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Is it possible to absorb the lessons of personal Enlightenment without ever leaving your home environment?

Written by Dada Bhagwan

Topic: Self RealizationPublished August 7, 2023
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There are two pathways to attain spirituality:

1. The Kramic path and
2. The Akram path

Kramic path is the common traditional path where a person leaves their home environment, renounces worldly things and slowly climbs up, one step at a time, towards the ultimate goal of moksha.

The other path is the Akram path, which is an exceptional path, and is indeed a wonder, revealed in and for this present age, because on this path, you are not required to acquire or renounce anything. You can attain spirituality even when remaining at home, you are living your regular worldly life, just as Emperor Bharat did - he fought battles, enjoyed his royal life and yet attained liberation!
“As a matter of fact, the worldly life does not hinder moksha at all. For moksha, it is not the worldly life that gets in the way; it is the ignorance of the Self.”

~ Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan

On the Akram path, in just two hours’ time, we attain the experiential knowledge of the Self, directly with the Gnani’s grace!!! This process is known as Gnanvidhi, which is totally hassle-free and completely free of cost too. But yes, we need to leave our home environment for those two hours and come to the Living Atma Gnani (the Enlightened One) in order to attai
Atma Gnan i.e. personal enlightenment.

For Atma Gnan i.e. Self-Realization, we need to go to the Living Gnani!

Suppose there is an enlightened candle. If we want to light another candle with this enlightened candle, it (the unlit candle) requires to remain present where the enlightened candle is. One has to come here one to one, near the enlightened candle. When it touches the enlightened candle, it gets enlightened. Therefore, the physical presence of both (the seeker and the bestower of Gnan) is required.

And thereafter, to absorb the lessons taught by Gnani, we need to remain in his esteemed company

The Enlightened One explains:

Just like you enter in medical college, here you are entering the college of liberation. But atleast 300 hours per year, you have to spend with us. 300 hours means 12-13 days. You be in touch with us because it is given knowledge. There are so many confusions, so many beliefs we are having because of whatever we are doing since the time we want liberation.

We want salvation, so we are doing some or the other thing upto this life. Whatever you are doing with doership, it won’t help us reach to the realization of Pure Soul. You can be in satsang in touch with us. You ask, “whatever I am doing is correct or wrong, what is correct?” So we’ll then explain to you. Then, the wrong beliefs will get fractured. You get the right understanding, more and more clear understanding from this satsang. Then only, you will get more and more experience of Pure Soul.

So first, understanding should be clear. Then awareness, and then experience of Pure Soul. These are the steps.
When you remain in touch with us, you will get step-by-step awareness and further, the experience of pure Soul exactly. That’s why we always prefer that you should remain in satsang, in touch with us.

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About the Author

Ambalal M. Patel was a civil contractor by profession. In June 1958, spontaneous Self-Realization occurred withi
Ambalal M. Patel. From this point on, Ambalal became a Gnani Purush, and the Lord that manifest within him became known as Dada Bhagwan. A Gnani Purush is One who has realized the Self and is able help others do the same. Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan used to go from town to town and country-to-country to give satsang (spiritual discourse) and impart the knowledge of the Self, as well as knowledge of harmonious worldly interactions to everyone who came to meet him. This spiritual science, known as Akram Vignan, is the step-less path to Self-realization.

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