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Editorial : GURUPURNIMA Harivadan Chhikniwala

‘Utsavpriyaha Janaha’(©yS¢±çÐí²¢: Á¢Ý¢:), wrote a great poet. We all love celebrating our age-old festivals, mostly religious festivals, some seasonal festivals as well as our national festivals. They serve as occasions of ‘Lokasangraha’, mass contact and mass communication. They offer opportunities for leadership, budding new talent, general approval and abundant participation. The famous Rathayatra, with great pomp and piety was celebrated recently in Puri as well as in Ahmedabad and elsewhere, too. It becomes a cosmopolitan festival, providing immense scope for display of new talent, training, charity and great cheer. Similarly, Guru Purnima was also recently celebtared all over India by Mahatmas at different centres, chosen by the J.S.S. Devotees of Dada Bhagavan met at select places like Surat, Vadodara, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, etc. and sang ‘bhajans’; listened to interesting discourses on Guru and Jnana related to Akram Vignan and partook of ‘prasad’ happily. Festivals celebrated last month, ‘-bandhan’, our Independence Day, ‘Paryushan Parva’, Durga Pooja, Onam, Navaratri, Dassehra etc. are fast approaching. And Diwali, of course, is also quite near now. India is a great nation of unity in the midst of diversity, of a rich cultural variety, with a unique ancient heritage. Of festivals of all hues, there is no dearth. Mahatma Shri Vishnubhhai Pathakji wrote about Guru Purnima in his book ‘Words, Windows to Pureself’, published in 1982. He wrote, quoting Shri in the Bhagawad Gita, Ï¢ãêÝ¢æ Á¢‹}¢¢Ý¢}¢‹¼ï ¿¢¢Ý±¢‹}¢¢æ ÐíÐl¼ï J Which he also revised as ΢΢ S¢±¢üç}¢ç¼ S¢ }¢ã¢y}¢¢ S¢éÎéHü|¢: J It means “Mkðoºk Lku Mkðo{kt ËkËk ¼økðkLkLku òuLkkhku yrík Ëw÷o¼ nkuÞ Au.” In the Gita also Lord Krishna asked to be a Yogi, a real ‘Nishkam Karmayogi’ (rLk»fk{ f{oÞkuøke), but later added that a Jnani ‘bhakta’ was very dear to him. Dada Bhagavan gave us such Jnana. Guru Purnima was meant for dissemination of wisdom and light, leading to . Dada Bhagavan’s ‘Jnana’ of Akram Vignan is non-pareil, unequalled, without a parallel. The Guru gives Jnana to seekers. It opens the doors to Moksha, Liberation or helps the disciple to achieve a state of mind

JUNE- JULY, 2016 5 Akram Vignan which is called ‘Jivan Mukti’. Guru Shuddhatma or Pureself. Dada Bhagavan Purnima is traditionally celebrated by is such a guru. Hindus, Jains and Buddhists. They pay Ý x¢éÚ¢ïÚç{ÜæU ¼œ±æ Ý x¢éÚ¢ïÚç{ÜæU ¼Ð: J their respects to the Guru and also express ¼œ±¿¢¢Ý¢¼ì ÐÚæ Ý¢çS¼ ¼S}¢ñ Ÿ¢è x¢éÚ±ï Ý}¢: JJ their gratitude to him. In the past, all academic gurus were also spiritual gurus. The Guru has the knowledge of the They possessed limitless powers. ultimate. He is free from any desire for any material possessions or worldly The Great Guru Veda , also objects, such as money, fame, power in known as Krishna Dwaipayana, author of any form, etc. He has attained to the the epic Mahabharata of which the Gita nature of Parabrahma, the Supreme self. is a part, was born on the Guru Purnima A true guru seeks to make his disciple day. His parents were and self-dependent by helping him to turn Satyavati. The Veda Vyasa is also within and awaken the inner Guru, as remembered as one of the seven Dadaji explained the meaning of his immortals or ‘Chirjivanah’. They never adopted name. The aim is ‘Keval Jnana’. die. They invisibly rule the earth. Vyasa was the first sage to write about Shri Adi Shankaracharya says that a true Krishna. Guru Purnima is also called guru possesses tranquillity, self-control, Buddha Purnima, because Gautam divine wisdom and compassion towards Buddha gave his first sermon in Sarnath, all living beings. He has an unselfish on this day. desire to help all others. He is well-versed in the and the . Gurus Lord Shiva is called the Adiyogi, master the scriptures. He is devoid of because he transmitted the Yogic Sciences greed, pride, anger and deceit. The true for the first time to the ‘Saptarshis’(Seven Guru inspires and awakens human souls Sages), who later spread the Shiva to recognition of their own dignity and knowledge to the whole world. It is known divinity, knowledge of being as Kashmiri -old and original. ‘Shuddhatma’ or Pureself ! The Jnana The word ‘Guru’ consists of two roots given by such a guru frees oneself from in Sanskrit, ‘gu’ meaning darkness or ignorance and fear of death. The Guru is ignorance and ‘ru’ meaning ‘remover’. the liberator of the spirit. Gurus in our times may be true or false. We are also aware of a Guru The true Guru is the Jnani, the scientist Parampara, the tradition of Jnana-Vidhi, who can seal the karmik flow, burn past perpetuating the process from generation sins and draw a line of demarcation to generation. Gurus select their own best between the real and the relative or in disciples as successors to continue the other words, Pratishthita Atma and the 6 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan tradition or ‘Parampara’. So many little boy, an arrow-smith, a dog, a moth, Mahatmas and Aptaputras rise to achiveve a spider, a snake, a honey-bee, a pigeon, a similar status as the Guru, the Prime an ant, an elephant, a caterpillar, the Sky, Source ! Each guru is invisibly connected the Sun, the Moon, the fire, etc., etc. That to the Adi Guru. Shri Krishna was the reveals almost the whole known world to ‘Jagadguru’ in this sense. The Adi Guru us, especially on the earth or beyond. The is present in each one of us, followers, Guru adores it all. like fire in the wood, or like butter in milk. It is also believed and passed on that The Guru loves all disciples like a mother. when the time is ripe, an aspirant does There is oneness among all such disciples. not have to go in search of a Guru, but Finally, we remember Guru Dattatreya, that the Guru comes to find the earnest a trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh, disciple. The real Guru teaches by symbolizing the creation, sustenance and example. He initiates action by combining Regeneration or Recreation of the reason with sincere heart-feeling. The Universe. Lord Dattatreya talked about Guru guides the disciple, even invisibly. his twenty-four gurus. It gives us a The mature disciple gets the power to glimpse into the reality. Those inspiring fight the forces of evil, as guided by the elements were the earth, the air, etc. as Guru. The Guru also lives in the disciples well as a dancing girl who maintains poise and so the Parampara continues. throughout her movements, Pingala, a Jai Sachchidanand

The famous actor Rajanikant, an idol of the masses, says his first Guru was Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa. Rajanikant studied the Vedas and the Upanishads, and discipline. Which laid the foundation of his spiritual quests. His second guru was Shri Raghavendra Swami who taught him dhyana and Bhaktiyoga. A guru can point out your mistakes, the holy books you read again and again cannot correct your mistakes. The guru can teach you how to recite the mantras, with correct intonation, pronunciation. Rajanikant’s whole life changed after he read ’s classic ‘Who am I ?’ Then he met Shri Satchidanand Swami in the U.S.A., who said, “When a disciple is ready, only then the true guru appears.” Rajanikant also once travelled to a Babaji’s cave in Uttaranehal, to learn Kriyayoga, initiated by Paramhansa Yogananda. Rajanikant prefers to live far away from the city, in a farm, in the midst of Nature. He says, “I need to be alone, to reflect and to meditate. I know I am a part of this world; at the same time, I am also learning to live a life apart from it.” This exactly happens to be the lesson taught by our present Diksha-guru: Pragat Jnanipurush Shri Kanudadaji. He is teaching Dada Bhagavan’s supreme Jnana to the whole world now ! Jai Sachchidanand

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What is the benefit of ‘Vandana’- Param Vinay ? (Supreme Modesty)

“O Lord ! You are the savior, respects at your feet. You are the mentor of each and every ‘Shiva’, respects at your feet. Ignorance and vanity vanish with respects at your feet. By paying respects, one earns good fortune, name, honour and glorious respect.”

Tirthankar Paramatma, omniscient and Mahavir Bhagavan was asked a question full of loving kindness to all seeking shelter, by Gautam Swami, the Lord of Riddhi- has shown us the path, to all living beings, Siddhi. of liberation from misery and of eternal “±‹Î‡¢»x‡¢æ |¢‹¼ï ! Á¢è± ôÜU Á¢‡¢²§ ?” happiness. No one can be happy during any of the three periods of time (past, present and O Lord of compassion, how does the soul future), without receiving help(solace) from benefit by doing ‘vandana’ (Prostrating) ? , Jnana and Vitarag Vignan. The The Jnani say : The Mahatma- Mumukshu ‘Mahatma’(atma) has to first Mumukshu will win the pleasure(blessings) learn to face Self, as indicated by the Jnani of the Jnani Purushas. They earn the natural , (withdraw from the world outside) grace and through that, eternal (total) and be aware of the Self, in order to escape liberation. For this, the Mumukshu has to from the meaningless cycle of birth and always bear in his mind the five precepts death, caused by ‘aadhi’, ‘vyadhi’ and (sermons). ‘upadhi’. In such circumstances, the Jnani Purushas, Tirthankar Sahebs and the Lord (1) Never postpone doing your (Duty) Himself has preached 73 sermons(precepts) ‘Purushartha’ with determination : in order to make our wrong beliefs, wrong Whenever you feel like doing any good work action, etc. right, ‘samyak’(straight forward) (noble effort), do not postpone it. Do today and short (so that we proceed on the right what you intend to do tomorrow. When the path only). Now, there is the tenth precept, feeling arises, do the noble deed at once, i.e., Vandana, Which means ‘namaskar’ or whatever it may be, ‘satsang’, ‘swadhyaya’, salutation with supreme modesty or utmost ‘pancha satsadhan’, ‘dana’ (charity, giving humility. Total surrender to the Jnani alms), ‘japa’ (recitation or chanting of holy Purusha. names), ‘tapa’ (penance). We do not know 8 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan what the future holds in store, how these remedies are aimed at self-realisation circumstances or conditions might change. or meeting one’s own self. They all help in Never to waste time and never to wait for it, creating utmost humility in oneself, for too. example, ‘Samayiks’ bring about ‘samata’ (oneness), ‘pratikramans’ foster the virtue of (2) See carefully whatever you are to seeing and knowing. Tirthankar’s ‘stuti’ or do, you will do it with a proper of praise, ‘bhakti’ is promoted and understanding : Often it happens that a ‘Vandana’ promotes ‘namrata’ or humility. thoughtless deed leaves behind it a life full When one’s mind is touched by ‘bhakti’, of remorse. Words spoken in an angry instant ‘bhava’ and ‘ahobhava’, a sense of awesome will (can) leave their sting for a life-time. respect is felt towards another person, one’s Hence, pay sufficient heed and think carefully head surely bends down. It bows down. That before you begin any task. Whether it is worth is why, Gautam Swami inquires of Lord your while to do it or not, whether it will bring Mahavir, “What is the benefit of offering you some benefit or harm ? Thus, before you ‘vandana’ ? The Lord replies, “The soul of are eager to begin any work, spend two the one offering ‘vandana’ mitigates or minutes to think calmly about its utility or removes the kalikas of those of lower birth pros and cons. and binds the actions or ‘’ of those of (3) Do it yourself : Depend only on higher birth. Such can never be subjected to yourself. Whenever you are entrusted with insulting. The one may become the master any work, works entrusted to others often get of ‘yasha-nama-karma’. deranged and never get done. One who relies One who bows or bends is loved by all. only on self with confidence, gets ahead in One achieves lordship through the practice quest or efforts. (Sadhana or Purushartha) of humility. “Those who are stiff (unbending) (4) Do well whatever you do : Here ‘well’ will be rooted out (uprooted) and those who means done beautifully, best, with interest bend down may survive.” and true feeling. If you have to do your When the river Sabarmati is in spate, the ‘samayik-pratikramana’ why do it without tallest strong trees on her banks will be swept sincerity ? If you are proceeding for ‘satsang’, away in the flood, but the cane trees on the why move with slow steps ? Always act with same banks will bend their small branches good feeling (true ‘bhava’). Never falter. See lower and the water will flow away touching that whatever you are doing is being done them and the trees will be saved. with utmost sincerity and interest. Where the ‘bhava’ joins and with firm determination in The lower you bend before others, the it, your ‘Jnanakriya’ will bear multiplied rich more respectable you will prove for them. fruit or results. Even a single salutation or ‘namaskar’ performed with sincerity never fails to (5) Finish whatever you have begun : influence the other. This is an experiment Many people are full of zeal at the start, they designed to achieve oneness with all the other begin the tasks well, but later drop out. All souls in this world. JUNE- JULY, 2016 9 Akram Vignan Now, to whom will you offer ‘Vandana’ ? hand. Likewise, the sadguru saves souls deeply submerged in ‘sansar’, by protecting This ‘Vandana’ is to be offered to three them from evil and directing them to the right objects. God, Jnani-‘guru’ and Dharma. faith through his own living inspiration. (1) To ‘Anant Upakari’ Arihant (3) To ‘Vitarag Vignana’, ‘Kevali’, Bhagavan : The first rank in ‘Panch- ‘Bhavobhava Upakari’ : Offering ‘vandan’ Parameshthi’ is given to Arihant Bhagavan to ‘Jnana-Vignan’, which is to be and Siddha Bhagavan. Vandana is to be implemented in reality in the present birth. offered to ‘Sadehi’(manifest) and ‘Vandana’ does not mean simply bending the ‘Adehi’(unmanifest) Lord, ‘Ishtadeva’. One body. But awakening the ‘’(ego)(sense is a ‘Sadehi’ Vitarag and the other is ‘Adehi’ of I-ness) residing within oneself is the real Vitarag. But both of them have attained to ‘Vandana’. perfection. ‘Ähu Lk{úíkk xk¤u {Ë, Lke[økkuºk íkku Úkkíkwt hË; (2) To the present ‘Upakari’ ‘Nirgranth’ y«ríkník økwý «økxu íkËT, MkwyrÄfkh Lku W¥k{ ÃkË.’ ‘Jnana-guru’ : This includes the ‘Jnani Purusha’, Acharya, Upadhyay and ‘Sadhu- While offering ‘vandana’, one becomes sadhvihis’, monks and nuns. They are all humble. The false sense of pride melts away ‘sakshat-Upakari’ or beneficial in person, and one is not reborn in a lower class or lower (present before our eyes). A sincere ‘bhava- family. ‘Vaimanik dev’ is assured and vandana’ opens the (doors of the) Gurudev’s ‘kilvishik dev’ is omitted. Among humans heart. ‘Vandana’ is the key to open the doors also, wherever he goes, his words convey of the Gurudev’s heart. ‘Bhava-vandana’ is conviction, strength and his actions become an impenetrable bridge joining the spiritual energetic and is never defeated or killed. He relationship between tha Guru and the comes to possess ‘apratihat’ qualities. The Disciple. ‘dakshinya’ guna gets upward or rises in him. He is sure to attain to a supreme position. ‘{kLkkrË þºkw {nkLk, rLks AtËu Lk {hkÞ, òíkk MkËTøkwhw þhý{kt, yÕÃk «ÞkMku òÞ.” He who offers ‘vandan’ to the ‘vandaniya’ becomes ‘vandaniya’ (respectable) to the The internal enemies cannot be conquered whole world. by oneself. With the guru’s blessings, little effort is required. The sadguru shows the way Jai Sachchidanand to Paramartha to a polite, humble disciple. Whatever cannot have been gained, so far, through reading of thousands of ‘shastras’, that rare and difficult gain is possible through worship at the sadguru’s feet, by his grace. Note : The corresponding reference work for When a child is crossing the road and a this article is ‘Samyak Sopan Banave scooter comes speeding at him, you at once Bhagavan’, by Shri Vanitabai Mahasatiji. rush to seize the child and pull him away by

