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cannot ask a lawyer and if you have legal questions, you cannot ask a doctor. But here in the Akram path, you can ask everything. Ask anything you want to know and here you will get answers and solutions to all your problems. Here you have to say, "I come to you seeking knowledge but if you cannot give me what you have, what is the point?" Those who have no desire for worldly things and are in search for the truth; it is possible for them to attain everything here from 'us. Here you can ask and you will get. But alas! You do not even know what to ask for. Ask for something that will remain with you eternally. Ask for the eternal. If you ask for temporary things, how long will they last? Ask for something that will give you eternal peace, ask so you become eternally free from all worries and suffering from all sources. You will attain moksha here. If you do not use your intellect, you will attain this knowledge. This satsang of ours has been going on for ten years. In our satsang there are discussions and deliberations, but no disputes or arguments. This is the only place where the intellect cannot work and has no value.
This is the Akram path and so everything here is out in the open, you will find immediate solutions to every topic. The Kramic path however is comparable to the gold thread a weaver weaves in a fine cloth. He weaves an ounce of gold into forty pounds of cotton. Similarly, Gautam Swami wove the entire Lords' spoken words in the form of sutras (aphorisms). but how can people of this time cycle extract an ounce of gold of the Lord's spoken words from pounds and pounds of sentences? No one has the capacity to do so. But here, 'We' give you only the pure gold. 'We' have given all the answers starting from the point of the state of ignorance to the point of absolute knowledge (Keval Gnan). How is karma charged? How is it discharged? How does everything in the universe work? Who runs the world? Who are you? Who are all these people? 'We give answers to all such questions here.
What is the nature of this spoken knowledge (shrutagnan)
here? It is that which one has never heard before. Is this not the shrutagnan of the vitarag Lords? It verily is. It will take you to the same destination the vitarag Lords have taken the listeners to, but their path was different, it was the Kramic path. Whereas this is the path of Akram Vignan; this path is one wherein it is worth getting your work done. This is not a place of any religion. Here all aspects of your work (both real and relative) will be accomplished. The work is accomplished only where moksha is readily available. Here you will find knowledge that gives complete solution and satisfaction in every situation. There must be complete satisfaction. If this knowledge (Gnan) does not solve your problems, it means that you do not know how to resolve things, otherwise there must be complete satisfaction. If you abide by my Agnas, you will have complete satisfaction. In this path, it does not matter whether you are clever or not; a clever person has pride about his cleverness, a scholar of scriptures will have pride about his ability: a person who renounces worldly things will have pride about his renunciation This false pride (khumari, keyf) in itself is a horrible disease; it is a grave disease indeed. How can a person with such a disease help others get rid of their disease? Here, all talks are direct talks (origin of the Self) of the vitarag Lords; there is not a single indirect (intellectually mediated) word. They are talks of the twenty-four tirthankaras. These words that come forth are applicable collectively to all times: the past, the present and the future, therefore this is the collective message of all the twentyfour tirthankaras. Ego laden pride that afflicts ascetics and sages is a chronic disease. There is no medicine for this terrible affliction. For that 'We have to operate' on them using stem words in order to rid them of their disease. No one here gets offended because every mahatma here trying to settle his or her accounts with equanimity and they have been with me for the past ten years or so. They all have the same viewpoint and opinion; there is never any difference of opinions here. Even when they go on a pilgrimage together, there is no discord.