If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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Instead of superfluous, people believe it to be... DADA BHAGWAN There is nothing to fear in this world. Whatever happens, it happens to the body-complex [relative-s... DADA BHAGWAN The puzzle that is created by seeing the ‘relative’ is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would n... DADA BHAGWAN If someone says, "the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative’",... DADA BHAGWAN If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is a... DADA BHAGWAN Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There shoul... DADA BHAGWAN It is not worth having a burden about money. One breathes a sigh of relief when he deposits money in... DADA BHAGWAN Where one has become indifferent (nispruha), there pure love has not arisen. And where there is no p... DADA BHAGWAN To have indifference (nispruha) is also an offence and to be with inclination (saspruha) is also an ... DADA BHAGWAN If the outside [our outside circumstances] has become spoilt so be it, don’t let the inside [our i... DADA BHAGWAN Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa). DADA BHAGWAN It is called equanimity when one has no attachment with the good (the auspicious) and no abhorrence ... DADA BHAGWAN Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) an... DADA BHAGWAN God said to accept whatever circumstances that come along. Circumstance is a natural thing. In it, �... DADA BHAGWAN When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone thro... DADA BHAGWAN Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unus... DADA BHAGWAN Control over anger-pride-deceit-greed is known as saiyam. Saiyam, in turn has two parts; in one, the... DADA BHAGWAN If you want to know the answer to ‘Who am I?’, then you will have to go to a Gnani purush [the e... DADA BHAGWAN The one, who does not have the ‘poison’ of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (... DADA BHAGWAN If the ‘effect’ is experienced, [karmic] bondage is created. If one experiences the ‘effects�... DADA BHAGWAN What should concentration (ekagrata) be like? Even whilst getting up-sitting down, eating-drinking o... DADA BHAGWAN Concentration (ekagrata) can only take place when, the unfolding of your karma assists you from with... DADA BHAGWAN What happens by doing ‘pratikraman’? The interferences that we have done (in the past), and its ... DADA BHAGWAN All these objections are raised by people, has God raised them? He who wants to be free (attain Libe... DADA BHAGWAN Grace of the Gnani’ [the enlightened one] will take you to moksha [ultimate liberation] and ‘Gra... DADA BHAGWAN If one wants to go to Mumbai from Baroda, he will ‘like’ all the signs towards the south. And if... DADA BHAGWAN If you are lost while travelling on the road, then if you ask a guide of the road, you will find the... DADA BHAGWAN Gnani’s [The enlightened one’s] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the ... DADA BHAGWAN It is Vitaraag vignan [the Spiritual Science of the Enlightened Ones] to look at gain, and to see lo... DADA BHAGWAN Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened ... DADA BHAGWAN The one who becomes free from all kinds of beggary is bestowed the state of a ‘Gnani’ [the enlig... DADA BHAGWAN You have to recognize the Knowledge of the Gnanis’ [the enlightened ones]. You have to recognize t... DADA BHAGWAN The worldly life relationships are that of selfishness. All relationships are relative (temporary). ... DADA BHAGWAN As long as kashay’s (anger, pride, deceit, greed) do not go away, you have not attained God’s re... DADA BHAGWAN Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understan... DADA BHAGWAN It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from t... DADA BHAGWAN The Lord has said to the worldly people, if someone possesses certain energies, by recalling that pe... DADA BHAGWAN What do the Vitaraag [the enlightened one] say? ‘If you want to continue to remain in the worldly ... DADA BHAGWAN Those who believe the worldly life interactions (vyavahaar) to be the real/true; developed high bloo... DADA BHAGWAN The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become conf... DADA BHAGWAN Absence of worldly misery - that is called eternal bliss. DADA BHAGWAN That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge. DADA BHAGWAN