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PHILOSOPHY Editor’s Note

A well-known American Journalist, Mr. animals, the uncertainly principle of quantum Richard Whittaker met the famous American physics, eleven or twelve dimensions, the idea professor, author, Mr. Jacob Needleman and of a Hindu guru, the higher force, Gurdjieff, had a dialogue about some of the most vital Human limitations, God as an impersonal/ problems that philosophers have faced. They personal energy. Attention or Meditation, and discussed some of man’s perennial questions. . Some of the books referred to during the dialogue, by J. N. are listed here : (1) ‘The New “The Great Unknown is Me, Myself.” is the Religions’, 1970, a ground-breaking study of title of this essay which was published in alternative spirituality in America. (2) ‘A Sense ‘Parabola’, Vol. 37, No. 3, Fall 2012 : The of the Cosmos’, (3) ‘The Heart of Philosophy’, Unknown. Parabola is a not for profit (4) ‘Money and the Meaning of Life’, (5) ‘The organization and for four times a year for over American Soul’, (6) ‘What is God ?’ (7) ‘The thirty-five years it has gathered the wisdom of Unknown World’ to be published in September, the world’s spiritual traditions to illuminate the 2016. central questions of life. The present editor of ‘Akram Vignan’(English impression) is Mr. Whittaker met Mr. Needleman at his indebted to Shri Sudhirbhai B. Shah, Sakal home in Oakland, California, to approach the Sanghpati of Jai Sachchidanand Sangh, for question of the unknown in an open-minded reference to the original material. A detailed way. They of course began with the western treatment of the theme covered above, it is philosophical tradition, then touched important hoped, could be in the interest of all ideas of philosophers like Socrates, Plato, enlightened readers of ‘Akram Vignan’ and Zenophon, Kant, Descartes, J. Krishnamurti, hopefully welcome to all. Relevant feedback Kierkegaard and topics like inner and outer is hereby most earnestly solicited. Thanks. empiricism, God, spiritual traditions rooted in experience, the mystery of death, living with Jai Sachchidanand GURU VANDANA

Guru Anugrahat Sarvam Labhate Na anya Sanshayah | Namaste Gurudevaya Paramanand Rupine || ¨ Chaitanyam Shashvatam Shantam, Vyomatitam Niranjanam | Nada Bindu Kalatitam, Tasmai Shri Guruve Namah || ¨ Karya karan hinaya, roopa-roopay tejasei | Aprameya Swaroopaya, Shivaya Guruve Namah || ¨

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Param Satsang with the ‘Jnana-Vani’ based on experiences of Jnani Purusha Shri Kanudadaji (Dadaji’s Residence, Vadodara. Dt. 6-2-2016

Atoms and Molecules in the eyes of the ‘Jnani’

Only he can describe who can see it ‘perceptible’ to man. Man talks about Seeker : Words ‘atom’ and molecules and atoms, which as in the ‘molecule’ are used in the language of Lexicon of science, cannot be understood science, respectively for ‘anu’ and at all. No man possesses the power or ‘paramanu’. In the holistic science and ability to see it, except in the last stage, ‘vitarag-vignan’ also the words ‘anu’- the extreme case, of human body which ‘paramanu’ are used. What is the perfectly possesses the power of seeing difference in the use of these terms ? and knowing, i. e., total perception, known as ‘Keval Jnana’ ! (except in Dadashri : The word ‘paramanu’ (or ultimate, final human body that has molecule) as used in the ‘Vitarag-vignan’ achieved absoluteness of knowing and is used for the ‘ultimate atom’, which seeing powers, that is absolute atom cannot be further split up in any knowledge) as here called ‘Keval Jnana’. manner in our time. But it cannot be 12 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan It is possible in the case of ‘only one’ experiments and now they say that they man who possesses such exceptional have been able to understand it all. From powers, who can see it and hence describe the experiment of ‘fission’, they went it, in the whole world. Only what can be ahead upto ‘fusion’. Now it has so seen and has already been seen can thus happened that when the atoms are fused be described. Such a description can then together(in fusion), a lot of destructive appear in the ‘shastras’(classics) or other energy is produced from it. This is (of media, which people can see. However, course) not wrong(untenable) with respect in our times some people who are well to the principles of material science. aquainted with the science of physics, or Who can see the atoms-molecules ? its parallel form, who may be inquisitive Such a ‘Jnani Purusha’ who can see and eager to grasp the subtleties of this and also scrutinize such things as atoms- science. In the science stream only such a molecules and can also describe them is man can do it. It can be only one unique, not among us (existing) today in his unparalleled individual, beyond mortal frame(‘deha’). He is one who has comparison, who is incomparable. One shuffled off his mortal coil in a recent past and the one only. Who can be present in and yet we have all his revelations the form of ‘Keval Jnana’ in a living (explained mysteries) with us today. One human body and that is Tirthankar can experience through personal efforts, (English to be repeated) (that is.... state) those revelations if one can chance upon So in Jain terminology we call it them and the same revelations taken as ‘Tirthankar’ and in vedantic terminology, instruments in the form of mediums or so it is known as ‘sarvagna’ omniscient or on, individually on one’s person, the Supreme. breathing body, can also be explained to They mistake the atom for the molecule others in the language of the common In the science of physics, the world man. That is, a yogi ‘purusha’, who can today misunderstands the atom for the delve deep into those mysteries, etc. it is molecule and calls it the ‘atom’. But what possible. Otherwise, it is not possible. By is that molecule ? Of which the said atom ‘Yogi’ we mean, through the mind, is further split and divided, etc. for what ? through unmanifested speech, the speech Then they say it is in order to arrive at the that works or runs through everyone of fundamental mystery of the atom as it is. us, without exception, continuously and What is this atom ? From this search now is due to the behavior of an active body. they have digressed to the problem of Hence, the word atom, as it is used ‘fission’ about which they made JUNE- JULY, 2016 13 Akram Vignan today, is in fact used instead of the word But we are able to discuss the matter in ‘molecule’, but the molecule, in our world our world in our time and language. today, is not perceptible to anyone or the An evil spirit (jin) called the Atom said scientists experimenting with Bomb has come out of the bottle of the so ‘fission’ and ‘fusion’. It is because they called scientific attitude, much against understand molecule to be something very their own desire, from such a scientific subtle or something in its very subtle brain in our world today and that ‘jin’ (evil grossness. But they are unable to spirit) has caused the entire universe(our understand the same in the sense in which world) to be full of danger and threat. No the ‘Live-absolute-scientist’ who has one has a chance to be spared form this passed away in recent times and who gave danger. us those revelations, which they fail to understand, but the same revelations Our land, this India, called Bharat which we fortunately have with us, can Desh is worthy enough, full of merit(and be helpful to make it understood. (We may with God’s blessings), due to its rich hopefully use them.) ancient culture (civilization), how old it is, we have no count of the age-old It is the Negative Energy of the traditions that make our culture so noble. Human Brain But inferences as to the date or ancestry The scientists talking about fission- (ancient heritage) are available. History fusion who understand the atom as an is nothing but what has been presented atom and hope that they will be able to on the basis of such inferences, of what grasp the real nature of the atom when was or had been there long ago, and so they are able to reach the final state of the on. Who can present the events or facts, atom, as they still believe it to be so and happenings as they had actually occurred that has given rise to so much of the or taken place, at the time, in reality, at negative energy. It is not the negative that very time when the events were energy of the atom, but it is the product occurring ? Who can do that work without of the mistaken mind of the scientist. It actually going back in the past to live in was not their intention to produce such those days ? No one can go back like that, negative energy, but they became except through the psychic approach, (unknowingly) the instruments. However, through inference or by projecting the world at present is just a world only ! through one’s own special vision... that The world is of a permanent nature and is we can see. (by intellectual approach and going to last for ever. The world was, is by inference and by allegating one’s own and is also going to remain what it is now. perception into it, we can see this.) Such 14 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan is indeed the attitude or approach on the used in case of imagination. The field of part of historians, whether they are of our imagination is limitless ad that is why in country or of other countries, it’s just the this world we are growing in the dark in same everywhere and consequently this all places and can only hope to get out of gives rise to a lot of discussions, which the tunnel only if there is some light at we can experience or witness. the end of the tunnel, they say. This is the matter (We are trying to find a light at the It is the work of a realized soul or one end of the tunnel, while living and groping who has attained to Atma-Jnana in the dark). The word ‘atom’ as it is used in the science of physics is actually the ‘ultimate The ‘Akram Vignan’ that we are atom’, when a number of such ultimate having today was revealed by ‘Dada atoms come together, they make a basic Bhagavan’. With the help of absolute molecule. And that too is not perceptible perception (or ‘Keval’ ‘darshan’) and (seen with eyes), today to any man, even going beyond, he gave us such wonderful after one has realized oneself or attained revelations of holistic science of Vitarag to self-knowledge. However, in case of Vignan ! How very blessed we are, such self-realized souls or blessed by his grace and his total ‘Purushas’(men), if they possess the compassion, to be given this Atma-Jnana necessary ‘vision’ of seeing things as they (Self-knowledge) ! These very people, really are or of perceiving the reality (in ‘just by themselves’, if they ‘reveal’ their toto), such a development is possible. own ‘pudgal’ (mind-speech-body), they (Their spiritual growth becomes possible). will be able to understand the mind- And in that process of self-development speech and bodily activities of all others or spiritual growth their own body and their revelations will automatically (physical frame) becomes a useful tool in emerge in their own words which could the form of mind-speech-body cultivating be understood by others and they would into the condition(state) of self- not need to speak. We have heard and read realization. That is to say the ‘self’ itself a lot of such ideas and we also discuss becomes the agent of self-change, them too; so may ‘satsangs’ also do take provided the ‘self’ is truly sincere and place... ! There are no two opinions about honest in making the ‘self’ available to ‘experience’ among the self-realized the ‘self’ to be. This ‘if’ is not conditional, souls, the meeting of Jnanis who have but it is indicative of the ultimate reality. attained real knowledge. They agree However words like ‘if’ and ‘so’ are unanimously. loosely used almost everywhere, they are JUNE- JULY, 2016 15 Akram Vignan The world may not have the correct Dadashri : You cannot talk about the understanding regarding atom and elements in this connection. molecule, which is justly grasped by Seeker : The talk about ‘matter’ as Vitarag persons from experience in their an element... own perception and vision. The world cannot have such an understanding of the Dadashri : If you are going to take it Absolute, but such realized souls can that way, no one will be able to grasp it. I transmit their understanding in our can talk about it to you. But this ‘satsang’ physical world, so that all human beings emerging now, is surely going to be who are currently alive and share latently effective outside. And this ‘satsang’ such a perception and vision, inspite of (conversation) will be very useful even the shroud of their ignorant to the Mahatmas. It will make them think. understandings, (under heavy clouds of (It will stimulate their thinking) It is not ignorant understandings) which can wrong on their part to do such ‘thinking’ enable them to live a peaceful and happy once they have attained self-knowledge life ‘heartily’, by mens of their own mind- (atma-jnana). That ‘power of thinking’ body and speech. But the word ‘atom’ contains the whole of our ‘Agna-dharma’, which they use today, means ‘molecule’ because such a power of thinking is as used in the language of the world of consistent with these two ‘agnas’ or scientist. They are still trying to delve deep commands, the relative viewpoint and the into its subtlety, fathom it further, their real viewpoint ! Therefore, for the efforts are going on. Huge amounts of ‘mahatma-purush’ who is a realized soul, money are being spent on that account. this power of thinking consistent with the They talk about man, environment and ‘agna-dharma’ proves to be very, very, such other things, but man, at its centre, very successful. Hence our power of is totally out of their focus. If man were thinking which has gone blunt at its centre, this science can only work in (ineffective) and become closed, comes a way as to keep mankind happy, but it to become open, revealed, so that, at the has its limitations. level of the mind, we tend to become self- awakened and then such an awakened The power of thought can open mind comes to be formed within. It is an out(blossom) aided by ‘Agna-dharma’ inner ‘formation’ taking place and the Seeker : Regarding this atom and same ‘formation’ comes to help you molecule, is it about (connected with) further on. these six elements only... ? Well, while we are living today, there

