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labor people have resorted to in order to attain the Self! People
take on such brutal and severe penance just for a momentary
glimpse of the Self. The Gnanis of the Kramic path do not attain
the awareness of the Self until the very end; however their
spiritual awareness (jagruti) remains very keen. Whereas for
you mahatmas (those who have received Self-realization), this
has become so easy and straightforward. After you attained this
Gnan in just one hour, awareness of the Self remains constantly
with you. It will never leave.
Tell me maaji (Dadashri addressing an elderly lady) if you
happen to wake up at two in the morning, what is the first thing
that comes to your mind?
Questioner : ‘I am pure Soul (Shuddhatma)’, that is the
only thing that comes to mind.
Dadashri : Otherwise people will remember worldly
things and people that are dear to them but you remember the
Shuddhatma. One can never attain the awareness of that which
is imperceptible; that is why the Self has been called alakh
niranjan (alakh – imperceptible; that which cannot be known.
Niranjan – no worldly thing can attach to it or bind it), but here
you attain the awareness of the Self in just one hour! Such is the
spiritual power of the Akram Gnani! Such is the grace of the
celestial Gods and Goddesses! Through the grace of these
beings, you are able to attain a phenomenal spiritual state in just
one hour!
An amazing path of liberation has arisen. One can only
benefit if one understands it. Otherwise one is doomed to
wander in vain!
The other path is the science of the Kramic path and this
is the Akram path. The knowledge in both the paths is that of
the Vitarag; there is no difference in the knowledge. After ‘We’
give you the knowledge of the Self, you attain the experience of