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[11] Importance of Following the Agnas after the Gnan Vidhi
Agnas for the Protection of Gnan
After this Gnan you experience the Soul. What else is left for you to do? All you need to do is to follow the Agnas (supreme directives) of the Gnani Purush. These Agnas become your religion. These Agnas represent your penance. My Agnas are such that they never interfere or become restrictive in any matters related to the worldly life. Although you may continue to live in the worldly life, nothing of the worldly life will affect you. Such is the glory of the Akram Vignan!
This time period is such that there is bad company (kusang) everywhere. Starting from the kitchen to the office, in the home, on the road, outside, in the car, in the train – everywhere there is nothing but that which takes you away from the Self (kusang). This Gnan that has been given to You in two hours can be devoured by bad company (kusang) which exists everywhere. So for that, the protective fence of the Five Agnas has been given to You and so if You remain within the protection, not even an iota of change will take place in the state of the Self within. That Gnan will remain the same as when it was given to You. If the fence is broken then the Gnan will be destroyed.
I have given you the Gnan and also the knowledge that has separated the Self from the non-Self (Bhed Gnan). However, for it to stay separated, I have given you the Five "sentences” (in the form of Agnas) for protection from the Kaliyug (current era of the time cycle characterized by lack of unity in thought, speech and acts) and its people. Do we not
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