16 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan is only one rule for the man who is living, ‘samabhave-nikali’ way of living. And it applicable as always, as to how to live and cannot be removed(emptied) at once. It that is; man is able to live only with the is very necessary first to get rid of the help of his mind. Everyone knows this stock which you have brought with you. rule even today. The whole world knows That is why Dada Bhagavan has specially it too. But they do not know how to live urged upon us to remember that for the in a meaningful manner, how to live ‘mahatmas’ the only self warning part righteously. In this connection, it is contained within one’s body is the ‘karma- necessary to know the science of the mind krut buddhi’ and the ‘buddhino prakash’- and the mind itself, as it is revealed by light of intellect- which we always carry Dada Bhagavan. In ‘Jain Darshan’ and in with us. By saying this Dada Bhagavan is the ‘shastras’ (sacred books) today, people not criticizing or condemning the intellect, do talk about the mind and refer to ‘bhava’ but (he says that) it has come to us in our and ‘’. But what are ‘bhava’ and present lifetime just appropriately in tune ‘dravya’ ? (Spirit and matter ?) Only an with our age or ‘kala’. ‘Atmajnani Purush’ can oblige us with I say that whatever is or has been done ‘revelations’ that throw subtle and original by those who have understood religion light on the topics and that ‘purusha’ (Self- rightly, understood the ‘shastras’ realized) must be ‘experience incarnate’, (scriptures) quite well, etc. and also have living an inner life in the scientific manner undertaken ‘aradhana’ under the guidance and only such a ‘Jnani’ can reveal the of saints, whatever it may be, it is all in whole of this science ! tune with or under the influence of It is not right to say that a man who ‘karma-krut budhhi’ of ‘kala’ (as said has attained to self-knowledge or ‘atma- above). Now always, we have these jnana’ has also attained to this science. But ‘acharyas’ (gurus, teachers) in all sects of in order to attain to that state, to be able religions, in our society also we have very to live according to that science, you have eminent, reputed thinkers; but their just come to know the right ‘purushartha’ background is intellectually oriented. or objective only. On attaining to the state Therefore if the same orientation can be of ‘atma-jnana’, you at once enter into reversed slightly under the influence of your ‘purushartha-swabhava’, ‘essential ‘agna-dharma’ and also influenced by being’, which as you understood it rightly Dada Bhagavan’s received ‘atma-jnana’, in your ‘vyavahar’ or routine life, now then the reversed intellectual approach becomes for the ‘atma-jnani mahatma’ could become helpful to us in making our (Self realized evolved being) a matter of lives full of joy and peace by sincerely JUNE- JULY, 2016 17 Akram Vignan accepting the ‘agna-dharma’, so that the I ?’ then the ‘karman (karma-kruta) body (person, individual) who has pudgal’ molecules which have been experienced the blissful and peaceful collected have got to be born at the level condition of being, will also become of the mind. Therefore, they are called instrumental in causing similar conditions body-building blocks. These body- in other bodies and individuals, so that building blocks are basically the ‘atoms’ subsequently they can also understand this or molecules, which can remain unseen experience and make further progress in (invisible) to any one in the whole their spiritual development (that reverse universe or the whole of India, except for orientation of intellect will be a helpful those who have attained to self- cause for us to live out Aagnadharm wise knowledge, but even for them the at heart for our own bliss and peace. So experience of ‘seeing’ remains restricted, that the body that has tasted this bliss and upto a certain level, to the extent to which peace, will be instrumental for emanating they have developed holistically, with this blissful and peaceful state of body that reference to their bodies. And so long as anybody can understand and develop or until their perception becomes steady futher). in the form of experience, it is very risky on the part of such a one who has attained Active Pudgal Molecules to self-knowledge to say in words that In order to understand the language of “One is engaging in one’s own satsang.” molecules, they are called ‘active pudgal However, no one will say, “I have engaged molecules’. The word used in it is in Satsang.” No one can say that. We are ‘molecule’, but it stands for ‘pudgal all aware of it. (Body building blocks are parmanu’ : That is, ‘pudgal’ indicates or original molecules which are not denotes ‘a group of many many perceptible to any of the human beings of molecules’, ‘karman-pudgal’ means the whole world as well as whole of the ‘karma-kruta pudgal’. The body is built India except those, who has acquired by the pudgal which has come to the Aatm-gyan but for them also the level karma-kruta state. The consitution of the upto which they have developed body or its formation takes place in holistically from within the body, to that accordance to the ‘karma-krutata’ and the extent it is perceptible to them. And so origination of that ‘karma-krutata’ is the long as that perception does not get well mind and if there is no manifested form settled as an experience, it is very risky or expressive way from the level of the for anybody who has achieved Atam-gyan mind, there can be no birth. It means that to express in the word as by satsang of if one has no self-knowledge or ‘who am 18 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan once own doing, though nobody would and particularly as of Jain Darshan, it is speak that I have done satsang. No body the great authority. Today, any one who will speak... we know that...). comes into contact with the ‘Atmajnani purusha’ in whom the very holistic science A meeting of Hansa and Paramhansa of Vitaraga is fully embodied or For that reason, the meeting of manifested, is able to benefit from the satsangis and the occasion of ‘satsang’ contact. In their presence ‘satsang’ itself is regarded as very holy. And when becomes ‘param’ (supreme) and the such realized souls come together, their conference (coming together, gathering) meeting place and the whole event of such ‘atma-jnanis’ becomes ‘satsang- become well-established ! Therefore, the swaroopa’. Therefore, such a meeting of event itself and the importance or spiritual ‘souls’ has been called the meeting of significance of ‘satsang’ have been very ‘hansa’ (swan) and if it takes place in the elaborately described, in all manner, by presence of an experienced Jnani purusha, eminent people, by learned men as well it has been called ‘Paramhansani sabha’ as saints. But we should learn clearly (The meeting place of supreme realized about the classification of ‘satsang’, as it souls.). The significance of these two has been declared. If it may be in the different terms ‘Hansa’ and ‘Paramhansa’ nature of some sectarian view or is just the same as it is with reverence to devotional form or in the form of satsang, ‘Shivji’ who is ‘Kailashpati’ and who is it may be just like that, as seen. But if it is with his consort ‘Parvatiji’ and that when liberated (freed) from all kinds of the two are meeting, no third party is sectarian views, which transcends such allowed to enter their meeting place and limitations, if it is truly self-knowledge in fact, there is no one who can be there, (as we understand it), all such mahatmas except for Shiva ‘gana’ (attendants) and under one mahatma ‘purusha’ may come Shiva ‘Parivar’ (family)... ‘Shiva Parivar’ together (who are realized souls in the true here means the ‘atma-jnanis’ or self- sense of the term) by virtue of their own realized souls; the family of those who self-realization and on the strength of it, have realized themselves. to understand what this ‘agna-dharma’ is... ! We very often read, understand, speak Jai Sachchidanand also that ‘agna itself is dharma’, ‘agna itself is tapa (penance)’. It is the very substance, standardized, of all scriptures

JUNE- JULY, 2016 19 Akram Vignan : Aptasutras : q Science is of two categories : one, exter- nal science, i. e., physics; two, internal science, i. e., science of the spirit, i. e. spiritual science ! ‘Atma’, ‘anatma’, what are all these things in fact ? What is ‘Pudgal’ ? All this can be learnt through experience, through ‘science’, not through the words in scriptures, seen through one’s own eyes, understood by self, and also conveyed through conversation-such is q It is such a mysterious, profound ‘sci- ‘-jnana’ or ‘learning by experi- ence’ that as soon as an evil idea crosses ence’. That is called ‘internal science’ ! your mind, all these external atoms are The external science is leading to desti- drawn inside (within) and they tend to nation, the internal science is leading to give results in accordance to their ac- ‘moksha’. (liberation, ). count. No one from outside comes here (Aptasutra : 2893) to give the results ! There is no God who can give results from outside. q This world has been raised (structured) (Aptawani-Aptasutra : 3900) on the basis of this ‘Rupitatva’ or ‘pudgal- tatva’. The ‘rupitatva’ is a puzzle, caus- q The mind is a knot, made of knots. The ing confusion. It has become powerful mind is subtle, neither atoms nor mol- enough to force us to change our ‘belief’ ecules, it belongs to a ‘stage’ in between. in ‘atma’. The soul(atma) never changes. ‘Vikalpas’ are born out of ‘Kalpa’ ! It’s (Aptasutra : 2893) ‘belief’ only that builds the body, (pre- q The mind is completely physical, mechani- pares the frame). ‘Belief’ is not active in cal. Speech is formed by very light atoms, it. Atoms are being attracted because of lighter than those used to form a body, ‘belief’ and the atoms by themselves be- and mind is formed by atoms that are come naturally active. Eyes, ears, nose, lighter than those used to form speech. the body, are all formed naturally. (Aptawani-1, P. 59, 69) (Aptasutra : 3899)

Belief and language are totally different, belief being the very subtle part and language being the gross part. So even the correctness of language can not exactly convey the belief part, though it is allowed there subtly, belief-wise within.

