Editor : DADAVANI November 2016 Dimple Mehta Year : 12 Issue : 1 Price : Rs. 10 Real Spiritual Effort of Attaining Conti. Issue No.: 133 Liberation as an Ekavtari

EDITORIAL Everyone yearns for liberation, but if one cannot fi nd the path to liberation, then how can one embark on that journey? ‘From the current era of the time cycle and from this location, liberation cannot be attained’; agreeing with this view from the scriptures, people continue to remain entangled. The Lord has said that, “In the current era of the time cycle, there is no unity of though-speech-action and that is the reason why one cannot attain liberation from this era of the time cycle and from this location.” But that does not mean that the path to liberation is closed. The path to liberation is indeed open, but via Mahavideh Kshetra (one of the three regions in the universe where human beings reside). In this era of the time cycle, through the Akram path one can attain Knowledge of the Self and the Knowledge of the doer (Gnan) and indeed also attain a state whereby only one more life remains before fi nal liberation (ekavtari). So what if one does not receive a check for Rupees 100,000, at least he received a check for Rupees 99,999. Can that be considered of any lesser value? What a phenomenon of the current time; where, in an era of moral and spiritual decline, the Akram Gnani emerged and through Him the Akram Vignan manifested! Through this Akram Vignan, within just two hours, one attains the absolute Vision that, ‘I am pure Soul’. Truly speaking, this Knowledge of the Self is indeed the absolute Knowledge, but because in this era of the time cycle absolute Knowledge cannot be attained, it manifests in the form of absolute Vision. That is why one becomes ekavtari. After attaining the Knowledge of the Self, in order to attain the ekavtari state, all that is left is for one to follow the fi ve Agnas as given by absolutely revered Dadashri. After attaining the Knowledge of the Self, because doership vanishes, new karma cease to be charged. But what about the discharge karma that remain? Those discharge karma cannot fully discharge without following the Agnas. Therefore, to attain completion of the ultimate goal, real spiritual effort to progress as the Self of following these Agnas is of utmost importance.

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November 2016 3 DADAVANI Now after having attained the Knowledge of the Self, in order to attain liberation in just one more lifetime, it is our goal to attain the distinct experience of the Self in this very life. But in attaining that state, sexuality is a grave pitfall. Actually, one has to become free from both sexuality and kashaya (anger, pride, deceit, and greed), so one needs to maintain a lot of awareness against sexuality. Now, as fi les are settled with equanimity, one’s spiritual development in worldly interaction rises. When all the fi les are completely settled, one’s work is done. For the one who is fi rmly decided upon settling his fi les, it does not take long. He will have a solution within one or two more lifetimes. In the compilation presented, the exclusive description of the state of the Gnani Purush as the giver of fi nal liberation within just one lifetime, as well as how this fi nal liberation can be attained within one lifetime has been encompassed here. So let us all comprehend this, sincerely commence the real spiritual effort to progress as the Self so as to attain liberation in just one more lifetime, and get Our work done. ~ Jai Sat Chit Anand Real Spiritual Effort of Attaining Liberation as an Ekavtari { Please note that ‘S’ Self denotes the awakened Self, separate from the ‘s’ worldly self. The Self is the Soul within all living beings. The term pure Soul is used by the Gnani Purush for the awakened Self, after the Gnan Vidhi. The absolute Soul is the fully enlightened Self. The worldly soul is the self. In the same manner, ‘Y’ You refers to the awakened Soul or Self, and the ‘y’ you refers to the worldly self. This differentiation is unique to critical understanding of the separation of the Self from the self a/k/a the non-Self complex that is accomplished in the Gnan Vidhi of Akram Vignan.} The Path to Liberation is Indeed half of the time cycle (avsarpini), and it Accessible is characterized by no unity of thought, speech, and action (Dushamkaal). Which Questioner: It has been stated in means, a check valued at 100,000 rupees, the scriptures that the path to liberation cannot be cashed for the full amount; one (moksha) is inaccessible (from this world). can only receive 99,999.99 rupees for it. Dadashri: The path to liberation is Just that much has been reduced, not more closed beyond a certain point. However, than that. But, these people have assumed that does not mean that one cannot attain that the entire path has become closed! No, a state in which fi nal liberation is attained it has only become inaccessible by a cent. after just one more life (ekavtari). The Questioner: Lord Mahavir has state of ekavtari is attainable here on written that the gates to liberation have Bharat Kshetra (the region in the universe closed, so how can liberation be attained? where planet Earth exists). Here the path to liberation has closed, however it is not that Dadashri: You have to understand the entire path has been closed all together. what is implied by, ‘The gates to liberation have closed.’ The Lord has The Lord has said that this era of said that, “During the fourth era of the the time cycle (kaal) is the descending time cycle, liberation could directly be 4 November 2016 DADAVANI attained from here.” One used to attain Kshayak Samkit Through Akram Vignan fi nal liberation directly from here. In this Questioner: In the current era of fi fth era of the time cycle, one can attain the time cycle, can one attain permanent ekavtari. If only one more life remains, conviction of the right belief that, ‘I am then is that not considered liberation? pure Soul’ (kshayak samyaktva)? I have This has happened for all these mahatmas read that, having attained the permanent (those that have received Self-realization conviction that, ‘I am pure Soul’ (kshayak through Gnan Vidhi)! I told them, “If you samkit) in the past life, a living being (jiva) have any worry, fi le a law suit against can be born with the same conviction me.” And that too, it is not just one to two on Bharat Kshetra in this current era of hundred; I have given the Knowledge of the time cycle. However, this permanent the Self and the Knowledge of the doer conviction cannot currently be initiated (Gnan) to fi ve thousand people (up to here. 1978). And I have yet to straighten the rest of the world. Dadashri: That is correct. What the scripture writers have stated is not The Path to Liberation: Kramic – Akram wrong. This has been stated for the There are two paths to attain Kramic path, but this is the Akram Vignan liberation. The initial path is the Kramic (a step-less Science of Self-realization). path, in which one renounces (worldly What does Akram Vignan mean? It is an things and the attachment to the body) exception. Exceptions cannot be found one-by-one as he proceeds along step in the scriptures. Scriptures are based by step to climb ahead. The second is on set rules and disciplines, whereas this the Akram path (direct path to Self- path is an exception. And therefore, this realization) that has currently manifested is beyond the scriptures. It is the very through me! This comes about once every same Knowledge (Gnan) on the path (to million years, and it is a wonder of this liberation); but it is an exception. That is world! Liberation is attained just by why it is Akram Vignan. sitting in a ‘lift’. There is no acquisition Whereas here, experience of or renunciation on this path. It is a path kshayak samkit happens. Kshayak samkit of liberation which requires no effort; it means absolute Vision (keval Darshan). is a ‘lift’ path. This path is for those who It is not vision that comes and leaves have tremendous merit karma. Wherein (kshayopsham darshan), but it is absolute the Gnani (the One who has realized Vision. the Self and is able to do the same for others) grants the ‘stamp of approval’ and Truly speaking, it is not even the liberation is attained. This is a path of permanent conviction of the right belief instant ‘cash’ (benefi ts), nothing can be that, ‘I am pure Soul’ (kshayak samyaktva), left pending. One needs instant ‘cash’, so but it is absolute Knowledge (keval this path of cash (results) has emerged. Gnan)! However due to the current era of This is the only ‘cash bank’ in the world. the time cycle, the absolute (Knowledge) November 2016 5 DADAVANI is not digestible. If it were digested, then tiryancha gati (sub-human life-form; liberation would have happened! This includes animals, birds, insects, and plants) kshayak samyaktva is considered absolute and nark gati (hell life form) ceases, and Knowledge. This is Akram Vignan. That for the most part birth as a human also other point is correct (for the karmic ceases. And this samkit (of the Akram path), it is not wrong. (In this era of the path) is such that it results in liberation; time cycle) Kshayak samyaktva cannot it is indeed such that one attains a state exist. In that, once the right belief that ‘I in which fi nal liberation is attained after am pure Soul’ (samkit) sets in, liberation just one more life (ekavtari)! is attained after fi fteen lives. (Then) How On the Akram path, the Gnani can one attain ekavtari? The answer is, Purush establishes an inner link of kshayak if this Akram Vignan is attained, then samkit, so therefore the link of kashaya ekavtari is possible. (anger, pride, deceit, and greed) does not What is the Result of Attaining Samkit? remain. If this inner link is present, then that link (of kashaya) cannot exist, and if Questioner: Upon attaining the the link of (kashaya) prevails, then this right Vision does the cycle of human life inner link cannot exist! end? Aversion Towards Dukha is the First Dadashri: (On the Kramic path) Stage of Liberation Another birth in human form will happen, but (through the Akram path) in this era Here mahatmas have attained of the time cycle it does not come along. absolute Vision (keval Darshan). Which The type of samkit of this era is of a experiences prevail in that state? One different kind. wherein anger-pride-deceit-greed do not happen. The remaining anger-pride- Questioner: So is there a difference deceit-greed after attaining kshayak in the right belief from era to era of the samkit are not in the form of a seed, time cycle? they are not in living-form; they are Dadashri: For the one on the in non-living form. And those that are Kramic Path who has attained upsham considered to be completely non-living, samkit (conviction of ‘I am pure Soul’ those (parmanus; the smallest, most that waxes and wanes, wherein the root indivisible and indestructible particle cause of anger, pride, deceit and greed of matter) that have turned into pudgal has not been destroyed), another birth (non-Self complex), are the only ones in human form comes about again and that remain as they are. Hence, anger- again. (But on the Akram path) This is pride-deceit-greed and worries do not considered kshayak samkit, so this means arise. Despite living in the worldly life, existence in a human form will not come worries do not happen. again and again. When a single day goes by without After attaining samkit, birth in the any worries, then people consider 6 November 2016 DADAVANI themselves to be so blessed! You are more lifetimes! So that is why right now completely at ease (nirant), are you not? aversion towards worldly pain remains. If you do according to what I say, then Questioner: Yes, absolutely at ease. worldly pain will not touch You. Dadashri: At complete ease, with- Questioner: What is meant by, out any problems at all. One of the at- ‘liberation of the body’? tributes of the Siddha Bhagwanto (Souls who have who have become free from Dadashri: This body’s fi nal lib- the cycle of birth and death and thus have eration (nirvana) cannot be attained in attained ultimate liberation) referred to as this life therefore one more lifetime is nirakudta, (a state that is free of all agi- required. Then the body’s liberation also tation-disturbance) manifests within them happens; liberation of the Soul (Atma) (the mahatams). and liberation of the body. Both were in When there is no pain (dukha) bondage, and both become free! Each one experienced at all, here and now, then that parts its own way home! is considered the fi rst stage of liberation Through God, Liberation at any Time (moksha). Aversion towards worldly pain and From any Location is the fi rst stage of liberation. And then when one has pure intent (sadbhaav) for Questioner: In a spiritual song One’s natural bliss, that is the fi nal stage (pad) it says, ‘liberation can be attained of liberation. through me at any time, from any location.’ So what does, ‘At any time, Aversion towards pain means that if from any location,’ mean? someone were to hurl abuses at you right now, even then you would not feel pain; Dadashri: It means that (liberation) if someone were to hit you, even then you can be attained from any location, and it would not feel pain. If your yogurt soup is only through the very God that resides (kadhee) or lentil soup (daal) was too within. Can liberation ever be attained in salty, even then you would not feel pain. any era of the time cycle without God? What do you say? Questioner: That is the fi rst stage of liberation! Questioner: No. Dadashri: That is the fi rst stage of Dadashri: That is what it (the song) liberation. When worldly pain does not means to say. You have realized God, affect you, it is considered the fi rst stage have you not? The person (whom you are of liberation. seeing with your eyes) is not God, had I not explained this to you; that ‘this’ is Freedom From a Body is Ultimate Patel? The One that resides within is God, Liberation and it is through Him that liberation can Once you leave this body, ultimate be attained. Now have you understood liberation will arise after one or two that or have you not? November 2016 7 DADAVANI Questioner: I have understood. living beings who have declined to such a degree! Living begins with every kind Dadashri: Then ‘At any time, from of weakness, who have no shortage of any location’ (liberation) that is referred weaknesses, they too attain this. That is to in the song, whenever it used to happen the power of Akram Vignan! here in the past, it was only possible through God. Akram Vignan is the Only Cash Bank Freedom is Easily Attained by the Therefore, this is the ultimate path to Power of Akram Vignan liberation that has emerged. Such a path to liberation has come about in this day and One man asked me, “What is this age. A path of ekavtari has emerged. The Akram Vignan? And what does it do in scripture writers have written that, ‘Twelve the worldly life?” I told him, “In order to thousand fi ve hundred people will become attain liberation, some people just keep ekavtari.’ Such a phenomenon has come plucking off the leaves from the tree of about here! In that, your salvation will worldly life, and that is why it does not happen. Whether you become ekavtari or appear as though it has been destroyed. not is a secondary matter, but at present The leaves grow back once again. Some you should attain a ‘cash’ (experience) of people keep breaking small twigs and liberation. If it is on credit, then what is believe it will get destroyed, but nothing the point of that? of that sort happens. Some people cut off large branches, but that does not destroy What would be the point if liberation the tree of worldly life, and it keeps on is not experienced here? Otherwise, in sprouting. Some people cut it off from its this Kaliyug (current era of the time cycle trunk, but even then they say, “It keeps which is characterize by lack of unity in growing.” So then they asked me, “What thought, speech, action), everyone will do you do?” I told them, “I take a slice con you. If you ask someone you know to out of the main root of the tree, and I put buy your groceries for you, they will take some medicine in it, nothing else.” I look a commission for it; what is the guarantee for its main root and put some medicine in Kaliyug? So it (liberation) should be in it, (hence) it dries up. And that is why guaranteed. ‘We’ give you this guarantee. liberation happens, otherwise can there Then, however much you follow ‘our’ ever be liberation? How can a person Agnas (instructions of the Gnani Purush), attain ekavtari (a state whereby only one you will receive that much benefi t. more life remains before fi nal liberation)? It is such that only one more life The living beings of this current remains. The methodical process of this era of moral and spiritual decline Spiritual Science (Vignan) is such that it (Dushamkaal) do not possess the is not lengthy; it is easy, it is natural and worthiness of acquiring another human spontaneous (sahaj), it is straightforward birth. Blessed is this Akram Vignan (sarad) and easily attainable (sugam). Is that has manifested to grant freedom to this not easy? 8 November 2016 DADAVANI Questioner: It is absolutely easy, and is able to do the same for others), will there is no other path that is easier than the path to liberation become easy and this. straightforward. It becomes easier than making khichadee. The path that is ten Dadashri: No other path is as easy million miles long; the path that is such as this. That is how straightforward it is! that it cannot be attained in ten million Showers of Knowledge of the Self in lifetimes, has suddenly manifested as This Dushamkaal an absolute short cut! This Knowledge (Gnan) is the very same as that of the ‘Sakal brahmand jhankhe tey Vitaraag Lords (fully enlightened living Gnanvarsha ney asahya oonadey.’ beings), it is that of the omniscient Lords, ‘The showers of Knowledge of the just the method is Akram (step-less path). Self, which the entire universe yearned for It is the vision which completely changes. has fallen during the spell of unbearable The awareness of the Self (laksha) sets heat.’ in within just one hour, whereas in the Kramic (step-by-step) path, one does not The showers of Knowledge of the attain this awareness until the very end. Self and the Knowledge of the doer, What sorts of effort people resorted to that the entire universe desires for has in order to attain the awareness of the not only fallen, but it has fallen during Self! People have taken on such brutal the fi erce summer! The showers of penance even to experience momentary Knowledge of the Self have fallen in awareness of the Self! The Gnanis of the this cruel Dushamkaal, in such an era Kramic path do not attain the awareness of the time cycle, where every human of the Self until the very end, but their being is struggling! If it rains during the awareness (jagruti) remains a great deal. monsoon season, then that is within the Whereas over here, for all you (mahatmas) norm, whereas this has happened in the this has become very straightforward; you summer of Dushamkaal when it was not have been granted the Self in just one supposed to have happened. Rain that is hour. Thereafter the awareness as the not supposed to fall has fallen! So under Self (laksha) never leaves, and the Self such circumstances, one should get his constantly remains in awareness. spiritual work done. Awareness of the State as the Self Awareness as the Self Sets in Within Remains Constantly an Hour The path to liberation is easier than If you were to wake up at two making a rice and lentil dish (khichadee)! o’clock in the night, then what is the fi rst If it is diffi cult, if it is laborious, then it thing that would come to your mind? is not the path to liberation, it is some Questioner: ‘I am pure Soul other path. Only if one meets a Gnani (Shuddhatma),’ that is the only thing that Purush (one who has realized the Self comes to mind. November 2016 9 DADAVANI Dadashri: For people, that which is Agnas (fi ve directives that preserve the most dear to them in this world is indeed awareness as the Self in Akram Vignan) of what comes to mind fi rst, but for you the the Gnani Purush. Agna itself is religion, pure Soul comes to mind fi rst. One can and Agna itself is penance. ‘Our’ Agnas never attain the awareness of that which do not obstruct the worldly life, even to is not possible to attain. That is why the the slightest. You can live in this worldly Self has been called alakh niranjan (that life and yet remain unaffected by it; such which is hardly possible to Know as well is this Akram Vignan! as no karma can attach to it). But here, With the Knowledge of the Self for you, the awareness of the Self is that ‘we’ have given, if one proceeds established in just one hour. It is through according to what ‘we’ say, then he will the Akram Gnani’s spiritual powers, indeed attain liberation within one more prosperity; the grace of the celestial lifetime, and he will be able to experience beings, that You attain a phenomenal state liberation from now. Otherwise, it is such in just one hour! that it is not possible to attain liberation This Spiritual Science is such that even in a million lifetimes. Therefore, accept ‘our’ fi ve Agnas as reality. it will allow one to bypass millions of lifetimes and thus attain ekavtari. These fi ve Agnas hinder the binding Otherwise, nothing will be attained even of life after life. So consider staying in after millions of lifetimes. The path to the Agnas. If you follow the Agnas, then liberation (moksha) has never before been samadhi (freedom from mental, physical, like this. No one has ever said this, and and emotional anguish, resulting in bliss) that is why when people read this they will constantly remain everywhere, and say, “How can this be? How can this be?” worldly life will go by smoothly. The one And in this way their entire life will go who has a fi rm resolution (nischaya) that by! he wants to follow ‘our’ Agnas; he will attain liberation within one or two more This is a true path to liberation that lifetimes. has emerged. If one understands it, then his work will get done, and if he does not Just Continue to See Everything That understand it, then he will wander around Happens in vain! What is the purpose of the fi ve Agnas? It is to protect the Knowledge of Agna Itself is Religion, and Agna the Self (Gnan). It is so that the separation Itself is Penance ‘we’ have made (between the Self and After ‘we’ have given you the non-Self) does not become one once the Knowledge of the Self and the again. The two have been separated, and Knowledge of the doer (Gnan), you attain in that, a line of demarcation has formed. the experience of the Self. Thereafter, Now they will not become one once what else remains? It is to follow the again, if ‘our’ Agnas are followed. The 10 November 2016 DADAVANI entire Self (Atma) has been understood. do you? Nothing at all? Very nice! Chandubhai (The reader is to insert his or Only Dada’s Agnas (fi ve directives that her name here) will do whatever Scientifi c preserve the awareness as the Self in Circumstantial Evidences (Vyavasthit) Akram Vignan)? prompts him to; You have to continue to Questioner: Yes. See whatever it is that Chandubhai does. No matter what happens in this lifetime, Dadashri: This is a Spiritual if You continue to See and remain in the Science whereby one can attain a state Agnas, then this Gnan is such that You can in which only one more life remains attain liberation in just one more lifetime. before fi nal liberation (ekavtari)! If one completely follows my Agnas, everything If there was a butcher, and I was to will be fi nished for him in one lifetime. give him Knowledge of the Self, and if Otherwise, it may take two or three more he were to remain in that Gnan and keeps lifetimes, but not a fourth. You want to Seeing everything that happens, and he do just that, don’t you? You want to does not interfere in anything else, then settlement (nikaal) to all this; or do he would attain liberation. The activities you want to do this same business life as a butcher do not hinder him, the belief after life? Are you sure? Do you feel that, ‘I am doing this’ is what hinders. that a fi nal end will come about? This (After attaining Knowledge of the Self is a spiritual Science; it is not religion. and the Knowledge of the doer) Nothing In religion, things have to be done. is left to be done, just continue to See Whereas here, you do not have to ‘do’ everything that happens. anything else; you just have to follow Questioner: The intent (bhaav) that ‘our’ Agnas. we have! Questioner: This Gnan is such that Dadashri: The intent that has been we do not have to do anything else, so made, the fi rm resolution (nischaya) has then why do we have to do the (Charan) been made, now one has to keep Seeing Vidhi? how much happens according to that fi rm Dadashri: Are you referring to resolution. It is in fact the design from the doing the Vidhis and all that? All that is past life which is expresses. part of the Agnas. Only that much has to Questioner: That which comes out be done, nothing else needs to be done. is itself the discharge, isn’t? (Whatever you do) In accordance with the Agnas is the intent of ekavtari. To follow Dadashri: Yes, but nothing remains in accordance with the Agnas means it for us to do, does it! should not to be done based on the ego. In Accordance With Agnas is the Before you used to do what your ego Ekavtari Intent told you to do, and now you have to do according to the Agnas, so that is why You do not do anything anymore, the responsibility is ‘ours’. November 2016 11 DADAVANI Proceed as the Gnani Says the ego, because due to that merit karma (punya) is bound. That is indeed why ‘we’ Can this road be seen clearly or say, (one or two) lifetimes still remain. not? If it cannot be seen clearly, then in Otherwise, there wouldn’t be any need to certain places at least big mountains can follow ‘our’ Agnas if it was the fi nal life! be seen, and if you let me know, then I It would prevail through the Knowledge will immediately remove them. of the Self all the time. But the current era Questioner: That is why we have of the time cycle (kaal) is such that it will come here. just not let you go, will it! The current era of the time cycle is indeed strange. Dadashri: Yes, yes. Anyone who It will not let you go completely, at the follows according to what ‘we’ say, will most it will allow you to attain a state in attain liberation in one more lifetime and which only one more life remains before if one follows them slightly less, then he fi nal liberation (ekavtari). will have two more lifetimes, or if one follows them even less, then three. There The current era of the time cycle will not be more than three, provided he is such that, starting from the kitchen, to proceeds further according to what ‘we’ the offi ce, at home, on the street, outside, say. or in the train, in every place, there is only kusang (an association that takes Questioner: I am able to follow the one away from the Self) everywhere. I Agnas that you have given very well. have given you a protecting fence of the Dadashri: Then what more do you fi ve Agnas so that this Knowledge of need? If the Agnas are followed, then (in the Self which I have given within two that) everything is encompassed. Nothing hours does not get destroyed by kusang. remains to be done. Nevertheless, from If You keep protecting it with the Agnas, within when the intellect continues to then there will not be even the slightest rebel, or leaps up abruptly, so then it change in your inner state within. The just needs to be given some sort of Knowledge of the Self will remain in the satisfaction! same state as it was, when received. That is why these Agnas have been given to Five Agnas for Protection You to follow. I have left that much as Questioner: So Dada, the fi ve your share. Agnas (fi ve directives that preserve the Since this is Dushamkaal (the awareness as the Self in Akram Science) current era of the time cycle characterized you have told us to follow, that indeed by a lack of unity in thought, speech, and is ego, isn’t? They indeed have to be action), ‘we’ give these fi ve sentences, followed through the ego of doership, the Agnas; otherwise there is no don’t they? need even for the fi ve sentences. The Dadashri: That is fi ne. There is Knowledge of the Self that I have given no problem about it being done through you can directly grant liberation in the 12 November 2016 DADAVANI very same lifetime! This Akram Gnan absolute Knowledge (keval Gnan) will is such that it can immediately result in happen in only one lifetime. It is because liberation. Instead, (due to the current of this location that absolute Knowledge era of the time cycle), it became a state is remains obstructed. in which one more life remains before Keval Gnan was Granted but Could fi nal liberation. not be Digested Questioner: That is indeed valid Questioner: Dadaji, what you Knowledge! have given can be considered absolute Dadashri: So you have to be Knowledge, can it not? sincerely dedicated to the fi ve sentences. Dadashri: I indeed grant absolute (Due to the current era of the time cycle) the Knowledge, but it cannot be digested. stage of ekavtari has emerged. Otherwise, I, myself, could not digest it due to this fi nal liberation would be attained directly if one were to die within just three hours era of the time cycle, and you too cannot of Gnan Vidhi. Yes, liberation would digest it. occur as soon as one departs the body. If this can be digested, then one But to whom would this apply? It is for would indeed head towards liberation in the people of the fourth era of the time one lifetime. And this is such that it can cycle. But for the people of the fi fth era of be easily digested! A bit of it will not the time cycle, these fi ve sentences have be digested in this lifetime. Whatever been given. If they follow them, then they remains, is only enough for one more will remain in samadhi (freedom from life. Therefore, this is a path to liberation. mental, physical, and emotional anguish However, if one follows ‘our’ Agnas, then which results in bliss), and reach all the that is enough. Liberation is encompassed way (to liberation). One will have to in ‘our’ Agnas itself. become (like) the people of the fourth era of the time cycle. Questioner: But it will gradually digest, won’t it? Questioner: Will one have to go to the fourth era of the time cycle? Dadashri: Yes, it will gradually digest after one or two more lifetimes Dadashri: Yes, that is certainly have gone by. It is such that it cannot where one has to go. Wherever the fourth be digested in this location. When the era of the time cycle prevails, that is location changes, it will be digested. It indeed where one has to go. The matter- will digest when one goes to Mahavideh properties-phases (dravya-guna-paryaya) Kshetra (one of the three regions in the should resemble that of the fourth era of universe in which human beings reside). the time cycle, (as in) the phases of the It will give a result once it is digested. non-Self complex (pudgal paryaya). Questioner: For you, it has digested, If you remain in my Agna, then has it not? November 2016 13 DADAVANI Dadashri: No, it has not digested. not remain, but that baggage which has One more lifetime still remains before been accumulated will need to be settled, everything is digested. If it were digested, will it not! then it would have been completely Questioner: Did Lord Mahavir revealed and then liberation would have also have all this? been attained. Dadashri: (After attaining perma- Questioner: Does that mean nent conviction of the right belief, ‘I am absolute Knowledge cannot be attained pure Soul’) He attained (absolute Knowl- right now? edge) three lifetimes later. Compared to Dadashri: This Knowledge of that, this is a state in which only one more the Self and the Knowledge of the doer life remains before fi nal liberation (eka- (Gnan) is absolute Knowledge (keval vtari)! Akram means ekavtari has indeed Gnan). Absolute Knowledge is granted. emerged! (But) Absolute Knowledge is not possible in this era of the time cycle. Therefore, Once Karma are Settled, Liberation it ends up manifesting in the form of Happens absolute Vision (keval Darshan). What Questioner: The Knowledge of the ‘we’ impart is permanent conviction of Self (Gnan) that you have given, is it one the right belief, ‘I am pure Soul’ (kshayak that promotes thought or is it addressing samkit). So at the most, one will have the Self? two or three more lifetimes remaining. But now, it is more than enough if one Dadashri: This Knowledge of the can attain liberation. Self is such that it destroyed to ashes all demerit karma (paap). Yesterday (in Questioner: But liberation is not the Gnanvidhi - the original scientifi c possible without absolute Knowledge, experiment of Self-realization attained isn’t it? Absolute Knowledge is required, within two hours), many of your demerit isn’t it so Dadaji? karma were destroyed to ashes. Now Dadashri: When absolute Knowl- it will not let any inner turmoil and edge (happens), then it is indeed libera- restlessness (ajampo) arise. Those demerit tion. That is indeed considered liberation, karma had been ‘biting’ you. Now all isn’t it! It will happen in one or two more those demerit karma come to an end, they lifetimes. all get destroyed to ashes. Questioner: Since there are no steps Questioner: Do karma indeed get (kram) in Akram, then there should not be destroyed? any steps in absolute Knowledge either. Dadashri: The theory of karma Absolute Knowledge should certainly is such that, while ‘doing’ a samayik happen, shouldn’t it? (introspective analysis as the Self) if one Dadashri: The steps certainly do thinks clearly, then some karma will get 14 November 2016 DADAVANI destroyed just like that. Just thinking And since one follows ‘our’ fi ve Agnas, about them with clarity destroys them, karma for one more lifetime is bound; and many are such that the Gnani Purush he will bind great punyanubandhi punya destroys them for you. And many are (karmic effect of merit karma in this life, such that one has no other choice but which binds merit karma for the next to suffer them; those are referred to as life), such that his birth will be near a nikachit karma. They are like ice, and Tirthankar (the absolutely enlightened the others are like water or vapor, they Lord who can liberate others). can be eliminated. And if they have solidifi ed like ice, they have become The Causes Have Ceased, now the nikachit, then there is no choice by to Effects Remain suffer them. That is how this Spiritual Science Questioner: So then according to is! The Self (Atma) that I ‘show’ You that, it is diffi cult to attain liberation in is the absolute Knowledge Self, and the this life, isn’t it? knowledge of the self (atma gnan) that the people of the world refer to is scriptural Dadashri: The present times are knowledge of the self. such that it is not at all possible to attain it in this lifetime. Therefore, from Questioner: Without worthiness here a state in which one can attain and having entitlement, how can this fi nal liberation after one more lifetime Knowledge of the Self be digested? (ekavtari), or two more (bey-avtari), or Dadashri: Here there is no need at the most in three more (tran-avatari) for worthiness or even entitlement. This lifetimes is possible. If one has attained Knowledge of the Self from the Gnani is not based on conduct (aachar). What Purush (One who has realized the Self is external conduct (bahyaachar)? The and is able to do the same for others), and entire world places emphasis on external if one follows the Agnas, then ‘we’ give conduct. External conduct is an effect; it him a guarantee of ekavtari. Here (from is not a cause. ‘We’ remove all the causes. this location) it is not possible, even I still Thereafter, the effects will automatically have four degrees left! get washed away. Questioner: You talk about Questioner: Isn’t purity needed in ekavtari, you say that one can attain fi nal the interactions of worldly life? liberation after one more lifetime, so then Dadashri: There should be so much what happens to all the karma? How does purity so that (your worldly interactions) that work? are called ideal worldly interactions. They Dadashri: All the karma will should be of the highest caliber, the sort certainly become settled; one will indeed that have never been seen in this world. become pure. That which is left over are ‘Our’ worldly interactions (vyavahar) are karma only enough for one more lifetime. of a very high caliber. November 2016 15 DADAVANI There is no problem with worldly (pol) may be accepted for now, but such interactions, the problem lies in becom- ongoing insincerity that allows impurity ing one with (ekroop) the worldly inter- (polumpol) will not work over there. This actions. One should become one with Knowledge of the Self is ekavtari. One’s real Self (swaroop), while worldly Become Pure and Conduct Worldly interactions should remain superfl uous Interactions With Purity (non-essential). ‘We’ have made very subtle Worldly Interactions in the Akram discoveries about this worldly life. ‘We’ Path is Like an Ice Block speak about all these things after having Questioner: In worldly interac- made the ultimate discoveries. ‘We’ show tions, while working if someone were you how to carry out worldly interactions, to do something wrong, then whether and ‘we’ also show you how to attain that person is right or wrong in their fi nal liberation (moksha). ‘Our’ purpose work, that is something we defi nitely is to decrease your troubles in every way have to maintain in worldly interaction, possible. The Kramic path means that after is it not? one’s worldly interactions become pure, he then becomes pure Soul (Shuddhatma). Dadashri: Worldly interaction is And on the Akram path, one fi rst becomes such that, in your view, as long as you pure Soul, and then engages in worldly like a particular view, you will continue interactions with purity. In pure worldly to engage in (such) worldly interaction. interactions all kinds of interactions exist, (However) Once that worldly interaction but they are conducted with a state of of yours ceases, you will not like that absolute detachment (vitaraagata). Pure matter at all. worldly interactions begin when a person On the Akram path, what are worldly is going to attain fi nal liberation (moksha) interactions like? The worldly interactions in one or two more lifetimes. of the Akram path is like an ice block. So Questioner: So then what is the having brought a 37-kilogram slab of ice, solution to reduce the remaining old one will say, “I will pack it with sawdust karma? all around.” Then I would tell him, “Go ahead and pack it with whatever you Dadashri: No, that will certainly want, but in the end it is going to melt happen on its own. If you follow the fi ve and come to an end.” No matter what you Agnas that have been given to you, then do to try to preserve it, one day it will all the old karma will indeed be settled melt and come to an end. with equanimity without new karma being bound. Worldly interaction (vyavahar) should become pure within one lifetime. The Solution for That is Pratikraman In the fi nal birth, worldly interactions and Pratyakhyan should indeed become pure. Insincerity Questioner: But if heavy karma 16 November 2016 DADAVANI have been bound, then should we bring Upon Being Clear of Mistakes a an end to it by suffering it patiently? Resolution is Reached Dadashri: No. You have to keep on It is only after the Gnani Purush doing pratikraman (an apology coupled (one who has realized the Self and is with repentance) for it. Whoever has very able to do the same for others) has heavy, sticky karma, then (he) has to do imparted the Knowledge of the Self; has more pratikraman for it. If you feel it is imparted divine vision (divya chakshu), stickier, then if you do pratikraman and that you will be able to See all your own pratyakhyan (a resolve never to repeat faults. You will indeed be able to Know the mistake and ask for the energies the slightest change in the mind, that a for the same), it will all get washed. It mistake has happened. This is the path will not go away altogether because this free from attachment and abhorrence Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) is such (vitaraag marg), it is a path of ekavtari. that one more life remains before fi nal This path holds great responsibility. liberation (ekavtari). Everything should indeed become pure in one lifetime, everything should fi rst Questioner: What if aggression become pure here. towards other living beings through thought, speech, or action (atikraman) So now You do not have to do happens, and there is no awakened anything. ‘You’ have become pure Soul awareness as the Self (jagruti)? (Shuddhatma), therefore, You have to tell ‘Chandubhai’, “Do pratikraman. Dadashri: So, pratikraman does Why did you do atikraman?” What do not happen? You have to say? “You did atikraman, Questioner: Only if awareness therefore do pratikraman.” There is no comes later on, does pratikraman happen. need to do pratikraman if you have given a donation to someone. This is because Dadashri: Then that means ‘he’ here this Spiritual Science is accompanied (fi le number one; the relative self) with a state that is absent of internal slacked off, but that does not mean that adversities that hurt the self and others karma has been bound. When is karma (dharmadhyan). bound? It is when one decides that, ‘I am Chandubhai’. The result of slacking Now, if pratikraman does not off is that it remains pending. Since it happen, even then I will say that there remains pending, the result of that will is no problem. But just keep Seeing the come later. It should not remain pending. mistakes, and Know that what happened If one slacks off, then the result of that was wrong. It is certainly considered will surely come, won’t it? Not the result dharmadhyan from the moment you Know of (charging karma through) doership, but this. Therefore, there is dharmadhyan rather, the result of what remains pending externally and Shukladhyan (internal state will come. that renders the constant awareness of ‘I November 2016 17 DADAVANI am pure Soul’) internally. When both, there are only two types of intents that dharmadhyan and Shukladhyan exist, one unfold, are there not? becomes ekavtari, and when there is only Questioner: Yes. Shukladhyan, one attains liberation. This is a completely different path; it is a pure Dadashri: So the moment You See and natural path. that which unfolds (udaya), You will See your faults. The one who is at fault, will All That Unfolds is Indeed Discharge See faults, and the one who is with good, So when a mistake happens, you will See good. But You just have to See should not cling on to it. It is because your own faults, and nothing else has to of all the books that you have previously be seen. read that you feel, ‘What has happened? What has happened?’ ‘We’ had made When you no longer see anyone’s both good habits and bad habits a faults, know that you have attained the ‘safeside’, (because) You are pure Soul stage of Sarvavirati (sixth gunthanu), and You have come into your original even amidst worldly life (sansaar)! In state (swaroop). this way, the stage of Sarvavirati is of a different kind on the path of Akram In our Spiritual Science, while Vignan. While living worldly life, even giving this Knowledge of the Self, ‘we’ while one applies Dhupel (an Indian set aside both the good habits and the brand of) hair oil in his hair, or is wearing bad habits. We are not acquirers of good cologne, yet he is not seeing anyone at habits and we are not renouncers of fault. bad habits. ‘We’ set aside the conduct of merit or good karma (punyaachar) The stage of Sarvavirati in Akram and conduct of demerit or bad karma is that in which one does not even see (paapaachar). We are not the acquirers of the slightest fault in anyone. There are merit karma (punya) or the renouncers of no faults seen in any living being. When demerit karma (paap). Therefore, no someone is hurling abuses at you, yet one can change the unfolding karma you do not see him at fault, then that is of this current life. The unfolding considered the stage of Sarvavirati! There karma that takes place from birth all is no higher stage of Sarvavirati than this. the way till death cannot be changed With this real spiritual effort and by anyone. progress as the Self (purushartha) of (the Flawless Vision is the Stage of fl awless vision), a difference will be made Sarvavirati in your next life, however, ‘we’ are not at all trying to say that (you should improve Let me tell you what ‘our’ Spiritual your next life). ‘You’ have become a pure Science says. Right now, in all that Soul and hence do not want a next life unfolds (udaya), whatever mistake arises at all. So what ‘we’ mean to say is that or whatever good intent (bhaav) arises; ‘we’ settle all that unfolds, ‘we’ Know it. 18 November 2016 DADAVANI That Which Never Increases or Knowledge, it is possible to be absolutely Decreases is the State of the Self rid of attachment and abhorrence, and to become vitaraag; one becomes free That is why, You should just from any increase or decrease by their keep Seeing whatever happens as it is. inherent nature (aguru-laghu swabhaav). Whatever state that happens to become of So whatever advantage one takes of this ‘Chandubhai’ you should just keep Seeing Science of spiritual Knowledge can never that. The increase-decrease, increase- be enough. decrease, increase-decrease (guru-laghu), that has been said, isn’t it! Is it not with This path of ours is a very high an increase and decrease? It cannot be a path. It is no ordinary feat to attain this state free from any increase or decrease state. So then should you eat everything (aguru-laghu), so it continues to increase at once? You will need one more life for and decrease. The station that ‘We’ have this, will you not? reached, when you reach that station, then One who Becomes Free From for you it too will happen. You have seen Abhorrence is Considered Ekavtari the direct proof of this, it is not from any books. The moment ‘we’ give you Gnan, abhorrence (dwesha) is the fi rst to leave. Attachment - abhorrence (raaga - Therefore, you have been made free from dwesha) are such that they increase-de- abhorrence (vitadwesh), and now as you crease. They increase and decrease, while sit with me, you will become vitaraag. the Soul by its very nature is free from Sit for as long as you are able to, take any increase or decrease and is such that whatever benefi t you can. it is free from attachment and abhorrence (vitaraag). That vitaraag state has now The one who has become free been attained (with relation to anubhaav, from abhorrence is considered ekavtari. laksha, pratiti; experience, attentive Whoever is not completely vitadwesh awareness, conviction)! may take two to four more lives. At the most, it will take fi fteen lifetimes, but If one Stays on Track, he Becomes there will not be any other loss, will Ekavtari there! And the bliss (of being in a state Infi nite scriptures are entailed in free from abhorrence) prevails for you, each and every word of ‘ours’! If one does it not! understands this and stays on track, then Even if someone hurls abuses at you, his work is certainly accomplished! This and you settle it with equanimity, then Science of spiritual Knowledge (Vignan) you do not have abhorrence towards him. is such that one can attain a state whereby Do you experience that to some extent? only one more life remains before Do you experience that completely? fi nal liberation (ekavtari)! Hundreds of thousands of lifetimes will be reduced! Questioner: I experience it con- Through this Science of spiritual stantly. November 2016 19 DADAVANI Become Vitaraag and Proceed them? They called them naive. When the Towards the Final Goal Vitaraags were born, their friends used to say, “He is naive and foolish.” Hey you, Dadashri: What do the Vitaraag it is you who is foolish! No one will ever Lord (one who is absolutely detached be able to swindle the Vitaraags, that is from attachment and abhorrence) say? how wise they are. They may even allow They say, “Become free of attachment and abhorrence (vitaraag)”. No matter themselves to be deceived, (but) do they what work that one does in this world, do not miss out on their goal. They the importance does not lie in the work, would say, “If I do not let myself get but rather, one will only bind a karmic deceived, then he will not let me move account for the next life if attachment- along my path.” So people think that they abhorrence (raaga-dwesha) happens to are gullible. Hey, they are certainly not take place during that work. If attachment- gullible, they are truly very astute. In this abhorrence do not arise, then one is world, there is no one as astute as the not responsible. Your entire body, from one who knowingly get deceived. And birth to death is involuntary (farajiyat). those who have knowingly been deceived Whatever attachment-abhorrence happens become vitaraag. during that is the only karmic account Only the Vitaraag Lords Knowingly that gets bound. Therefore, what do the get Deceived absolutely detached Lords say, “Become vitaraag and be on your way.” Therefore, if anyone who still wants to become free from attachment If someone hurls an abuse at me, and abhorrence (vitaraag), knowingly then ‘we’ know that he is hurling abuses get deceived. The entire world is being at Ambalal Patel (Dadashri's relative deceived unknowingly; monks, ascetics, self); he is hurling abuses at the non-Self saints, and everyone is being deceived, complex (pudgal). He is not able to Know but only the Vitaraags knowingly get the Self, he is not able to recognize it, is deceived. From a very young age they he! Therefore, ‘we’ do not accept them knowingly keep getting deceived from (the abuses). They do not touch ‘us’ at all. every direction. They would knowingly get ‘We’ remain without any attachment or deceived, and yet they would not let the abhorrence (vitaraag). ‘We’ do not have other person know that, ‘I know that you any attachment or abhorrence towards have deceived me but you will not even him. So, after one or two more lifetimes see it in my eyes’. They are so astute that everything will be cleared. they would not let you read that in their The Vitaraags are not that gullible. eyes. They had knowledge that, ‘These Others may be defi cient, however there poor people conduct transactions on the is no one more astute than the Vitaraags. level of the non-Self complex (pudgal) They are actually very astute. What did so let them take the non-Self complex a hundred intellectuals of the world call away; I have to become free of the non- 20 November 2016 DADAVANI Self complex. (They) Let the greedy one Questioner: What is the result of take the greed away (from them); they dharmadhyan? Does it bind merit karma let the one seeking respect (maan) take (punya)? respect away, thereby bringing about a Dadashri: There are two kinds solution. They would not let their path of dharmadhyan. The dharmadhyan get overlooked. They would not let the that happens through the ego, provides original path that they have attained be worldly pleasures (sukha). On the path overlooked; that is how wise they were. to liberation one may come across And even those who currently follow such other circumstances, one will come a path, what problems can they possibly across spiritual company (satsang), that encounter for their liberation? Today the is the result of dharmadhyan. But it Gnani Purush is alive in this body, and is done through the ego. Whereas the someday this bubble (body) will burst, but dharmadhyan that we refer to is egoless does that mean the path to liberation will meditation (dhyan). Egoless dharmadhyan disappear? No. As long as there is such makes one attain a state whereby only one a stipulation; that the one who has no more life remains before fi nal liberation desire other than liberation, the one who is willing to be deceived knowingly, and (ekavtari). The fi ve Agnas (fi ve directives if so many such characteristics are within that preserve the awareness as the Self him, then no one can stop the liberation of in Akram Vignan) that ‘we’ have given, such a person. In that way, on his own, he those Agnas are indeed dharmadhyan. will attain liberation within two lifetimes And if such dharmadhyan exists, one without a Gnani. cannot attain liberation, however after taking one more birth, he will attain Is the Result of Dharmadhyan, Merit liberation. Karma or Liberation? Upon Following the Agna the State of A Gnani is considered a person Ekavtari is Attained with a ‘license’. He has the license for the entire world. This Spiritual Science After having attained this Akram (Vignan) is such that even the celestial Gnan, it is possible to fi nd a way out beings (devlokos) come to sit and listen within one or two more lifetimes. Now to it! This is considered a gathering of the whether another lifetime remains or not One who separates the Self from the non- depends upon the internal state of a being Self (paramhansa sabha), where there is (dhyan). If the internal state that renders no discussion other than that of the Self the constant awareness of, ‘I am pure and the absolute Self (Paramatma), there Soul’ (Shukladhyan) remains continuously, are no worldly discussions. And this then another birth will defi nitely not arise. (Spiritual Science) is with the absence of But in the Akram path, there is both an adverse internal state of being which Shukladhyan and dharmadhyan. Internally hurts the self and others (dharmadhyan). there is Shukladhyan and externally there Ours is Akram, is it not! is dharmadhyan. November 2016 21 DADAVANI Why does dharmadhyan arise? It fi ve Agnas, then those fi ve Agnas are is because the Agnas prescribed by Dada themselves dharmadhyan. That is why remain to be followed. To follow the one more lifetime still remains after Agnas is not the work of Shukladhyan, it which liberation will be attained. is the work of dharmadhyan. Therefore, it There is no Doership in Following the is because of dharmadhyan that (karma) Agnas suffi cient for only one or two more lifetimes is charged. When you decide in your mind, ‘I And today, all the scriptures certainly want to follow Dada’s Agnas’, unanimously say that in this current era that is not kartapad (the state of a doer), of the time cycle, Shukladhyan cannot it is dharmadhyan (the absence of an happen for anyone and that point is indeed adverse internal state of being which true, it is not incorrect. (But) This is in hurts the self and others). It would be fact Akram Vignan (the step-less Science acceptable to say that ‘we’ have not kept of Self-realization). Otherwise, on the you in the state of a doer at all. Whatever Kramic path (the traditional step-by-step doership (kartapad) you have; (it is) based path to attain the Self), it (Shukladhyan) on the fi ve Agnas. And as this doership is not possible. If Shukladhyan arises, is associated with the Agnas, there is then Shukladhyan is the cause for no liability upon you. That is why the liberation, then one becomes an ekavtari. Agnas are given, otherwise if you become One cannot go directly to liberation from the doer once again, then karma will be here. Some people will become ekavtari, bound. if he falls short and is not able to stay It is due to your responsibility to in touch with ‘us’, then he may take two follow the Agnas that you became a more lifetimes, three more lifetimes, fi ve doer; otherwise the liability (of doership more lifetimes, but not more than fi fteen without the Agnas) would have remained lifetimes. And if one merely happens to yours. So, I have left that much doership; have brushed by ‘us,’ even he will come the submission toward the Agnas, and within a certain limit (of lifetimes). There that doership is not really doership. This is just no limit for anyone else. But the is because there is submission towards one who has come within this limit and the Agnas. Therefore, your responsibility has attained the Knowledge of the Self does not remain. When I tell someone, and Knowledge of the doer (Gnan), and “Do this to that person,” so he does is following the fi ve Agnas, for him it is according to what I tell him, as per a different thing; he is within the limit of my agna (command), that is considered fi fteen (lifetimes)! ‘mechanical,’ and the responsibility then Our spiritual Science is such that it becomes mine, that is how it is. delivers one all the way across (the ocean Awareness of Pure Soul is Shukladhyan of worldly existence). If one remains sincere to it, remains in the Gnani’s Now, this meditation (dhyan) as 22 November 2016 DADAVANI the pure Soul, what internal state of en, but the distinct experience as the being will it render? Then one would Self (spashta vedan) has not arisen. The say, “It renders Shukladhyan.” When awareness (laksha) that, ‘I am pure Soul’ the awareness (laksha) that, ‘I am pure has set in, but it is an indistinct experi- Soul (Shuddhatma)’ is established, it is ence as the Self; that is the fi rst pillar. something that renders what is known as Then the second pillar is the distinct ex- Shukladhyan. The awareness that, ‘I am perience as the Self (spashta vedan). Chandubhai’ has departed, and the other Questioner: Does the awareness awareness has set in. Just for the sake of remain in it constantly? worldly interactions, while you interact, you have to say, “I am Chandubhai.” In Dadashri: No, the awareness does your partnership, even after you sell off not have to be maintained. When does your share of the store, he (your partner) distinct experience as the Self arise? says, “Let your name remain on it.” Then Externally, everything has come in your wouldn’t you understand that you have Vision (Darshan), however it has not dissolved your partnership, however your materialized. And once it materializes, the name is left for the purpose of worldly distinct experience as the Self will arise. interactions. And when the income-tax It has materialized to a certain extent, auditors come, don’t you say, “Yes, yes,” however through understanding you have and then don’t you also say, “Yes this become free from work and business, and is ours.” Is it possible to say no? Can everything else, but you have not become you say that you have sold it? So, in free through the Knowledge of the Self worldly interactions, you have to say, “I (Gnan). Therefore, when You become am Chandubhai.” But the One for whom free through the Knowledge of the Self, artadhyan (adverse internal state or the distinct experience as the Self will meditation that results (effect) in hurting arise. When that distinct experience as the the self) and raudradhyan (adverse Self arises, that is the second pillar. Then internal state of being that hurts others) the third pillar is absolute Knowledge do not arise, and there is Shukladhyan; his (keval Gnan), which brings absolutely liberation will certainly happen in one or everything into Vision. two more lifetimes. Questioner: All the regions of the The First and Second Pillars of universe and beyond (lok-aloka)? Shukladhyan Dadashri: Yes, all the regions of There are four pillars of Shuklad- the universe and beyond. At present, all hyan. In that, the fi rst pillar is the arising the regions of the universe and beyond of the indistinct experience as the Self indeed come into ‘our’ understanding, (aspashta vedan). What ‘the element’ but it has not materialized. However, it is (Soul; vastu) is, has been decided. The defi nitely there in absolute Vision (keval awareness that the Soul exists has aris- Darshan). November 2016 23 DADAVANI Right now, this fi rst pillar has been way, but one has entered the twelfth established, that is more than enough. gunasthanak. And that is considered the Thereafter, what other work indeed fi rst pillar of Shukladhyan. remains? What do the Jain (scriptures) The Third Pillar of Shukladhyan: say? “The fi rst pillar! Oh ho ho! Such Keval Gnan a person has become God!” Without achieving the twelfth gunthanu (one of the Attaining absolute Knowledge fourteen stages of spiritual development; (keval Gnan) is considered the thirteenth also referred to as gunasthanak), the fi rst gunthanu. Absolute Knowledge is the third pillar cannot be attained. Up until the pillar of Shukladhyan and the thirteenth tenth gunthanu the fi rst pillar can never gunthanu. (On the Kramic path) These be attained. That very fi rst pillar is what three are attained together, and ours is you have attained! The eleventh gunthanu also the twelfth gunthanu indeed. So you is a stage where one can fall from. should keep savoring its taste. Gradually all Your energies will blossom. Now all Up until the tenth gunthanu, greed the veils (avaran) will start to break (lobha) exists, there is subtle greed and be destroyed. The main veil has (sukshma lobha). As long as that greed been destroyed, so now the energies will is not destroyed, the twelfth gunasthanak blossom. (one of the fourteen stages of spiritual development; also referred to as gunthanu) Questioner: Nothing else remains will not come about. Then in whichever besides auspicious inner intent (shubha way greed is destroyed, whether through bhaav) within. Kramic or Akram, but when greed is Dadashri: By the relative viewpoint, destroyed, one arrives at the twelfth that is dharmadhyan and from the real gunthanu. As long as there is greed, the viewpoint (nischayathi), that is the state of ego will not dissolve. Shukladhyan currently. Now the gunthanu Questioner: There are all kinds of of the relative viewpoint keeps rising. From greed. There is also the greed to obtain the fi fth it rises to the sixth, to the seventh, knowledge. to the eighth. In the worldly interactions, when one becomes free from (sexuality) Dadashri: There are all kinds of with a woman, one completes the ninth greed, all sorts of them. Now, as long (gunthanu). In worldly interactions, when as that greed exists, the tenth gunthanu no ties pertaining to money remain, that is cannot be completed, and until then when one completes the tenth (gunthanu). the ego cannot be fractured. The ego is Now worldly interactions of (mahatmas; fractured at the twelfth (gunthanu). Once those who have received Self-realization the ego is fractured, one is considered to through Gnan Vidhi) will gradually rise have arrived at the twelfth (gunthanu). higher. Then no matter how it has been destroyed, whether it is through Akram, or any other If one remains in ‘our’ fi ve Agnas 24 November 2016 DADAVANI (fi ve directives that preserve the awareness renders the constant awareness of ‘I am as the Self in Akram Vignan), he remains pure Soul’ (Shukladhyan) for you is at the in the twelfth gunthanu from the relative fi rst pillar, while mine is at the second viewpoint. However, it is not possible to pillar. ‘We’ have (reached) the second completely remain in the fi ve Agnas. So pillar of Shukladhyan, which is the distinct at the most, one is able to reach up to the experience as the Self (spashta vedan). ninth gunthanu. And in the third pillar of Shukladhyan, absolute Knowledge manifests, and in The gunthanu from the real the fourth pillar, one arrives at stage of viewpoint that you wanted has been liberation! attained. So that is more than enough. Whether (the level of) worldly interaction We have not made any distinction rises or not, we do not seek a prize in between master (guru) and the disciple at worldly interactions. We want to become all here. ‘We’ have placed you at the same ekavtari, and attain liberation. There level as ‘us’. From the real perspective should be absolute bliss (paramanand) (nischay), ‘we’ have placed you at the within You. It remains constantly, twelfth gunthanu next to ‘us,’ and that doesn’t it? too in Shukladhyan! On what basis is The Fourth Pillar of Shukladhyan – this state of ours considered the twelfth Moksha gunthanu? It is because Shukladhyan has arisen, and the awareness (laksha) I have shown you the same path that as the Self has been established. When ‘we’ have walked upon. And the gunthanu the awareness of the Self sets in and that has manifested within ‘us’, the its conviction (pratiti) sets in, that is twelfth gunthanu, that very same twelfth considered Shukladhyan. On the Kramic gunthanu materializes for you as well. In path, there is a partial conviction, there this era of the time cycle (kaal), there is is just a slight conviction which sets no hope of attaining the fourth gunthanu in. And when that becomes complete, for even monks (sadhus); whereas for you one attains kshayak samkit (permanent - the twelfth gunthanu! What is the reason conviction of the right belief that ‘I for the twelfth gunthanu? It is because the am pure Soul’), and that is when the awareness of the pure Soul (Shuddatma) awareness of the Self is attained. And has been established. in the Akram path, the fi rst thing ‘we’ set You are at the twelfth gunasthanak, for you is the awareness of the Self, and I am at the twelfth, and Lord Mahavir thereafter its conviction always remains! was at the thirteenth when He attained It is because this is the path of Akram, absolute Knowledge, and the fourteenth that is why the awareness is attained gunthanu is liberation. For you and me, fi rst. In the Kramic path, even though from the real viewpoint (nischay), the one attains the conviction, he is not in twelfth gunthanu is the same; but what Shukladhyan. This is because in this era is the difference? The internal state that of the time cycle, no one can proceed November 2016 25 DADAVANI beyond the seventh gunthanu via the same point, the same method. There is Kramic path. just one railway line; these are discussions of the ‘fi nal station’. There is absolutely What is the Apramatt Gunthanu? no discussion of intermediate stations. At As a matter of fact, the seventh times, when one’s real spiritual effort as gunthanu is considered one of the highest the Self (Purushartha) wanes, then one gunthanu. The seventh gunthanu is called or two more lifetimes will be incurred, the apramatt gunthanu. What does that but that does not mean that there will be mean? It means when the words, ‘I am a great loss. Yet it is not worth lessening pure Soul’ remains for forty-eight minutes your real spiritual effort as the Self for (within him) and no other unfolding this world. karma arises at all, then that is referred ‘I am pure Soul,’ that internal state to as apramatt. Then after the forty- of being (dhyan) remains constantly. ninth minute, he reverts back to, ‘I am a When you continue to have the experience spiritual leader, I am like this, I am like (vedan) of pure Soul, when the awareness that,’ and all the same things again. Those as the Self (laksha) continues to remain forty-eight minutes only come once in from within, when the awakened awareness the entire lifetime, or twice, or for some as the Self (jagruti) continues to remain; it arises fi ve times, but it is considered then that is considered experience of the unfolding of karma. And yet again he will bliss as the Self (swa-samvedan). And even quarrel about whether it is the fourth you even get the benefi t of that, you even or the fi fth phase of the moon. But that get the benefi t of the state that is free of apramatt stage lasts once, for only forty- agitation-disturbance (nirakudta). Even eight minutes. The awareness of ‘I am in an agitated situation one can remain pure Soul,’ which remains in him is not in a state free of agitation-disturbance. that which has been given to him, that And ‘we’ have even remained in a state is referred to as the stage of apramatt. free of agitation-disturbance during a (Otherwise) Pure Soul can never be time of terrible agitation. That is in fact remembered; no one has any awareness considered to be tested. of it at all. What is the Solution for Spashta Vedan? These are Discussions of the Final Your relative gunthanu (one of the Station fourteen stages of spiritual development; This is in fact Akram Vignan, and also referred to as gunasthanak) remains it is a complete spiritual Science. The to be taken higher. Now, however much entire science is un-contradictory. No you settle fi les with equanimity, your matter how you slice it, contradictions relative gunthanu rises by that much. will not be found. Whenever you ask, it Thereafter, worldly interactions will will always be the same. Whenever you not hassle you. Currently, the relative ask, you will get the same answer, the gunthanu is at the fi fth stage (gunthanu). 26 November 2016 DADAVANI But as it goes higher, worldly life will What an Extraordinary Vignan This is! not obstruct you. ‘Our’ relative gunthanu The moment ‘we’ impart the is very high, it is at the twelfth gunthanu; Knowledge of the Self and Knowledge ‘ours’ is the distinct experience as the of the doer (Gnan), everything dissolves Self (spashta anubhav, spashta vedan). and gets destroyed to ashes. (That is Whereas yours is an indistinct experience how) Extraordinary this spiritual Science as the Self (aspashta vedan), there is the is. This Science is in fact amazing! It experience as the Self, but it is indistinct. is entirely at the level of the twelfth Its bliss (sukha) will be experienced but it gunthanu. It can be brought into worldly will not be understood distinctly. One will interactions (vyavahar). To bring it into experience bliss (because of) the presence worldly interaction is in your control. I of the Self (Atma). The bliss is natural; have given it to you from the perspective its nature is absolute bliss (paramanandi). of the real (nischaya). (But) One should However, all your thoughts do not allow understand from ‘us’; ‘What is the that bliss to come forth, they do not allow reality?’ it to reach you. They keep disturbing it in between. A Final Resolution Arises Once Files Questioner: How does one attain Have Been Settled the distinct experience as the Self (spashta Questioner: After one or two more vedan), Dada? lifetimes, once our true form (swaroop) Dadashri: By staying in the becomes extremely pure (shuddha), then association of the Self and that which we will attain liberation, will we not? leads to the Self (satsang). By remaining Dadashri: Your true form, (the Self in satsang here, by remaining in the that you are) has become pure. Now all Agnas, your relative gunthanu will rise that remains, is for you to empty out the higher day by day, and it will bind distinct ‘shop’. When the owner of the shop was experience as the Self. All karma decrease there, he kept on expanding the shop. day by day, don’t they! If one begins As he became tired and he suffered a lot to empty out a pot, then that pot will within, he then says, “Alas, I want to get surely become empty, will it not? Even rid of the ‘shop.’” So he started to empty if he is serving one spoonful of clarifi ed out the shop. When one meets a Gnani butter (ghee) at a time, but the pot will Purush, (then) the Gnani will show him a still become empty, will it not! As the way to get rid of the ‘shop’? So how will karma discharge, one gradually becomes the ‘shop’ be gotten rid of? He will get rid lighter. This is indeed Akram, so the Self of the ‘shop’ based on the conditions laid has been attained without karma having down by the Gnani Purush. Therefore, been discharged. While on the Kramic now settle everything with equanimity. path, one has to progress by discharging karma at every step of the way. There is Questioner: Right now we have a lot of diffi culty in that. met Dada; the Gnani; the Sat Purush (the November 2016 27 DADAVANI One who has attained the Eternal). Now Without clearing one’s karmic accounts, one or two more lives remain, so then liberation (moksha) cannot be attained, will we fi nd someone else, or do we not can it! need anyone else anymore? Questioner: If we don’t clear our Dadashri: Now where is the need karmic accounts, do we have to take to fi nd anything else at all? You just have another birth? to get rid of the ‘shop’ this way. So, the Dadashri: Yes, that is the reason fi les will get settled. Currently, there is for rebirth (punarjanama). Therefore, an ‘interim government.’ What is the the karmic account should become reason for that? It is because two things completely clear, then a solution will have to be done: you have come into come about. The liberation that this the awareness (jagruti) of your original Dada shows is straightforward, it is form, meaning you have to remain as ekavtari. Therefore, maintain a state that the Self. And when a fi le comes forth, is absent of anger-pride-deceit-greed you have to solve it. Until then, it is an and attachment-abhorrence (saiyam) and ‘interim government.’ Once all the fi les settle fi les with equanimity. And for the have been settled, there will be a ‘full ultimate liberation, both types of saiyam government.’ Once you start settling (internal and external) will be required. your fi les, there will not be any left, Nonetheless, from here, one can attain a will there! state whereby only one more life remains Otherwise, the awareness as the before fi nal liberation (ekavtari). Then, Self remains all day long, the awareness this (external) saiyam will come forth in remains constantly. Even while working the next life. However, internal saiyam is in the offi ce, the awareness remains. If very diffi cult to attain. the work is ‘sticky’ (demanding), then Energies are Destroyed by Clashes as soon as that work is fi nished, the awareness returns. If ever all the energies of the Self get drained, then it is due to clashes. If If the task is ‘sticky’; just as if you collide even slightly due to friction, one were to put his hand under water it is fi nished! If the other person collides, that fl ows out from a pipe that is half an then you should remain in a state that inch wide, his hand would not be pushed is absent of anger-pride-deceit-greed away. While if the water is fl owing out and attachment-abhorrence (saiyam). with force from a one-and-a-half-inch Collisions should never happen. No wide pipe, then his hand would get matter how diffi cult a circumstance one displaced. If there are very heavy and faces, even if this body is to die, it can ‘sticky’ karma, then they will shake one die; but you should not get into confl ict. If up. We do not have a problem with that collisions alone did not exist, then people either. This is because we want to clear would attain liberation. If someone has our karmic accounts in just one lifetime! learnt that, ‘I never want to get into a 28 November 2016 DADAVANI collision,’ then he will not need a spiritual life). If the force from the fi les were to master (guru) or anyone else in between. not prevail as much, then the experience In one or two more lifetimes, he will would increase. attain liberation directly. So it is due to the force from the That is When one Attains the fi les that all this keeps happening. When Absolute State the fi les decrease, it will automatically make a difference. Do things in order to For the one who does not get decrease the fi les. Follow the fi ve Agnas. into confl icts, I guarantee he will attain Only this much needs to be done, there liberation within three lifetimes. If you is nothing else to be done. get into confl icts, then do pratikraman (exact method of reversal from aggression When all these fi les decrease, through recall, apology and resolution not then the bliss (anand) will not be to repeat the error). Clashes are of the containable. The bliss will overfl ow and non-Self complex (pudgal), and clashes the neighbors will also benefi t. This is amongst the non-Self complex are because anything that overfl ows will destroyed by pratikraman. come out, and when it comes out, it will be helpful to others. Even the neighbor As one progresses with pratikra- will benefi t. However, in having to settle man, he then reaches the absolute state fi les, the bliss is not felt at present. All (purnahuti)! As one starts to do pratikra- these interferences (dukha) do not let man, then the absolute state will be at- you taste the bliss. tained after fi ve or ten more lifetimes! It may not even come to an end within one Questioner: After attaining the lifetime. Knowledge of the Self and the Knowledge of the doer, how long does it take to settle Spashta Vedan is Obstructed due to the fi les? Files Dadashri: It depends on how Questioner: Dada, after having ‘sticky’ they are. If they happen to be received Self-realization through Gnan very ‘sticky’, then they will continue Vidhi, mahatmas have come to realize throughout your entire life, and if they that the Self is full of infi nite bliss. Now, are insipid, then they will disperse in ten what is the obstructive cause preventing to twelve months. the distinct experience as the Self (spashta vedan) that should be coming Questioner: So, will they settle in into experience? one lifetime or will it take two to four more lifetimes; how long does it take Dadashri: The obstructive cause after attaining the Knowledge of the in experiencing this, is that there is a Self? great force from the ‘fi les’ (Dadashri’s term for anyone or anything that takes Dadashri: In just one to two more one away from the Self and into worldly lifetimes. For the one who wants to settle, November 2016 29 DADAVANI it will not take long. For the one who of the state as God (Bhagwan). Even the does not want to settle, it will take a ‘signal’ has been passed, everything has very long time. For the one who wants been cleared. It passed a long time ago! to bring closure once and for all (nivedo), You, too, have crossed the signal. The it will not take time. The original intrinsic platform has not yet arrived, but you have nature of the energy of the Self (Atma defi nitely crossed the signal. shakti) is such that, if you want to bring Questioner: Both God’s boundary closure once and for all, then it will help and God’s presence. you bring about that closure. If you want to bring about closure once and for all, Dadashri: Yes, God’s boundary then you should come on to the Akram and God’s presence! It will bring about path, and currently that path has indeed salvation (kalyan), will it not! become available. Now Understand This Liability The Only Goal is to Attain Such a State God has separated the soul into Questioner: When one attains the two divisions: those who lead a worldly distinct awareness as the Self (spashta life (sansaari) and those who have vedan), then sexuality and sexual impulses attained ultimate liberation (Siddha). do not remain, do they? Those liberated Souls who have become free from the cycle of birth and death Dadashri: As long as sexuality and have attained ultimate liberation exists, the distinct awareness as the Self can are called (Siddha), and the rest are all never arise. When does distinct awareness sansaari. Therefore, if you are one who as the Self arise? It is when one does not has renounced worldly life (tyaagi), even have ownership (malikipanu) of his even then you are considered to be one mind, speech and body. ‘Our’ state is that who leads a worldly life, and a married of nirvichaar (to remain as the Self and householder (grahasti) is also one who to See the thoughts of the relative self), is leads worldly life. So, in your mind, do that of nirvikalp (to remain with the right not consider yourself to be any lesser. belief that, ‘I am pure Soul’ and to remain Worldly life is not an obstruction, nothing free from the belief, ‘I am Chandubhai’ else is an obstruction, ignorance of one’s and all relative ‘I-ness’ and ‘my-ness’ that real Self (aGnan) is what obstructs. And stem from it), is that of nirichhak (a state ‘we’ have taken away that very ego which free of desires). That is why this state obstructs (spashta vedan) has arisen within ‘us’. Blessed is that state! ‘We’ bow down to This is Akram Vignan. You will not it. So, this state has to be attained. Then miss out on liberation by getting married. if one or two more stations remain, so be You all lead a worldly life and you want it. Having crossed so many stations, how to attain a state whereby only one more does one more make a difference? And life remains before fi nal liberation, but that too, it is entirely within the bounds that math does not add up anywhere. 30 November 2016 DADAVANI The Jain scriptures categorically say no, according to what I say. It is only the acharyas (spiritual masters who have possible to attains a state of ekavtari after complete knowledge of the scriptures) following the special directive (agna) of also say no. Yet, how is it that the math (celibacy), and after attaining Knowledge added up for us? of the Self. Even without the special directive of brahmacharya, liberation ‘We’ have shown this path of would be attained in two to four more liberation for those who are married and lifetimes, but upon following the special have children. There is no liberation directive, one attains a state of ekavtari! directly from here. What the Vitaraag After attaining this Knowledge of the Self, Lords (absolutely detached from one has to be given this special directive. attachment and abhorrence) say is As yet, all of you have not given the completely true; if it were possible for special directive of brahmacharya, have one to attain liberation directly from here, you? We do not give it so easily either then in his fi nal birth, one would surely because not everyone knows how to have to leave his wife and children. But follow it, it is not easy. In fact, a very this is the state of ekavtari, so what do strong mind is required. liberation and worldly life have to do with each other! ‘We’ give you a guarantee This Knowledge of the Self and that you will not bind a single karma. Knowledge of the doer (Gnan) is such that You will not bind new karma even if you it enables one to attain a state of ekavtari, have a wife and children. but one has to remain very particular and Who can Give Such an Understanding? not have the slightest insincerity in his mind. Sexuality (vishaya) is not a thing This lady has a fi rm decision to have a liking for, it is a thing that (nischaya) that, ‘I want to attain (married people) have to discharge. liberation in just one more lifetime. I cannot afford to stay here, therefore I The one who Gets Stuck in Sexuality want to attain a state whereby only one is Left Dangling more life remains before fi nal liberation Questioner: But Dada, I want to (ekavtari)’. So that is why she received attain liberation in just one (more) lifetime all the means to achieve that, and she (ekavtari), so what should I do? Please also received the special directive (agna) tell me! Let us decide on that today. of abstinence from sexuality and sexual impulses through mind, speech and body Dadashri: Say a vegetarian is (brahmacharya)! arrested by a police offi cer and starved for three days, and then he is given Questioner: Will we also become meat and told, “You must eat this.” If ekavtari? the person eats it, he does not come into Dadashri: It will still be a while (karmic) bondage. It is due to the pressure for you. For now, let some things fl ow from the police offi cer, it is not out of his November 2016 31 DADAVANI own desire. It should not be out of one’s for the rest, God knows what will own choice. If you eat meat due to the become of them! Whoever is fi ltered pressure of the police offi cer, due to the through our sieve, will become ekavtari, pressure of extreme hunger, then you are otherwise, after two more lifetimes or not at fault. If the same were to be applied fi ve more lifetimes but some solution to sex, then one would defi nitely attain will arise! liberation in one more lifetime. Only Constant Awareness is Required Questioner: I will follow your In all this that I speak of would I special directive (agna). Now will you or would I not have that much awakened give me a guarantee of the state of awareness (jagruti)? ekavtari? Questioner: Indeed, you would. Dadashri: If one were to follow just this much of what I said, then I will Dadashri: I have all the awakened write up the ekavtari bond for him. If one awareness. I still have even more wants to become ekavtari, then only this awakened awareness. The amount of hair one thing needs to be adhered to; there is that is on my head, that is how much no problem with anything else. awakened awareness that prevails within me. The one whose awakened awareness Now a Solution Will Indeed Arise prevails in all angles, how can he become All this ‘stock’ is rubbish, and trapped? While people fall off to sleep that too, it is from the four eras of even when the slightest breeze is felt! the time cycle. It was fi rst sifted in The awakened awareness is wasted the era of the time cycle characterized away just like that. Something wrong has by unity of thoughts, speech, and happened, something wrong is happening, action (Satyug) and whatever did not but one learns nothing from it. The fi lter through was thrown into an era awakened awareness continues to show of moral deterioration and decreased purity (Dwaparyug). It then got sifted you that something wrong is happening, in the Dwaparyug, and whatever did not doesn’t it? Does your awakened awareness fi lter through was thrown into Tretayug show You anything? (an era of further moral deterioration Questioner: Yes, it shows me all and decreased purity). That which did that. not fi lter through in Tretayug have come in current era of the time cycle, which Dadashri: All day long? Your is characterized by lack of unity in awakened awareness has increased so thought, speech, and action (Kaliyug). much! The world seeks it, but this Now this is the residual part through awakened awareness does not prevail. I which I am putting a sieve. Whatever have given You the kind of awakened gets through this fi lter is through, and awareness that prevails constantly. That 32 November 2016 DADAVANI awakened awareness has to be applied. cling on to that incontrovertible principle. There is an old habit that still exists, so You should keep the applied awareness on slippery ‘places’ you have a habit of exclusively in that. If you were to fall slipping. into the sea, then you would die for just one lifetime, whereas this would Questioner: Yes, that is true. be death of millions of lifetimes. You Dadashri: So if You maintain should in fact tell Chandubhai from some awakened awareness, ‘This is a within, ‘Straighten up.’ slippery spot and such that you might Constant Awareness Leads to the slip,’ however it has come to unfold in Ekavtari State your karma, so then You should say that, ‘Chandubhai (reader is to insert his or her Questioner: You had said that, “I name here), you are slipping, and I am constantly remain in the applied aware- Seeing.’ Is there any problem in that? ness as the Self (upayoga).” How does upayoga remain? Questioner: No. Dadashri: Even during sleep. Dadashri: But he (Chandubhai) is Upayoga even during sleep means that bound to slip. He, himself also slips along ultimately this much should remain, ‘All with Chandubhai. So over there, applied this is happening and I am not the doer. I awareness as the Self (upayoga) should am the Knower-Seer.’ One who constantly be maintained. Just as a man who is at the remains (in this) awareness is considered edge of a well, would he think about his ekavtari. wife, think about his children, or would he think about the well? If he happened to One Whose Artadhyan and Raudradhyan sit at the edge of the well, then he would Ceases, he Becomes an Ekavtari be cautious, wouldn’t he? ‘I am pure Soul’ is also a kind Or if someone had to walk through of dependency, a dependency of words, the sea on a two-foot wide path that has but it is dependency of a high level. no hand rails on either side, then at that It belongs to the path to liberation. Its moment would he remember his wife, fragrance is different, isn’t it! But one has remember his money or remember his to go beyond that and become free of all bungalows? dependencies (niralamb). What incredible merit karma (punya) that is considered Questioner: He would not remem- to be! One does not get to hear such ber anyone. talks. Such talks are not available in the scriptures. Dadashri: Yes. That is called upayoga. Dada has given the ekavtari path Questioner: So one will become to liberation through an incontrovertible free of all dependencies in one or two principle (siddhant), so then you should lifetimes, will he not? November 2016 33 DADAVANI Dadashri: It will defi nitely happen! here? Where would you fi nd parents? If Everything has become lighter on its own, a Tirthankar were to be born, then He hasn’t it! Artadhyan (adverse internal would be born into the royal family, state that results in hurting the self) and a good home. But would His friends raudradhyan (adverse internal state of be the Patels (a caste in Indians) and being that hurts others) have stopped, the Baniyas (the caste that merchants, therefore a person attains a state whereby money-lenders, and traders belonged to only one more life remains before fi nal in traditional Indian culture) who live in liberation (ekavtari). That is indeed the the surrounding neighborhood? Of course standard, and even if it possibly takes not! The celestial beings would descend two more lives, then what loss will be from the heavens. Those celestial beings incurred? So many lifetimes have already come in the form of a human and play been wasted. And now, one himself can with Him. Otherwise He would end up feel that he has become as light as a with the vices. So everything comes feather. together according to circumstances. If You are ready, then all the circumstances All You have to See is whether you are ready. If you are crooked, then are at ease or not? Does artadhyan or everything will be crooked. If you became raudradhyan happen or not? ‘You’ have straightforward, then this current era of to keep Seeing that. ‘You’ have to keep the time cycle characterized by a lack Seeing that in the self. For the one who of unity in thought, speech and action does not have artadhyan or raudradhyan, (Dushamkaal) will not obstruct you. You the Lord has called him an ekavtari. If have met the Gnani Purush and received his (karmic stock) happen to be ‘sticky’, this incredible Knowledge of the Self. It then he will have two more lifetimes. Is does not matter even if there are seven it any ordinary thing to be able to attain such Dushamkaals, what problem do you a state of ekavtari? have? You should remain in Knowledge One whose artadhyan and raudrad- of the Self that you have attained. Now hyan have stopped will become an eka- artadhyan and raudradhyan do not vtari. happen. Ill intent towards others never arises. As a result of the absence of an That Result Will Lead one to a adverse internal state of being which Tirthankar hurts the self and others (dharmadhyan), The ceasing of the artadhyan and there will be one more lifetime. Some raudradhyan, that very result is what may have two lifetimes, some may have leads you to come close to a Tirthankar one after receiving this Knowledge of the (the absolutely enlightened Lord who Self, and for some, it may prolong longer, can liberate others). When the nature however it is decided that their liberation of the self (swabhaav) changes, who will be achieved. This is because the would (nature) let you stay with, over binding of (new) karma have ceased. 34 November 2016 DADAVANI The Greater the Greed, the More the absolutely enlightened Lord who can Lifetimes liberate others (Tirthankars), to have a live connection with the elevated beings Questioner: Dada, the result of in the fi ve level of enlightenment (panch practicing the fi ve directives (Agnas) parmesthi) and everyone else. You will that preserve the awareness as the Self in get to live amongst them and attain Akram Vignan (Agnas), attending spiritual liberation. discourse (satsang), will indeed come in the next life, will it not? This is Akram Vignan, it is a Science that leads one to attain a state Dadashri: Of course! All of that of ekavtari! Right now ekavtari liberation is certainly for the next life! We are exists. A remainder of one more lifetime suffering (karma) of the past life, and all remains, and if you have a lot of greed this is an account for the next life. For us here (on the path of Akram), there is (lobha), then it can extend it by three no new charge, however since the Agnas more lifetimes. When there is a lot of have been given, that much is charged. greed such that, ‘Do I have to go just And when you say, “I bow down to the like that? Let me just enjoy (the worldly Tirthankars,” that gets charged. life) before I go.’ If one has such a desire, then it will increase by three lifetimes. Questioner: Yes, so then in the But ultimately, one has no choice but to next life, it will come into reality. Right attain liberation. now, are we nurturing indirect causes that will become direct? Be Warned! Such an Opportunity Will not Come Again and Again Dadashri: If one does not keep in touch here (with satsang), then his It is not worth wasting even a lives may even increase. They may moment any longer. Such an opportunity increase by fifty, a hundred, or even will not come again and again, so you two hundred. should get your work done. Therefore, if you maintain awakened awareness Questioner: Dada, the result of this (jagruti) here, then all karma will get satsang will be grand in the next life, will destroyed to ashes, and you will become it not? an ekavtari, and be on the way to Dadashri: The result of this satsang liberation. Liberation is straightforward; will not be anything short of liberation it is natural and spontaneous (sahaj) and indeed. The result of this satsang allows it is easy (sugam). one to have a live connection with the ~ Jai Sat Chit Anand Contacts : Adalaj Trimandir, Simandhar City, Ahmedabad-Kalol Highway, Adalaj, Dist.:Gandhinagar-382421, Gujarat, India. Phone : (079) 39830100, E-mail: [email protected] Mumbai : 9323528901, USA-Canada: +1 877-505-DADA (3232), UK: +44 330-111-DADA (3232) Websites : (1) www.dadabhagwan.org (2) www.dadashri.org

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November 2016 37 DADAVANI Satsang & Gnanvidhi Programs in the Presence of Pujya Deepakbhai Bhilai 22 November (Tue), 5 to 8 pm - Satsang & 23 November (Wed), 4-30 to 8 pm - Gnanvidhi Venue : Police Ground, Sector-6, Bhilai (Chattisgarh). M : 8349545600 24 November (Thu), 5 to 8 pm - Aptaputra Satsang - Venue : Engineer Bhavan Civic Centre. Delhi 25-26 November (Fri-Sat), 5-30 to 8-30 pm - Satsang & 27 Nov. (Sun), 5 to 8-30 pm - Gnanvidhi Venue : Talkatora Indoor Stadium, New Delhi. M : 9999533946, 9810098564 28 November (Mon), 5-30 to 8-30 pm - Aptaputra Satsang Venue : Laurel High School, B/h Shiva Market, Nr. Agrasen Dharmshala, Pitampura Delhi. Adalaj Trimandir 3 December (Sat), 4 to 7 pm - Satsang & 4 December (Sun), 4 to 7-30 pm - Gnanvidhi 4 December (Sun), 10am to 12 pm - Aptaputra Satsang Morbi 7 December (Wed), 8 to 11 pm - Satsang & 8 December (Thu), 7-30 to 11pm - Gnanvidhi 9 December (Fri), 8 to 11 pm - Aptaputra Satsang Venue : Nr. Samay gate, Sanala Road, Morbi (Gujarat). M : 9978902834 Jamnagar 10 December (Sat), 6 to 9 pm - Satsang & 11 December (Sun), 5-30 to 9pm - Gnanvidhi 12 December (Mon), 6 to 9 pm - Aptaputra Satsang Venue : Pradarshan Ground, Saat Rasta Circle, Nr. Bus Stand, Jamnagar (Guj.). M : 9924343687 Dhrol 11 December (Sun), 5 to 8 pm - Aptaputra Satsang & 12 Dec. (Mon), 4-30 to 8pm - Gnanvidhi 13 December (Tue), 5 to 8 pm - Aptaputra Satsang Venue : Umiya Society, Nr. Bus Stand, Dhrol (Gujarat). M : 9427510933 Upleta 13 December (Tue), 7 to 10 pm - Aptaputra Satsang & 14 Dec. (Wed), 6-30 to 10pm - Gnanvidhi 15 December (Thu), 7 to 10 pm - Aptaputra Satsang Venue : Ravindranath Tagore Rang Bhavan, Nr. Railway Station, Upleta. (Guj). M : 9427510933 Gondal 15 December (Thu), 8 to 11pm - Aptaputra Satsang & 16 Dec. (Fri), 7-30 to 11pm - Gnanvidhi 17 December (Sat), 8 to 11 pm - Aptaputra Satsang Venue : Sangramsinhji Highschool Ground, Collage Chawk, Gondal (Guj.) M : 9427963767 Rajkot 17&19 December (Sat & Mon), 7 to 10 pm - Satsang & 18 Dec. (Sun), 6-30 to 10pm - Gnanvidhi Venue : Bapa Sitaram Chawk, Mavdi Village, 150 Feet Ring Rd., Rajkot. M : 9879137971 38 November 2016