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Books of Akram Vignan of Dada Bhagwan
1. Who Am I?
2. Generation Gap
3. The Essence Of All Religion
4. Science of Karma
5. Anger
6. Worries
7. Adjust Everywhere
8. Avoid Clashes
9. Whatever Happened is Justice
10. The Fault Is Of the Sufferer
11. Pratikraman
12. Non-Violence: Ahimsa
13. Pure Love
14. Harmony In Marriage
15. The Flawless Vision
16. Aptavani - 1
17. Brahmacharya: Celibacy Attained With Understanding
18. Autobiography of Gnani Purush A.M.Patel
19. Death: Before, during & After...
20. Money
21. The Current Living Tirthankara: Shree Simandhar Swami 22. Noble Use of Money
23. Life Without Conflict
24. Spirituality in Speech 25. Trimantra
Introduction to The 'Gnani Purush'
On a June evening in 1958 at around six o'clock, Ambalal Muljibhai Patel, a family man, a contractor by profession, was sitting on a bench on the busy platform number 3 of Surat's train station. Surat is a city in south Gujarat, a western state in India. What happened within the next forty-eight minutes was phenomenal. Spontaneous Self-realization occurred within Ambalal M. Patel. During this event his ego completely melted and from that moment onwards he became completely detached from all Ambalal's thoughts, speech and acts. He became the Lord's living instrument for the salvation of mankind, through the path of knowledge. He called this Lord, Dada Bhagwan. To everyone he met, he would say, "This Lord, Dada Bhagwan is fully manifest within me. He also resides within all living beings. The difference is that within me He is completely expressed and in you, he is yet to manifest."
Who are we? What is God? Who runs this world? What is karma? What is liberation? Etc. All the world's spiritual questions were answered during this event. Thus nature offered absolute vision to the world through the medium of Shree Ambalal Muljibhai Patel.
Ambalal was born in Tarsali, a suburb of the city of Baroda and raised in Bhadran, Gujarat. His wife's name was Hiraba. Although he was a contractor by profession, his life at home and his interaction with everyone around him was exemplary even prior to his Self-realization. After becoming Self-realized and attaining the state of a Gnani, (The Awakened One), his body became a 'public charitable trust.'
Throughout his whole life he lived by the principle that there should not be any commerce in religion, and in all