-Kanudadaji

20 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan

KEEP READING YOUR OWN BOOK

-Sampujya Dada Bhagavan

Continue to keep cleaning inside inside. Then who spoiled ir all ? (Who ‘Pudgal’ means our house ! Did you made it so dirty ?) We had ourselves white-wash the building, did you paint it ? spoiled it and now after so many years, Now it has become clean. In the same way, will not rust (corrosion) get into it ? The this ‘Dada’ made you understand that ‘you vessels (utensils) are getting corroded. are a pure soul’. It gave you a new faith Now we have to start cleaning it all from and you became purified, that is certain. inside, all this eating, drinking, sleeping, But now what about getting it all cleaned sitting in ‘satsang’, etc. But our mind must inside ? be constantly focussed on getting it all q cleaned inside. Starting this cleaning-up is called ‘Upayoga’. The ‘Jnani Purusha’ gave a blow to your old belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’. Remove all the dirt It’s all knocked out and over ! How much Now you remove all this dirt from of it has been demolished from all sides : inside. Can you see it or not ? Then he ‘That I’m Chandubhai, I’m his brother, says, “Yes, there lies dirt inside.” So his uncle or maternal uncle, I’m her remove all the dirt. Then what else is husband’, etc. Now we have come upto there ? He says, “I am pure.” He speaks it the stage that “I am a Shuddhatma.” Now daily near the toe (thumb ?) : “I am a pure we have to start cleaning everything from soul”, but he has not yet become so, “What JUNE- JULY, 2016 21 Akram Vignan is lacking now ?” ‘There are those under can be seen ‘They are wet’, he says. the furniture.’ They have all been “Clean up, do it better.” We have allowed removed. Then, again, “I am pure now.” you. “Do eat, please help yourself with No, what about these utensils ? Clean this ‘Handva’ and ‘Jalebi’ also.” them up, first, then only you can call Now see it minutely yourself clean and pure. Then they are also Seeker : Now we have to remove cleaned and then we say : “Some dirt is the entire garbage carefully. still sticking there, in those utensils.” After cleaning it all up, you can claim to have Dadashri : Were you not removing it become a Shuddhatma. That is, the soul carefully until now ? and I and this ‘Pudgal’ have all become Seeker : No, perhaps not. purified. That is, both you and I have also become purified. That does it. We are free Dadashri : How can you say that ? now. Then I need not say anything about ‘Perhaps not ?’ You have not done it at it to you now. all. Each and every word of yours will be weighed here. Only ‘balance’ is of a Seeker : Right. So we have to be different make ! Now, is the dirt to be vigilant about the stuff inside. removed by you, or by me ? Dadashri : ‘You’ have to keep a Seeker : By your grace, we can do watch as to how much of it is cleaned up it. and how much still remains. Since there is so much of garbage in the house, ‘we’ Dadashri : You have to see it all have to tell him : “Chandubhai, is there minutely. First do so. Then tell me “I have any garbage left ?” been purified now.” If by only painting the house at its outside only, you are so Seeker : Our purification process pleased, then, what will you feel like by touches ‘Chandubhai’ only. Doesn’t it ? continuing to clean it all from inside also ? Dadashri : Yes. ‘We’ are already Seeker : Will be more pleased. purified. ‘We’ are pure souls. Now what does Chandubhai say ? That he has also Dadashri : Total happiness ! A been purified ? No, so far, it is only blissful state !! You can continue to be in cleaned from outside. There is a lot of dirt ‘’ state. So now, do see all this (garbage) lying unattended inside. You carefully, minutely too. If you ask one, it will become pure if you first clean it all can be just like the whole of our epic, up. Utensils have been cleaned, rather ‘Ramayana’ ! The whole book to be carelessly, so that some dirt clinging inside covered. But here, briefly, I have 22 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan explained it all in just five minutes only. white-washed from the outside only !’ So ‘you’ have to order Chandubhai : “What Seeker : Can we hope to have such is this ? Is it all right if it is white-washed a keen insight ? and painted from the outside only, is it Dadashri : Now that you have said it, okay ? Well, here is dirt, remove it !” “O you will surely have such a keen insight ! Chandubhai, what are you doing ?” Well, So far you were saying that “You have this is the way ‘you’ have to get it all done become purified.” And now you are by ‘Chandubhai’. Thus, the more you tell saying, “No, I have not been purified. I him and the more it becomes clean, you have to make it clean now.” What were will also become clean with it. (You will you like in the former state ? Clean from become purified. Is there any error in the the outside only, but dirty inside. ‘science’ I am talking about ? Is there Here, we have ourselves to rise upto any ? divinity. We are not to become servants Seeker : Not at all, ‘Dada’. of God. Though you are writing Dadashri : ‘Furniture’ has been ‘Dasanudasa’ (slave of slaves). But finally, cleaned, the utensils all dirty, also get by continuing the cleaning process, you cleaned up. As we go on ‘seeing and can become godlike. There is such infinite examining’ everything, we come to know energy within you. about it. But, having checked the furniture Now it will go ahead straight only, if you go to sleep and think of ‘taking Seeker : ‘Dada’, you have truly rest’, there will be no gain, nothing good awakened us. at all, so, we just try to make(them) understand, but they fail to understand ! Dadashri : Yes, he has woken up. Been alert. But, do take a note of this all For the whole day, ‘we’ have simply and keep reading it daily. ‘Still some to keep alert and watchful : ‘What is utensils are left over, this or that has Chandubhai doing ?’ ‘We’ keep telling remained untouched.’ ‘Chandubhai’ to keep a watch on what Chandubhai is doing and if he fails to do Seeker : We will see it minutely. so, ‘we’ must tell him, “See, still there are Dadashri : Yes, ‘we’ don’t have to some utensils left uncleaned, still that clean it. ‘We’ have just to ‘order’ it. other thing is also left untouched.” As “Chandubhai, that one is remaining, now soon as he finishes one task, show him do it first. O Chandubhai, that one is left, the other at once ! do it. It won’t do if you get this house Thus you will be able to see JUNE- JULY, 2016 23 Akram Vignan Chandubhai’s mistakes and you may tell it ! him to correct all those mistakes he has How long should I keep telling ?! been making ! Then only he will be able to do the right thing, otherwise not. How long should I keep showing him ? Now ‘you’ have to ‘see’ it. The That means it has been cleaned up utensils are giving out a bad smell, they Dadashri : Have you started cleaning are also covered with ‘fungi’. They smell up all the ‘rooms’ ? dirty. Can we use them for our meals ? You have to make them clean, so, at least Seeker : Yes, we have started it. for once, do the cleaning up fully. How There are so many cobwebs, now we are long should I keep telling you to do that able to see them all, ‘where they are’, in work ? If you have hired a man (for such the nooks and corners, hidden, all. Now a work), he will keep telling you (to do we can see them all ! it). But am I such a hired man ? Dadashri : ‘You’ are that(perceiver) Seeker : No, ‘Dada’. We have observer and that landlord is the worker noted down that ‘all the dirt has to be who cleans it. After some cleaning work completely removed from the house !’ is done, he might say, ‘Shall I take some rest now ?’ ‘No, there is still this work Dadashri : Your mind may not grasp left for you. You will take rest after all of all such minute details. Do you get my it is finished. point ? Do you know also that all such q minute details are part of the “Jnani’s” work ? So you must note it down. Then it That means, all the evil elements, will work very well for you ! I had also ‘kashay’. stored up inside, get to come up asked you ‘not to forget it.’ You may read outside, all the ones lying(stored up) it daily from what you have taken down. inside. And after keeping a watch on all, Then you will be able to see : “What is you may tell Chandubhai, “Do your still left to be done ? Let us examine it.” regular ‘pratikramana’, repeat the ‘charan You may find out whatever has been not vidhi’ also.” That’s all. Nothing else. You done. have to see and dispose of it, that is called ‘cleaning up’. If we enter their house, they God told us from inside, “Tell will say, “Saheb, it’s all over now. Do the everyone. How long will you hold agreement(settlement) now.” “No. It’s all yourself responsible ?” I will not be there left to be done, still.” He will keep doing to show it to you. You alone have to do it. it and ‘we’ will keep showing him to do Now, will it be necessary for me to remind

24 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan you again ? I will not come again to tell accepts), a single quality of ‘prakriti’ as you. ‘You’ alone will have to tell it. “one’s own” and who knows all one’s own “Chandubhai, do it this way, this way.” qualities(as they are). Even if he accepts This garbage(dirt) will not allow you to a single aspect (quality) of ‘prakriti’ as be ‘regular’. (his) one’s own, he is sure to be captured in ‘sansar’ or he is sure to be a captive of Effect of ‘Pudgal’ ‘Sansar’. How much force or pressure this Dadashri : Your garbage is different. ‘Prakriti’ is unleashing on us (one) ! His garbage is different. ‘Prakriti’ (Nature) is so strong as to make Seeker : Are the qualities of an animal of man, not to talk of man’s ‘pudgal’ here called ‘garbage’ ? Some of soul. (What can it do ?) them are not self-desired, as all these are Desire may be there, but... properties of nature, aren’t they ? You are Seeker : ‘Dada’ has just said, here terming the pudgal qualities ‘good “Your garbage is different, their garbage or bad’ ? is different ? What is likely to be the nature Dadashri : No objection if you have of our garbage ? What type will it be ? surrendered to ‘pudgal’, but the ‘pudgal’ Dadashri : Everyone’s garbage is has affected your soul so much that the bound to be of a different nature ! It gives poor soul is unable to make any out bad odour. It cannot give out good movement, it seems as if it has been smell. But all these different types arrested(imprisoned), what a great impact (varieties) of garbage are sure to be of ‘pudgal’ ! Even if the impact is flushed out. In course of time. Who- diminished to about fifty percent or so, soever desires (wishes), can get it done. the soul will be set free and may be re- invigorated also. Seeker : Will it happen in your very presence ? Seeker : But you are saying, “Not a single quality of ‘Prakriti’ is in me and Dadashri : Yes. But in some cases, not a single quality of my being is in even my ‘presence’ won’t work. ‘Prakriti’.” Seeker : But you said, if they so Dadashri : Yes, but if it is not there, desire, (with it), will it not so happen ? in you, still there must be something like (Garbage flushed out.) yours, ‘you-ness’(being you) about it. Is Dadashri : Yes, there may be the it not ? The ‘Jnani’ is distinguished as one desire (wish), but after a little while, they who never admits (acknowledges, might say : “But still I fail to understand !” JUNE- JULY, 2016 25 Akram Vignan That finishes it, then it’s just quite as ‘see’(observe) ! Or whatever we may have before. (Back to square one !) to face, is not accepted as one’s own ‘swaroop’, that makes you free. Whatever ...It’s all dirt(garbage) only may come to you, unhappiness, happiness, Seeker : Now, what type of anger, anything else–‘it cannot be in my garbage is it ? likeness’ (my swaroop), such an Dadashri : Everyone’s garbage. It’s awareness must be kept up. all garbage only... The idea that does not Seeker : Then those ‘lepayaman enable one to accept the basic truth, that bhava’ (feelings which stick to you) is all “I am the Soul”, (not being effective with dirt only. Isn’t it ? one), is all ‘garbage’. It has to be swept away. Once you do it, you will find its Dadashri : Then, what else ? What ‘usefulness’. Have you followed, even a clings(stick) to you, is those ‘Lepayaman little of what I mean to say to you ? bhavo’ and what keeps you unstained(unpolluted) is this ‘upayoga’ Seeker : What does not allow one (right use). This may last for hardly a to be of good use, (to make right use), is couple of minutes ! That kind of ‘use’ all garbage. It’s all dirt. cannot be expected to last for ever ! Can Dadashri : Yes, if it can lend itself to it ? good use, there’s nothing left at all. The dirt will keep coming out There’s no dirt to be removed. That itself Seeker : Can there be dirt coming means : “Cleaning up.” (It’s cleaned.) If out in ‘Upayoga’ ? Can that also be called it is cleaned up, one may be of good use ‘Upayoga’ ? and if it is not cleaned, the user may hesitate a little, it may be there for some Dadashri : ‘Upayoga’ is a term time or some time not be there ! indicating that all the dirt keeps coming out continuously. When you start your Such an awareness must be there journey from there, it’s called dirt related Seeker : If nothing is left for the to ‘25 miles’ and as you have covered ‘500 basic(right) use, it’s all garbage(dirt). miles’, they may say : “Bhai, (dear) that Dadashri : Yes. What does not allow dirt related to 500 miles has now been one to be of right use, is all dirt. What removed. That is called the ‘upayoga’ of ‘still remains’, allows, is exhausted, five hundred miles. And so on, as you consumed fully. ‘We’ need not do the move on, that dirt related to 25 miles is ‘cleaning work’, ‘we’ have just to removed. That sets you free ! How simple

26 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan it is ? The dirt which has once been Seeker : We are aware that ‘this is removed, is not again to be removed. That not to be done’, ‘This is false(not right)’. means continuing in ‘upayoga’. Yet we make mistakes. What does our ‘Jnana’ say ? Dadashri : That means, you had Seeker : That means sweeping up stocked up rubbish or garbage in place of the whole place to make it clean. When ‘goods’. Goods unchecked ! All the one part is over, show him the other. ‘We’ ‘goods’ which the ignorant people like to have to be able to ‘see’ clearly, to have.... We will have to remove it, won’t distinguish. We see that ‘the fellow has we ? All the goods that have been stocked tasted a bit of the juice of pride’, that up ! separates one’s ‘pudgal’. Otherwise the When one understands that all this is ‘separation’ is not possible. So ‘to see’ ‘bad stuff’(wrong goods), the ‘atma- means ‘we’ are detached and the ‘pudgal’ vignan’ enters. There it is ‘pragna’ which also gets detached. ‘sees’ it all. Pragna is in the ‘seer’. It’s q enough if one commits ‘pratikramana’ and says, “This is not mine”, when you say Seeker : You have said that, “The ‘mine’, it clings to you. When you say, fellow has tasted of the juice of pride.” “It’s not mine”, you just give it up. Give But you have seen it happen. That means up. It all happens well after one is given the ‘pudgal’ has been detached. Is it so ? ‘Jnana’. Without ‘Jnana’, it cannot Dadashri : “I am not the one who has happen. When one is given ‘Jnana’, all tasted it” it must be like that ! I am not one’s sins are burnt to ashes. From that the one who tastes it(partakes of the juice time, one gets ‘weightlessness’, lightness, of pride). And if one says(that), “I have otherwise one continues to attend tasted it”, then it is proved. (One is lost). ‘satsang’ and yet to no avail. (There is no He may taste the juice of pride, but gain at all !) believes consciously that it is he himself, Who will show it ? doing it, what does our Jnana say ? It says, “This, I am not !” With such knowledge, Seeker : Many times we are aware you have to remain detached and dispose the ‘something is not to be done !’ ‘We’ of it with equanimity, “I am not this-must may even warn a person, “Chandubhai, be kept in mind and dispose with this is not to be done” and still equanimity.” Say : “Not mine” and give ‘Chandubhai’ does it, (ignores the up ‘mine’-ness. warning), then how should we take it ?

