What are the symptoms of a greedy nature? To keep on accumulating things, saving stuff, to become happy if one gets something or when one gets something for cheap or gets more quantity for less price; even after earning a lot of money to still constantly think about how to earn more - are all signs of a greedy nature. If a greedy person has to leave something, he becomes restless.This greedy nature is at work not only during earning and spending money but also during all...

What is the reason of these worldly entanglements? Ignorance of one's true self is the main cause which then leads to attachment-abhorrence in worldly life. Deceit and greed are forms of attachment whereas anger and pride are forms of abhorrence. After attaining Knowledge of the Self, ignorance leaves. What remains then, is to empty the stock of anger-pride-deceit-greed. The sooner one knows them and stays in its opposition, they tend to leave. In anger-pride-deceit-gree...

After attaining Knowledge of the Self through Akram Vignan and following the 5 principles of Dadashri, new karmas stop charging & past karmas are settled with equanimity. Now where should we put our real spiritual efforts? Dadashri says, that since infinite lives, we have karmic accounts of attachment-abhorrence with each & every person we come across in our life and because of which these people come in our contact in this life as family members or through work or as fr...

Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan often said, "The one that you see is A. M. Patel of Bhadran village, whose business is of a Contractor & I am Gnani Purush, whereas Dada Bhagwan is the one who is manifested within me, he is the God of the 14 worlds. Even I bow down to Dada Bhagwan. I am short of 4 degrees for attaining the absolute knowledge, we have reached till 356 degrees & Dada Bhagwan is in complete form at 360 degrees." It is not possible to attain absolute knowledge in th...

Some people in this world are unable to forget things that they want to forget. At the same time some other people are not able to remember things that they want to remember. Despite studying hard, some students are unable to remember; whereas others remember with ease. Some people know all the scriptures by heart whereas some need books even to read out small verses. To forget worldly pains, many people take support of alcohol-drugs while others engage themselves in dev...

All the truths of worldly life are relative in nature. If we keep our insistence on them we will end up binding ourselves and we will keep on wandering life after life. We should put forth even the right thing very humbly and that too only twice, and if then the other person doesn't agree to it, we should leave it the 3rd time. We should understand in our mind that he his correct by his view point. What does the Soul anyways have to do with all these worldly matters? If ...

Whomsoever we ask, will say that one should not live with morality & honesty in today's time. In fact, people experience more difficulty if they try to do their business morally and honestly. Stressing on the importance of morality & honesty, Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan says, "Where ever, any human being lives his/her life with honesty & morality, there lies the abode of the 24 Tirthankaras." Honesty is the biggest license to God. Dadashri further says, "Dishonesty is the b...

Why is it that inspite of doing so much of penance, sacrifice, meditation & spiritual endeavor, we are still unable to attain liberation? It is nothing else but our obstinacy that hinders our liberation. A snake cannot enter his hole if he is is all twisted & curled up. He has to become straight to enter his hole. Similarly, even we humans have to become straight & simple to attain liberation. Only after all the obstinacy ends, we can attain the stage of a self realized ...

In worldly language we often hear people saying that I have strong determination to not eat sweets or my mind does not remain stable, etc. Worldly people show various ways to progress from the state of 'I-ness or My-ness' to a state 'without I-ness or My-ness'. But despite of using all these ways one is unable to attain such a state. It is only by the grace of a Gnani Purush that one can naturally leave the state of 'I-ness or My-ness' and attain the state 'without I-nes...

Many people complain that whenever they sit to chant God's name, their mind wanders off. So then they look for ways to pacify & stabilize their mind. But they fail to do so. Why? Because in reality it is not the mind that wanders off, it is the Chit (subtle component of vision & knowledge in the inner functioning instrument called antahkaran) that wanders. The reason being, Chit is looking for eternal bliss of Soul (Self) since times infinite, but has failed to find it. ...

People are constantly experiencing mental, physical & externally induced suffering because of ignorance & inner enemies of anger-pride-deceit-greed. That's why the ones who have attained 'Self' have immense compassion towards worldly people. They have strong inner intent that everyone should experience same eternal happiness that they have experienced. Gnani Purush always thinks about salvation of world. From past many lifetimes, Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan had strong inner...

If we want to attain salvation, whom should we listen to & follow? The one, who has freed himself from attachment-abhorrence-ignorance, can only help others get free of it. Therefore, only by following the vision of absolutely enlightened ones, we can get rid of worldly cycle. A Gnani Purush is at a stage which is very near to that of the absolutely enlightened ones. Therefore, only he can drive us in the right direction i.e. towards the path of absolutely enlightened on...

Are we really affected by planets of this universe? Are they sitting idle that they will come & cause hurdles for us? In reality, it is the 9 planets inside us that affect us - Overt insistence, Excessive and undue insistence, Obstinacy of viewpoint, Deluded belief, Stubbornness, Dogma, Prejudice, Insistence on what one believes to be the truth, Possessiveness. Astrologers often say that certain planet is affecting us, so we should perform rituals to get peace, don't the...

According to various scriptures of this world, what is the main reason for entanglement of creatures in this worldly cycle? Illusion. But what is illusion? What is its form? Unless we understand these things how can we get rid of illusion? Illusion exists not only with respect to Soul but also with respect to thousands of worldly things. We have assumed happiness even where there is none. 'I am doer' is another illusion and the ignorance of one's real self is the biggest...

In today's time, who doesn't face problems & difficulties in life? Everybody has problems whether rich or poor, businessman or employed, healthy or sick, husband or wife. In such times, Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan gives open guarantee that give all your suffering & difficulties to us and keep your happiness with you. It is the experience of thousands of followers that after attaining Knowledge of Self from Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, all their worries, suffering and tensions ...

This world is in existence since times immemorial. We are living this life but still we are ignorant about main facts of life. Isn’t it a contradiction in itself that inspite of knowing that nothing happens as per our will, we still attempt to do things according to our will? How much 'doership' do we have in digestion? Can we really control our anger? Do we have control over our bowel movements? If we are 'Doer', then we would make sure that we only make profits in our ...

What is the reason for our wandering in this worldly life since infinite lifetimes? Deluded Belief. We are unable to get rid of this worldly cycle because neither we know what deluded belief is nor we know what right belief is nor do we know the right path to attain right belief and get rid of deluded belief. In this edition of Dadavani, Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan explains with simplicity what is the form of deluded belief, how to identify deluded belief, what is right bel...

Money of this Kalyug gives suffering at any point - while earning it, while taking care of it even while spending it! If throughout the day one is occupied by thoughts of how to save money then one has the tuber of greed. The intellect then shows ways & means to save money, to increase money, to earn more interest, to invest in stock market & earn returns, etc. One expands the business with intention to earn more but in turn gets stuck in recovering money and becomes sad...

As long as there is ignorance, ego is alive and it is constantly under doership of something or the other. 'I am something’; ‘I want to become big'- all this leads one into comparison with others and gives rise to competition. There is nothing wrong with progressing in life but if we do not have the capability to progress then we start thinking about ways to hinder or obstruct other person's progress so that we get ahead of them. It is this kind of competition that cause...

All creatures of this world are in search of happiness. Nobody likes unhappiness. Animals & birds are in their natural state whereas we humans are in an unnatural state. Due to this we tend to attain happiness from various imaginary things. But after this happiness there is always unhappiness. Therefore this happiness is not real happiness. Real happiness is that which stays even during difficult times, that which is eternal. In this edition of Dadavani, Param Pujya Dada...