The language used in everyday life has prevailing meanings, but the real meaning is known from Gnani Purush where the ultimate meaning is attained. That explanation is way away from the popular meaning, but it is real and therefore touches the heart. Swa means the Self and swa-arthi really means for the Self-the Soul. The one who lives for the Self is the real selfish one. There are selfless people in this world; those who live for others, like a candle, not just for th...

It is held that a life as a human being is very difficult to attain even for a celestial being. Why? The reason for this is that salvation—absolute enlightenment and liberation is only possible through life as a human being. However, for this one must have made a meaningful goal as a human being. In the absence of meeting a true Gnani one continues to remain in agnan—ignorance of the Self and in that state one wastes away precious human life in creating and running after...

In this era, in 1958, Akram Vignan (the step-less scientific path of Self-realization) manifested within Shri Ambalal M. Patel. This made him a Gnani Purush and he came to be known to the world as Dadashri. From the moment of manifestation of the Gnan, he has remained as the Self, separate from the body, and this separation is constant. The body attained its naturalness, and He remains as the natural Self. Even while conducting worldly duties in his business he remains f...

In the worldly states of ignorance, those who do not speak any words are considered silent. Ordinary human beings are unable to refrain from speaking. For the One who is fully Self-realized, ‘I am not the speaker, this tape recorder is playing,’ is the state. Such a One is simply the ‘knower’ and the ‘seer’ of the speech. The real definition of silence is when one listens to one’s own speech. Another is when one speaks exclusively about the Self and related matters only ...

In this worldly life, as one’s intellect increases, so does one’s inner turmoil. This intellect is the culprit, which ignites an inferno in the most unexpected moments leading to overt conflicts and tension. The highly revered Gnani Purush, Dadashri, has shown the easy way to be free from all inner turmoil and external conflicts. This is the path of internal apology and repentance. If you have any problems with anybody, then bow down internally to that person and ask for...

In the current issue of Dadavani, beautiful material has been compiled in which Gnani Purush Dadashri is molds and prepares Pujya Niruma for Jagat Kalyan - Salvation of the World. This is like a sculptor Most revered Gnani Purush Dadashri had the time to create such a marvel in the living human image of Pujya Niruma. He molded her in various ways through chiseling jabs of all types necessary, which Pujya Niruma received, accepted and yielded to with grace, total surrend...

One proceeds in worldly life thinking that all those who are dear and close to him are for real and it is for their love and affection, he struggles hard in life, but in the end he finds it a betrayal. At such times, instead of coming closer to the real nature of the world, he binds new accounts of abhorrence with those who were involved in the interaction. The Gnanis however, have known this world to be selfish from a very long time. They do not get entangled in this we...

Most human beings live their life but they do not have a goal in life. Revered Gnani Purush Dadashri cautions us that there must be an aim to human life. The main aim should be to attain the knowledge of the Self and Salvation(Moksha). The secondary aim should be to spend life helping others. If nothing else is understood, then life should be spent without hurting anyone. Everything else is a waste of time and energy. Once the aim is resolved within, whether it is attain...

Conflicts continuously arise within a family between husband and wife or parents and children due to lack of understanding. One tries to improve the other by scolding. This only increases interpersonal clashes and differences of opinions. When the wife has made an error and the husband remains silent, she will feel the heat of silence. If he speaks, then it would become ineffective. To scold one for his mistake is a fault. If you collide with a wall, whose fault is it...

All human beings are living their life, but without having made any decision about the goal of life, one goes through their whole life.Instead, one binds the new karma for doing more of the same in the life to come.Money comes in this life as a result of merit karma performed in the past life. The purpose of this life is to attain liberation after attaining Self-realization. If one realizes this then one would start paying off the accounts one by one, clear them all and ...

When one surrenders to the One who is fearless, then one becomes permanently fearless. The wrong beliefs that have taken hold from infinity is the reason for fear arising in some worldly interactions from time to time. In this the Gnani Purush establishes the right vision and understanding, ‘You are pure Soul, Chandubhai is separate,’ and then where is the existence of fear? As long as any kind of ignorance exists, there will be effects of fear. As each belief stemming ...

In worldly life, each individual has to play different roles at different times for e.g., parents with their children, husband & wife, younger people with elders, boss with a subordinate, teacher & student, etc. If we classify all these relations in short, then interaction between superior & underhand [subordinate] becomes apparent. One who looks after his underhand can be referred to as a superior. To carry out interactions that hurt those dependent on you or to scold t...

After receiving Knowledge of Self, one attains state as the Self. Thereafter, in order to attain final liberation, all one needs is to exhaust his prakruti. To exhaust prakruti means to adjust one’s prakruti in a way suiting to others. Daily we take adjustments for so many things, don’t we? Now we should take adjustments with living beings too & become adaptive. For this, if we identify other person’s prakruti, then we can easily take adjustments. When we adjust in every...

From an enlightened being’s perspective human life is a systematic series of separate circumstances. All circumstances are in form of effect, however due to ignorance, egoism & intellect one has attachment-abhorrence which gives rise to new circumstances. After attaining Knowledge of Self, ignorance is removed however antahkaran (internal functioning mechanism in every human being composed of the mind, intellect, chit & ego) remains. Now it is imperative to know how to r...

Is there anything that is essentially required to complete any task? There are two virtues required: sincerity & morality. Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan says, “If these two things are present in this era of time cycle, then that is more than enough. Even if one of them is present, it will indeed take one to final liberation.” What is meant by sincerity? To remain sincere to one’s own self, to remain sincere to things he is decided on. A sincere person would never go against h...

Upon attaining Knowledge of Self from the Gnani Purush & with His grace, even sublest ego gets destroyed. So, the ego which binds karma is destroyed & discharge ego which suffers karma remains. This discharge intellect & ego are non-living but nevertheless their effect sometimes results in daily worldly interactions in form of anger-pride-deceit-greed. At that time, because awareness does not remain one becomes affected. However, if he uses the supportive knowledge, ‘Die...

In this era of time cycle, environment in all four directions is engulfed in fire of sexuality. Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan reveals the reality of pleasures related to sexuality, through it, not only awareness of true happiness arises but also awareness that there is actually no happiness at all in sexual pleasures that were believed due to societal influence & ignorance of Self arises. The distinct experience of Self in this very body can be attained only by practicing pur...

How can those who have received Self-realization on Akram path know whether or not they are progressing? Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan answers this in just one sentence, “See whether interference (dakho) arises within you or not.” Everywhere one looks, people only continue to interfere. Then, how can one’s progress happen? Everyone has come together due to bondage of attachment-abhorrence created in past life & everyone has certainly brought his own karmic account. Then why s...

The Lord has said that, “In the current era of the time cycle, there is no unity of thought-speech-action and that is the reason why one cannot attain liberation from this era of the time cycle and from this location.” But that does not mean that path to liberation is closed, it is indeed open, but via Mahavideh Kshetra (one of the 3 regions in universe where human beings reside). Through Akram path one can attain Knowledge of Self & also attain a state whereby only one ...

Discretion is to differentiate essence from non-essence. In today’s families, root of all burning questions is lack of discretion & humility. Whether in home or outside, there is divisiveness due to differences of opinions, a sense of this is mine & that is yours, stubbornness exists and, in doing so, we consider ourselves to be intelligent! But in reality Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan says that, “An intelligent person is one who finds a ‘safeside’ everywhere, within the home...