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Solitude Amongst Crowd Leads To The Explosion Of
Gnan
Questioner : The direct inner light that you experienced
at Surat station, did it occur suddenly on its own?
Dadashri : Yes, it happened suddenly. I was sitting on
the bench and it was very crowded but this happened all of a
sudden.
Questioner : What happened after that?
Dadashri : After that I saw everything completely and
everything changed.
Questioner : Yes but at that time the people around
were the same people, were they not?
Dadashri : Yes, but after that I could see the external
packing (bodies) of people as well as the internal content, the
pure Soul within. There are so many varieties of packing but the
content is the same. Therefore, the entire world appeared
completely different to me.
Questioner : Were you able to carry out your worldly
obligations after Gnan?
Dadashri : Yes, and beautifully at that. Previously the
ego used to ruin my worldly interactions and work.
Questioner : In one of the spiritual song it is written:
‘Solitude amidst crowds and awareness of the Self amidst a
noisy environment filled with hustle and bustle’, can you explain
that?
Dadashri : ‘Solutitude amidst the crowd’, means that
man cannot experience solitude in a solitary environment because
of the mind. That is why solitude is experienced amidst a crowd.
Then, bliss of the Self arises in a noisy environment’. There was