God’s Address
Where does God live? What is his address? What if you want to write to him some day, where would you address your letter?
Questioner: That I do not know but people say that he lives up there, above us.
Dadashri: So do you believe what others tell you? Should you not question this for yourself? I will tell you the correct address of God. God is in every creature, whether visible or invisible. There are infinite life forms between you and me, which are not visible even through a microscope, and God resides in them too. God resides as energy in all living beings, and within me, he is fully manifest. He is the effulgent light fully manifest within me. He is the fully manifest Supreme Soul within. There is tremendous light within. The person you see before you is Ambalal Muljibhai Patel of Bhadran (a town in Gujarat), who is a contractor by profession and that which has manifest within A. M. Patel is Dada Bhagwan. This is a tremendous and phenomenal surprise! But how are you to understand this? This body is the outer packing and the One within is God. Similarly your packing belongs to Chandulal and within resides God. The outer packing of that animal is a donkey and God is within. People are foolish when they curse a donkey if it crosses their path, but they don't realize that the God within takes note of their condemnation, and consequently they will have to endure one birth as a donkey themselves. The outer packing can be anything. It can be that of a mango tree or anything else. What do the merchants and shopkeepers pay importance to, the outer package or the goods within?
Questioner: The goods within.
Dadashri: Yes, of what use is the packing anyway? We are only concerned with the contents are we not? Some packing may be rotten or torn but the content within is pure, is it not?
From the time this Gnan manifested within me, I have not identified myself with this body of Ambalal Muljibhai even for a moment. I look upon him as my first neighbor.
Chandulal* = Whenever Dadashri uses the name 'Chandulal' or the name of the person Dadashri is addressing, the reader should insert his or her name for exact understanding.
Related Spiritual Quotes by Param Pujya Dadashri:
1) Is there no God? What is his correct address? Which street does he live in? Is he up there? There is no one up there; ‘I’ have been to everywhere. God’s correct address is God is in every creature, whether visible or invisible. God is in creature, not in creation.
2) God means the Self within, who is in the form of the absolute Self (Parmatma).
3) How many books have been written just to know a God? God is with you only.
4) God exists where there is honesty in relative interactions and where there is pure love, which does not increase, or decrease. These are the two places where God resides.
Did You Know:
1) That if God did not exist, there would be no experience of pleasure or pain for anyone in this world? Therefore, God definitely exists!
2) That there is a living Tirthankar Shree Simandhar Swami in Mahavideh Kshetra, who grants us liberation by his mere darshan because of His binding intent with Bharat Kshetra?
Glossary:
Bharat Kshetra - Name of a Kshetra, we live in this Bharat Kshetra, located in southern Jambudwip.
Dada Bhagwan - Fully enlightened Lord within the Gnani Purush
Gnan - Dadashri uses the word gnan for three types of knowledge - Gnan with capitalized 'G' is the knowledge of the Self (spiritual knowledge). The second gnan is the knowledge of cause and effects, life after life, and the third gnan is the worldly knowledge of human beings; The knowledge of the Self and of the doer through Gnan Vidhi in Akram Vignan
Darshan - Enlightened vision; Vision as the Self; Devotional viewing of God
Mahavideh - Name of a kshetra; Twenty Tirthankars currently exist there, deeming it the most sacred kshetra. A special world from where souls can attain final moksha through darshan of existing Tirthankars
Shree Simandhar Swami - Tirthankar Bhagwan traversing at present in Mahavideh Kshetra; Current Arihant
Tirthankar – The absolutely enlightened One with a human body who liberates millions; Fully enlightened being; The final embodiment of the Soul before attaining liberation.
Where does God live? What is his address? What if you want to write to him some day, where would you address your letter?
Questioner: That I do not know but people say that he lives up there, above us.
Dadashri: So do you believe what others tell you? Should you not question this for yourself? I will tell you the correct address of God. God is in every creature, whether visible or invisible. There are infinite life forms between you and me, which are not visible even through a microscope, and God resides in them too. God resides as energy in all living beings, and within me, he is fully manifest. He is the effulgent light fully manifest within me. He is the fully manifest Supreme Soul within. There is tremendous light within. The person you see before you is Ambalal Muljibhai Patel of Bhadran (a town in Gujarat), who is a contractor by profession and that which has manifest within A. M. Patel is Dada Bhagwan. This is a tremendous and phenomenal surprise! But how are you to understand this? This body is the outer packing and the One within is God. Similarly your packing belongs to Chandulal and within resides God. The outer packing of that animal is a donkey and God is within. People are foolish when they curse a donkey if it crosses their path, but they don't realize that the God within takes note of their condemnation, and consequently they will have to endure one birth as a donkey themselves. The outer packing can be anything. It can be that of a mango tree or anything else. What do the merchants and shopkeepers pay importance to, the outer package or the goods within?
Questioner: The goods within.
Dadashri: Yes, of what use is the packing anyway? We are only concerned with the contents are we not? Some packing may be rotten or torn but the content within is pure, is it not?
From the time this Gnan manifested within me, I have not identified myself with this body of Ambalal Muljibhai even for a moment. I look upon him as my first neighbor.
Chandulal* = Whenever Dadashri uses the name 'Chandulal' or the name of the person Dadashri is addressing, the reader should insert his or her name for exact understanding.
Related Spiritual Quotes by Param Pujya Dadashri:
1) Is there no God? What is his correct address? Which street does he live in? Is he up there? There is no one up there; ‘I’ have been to everywhere. God’s correct address is God is in every creature, whether visible or invisible. God is in creature, not in creation.
2) God means the Self within, who is in the form of the absolute Self (Parmatma).
3) How many books have been written just to know a God? God is with you only.
4) God exists where there is honesty in relative interactions and where there is pure love, which does not increase, or decrease. These are the two places where God resides.
Did You Know:
1) That if God did not exist, there would be no experience of pleasure or pain for anyone in this world? Therefore, God definitely exists!
2) That there is a living Tirthankar Shree Simandhar Swami in Mahavideh Kshetra, who grants us liberation by his mere darshan because of His binding intent with Bharat Kshetra?
Glossary:
Bharat Kshetra - Name of a Kshetra, we live in this Bharat Kshetra, located in southern Jambudwip.
Dada Bhagwan - Fully enlightened Lord within the Gnani Purush
Gnan - Dadashri uses the word gnan for three types of knowledge - Gnan with capitalized 'G' is the knowledge of the Self (spiritual knowledge). The second gnan is the knowledge of cause and effects, life after life, and the third gnan is the worldly knowledge of human beings; The knowledge of the Self and of the doer through Gnan Vidhi in Akram Vignan
Darshan - Enlightened vision; Vision as the Self; Devotional viewing of God
Mahavideh - Name of a kshetra; Twenty Tirthankars currently exist there, deeming it the most sacred kshetra. A special world from where souls can attain final moksha through darshan of existing Tirthankars
Shree Simandhar Swami - Tirthankar Bhagwan traversing at present in Mahavideh Kshetra; Current Arihant
Tirthankar – The absolutely enlightened One with a human body who liberates millions; Fully enlightened being; The final embodiment of the Soul before attaining liberation.
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