Questioner: What is the proof of Enlightenment through Akram Vignan?

Dadashri (the Gnani Purush): At present you say you are Bakulbhai (Name of the person). This awareness and belief stays with you constantly in your consciousness. Does that belief ever leave your mind? It stays does it not? It is there during all your activities, whether you are standing, sitting, eating, drinking, even sleeping or when someone insults Bakul; the moment Bakul's name is heard, you automatically stand up. That is how deeply it is engrained within you.  Your response to the name ‘Bakul’ has become automatic.  In the same way, the realization of ‘I am a Pure Soul and I am not Bakul’ also has to become automatic. Then this realization will remain within you whether you are standing, sitting, eating, drinking or in whatever you do,  it will always remain in your awareness. It is your awareness. Your Soul becomes aware and you become that form. It reminds you that you are a Pure Soul.

The Method of coming into your original state

Questioner: Does one become the pure soul (Shuddhatma) by repeatedly saying ‘Shuddhatma, Shuddhatma”?

Dadashri (the Gnani Purush): Yes. You have become the Shuddhatma; you have become the pure soul. From the moment I gave you Gnan (Knowledge of the Soul) you have become Shuddhatma. In fact you always were Shuddhatma, but you were unaware of it due to your wrong belief of ‘I am Chandulal’. It is this wrong belief that shrouds your real identity. With the right belief, the wrong belief falls away.

Now that you are a Shuddhatma, why is it necessary to keep repeating it? You should repeat it because for infinite lives, you have lived with the wrong belief that you are Chandulal or Bakrul or whatever. It is this (the identification with the name) that makes you forget your Real Self. It is necessary for you to keep repeating, ‘I am a pure Soul’, in order to erase the wrong belief permanently. You have walked away a very long distance from your true Self with the wrong belief.  Therefore in order to come back to the right belief, you will have to walk and track back the entire distance. When you come back to the right place, it will no longer be necessary for you to have to repeat this. The awareness will be there without any effort.

The Atma (Soul) that I have experienced is Keval Gnan Svaroop (Absolute Knowledge; omniscient) and it exists without any dependency what so ever. When no dependency remains, the soul becomes ‘Keval’ (complete; absolute, full). That is the natural state of the fully developed Soul.  The Absolute State is achieved when no dependency remains.

Satsang with Pujya Niruma

Questioner: After acquiring self realization, is there anything that will impede our spiritual progress or make us lose our awareness of the Self?

Niruma: There are three things that are detrimental and will definitely impede your awareness of the Soul.  They are alcohol, drugs and illicit sex or sex with anyone else other than your rightful partner.  Anything else is not a problem.