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and the dhyata. Say you want a tobacco pipe, which you have seen in a shop. The pipe is your dhyeya and you are the dhyata. If then you were to meditate on that pipe continuously for fifty minutes, providing that your concentration does not break for even a fraction of a second, you will have that pipe in your hands within fifty minutes. Where will it come from? Do not think about that. Such is the power of meditation. If meditation is done correctly and systematically, then realization of the goal is inevitable. But how can one get results when the method is incorrect? It is even possible to attain the state of Parmatma (Absolue-Self) through meditation. That is how powerful meditation can be, but only if one understands what meditation is. When this Dada bestows upon you an unprecedented state of the Self in the time span of fifty minutes, then what else can you not attain?
When meditation remains continuous for eight minutes, its credit will commence accumulating and will lead to a maximum credit of forty-eight minutes. In order to gain any credit the duration of meditation must be at least eight minutes. Meditation of seven minutes will not do.
Questioner : Can one attain the attributes of the Self, attributes such as infinite knowledge, infinite vision etc., through meditation?
Dadashri : Yes certainly, why not? You will acquire all the attributes that you have known and meditate upon.
Is 'God' (Bhagwan) a name or an adjective? Questioner : It is a name.
*Bhagwat' (Godly). An adjective of bhagwan is befitting to all those who acquire the qualities of God. Everyone calls me Bhagwan but 'my State is beyond any attributes and comparisons. What adjective will you give? Will you give it to this body of mine? The body is going to die some day. But manifest within is the very Paramatma (The Omniscient). Tremendous light has arisen within.
Pure Gnan is Paramatma, the Absolute Self. Atma is just a word. It is placed for the purpose of association to lead to the Real. Gnan is the Absolute Self. It is Gnan that runs everything but one has to have the right vision of the Self. Liberation is only through pure Gnan. With the right gnan you will receive happiness and with the wrong, deluded gnan, you will receive miseries. There is no One (God) above you. Who can you call a God? The one who has become liberated is God and He has no one above him (as a boss). There is no one over-head or no one as an under-hand anywhere. But when you don't have any understanding about your state of dependency (bondage), how will you understand liberation? The worldly life is a museum of dependency (on the non-Self) and that dependency is misery. People remain strangers to their own Self. There are as many paths as there are thoughts in this world. You are free to wander around where ever you wish and when you get tired of wandering, come to this path of liberation (Akram Vignan). Come here when you want to be independent. The worldly life is not wrong. There is nothing wrong in the worldly life, except your understanding. There is danger every moment, dependency every moment in this world and that is why you remain anxious all the time.
There are some people that frighten others by repeatedly refering to Jamraj (God of death). Jamaraj or Yamraj. They have portrayed the God of Death to be so terrifying - they paint pictures of him as a vicious ferocious bull or a demon with long
Dadashri : If it were a name you would have to call him Bhagwandas or Bhagwanbhai. God (Bhagwan) is an adjective. Just as the adjective 'bhagyavan' (lucky) is derived from the word 'bhagya' (luck), 'Bhagwan' (God) is derived from
