Aptavani Shreni 04

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust

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Aptavani in a book-form is the indirect medium, but the live energy of the presently manifest Gnani Purush will touch the heart of the reader and lead him to the portal of the right vision (samyak darshan). This new vision of the awakened Self, if attained through meeting the Gnani Purush, will ultimately lead to the experience of the absolute Soul.
In this forth series of Aptavani, is presented a collection of the spoken knowledge that imparts deep and resolving explanations which the world has never before known or imagined. In a simple, straightforward, plain and native language, that has emanated from the auspicious lips of the most revered Gnani Purush Dadashri, in whom ‘Dada Bhagwan – the absolute Self' became manifest in 1958.
That which the world commonly refers to as awareness; the Gnani calls 'sleep'. That, which is perceived as the 'seer', is only the 'scene'. The one who has the awareness that, ‘I am aware' is only the inanimate (non-Self) part. The Self is completely separate from that.
There is such intense experience of oneness of the 'relative' and the 'real', that up to ninety-nine percent (almost towards the end), the two run parallel, in which the original 'real' mirrors the illusory 'relative.' Their proximity to each other manifests as one, until the time when the two are separated at the final link. The secret of all of this is disclosed only by the 'Gnani Purush', who himself has had the experience. Only then, one experiences the great difference between the illusory awareness (bhrant jagruti), and the awareness of the pure Soul (Atma jagruti).
For a long time, for the purpose of clarification, attempts have been made to differentiate between destiny (prarabdha), and independent effort or free will (purusharth). The difference has already been told by the experienced 'Gnanis.' But because of the prevalence of the indirect knowledge, its proper
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