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Not knowing one's real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.

Not knowing one’s real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.
– Dada Bhagwan

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  2. You will not realize the absolute supreme Self (parmatma) unless the weakness departs. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the weaknesses. – Dada Bhagwan
  3. Maya (deceit) means ignorance of one’s own Self! – Dada Bhagwan
  4. A thing or one’s eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya! – Dada Bhagwan
  5. To imagine the Self where it is not, is called maya (deceit). – Dada Bhagwan
  6. Until ignorance, of one’s own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away. – Dada Bhagwan
  7. Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form. – Dada Bhagwan
  8. If one departs from the bliss of the Eternal, he will come across the happiness that is obtained from the temporary. – Dada Bhagwan
  9. When does complete awareness occur? When the ego departs. – Dada Bhagwan
  10. Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins. – Dada Bhagwan
  11. Who am I?’- Not knowing this is the greatest death to the Soul (one’s own self)! – Dada Bhagwan
  12. Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit. – Idries Shah
  13. Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it’s illusion… so how did you survive??? – Deyth Banger
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  15. The world is our own reflection. As long as there is deceit in you, others will deceive you. – Dada Bhagwan
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  17. Where there is anger-pride-deceit-greed [kashay], there is fire, and as long as there is fire, there will be scorching pain of the furnace. – Dada Bhagwan
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  19. The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani! – Dada Bhagwan
  20. Absence of Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is indeed bliss. – Dada Bhagwan
  21. Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal. – Dada Bhagwan
  22. People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti). – Dada Bhagwan
  23. A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? -œI am Pure Soul-, it is that Self. – Dada Bhagwan
  24. We’ are the self (chetan, Soul) and obstruction (antray) are non-self (achetan, non-Soul); therefore, the Self (chetan, Soul) shall win in the end! – Dada Bhagwan
  25. The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion). – Dada Bhagwan
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  30. Attachment-abhorrence is an -˜effect’ and ignorance (of the self) is the -˜cause’! – Dada Bhagwan
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  34. The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  35. Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived… Go, take up your real self! – Israelmore Ayivor
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  37. Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream. – Tom Althouse
  38. Worry is the greatest seed [cause] for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest egoism. If the egoism leaves, then worries will go away. – Dada Bhagwan
  39. …knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control. – Jordan Castillo Price
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