Aptavani:
Volume One
The Gnani
Purush unfolds the mysteries and secrets of Akram Vignan
Dharma – Religion; One’s
Duty
‘What is dharma?’
It is anything that remains
in and results in, reverts to, its own intrinsic properties.
Dharma means one’s intrinsic
nature and properties.
For example, when can you
call gold as gold? It is only when it
exhibits the properties that are intrinsic to gold. Another example is if these
grapes are bitter, then you could say that it does not exhibit its intrinsic
property and nature. Brass can look and shine just like gold if it is polished
enough. But if a goldsmith were to test it, he would be able to tell that it is
not gold from the intrinsic properties of that metal.
There are two mangoes in
front of you. One mango has an aroma,
given time it will become a little dry, the skin will shrivel and will
eventually begin to rot. The other one
looks exactly like a mango, only it is made out of wood. It does not have the aroma; it will not
shrivel or rot. They are both mangoes, but one does not have the qualities of a
real mango. The real mango will exhibit
its natural properties. It can only be called a mango if it has and remains
within its natural attributes.
Similarly you can say that a
thing is in its innate nature, dharma, if it exhibits its innate nature. The belief,
‘I am the body’, or to believe the body, the non-Self, to be your real
identity is dharma of another (par-dharma).
To believe the Self as the Self is one’s own dharma, nature
(swa-dharma). That is atma-dharma,
dharma of the Self.
Dadashri: Who Are You?
Questioner: I am Chandulal.
Dadashri: What is your name?
Questioner: My name is Chandulal.
Dadashri: Do you see a contradiction in ‘I am Chandulal’ and
‘my name is Chandulal’? How can the name and the entity it belongs to, be one
and the same? When a person dies, his
name is taken away from him during his funeral rites, is it not? It is even removed from the census records.
Who does this hand belong
to? Who does this leg belong to?
Questioner: They are mine.
Dadashri: They are all parts of this body. What is yours in
all that? Who does the mind within you belong to?
Questioner: It is mine.
Dadashri: What about the speech?
Questioner: It is mine.
Dadashri: Whose body is this?
Questioner: That is mine too.
Dadashri: When you say that, ‘it is mine’, do you get the
thought that the owner of these body parts is separate from the body?
Questioner: Yes I do.
Dadashri: Then have you ever wondered who you really are?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri: Before you purchased this watch or even the clothes you are
wearing, you checked to see if they were of good quality. Even when you were looking for a wife, you
looked very closely to see what she was like before you married her, did you
not?
Questioner: Yes Dada.
Dadashri: So then have you ever inquired about your own Self?
t Have you thought about what is temporary and what is permanent? “All these
are temporary adjustments.” When You, the real Self, which is permanent mix it
up with temporary things, how can you find the answer? If your equation is
wrong to begin with, how will you find the correct answer?
Would you call this a
trivial or a major blunder on your part that you have not realized your real
Self?
Questioner: It is a huge mistake. It is a blunder Dada!
Dadashri: Who do you think created
this world?
Questioner: ………
Dadashri: Say whatever is in your
imagination. We are not here to pass or fail anyone.
Questioner: God may have created it.
Dadashri: Why did God to create this
world? Did he have any unmarried
children he needed to marry? Where does God live? What is his address? Is there
such a thing as liberation, moksha?
Questioner: Of course there is liberation.
Dadashri: If God is the creator this
world and if there is such a thing as liberation, then there is an absolute
contradiction here.
Questioner: Dada, how is this a contradiction?
Dadashri: If God is your superior and
he was to grant you liberation, then you would have to do whatever he tells
you. That means that he can dictate what you do. So how can you call that
liberation? Liberation means complete freedom.
There is no superior over you and no subordinate under you.
The World Is The Puzzle
Itself…
The Christians, the Muslims,
the Hindus, say that God created this world.
They are correct by their viewpoints, but according to facts, they are
incorrect. If you want to know the
facts, I can give them to you.
