Preface
Shreeji Maharaj Himself inspired various incarnations right from Machh, Kruchh to Rama, Krishna etc. to appear on Earth to spread His glory. But common people observed their extraordinary splendour and began to worship them as God. Finally, the Ultimate Supreme Lord Shreeji Maharaj appeared on Earth accompanied by His infinite number of Muktas to establish the Sanatan Dharma of highest quality.
Those days worship of previous incarnations who appeared earlier was highly prevalent. Shreeji Maharaj incorporated all the previous incarnations in His divine form and made the living beings aware of this phenomenon through Samadhi. Thus, He established His superiority to all the incarnations. His Muktas also adopted His task as an ultimate goal of their lives. Therefore, Shreeji Maharaj assigned the task of establishing the supreme religion to His Muktas and He dissolved His human existence into His divine form - though He continued functioning through His Muktas. After the retreat of Shreeji Maharaj, the most able Anadi Mahamuktaraj Shri Abji Bapashri appeared to accelerate His mission as incarnate through will of Shreeji Maharaj. Pujya Bapashri had only one aim in life - to make the maximum number of living beings aware of Shreeji Maharaj as the Ultimate Supreme God and to help them experience bliss of unity with divine form of Shreeji Maharaj. That means to help them attain the state of Anadi Mukta. To achieve this goal, Bapashri unleashed the flow of wonderful, unique sermons, full of knowledge and wisdom.
Sadguru Ishwarcharandasji Swami was the disciple of Sadguru Shri Nirgundasji Swami who was disciple of Anadimukta Sadguru Shri Gopalanand Swami who had experienced the will of Shreeji Maharaj in its purest form.
Shri Ishwarcharandasji Swami has presented the divine speech of Bapashri in the form of books titled 'Bapashrini Vato' Part-I & Part-II, for the benefit of all. Divine speech of Bapashri used to flow continuously like a waterfall. In these speeches (His talk) various aspects of knowledge, like the ultimate divine form of God, His splendour, steadfastness in that divine form,surrenderness, ultimate experienced knowledge, various categories and qualities of Muktas, renouncement of pleasures of five senses, method of meditation etc., are interwoven.
Anadi Muktaraj Param Pujya Shri Narayanbhai Thakker, the most favourite of Shreeji Maharaj and Bapashri, has properly classified these meaningful and knowledgeable wisdom of Bapashri and presented them in a new form through this book. Here, he has classified the teachings of Bapashri subjectwise and presented them under various titles. Therefore, the book is titled as ‘Wisdom of Bapashri’ - an ethical compilation. This book has been further divided into small booklets titlewise for the convinience of readers. We have tried to publish each title seperately in the form of a small booklet.
Anadi Muktraj Param Pujya Shri Narayanbhai has obliged the Satsang as well as humanity in various ways. The whole humanity together can not reward him for the same. Today, when Pujya Shri Narayanbhai is not present in his physical form, let us thank him heartily for his great contribution. This book gives unique guidelines to the seekers who are eager to acquire the knowledge and aspire to merge with the divine form of Shreeji Maharaj.
Finally, we pray from our hearts to Shreeji Maharaj and His Muktas to bestow their boundless blessings on each and everyone who helped in publishing this book through selfless service.
16 February, 2005
Samvat 2061, Maha Sud Atham
Publication Committee
Shri Swaminarayan Divine Mission
Ahmedabad