Who Am I

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

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Who Am I?
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Who Am I?
PATH Questioner: Does one receive Akram Vignan because of one's past lifes' acts?
Dadashri: Yes, that is the only way one is able to encounter me. It is because of the collective punyas of millions of lifetimes that one finds such a path.
All the other paths are called Kramic. The Kramic path is a relative path. Relative means that it provides worldly benefits, taking you very slowly towards liberation, one step at a time. In this path one has to purify one's ego through renunciation and penance. Once the ego is pure, it is at the threshold of Moksha. The ego has to be purified from the weaknesses of anger, pride, illusion, lust and greed. The Kramic path is a very difficult path. In the Akram path, the Gnani Purush purifies your ego for you. He takes away both your ego and your attachment. Then you attain the experience of the pure Self. Only after you experience your Self, your work is done. WHY HAS THE AKRAM PATH COME
INTO EXISTENCE? The Kramic path is a comma' and the Akram path is a 'full-stop'. This Akram path rarely manifests itself. The main path to Moksha is the Kramic path, the step-by-step path. Sometimes when confusion prevails in the traditional Kramic path, and if people are ready for liberation, they will find salvation through a Gnani Purush.
Many teachers and gurus have asked me why the Akram path has manifest through me. I have told them that the Kramic path has broken down. The entire foundation of the Kramic path has decayed. They wanted proof of this, so I told them
that the Kramic path is only viable when thoughts, speech and action are in unison with each other, (i.e. when you say exactly that which is in your mind, and your conduct is in agreement with your mind and speech). They agreed that at the present time there was no oneness of thought, speech and action. That is why the Kramic path is fractured.
If you chew a whole stalk of sugarcane you may get two segments with good sugarcane juice. But if the entire stalk were rotten, would you try to chew it or return it?
Questioner: Return it.
Dadashri: You would tell the vendor to take it back and to give it to somebody else. You would tell him that you have eaten a lot of sugarcane. This kramic path has become like the rotten sugarcane, but what can one do? People have become puzzled and confused. They no longer care about such things. All they care about is how to enjoy the pleasures of the world.
If one has unity of one's thought, speech and actions, then one can progress in the Kramic path; otherwise the Kramic path is closed.
THE AKRAM PATH At the present time, the entire foundation of the Kramic path is decaying. Consequently, the Akram path has manifest. The Akram path does not manifest independently. It will take up to three thousand years for the Kramic path to repair itself. Until then, the Akram path will exist. After the Kramic path is restored, the Akram path will no longer be required. This Akram Vignan will not last too long. It has appeared in place of the Kramic path.
Questioner: Are you constructing an elevator?