JUNE- JULY, 2016 27 Akram Vignan Dadashri : That is his ‘garbage’, ‘we’ also become clean. wastage of food or so called left overs. Seeker : In this, who is ‘we’ ? By He has to clean it. We have not made it ‘we’ whom do you ask to become clean ? and are not going to make it, too. He who did it, had to clean it. ‘We’ might just say, Dadashri : ‘We’ here means “Don’t do it again.” (Don’t make any ‘Shuddhatma’, the pure soul. On the one more of it.) If they are cleaning it now, it hand is ‘soul’, on the other is ‘pudgal’. means, they must have made it before and What does ‘pragna’ tell one’s ‘ego’ or so are cleaning it now. So ‘we’ have to ‘ahankar’ ? To the extent you have become keep a watch and again to remind, “Don’t clean, you have ‘entered’ the ‘soul’. do so again.” Seeker : That is, the ego has to do Therefore, just keep on with the it. sweeping (sweeper’s) work. What needs Dadashri : Yes. ‘Ahankar’(Ego) to be done next, ‘we’ have to point out. means a combination of both ‘pudgal’ and ‘We’ will find it too, as to what still the soul. The ‘pudgal’ has come to join remains to be done, etc ? If we observe it on account of the ‘doership idea’ and the at some place, we may say, “You, please soul has come to join it on account of the see this all.” That is, if we saw it at one ‘knowership’ idea. That means, when place, we may say, “Clean this up”. Then one’s knowership idea takes place, he is show it at another place and say, “Bhai, liberated and the doership idea of the other (dear), this is not done, this is not done.” one liberates him. ‘We’ are the one to show it. ‘Self’ does not show it. This is the work of ‘pragna’, Seeker : Both are liberated. our soul’s great spiritual power. ‘Pudgal’ Dadashri : Thus, it is as clear as tends to continue doing such work and daylight. What happens when it is ‘we’ have just to ‘watch’ it. ‘We’ have to shown ? keep on pointing it out : “See this is still Seeker : Yes. left undone. Thus, if ‘we’ say it, ‘we’ become ‘clean’ at first and if he does it, Dadashri : When I showed you he becomes clean also. something, your doership idea got released (free), of the ego, but is there any Seeker : When ‘we’ say it, ‘we’ objection to showing more and more ? become clean... Who shows it ? ‘Pragna’ shows it all. Dadashri : Clean, to be sure. But if he does it, ‘we’ get clean. If he gets clean,

28 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan Then the problem is solved once for all responsibility and we are giving it up. or Even when the pudgal is responsible Then a permanent problem can be solved for the work of dirtying, we say, “I did It was only the ‘pudgal’ which was it.” If it raises the thing a little, we say, “I doing the work of dirtying as well as of raised it.” Pudgal is raising it and pudgal cleaning up itself. And still ‘we’ used to earns its profit also. Pudgal suffers the loss say that (I) ‘we’ have done it. Now, even also. In this, when we say “I did it”, we though the cleaning up is being done by are running into difficulties. It’s the pudgal, if we say that ‘I have done it’, we ego(ahankar) which says, “I did it” and again enter into the (old) account. That it’s the Shuddhatma which says, “I have means, it is not ‘we’ who are doing it all- done nothing in this.” dirtying and cleaning, etc. We don’t say The wrong(false) belief, “I did it” is “we are not in it”, that is why it goes on. called ‘’(vanity) and “I didn’t Now, if while cleaning it up, we say “we do it” is called ‘Samyaktva’. If this is are not in it”, we will be free of it. understood, ‘Who is doing it ?’ it solves In fact, we have not made it dirty, still the permanent problem. (It solves the we might have believed it to have been problem finally.) done by me, hence the responsibility came Finally the person becomes clean upon us. Now, while cleaning it up, if we The ‘dirtying work is done’ by pudgal. say at the time, that “I am not doing it”, Though it is done by pudgal, if you ask we are out of the responsibility. (We are him to clean it, ‘he’ will set about it soon free.) again. While ‘he’ is cleaning it, he thinks The whole world is engaged in the ‘he himself’ is doing it. That is his error. work of making it dirty. It’s pudgal’s work. He becomes ‘the cleaner’. He ceased to We say, “we are doing it.” It is again be the dirty-work doer and became the pudgal which is responsible for milking ‘cleaner’ ! He is just the same ! There the cow, but it says, “I am doing it.” Who people have stopped. That is the burden does milk the cow ? Pudgal. And what do in all. we say ? “I milked the cow !” And when Seeker : It means that at that time it comes to settle the consequences, who he thinks that what he thought of as pudgal does it ? “I did it.” That fixes the was he himself. And that since he thought responsibility. We shouldered that like it, it was his mistake. Now he is responsibility by mistake. The whole correcting his mistake and requests to world is thus depending(standing) upon

JUNE- JULY, 2016 29 Akram Vignan please disconnect or get detached from the purify the ‘pudgal’ only ? The soul has contact he had had. What else is it, if not nothing at all to do with it. this ? Dadashri : Basically, we need not Dadashri : No, no. How can it even set about purifying the ‘pudgal’ also. disconnect or detach ? It’s only poor If ‘we’ do not believe our ‘real pure ‘Power Chetan’ ! How much can it do and condition’ to be impure, the purification how ? How can it disconnect at all ?! By of ‘pudgal’ will be done automatically. ‘our’ seeing, it gets disconnected to be Pudgal will continue to be purified by sure. It gets loosened gradually, thread by itself. thread ! There may be lakhs of such Seeker : But the impurity applies threads also and all of them may get to the pudgal only ? loosened, never to be tied again. We have become detached. The threads all found Dadashri : Further, will the world their own freedom, went back home. ‘We’ ever believe ‘pudgal’ to be ‘impure’ ?! The went to our own homes. Now what whole world believes it to be ‘impurity remains to be done ? of the soul’. They say : “My soul is sinning.” Well, people do not understand Seeker : Then, what we have to the impurity of pudgal at all. Do they ? speak here, Dada, is all meant to purify Did you understand it ? If there is no the ‘pudgal’ only ? adverse unnecessary interference with Dadashri : Yes. It is all meant to ‘pudgal’, it just continues to be purified. purify the ‘pudgal’ only. Till then, there But here is unnecessary interference. will be no end of the ‘dasha’ ! We have Once you start it, it gets messed up ! And been purified by ‘Dada’, now remains the who is doing this interference ? Our purification of this ‘pudgal’. Its beliefs-our ignorance ! (Lack of Jnana) continuous pollution is now over. Now, Seeker : I am hearing what you the kind of purification being done here speak through pudgal. is going to be effective till the next ‘avatar’(re-birth) so long as we remain Dadashri : Ignorance was in the obedient to the ‘agnas’, the purification pudgal. These words destroy that veil, the process continues to work. layer. Words are also a part of ‘pudgal’. One is oneself the dirt, the soap and the Seeker : Is this whole ‘science’ cloth also. Finally, one gets cleaned or regarding the purification of ‘pudgal’ ? purified. These five commands of sentences or this ‘science’ as we know it, is it all meant to 30 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan Then they will be purified and go away made us ‘impure’ and distorted us. We Well, ‘we’ call ourselves ‘Shuddh- became distorted only after we accepted atma’ and now, this outer physical form your terms, entered into relationship. which we call ‘pudgal’, what does it say ? Seeker : But ‘dada’, how can an It asks now, “What about us ? Though you inert, insentient object like pudgal be have become ‘Shuddhatma’, you will not affected by original form and by become free. So long as our case is not distortion ? settled, or our fate is not fixed, you will not become relieved.” What does it say ? Dadashri : There is ‘Power Chetan’ “Until you restore us back to our original inside. Isn’t there ? You are ‘different’ and state, we are not going to set you free, this ‘pudgal’ is also different on account because you are responsible for spoiling of its ‘Chetan bhava’ or feeling of our(my) original state and so you must consciousness. Pudgal has only ‘power restore us to our original state.” chetan’, it is not real ‘Chetan’ or consciousness. Seeker : But it is only our inner side telling us that this is skin, blood, Seeker : Who polluted the bones and flesh. All this is made up of pudgal ? the five basic elements. What has it to do Dadashri : Our ‘bhavakarma’, our with us ? (We don’t need it.) Of what use experiencing feelings. That gave rise to is it to us ? ‘pudgal’. In the absence of the Dadashri : No. No. No. ‘Chandu- ‘bhavakarma’, no pudgal would arise. bhai’ is alive. ‘You’ are a ‘pure soul’ and Pudgal has nothing to do, to give or take. ‘Chandubhai’ is alive. All this is not a It is ‘Vitaraga’, poor thing. As you statue(image) of blood, flesh, pus, etc. experience feelings, it soon gets affected. This is alive. You must settle the issue with So the atoms which have been now it. polluted, have to be purified with the purifying process. There is nothing else Seeker : We are not causing any to be done. harm (evil) to anyone. It happens all as willed by ‘Vyavasthita’. Hence, the number of ‘discharges’ which have remained have remained Dadashri : No. You can’t do like impure. They will also get purified as that. What does this say ? That you have ‘you’ continue to keep ‘seeing’ them and polluted us. You have disfigured us or let them pass. So they will all become distorted us. We as pudgal were pure, purified and go away. clean, refined, but you have polluted us, JUNE- JULY, 2016 31 Akram Vignan They become pure by our seeing them from ‘Raga’ and ‘Dwesha’, i.e., from What does the pudgal say ? “To settle attachment and aversion or likes and the account, keep observing. Just see what dislikes and just keep a watch. We have I am doing. See what the mind is doing, become polluted because of your ‘Raga’ what intelligence(Buddhi) is (also) doing. and ‘Dwesha’, because of you, now with Keep an eye on all that. There is nothing the help of ‘Vitaraga’, we will become else to watch. Don’t miss it at the moment, free. Atoms and molecules may become do not be unwatchful. You continue to pure again, since there was charging, keep yourself in your consciousness and discharge surely follows as a I continue with my own ‘kriya’(activity).” consequence ! There is no part of ‘our When both remain in their own activity, own private property’ in the charge- you must then ‘see’ the ‘udaya’ or rising. discharge process and no charge- You must ‘see’ all the dimensions or discharge can occur in case of ‘our own shades of meaning of ‘udaya’. It becomes private property’. Such is the clean pure by ‘seeing’ it. practice. Seeker : But once it was so Need to be a Vitaragi only... discussed that ‘udaya’ is the moment when Seeker : There are no ‘Raga- one is totally identified. dwesha’ left now, but chances are there of some ‘dislike’ occurring sometime. Dadashri : May be. Dadashri : That’s right. ‘We’ are Seeker : And then ‘purushartha’ mainly free from Raga-dwesha. ‘Dislike’ has been defined as the effort when one or aversion is a part of pudgal’s nature. gets detached from oneself. There may be ‘bhava’ or liking Dadashri : He becomes detached at somewhere or even ‘dislike’ somewhere. once by no efforts. He becomes liberated But ‘we’ are free form ‘Raga-dwesha’. as soon as he says that he is a ‘Pure Soul’. It’s our duty(dharma) to remaing aloof And what does the pudgal say ? “Since from ‘Raga-dwesha’. Likes and dislikes you have become a pure soul, don’t are a part of pudgal’s nature. believe that you have become liberated. Since you had polluted us, now you must The meaning of ‘Raga’ or attachment purify us. Then only we can part. “But is not understood, hence all this confusion how can I make us part ?” “You just see or chaos. When ‘bhava’ is felt towards what we are doing. Don’t make any someone, it is believed to be ‘Raga’ and further trouble. No interference ! Be free when ‘’ or dislike is felt towards

32 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan someone, it is believed to be ‘dwesha’. On the one side you see something ‘big’ But all this ‘like-dislike’ is in the nature and on the other you see something of pudgal only. The attraction one feels ‘small’. But you do see both of them. towards one’s own ‘house’ or family is Therefore, bid them farewell. We have to because of physical attraction, it’s not at remain ‘Vitarag’. all in the nature of the Soul. It’s necessary to be ‘Vitaraga’ only. Seeker : Is the ‘Vyavasthita’ (All other feelings(bhava) seen are of responsible for such feelings of ‘bhava ‘pudgal’ only. This ‘pudgal’ is going its and abhava’ ? own way. ‘We’ may be going ‘our own’ way. It may not interfere with ‘us’. So we Dadashri : ‘Bhava and abhava’ are may not ‘interfere’ with it, it may go away dependent on the ‘Vyavasthita’, but by itself. ‘keeping a watch’ on them is only a part of pudgal’s nature ? ‘Bhava’s occurrence Then there may be ‘Paramananda’ and disappearance depend on the What does our ‘Jnana’ say about it ? It ‘Vyavasthita’. But if we just keep a says : “Just keep watching as to what is constant watch or vigil on them, they will happening with Chandubhai.” There is no surely disappear. Then if we do not name other remedy at all. ‘We’ may just come them, there is no objection. If we interfere to understand that a lot of garbage has with them, it might result in litigation. We been collected. are on our way, you may go your way. Why do you cause interference ? You may go Seeker : At that time there is no along your Vitaraga pathway. We are awareness of the relation between ‘Jneya’ proceeding on our ‘pooran-galan’ (charge- and ‘Jnata’, what needs to be known and discharge) pathway.” Which way is who is the knower ? There is no feeling theirs ? “Puran-galan”. The dislikes which also that I am different from this ‘mind- have been accumulated may come to rise speech-body’, etc. and go away. The ‘abhava’ done at the Dadashri : If that awareness about time of ‘puran’(charge) will be the same relationship between ‘Jneya’ and ‘Jnata’ as the ‘abhava’ at the time of ‘galan’ does not remain, ‘you’ never come to (discharge). ‘We’ have just to keep know that Chandubhai has come over it. ‘watching’ it. From this we have to Who can understand this ? Hence, this is understand that it is ‘dislikes’ which were quite different in your case. One comes accumulated are now getting out. If we to know it every ‘minute’ in the ’minute’. had stored only ‘likes’, they would have Seeker : But should it not stop come out. But both of these are hostile. JUNE- JULY, 2016 33 Akram Vignan after one comes to understand it ? And happened’ will be ‘known’ completely. should it not become directed towards Why are not the others from outside one’s soul ? (Self ?) coming to complain to me ? “This is what is happening to me today” or “I am Dadashri : It cannot be turned back suffering like this or that ?” or reverted. What have ‘you’ in ‘you’ to be able to do so ? Seeker : Are they likely to be experiencing ‘Samadhi’ ? Seeker : Then, ‘Dada’, even if this machinery operates by itself in a wrong Dadashri : The Soul never manifests way, only should we just keep ‘seeing’ it itself. Then how can that be ? Where one’s only ? ego is always active, the soul cannot manifest. In ‘your’ case, the soul has Dadashri : Then what else can be already manifested itself and so you can done ? The ‘wrong way’ and the ‘right understand all this. Otherwise, why way’ are both just ways. We just have to doesn’t anyone else speak like you ? see it all. Seeker : But then one’s own Seeker : But will it not mean ‘Paramananda’ or ‘supreme bliss’, one’s wasting a whole life-time on the wrong own eternal blissful state, can it be lost ? way ? Dadashri : But that state disappears Dadashri : But what use is this in the presence of these obstacles, with grumbling or complaining ? ‘To see it’ is such interference. itself Purushartha. You get confused by not understanding what is ‘Purushartha’. Seeker : What obstacles, ‘dada’ ? This is mere ‘suffocation’. Dadashri : The whole structure Seeker : At last one feels tired collapses when you go out on business, (bored, fatigued) as to what all this is that’s but do not watch accurately what happening ? ‘Chandubhai’ has been doing. If that be systematic, there will be no loss. Dadashri : That feeling of fatigue or tiredness may apply to ‘Chandubhai’. Seeker : What is meant by ‘not Does it apply to us ? And we have to seeing’ ? blame ‘Chandubhai’ for it. Ask him to do Dadashri : ‘You’ ‘know’ him well, ‘Pratikramana’ in the evening. It’s in the but do not ‘see’ it all ! nature of the soul that it will come ‘to know’ everything. ‘Whatever has Seeker : What happens when ‘we’

34 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan both ‘see’ and ‘know’ it all ? acting. That is the first duty. ‘Knowing’ comes next. Dadashri : Paramananda results when ‘knowing’ and ‘seeing’ happen at Seeker : Well, this ‘seeing’... how the same time. can it be done ? Seeker : How can it be, in what Dadashri : My goodness ! Can’t you way, to ‘see’ and to ‘know’ ? see what he is doing ? ‘You’ must also see what this ‘Chandubhai’ is doing all Dadashri : You can see the whole of through the day, as I am able to see it too. Chandubhai’s whole entity, everything as That is all. It’s enough. There’s no new to what ‘Chandubhai’ is doing, for ‘design’ in it. There is no scope for a new example if he is taking tea or milk, if he ‘design’ or any ‘architecture’ in it. There is crying or is angry, irritable, etc. Can’t is no need to do so. You must be able to you see it all ? The soul can ‘see’ see just as I am able to do it. everything. Here, it is because ‘knowing’ and ‘seeing’ do not occur at the same time, Seeker : You had once told me that ‘paramananda’ does not result in your “It must be seen as clearly as in a mirror case. when Chandubhai is taking his food.” Seeker : How can both things Dadashri : Yes. It must be seen just happen at the same time ‘knowing’ and like that. What the mirror sees or what I ‘seeing’ ? see is all the same. That’s it. But is it difficult ? Dadashri : It can happen with patience and practice. In everything we Seeker : ‘Dada’, it’s easy for you, must do the right thing, not to make haste, but difficult for us, is it not ? not to make a noise, maybe, at the time of Dadashri : No. It has to be tried and catching a train, if there is a crowd, we tackled gradually, to ‘fit’ it, then it will might make a mistake and we may have automatically be ‘fit’. Unless you to ‘let it go’ in case we miss the act of concentrate in its direction, how can it ‘watching’ on us. But in other cases, can become ‘fit’ ? “Lord Mahavir was doing we not practise it ? only one thing : watching what Mahavir Because the ‘seer’ is separate, he can ‘see’ was doing !” Enough, no other What is Chandubhai doing ? Took his unnecessary confusing activity at all. ‘He’ tea, ate and drank, etc. ‘See’ it all. He has would be ‘watching’ it while remaining ‘known’ it all, but he does not ‘see’ it ! awake, if Mahavir was ‘awake’, just as You must constantly ‘see’ the pudgal ‘I’ see it. ‘You’ too have to ‘see’ it like JUNE- JULY, 2016 35 Akram Vignan that... Some awakened, alert wise man his ‘shuddhatma-pada’(state of being a must be ‘seeing’ like it, observing all that pure soul) ? (Jnana of becoming we may be doing. Such an ‘observation’ ‘Shuddhatma’ ?) now you have to do. Is that all ? All people Dadashri : That can be ‘seen’, if you are generally able to observe what others obey our commands. It can become are doing, but this is a matter of doing purified just by ‘seeing’ only. If it be seen self-observation, a special ability. It’s just as impure or imagined to be impure, then because of lack of study of ‘Anadi’. Hence the bondage ! If it be seen as ‘pure’, there they fall short of it. is freedom from bondage. We make it easy by looking into the Seeker : Is it that just by mirror ! By so doing we are practising’ ‘watching’ (‘seeing’) it, the process gets just so because we have never ‘seen’ started ? things like it since times immemorial (since the beginning of time) ! It’s because Dadashri : Yes, ‘you’ have to keep if I am myself ‘observing only myself’. ‘watching’ what ‘Chandubhai’ has been What is there to be observed ? Here he is doing. You have to continuously observe seeing it because he has been separated. what Chandubhai’s mind is doing, what The seer has become different from what his ‘intellect’ is doing...etc. is seen ! And, further, we should not feel being Thus the last part of it-that is, about fearful. Let others feel so. We ‘know’ the ‘Jnata-Drashta’ or ‘knower’ and ‘Chandubhai’ as having ‘a certain type of ‘Seer’, if only ‘Chandubhai’ is coming or nature from the beginning’. If we were to going, ‘you’ may even see it–in surprise– try to change ‘it’ for the better, we would “Oho, welcome, Chandubhai, welcome be losing several life-times ! (It might take Chandubhai !!” Even if ‘Chandubhai’ is ages...!) The stock is to be got rid of, be it talking, ‘you’ may perceive him as good or bad ! It is to be discarded after different. all ! Hence, once it enters ‘its own original state’, not to bother at all. Hence, just keep The Final Effort(Purushartha) ‘watching’. The stock has ‘no value’ at Seeker : ‘You’ having become all. Once you realize the soul (pure soul) ‘Shuddhatma’ (a pure soul) keep watching the ‘pudgal’ has ‘no value’ at all. He was your ‘ahankar’ or ego, mind and intellect rather excessively wise (over-wise), so he and then as you have said that “You cannot got unnecessarily too much involved and be free, unless you set them free.” Then subject to blame, such a person deserves can he be not purified the moment he got thrashing. He gets continued beating. 36 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan Such is this world ! ‘purushartha’) that Lord Mahavir had been attempting. Once an Acharya Seeker : Then, should we Maharaj asked him, “Bhagavan, what congratulate and admire somebody or have you been watching here all the not ? (Should we give compliments or while ?” Then God said, “I have been not ?) observing ‘pudgal’ only.” “What other Dadashri : Give or not to give. That’s things that are all seen with these our eyes, for ‘Chandubhai’ to see, you need not cannot be said to have been ‘seen’.” I have bother. You are not to give it. Just see if pointed out the path to you, the path to Chandubhai gives it and see also even if see, because seeing the ‘pudgal’ is not that he does not give it. We have just to keep easy for ‘you’ yet. Hence, what did I tell seeing what ‘Chandubhai’ is doing. Lord you ? “Watch the ‘Real’ and the ‘Relative’. Mahavir had been doing just the same Each object observed outside will look thing, only one thing, ‘seeing the pudgal like ‘Relative’ see the ‘Real’ in it. If you only’. Keeping a close watch on what was ‘keep watching’ it for three hours like that, happening inside himself, what other you will enter into a ‘samadhi’ state, so vibrations were occurring inside and so beautiful, that even if you ‘see’ it for one on. He was ‘keenly watching’ it only, hour only and not three hours, you will constantly watching, He ‘would watch’ experience a ‘samadhi’ like that of Punia even his own eyelids fluttering. Now what Shravak. Lord Mahavir had been watching was And while dealing with others, if some different from what others are watching. one is hurling abuses at you, ‘do not see’ People see with the eyes of sense-organs, him as ‘one who abuses’ or uses bad a sense-vision. The Lord was seeing from words, just ‘see’ him as if he were a a supra-sensory perception, a spiritual ‘Shuddhatma’. Just see who is using bad vision. What cannot be seen with the help words and see also who he really is. Keep of sense-organs, could all be seen by the both these observations together, see them Lord. as two-in-one, all the ‘knowledge’ and our Seeker : But ‘Dada’, what we are ‘knowledge’ (jnana) can keep it all as one. discussing about ‘seeing’, is in fact the Seeker : You have given us this greatest (best) kind of ‘purushartha’ ‘vision’, ‘dada’. (spiritual effort), keeping in a state of ‘jnata-drashta’ (knower and seer) and Dadashri : Yes. continue ‘to watch’ ‘that’ ! Seeker : If it were not so, all this Dadashri : That is the effort (last matter (jnana) would remain confined to JUNE- JULY, 2016 37 Akram Vignan words only. remained unknown so that he needed to master it ? He would constantly be Dadashri : It is all contained in the watching his own ‘pudgal’ only. (at all five(agnas) commands given to you. hours and nothing else.) ! That only a ‘Veer’ can do Lord Mahavir must have been (Only a Veer can be like that) watching always as to what was being Seeker : ‘Dada’ has said, “Keep done or what not ?! The gods(devas) sent reading ‘your own’ book only. There is bugs (bed-bugs) to cause him trouble (to no other book deserving to be read. This disturb his sleep). He would often turn his ‘pudgal’ is like a book of mind-speech- sides (left or right) and ‘he’ would himself body, read that only. No other book is to be also ‘watching’ it (turning sides, in be read. order to sleep). It’s the nature of the body, Dadashri : This is not ‘easy’ to read. (no one can help). Even for ‘Mahavir’, It is the work of a Lord, ‘Veer’. Apparently the body has its own problem. Only the easy, but it is not so easy and inspite of arrogant people can behave wilfully ! being hard(tough), it is also easy. We may What with bugs only, even if the body be stay in this state of ‘Jnana’ continuously, burnt, the Lord will not budge, because all the time, but we can’t scale the height he has the supreme soul-power in him. of Mahavir Bhagavan. It’s only a ‘Veer’ Yes, ‘come what may, but I will not move.’ who can do it ! We really fall short by It has been so determined ! Yes, but look, four degrees ! It cannot be so condoned ! how much spiritual power ?! And here There of course ! Yet we have to keep our was a ‘Sahajbhavi’, all other Jnanis and vision focussed there only. (with Lord ‘Keval Jnanis’ are also ‘Sahaj bhavis’. Mahavir.) They may even cry and tears might flow from their eyes, they might cry out, Lord Tirthankar continues for ever to scream, when bugs bite them, they might be in his own super-state of Jnana. All the even turn their sides, this side, that side consequences were also imbued with and ‘see’ everything too ! First, it was for Jnana. How could it be done ? In that dissolution of , then it was super-state of Jnana ?! Is there any such ‘seeing’, constant ‘seeing’ ! Keeping one’s aspect (area, dimension, department) of eyes fixed on one ‘pudgal’ only. One knowledge remaining for Him which he ‘pudgal’ metaphorically contains what all may prefer to be in ? One who had other ‘pudgals’ also possess ! One has to conquered the seat of ‘Keval Jnana’, the observe everything about one’s own Lord, for him which branch of knowledge ‘pudgal’ only, which may then get

38 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan dissolved. is contained in the ‘pudgal’. All that we perceive with the help of our senses. [All One Pudgal Means... (sensory) perception is ‘Pudgal’, the outer Seeker : What do you mean by one world.] pudgal...? Seeker : Whatever happens to our Dadashri : All this can be seen, pudgal or whatever happens to that of though it is seen in different forms, but others, is it all ‘puran-galan’ (charge- ‘pudgal’ means ‘charging-discharging’ discharge) only ? (Puran-galan), by nature. So he ‘sees’ only ‘pudgal’ in the whole body or ‘physical Dadashri : Everything other than the frame’. He ‘sees’ nothing else, that Soul is Pudgal. Then I had to add more to means : he does not add any its meanings ! When people ask me to add modifications... more to it, I said, “The lavatory, the dining hall and ‘puran-galan’ and ‘shuddhatma’. Seeker : Do you mean to say that All these goods we are bringing here are when you are watching one ‘pudgal’, you the dining hall and all this excrement, the continue to see only the process of charge- ‘bidis’ thrown away, etc. are the lavatory, discharge ? (Puran-galan ?) ‘puran-galan’ and the ‘shuddhatma’ ! Dadashri : Only one ‘pudgal’, There is nothing else at all. People have nothing more then that. All this, what you divided and labelled them with the help may consider, is only one ‘pudgal’. There of intellect' this is gold, this is silver, this is nothing else at all. ‘I’ means the ‘pudgal’ is lead, iron and all. The divisions are form only, which needs to be known. So I amde with the help of testing by intellect. do not want to add ‘qualifications’, etc. Seeker : Whatever it be, it must be The account is : all these ‘charged’ ‘pudgal’ only. ones, they are all meant for ‘discharge’. Dadashri : Pudgal only, the whole They are all sticky, may be a cow or a thing is ‘pudgal’. buffalo ! Now, what is the main property of the Seeker : Are mind-intellect-ego atom which is in the form of molecule ? (ahankar) all included in the pudgal ? Its nature is charge-discharge. What is Does the ‘pudgal’ include what we call once charged has got to be discharged and ‘mind-intellect-consciousness and all ?’ if it is discharged, it has to be charged Dadashri : ‘Pudgal’ includes again or re-charged. So the process everything, ego and all. The whole world continues uninterruptedly, like charge-

JUNE- JULY, 2016 39 Akram Vignan discharge, charge-discharge and so on. been charged earlier. Thus, in the souls Once you give food as in-put, drink water, who have attained ‘Samakti’ (?) Only one then a visit to the ‘latrine’ is a must or to a ‘function’ is taking place, but in case of ‘bath-room’, etc. Once you inhale, exhale those who have not attained to also you must. This is charge-discharge, ‘samyakatva’ (or equanimity of mind), recurring, recurring,... is it not ? (Isn’t it ?) two functions are taking place, they are busy with both charging and discharging Seeker : Yes, it is so ! (‘puran’ and ‘galan’) and this (Mahavir’s) Dadashri : All this is its property(of is doing on discharging what had been matter). (Its inherent tendency.) What was charged. Hence, if it happens to be some Lord Mahavir doing, by way of penance ? Jain person’s ‘pudgal’, it is doing the Jain Did you follow it ? Unforeseen penance ! ‘discharging’, some Vaishnav’s doing How was Mahavir constantly ‘watching’ only ‘Vaishnav’ discharging, a Shiva only one pudgal ? He must have been a devotee doing Shiva’s, a cobbler doing ‘great expert’ scrutinizing every cobbler’s, a carpenter, carpenter’s and a movement, each and every activity, blacksmith doing his type... People will vibrations inside. Nothing else happening see the intellect, (populist tendency) of outside of the ‘pudgal’ ‘to be watched’. different types and one will oneself tend Only ‘inside’ to be watched. to spoil one’s own ‘film’. Puzzles may be solved by a “Jnani” Poor fellow is only emptying whatever When ‘puran’ and ‘galan’ both happen had been stocked up, then why do you as in the case of mortals (worldly people, spoil it thus ? Now, how can people mundane beings) it is called ‘moha’ understand all of this ? (infatuation), but when ‘galan’ done takes Seeker : In the ‘presence’ of a place and ‘puran’ stops for ever, it is called “Jnani Purusha”, all this can be very well ‘charitra moha’. People might take it also understood, all these puzzles get easily as ‘moha’ or infatuation, but we may resolved. understand that “it is a case of ‘settlement of a file !” (dismissal)... Dadashri : Yes, they are resolved, otherwise not at all ! ‘Shastras’ cannot Lord Mahavir was ‘constantly solve such puzzles ! No remedy or watching’ only one ‘pudgal’ inspite of solution at all ! That is why Krupaludeva being in the midst of a hundred wrote : “No solution by ‘shastras’ ! Only thousand(one lakh) people, because here if one watches one’s ‘pudgal’, no what is being discharged is all that had problems at all ! Otherwise the intellect

40 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan can mislead, (distort) and show you then, both ‘puran’ and ‘galan’ will be done different things. “Why are these people but this (fellow) will be doing ‘galan’ only doing like this ?” “Why are they doing and nothing else. If somebody sitting like this ?” O dear brother, these souls who outside is smoking a ‘cigarette’, someone have attained ‘samakti’ are simply might say : “What is this ?” Intelligent emptying the stuff which they themselves people will at once be shocked ! But dear had stocked. Why are you irritated ? (Why brother, let him discharge, what he has are you troubling yourself causing much already charged inside ! Let him, poor pain ?) What is the difference between a fellow ! In the Kramik(sequential) path, Jain pudgal and a Vaishnav pudgal ? They such confusion occurs... lots of riddles, are just emptying the stuff they had work(function) of one’s intellect, is it stocked inside so far. not ? The intellect functions like that till the very end. Seeker : Then a ‘samadhan’ becomes easy. Limited vision acts like that Dadashri : Yes, ‘Samadhan’ remains. What was Lord Mahavir doing so that This ‘Jnana’ itself is of the nature of he could see as to what Mahavir himself ‘samadhan’, of ‘sarva samadhan’. It was seen doing ?! Lord Mahavir was assures us about ‘samadhan’ sustaining at ‘observing’ ‘Mahavir’ only ! He was not all times, all ages, all places. Such is our observing any other ‘pudgal’ except his (Jnana) ‘knowledge’, of ‘Akram Vignan’. own, nothing else at all ! This ‘pudgal’ Even if somebody hurls abuses at you, means ‘puran-galan’. What is happening your ‘samadhan’ (equipoise) is not is this charging (puran) and discharging disturbed. If ‘Chandubhai’ uses bad words (galan) only ! The ‘puranpoli’ or ‘Jalebi’ for somebody, ‘samadhan’ remains, you have eaten (relished) is ‘puran’... unaffected. And it is a case of emptying ‘What is now being discharged’ is to be of his own stocks and in the same way, observed incessantly (continuously, non- the emptying of stocks of that other person stop, ceaselessly.) too ! Breath is inhaled, the ‘Bandra basein’ Seeker : But, earlier, ‘Chandubhai’ is passed, how breath is inhaled, to be could not be visible ? Was it so ? observed at Bandra-basein what sort of (foul breath) is ‘inhaled’ ? Dadashri : No, at first it could not be seen. So long as one’s vision of Seeker : Yes, it is foul breath... ‘samyakatva’ (equipoise) is not operating, (Bad smelling...) ? everything is seen topsy-turvy only. Until JUNE- JULY, 2016 41 Akram Vignan Dadashri : These people will in is now being emptied, charge- close(shut) their noses and still the bad discharged, it is still being done. It will smell will enter their noses. Just to ‘see’ be seen being emptied. Was it not seen it as a ‘pudgal’. One pudgal means no while it was being filled in ? It was seen, duality, no division into two... ‘This is ofcourse but it was not done with bad.’ ‘This is good.’ This speech was not awareness, can you see it now when it is good. This speech was good. Nothing like being emptied ? And if there is no more that ! It’s all one and the same. All this is filling in, it comes to a ‘stop’. When is ‘pudgal’ only. this new filling-in not done ? When activity becomes like non-activity, no new Seeker : Then, in the eyes of a filling-in takes place. That is even when Shuddhatma, there is nothing remaining you are active, the consequences that like ‘good-bad’ and so on. follow do not bind you. That is called Dadashri : This differentiation of ‘Nivrutti’ or retirement (non-activity). ‘good-evil’ is, as we had understood, This is the ‘worldly type of ‘nivrutti’. It because of our limited vision only. This is so understood by people with a gross limited vision itself is responsible for it. intellect. This ‘bullock’ was active. He Otherwise it is only one ‘pudgal’. There was tied to a grinding mill (machine). He is nothing like good or evil. It cannot be. was going round and round. But now he This ‘good-evil’ applies to ‘society’ and is not going. is also quite relative. See the case of our q Hindus, even if they are very hungry, for three days, and if they are given non-veg This pudgal has two parts : this good dishes, they will say, “No, dear brother, and bad, this profit and loss, such two even if we are terribly hungry, we will not parts are there, as it is said in the ‘Kramic’ partake of non-veg. food.” While others or (sequential science). Whereas this will be pleased to accept such food. Thus ‘Akram’ says : “There is only one pudgal, it is all like that only ! Now, when we so it may be good, may be bad, God has come to think of non-vegetarian food, we no objection, it is all for social order. On get upset or displeased. Now, there is what is based the idea of profit or loss ? It nothing like ‘good or bad’ about it, or is for practical purposes only, Isn’t it ? ‘right-wrong’, etc. What I mean to say is Otherwise, it is all only one ‘pudgal’ ! that in such matters, it is only ‘pudgal’ Nothing good or bad. If you take it as doing it, say whether it is veg. or non-veg. ‘good’, it brings ‘attachment’, if as bad, food. Pudgal means what was once filled it brings ‘aversion’. It’s only one and the

