Dada Bhagwan (Ambalal Muljibhai Patel, also known as Dadashri) (November 08, 1908-January 2, 1988) was an Indian Spiritual personality and leader of a new religious movement. He was a native of Bhadran, Gujarat, India and inspired the Akram Vignan, a spiritual path to achieve self-realization and liberation.. he Divine Scientist of Akram Vignan - Shri Dada Bhagwan There is a constant drip of poison falling over this world, however the manifest ‘Gnani Purush’ (completely Enlightened Being), the Sat Purush (Self realized being) and the Sant Purush (saintly beings) shower the world with sweet nectar (Amee). There is a common misconception of defining the saints, the Self realized beings and the Gnani Purush as being the same. In fact, it is not so. A saint is someone who on the most part has destroyed the pollution of his knowledge and vision; who has made progress towards taking the steps to achieve the ways for self-knowledge and is helping others on that path. The Self realized being is someone who has achieved the supreme eternal truth. He has attained the ultimate soul, however he cannot help others attain the same but he can show them ways to attain it. The Gnani Purush is the highest of all beings. He is the complete, pure and the supreme unbound universal Soul. What is more He can help people attain the same state. The saints and the Self realized beings help people become free from worldly troubles but only the ‘Gnani Purush’ can help people attain the final liberation and break the cycle that perpetuates the worldly life. Simply put, the Gnani Purush can be described only as the embodied Supreme Soul. For Him, there is nothing left to be known in this universe. A Gnani is someone who does not have to read books or scriptures; He does not need to turn a rosary nor does He have to do penance or renounce anything. A Gnani is such a being who is eternally established in the Self-form as the Soul; a being whom one has never seen or heard of in the past and yet He exists in reality. He can be experienced by those desirous of spiritual salvation. The Gnani’s speech in itself is an instrument by which people with spiritual aptitude can know Him. It is a speech that emanates after touching the manifest Supreme Soul within and therefore, it touches people’s hearts and frees them from their sins, whereas the words of the others can earn people merit karmas but not destroy their sins. Where currently the Kaliyug (the current time cycle) presents itself in it’s decorated and ornamental form, those who have received the incomparable Knowledge of Self realization from the present manifest Gnani Purush, are experiencing constant one-ness with their own Pure Soul and enjoying the pomp of Satyug (past time cycle of spiritual and moral virtues). In India, Gnani's manifest inevitably. Every two to five years, there manifests a bogus person who calls himself the Gnani of scriptures, but an experienced Gnani comes around once in a thousand years. He can take spiritual aspirants in a step by step path towards Self-experience (Self realization)but he does not know what is self realisation.. He is a Gnani Purush of the Karmic path. As an exception and on extremely rare occasion, there will come in to existence the path of Akram Vignan (a non-sequential, short-cut spiritual path of Self realization), where the spiritual aspirant does not have to climb the steps but simply sit in the lift (elevator) that will take him to Self realization. The Akram path means the perfect and the complete path, where no traditional rituals of chanting the Lord’s name, penances, renunciation or any other forms of austerities are required. One simply has to know and understand the Knowledge given to him. Right and proper understanding leads to right and proper belief and the right and proper experience leads to right and proper knowledge, and the one who has known and understood will develop right and proper conduct. Such is the Akram path. Once in thousands of years, the incarnation of this Knowledge of Akram Science comes into existence in the person of a Gnani Purush. Hence the Akram Gnani Purush is unique and incomparable in the universe.