Real knowledge (Gnan) accepts
and incorporates the entire 360° of viewpoints. I too accept
the 360° and that is why I am a
Gnani. Those who accept all points of
views are considered Gnanis (the Enlightened ones, Self-realized beings). I am
sitting in the center and that is why I am able to show you the facts. By fact
God is not at all the creator of this world. This world has not been created by
anyone. So how did it come into existence?
“The world is the puzzle itself.” We call it a puzzle because it has
become puzzlesome. The world has formed itself. I have seen this in my Gnan
(absolute knowledge, absolute vision and absolute experience). There is not a single atom in this world
that I have not traversed through. I am telling you this by living in this
world as well as living outside it.
The one who can solve this
puzzle is granted the degree of the supreme Soul (parmatma). And those who
cannot solve this puzzle have become dissolved within this puzzle. I have solved this puzzle and acquired the
status of the Supreme Soul. I see both
the animate (chetan – soul) and the inanimate (achetan – matter) as
separate. Those who cannot see the two
separate are dissolved within the puzzle.
God is not the creator, never was, and will never be. What does it
mean to be a creator? Creator means a
potter. It means that he has to labor.
Is God a laborer? When even the
wealthy mill owners of Ahemedabad do not toil and yet enjoy the benefits of
their factories in operation, then how can God be toiling as a laborer? To toil is to be a laborer. God is not like that. And if God were the creator, then everyone
would look the same. Just like the
impressions from a mould. But it is not
so. Furthermore if we say that God is impartial, then why does one person sleep
on the pavement from the day he is born and another in a palace?
I can give you the answer in
just one sentence as to how everything works in this world. You can find the
details yourself. This world is run solely by scientific circumstantial
evidences. There is no one up there who
has the time to run all this. I refer
to these scientific circumstantial evidences as vyavasthit shakti. It keeps
everything and everyone organized. Do you wake up in the morning or are you
awakened?
Questioner: I am the one who wakes up.
Dadashri: Are you sometimes unable to
fall asleep even when you want to? And
when you have to get up at four o’clock in the morning, why do you set the
alarm? If you decide, before you go to sleep, that you want to wake up at four
in the morning, then you should be able to wake up at that time. Does that
happen?
One is not the doer and yet
claims to be one. How can you call this a principle? It is a contradiction. So
who wakes you up in the morning? It is a force called vyavasthit shakti that
wakes you up. This same force keeps the sun, the moon, the stars and the entire
universe in regulation. It is the same
force that clears away the pollution caused by these industrial mills in
Ahemdabad, otherwise all the people of Ahmedabad would have been suffocated to
death a long time ago. When it rains, who goes up there to make water for the
rain? It is a natural adjustment, when two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of
oxygen come together, along with some other evidences like air, etc that water is
formed and the rain falls. A scientist would claim to be the creator of water
but if you ask him whether he can do so with only one atom of hydrogen and one
atom of oxygen, he will tell you that it is not possible. People are foolish to think that they are
the doers, when in reality they are just one of the many evidences in a
process. How can anyone be the maker? There is no maker in this world; everyone
is simply an instrument (nimit) in the process. Even God is not the maker or
creator. If one becomes the doer of an act then he also becomes the sufferer of
that action. God is simply the knower and perceiver and in eternal bliss. He is
always immersed in his own infinite bliss- the bliss of the Self.
Where does God live? What is
his address? What if you want to write to him some day, where would you address
your letter?
Questioner: That I do not know all that
but people say that he lives up there, above us.
Dadashri: So do you believe what
others tell you? Should you not question this yourself? I will tell you the
correct address of God. God is in every creature, whether visible or invisible.
There are infinite life forms between you and me, which are not visible even
through a microscope, and God resides in them too. God resides as life energy
in all living beings. This God is fully manifest within me. He is the effulgent light fully manifest
within me. He is the fully manifest
supreme Soul within. There is
tremendous light within. The person you see before you is Ambalal Muljibhai Patel
of Bhadran, who is a contractor by profession and the One who has manifest
within A. M. Patel is ‘Dada Bhagwan’. This is a tremendous and phenomenal
wonder. But how are you to understand this? This body is the outer packing and
the One within is God. Similarly your packing belongs to Chandulal and within
resides God. The outer packing of that animal is a donkey and God resides
within. People are foolish when they curse a donkey if it crosses their path.
