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does it mean when they say there should be one guru? It means that one guru is needed for the kindergarten level, one for the first standard, one for the second standard etc. The person who goes to college will need twenty-four gurus and the one going to graduate school-university level will need to become a disciple of the whole world. That is why 'we' have become a disciple of the whole world. This will be the case for the upper level college. But before that, how long should a person have only one guru? One guru is fine for the levels of the kindergarten, the first standard, the second standard, one guru will suffice for the lower standards where children are taught for the time being, do only this much and do not look anywhere else'. Otherwise, everything will be ruined. In this way they establish a base for them. Then as the standards progress, they have to make the whole world their guru. The lower standards have to make only one guru. If a person tells me, 'Sir I have made one guru', then I would understand right away that he is in the second standard. I will tell him, 'You are right. 'Does that answer your question?
Questioner: Yes, it does.
Dadashri: Ultimately, it is worth making every living being on the earth your guru. What did Lord Mahavir do? He made every living being of this world his guru and he lived as their disciple. That is because there is always something to learn from every living being. The precise manner in which Akram Vignan
arose This Akram Science of ours' is one which I have come to learn from you all and you tell me, 'You are giving us the Knowledge. This Akram Vignan is not to be found in books so where did it come from? It has come from everyone. They left their (gnan) knowledge for me and took other gnan with them. They left behind the gnan they could not digest and took with them the knowledge they could. So all that gnan, which they
could not digest accumulated with 'me' and that Gnan came to manifest as Akram.
Questioner: But did such Akram Vignan come out of worthless people like us?
Dadashri: No, not worthless. It was the gnan that you could not digest, it lay around, it all came to me here, and you took from here, all that you could digest. So the full Gnan; "the full stop Gnan" (the absolute knowledge) came to me!
Now how can people understand this talk? The educated (bhanela) and the wise (ganela) will understand this but others will not. This is not for those other poor people, is it? This is scientific (vignanik). This means this science is such that even the scientists of foreign countries will accept it if they sit and listen to it.
Know the State of the Gnani No body actually touches my feet although they seem to think they are. I do not remain in this body even for a minute: T have not been in this body for a moment in the past twentyfive years. People, on the other hand, are constantly in the state of 'I am this body. This hand is me, this leg is me, this head is also me and all this is me too.'
T' remain absolutely separate from this mind, body and speech. So if someone was to insult or strike this' (the body; non-Self), T' (Self) will not have any problems, will 'I'? People do not know 'me' so how can they insult 'me'? Those who know me, know me as the Parmatma (Absolute Self), so they would never insult me or behave negatively towards me. People know me either as A. M. Patel or they know me as a guru. But I am not any one's guru. I am a laghutam Purush. I am what people call "Gnani'. As a Gnani, 'I am absolutely laghutam.
'We have attained this state because 'we' do not have any beggary. The state that is the highest of all, the greatest state
