Generation Gap Quotes

“Son or daughter are not yours if you want to go to moksha (ultimate liberation). If you want to remain in the worldly life, then son and daughter are yours.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“If you have any compassion, then do not rebuke anyone in trying to improve them. He will surely meet someone who will crack his head to improve him.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Only he who has become straightforward himself, can improve others.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Do not try to improve anyone, but try and improve your own self. Even the Tirthankars (Omniscients) had not done egoism of improving others, they had come just to give the gift of liberation.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Prakruti (relative self) does not improve or come under control through fear or intimidation. Fear or intimidation is what has given rise to the world. It actually spoils the prakruti even more.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“A father will not keep looking for faults in his children if he is very religious/pious. One should not see faults in a prakruti (relative self). When one does that, it reaches the God within that prakruti. Prakruti is predetermined, it is vyavasthit (result of scientific circumstantial evidence).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“In a home, where the mother is strict, the son will be inept in proper worldly interactions.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“One is considered as a son if he were to remove all of his father's troubles.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“If your son has grown up and talks back at you, realize that he is your ‘thermometer’ (gauge). Where can you get a ‘thermometer’ to gauge how much dharma (virtues) has resulted within you? When you have a ‘thermometer’ at home, you do not have to go out”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“When ownership of speech ends, there is the end of ‘us’ (relative self).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“One becomes like the one upon whom he has unparalleled (exclusive) faith. But it is extremely difficult for unparalleled faith to arise.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“The one who misses out on remaining as the Self (Nischay), his worldly interactions (vyavahaar) can never really be ‘vyavahaar’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“We have to complete both tracks. The track of liberation (moksha) and the track of the relative (vyavahaar; worldly interactions). There should not be the slightest deficiency in the interactions of worldly life. Where there is a deficiency in the relative, there final liberation cannot be attained.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“What is saiyam? It is a state in which One remains unaffected by the effects of both, upsarga (externally induced suffering) and parishaha (internally induced affliction). And if one were to get affected, then One would simply continue to Know the effect but would not suffer (vedey) the effect. And even if he were to suffer the effect, He would still simply Know it; that is known as saiyam.     ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“The entire worldly interaction is simply 'relative', it is subject to external factors such as scientific circumstantial evidences (paradhin). Everything that is 'relative' is false (polu), it is not real. That which is true (nakkar) is considered as real.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“What is considered as a vow (vrat)? For this Dada [Gnani Purush], the five mahavrats (great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing, and celibacy as expounded by Lord Mahavir) prevail at all times! He lives in wordly life yet He prevails in the mahavrats, what must that be like? One in whom pudgal pariniti (the belief that 'I am doing' in what are the results of the non-Self) does not arise at all! Where there is mahavrat, there is no pudgal pariniti. And where there is anuvrat (observance of minor religious vows), there to a certain extent, pudgal pariniti is present and to certain extent, it has also decreased!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“You cannot baselessly say, "It is destined." Nor can you baselessly say, "It is not destined." That is a liability, it would be a fault. It [the outcome] is in between 'it is destined-it is not destined'. If the pocket gets picked even after taking all the precautions, to understand that as 'vyavasthit' is exact.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“All the rules are encompassed within scientific circumstantial evidences. Even niyati (natural flow of progress of an embodied soul) is incorporated within vyavasthit.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Suppose you want to go to Juhu (suburb in Mumbai) from here, and you come across two paths, which of the two paths is correct? The directions you get from someone, you would get there on the basis of that knowledge. This action (kriya) is indeed being driven by knowledge.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“What does the satsang (spiritual discourse) also ultimately state? Do not 'do'. Just keep Seeing the effect that unfolds.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Saiyam parinaam (a resultant state that is free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) means a state where both, Atma parinaam (the result of the Selfl) and pudgal parinaam (the result of the non-Self) remain separate exactly as they should.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“No matter how wise a person is, but that is still an attribute of the non-Self, isn't it? And if one becomes attached to the attributes of the non-Self, then he has become attached to the non-Self!!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“One has to understand [Who am I? and Who is the doer?] and become one [with the Self]. Those who have tried to 'do' will never attain liberation. The one who 'does' becomes 'the doer' and the One who understands, becomes the form [as the Self]!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“People understand the gross laws, that is why they abide by them. Those who understand the subtle laws, do not collide in subtle places. Those who abide by the subtler laws, do not collide in the subtler places and those who abide by the subtlest laws, do not collide in the subtlest places.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Nature is not any living thing. It has generosity, why is that so? We ourselves are God. Therefore, it is partial towards God, but we don't value nature.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Whether the brain works or does not work, nature fulfils all of one's necessities. The tea may be produced in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), but early in the morning one gets to drink tea here in Mumbai. That is how all this is!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Wherever there is the slightest sense of doership, then it is an intent of bondage. How can you lay a false claim over an intrinsic property that has a specific function (gunadharma) that you do not have?”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“If your merit karma is unfolding, then the other person will speak well of you; and if your demerit karma is unfolding, then the other person will curse at you. Who is at fault in this? Therefore, you should say, "It is definitely my unfolding karma and the other person is just an evidentiary doer (nimit)." By doing so, our karmic fault will fall off (discharge) and no new one will be bound.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“The world is in its inherent nature (swabhaav). Satyug (era of the time cycle that is characterized by unity in thoughts, speech, and action), Kaliyug (the current era of the time cycle, which is characterized by lack of unity in thought, speech, and action) is based on the intents of people!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Dispassion for worldly life (vairaag) will persist only if there is discretion (vivek) between that which is appropriate and that which is inappropriate, otherwise dispassion for worldly life can never last. The discretion between that which is appropriate and that which is inappropriate comes through the Knowledge of the Self (Gnan).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap