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the empire on his eldest son Bharat. Emperor Bharat became
tired of fighting battles and his life in the palace with his thirteen
hundred queens. So he approached Lord Rushabhdev and
asked for diksha and moksha. The Lord said to him, “Who will
take care of the empire if you too leave the empire? Therefore,
you will have to take care of it, but I will grant you ‘Akram
Gnan’, whereby you will not lose your moksha even if you fight
battles or rule the empire with your thirteen hundred queens.”
The Lord bestowed upon him an astonishing Gnan (knowledge).
That verily is the Akram Gnan. And this Gnan, the Gnan of Lord
Rushabhdev is the Gnan ‘We’ bestow upon you in just one hour.
‘We’ grant you this very Gnan and place it in the palm of your
hands! After Gnan you can continue to live your worldly life, get
your children married and do everything. You do not have to
attain anything new nor renounce anything. Whatever needs
renouncing, ‘We’ do it for you. ‘We’ make you renounce your
attachment and ego and help you attain the state of the Self.
Nothing remains to acquire or renounce after that. The ego ‘I
am Chandulal’ is removed and is replaced by the state, ‘I am a
pure Soul’, and all that needs to be acquired and renounced is
accomplished in this.
Emperor Bharat had employed servants twenty-four
hours a day. They would ring a bell every fifteen minutes calling
out, “Bharat beware, beware, beware!” Upon hearing this, if the
emperor were lost in the relative world, he would immediately
come back into awareness of the Self. But today how can you
afford to hire servants when you yourself are working for minor
wages? This is why ‘We’ establish within you, a ‘servant’ that
will stay with you twenty-four hours. This servant will alert you
every moment of the day. ‘We’ establish the force of pragnya
(direct light of the Self) within you and it will constantly keep
knowledge (Gnan) separate from ignorance (agnan).
One does not have the understanding of, ‘Who am I?’ He
knows he exists (astitva) but he does not have the awareness