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Who Am I?
Who Am I?
PATHS: KRAMIC OR AKRAM
The Gnan of the Tirthankars is Kramic Gnan, i.e. The Realization is achieved gradually, one laborious step at a time. One goes higher with each step one takes. As one's parigrah (feelings of this is mine') diminishes, one progresses farther spiritually towards Moksha. This may take innumerable lifetimes.
But this is Akram Vignan! There is no need to climb the steps. One simply has to get on the elevator and go to the twelfth floor. Such is the beauty of this Akram path! One only needs to find this 'elevator and one's salvation will be at hand. I am simply a nimit (instrumental) in showing you this path or pointing you in the right direction. Anyone that boards the elevator will have all the answers. Surely one must find the answers! After entering this elevator, how does one know that one is heading for Moksha? Your assurance is that your anger, lust, greed and pride (krodh-maan-maaya-lobh) will go away. The internal suffering will go away. You will no longer experience artadhyan (adverse meditation that affects the relative self) or raudradhyan (adverse meditation causing harm to others). This will be your confirmation. Then this task is completed, is it not?
Questioner: Is the Kramic path not the main path? The Akram Marg is fairly new is it not?
Dadashri: Yes, the Kramic marg is the main path but it is grueling and it involves much penance and renunciation, etc. It entails a lot suffering in order to reach your goal or destination. One's progress is proportionately dependent upon one's degree of penance. The Kramic marg is full of penance.
Questioner: Is it true that without enduring any of the
suffering and the hardship, one cannot progress in the Kramic marg?
Dadashri: Yes. Kramic is full of both internal and external suffering until the very end. It is like purifying gold; you cannot do it without the heat of the fire (suffering).
Questioner: Are there any rules in Akram, as there are in the Kramic path?
Dadashri: No. Wherever there is a rule, it is considered to be relative. Sitting in a certain position or posture as a rule, is relative. In Akram, there are no rules. Alas, even though such an easy path to liberation exists, very few seekers take advantage of it.
Questioner: They refuse to accept that it is possible to achieve moksha without any effort.
Dadashri: Yes, they ask how it is possible to achieve something without doing anything? If I ask you to do something, how will you be able to do it, when you yourself are bound by anger, lust, greed, pride, raag and dwesh? You are the prisoner of your bondage. How will you get yourself unbound? Nowadays, nobody has the power to do penance. I am here to give you this new and simple Akram path. I am not only giving you this Akram path, but I am also simplifying the traditional Kramic marg, such that heavy penance would not be necessary.
Questioner: Will the Kramic path also become simple?
Dadashri: Yes, we will also simplify the Kramic path. The Akram path is open and available for a limited period of time. This path is very unique. It comes directly from Divine Grace. So many people were directly blessed during the time of the Tirthankars. In those times, when Divine Grace was
