Vitarag Quotes & Sayings

If one man tells you to murder, you get a jail cell - if another man tells you to murder, you get medals and a pension. — Stefan Molyneux

What do the Vitraag Lords say? "I am Chandulal" is a Gneya (that which is to be known) yet one believes himself to be the knower. When the knower comes into the 'Knowing state (gnata padh) and that which is to be known, comes into the 'state of being known (gneya padh)', 'we' will call him 'Jitendriya-Jin'. — Dada Bhagwan

Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it. — Willie Aames

After getting respect, one will get an equal amount of insult, if not in this life then the next. If you taste even the slightest of pleasure from this body-complex [pudgal], you will have to pay back an equivalent amount. Therefore become attachment-free (vitarag). — Dada Bhagwan

What is the science of Vitraag (the enlightened ones free of attachment)? [It is that where] If one understands a single word of the Vitarag, there will be no pain. But one has not understood a single word of 'Vir', the Vitaraag Lord Mahavir [The 24th Tirthankar] — Dada Bhagwan

You're my dove,just like the one in the apartment,only much different.You're more special,more free,more human.You're my dove and I'm your keeper. — Emily James Ray

You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing. — Paul Watson

Rachmaninov's hands were big. My hands are small. But only hands small. — Richard Hyung-ki Joo

Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav). — Dada Bhagwan

Criticizing anyone is tantamount to criticizing their worship or devotion (aradhana). It is a grave mistake. It is fine if you cannot support someone, but do not criticize them at all. If there is any criticism, then there is no science of the Vitarag Lords [the enlightened ones]; there is no religion there at all, there is no oneness at all. — Dada Bhagwan

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action. — Mahatma Gandhi

As long as there is insistence of the truth, one cannot know the Vitarag Lord [the enlightened one]. — Dada Bhagwan

Wherever there is kashay, there is no religion of the Vitarag at all. God does not want one to renounce anything. One needs to become free from kashays. Kashay-free state is considered the religion of moksha, while renouncing is considered religion of the world. — Dada Bhagwan

I like to do talk show appearances where I get to just be myself, and I do stand-up where I can completely be myself. That's what I've always loved the most, of anything. — Norm MacDonald

A man must learn to forgive himself. — Arthur Davison Ficke

Vitarag's [the enlightened one's] 'water' (knowledge) will remove any kind of (karmic) 'stains'. — Dada Bhagwan

The self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out. — Walker Percy

The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones). — Dada Bhagwan

If attachment becomes fixed on a 'Gnani' [The enlightened one], then it becomes Real attachment (prashastaraag). It will get one's work done. It will uproot attachment in all other places. Because the Gnani is Vitarag, attachment-free. Attachment for a Vitarag gives liberation from all the suffering. — Dada Bhagwan

Chit's tendencies can become pure [transparent] in front of God, but people don't have this knowhow. The easiest solution to purify chit's tendencies is to associate with a person who has the least amount of desires and the ultimate solution to make them pure is the inner visual contemplation (niddidhyasan) of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones who are free of all attachments). — Dada Bhagwan

When everyone in the family is united, when they resolve their issues with each other and unite; it is called vitarag bhav, attachment-free intent. And to disunite is to have raag-dwesh, attachment-abhorrence remain. — 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