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experience, it is futile. Anything without the experience will be muddled. You need "cash”. So this is the cash bank of divine solution”
Questioner: Life is short of years and the road to moksha is long. But since finding this Akram, I feel so much joy.
Dadashri: This is something that never happens, but now that it has, just get your "work” done. Of course, there will be great joy. Even I felt such great joy from the wonderful Gnan that manifested in me. It gave rise to tremendous siddhis (special energies)! This is because there is nothing in this world that I have a beggarly desire for (bheekh). I did not have any bheekh for respect (maan), for money, for fame, for sex, nor did I have any beggarly desire for disciples or of building temples. I did not have beggarly desire of any kind, in this world. This is why I attained this state! Still, it is ‘scientific circumstantial evidence'. Now, it is on account of this state that I am in, that you are able to attain the very same state. You become like the one whose niddidhyasan (envisioning) you do.
Questioner: Is it because of a connection from the past life that one attains Akram?
Dadashri: This is the only way through which you are able to meet me. This meeting with the Gnani Purush happens as a result of the unfolding of your merit karma (punyas) of infinite past lives.
All others are considered Kramic paths. The Kramic path is the relative' path. ‘Relative' means that it yields worldly fruit, and takes you ‘step by step' towards moksha. Through renunciation and penance one has to eventually purify the ego; thereupon you will arrive at the gate of moksha. When you have cleansed the ego of all its anger, pride, deceit, greed, sexuality