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habits remain standing on their own energy. They will automatically fade away once you take away the foundation that supports them. People keep supporting their good habits and keep trying to destroy their bad ones, but the foundation that supports the good and bad habits remains intact nevertheless. And the worldly life will continue to exist as long as their support remains intact. There are infinite things in this world and so unless one steps away from them all (becomes the Self through Gnan), how will one be able to remove each one of them individually? But once the support is gone, so will everything else. If the bread earner in a family of twelve dies, they will say, our support is gone. The same principle is applicable in liberation. This world is such that even if you pluck every hair on your head, you will not attain anything (the Jain monks upon initiation into monk hood pluck their hair individually off the scalp). There are infinite things in the world. Instead, it is better that one steps away from them all (move from the realm of the relative to the realm of the real). Then there is no problem whether you have a head full of hair or none!
In the Akram path, the support of ignorance is removed from the beginning. That is why 'We' do not ask you to renounce anything. The Gnani of the Kramic path is able to make just one or two disciples renounce and he has to do the same along with them. In the Kramic path they have to attain the next new step and renounce the previous one. Whereas, in this Akram path you have already attained that which needed to be attained, namely the Self and renounced that which needed to be renounced, namely attachment and ego. Hence the work is accomplished. There is no need to pluck hair off the scalp, no need to do any penance; no fasting is necessary and nothing further needs to be renounced. In the Kramic path, the seeker himself becomes the support for the penance. In the Kramic path the T' (the seeker) and the pure Soul' remain separate till the end. If someone were to tear a page from the seeker's
scripture, he feels bad inside, 'He tore pages from my book! On the outside the Maharaj maintains a façade of being a Gnani, but within him, there always prevails the subtle sense of 'I-ness' (ego), but there the 'T' and the Self are separate. The Self is not attained until the end of the path. Furthermore, their feeling of 'Iness' remains until the very end. What does the Kramic path call for? It calls for purifying the ego; they have to purify the ego.
One is indeed free, but he is not aware of this. And because there is a prevalence of wrong belief and wrong knowledge, one's conduct is wrong too. He cannot attain the right knowledge and darshan (vision) through his own efforts; the wrong belief especially can never be broken. A scientist, a Gnani purush is required to destroy this wrong belief, and the Gnani should be fully a realized Gnani, only then can one's goal for liberation be accomplished.
The vitarag Lords have shown a short path to liberation to those who want a short one and a long path to those who want a long one. They have also shown the way to those who want to be born as celestials. The path to liberation is very easy: it is easier than making khichadee (rice and lentil dish)! If it is difficult, if it requires arduous self-discipline, then it is not the path of liberation, it is some other path. The path to liberation only becomes easy and straightforward, if one meets a Gnani Purush. Then it becomes easier than making khichadee.
A path, which is an absolute short cut, has manifested here. Otherwise, the path to liberation is such that even if you cover millions of miles and lifetimes, you would still not find it. This Gnan is verily the Gnan of the vitarag Lords: the Gnan of the Omniscient, the only difference is that the method is Akram (without an orderly succession). It completely changes one's knowledge and vision. The awareness (laksha) of the Self is attained just within one hour, whereas in the Kramic path, no one attains this awareness until the very end. What efforts and