They do not realize that the God within takes note of their condemnation, and
consequently they will have to endure one birth as a donkey themselves. The outer packing can be anything. It can be that of a mango tree or anything
else. What do the merchants and
shopkeepers pay importance to, the outer package or the goods within?
Questioner: The goods within.
Dadashri: Yes, of what use is the
packing anyway? We are only concerned with the contents are we not? Some packing may be rotten or torn but the
content within is pure, is it not?
From the time this Gnan, the
Lord, manifest within me, I have not identified myself with this body of
Ambalal Muljibhai even for a moment. I
look upon him as my first neighbor.
When I was thirteen years
old, it occurred to me that there should be no one in a position of authority
over me. I did not want even God to be
my boss. The notion of anyone above me
was intolerable to me. This was the spiritual development I had brought with
me. My spiritual endeavors of countless
past lives finally have come to fruition in this lifetime. If God were in a
position of power over us and if he were to grant us liberation, then we would
be obliged to obey his commands. If I
was sitting down and he asked me to get up, I would have to follow his command.
That would be inacceptable. How can one call that liberation? Liberation means
complete freedom, no feeling of a superior over us, or no feeling of a
subordinate under us either.
You can experience the bliss
of liberation here while living. No worries or external problems will affect
you. Liberation is when your internal
peace is not disturbed even when you receive a letter of audit from the income
tax office. The final liberation will
come later on, but first you must experience liberation here and now.
I got married at the age of
sixteen. During the wedding ceremony, the turban on my head slipped slightly to
one side. At that time it occurred to me that it was inevitable that one of us
would become widowed.
Life after life man learns
the same thing over and over again and yet ignorance veils it again. One need
not learn ignorance; ignorance comes naturally. It is Gnan (real knowledge) that one has to learn. The veil of
ignorance was relatively less and that is why even at the young age of thirteen
I became aware. In my maths class, the teacher had asked the students to find
the smallest indivisible number, which is common to all other numbers (LCM =
lowest common multiple). From this search, I immediately discovered God. We are
all ‘numbers’ and God is within each one of us, in an indivisible form.
The speech that emanates
from me shatters the veils of ignorance covering you and the enlightenment from
within helps you understand what I am saying. Otherwise you do not have the
capability to understand even a word I utter.
Your intellect will not work here. Many of these people are recognised
as intellectuals, but this is out of wrong beleif. I am without intellect. I do
not have any intellect. What is intellect? What is Gnan? The knowledge of all
the subjects of the world falls in the domain of the intellect and the
knowledge of ‘Who am I?’ is Gnan. Intellect is knowledge through the medium of
the ego and Gnan is knowledge without the ego. Knowledge of the Self is real
knowledge.
How can one remove conflicts
and difference of opinion? How should
one live life? Even when one has all the wealth and comforts, one still has
conflicts, which create endless miseries.
A circle has 360
degrees. Christians, Parsis, Muslims,
Hindus etc., all have different viewpoints.
One is sitting at 80 degrees, one at 120 degrees, and one at 220
degrees. Everyone sees through his or
her own perspective and viewpoint. I am sitting in the center, having completed
360 degrees, as a fully enlightened being. A Gnani Purush, sitting in the
center, can see and know things exactly as they are and can impart that
knowledge to others exactly as it is. All religions are correct but they are
relative religions. They are religions of viewpoints. But if one wants to know
the facts, then he will have to come to the center. Only in the center one
finds the real religion (religion of the Soul). It is only the one in the
center that can see all points of view and therefore is without any prejudice
or bias towards any one religion. That is why I say that I am Lord Mahavir of
the Jains, Lord Krishna of the Vaishnavas, Sahajanand of the Swaminarayans,
Christ of the Christians, Zarthustra of the Parsis and Khuda of the Muslims. So
anyone may come here and receive whatever he wants. I am the God of all
religions. So get your work done here. I can bestow upon you the status of God
within an hour but you have to be ready for it. However, you will not be able to digest all the Gnan that I give
you, for even I am stuck at 356 degrees. This is because of the current time
cycle. But I do bestow upon you the absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan; 360
degrees).
