Aptavani 02

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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labor people have resorted to in order to attain the Self! People take on such brutal and severe penance just for a momentary glimpse of the Self. The Gnanis of the Kramic path do not attain the awareness of the Self until the very end; however their spiritual awareness (jagruti) remains very keen. Whereas for you mahatmas (those who have received Self-realization), this has become so easy and straightforward. After you attained this Gnan in just one hour, awareness of the Self remains constantly with you. It will never leave.
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Tell me maaji (Dadashri addressing an elderly lady) if you happen to wake up at two in the morning, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
Questioner: 'I am pure Soul (Shuddhatma)', that is the only thing that comes to mind.
Dadashri : Otherwise people will remember worldly things and people that are dear to them but you remember the Shuddhatma. One can never attain the awareness of that which is imperceptible; that is why the Self has been called alakh niranjan (alakh - imperceptible; that which cannot be known. Niranjan - no worldly thing can attach to it or bind it), but here you attain the awareness of the Self in just one hour! Such is the spiritual power of the Akram Gnani! Such is the grace of the celestial Gods and Goddesses! Through the grace of these beings, you are able to attain a phenomenal spiritual state in just one hour!
An amazing path of liberation has arisen. One can only benefit if one understands it. Otherwise one is doomed to wander in vain!
The other path is the science of the Kramic path and this is the Akram path. The knowledge in both the paths is that of the Vitarag: there is no difference in the knowledge. After 'We' give you the knowledge of the Self, you attain the experience of
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the Self. Beyond that, what else remains to be done? You have to follow the Agnas (prescribed spiritual instructions after the Gnan Vidhi) of the Gnani; these Agnas become your religion and these Agnas is your penance. These Agnas in no way obstruct your daily worldly life. You can live in this worldly life and yet remain unaffected by it; such is the science of this Akram path!
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This path of Akram is extremely easy, straightforward and short. It encompasses each and every word of the vitarag Lord. This path is a direct and experiential path and so just understand that you can never do enough when you plunge yourself in it. Otherwise, is there even a remote possibility of finding a solution to dissolve the tubers and knots of the mind? There are paths and methods, which focus on stilling the mind (ekagrata) but none that will dissolve the mind completely. One needs absolute focused attention to still the mind, but this also increases the ego. Whereas, here in the Akram path, not only does the mind become still, but the knots of the mind begin to dissolve and the ego never interferes in the process. It is as if the ego is retired on pension!
In the Kramic path there is a problem even if a person overeats something he likes but not here in the Akram Path! We do not have any such problems. For us in the Akram path, the real dharma; the dharma of the Self has been attained (the Self), and therefore the inner bliss abounds.
No difference has been kept in this path between the guru and the disciple. 'We' have placed you on the same level as 'us'. From the real perspective, 'We' have placed you on the twelfth spiritual stage (gunthanu) next to us, and that too, in shukla dhyan (constant awareness as the Self). On what basis are we calling this state of ours the twelfth spiritual stage? We call it so because you have attained shukla dhyan; you have attained the Self! Shukla dhyan is to attain the awareness (laksha) and a continuous conviction (pratiti) of being the Soul.