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feel hot, do you not experience it? When someone insults you, and you taste bitterness, do you not have that experience? So what kind of experience do you want?
Questioner: The experience of the Atma.
Dadashri: What does the experience of the Atma mean? It is a state of eternal bliss (parmanand). The bliss (anand) never leaves – that is called the experience of the Atma.
Questioner: How can we get it?
Dadashri: What do you want with it? Why would you need eternal bliss (anand)? Besides, do you not need a wife or money?
Questioner: No, I do not need that.
Dadashri: Then, do you need this body or not?
Questioner: Except for Bhagwan (God) I do not need anything else.
Dadashri: That is true! Yours is the work of a brave man. But for that, you need to know who God is – that is what you must know. What is the world? Who created it? What is God? Who are you? How did this entire world come into existence? How can you realize God now? You need to know all that.
Questioner: In what way can we do that?
Dadashri: The only way, is right here. No where else in the world is there a solution such as this. The entire path lies right here!
Questioner: But is it not worthless without the experience? Dadashri: Yes, you must have the experience. Questioner: When does that happen? Dadashri: When you have no desire for anything else,
