Autobiograpy of Gyani Purush A M Patel

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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Autobiography of Gnani Purursh
kind of a house I lived in.
Questioner: Was this from your childhood Dada? Dadashri: Yes, right from childhood.
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Autobiography of Gnani Purursh may disturb my sleep but that is an unavoidable nuisance, but this is avoidable. How can you afford to have such a nuisance?
Once I owned a car. The driver would come and tell me that the car had broken down and that it needed certain parts. I had no clue about parts. That is when I realized that it was a trap. I had already fallen into one trap of having a wife and children. A person could start one business' if he wanted to but he could not start several businesses', which trapped. How many more traps can you endure overhead?
This is all commonsense. The driver would siphon the petrol and then tell the owner that the car needed more petrol. The owner would not know any better. Why go through such problems? Therefore, I did not keep the car. But depending on the circumstances I would ask for one.
Did Not See Any Happiness In Worldly Things
Questioner: Dada, why is that we want these worldly things, whereas you do not?
Dadashri: You learn by seeing others, I have never done that. From the very beginning I have always done things contrary to what others do. If people go in a round about way, I find the shortest and quickest way to achieve the same goal. I was never dictated by the social norms. I go against the social norms. I never found happiness in where people believed happiness to be.
Taste For Good Clothes I had an affinity for dressing up smartly. In this regard I was cheated in my steadfast desire for the Soul. You can call it a habit or some attachment I brought with me, but I was fond of dressing up sharply, nothing else. I did not care about what
Questioner: Did you wear good clothes even at school?
Dadashri: Yes even at school. No matter where or when, I wore good clothes.
Questioner: Even at college... Dadashri: I did not attend college.
It is only for clothes that I used my energies. I even used to instruct the tailor how I wanted the collars on my shirt. I did not spend my energy anywhere else, not even where marriage was concerned.
Failed My Exams But I Had Planned To
At the age of fifteen I picked up the habit of smoking from some bad company. You can call it bad company or good company. It could also be the other way around; that I was a bad influence on the people I hung around with. Parents often claim that their child became spoiled because of the influence of the bad company he keeps. How can they be sure that it was not their son who influenced the other boys negatively? If all the parents of the same group of boys claim their son has become spoiled, then who is truly the one with bad influence? They should at least do some investigating? Instead they should say that their son is on the wrong track, similarly I had gone off on a wrong track. I indulged in smoking bidis, cigarettes and the water pipe. I would go out frequently and eat jalebi (sweet snack) and ganthia (savory snack). That had caused me to fail my exams. What was the reason behind me failing my metric