Simandhar Swami

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

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Questioner: But how much benefit is there in indirect worship? What is the difference between benefits derived from direct and indirect worship?
Dadashri: Indirect can be three miles or thousands of miles away but it is one and the same. The distance is not important.
Dadashri: Yes, at the most twice. So even by being in Mahavideh Kshetra one would benefit just this much. But I have such a key that would give you the same benefits every day. You have to use it daily. Simandhar Swami will take note that never before have there been such devotees who do darshan everyday, and that too, from a foreign world! You do not need any form of transportation to go to Him, whereas people over there need transportation to do His darshan.
Questioner: But He is the current living Tirthankara and therefore direct, is He not?
Without A Medium There Is No Connection
Dadashri: Actually nothing can be achieved without direct worship. Right now I am introducing you to Him and making you recite His prayers everyday. It is there that you will have to go! The day you do His darshan will be the day of your liberation! That is the final darshan!
Questioner: Is it a fact when I say: "With the direct Dada Bhagwan as my witness, I offer my infinite obeisance to the current living tirthankara Shri Simandhar Swami, who at present is moving about at Mahavideh kshetra," he is able to receive and see that I am sending this obeisance?
Questioner: In Mahavideh kshetra?
Dadashri: He sees in a general and total perspective, not specifically. These tirthankaras do not see specifics. It reaches Him because it is said through the medium of 'Dada Bhagwan'. It is not possible without a medium.
Dadashri: Yes. I am concerned about your spiritual progress. I am a meddlesome Gnani. I make those who take my Gnan such that there is only one more life left for them. I am not able to liberate them completely from here. Therefore, I make you recite His name! I make you recite daily the obeisance to Simandhar Swami, the Pancha Parmeshtis, (the enlightened ones at present anywhere in the universe) and the nineteen other Tirthankaras, for only one reason. And that is because that is your final destination for liberation. That is your aim and final worship from hereon. This is not here in this world. This is why through 'Dada Bhagwan' I introduce you to Simandhar Swami.
'A.M. Patel', 'Gnani Purush' And
'Dada Bhagwan' Are Separate
Imagine that this is Mahavideh kshetra and Simandhar Swami is in Calcutta. We are all here in Baroda. How many times would you go there to do His darshan?
Questioner: Once or at the most twice.
As mentioned in the books, the person you see in front of you is *A. M. Patel'. I am a Gnani Purush and the One who is manifest within me is 'Dada Bhagwan'. He is the Lord of the fourteen worlds. No one has ever heard of such a manifestation before. I have never said that I am God. That would be madness. People may say so, but not I. I will say it as it is. I am a Gnani Purush and my spiritual level is at 356 degrees. I lack the four degrees in attaining keval Gnan (perfect, absolute knowledge, 360 degrees). But Dada Bhagwan within, is a different matter