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use the term ‘sashtaang namaskar’? Therefore, sashtaang
namaskar is when all the eight parts (all parts of your body)
touch the ground; if you do it only once with a pure heart, it is
more than enough!
Questioner: Can Gnan be sold? Many people charge
for their lectures.
Dadashri: Gnan does not exist wherever there is any
exchange of money. There is worldly gnan there, but there is no
Gnan of liberation.
Questioner: Is there a particular sequence, that a living
being having taken birth as a human will be born again as a
human, or he will take birth elsewhere?
Dadashri: When one is born as a human in India, he has
to wander around in all the four life forms. The human beings of
foreign countries are not subject to this rule (because they do
not believe in life after death). However, there are a few; there
is an exception of some two to five percent. The rest keep
progressing higher.
Questioner: Whom do people refer to when they say
Vidhata (the creator of the world)?
Dadashri: It is nature that they refer to. There is no
celestial God or Goddess by that name. Scientific circumstantial
evidence (vyavasthit) is Vidhata. People in India have decided
that on the sixth day after a baby is born, Vidhata comes and
writes an inscription about the child’s life to unfold. This is
acceptable as far as the imagination is concerned but if you want
to know the truth, then it is not so.
Questioner: Why does a nirdosh (faultless) young child
have to suffer physical pain?
Dadashri: A child has to suffer the unfolding effects of his
own karmas and his mother has to suffer through seeing him