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the Self. Beyond that, what else remains to be done? You have
to follow the Agnas (prescribed spiritual instructions after the
Gnan Vidhi) of the Gnani; these Agnas become your religion and
these Agnas is your penance. These Agnas in no way obstruct
your daily worldly life. You can live in this worldly life and yet
remain unaffected by it; such is the science of this Akram path!
This path of Akram is extremely easy, straightforward and
short. It encompasses each and every word of the vitarag Lord.
This path is a direct and experiential path and so just understand
that you can never do enough when you plunge yourself in it.
Otherwise, is there even a remote possibility of finding a solution
to dissolve the tubers and knots of the mind? There are paths
and methods, which focus on stilling the mind (ekagrata) but
none that will dissolve the mind completely. One needs absolute
focused attention to still the mind, but this also increases the ego.
Whereas, here in the Akram path, not only does the mind
become still, but the knots of the mind begin to dissolve and the
ego never interferes in the process. It is as if the ego is retired
on pension!
In the Kramic path there is a problem even if a person
overeats something he likes but not here in the Akram Path! We
do not have any such problems. For us in the Akram path, the
real dharma; the dharma of the Self has been attained (the Self),
and therefore the inner bliss abounds.
No difference has been kept in this path between the guru
and the disciple. ‘We’ have placed you on the same level as
‘us’. From the real perspective, ‘We’ have placed you on the
twelfth spiritual stage (gunthanu) next to us, and that too, in
shukla dhyan (constant awareness as the Self). On what basis
are we calling this state of ours the twelfth spiritual stage? We
call it so because you have attained shukla dhyan; you have
attained the Self! Shukla dhyan is to attain the awareness
(laksha) and a continuous conviction (pratiti) of being the Soul.