar, Self). The Self is formles...
DADA BHAGWAN The world is going on [naturally]. Is it acceptable for the driver to say, "I am driving it," when i...
DADA BHAGWAN You are not the 'doer' of this, there is a mistake in your belief. For the work that is not Yours, y...
DADA BHAGWAN It is due to one’s own mistake that the world continues to be remembered. Whatever keeps coming to...
DADA BHAGWAN As one begins to see his own mistakes, the world will be forgotten and freedom from the effects of m...
DADA BHAGWAN Moksha is not difficult if one meets a ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one]. If one believes tha...
DADA BHAGWAN When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come...
DADA BHAGWAN One can give ‘correct’ opinion only if one has an open mind.
DADA BHAGWAN One who keeps an 'open mind' will be able to see God!
DADA BHAGWAN In reality, those who cheat are indeed the ones who get cheated. Those who are cheated will gain exp...
DADA BHAGWAN When others try to provoke (instigate) you and you don’t get provoked, it is known as a spiritual ...
DADA BHAGWAN When you ‘oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone,...
DADA BHAGWAN What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates co...
DADA BHAGWAN All the pains are caused from going against the ‘nature’! 'Nature' adjusts everything but one do...
DADA BHAGWAN Women have an encircling wall of deceit around them; therefore, they are not aware of deception, it ...
DADA BHAGWAN When no trace of one’s know-how [capable to do something or everything] remains, one will be endow...
DADA BHAGWAN What do people say? They say count every karma and destroy them. When can that be ever accomplished?...
DADA BHAGWAN To remain lying on thorns (kanta) is called boredom (kantado).
DADA BHAGWAN What harm does lying cause? One loses people’s trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthle...
DADA BHAGWAN That which is external, it is instrumental (naimitik); it is relative and it is perishable [destruct...
DADA BHAGWAN One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob hi...
DADA BHAGWAN Don’t some people say, ‘You did not value me’? What value did you have at all? Go ask the ocea...
DADA BHAGWAN When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet ...
DADA BHAGWAN If your instigations stop, then there will not be anyone to instigate you. All these are indeed the ...
DADA BHAGWAN If the fruit (of your effort) is to your expectations, it is the effect (prarabdha, result) of your ...
DADA BHAGWAN Don’t speak of action [effect]. Don’t serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the c...
DADA BHAGWAN Many preach that do this way, do that way, have faith, speak the truth, have patience. These are all...
DADA BHAGWAN Disturbing anything [situation] results in damage. To improve, you do not need to disturb anything t...
DADA BHAGWAN There is no point in worrying about the effect [result], which has already occurred. It is worth pay...
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