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at home, that is the third class. You are free to sit in whichever class you want to. There is no exchange of money here.
Questioner: I was just asking to see if it was possible.
Dadashri: It is one hundred percent possible. Direct Alochana in the Presence of a Living
Gnani
that time, he realized that there was great benefit in that for him. Tremendous energy arises within. All weaknesses go away. (416)
Confess Only to an Apta Purush
Questioner: There are people who come to you to do alochana of their past mistakes. Do you help them become free?
Dadashri: When one does alochana to Me, it means he becomes 'one' with Me (abheda). I have to free him. There is no other place to do alochana. If he goes to tell his wife, his wife will get angry with him and she will take advantage of him; if he goes to his friend, the friend will take advantage of him; if he goes to tell himself, the self will take advantage of him. So he tells no one and consequently he cannot get rid of his load.
That is why 'we' have kept the system of direct alochana.
Questioner: Can we ask for forgiveness in the live presence of a Gnani Purush for all the mistakes done in this life?
Dadashri: Yes. Those mistakes then become insipid and weak if he can do so in front of the Gnani Purush; it is best if he does it in person, saying it out verbally. If he cannot say it in person, then the next best thing is to write it on paper and give it to the Gnani. The third standard is to do it in the mind. So sit in whichever standard you want to sit in. It is your choice whether you want to sit in the first or the second standard.
Questioner: So is it possible?
Dadashri: Yes, it is the greatest possibility. Of all the questions here, this is the biggest question.
When one comes and confesses in person in the presence of others, that is 'orchestra class'; then if you say that you will tell me in privacy, that is first class, and not telling me in person but confessing it on paper is second class. And if you tell me that you will not do it even on paper, but you will do it in your mind
Why does one not tell a personal secret to anyone? It is because the other person will intimidate and take advantage of him; because he has the upper hand now, does he not? Will the other person intimidate him or not? And 'we' do not do this to intimidate him. 'We are doing it to free him from all his mistakes. This 'Dada Bhagwan' has manifested! This is the greatest sentence in this world. The main thing to understand is that karmas are destroyed when one does alochana in four presence. The Kramic path (the traditional path of penance and austerities) is different, whereas this path is one of oneness (abheda-dharma). There is no separation here at all between Me-the Self' and you at all!
One day, I told all these people to do pratikraman. For the alochana portion, I asked them to write it down on paper and bring it to Me. Normally they do pratikraman every day. But I told them to do alochana in My presence that day. So what kind of alochana did they do? The kind of alochana they had never done before. They confessed the worst of their mistakes, but on paper. It was not a verbal confession. So even when it is done on paper, it is more than enough. They wrote it on paper and they also signed their names at the bottom. Even the ladies did the same and gave their confessions to Me. They could see all their mistakes. So everyone wrote down all their mistakes; they did not leave any out.
Now, do you know when that can occur? That can happen when there is oneness (abhedta). When can one find such
