Five Agnas

Five Agnas

Protection for the newly planted seed of Gnan

Henceforth, you have to follow the five Agnas. At bedtime, visualize Dada’s face (Dada’s niddidhyasan) and keep repeating, “I am pure soul,” as you fall asleep. Doing so will nourish the seed of knowledge that has been planted during the Gnan Vidhi. The seed is now sown. The five Agnas will nourish this seed, and so it will grow and flourish. The more you follow the Agnas, the stronger the growth.

Importance of following The Five Agnas After attaining Gnan Vidhi

Questioner: All that is happening is discharge. You say that nothing is in our hands. What is in our hands? What are we to do?

Dadashri: You should obey the five Agnas.

Questioner: I understand. What else are we to do?

Dadashri: Nothing else. After this Gnan no new karmas are being charged and all the old karmas are being discharged. As time passes old karmas get discharged. You only have to follow my Agnas and do nothing else.

Power of five Agnas

If you follow these Agnas, you will be liberated. There is a lot of power in the Agnas.

Questioner: In the five Agnas?

Dadashri: Yes! These Agnas are such, that they encompass the spiritual essence of all the forty-eight Agamas (Jain Scriptures as laid down by Tirthankars). You should follow these Agnas sincerely. You should not neglect abiding by them. Abiding by the Agnas in itself is liberation. After all, whose Agnas are these?

This is the Absolute Knowledge of the Tirthankars imparted to you by and through a Gnani Purush. The Agnas of a Gnani Purush is liberation in itself! A Gnani is a person without intellect (buddhi - knowledge through the medium of ego); only such a person can be called a Gnani. A person who uses intellect can never be called a Gnani.

Daily routine of the Akram Path

Questioner: What should be the daily routine of mahatmas (self-realized) on the Akram path?

Dadashri: The activities relate to discharge of old karmas that were charged in the past life. There should be no attachment or abhorrence in the process of the discharge of these karmas. Even if someone slaps you, there should not be any dwesh (abhorrence). Raag-Dwesh means interference. You need to get rid of all such interferences in your path toward Moksha. Raag-Dwesh is something that you have brought along with you as old baggage from your past life. You need to empty out your ‘shop’ of all such goods and make sure that you do not stock the shop with any new goods. Of course customers will continue to come to your shop, sometimes even unpleasant ones, but you deal with all of them with equanimity. Certain customers may even do a lot of damage, but your aim should be to liquidate all your stock because your goal is not to start another business.
For one desirous of closing the shop (desirous of liberation, Moksha), I have shown the way. Follow these five Agnas. If someone robs you, don’t try to get even with him. All you need to do is to get rid of all your stock. One who desires to get rid of his stock (old garbage of karma and kashay) does not continue his business by importing any new stock (create more kashay).

Questioner: And you get all different kinds of customers!

Dadashri: Yes, in this world you will see all kinds of customers. Do not worry about getting bad customers. You need not be afraid of the customer that takes advantage of the shopkeeper down the road, because that specific customer was meant to deal with that specific shopkeeper. It was his hisaab (some connection due to previously unfulfilled karmas between those two specific parties.) Without your karmic account (hisaab), you will not run into bad customers. Otherwise people would never be free from fear of the unknown. Nothing is going to happen unless it is due to you. Whatever hisaab you have, only that hissab will come forth. That due hissab, is your vyavasthit. Nothing is going to happen outside your hisaab. If it is not your dues, if it is not in your vyavasthit, then nothing is going to happen to you.

Four pillars within Agnas

All the four pillars of Moksha are contained within these five agnas; Moksha comes with Gnan (knowledge of the real Self), with darshan (understanding), with charitra (conduct) and with tup (penance). These are the four pillars of Moksha With Gnan and its understanding, the inner character improves and results in Moksha

Through the application of Agnas, everyone will be perceived as innocent.

You need to be in the purest application of this Gnan. You will achieve this by staying in my Agnas. Just as you are the pure soul, so is everyone else. Such application of Gnan should be there. If you see any faults in others, it means you have slipped from seeing their Shuddhatma and slipped from the seat of your Shuddhatma Only by staying in your Shuddhatma seat, will you be able to see Shuddhatma in others, an not their faults. If you deal with your files with equanimity, that is also considered highest application or union with Shuddhatma Without this application, it is not possible to follow my Agnas.