A potato baking in a
charcoal pit bakes from all sides. Similarly the whole world is being roasted
from all sides. I see in my Gnan that the entire humanity is suffering like
like being in a blazing fire from all sides. My only concern is on how people
can be liberated from all this suffering. That is the very purpose for my life. Half the world will achieve salvation
through Me and the other half through My followers. However, I am not the doer at all. I am merely an instrument in
all this.
The Germans are in search of
Absolutism. They have researched volumes and volumes of our scriptures for
this. But it is not that easy. Today I am manifest as the Absolute. The whole
world is immersed in the theory of relativity.
All of my mahatmas (those who have acquired Gnan of Self-Realization
from The Gnani Purush) are in the theory of reality and I am in the theory of
Absolutism. Therefore when I go to Germany I will tell them that I have come
there personally and that they should take whatever they want from me.
This is the cash bank in the
world. I will give you cash in just one hour.
I will place you in the real state. Everywhere else they give you a loan
and you will have to make payments.
Regrettably that is what you have done for countless lives and yet there
is no end in sight. You have not received cash in any of your past lives.
There are two paths of
liberation: One is the common and the
main path, called the Kramik path, which is a step-by-step path where there is
a gradual spiritual evolution. In this path, if you are fortunate enough and
find the company of spiritual people, you may climb up to five hundred steps.
On the other hand in another life if you land amidst the company of
non-spiritual people you may go down five thousand steps. It is a very arduous
and grueling path. One has to do a lot of incantation of God’s name, penance
and renunciation in order to progress and even then there is no telling when
one will achieve liberation. The other path is the Akram path, where one is not
required to climb any steps. It is a lift (an elevator) path where you can
continue with all your daily mundane activities, fulfill all your worldly
responsibilities towards your wife and children, and still attain liberation.
Nothing will hinder your progress towards liberation. This is an exceptional
path and one, which comes around once every million years.
Emperor Bharat was the only
one who was given such Gnan. Of his
hundred sons, Lord Rushabhadev bestowed this Gnan to Emperor Bharat only.
Ninety-eight of his sons were initiated into monk hood leaving behind their
kingdom to Bahubaliji and Bharat.
Shortly afterwards Bahubaliji also renounced everything and left the
kingdom. Consequently the responsibility of the whole empire fell on King
Bharat. King Bharat had thirteen hundred queens. Don’t men get tired of even
one wife today? King Bharat had grown tired of the varying temperaments of his
queens, fighting wars and the worries of ruling an empire. So he asked Lord Rushabhadev if he could
relinquish the kingdom to someone else and be initiated into monk hood. He too
wanted liberation. Lord Rushabdev told
King Bharat that he was the instrument for ruling the kingdom and if he were to
forego his duties, there would be utter chaos. Lord Rushabdev told King Bharat
that he would bestow upon him such a Gnan that none of his queens; his kingdom
or the wars would hinder his progress towards liberation. This Akram Gnan is
the very same Gnan, which I give you now, in just one hour. King Bharat however, had kept servants who
would warn him every fifteen minutes to maintain awareness of the Gnan by
saying, ‘Bharat beware, beware, beware! But in this Kaliyug (current fifth era
of the six part half time cycle), where one is barely able to make ends meet,
how can he employ someone to do the same for him? That is why I place such
awareness within you that it will warn you every moment of the day.
Such an awe-inspiring Gnan
has never been seen or heard of in any era before. It is the eleventh wonder of
the current time cycle.
Commonsense
What is commonsense and how
do you define it?
Commonsense means that sense
which becomes applicable, whenever needed, theoretically as well as
practically.
