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Trimantra (The Three Mantras)
Introduction to The Gnani
Namo Arihantanam I bow to the Lord who has annihilated all the inner enemies of anger, pride, attachment and greed.
Namo Siddhanam I bow to all the Lord who have attained final liberation.
Namo Aayariyanam I bow to all the Self-realized masters who unfold the
path of liberation.
Namo Uvazzayanam I bow to the Self-realized teachers of the path of
liberation. Namo Loye Savva Saahunam I bow to all who have attained the Self and are progressing in this path in the universe.
Eso Pancha Namukkaro
These five salutations. Saava Paavappanasano
Destroy all the sins. Mangalanam cha Saavesim Of all that is auspicious mantras. Padhamam Havai Mangalam
This is the highest. 3 Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya I bow to the one who has become the Supreme Lord
from a human being.
Ho Namah Shivaaya I bow to all auspicious beings of this universe who are the instruments of salvation of the world.
Jai Sat Chit Anand The Awareness Of The Eternal Is Bliss
One June evening, in 1958 at around six o'clock, Ambalal Muljibhai Patel, a family man, and a contractor by profession, was sitting on a bench on the busy platform number three at Surat's train station. Surat is a city in south Gujarat, a western state in India. What happened within the next fortyeight minutes was phenomenal. Spontaneous Self-realization occurred within Ambalal M. Patel. During this event, his ego completely melted and from that moment onwards, he became completely detached from all of Ambalal's thoughts, speech, and actions. He became the Lord's living instrument for the salvation of humankind, through the path of knowledge. He called this Lord, 'Dada Bhagwan.' To everyone he met, he would say, "This Lord, Dada Bhagwan is fully manifested within me. He also resides within all living beings. The difference is that within me He is completely expressed and in you, he has 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 during this event. Thus, nature offered absolute vision to the world through the medium of Shree Ambalal Muljibhai Patel.
Ambalal was born in Tarasali, a suburb of Baroda and was later raised in Bhadran, Gujarat. His wife's name was Hiraba. Although he was a contractor by profession, his life at home and his interactions with everyone around him were exemplary, even prior to his Self-realization. After becoming Self-realized and attaining the state of a Gnani, (The Awakened One), his body became a 'public charitable trust.'
Throughout his entire life, he lived by the principle that there should not be any commerce in religion, and in all
