Aptavani in a book-form is the indirect medium, but the
live energy of the presently manifest Gnani Purush will touch
the heart of the reader and lead him to the portal of the right
vision (samyak darshan). This new vision of the awakened
Self, if attained through meeting the Gnani Purush, will
ultimately lead to the experience of the absolute Soul.
In this forth series of Aptavani, is presented a
collection of the spoken knowledge that imparts deep and
resolving explanations which the world has never before known
or imagined. In a simple, straightforward, plain and native
language, that has emanated from the auspicious lips of the most
revered Gnani Purush Dadashri, in whom ‘Dada Bhagwan –
the absolute Self’ became manifest in 1958.
That which the world commonly refers to as awareness;
the Gnani calls ‘sleep’. That, which is perceived as the ‘seer’,
is only the ‘scene’. The one who has the awareness that, ‘I am
aware’ is only the inanimate (non-Self) part. The Self is
completely separate from that.
There is such intense experience of oneness of the
‘relative’ and the ‘real’, that up to ninety-nine percent (almost
towards the end), the two run parallel, in which the original ‘real’
mirrors the illusory ‘relative.’ Their proximity to each other
manifests as one, until the time when the two are separated at
the final link. The secret of all of this is disclosed only by the
‘Gnani Purush’, who himself has had the experience. Only
then, one experiences the great difference between the illusory
awareness (bhrant jagruti), and the awareness of the pure Soul
(Atma jagruti).
For a long time, for the purpose of clarification, attempts
have been made to differentiate between destiny (prarabdha),
and independent effort or free will (purusharth). The difference
has already been told by the experienced ‘Gnanis.’ But because
of the prevalence of the indirect knowledge, its proper
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