Commonsense is very
important. It means that sense which
becomes applicable whenever it is needed. I have one hundred percent commonsense. You do not have even one percent
commonsense. When an entagled bunch of thread comes to you, to disentangle it,
without breaking a single strand is commonsense. Common sense means that sense
which can resolve a problem without causing any harm or damage to anyone.
People on the other hand, in their attempt to solve one problem, create five
more. How can they claim to have commonsense?
The greatest of scholars have education but lack commonsense. The Gnani is
without intellect (buddhi). I have no intellect whatsoever. Actually my
intellect is fully developed but in the presence of the light of my Gnan, it is
rendered powerless and stays in one corner. As one attains the state of no
intellect (abuddha), the state of omniscience happens. I am without intellect and I am omniscient.
Is your relationship with
your father, mother and wife real?
Questioner: Of course it is real.
Dadashri: Then as a rule, should your
father die; you should die along with him. Now how many people would do that?
There exists a relation between father-mother, brother-sister, wife-children,
but it is not real. It is only a relative relationship. If it were real, it
could never be destroyed. If a son were to tell his father, ‘you are an idiot’,
the relationship would end. His father
would disown him and tell him that he does not want to see his face for as long
as he lives. You even believe your wife to be yours, but what if she divorces
you some day? This is what the world is like.
All these are temporary adjustments. Even your own body is not yours; it too
will let you down some day. If you decide to sit in meditation (samayik), your
head may start aching or you may have a stomachache and you will not be able to
meditate. You are permanent and everything else is temporary so how can there
be a resolution between the two? That is why the world is trapped in such a
state of confusion. As far as relatives are concerned, you should act according
to your relationship with them. You should not be rigid or adamant about rights
and wrongs if you are to sustain that relationship. Inflexibility will destroy
the relationship. When the other person is trying to destroy the relationship,
you should mend it if you want to maintain that relationship. These are all temporary relations. For
example if your wife says, ‘ today is a full moon night and you say, ‘no, it is
a moonless night’ then the bickering will start and will last all night. In the
morning she will be sulking and you will know that the argument is not over
when she deliberately bangs the cup of tea while serving you. Instead it is
better if you understand the situation when she becomes adamant. Gently turn
the argument around, consult a horoscope and pretend to agree with her. If you do not do that, the argument will get
out of control and then if you were to give in suddenly, she will fall harder
and you will have to bear the consequences.
Instead it is better to be aware from the start and to let go gently.
Everyone is in search of
happiness but one has not decided what happiness is. ‘Happiness should be such
that it is never followed by any misery.’ Go find one instance of such
happiness in this world. Eternal happiness, bliss is within you. Your real Self
is an abode of bliss and yet people are looking for happiness in temporary
things. What is this search for worldly happiness like? Let me give you an analogy. A very tall man
is sleeping on the terrace on a cold winter night and he has a tiny blanket. If
he covers his feet, his head gets cold and if he covers his head, his feet get
cold. He spends the entire night tossing and turning. This is what the pursuit
of worldly happiness is like. In reality there is no such thing as misery in
this world. It is merely a figment of the imagination. If you project and
imagine that ice cream tastes terrible, you will not enjoy it and if you
project and say that it tastes very good, you will enjoy it. Therefore it is
not real. True happiness should be the same for all. Everyone would accept it.
Truth must be universal. What you believe giving you happiness, may be
tremendously miserable for others, and that is what this world is like.
Destiny Versus
Effort
People talk about fate and
destiny versus independent self-effort. They keep talking about the same thing
over and over again and yet make no progress. Some rely on destiny alone
whereas others rely on self-effort alone.
But both these supports are shaky and weak. What do all the factory workers, who toil in their effort from
morning to night, get for their efforts?
Do they get anything more than a meal on their table? And what would
happen if the fatalists were to sit idle?
