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Aptavani-6
Dadashri: Their purusharth continues, but they taste it
from their parakram.
Questioner: Parakram has not arisen within mahatmas.
Does that mean that they do not have exact purusharth?
Dadashri: All the mahatmas have purusharth for sure
but they have not come into parakram yet. Some come into
parakram by doing samayik. There is always purusharth after
You become a purush. That is a natural thing.
Questioner: There are no rules in this, are there? Many
times when I am sitting in a samayik, I simply cannot become
one with the Self. But while I am out on the road, I suddenly
become one with the Self and feel nothing but bliss. So how did
that happen? Did it happen as a karma unfolding (udaya)?
Dadashri: It comes as karma effect (udaya), and so
does the other. Both come due to fruition of karma.
Questioner: Does that mean the intent of parakram
(parakram bhaav) is a different thing?
Dadashri: Yes, parakram bhaav is different. You do not
have to do anything in parakram. The bhaav which is in the
state of the Self gives rise to parakram. Then the energy light
of the awakened Self (pragnya) does everything according to
that parakram bhaav.
Questioner: Does parakram bhaav mean gnata-drashta
(knower-seer)?
Dadashri: What is parakram bhaav? One does not have
the intent, ‘I want to come into parakram bhaav’; that is not
it. This parakram bhaav is different from the original bhaav.
Original bhaav is that which is in front as, ‘I am Chandulal.’
Parakram bhaav is alertness. For the one who has made the
decision of ‘I want to remain alert’, for the one who has become
firmly established in this decision, the energy of pragnya will