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Introduction of 'The Gnani'
PREFACE Avoid clash, if only this much is absorbed in one's life, then one's daily life will be filled with peace and harmony. In addition such a person will attain liberation without any obstacles. There is no dispute about this.
Thousands have experienced enlightenment by following this cardinal sentence of The Akram Vignani Pujya Dadashri. Their life has become filled with peace and joy and they have become the pilgrims on the path of liberation. To attain such a state all one has to do is to make a firm resolve to avoid clash at all cost. No matter how persistent the opponent who clashes I will not clash. This is the resolve. Simply this much resolve within a person will result in a spontaneous inner intuitive approach, which will guarantee his liberation.
When you walk about at night in your house in darkness, what happens if you run into a wall? Are you going to kick the wall and shout, “Why did you come in my way? Get out of my way. This is my home." But instead how wisely do you move about groping to find a door to exit. Why? This is because you know that if you do not give in you will bang your head!
A king walking along a narrow street will have to give way to a charging bull. Can he say to the bull, "Get out of the way, I am the king of this area?" In such instances of inevitable clash even the king of kings gets out of the way of a charging bull. Why? Avoidance of injury and clash is the aim.
These simple examples are given to make you understand that all people who come to clash with you are like the wall or the bull. Therefore, if you want to avoid clash, wisely get out of the way.
Avoid clash in all situations of life. Clash free life is a life of liberation.
- 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 that there should not be any business in religion, but in all