When one makes a lot of
money he takes credit for it and claims that it was through his effort and hard
work. And when he incura a loss he will say ‘what can I do?’ and blames his
horoscope or luck or the God above. The
fool! He takes credit for good things
and claims to be helpless when things go wrong. He may even blame God for his
failure saying, ‘it is the will of the Lord’. In fact his horoscope or the
stars do not hinder him in any way. What hinders him are his own internal
negative ‘stars’ – his obstinacy, excessive obstinacy, insistence on being
right, insistence on relative truth etc. I am without obstinacy. Where there is
obstinacy there is conflict and when I am not obstinate about anything how can
there be any conflict? When everything runs systematically, success is the end
result but when there is a break in the systematic process people blame God. The effort to convert that, which is
disorderly, into orderly, is defined by the world as independent effort
(purusharth). If one were truly capable of doing purusharth, he would never
incur a loss. Real purusharth has no failures. Here is the contradiction: How
can you do purusharth, when you have not become a Purush (Self-realized)? True
purusharth is the one that is done through the extraordinary effort of the Self
(after Self realization). People are foolish to believe that they are the doer
when it is their prakruti (the formed complex of thoughts, speech and acts
which is a result of past life karma) that makes them do things.
Lord Krishna has said,
‘Odhavji, what can the weak attain?’ Even the most renowned Jain spiritual
master, Ananddhanji Maharaj, admits his weaknesses. One can only be called a
Purush when he has conquered his anger, pride, illusionary attachment and
greed. But here the weaknesses of anger, pride, illusion and greed have
conquered him. He is weak.
I have become a Purush. I am
with my independent effort and its extraordinary energy. Astrology and
purusharth are contradictory. Astrology has some scientific foundation.
However, what people believe to be purusharth is an illusion. People foolishly
go running to an astrologer when they suffer a loss. Why not do your
purusharth? This false purusharth is what sows the seeds of karma for your next
life.
The Alembic chemical factory
here employs so many workers. It takes all these workers to manufacture just a
few chemicals. The human body is made up of hundreds of such chemical factories
and yet it runs on its own. When you go to sleep after a meal, do you ever go
to check how much and how many digestive juices and enzymes are released for
digestion? How attentive are you in these matters? By the morning when you wake
up, the body has already assimilated the food you ate. All the nutrients are
absorbed in the blood; the waste products are transported for excretion and
everything is transported in its right place. Did you have to do anything in
running this process? So don’t you think that just as the inner mechanism works
naturally, the outer mechanism will too?
Why do you believe that you are the doer? Everything will continue to
run on it’s own. During sleep, the body is in its natural state. You are the unnatural one. In the daytime,
you claim that you are breathing. You say that you breathe shallow or breathe
deep. Who does the breathing when you are in deep sleep? Respiration that takes place at night is
natural. That helps the digestion.
Every human being is nothing
but a top (a toy that spins). I am a Gnani but this body of mine is a top.
These tops function because of respiration. The process of breathing is like
winding the string around the top, and as the breathing continues, the top
begins to spin. It may even lean on one side as it spins and it may seem like
it will topple, but then it comes back up again and continues to spin. That is
how life is.
Every leaf and branch of a
Neem tree is bitter. It is bitter
through and through. What effort (purusharth) does the tree have to make for
that? Everything that is manifest in the tree has come arisen from its seed.
Similarly human beings act according to their innate nature (prakruti) but
merely claim, ‘I am the doer’ and thus exercise their ego. What exactly does
one do in all this?
What people refer to
purusharth in this world, is really a language of illusion. Things happen
because your past karmas come into effect, and to claim, ‘I did it’ is egoism.
The real purusharth, the true purusharth begins only after one becomes the
Purush (Self realized). It is only then that your belief of ‘I am the doer’ is
destroyed. It is the state of absolute ‘non-doer ship’. All that is relative is
prakruti and the Purush (the Self) is real. What then is real purusharth? Real
purusharth is when You (the Self) remain the knower (gnata) and the seer
(drashta) when someone is cutting your hand. Knowing (gnankriya) and seeing
(darshankriya) are the only activities of the Self. The soul does not have any other
activity. True purusharth is when the Self remains in the state of the knower
and the seer.
