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PREFACE
Introduction of 'The Gnani'
Thousands of pilgrims were on their way to Badrinath and Kedarnath, in India. Suddenly an avalanche occurred and hundreds were buried alive and lost their lives. Upon hearing such news many wonder why God takes the lives of those who come to worship with such devotion. God is unjust, many would say. The division of inherited property between two brothers results in one of them getting a loins share and the other one hardly gets anything. There the intellect seeks justice. They fight the issue all the way to the Supreme Court. They end up being miserable, spending most of the inheritance in legal fees. The innocent one ends up in jail and the guilty one is set free. Where is the justice? The men of principle suffer and those without principles enjoy life. The unscrupulous people enjoy the big homes and luxuries whereas those with scruples have to struggle for their daily bread. Where is justice?
Such incidents abound in life. Here the intellect seeks justice and results are misery all over. Pujya Dadashri has given the extraordinary discovery to the world that there is never any injustice in this world. Whatever has happened is justice. Nature has never deviated from justice. Nature is not a person or a God who is under any influences, Nature means scientific circumstantial evidences. So many circumstances have to be right for a task to be accomplished.
of the thousands of pilgrims why did the particular ones die. The ones who were meant to die, whose account it was to die, got their collective death in the avalanche. An incident has so many causes and an accident has too many causes. Without a pending account even a mosquito will not bite you. The punishment is the result of the past account. Therefore, the one who desires to be liberated, should understand that whatever has happened to him is just.
Whatever has happened is justice. This is the sutra of the Gnani. The application of this sentence in one's life will bring peace and especially in adverse times internal harmony will prevail.
- Dr. Niruben Amin
One June evening in 1958 at around six o'clock, Ambalal Muljibhai Patel, a family man and contractor by profession, was sitting on a bench of platform number three at Surat 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, his ego melted totally and completely. From that time, onwards he became completely detached from all thoughts, speech and acts of Ambalal and he became a living instrument of The Lord for salvation of the world through the path of knowledge. He called this Lord, Dada Bhagwan. "This Lord is fully manifested within me," he told, to all he met. Furthermore, he added that, "The same Lord, Dada Bhagwan exists in all living beings." The difference between you and me is that in me The Lord has manifested fully 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. Thus, nature offered absolute vision to the world through the medium of Shree Ambalal Muljibhai Patel.
Ambalal was born in Tarasali a suburb of the city of Baroda and raised in Bhadran, Central Gujarat. Although a contractor by profession, and married to Hiraba, his life at home and with the world was exemplary prior to his Self Realisation. After becoming, Self realized and attaining the state of a Gnani, (The Awakened One, Jnani in Hindi) his body became a public charitable trust.
Throughout his whole life, he lived by the principle