42 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan same ‘pudgal’, the division has been made What is meant by ‘one pudgal’ ? What is erroneously by people. It’s all a game on very valuable is ‘pudgal’ and what is the part of the pudgal. It’s a game. This without any ‘value’ is also ‘pudgal’. Thus dry grass may be short or long, but it is it must be seen with equanimity, all as grass all the same. Manufacturers of paper equal. Pudgal means ‘perishable’. may say : this grass, not eaten by cows or When one becomes a ‘seer’, what is buffalos will do for us. We may use both that inside ? Trying to know it makes one this and the other type for manufacturing a ‘knower’(jnata). Hence that which is paper. It’s the same for us. If the dry grass seen is called ‘knowledge’(jneya). gets wet through exposure to rain water, the cows will not like it and so not eat it. Then only a ‘full stop’ has been reached If they are too hungry, they might eat it. When the pudgal worldly person In reality, for those who have known that completes its dancing and the soul this is ‘pudgal’ and this is ‘sentient’ ‘watches’ it, then only it can be said that (aware), they know it all. Whatever is it’s a full stop, or the ‘end’ is reached. made of ‘scientific circumstantial Wordly people just engage in dancing. It’s evidence’ is all pudgal. Whatever has not that “dear brother, we don’t want this. come into being through such If it happens like that, it will have circumstances is pudgal, what has come unwanted effects, it will just cling to me !” into being through ‘swabhava’ is ‘chetan’. No cuts allowed in a ‘film’. If some What is to be seen by closing your eyes ? portions are deleted(censored), they will Seeker : Now, one has to keep affect the ‘connection’. Hence the whole ‘watching’ one’s own pudgal only, film must be ‘natural’ or ‘normal’. It’s like nothing else is to be attended to. this : the worldly fellows, film must be natural. It’s good for the ‘tyagi’ Dadashri : Yes, it is necessary. No (renouncer), it should be a natural film objection about it. It is not called on renunciation, all easy. It should be good ‘attention’ or meditation. It is called the for him, it will work. But there should not ‘seer-scene’ phenomenon. (‘drashta, be any of its parts ‘cut off’. “I can have drasht’) this and I cannot have this !” O dear, why Seeker : That means, we have to are you indulging in such ‘cut offs’ in the ‘watch’ only our ‘body’. ‘film’ ? Let it go from here as it is done ! You have done it so very many times. Now Dadashri : No objection again. It is it has come to some settlement, a steady all very necessary, of course ! Only point. Now, why do you want to overturn ‘pudgal’ has to be ‘watched’ constantly. JUNE- JULY, 2016 43 Akram Vignan it ? By so doing only, we have reached a approach of old age, he is tired and says, steady point. Can it not come to such “To hell with this, the worldly life was settlement, by saying “I want this. I don’t far better instead of this.” want this ?!” So two things to be kept in mind : Now, after a steady point has been either act in the present or watch ‘oneself’ reached, why do you try to disturb it ? Why by ‘oneself’. Watch your own ‘pudgal’ change it ? only. I have made the soul(Self) so transparently clear that you can see your “Now I want to give up Six ‘Vighai’, own ‘pudgal’ from all sides. says he.” O dear, drop that silly idea. If you give it up, what will you live by ? As you continue ‘seeing’ it like this, What will you have for food ? Jaggery, your inner light shining increases and so ghee, curds, butter, etc. all are in it only. does happiness, too. When asked : “has Even oil and all ! O fool, are you your happiness not increased ?” he worshipping God or worshipping this idea replies : “Happiness has increased very of giving up all ? Do you really worship much.” Then, dear fool, what is your God ? At whose house did ‘Bhagavan’ problem now ? He is shouting and (God) stay ? Whom does he worship ? complaining about the ‘pudgal’ side. But the ‘pudgal’ side is not ‘our own’, then So, we have to say this, ‘When the soul why and till how long you will call it your watches the complete dance, know that it friend ? If the ‘pudgal’ side is beating you has reached a full-stop. If no one takes so much since long, why should you interest in the dance, it is just like continue its ‘friendship’ ? Can you not try completed. No one should take interest to diminish its power and force in it. When can it happen ? When ‘one’ gradually ? (Can’t you make it weak ?) (the self) is transformed into a ‘purna Can’t you dilute that friendship ? If a swaroopa’. So you have been given that friend of ours is openly cheating and ‘purna swaroopa’. It is such as no one is deceiving us, what to do ? We should interested in, and only in complete gradually dilute that friendship. Like that, ‘swaroopa’ can one be interested. “This we should do it, in this case also. will have to be given up, this must be done like this !” The stupid fellow’s utter Those who are ripe, will rise, won’t they ? confusion ? When has he not renounced ? Of infinite ‘knowables’, the Vitaragis In which ‘avatar’ has he not done it ? ‘saw’ it in only one ‘knowable’(Jneya), And he is still collecting the same, similarly, this ‘dada’ also saw it in only accumulating the same. Then at the one ‘jneya’, i.e. one ‘pudgal’ only. Pudgal

44 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan is naturally one and one only. It is made one who nailed him could not evolve or of elementary nature, of ‘Vishrasa’ ! The rise. He was just left where he was ?! Only world is made up of clean molecules, cent one ‘pudgal’ was seen. The pudgal beats percent clean ! another pudgal. Only one ‘pudgal’ was ‘seen’ by Him (The Lord). Now, what type of ‘pudgal’ was ‘seen’ by the Vitaragis ? There are different Ultimately, this is to be done ‘varieties’ of ‘pudgal’. They removed all Lord Mahavir used to ‘see’ and watch the ‘varieties’ from their ‘Jnana’. There what (one) pudgal was doing, he would is only one ‘pudgal’. All this is ‘pudgal’ be ‘seeing’ what the mind-consciousness only. The so-called differentiation into (‘chitta’) were doing, what the intellect ‘varieties’ was the work of the was doing, only one pudgal ! Nothing intelligentsia, the rationalists. Therefore, else ! He would not bother about anything Lord Mahavir was ‘watching’ constantly else, no confusion, no mix-up. Not to only one pudgal and nothing else at all. bother at all about other things. We may He won’t see the variety. How much also try to emulate, do the same, but it variety is here, for us ? In every shop there will last for a short while only and then may be ‘varieties’ of ‘pudgal’. shift away. But what was the Lord(Bhagavan) Seeker : Yes, we may try to do it, watching ? Was he watching all this, here it may remain for a short while, but move and there, this woman or man, this boy, away. this gold, silver or brass ? No, not at all. Nothing of these all. Only one ‘pudgal’ ! Dadashri : That’s because of excess Not like giving up this and not giving up of external study ! That’s the only study that. It’s all one pudgal only. That’s the (practice) of being different. He whould only way He was ‘watching’ it. Enough ! just be constantly observing as to what That’s all and nothing else at all. Lord differences lie about some pudgal, what Mahavir was a staunch man. Fully kinds of effect it produces. He whould evolved, fully ‘ripe’. He was the only one keep it all in mind. Such was it ! like that. So he could rise. Only the strong Seeker : But limited to one’s own ones can rise ! Or, the weak ones get pudgal only and no interference from beaten ! The one who nailed (Jesus) was outside ! unripe, but the one who was nailed (Jesus) Dadashri : What else ?! It’s enough, could rise and evolve ! How wonderfully more than enough, if only one pudgal is he faced and suffered the nailing, that the ‘seen’, otherwise interference occurs from

JUNE- JULY, 2016 45 Akram Vignan outside. This is what is meant. So we may while ‘watching’ one pudgal. say, “You practise ‘seeing’ !” But it is not Seeker : Suppose, Lord Mahavir is done. It lasts for a short while, but is soon ‘watching’ one pudgal and at that time forgotten (lost sight of). How long could Gautam Swami asks him a query, then the one be seeing all of the outside ! answer will be given : Will it not ? Seeker : But that ‘stage’ is sure to Dadashri : Even then, he must be be reached, isn’t it ? ‘watching’ only one pudgal, where is the Dadashri : The effort is bound to be objection ? the same, but the continuity is uncertain ! Seeker : Then the answer will be It may not remain so ! It may come and given by the part outside ? go, come and go. It is to be learnt : “Only one pudgal is to be observed !” Dadashri : Lord Mahavir would not give the answer. The part operating at that The natural properties (qualities, time will give it. That time it must be the attributes), of one pudgal are the same as same part only. in all pudgals. The elementary (basic) nature is absolutely the same. So I have Seeker : Then, it would consist of told you about the Lord’s method. You ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ only, ‘seeing’ only should adopt (emulate) that method only. one pudgal ? Continuously keep observing what Dadashri : That is all to be ‘known’ ! Chandubhai’s mind, intellect, ‘chitta’ This, now as you are speaking : ‘know’ (consciousness) are doing, whatever and ‘see’ that much only. That is called Chandubhai is doing, watch it all. This ‘Jnana’. constant observation means ‘a complete shuddhatma’. Seeker : Lord Mahavir was ‘watching’ only his own one ‘pudgal’. Seeker : So, suppose that I have That is, is Lord Mahavir, playing with arranged my ‘method’ in this way : ‘I must (sporting, indulging) in only his own see what my mind, intellect and ‘chitta’ pudgal, or ‘watching’ it ? are doing. But if some one asks us about something else like : “Dear, what time is Dadashri : ‘Seeing’ and ‘knowing’ it ?” It is practical (vyahavaric) or some- pudgal itself means self-indulgence (self- thing else, perhaps. Then should we not play). (Being in a blissful state.) What was reply, even involuntarily ? Lord Mahavir doing ? He concentrated (fixed) his eye-sight in one pudgal only. Dadashri : Yes, but that must be Then ‘Keval Jnana’ was obtained.

46 JUNE- JULY, 2016 Akram Vignan Seeker : When will that ‘stage’ be (swaramanata). That is, “Being with the reached, ‘Dada’ ? Pure Self.” But in ‘vyavahar’ your ‘nischaya’ is active (working). Dadashri : We must continue to be in such efforts at least. Ultimately, this is to Seeker : For the whole day ? be done, is it not like that ? Dadashri : It is just like that. (Yet) Seeker : Right. Finally, this is to be (However), it is almost a very high stage ! done. It must be kept in mind. q Dadashri : That must be so, for all. Absolute ones have described twelve Even if they do not follow the word, they stages to pass through to attain absolutism. will at least speak like it. In the end, self- Even at eleventh stage before absolute indulgence, self-playfulness, (self- pure vision opens out, one’s state of being realization), they are all just the same ! is still somewhat attached to inner Self-playfulness is just like that. It means, changing relative phases. like Lord Mahavir-‘watching’ one pudgal After crossing twelfth stage as only. absolute pure knowledge opens out, one’s Seeker : Is it just like that with you, state of being is only in pure self at all the too, ‘Dada’ ? times. (completely detached and separate from relative). At that stage of absolutism, Dadashri : For us, also, it might be a relative (mind, speech, body) functions little unsteady... It may be done, not done, and results as relative by its very nature get a little weakened, sometime. This whereas absolute pure knowledge or real conversation, as you are in, is being done functions and results as real pure element in ‘para-ramanata’. You are staying in that by its own innate nature. state for the whole day. By ‘determination’ (Nishchaya) you are in (Mðh{ýíkk) ••• Divine Aphorisms ¦ If you be one with ‘Antartapa’, you ¦ One who understands the are under the control of ‘Vyavasthita’ completely can remain ‘Vyavasthita’ and if not one with it in the perfect state of ‘Jnata- and remaining separate (excluded) Drashta’(knower-seer). from it, by virtue of my command (power of speech), ‘you’ are not in ¦ You have to go on(progressing) with its control. ‘Vyavasthita’, so long and further on, until it leads to ‘Keval Jnana’ in its final stage.

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Divine Aphorisms -Dada Bhagavan

¦ So long as one has to endure ¦ Be steady in the Vitaraga state. Even ‘Vyavasthita’, one is ‘antaratma’. As if the ‘Vyavasthita’ is twisted soon as this state is over one (crooked), keep steady in the becomes ‘purnatma’. When the ‘file ‘Vitaraga’ state and even if the has been disposed of’, it is a ‘purna ‘Vyavasthita’ is straight forward, be avatar’ ! in the vitarag state.

¦ One who continues to be in the ¦ ‘Chandubhai’ will continue to act ‘bhokta-pada’ deserves to receive under the control of ‘Vyavasthita’. the ‘Vyavasthita Jnana’. He will continue to act as persuaded by ‘Vyavasthita’. So you have to ¦ ‘Enjoying prakriti’ is ‘Vyavasthita’, keep ‘observing’ only. ‘You’ have to “manipulating or interfering with ‘keep watching’ what ‘Chandubhai prakriti” is not ‘Vyavasthita’. is continuing to do’. ‘Creating a new one’ is not ‘Vyavasthita’. ¦ Everything in this world is under the control of ‘Vyavasthita’. All that is ¦ ‘Vyavasthita’ is meant to control in the form of ‘sansarbhava’, is one’s ‘discharge-karma’, there is under its control. Once it is freed, it not ‘Vyavasthita’ in ‘charge-karma’. does not remain under the control of ‘Vyavasthita’. ¦ ‘Avasthit’ is a ‘plan’. ‘Vyavasthita’ is a metaphor. ¦ We remain under control (subjugation) of ‘Vyavasthita’ so ‘Vyavasthita’ cannot influence ‘us’ ¦ long as we believe (call) ourself to at all. And if it can do anything to be the agent, doer. As soon as ‘I am us, we are no longer ‘shuddhatma’. the doer’ is dropped and ‘the doer’ ¦ Worldly things are under the control is ‘Vyavasthita’, you get out of of ‘Vyavasthita’. But one’s own Vyavasthita control. condition(dasha) cannot be under Intellectual perception (seen with its control. ¦ one’s eyes as sense organs) shows ¦ Never sit upon the ‘Vyavasthita’ at us the ‘AVyavasthita’ and any time. Let ‘Vyavasthita’ sit upon ‘Vyavasthita’ is seen with the help you. Never sit upon it. of ‘Jnana’. Jai Sachchidanand

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