Saint Kabir’s wife was
expecting a baby. The mother’s milk was
ready even before the baby was born. The milk began to flow after the birth of
the baby. On seeing this Kabir sang:
‘Destiny is formed first,
then forms the body
Kabir, it is a wonder, that the mind does not accept.’
You cannot just sit around
claiming that everything is predestined (prarabdha). If you do, then you become
completely idle. The mind will become restless with such dependency. If this
dependency on destiny is correct, you should not have any worries, but in fact
you are the factory of worries. Therefore even that dependency is on shaky
grounds. It is not real. It is not
scientific. People in India are
miserable and suffer because they have been given the support of such
dependency. That is why their progress is obstructed. My search, over a million
life times, has brought me to expose the fact that both destiny and independent
effort are false and therefore unsteady supports. The only real support is
‘vyavasthit’, and it is factual and scientific.
What is vyavasthit? It is
all that happens through scientific circumstantial evidences. The knowledge of
vyavasthit renders total satisfaction and closure in every situation. I will
give you a simple example. If this glass in your hand begins to slip out of
your hand and you make every effort to save it and it still breaks. Who broke
the glass? You had no intention of breaking it; on the contrary, you made all
efforts to save it. Then, did the glass wish to break? No, that cannot be so.
No one else was present to break it either, so who did it? Vyavasthit did it.
Vyavasthit works under exact principles of natural laws. It is not haphazard.
If the glass were not to break according to the principles of vyavasthit, then
how would these glass factories remain in business? Vyavasthit has to look at your interest and also the interest of
the glass factory and the livelihood of thousands of its workers. Therefore the
glass will break according to this law and no one will be able to prevent it
from breaking. So many foolish people get agitated and restless when things
break. If a servant is serving tea to some guests and breaks a cup, his master
becomes furious within. All he can
think of is how he will slap the servant a few times as soon as the guest
leaves. And some people even do this.
But if he knows and understands that the servant did not break the cup and that
it was vyavasthit, then would he do anything? Would he not remain absolutely
unaffected? In reality the poor servant is merely a nimit, instrument, and yet
these wealthy people assault their servants.
You should never attack a nimit; if you do, you are extremely foolish
because you do great harm to yourself.
Instead why not find the root cause behind it and then you will find
your solution.
When I was young, I used to
play a lot of pranks on people. There was a wealthy businessman who always used
to play with his puppy in his lap. I used to sneak in from behind and squeeze
the puppy’s tail. The dog could only
see his own master in front of him and so he would quickly bite his owner. The owner would yell back at the dog. This is what I call attacking the
instrument.
Are you convinced that there
is a soul in your body?
Questioner: Yes I am.
Dadashri: In what form is this soul? Is it in the form of a mixture or in
the form of a compound?
Questioner: A compound.
Dadashri: If it were in a compound
form, it would give rise to a third substance with completely new properties.
Then the soul and the non-self would lose their innate properties and neither
could be reverted back to their intrinsic properties and be separated. Let me explain this fact to you. The soul and the non-self are in a mixture
form, with each maintaining its own intrinsic properties and that is why it is
possible to separate the two. If copper, brass and silver were mixed with gold
a scientist would be able to separate each metal based on its properties. He
could easily do so. Similarly a Gnani who is omniscient with infinite powers,
knows the properties of the Soul and the non-self completely. He can analyze
and separate the two. I am the greatest
scientist of this world. I analyze every atom of the non-self, separate it from
the Self, and give you your pure Soul in your hand, within an hour. The soul
referred to in the Gnani’s enlightened speech is the real Soul. Everywhere else
when they say, ‘atma, atma’ are in fact taling about the mixed-form soul. It is
not pure. They are merely words.
The religions practiced
everywhere are those of the non-self; they are not the religion of the pure
Soul. How can you adopt the religion of the Soul (atmadharma), when you do not
even know of any properties of the Soul?
