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over again. But when it comes to turning the rosary you are
slack. That is why the Lord says, “Where I am involved, if you
have flaws on the outside, you will also have flaws on the inside.
You will experience anxieties day and night.”
Akram Vignan : Bhakti begins after liberation
Questioner : Why have the saints always asked for
bhakti? Why did they not ask for liberation (mukti)?
Dadashri : If you look at it, there is no difference
between bhakti and liberation (mukti). Bhakti is what these
mahatmas here are doing of the Gnani Purush. It means to have
absolute humility for the Gnani Purush and bhakti is to please the
Gnani and acquire his approval (rajipo). Rajipo does not mean
that you have to massage his feet or ritually worship him, but it
is to maintain absolute humility towards Him. Here these
mahatmas (those who have received Self-realization) are not
looking for liberation; all they want to do now is bhakti of the
Gnani Purush. I have given them liberation within an hour; do you
now have to ask for liberation from me (addressing a mahatma)?
Questioner : No Dada.
Dadashri : Once I have given you liberation, what more
do you need? Only once you have to ‘ask for Rs. 99,999.99’!
Liberation has been granted to you, so what else remains now?
Only bhakti! This is the ‘Akram path’ and the world has the
‘Kramic path’. The Kramic path means first you have to do
bhakti, and then you will achieve liberation, whereas in the
Akram path, there is liberation first and then there is bhakti.
Today, people go to do bhakti without liberation, so how would
that bhakti last? How can they do bhakti when they have a
thousand different kinds of worries and anxieties within? Those
who attain liberation first, are sitting here blissfully. You have to
sit blissfully just as these people here. Why are they sitting so
blissfully without any desire to leave? It is because they are