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The Self Realization
By following this Gospel-cream, He has few births, no doubt indeed ! 105
One is likely to believe in a path of Soul's salvation as imagined by him to be the only path or as accepted by him as a result of his prejudices or as a result of his family training and social customs and beliefs. Accordingly he will try to emphasise its strong points and explain away its weak points, he will give his own definitions of Self-realization and Soul-saving knowledge. Such an attitude keeps one away from the vision of truth. The moment one becomes the disciple of an enlightened Guru, he should set aside his likes and dislikes, prides and prejudices and he should scrupulously follow the path of salvation laid down by his Guru. Those who will act up to the advice of their enlightened Guru and follow the path of Soul's salvation as described above, leaving aside their doubts and prejudices will be completely liberated from the worldly cycle of birth and death in a short time i.e. in the present life or in a few births. Led by one's own whims one may make persistent efforts at liberation for ages, but he will never gain the Soul-saving knowledge. On the contrary following the advice of an enlightened Guru one may attain to liberation in a surprisingly short period of time.
षट्पदनां षट्प्रश्न तें, पूछयां करी विचार ।
Cat FafTA, TE PEE 1190€!! Shatpadana shatprashna te, puchhya kari vichara, Te padani sarvangata mokshamarga nirdhara. 106 Six questions of six doctrines asked, Foundation of True Faith They lay, If mind in these is doubtless fixed, The path of freedom that's, saints say. 106
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