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Dadashri: He has to be a Gnani Purush but it is not
enough to just give you the experience of the Self (Atma). The
Gnani Purush will give you answers to questions such as:
“How does the world run?”, “Who am I?”, “What is all this?”
It is possible to get your work done only when he gives such
explanations. But, otherwise, if you simply follow books, the
books will help you but they are not the main thing. They are
just ordinary causes; they are not extraordinary causes. What is
an extraordinary and unique cause? The Gnani Purush!
Who Can Perform the Surrender Ceremony?
Questioner: Regarding the surrender ceremony (arpan
vidhi) that we perform before taking the Gnan, would it not be
wrong to do the surrender ceremony again if we have
previously surrendered to another guru?
Dadashri: A guru does not perform the surrender
ceremony (arpan vidhi). What all should we surrender?
Everything except the Soul. So no one surrenders everything,
right? It cannot even be done, and none of the gurus would say
that. They would only show you the path. They would work as
a guide. I am not a guru, I am a Gnani Purush, and one has
to attain the vision of the fully manifested Soul. You do not
surrender to me, you surrender to the fully manifested Soul
within.
How Can One Experience the Self?
Questioner: How can one attain the knowledge of “I am
the Self”? How can one experience that?
Dadashri: ‘We’ (Gnani Purush) are sitting here to give
you that experience. Here, when ‘we’ give you Gnan, ‘we’
separate the Self and the non-Self for you and then send you
home.
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