Aptavani-5 Quotes

“Yet, the entire world is obligatory. Even getting married is obligatory. One cannot do without getting married.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-5

“Agnan (ignorance) is gnan (knowledge) also. Agnan is nothing else- it is not darkness. But it is a light to illuminate the non-Self. It is the light to show the non-Self. And Gnan illuminates the Self and the non-Self.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-5

“You have such knowledge that 'Vyavasthit (the result of Scientific Circumstantial Evidences) has broken the thing. The other person has not broken it. All of them are evidentiary doers (nimit).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-5

“Everyone is in their own inherent nature. No one has enmity towards anyone else. Rain is in its own inherent nature; it does not suit some people and it suits some people, however it [the rain] does not let go of its inherent nature. No one can become free from their own inherent nature!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-5

“Where one 'does' anything, there samkit (the right belief of 'I am pure Soul') cannot be attained.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-5

“The mind, intellect and chit are all carrying out their own functions. It is our interference in that. 'Our' does not mean of the Self. There is a wedge of ‘I’ in between these two. Why is egoism present? It is due to the rising of a ‘wrong belief’. ”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-5

“By spending time with a Gnani Purush (One who has realized the Self and is able to do the same for others), the wrong intellect becomes right, and thereafter the right understanding arises.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-5

“Understanding always makes one contented [absorbed]. At the last degree of contentment, there is Moksha [Liberation]. Intellect causes one to overflow and understanding causes one to become contented.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-5

“Where the world is inactive, the ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one] is active, and where the world is engaged in activities, there is inactivity on the ‘Gnani’s’ [the enlightened one] part! The activity of the world is run by the prakruti (relative self) only!”
― Dada Bhagwan, Aptavani-5