You cannot practice real religion until a Gnani Purush brings you out of
the theory of relativity into reality. Our mahatmas (those who are Self realized)
can see and do darshan of the God within you because I have given them divine
eyes (divyachakshu). What you currently have is physical eyes (charmachakshu)
through which you can only see the temporary and transient things. The eternal
God can only be seen through divine eyes.
During the war of
Mahabharat, Lord Krishna blessed Arjun with divine eyes. This vision lasted
five minutes, so that he could to get rid of his despondency towards worldly
life and his duties. Lord Krishna then
took them back. Whereas I give you the divine eyes permanently, so that where
ever you look, you will see God. You will see God in me, in him, in the trees
around you and even in the animals. You
will see God in every living thing. After that can there be any problems?
Three hundred years ago,
Ananddhaanji Maharaj, the renowned Jain master said that divine eyes are
definitely not available in this era. This is why everyone has stopped making
any effort, because they feel that all doors are closed. This phenomenal Gnan
of Akram Vignan has manifest naturally and that is why it is easy to acquire
the divine eyes within just one hour!
The Lord has said that it is
extremely difficult to find liberation, but if one were to meet a Gnani Purush
then it becomes easier than making a bowl of rice.
These words of mine will be
accepted by your soul because I reside within you, provided you are not
inflexible. I do not see any difference
between you and me. People say,‘have faith, have
faith’, but what is one to do when one simply cannot have any faith? People attend so many lectures on religion
and spirituality but they never leave with any lasting impression. The minute
they walk out, all is forgotten. Here, with me you do not have to keep faith.
If there is a soul within you and provided you are not inflexible, you are
bound to attain faith. This speech is
the direct enlightened speech of a Gnani. It cuts through all your veils of
ignorance and reaches your soul directly and that is why your soul has to
accept it. You will understand my words without fail.
There is a difference
between talks of faith and talk that brings understanding. A person would only
believe the latter.
I met a French
microbiologist on my way from Aurangabad. He told me that in his part of the
world they do not believe in reincarnation as Indians do. He asked me to
explain reincarnation. He even told me that he was prepared to stay in India
with me for ten years if he had to. I told him that I did not have that much
time, he then suggested staying with me for six months. I told him I had a lot of work to do and
that I really did not have any time. I
am an instrument for the salvation of this whole world. I told him, however,
that by the time we land at Santa Cruz Airport in one hour, he would become a
believer of reincarnation. I explained reincarnation to him and he understood
everything. By the time we landed he kept saying ‘Jai Sat Chit Anand, Jai Sat
Chit Anand’. He even forgot about his wife. He took some photographs of me and
went his way.
The mind, body and speech
are effective. They are effective at birth.
They are even effective in the womb. How are they effective? If someone
were to insult you in the morning, then even in the late hours of the night you
will not be able to sleep because of the effect on you. The effect of speech is obvious. Say if you
were to curse someone, the other person would react immediately. And lastly,
this body too is effective. It feels cold when it gets cold and hot when it
gets hot. It is effective from birth. A new born baby will start crying if it
is cold and when you wrap it up in a blanket, it will stop crying. If you put something sweet in its mouth, the
baby will start licking its lips and will grimace if you put something bitter
in its mouth. These are all simply effects.
Even in the womb the baby shows the effects.
I have personally witnessed
this. This happened about fifty years ago (in the nineteen twenties) in my
village of Bhadaran. A cow attacked a
lady who was eight-months pregnant piercing her uterus with its horn. One of
the fingers of the baby came out through the wound. It became a challenge for
even the missionary doctors and the mother’s condition was getting serious. An
eighty-year-old lady heard about this. She came and asked everyone to step
aside, sit and pray and give her room. She heated a needle tip and touched the
baby’s finger with it; the baby immediately pulled in the finger. The baby felt
the effect.
If there is an effect, there
has to be a cause. And if there is a cause, there will be an effect. This way
the cycle of cause and effect, effect and cause continues.
There cannot be an effect without a cause and where there is an effect there has to be a prior cause. Our present body is the effect of the causes of our past life. At birth one is born with both the gross body and the subtle body. But then