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74 Aptavani-2 Questioner : Dada, will this path of Akram continue in your absence? Dadashri : This Akram path will last for a couple of generations after ‘we’ are gone. (Dadashri came forth with these words in 1974. Later in 1977, he said that the Akram Path would continue for as long as there is a presence of true seekers of liberation in this world). After that, things will be the way they were. Nevertheless, ‘we’ will be instrumental in raising the Kramic path to newer heights. There will be new scriptures; everything will be new. Things will not be in the state of ruins as they are today. This is the Akram path. Therefore, within just one hour, the Gnani breaks your belief of the worldly life as being the reality and establishes it in the actual reality of the Self. That is why, Kavi has written: “Never has there been knowledge like this in a million years. Forgotten was this real knowledge, never spoken of before.” This has never happened before and that is precisely why this path is such a wonder. And if in this path one attains the ticket of liberation, then his work is done. This path is for those with a lot of punya. Otherwise even after taking countless taunts and sufferings from mother-in-laws and husbands, liberation is not possible. Liberation is not that easy. It is only because there is a presence of the Gnani Purush that it has become so. The scriptural writers have emphasized and praised in glorious terms the Gnani Purush as the giver of liberation. ‘We’ are not the Lord of salvation; ‘we’ are merely instrumental in the process, and those who have the punya will reap the benefit without doing anything. This Akram path is the result of their own good deeds, otherwise where can one even dream of an Akram path? Only later, when people read about Akram Vignan in the history books, will they wonder whether