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the Gnani Purush shows you how to do the darshan. Otherwise, people do not know how to do darshan. The Gnani Purush is both: the form (murta) and the formless (amurta) and that is why through his darshan you attain the fruits of both worldly as well as spiritual prosperity. It requires merit karma (punya) of countless past lives to attain the darshan of the Gnani Purush. A Gnani Purush will manifest once in thousands of years. Amongst such Gnanis, this Gnani Purush is unique because He is the Gnani of the Akram Path! Here, one is not required to do any penance, repeated incantation of the Lords' name (apa). renunciation of anything tyaga). This is a path where one attains liberation without exerting any effort whatsoever. One attains both worldly as well as spiritual prosperity. Here service of the Gnani Purush is simply maintaining absolute humility. Does the Gnani Purush have a need for anything? He wants nothing worldly. Offering a flower or even a petal with humility is the service to the Gnani. The one who has worldly obstacles may garland the Gnani with flowers, by doing so the obstacles will be removed. The Lord has allowed both internal worship (bhaav puja) as well as worship through offerings (dravya puja). If you pluck a flower for your own enjoyment, you incur liability. But if you pluck a flower to give as an offering to the Lord, then the reward will be greater. Internal worship leads to worldly and spiritual prosperity. It will even take you to moksha along with all the worldly splendors. Those who are not Self-realized have to do rituals of worship (dravya puja) and the Self-realized need only the inner worship through bhaav. However, in the current era of this time cycle, it is not possible to attain final liberation from this planet of ours, there still remain two or more life times and therefore one should do both (dravya puja and bhaav puja).
During the time of Lord Mahavir these two words, abhyudaya (improved worldly interaction and prosperity) and anushangik (spiritual prosperity leading to liberation) were in
use and people experienced these rewards. After that these words have remained as merely words. Spiritual prosperity leads to improved worldly interaction. The latter is a by-product of the former. The one, who is devoted solely to the Soul, receives improved worldly interaction as a by-product. If one meets a Gnani Purush but does not attain worldly prosperity, then he will become a hermit.
Here the load of your karmas lightens as you sit in the satsang and elsewhere the load gets heavier and there is nothing but endless entanglement (goonchaman). 'We give you absolute assurance that whatever time you spend here in satsang during that time you will not encounter any loss in your business and what is more, if you analyze the results you will find that in the final outcome you will have made a profit. Is this any ordinary satsang? How can any person who spends his time only for the Soul incur any loss? There is nothing but profit for him. One will benefit only if he understands this. In this satsang there arises the time during which one sitting here will bind a lifetime of one hundred thousand years in the celestial world or will bind karma for a birth in Mahavideh Kshetra. Your time will never be spent in vain when you sit in this satsang. This time that has come is wonderful. When Lord Mahavir was living, people had to walk all the way to the Lord's satsang, whereas today we have buses, cars and trains and you are able to reach the satsang right away. The time has come for one to get his work by attaining the knowledge of Self. Never can you find a Gnani Purush and once in a while if a Gnani does manifest, then all you must do is get your work done. Except for the speech of the Gnani, who constantly experiences the Self, no one else's speech will still your heart. Ordinarily such a speech is never to be found.
This is the only real satsang in this world and elsewhere there are relative satsangs. Elsewhere, those who give satsang harbor some worldly desires, they may want money or sex, or disciples or fame. If the sign of the shop says 'shop of anger,
