Introduction to The ' Gnani Purush '
On a June evening in 1958 at around six o ’ clock , Ambalal Muljibhai Patel , a family man , a contractor by profession , was sitting on a bench on the busy platform number 3 of Surat ’ s train station . Surat is a city in south Gujarat , a western state in India . What happened within the next forty-eight minutes was phenomenal . Spontaneous Self-realization occurred within Ambalal M . Patel . During this event his ego completely melted and from that moment onwards he became completely detached from all Ambalal ’ s thoughts , speech and acts . He became the Lord ’ s living instrument for the salvation of mankind , through the path of knowledge . He called this Lord , Dada Bhagwan . To everyone he met , he would say , “ This Lord , Dada Bhagwan is fully manifest within me . He also resides within all living beings . The difference is that within me He is completely expressed and in you , he is yet to manifest .”
Who are we ? What is God ? Who runs this world ? What is karma ? What is liberation ? Etc . All the world ’ s spiritual questions were answered during this event . Thus nature offered absolute vision to the world through the medium of Shree Ambalal Muljibhai Patel .
Ambalal was born in Tarsali , a suburb of the city of Baroda and raised in Bhadran , Gujarat . His wife ’ s name was Hiraba . Although he was a contractor by profession , his life at home and his interaction with everyone around him was exemplary even prior to his Self-realization . After becoming Self-realized and attaining the state of a Gnani , ( The Awakened One ), his body became a ‘ public charitable trust .’
Throughout his whole life he lived by the principle that there should not be any commerce in religion , and in all commerce there must be religion . He also never took money 6