From A M Patel to Gnani Purush Dada Bhagwan - The Biography

1. If you can destroy enmity by letting go of your money, then do so.
2. The key thing is to live life without conflict.
3. Penance has to happen within.
4. Why do people suffer so much misery needlessly? There is no misery and yet they are suffering so much. All their suffering will disappear when they get rid of their misunderstanding.
5. It is not the worldly life that obstructs liberation, it is the ignorance of the Self that does.
6. It is attachment that is the cause of the worldly life, not the ego.
7. Ignorance (worldly life) does not have to be studied; it comes naturally. Spiritual knowledge has to be acquired.
8. The scriptures are not complete. Only a Gnani has complete knowledge. The scriptures only show the direction.
9. The one who has no ownership of the mind, speech or body is considered the emperor of the universe.
10. Lord Krishna has said that a Gnani Purush can destroy all one's bad deeds in the fire of knowledge. That is what I do and that makes one worry free.

1. If you do not have any conflict-laden intention within you towards anyone, then neither will anyone have the same toward you.
2. It is all in the mind. Just because people believe something should be done in a certain way, they think it becomes ruined if anything is done contrary to the way they do it. Nothing is ever ruined. Everything is made of the same five elements- air, water, fire, earth and space.
3. Akram Vignan is the internal science, which takes you to your eternal bliss. Therefore this is also known as the Science of the Self.
   The other is the science of the external, the non-Self. It gives transient and temporary happiness. The external science perishes
   ultimately, whereas the internal science is eternal.
4. This Akram science is the collective science of all the past twenty-four Tirthankaras. This science is now the final opportunity for those who were not able to attain the Self when they were in the presence of the twenty-four Tirthankaras.

Then after 1958, after Gnan, I told 'A.M.Patel' to purify all his mistakes of contempt he had for others. I told him to apply the 'soap' of pratikraman and cleanse everything. That is what 'I' did. I recalled every individual, all my neighbors, my aunts and my uncles and all my relatives. Contempt was directed towards everyone. I washed off all those mistakes.

Questioner: Did you do pratikraman in your mind or inperson?

Dadashri: I told Ambalal Patel that I could see where he had done wrong to others and that he needed to wash away all those wrong doings. I showed him how to do it. I told him to recall all his misdeeds; for example if he had chided and verbally abused Chandubhai all his life and had been contemptuous towards him. I described it all to him in details. He should do his pratikraman in the following manner: He should say: 'Dear manifest pure Soul of Chandubhai that is separate from Chandubhai's mind, body and speech and all karmas! I ask You for forgiveness for all the faults caused against Chandubhai. I do this with Dada Bhagwan as my witness. I vow never to repeat those mistakes'. I told Ambalal Patel to do this. If you all were to do this, you would notice a change of expression on the face of the person for whom you are doing pratikraman. As you do pratikraman here, the changes will be visible at the other end.

Questioner: How could you read without a book, Dada?

Dadashri: I would read without the book. I would visualize the written form: 'Dear Lord' and then I would read it. Recalling and memorizing involves the mind, whereas reciting is mechanical and frees the minds. When the mind is free, it wanders. 'Dear Lord', 'Dear Lord' 'it' keeps saying this mechanically, and the mind becomes free to wander out. The nature of the mind is such that it memorizes what you feed it frequently and thereafter it becomes mechanical. In all this I had adopted the technique of visualizing each and every word, 'Dear merciful Supreme Lord, what can I do? I am full of infinite faults.' I would see each and every word including the comas, exclamation marks and the capital letters. Reading this way is my greatest discovery. I teach others to do the same.

Thus Discovered God

One has been learning the same thing over and over again for infinite life cycles and then he or she forgets; a veil of ignorance covers it all. Ignorance (worldly life) does not have to be studied; it comes naturally. Spiritual knowledge has to be acquired. I realized this at the age of thirteen because I had a very thin veil of ignorance over me even then. My math teacher told me to find the smallest indivisible number, which was present in all other given numbers (lowest common denominator) i.e. find the smallest indivisible number which could divide all the other given numbers. When I was young, I used to talk about people as 'numbers' and therefore this suited me. From this class assignment I discovered God, because God is indivisible and is present in all.

Set Up Counter Pulley This way

My revolutions of thought processing were very high. The laborers have fifty revolutions per minute, whereas I have one hundred thousand per minute. So how much difference is there between the laborers and me? And when you say something to those with lesser revolutions, it takes a while for them to understand and react. They do not understand even simple talks about worldly dealings. So you have to explain things to them in a way they will understand. I used to accuse them of being useless and not very smart and would lose my temper. Later I realized that it was the difference of revolutions that was responsible for my inner frustrations and therefore it is my own fault for seeing deficiencies in others. So I started to apply a 'counter pulley'. An engine of three thousand revolutions per minute will destroy a pump that runs on fifteen hundred revolutions per minute and therefore you have to use a counter pulley if you want to run the pump using the engine. Both will work fine despite the differences in the revolutions but you have to place a counter- pulley between the two in order for the pump to receive the cycle of fifteen hundred revolutions. Do you understand this concept of a counter-pulley? I used the same concept when talking to other people with lesser revolutions so that they would understand what I was saying. Doing this stopped me from losing my temper.

Interactions Without Attachment And Involvement

One has to take care of worldly obligations such as weddings etc. I meet those obligations and so do you, but you fulfill your obligations by becoming engrossed in it whereas I do so while remaining completely detached from within. So all you have to do is change your location, (i.e. come into your real Self), nothing else.

Deep Introspection Before Gnan

Questioner: You must have done a lot of introspection and deep thinking before your enlightenment.

Dadashri: There is nothing in this world that I have not thought about. That is why this Gnan manifested. By the time you speak two words, the whole poem; is analyzed by me. With five thousand revolutions of thought processes per minute going on within me, I can extract the essence of any scripture, within two minutes. The scriptures are not complete. Only a Gnani has complete knowledge. The scriptures only show the direction.

I Remain as The Self: Patel does the Vidhis For Salvation

Most of the time 'I' remain as 'the Self'. The relation I maintain with this body is that of a 'neighbour'. Only on certain occasions, I come into this body. When one remains as the Self, nothing can affect the freshness. I have never slept at night. I may doze off once or twice for about fifteen minutes but the rest of the time only the eyes are closed. Because I am hard of hearing, people think Dadaji is asleep. I have to perform a lot of vidhis so I remain in the Self and A.M.Patel does the vidhis. Day and night he is performing vidhis for the salvation of this world.