Book Title: Aptavani 09
Author(s): Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri

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________________ for the slippery slopes is more, multiple times more, significant, and without those precautions, no matter how much labor one does, one will fall back. The success in Self-realization does not occur without the extremely sharp awareness of where one becomes an impediment to one's own self. That means, in this endeavor of Self-realization, it is very very important to stop the losses than to gain the profit. Once a Gnani Purush is met with and after he is known, one starts the worship of the path. Prior to that, one is entangled in the worldly interactions sanaar. Those who were deeply entrenched in worldly interaction now turn towards the path of liberation. Now onwards, the remaining worldly interactions must be completed, and in doing so, knowingly or unknowingly, one becomes dragged and immersed in worldly matters, and who can show them this leakage? To seal that leakage, here in this Aptavani is shown the practical knowledge vyabahaar gnan, the spiritual knowledge gnan, as well as the Vignan science of knowledge Gnan, the art of knowledge gnan kada as well as the art of explanation bodha kada, of the Gnani Purush. Mokshamarg means the path to freedom, the path of attaining freedom from all the worldly attachments. Whatever practices one does, believing them to be instrumental to freedom, one does not experience freedom. The attachments are not broken in spite of performing many different practices. Where is the mistake being made? One should serve the causes of freedom in order to achieve the freedom, and whatever causes one serves, if one experiences freedom and detachment; then only one can say that the causes served are those for the liberation. Instead, the attachments are not broken in spite of serving the causes for freedom. Why is that? Gnani Purush has seen the complete path to final liberation has known that path, has the experience of it and has completed it. Therefore, he can show the mistakes obstructing that path, he can show the difficulties, obstacles and dangers in the way of that path. To those who have embarked on that path, he can give complete knowledge, complete remedy as to how to eradicate those mistakes. There are mistakes that are binding mistakes in this world. The people in this world cannot visualize those mistakes. So because of

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