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and the dhyata. Say you want a tobacco pipe, which you have
seen in a shop. The pipe is your dhyeya and you are the dhyata.
If then you were to meditate on that pipe continuously for fifty
minutes, providing that your concentration does not break for
even a fraction of a second, you will have that pipe in your
hands within fifty minutes. Where will it come from? Do not
think about that. Such is the power of meditation. If meditation
is done correctly and systematically, then realization of the goal
is inevitable. But how can one get results when the method is
incorrect? It is even possible to attain the state of Parmatma
(Absolue-Self) through meditation. That is how powerful
meditation can be, but only if one understands what meditation
is. When this Dada bestows upon you an unprecedented state
of the Self in the time span of fifty minutes, then what else can
you not attain?
When meditation remains continuous for eight minutes, its
credit will commence accumulating and will lead to a maximum
credit of forty-eight minutes. In order to gain any credit the
duration of meditation must be at least eight minutes. Meditation
of seven minutes will not do.
Questioner : Can one attain the attributes of the Self,
attributes such as infinite knowledge, infinite vision etc., through
meditation?
Dadashri : Yes certainly, why not? You will acquire all
the attributes that you have known and meditate upon.
Is ‘God’ (Bhagwan) a name or an adjective?
Questioner : It is a name.
Dadashri : If it were a name you would have to call him
Bhagwandas or Bhagwanbhai. God (Bhagwan) is an adjective.
Just as the adjective ‘bhagyavan’ (lucky) is derived from the
word ‘bhagya’ (luck), ‘Bhagwan’ (God) is derived from