Adjust Everywhere

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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PREFACE
Conflicts will occur repeatedly in our life until we learn to adjust with others. This adjustment is achieved through right understanding. Life becomes difficult as in the end, the world will extract adjustment from us, against our wishes. Whether we like it or not, we will have to adjust. With right understanding, we can prevent conflict and find peace and happiness. Life is nothing but a series of adjustments. From birth until death, you have to make adjustments. Whether you enjoy studying or not, you have to adjust and study. Likewise, in married life, initially there is happiness, but later the husband or the wife has to make adjustments because of conflicts. These conflicts are the natural result of differences in their nature. How many people in this age are fortunate enough to be able to adjust with each other throughout their lives? Even between Rama and Sita, were there not many adjustments? Imagine the kind of adjustments Sita must have made when she was sent away to the jungle, while she was with child.
Between parents and children there are adjustments every step of the way. If we adjust with understanding, there will be peace and we will not bind any karma. If we do not adjust with all around us, we will invite or create problems. This key of 'Adjust Everywhere' will open all the doors in life. If we use Gnani Purush Dadashri's golden maxim 'Adjust Everywhere' and apply it in our life, then every day life will become beautiful.
- Dr. Niruben Amin
Introduction of 'The Gnani'
One June evening in 1958 at around six o'clock, Ambalal Muljibhai Patel, a family man and contractor by profession, was sitting on a bench of platform number three at Surat train station. Surat is a city in south Gujarat, a western state in India. What happened within the next forty-eight minutes was phenomenal. Spontaneous Self-realization occurred within Ambalal M. Patel. During this, his ego melted totally and completely. From that time, onwards he became completely detached from all thoughts, speech and acts of Ambalal and he became a living instrument of The Lord for salvation of the world through the path of knowledge. He called this Lord, Dada Bhagwan. "This Lord is fully manifested within me," he told, to all he met. Furthermore, he added that, "The same Lord, Dada Bhagwan exists in all living beings." The difference between you and me is that in me The Lord has manifested fully and in you he is yet to manifest. Who are we? What is God? Who runs this world? What is karma? What is liberation? etc. All the world's spiritual questions were answered. Thus, nature offered absolute vision to the world through the medium of Shree Ambalal Muljibhai Patel.
Ambalal was born in Tarasali a suburb of the city of Baroda and raised in Bhadran, Central Gujarat. Although a contractor by profession, and married to Hiraba, his life at home and with the world was exemplary prior to his Self Realisation. After becoming, Self realized and attaining the state of a Gnani, (The Awakened One, Jnani in Hindi) his body became a public charitable trust.
Throughout his whole life, he lived by the principle