FAQ Post Gnan Vidhi

Liberation is in two stages. In the first stage of liberation, the problems and miseries of the world cease to bother you. You remain unaffected amidst any suffering and experience the state of inner bliss of your real Self (Atma). The second stage of liberation occurs when you become completely free from all your karmas; you attain moksha (liberation from the cycle of birth and death).

Upon attaining Self Realization, the two types of lighter karmas, which are in the form of veils of ignorance and are analogous to the form of 'steam' and 'water' are destroyed. However, the heavier 'ice-like' karmas, which have become solid, cannot be destroyed. You have no choice but to endure them. However, after Self Realization, you will be able to resolve all pending karmas with equanimity through the understanding and application of the Gnani's Five Agnas; the five cardinal principles you are given during the Self Realization ceremony.

One ceases to bind karma when one becomes certian about two things:

1. Who am I? (I am pure Soul)
2. Who is the doer? (Scientific circumstantial evidences are the doer)

After Self Realization...

• The conviction that 'I am pure Soul' is established.
• One starts seeing pure Soul in all living beings.
• The clarity of principle of doership is achieved.
• One ceases to bind new karmas.
• One begins to see his own faults.

Pragnya is the energy or light of the Soul; it is a 'representative' of the pure Soul. It helps us remain in our awakened state as the Soul and alerts us when we slip away from it. It cautions us against indulging in the worldly life. It's role is to constantly guide us until we attain our fully realized state of the Self (Parmatma).

That which shows one faults of others, creates restlessness, defends one's own mistakes, raises arguments, keeps one constantly in the worldly life and in mental agony for no reason is intellect.

The Pure Soul in every living being is to be seen by way of your inner vision, i.e. through the understanding of the Knowledge of the Soul, which one would attain during Gnan Vidhi. The physical part of a person is the outer 'packing' and is temporary, whereas the Soul within is the real Self and it is eternal. Conscious acknowledgement of the soul within a living being is the same as seeing the Soul.

One can term any happening as 'Vyavasthit' only after making all efforts. After making every effort, whatever result one gets in the end is Vyavasthit or 'Scientific Circumstantial Evidence'. One cannot claim that everything is Vyavasthit ahead of time, without making an effort.

'File' is a special name given to anything that draws one away from one's real Self. In reference to people, it is used for everyone with whom one has karmic connection. In a chronological order, file no 1 is one's relative self; file # 2 is your spouse, #3, #4... one's children, parents etc. The word 'File' is also referred to situations that you have to deal with.

When someone praises you or insults you and during that time you remember any of Dada's five aagnas, resulting in no change within your inner intent, then that 'file' is said to be resolved with equanimity.

You can credit the account of Pure Soul by following Dada's five cardinal instructions as much as you can, or by partaking in any activities that will help you progress in your Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) e.g. attending satsangs of Pujya Deepakbhai, attending local weekly satsangs and live discourses, reading Dada's books, watching satsang VCD of Pujya Dadashri, Pujya Niruma and Pujya Deepakbhai, by doing Charan Vidhi, by doing pratikraman (asking for forgiveness using the method as prescribed by Dadashri), doing samayik which isintrospective meditation etc.

When you go to sleep, keep reciting 'I am Pure Soul…I am Pure Soul', loud enough so your ears can hear. With your eyes closed, recall and contemplate upon a photograph of Dada or Simandhar Swami in the manner that their picture comes in front of your eyes.

One must do Charan Vidhi without fail once a day. These were Dadashri's instructions. Veils of ignorance over the Self break by doing Charan Vidhi, which in turn leads to an increase in Self-awareness.

Self-realization can only be attained through a living Gnani. Only a living Gnani can show you and guide you on the path to reach ultimate liberation. The Gnani can also help you when you get stuck along the way. This process is not possible through books. In live discourses, you can get solutions directly from the Gnani, for your problems and ways to increase your Self-awareness.

Pratikraman as prescribed by Dadashri is a three-step process that involves recalling your mistakes, repenting for them and making a firm decision not to repeat them. If you happen to hurt anyone through your thoughts, speech or actions, this process helps erase your mistakes.Samayik is an introspective meditation to find factors that hinder your Self-awareness.

At night, go over the day's events from the morning till night and check to see where you missed applying Dadashri's Five Aagnas. Check to see whom you hurt through your inner anger-pride-deceit-greed, etc. You need to see all this through introspection for 10 to 48 minutes of samayik everyday.

Pratikraman can be done at any time. Do it whenever you remember hurting someone. It is best done the instant you hurt someone. Dadashri called this 'Shoot on sight' pratikraman. You must also do pratikraman if someone hurts you. You must continue doing pratikraman until you see the other person as being faultless.

Your faults, which you have committed towards others, can be forgiven by doing pratikraman. Your faults of lighter karmas are destroyed during the Gnan Vidhi. Remaining in Dadashri's Five Aagnas and doing pratikraman can also discharge your remaining heavy karmas.

You have to evoke in your mind the pure Self within the person you hurt, recall and confess your mistake, ask for forgiveness and make a firm resolve never to repeat the mistake.

Before Self Realization, when anger used to arise, you used to harbor violent intent and a lingering connection to past events. Now after Self Realization, you no longer have violent intent and lingering effects. You may get angry but your pratikraman will start almost simultaneously.

Immiscible is one of the properties of the Soul. This property allows the Self to remain unmixable with other eternal elements. For example, if you mix oil and water together, the two will never mix or blend into each other. In the same manner, no matter how many different bodies a Soul has to endure, it never becomes one with other elements.

Another property of the Pure Soul is such that it can never hurt any living being whatsoever and in the same token no living can hurt it. The Pure Soul in others too is such that it can never hurt us. An analogy of this is fire cannot burn ice.

It means interaction with the intent that no living being should be hurt through your thought, speech or action.