{"quotes":[{"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":"Shukladhyan (pure contemplation of the Self, the Soul) means focused awareness of the eternal form of the Self, the Soul. Dhyan (contemplation or one’s focused effort) is a natural thing. And in pure applied awareness as Pure Soul (shuddha upayog), one must do spiritual effort with awareness of the separation of the Self and non-Self.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","awareness","self","shuddha-upayog","soul","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":4141,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"The body is doing the action, body’s spare-parts are doing the action and the egoism simply does the egoism of, ‘I did’! Subtle-pride of egoism is created from this doer-ship and one is living due entirely on this basis. He simply tastes the subtle-pride of doer-ship; ‘I did’, ‘I suffered this pain’, ‘I enjoyed that happiness’. The person who gets rid of this subtle-pride will get freedom. Why does one taste this sweetness of subtle-pride of doership from infinite lives? He does this because he has never before tasted the sweetness of the Soul.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["action","atma","doership","egoism","enjoy","freedom","happiness","living","pain","pride","soul","spiritual","spiritual","suffer","suffering"],"id":5693,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["abhorrence","atma","attachment","bitter-circumstance","circumstance","ignorance","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":5736,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Keeping ‘pure focused applied awareness of the Self (Soul)’ (shuddha upayog) is the same as being in the Absolute Supreme Self-form (Parmatma swaroop).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","awareness","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual","swaroop"],"id":7831,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the ‘Knowledge’ [of the Soul, one’s True Self] is to be enjoyed.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","bliss","knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual","the-self","the-soul","true-self"],"id":11048,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Other’s power, other’s enjoyments, other’s space, people have become the owners of that which does not belong to one’s self. If they become the owners of ‘Self’, death is no more; One is himself, the Absolute Supreme Soul.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","death","enjoy","enjoyment","life","owner","power","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":13884,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"All those that don’t allow us to do things for the Soul (our True Self), they are our opposers (kashays); we shouldn’t listen to them.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","kashay","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":20373,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Shukladhyan (pure contemplation of the Self, the Soul) is the direct cause for moksha (liberation). Dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to hurt no one, give happiness to others) is the indirect cause for moksh (liberation). Artadhyan (inner mournful contemplation that hurts the self) is a cause for a birth in animal life form (non-human). Raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others) is a cause for a life in hell.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["artadhyan","atma","dharmadhyan","happiness","hell","liberation","life","moksh","moksha","self","shukladhyan","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":21253,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["anger","atma","deceit","gnan","greed","kashay","pride","samkit","self","self-realization","soul","spiritual","spiritual","vision"],"id":35292,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":97,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}