FOREWORD
Published in this book is the real Vision, about the original
properties of the Atma and other eternal elements. This Vision
has emerged from the speech of the Gnani Purush of Akram
Vignan, who came to be known to the world as Dadashri. The
book is in two parts. In Part I, the seekers pose many questions
like, what is Atma? What is it like? Etc, to the Gnani Purush,
who gives them complete and satisfactory answers.
In Part II, the Gnani addresses the fundamental question,
Who Am I?
The reader-questioner, in his fervent desire to gain the
Knowledge, is paving his way by asking questions like: How can
I attain this Knowledge? How do I recognize the Self? How do
I attain Self-realization? Etc...
Starting out with the doubts about the Atma’s very
existence, one asks, what is the Atma? What is it like? What
does it do? What is birth and death? Who takes birth and dies?
What is karma? What are the four gati (realms of existence)?
By what means does one secure one’s place in these gatis?
What is moksha? What is Siddha gati (Final Liberation)? What
are: pratishthit atma, mishra-chetan, nischetan chetan,
ahamkar (ego), and all its resultant effects (vishesh parinam)?
The answers to all these intricate questions have been disclosed
here.
What is jiva (living entity; an embodied self)? What is
Shiva (realized Atma)? What is dwaita (dualism)? What is
adwaita (non-dualism)? What is Brahma (Supreme Self)? What
is Parabrahma (Absolute Self)?
The dictum, Ekoham Bahusyam, ‘I am the One, and I
became many.’ The omnipresence of Atma, the presence of
God in every particle, the meaning of the Vedas and Science etc.
– Are all truths of Vedanta that will open up here.
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