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doer. In this Gnan of Akram Vignan, there is no place for pratikraman. But what happens if you take a student of third grade and give him a degree of a university graduate? What would become of the grades that he has skipped? That is why we have placed pratikraman in the middle.
It is possible to attain moksha within one or two lifetimes after attaining Akram Gnan. Now the number of lifetimes that will remain will depend upon what kind of meditation (dhyan) there is; if continuous awareness as the Self (shukla-dhyan) remains, then there will not be another life. But in the Akram path, both shukla-dhyan and dharma-dhyan (virtuous or righteous contemplation; absence of adverse meditation state) occur. The internal state is shukla-dhyan and dharma-dhyan occurs externally. Why does dharma-dhyan occur?
It occurs because You are following the Agnas as prescribed by Dada. To be in and to remain in these Agnas is not the work of the inner state (shukla-dhyan); it is the work of dharma-dhyan. Therefore, because of the work of dharmadhyan, you charge karma of one or two more lives.
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This is Worth Knowing and Worshipping
Questioner: Now, when I 'see' the real, the kind of love that should arise towards it does not arise, and the relative has become a form of a cure. What is that called?
Dadashri: If love (here it means attachment/raag) arises, then abhorrence (dwesh) will be there on the other side. There is no need to 'do' raag. The Self is the only thing worth going for with total devotion (aradhana), and that is the place to dwell (ramanata). Dwelling in the pure Soul (Shuddhatma) means a constant awareness, constant dhyan of Shuddhatma as the Self. From now on, you have to dwell in the Self, be the Self (swa is Self, ramanata is to dwell in). There is nothing else to be done.
Questioner: We have to 'know' the 'relative,' the nonSelf, and we also have to 'know' the real, the Self?
Dadashri: No. You have to have total devotion (aradhana) for the real, and You have to 'know' the relative. Only the relative is worth knowing. This 'real,' I have already made you realize.
The whole world is that which is to be known (gneya), and You are the knower (gnata). Your 'knower-ship' (gnayak swabhav) has arisen. So what more remains now? Having attained knower-ship, all You have to do is keep 'seeing' the gneya.
There is no need for You to maintain love for Shuddhatma because you have become that. Now who will you love? Gnan,
