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your own knowledge does not reach - that is your own Self form (swaroop); that is the form of the Atma - Atma swaroop.
Therefore, to know, 'Who am I?' is indeed one's own Self form (swaroop). And that, only the Gnani Purush alone, can make you realize. Then there can be no dying or taking birth. After that, the dying; it is the body that dies; the Self does not die. And within one or two lives (avatar) there is final liberation (moksha).
All Instruments of Freedom Have Become a Bondage
Questioner: Can you show us the means (sadhan) with which we can attain Atmagnan (Self-realization)?
Dadashri: There are many ways (sadhano). But the soul (jiva) has itself become trapped in the ways. People become dogmatic and stuck on a single viewpoint (abhinivesh) in the very instrument (sadhan) that they have. As long as a person is aware and alert enough, not to let any kind of disease set in, then he might make some progress. However, people are just trapped in sadhano (instruments; means; tools, i.e. scriptures, rituals), and they become dogmatic. Therefore, if you meet a Gnani Purush, who has become liberated, he will help free you as well. Or else, if until then, you can remain with a sant purush (saint), then there is no other better merit karma (punya) than that. Otherwise, how is one to escape from the heat of the three-fold sufferings (trividh taap): mental suffering (aadhi), physical suffering (vyadhi) and affliction from external sources (upadhi) in the worldly life (sansar)? Nevertheless you will find some cooling comfort, when the saints sprinkle water on you.
Questioner: Then how can you move forward without the support of any sadhan (instrument; means, i.e. scriptures, rituals)? Would you not need some sort of sadhan?
Dadashri: All the sadhano (instruments; means, i.e.
