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of them can know this. The following two sentences that have come forth from Dadashri in English: 1. “The world is the puzzle itself.” 2. “God has not created this world at all, there is no one as God up above.” The above sentences depose ‘God’ from the status of being the ‘creator of the world’! These two sentences drive away the wrong notion that falsely accuses Ishwar, Bhagwan, Allah or God, as being the creator! What is the foundation on which this worldly life carries on, life after life? The illusion, the wrong belief of ‘I am Chandulal’ (reader insert their own name instead of ‘Chandulal’) is the basis that perpetuates the worldly life. All interactions of this worldly life occur on the foundation of the false basis of this vision, knowledge and experience. This false belief establishes (pratishtha) and creates a new causal body for the next life (pratishthit atma), and that is the foundation on which this world exists. Dadashri is the only one who, for the first time clarifies the nature of the worldly soul (pratishthit atma). What is religion? That which brings forth ‘results’ is called religion. When anger, pride, deceit and greed progressively decrease and eventually become annihilated, that is religion. What is the meaning of doing darshan (devotional viewing of God), listening to religious discourses, doing introspective meditations (samayik), doing pratikramans (apology coupled with repentance) when not a single such fault decreases in one’s entire lifetime? How can that be called religion? There are two types of religions, a relative religion and a real religion. Relative religion is the religion of the mind, religion of speech, and the religion of the body. The other religion, the real religion, is the religion of the Self, that is the religion of the 13