Questioner: In this Akram path, once a person reaches the seventh floor, can he drop down to the fourth or the fifth floor?
Dadashri: No, he cannot come down. But if a person wants to deliberately ruin everything and fall, then who can stop him? Otherwise, no one can take him down against his wishes. Moksha should be attained here only. We do not want deferred moksha, on “credit”. Moksha means the feeling of liberation. You do not have any worries, nothing affects you, and there is no one superior over you; this is what you will experience. This will come into your experience. Without the experience, it is futile. Anything without the experience will be muddled. You need “cash”. So “this is the cash bank of divine solution”.

Questioner: Life is short of years, and the road to moksha is long. But since finding this Akram, I feel so much joy.
Dadashri: This is something that never happens, but now that it has, just get your “work” done. Of course, there will be great joy. Even I felt such great joy from the wonderful Gnan that manifested in me. It gave rise to tremendous siddhis (special energies)! This is because there is nothing in this world that I have a beggarly desire for (bheekh). I did not have any bheekh for respect (maan), for money, for fame, for sex, nor did I have any beggarly desire for disciples or of building temples. I did not have beggarly desire of any kind in this world. This is why I attained this state! Still, it is ‘scientific circumstantial evidence’. Now, it is on account of this state that I am in, that you are able to attain the very same state. You become like the one whose niddidhyasan (envisioning) you do.

Questioner: Is it because of a connection from the past life that one attains Akram?
Dadashri: This is the only way through which you are able to meet me. This meeting with the Gnani Purush happens as a result of the unfolding of your merit karma (punyas) of infinite past lives.

All others are considered Kramic paths. The Kramic path is the ‘relative’ path. ‘Relative’ means that it yields worldly fruit, and takes you ‘step by step’ towards moksha. Through renunciation and penance, one has to eventually purify the ego; thereupon you will arrive at the gate of moksha. When you have cleansed the ego of all its anger, pride, deceit, greed, sexuality and all worldly desires, the gate of moksha will open to you.

The Kramic path is a very difficult path indeed! And here, on the Akram path, the Gnani Purush purifies your ego for you. He takes away your ego and your mamata (‘My-ness’), so then, what else remains? Then you experience your Self. Your work is done, only when You have the experience of the Self.