Aptavani Shreni 08

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

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FOREWORD
Published in this book is the real Vision, about the original properties of the Atma and other eternal elements. This Vision has emerged from the speech of the Gnani Purush of Akram Vignan, who came to be known to the world as Dadashri. The book is in two parts. In Part I, the seekers pose many questions like, what is Atma? What is it like? Etc, to the Gnani Purush, who gives them complete and satisfactory answers.
In Part II, the Gnani addresses the fundamental question, Who Am I?
The reader-questioner, in his fervent desire to gain the Knowledge, is paving his way by asking questions like: How can I attain this Knowledge? How do I recognize the Self? How do I attain Self-realization? Etc...
Starting out with the doubts about the Atma's very existence, one asks, what is the Atma? What is it like? What does it do? What is birth and death? Who takes birth and dies? What is karma? What are the four gati (realms of existence)? By what means does one secure one's place in these gatis? What is moksha? What is Siddha gati (Final Liberation)? What are: pratishthit atma, mishra-chetan, nischetan chetan, ahamkar (ego), and all its resultant effects (vishesh parinam)? The answers to all these intricate questions have been disclosed here.
What is jiva (living entity; an embodied self)? What is Shiva (realized Atma)? What is dwaita (dualism)? What is adwaita (non-dualism)? What is Brahma (Supreme Self)? What is Parabrahma (Absolute Self)?
The dictum, Ekoham Bahusyam, 'I am the One, and I became many.' The omnipresence of Atma, the presence of God in every particle, the meaning of the Vedas and Science etc. - Are all truths of Vedanta that will open up here.
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