Friday, October 3, 2008

Inner Peace

What can give you everlasting inner peace from Money?, Fame?, Success?, Support of Family?,Love?, Comfort?, Truth?, Honesty?, Rituals? We follow good or bad ways to achieve all of these things……Do you think all this can lie with you forever and bring inner peace?

Everlasting Inner Peace can be achieved from an everlasting thing….. The only everlasting thing in this world is your own soul. Achieving the constant awareness of your soul will bring inner peace throughout your life.

The Gnani Purush (enlightened one) says in order to attain inner peace; you have to first know your true Self. The Self can only be known when the Gnani Purush graces you with Self realization. The Soul is the true Self. The Soul itself is peace and inner bliss. 

Generally for inner peace people set out to control and still the mind. The Gnani says the mind is not a thing that can be controlled. The mind by nature is restless; it is physical and it is like a machine.  So how can you still and control that which by nature is restless?  There is inner peace only when you come into your own natural Self.   
 
As far as the mind is concerned, in order to understand it, you have to know its true nature.  The mind can only be contained through Gnan; 
knowledge of the real Self. When you realize your true Self, you become enlightened.  The mind will only submit to a Gnani i.e. to the one who is Self realized. A Self realized person has the experience of being separate from the physical complex of the mind, body and speech. This physical complex is the relative self and it is inanimate. The real Self, the Soul is sentient, eternal and omniscient. Knowledge is active; it has the power to keep the Self and the non-Self separate.  

After Self realizatopn all activities of the non-self complex will continue as before but because of your awareness of being the real Self, you will be able to remain separate from inner turmoil of worries and anxieties. The universal knowledge the Gnani gives you will come into your experience as you follow his five major directives and other axioms like ‘Adjust everywhere’, ‘Avoid conflicts’, ‘Whatever happens is justice’ and ‘Fault is of the sufferer’. Thousands of people who have attained Self realized are testimonials to the inner peace they feel by simply remaining within the realm of their real Self. The Knowledge of the Self has the power to keep one in inner peace amidst all trials and tribulations. His inner enemies of anger, pride, deceit, greed, attachment and abhorrence become feeble and ineffective. Not only that, but there is natural and spontaneous forgiveness for one’s adversary. Inner peace is absence of anger, pride, deceit, greed, attachment and abhorrence, but the bliss of the Self is a state for which there are no words.  It is the nectar of pure being-ness. One simply has to come into this state and follow the Gnani’s directives.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

God's Address


God's Address
What if you want to write some day to God? Where would you address the letter? People think he lives up there above us, but have you questioned this to yourself, do you believe it? Dada got all these answers in the process of his self realization. He found the solutions to such questions. God resides as energy in all living beings, within dada he is fully manifested, enlightened. Dada explains, God is in every creature whether visible or invisible. God is within every human, animals, birds, insects, plants etc. So when we hurt someone, we are hurting the God within him too. So you don’t want to hurt anyone.

Monday, May 19, 2008

What is liberation?

Liberation is freedom from all bondage of karma. Liberation is to have no superior above you and no subordinate below you. Liberation is to experience your true Self.
For infinite lives we have been held captive by the misery and suffering of this world due to our own karmas. Liberation is freedom from all these worldly miseries and suffering.
There are two stages of Liberation:The first stage of liberation must be attained here and now.In this stage, there is the experience of freedom from within. There is inner peace, despite adverse external worldly circumstances. This state is liberation from the effects of all worldly sufferings and miseries. There is a sense of neutrality towards all one’s problems and suffering. In fact a state of samadhi prevails even in the midst of suffering imposed by others or adverse external factors.
Also in this first stage of liberation, there is complete freedom from the bondage of new karmas. This is the kind of liberation one must strive for and such a state of liberation is possible today, through Akram Vignan!
The second stage of liberation (Moksha) is freedom from the cycles of birth and death. This final liberation is achieved when all karmas that weigh the Soul down, good and bad are completely discharged.



How can liberation be achieved?
True liberation can be achieved only by acquiring the knowledge and a true understanding of who you really are; the pure Soul (the Self). The enlightenment of the Self opens the path towards ultimate liberation. This enlightenment of the Self can be achieved through the process of Gnan Vidhi, which is a spiritual and a scientific process that is conducted with the grace of the Gnani Purush Dadashri, through the current self realized Gyani Pujya Deepakbhai Desai.
What should be the goal of human beings?
Liberation should be the only goal of human beings. How much longer do you want to keep wandering aimlessly? You have done only this for infinite lives. You have not left any place to wander.
Why did you have to suffer such endless wanderings? It is because you have not known your true identity; you have not known the answer to ‘Who Am I?’ Should you not know your real Self? In spite of your extensive wanderings of countless lives, you still do not know who you really are. Is making money your only goal in life? Should you not be making an effort towards your liberation? Is there not a need to become independent? How long can you remain in such bondage?
No Effort Required For Self-Realization
You can only attain liberation at the hands of a Gnani Purush, who is liberated himself. Only the one who is free can free others. The Gnani Purush Dadashri used to say “Come and get your Liberation from me”. However people are very skeptical; “How can anybody give us liberation without any effort on our part?” they ask. Contrary to all the traditional paths that require a life of strict discipline and austerities, this path of Akram Vignan mandates no pre-requisites on the part of the seeker. Everything is done by the Gnani Purush and His grace.
Experiencing Liberation (Moksha) In Your Daily Life
Is such freedom or liberation experienced while one is living or does this freedom come after death? What is the point of having freedom after you are dead? This is how people become conned into promises of Liberation (Moksha) after death and become trapped. You should experience liberation right here and now. Otherwise how can we be sure whether there is such a thing as Liberation?
Liberation (Moksha) after death is like borrowed Moksha. One cannot depend upon things that are borrowed. You need to have Moksha in your hands, like ready cash. You should be able to experience Moksha while you are alive.
So in reality, who is it that attains Liberation (Moksha)?
The one that is bound and the one that suffers from being bound is the one that seeks liberation. It is the ego that suffers the pain of bondage, so it is this very ego that wants to be liberated. However unless ignorance about one’s real Self is removed, the ego cannot be liberated. This ignorance is lifted in the Gnan Vidhi and the ego is liberated.
Only Gnan Can End All Misery
This world is trapped in the ocean of suffering. What creates this suffering? It stems from the ignorance about the identity of one’s real Self. All suffering in this world is because of this very ignorance. This ignorance leads to relentless attachment and abhorrence, the consequence of which is nothing but relentless suffering. Only Self-realization can cure this suffering, there is no other remed