Autobiograpy of Gyani Purush A M Patel

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

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visualize the written form: 'Dear Lord' and then I would read it. Recalling and memorizing involves the mind, whereas reciting is mechanical and frees the minds. When the mind is free, it wanders. 'Dear Lord', 'Dear Lord' 'it' keeps saying this mechanically, and the mind becomes free to wander out. The nature of the mind is such that it memorizes what you feed it frequently and thereafter it becomes mechanical. In all this I had adopted the technique of visualizing each and every word, 'Dear merciful Supreme Lord, what can I do? I am full of infinite faults.' I would see each and every word including the comas, exclamation marks and the capital letters. Reading this way is my greatest discovery. I teach others to do the same. Questioner: But Dada, did you have this ability at age twenty-two?
Dadashri: Yes. I had the ability at that age.
It is out of such internal struggles that this knowledge arose. If it was not for being frustrated for that hour and a half...
Questioner: If you had not missed that minute...
Dadashri: This knowledge came about as a consequence of missing that minute. It is from having stumbled over and over again in life, that this knowledge and inner clarity has arisen. One becomes aware after one stumbles and falls. That inner clarity has always been very helpful to me. After what happened at the age of twenty-two, I have never waited for anything. If a train is late for three and a half hours, I would not pass my time unnecessarily doing this or that, I would remain in the awareness of the Self.
Set Up Counter Pulley This way
My revolutions of thought processing were very high. The
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laborers have fifty revolutions per minute, whereas I have one hundred thousand per minute. So how much difference is there between the laborers and me? And when you say something to those with lesser revolutions, it takes a while for them to understand and react. They do not understand even simple talks about worldly dealings. So you have to explain things to them in a way they will understand. I used to accuse them of being useless and not very smart and would lose my temper. Later I realized that it was the difference of revolutions that was responsible for my inner frustrations and therefore it is my own fault for seeing deficiencies in others. So I started to apply a 'counter pulley'.
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An engine of three thousand revolutions per minute will destroy a pump that runs on fifteen hundred revolutions per minute and therefore you have to use a counter pulley if you want to run the pump using the engine. Both will work fine despite the differences in the revolutions but you have to place a counter-pulley between the two in order for the pump to receive the cycle of fifteen hundred revolutions. Do you understand this concept of a counter-pulley? I used the same concept when talking to other people with lesser revolutions so that they would understand what I was saying. Doing this stopped me from losing my temper.
[3] Awareness of Ego and False Pride
Choosing Neighbors For Harmony
If you combine some traits of a vanik (business caste) with those of a vshatriya(warrior caste) or vice versa, it will create a great mixture. This is what I learned later. Initially, this is what used happen. We used to live in a colony of mostly Patels. My elder brother Manibhai Patel, used to interact with