Self Realized Quotes

“Where the Self [Soul] is forgotten; that place is not ours.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The Knower of the Soul is considered Self Realized (The Enlightened one). The knower of all the eternal elements is known as Omniscient (sarvagna).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Moksha (ultimate liberation) cannot be attained until purity arises. To attain purity one has to realize ‘Who am I?”
― Dada Bhagwan

“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’?”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Knowledge that brings closure [settlement] to the mind in every way is Absolute Knowledge and it indeed is the all encompassing Knowledge that always gives complete closure [settlement, solutions].”
― Dada Bhagwan

“One is said to be enlightened with the Right Knowledge when his conduct is appropriate in any situation.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“One who does wrong is considered illusioned (mithyatvi - ignorance of the Self). One who does right is considered enlightened (samkit).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within ‘why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“When a man’s trust is violated, he will leave even his friend. Hey, you shouldn’t leave him! There is the energy of the absolute Self within and if the knowledge of the Self is attained, one may even attain the state of the absolute-Self!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We are unable to hear the voice leading to our own salvation until we fall into the depths of an abbess manufactured by living a heedless life. From this state of floundering in the gloomy lagoon, we can awaken to find the light bearing the seeds of truth that will redeem us. Looking inward, we overcome stubborn resistance, and we revivify long lost and forgotten powers. The experience of soul-searching perspicacity transfigures us. We might even feel as if we died a spiritual death and then we were reborn. From our dark pit, a shaft of light emerges.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The greatest wonder of this world is the “Soul”. Once It is realized (attained), everything is attained!!!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Samkit’ (right belief) means knowing the Soul (self).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Who am I?’- Not knowing this is the greatest death to the Soul (one’s own self)!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“What does ‘experience of the soul’ mean? It is a state of constant eternal bliss.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The person whose attention is in the ‘pure Soul’ is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person; they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an ‘above normal’ state.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal,’ it should be ‘normal’.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“A true swarthi (interested in the Self) will become the absolute Self! This is considered paraartha (for the non-Self). A swarthi will attain the ‘Self’.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“One achieves the Self-state (swa-artha) while searching for the highest truth (param-artha). The search for the highest truth is solely for the purpose of attaining the Self, and once the Self is attained there is no need to search for the highest truth.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“It is a mistake to believe other person to be estranged. They all are our own Self’s-forms. However, that has to be realized, right? To believe the other person to be an alien means giving him a beating and that hurts our own-Self.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“A feistiness of spirit girds us in the most treacherous of moments. A metamorphosis of spirit often occurs after a person conscientiously surveys the resultant outcome of surviving a momentous ordeal and they transfigure personal heartache into a magnanimous manner of living in a just and righteous manner.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply ‘Sees’.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“If you meet a ‘Gnani’ (a Self-realized One), then you simply have to understand [what He says], whereas if you meet a renunciate, then the entire point is of 'doing'; you have to 'do' what he shows you to 'do'. Everything that you have to 'do' is [considered as] worldly life.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Guru and The Disciple

“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

“A person has numerous resources available for learning including observing nature and witnessing how other people behave. We can examine other people lives to find clues how to live, but ultimately we must develop a personal code of living a sterling existence.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls