{"quotes":[{"text":"The absence of inner intent for kashays is the same as the inner intent of the absolute Self (Parmatma). If one’s kashays are gone, then he becomes the ‘owner’ of the whole universe.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["god","knowledge-of-the-self","self","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":8031,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Ignorance’ (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and ‘Knowledge’ (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["cause","effect","ignorance","karma","knowledge","knowledge-of-the-self","self-knowledge","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":10438,"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":"Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["attachment","doership","ego","gnan","ignorance","innate-nature","knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","prakruti","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":14556,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"In the time before Gnan (time before 1958 when Dada Bhagwan got manifested) there was obstinacy within me. ‘I’ discovered that obstinacy does not let the light of Gnan (Eternal Knowledge) to come through. Then I saw all that obstinacy, and it was destroyed. Thereafter the Gnan (Eternal Knowledge) manifested. One has to observe one’s own self that where lies the obstinacies. The Self is an observatory itself.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["dada-bhagwan","gnan","knowledge","knowledge-of-the-self","obstinacy","obstinate","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":18877,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Right knowledge (samikit) means right vision. What does the wrong vision do? It will make one say, ‘this person caused me a loss. This person profited me. That person insulted me. That person hurt me. This person made me happy.’ There is no one out there giving you pain or pleasure! Indeed, it is all within you.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["knowledge-of-the-self","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":23356,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Why is there so much problem just to know one’s own Soul? The Soul resides in one’s own abode (body), but one doesn’t know it and then he says, ‘I know this and I know that so’. Instead why don’t you get to know your own ‘Self’?","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["know-yourself","knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","self","self-realisation","self-realised","self-realization","self-realized","soul","soul-definition","soul-meaning","spiritual","spiritual","the-self","the-soul","who-am-i"],"id":35015,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","religion","religions","religious","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","the-self","the-soul"],"id":37109,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["atma","bliss","eternal","eternal bliss","happiness","happy","knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","self","self-realisation","self-realised","self-realization","self-realized","soul","spiritual","spiritual","the-self","the-soul"],"id":39075,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Dharma (function or properties) of the mind, dharma of the intellect, dharma of the chit, dharma of the ego – when all these dharma and the dharma of the Self (Soul) come into their own dharma (functions); that is known as Gnan (Knowledge of Self). And if we (self) insist upon any one’s dharma; it becomes ignorance (agnan).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["agnan","agyan","dharma","ego","gnan","gyan","intellect","knowledge-of-self","knowledge-of-the-self","mind","self","self-knowledge","soul","spiritual","spiritual","the-self","the-soul"],"id":45024,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}