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When the Navkar Mantra is recited with a sincere heart then the Omkar is recited very nicely and it reaches all the Parmeshti Bhagwans. Even by simply reciting 'Om' it reaches the Panch Parmeshti and even when you recite the Navkar Mantra it reaches the Panch Parmeshti Bhagwans. 'We' have kept the three mantras together in order to get rid of all enmity in the heart of humans. This is so because the state of true impartiality arises after only one becomes a pure Soul. The awareness of 'I am a pure Soul' is same as the Omkar bindu Sanyuktam. And liberation is the end result of this awareness. Elsewhere, wherever they practice the Omkar, doing so is a necessity for them. Because as long as the real truth has not been attained, one has to take the support of something that is tangible. From the subtle perspective, the Gnani Purush is considered Om. Om includes anyone that has attained the knowledge of the Self to anyone who has become the absolute Self; they are all called Om. Beyond that comes liberation. When is liberation attained? Only when one becomes Omkar bindu sanyuktam. Here when 'we' give you the Self, You become Omkar bindu sanyuktam, and once You become that, You will attain liberation. No one in the world can prevent or hinder Your liberation once this happens.
The Navkar Mantra is considered sanyast mantra - a mantra for those who have renounced. As long as one is involved in the worldly life, he should recite all the three mantras together; the Navkar Mantra, Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya and Namah Shivaya. And once a person renounces the worldly life, he may recite just the Navkar Mantra alone but here people adhere to just the Navkar even before renouncing the worldly life.
The World - A hospital of the mad
One man told me he will come and do my darshan and everything else, but he did not want liberation. 'We' told him, "That is fine because the liberation 'we' give is not cheap and besides you already have what you want; bondage!"
If you go to visit an asylum and tell the mad people not to wave their arms about, then they will think you are mad. They will wonder why you are behaving the way you do. Whom do they perceive as sane? Other mad people appear sane to them. They speak the same language as they do and so they believe the insane as sane and because your language differs from theirs, they think you are insane. Therefore, only if you can talk in their language, you should remain in the mental hospital. The entire world has been converted into a 'mental hospital'. 'We' had been saying since 1942, that the world was gradually turning into a mental hospital and that one day it will become one. Today it appears that way; we begin to wonder whether some people ought to be in a mental hospital. This is the problem, you say one thing and there is no telling what they are going to say. We can never know the exact answer or the question, it has become just like a mental hospital, so how can we even talk about the problems in an actual mental hospital. All day long, people behave as if they are mad. They quarrel even when someone breaks glassware in the house; that is what you call being mad. What should human beings be like? They should be humane; they should be wise. If someone brings up the topic about broken glass all over again, one should say, "We don't have to discuss this anymore. The glass is broken and that is the end of it." To keep talking or discussing the past is foolishness; you
