{"author":"Dada Bhagwan","author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan","total_quotes":1148,"quotes":[{"text":"What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["ego","egoism","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":826,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["adjustment","life","meditation","situations","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":1410,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["spiritual","spiritual","vision"],"id":2631,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"If one attains awareness of own’s own Self’s authority [power], even for a moment, he can become a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Self).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["absolute-supreme-self","awareness","moment","self-s-ity","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":2671,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["equanimity","misery","penance","spiritual","spiritual","tapa"],"id":2869,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"It is not possible to know ‘Who am I?’ by ‘doing’. ‘Doing’ (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, ‘Who am I’ cannot be known.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","ego","egoism","soul","spiritual","spiritual-science","who-am-i"],"id":2945,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Why does one ruminate about the past? He is treating his wounded egoism.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["egoism","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":3166,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"No one in this world is in a position to interfere with you. Therefore, do not find fault with the world; the fault is only yours. These are the echoes of interferences that you had caused. Had you not interfered, there would be no echoes that would hit you.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["echoes","spiritual","spiritual","what-is-fault-in-you"],"id":3405,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["good","religion","self-realization","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":3598,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Don’t speak of action [effect]. Don’t serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["achieve","action","effect","result","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":3646,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1148,"pages":115,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}