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Real Progress toward the Self Begins with Following the
Agnas When I gave you Gnan, You (the Self) became separate from the non-Self (prakruti). “I am Shuddhatma” is the Self (Purush) and following the Five Agnas after that is real purusharth.
Questioner: Please explain the difference between the real spiritual effort (purusharth) and the relative spiritual effort (purusharth).
Dadashri: In real purusharth, nothing needs to be done. The difference between the two is that real purusharth means to “See” and to “Know.” And what does relative purusharth mean? It means to have inner intent (bhaav), “This is what I will do!”
The spiritual effort you were doing as 'Chandubhai’ was an illusory purusharth. But when You do the purusharth as “I am Shuddhatma," and remain in Dada's Five Agnas, that is real purusharth.
Questioner: The seed of Gnan (Self-knowledge) that you sowed, is that the light (prakash)?
Dadashri: That is the One! But it is in the form of the second day of lunar fortnight (beej). Now it will gradually become full moon (poonam). Real purusharth begins from the moment the non-Self complex (pudgal) and the Self (Purush) become separate. Yes, when real purusharth (following the Five Agnas) begins, it will take one from second day of the moon to full moon. That happens when One follows the Agnas. One does not have to do anything else at all. Nothing is to be done except follow the Agnas.
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