Aptavani-2 239
the Gnani Purush shows you how to do the darshan. Otherwise, people do not know how to do darshan. The Gnani Purush is both: the form( murta) and the formless( amurta) and that is why through his darshan you attain the fruits of both worldly as well as spiritual prosperity. It requires merit karma( punya) of countless past lives to attain the darshan of the Gnani Purush. A Gnani Purush will manifest once in thousands of years. Amongst such Gnanis, this Gnani Purush is unique because He is the Gnani of the Akram Path! Here, one is not required to do any penance, repeated incantation of the Lords’ name( japa), renunciation of anything( tyaga). This is a path where one attains liberation without exerting any effort whatsoever. One attains both worldly as well as spiritual prosperity. Here service of the Gnani Purush is simply maintaining absolute humility. Does the Gnani Purush have a need for anything? He wants nothing worldly. Offering a flower or even a petal with humility is the service to the Gnani. The one who has worldly obstacles may garland the Gnani with flowers, by doing so the obstacles will be removed. The Lord has allowed both internal worship( bhaav puja) as well as worship through offerings( dravya puja). If you pluck a flower for your own enjoyment, you incur liability. But if you pluck a flower to give as an offering to the Lord, then the reward will be greater. Internal worship leads to worldly and spiritual prosperity. It will even take you to moksha along with all the worldly splendors. Those who are not Self-realized have to do rituals of worship( dravya puja) and the Self-realized need only the inner worship through bhaav. However, in the current era of this time cycle, it is not possible to attain final liberation from this planet of ours, there still remain two or more life times and therefore one should do both( dravya puja and bhaav puja).
During the time of Lord Mahavir these two words, abhyudaya( improved worldly interaction and prosperity) and anushangik( spiritual prosperity leading to liberation) were in