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What does it do there?
It enjoys its natural bliss, remaining engrossed in its own pure nature. It attains the eternal bliss.
Liberation is the absolute freedom from birth, old age, death, diseases and miseries for ever.
What are the means of liberation? Right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct are the means of liberation. What is the order of their attainment? Right faith - Faith in reals, truths.
Right knowledge - Knowledge of reals as they are. Right conduct - Manifestation of non-attachment. What is the self-discipline one should follow for the attainment of liberation? One should practise five vows, cultivate ten meritorious qualities, control the activities of mind, speech and body, practise penances, so on and so forth.
Intense desire for liberation, performance of good wholesome acts, subsidence and destruction of passions, and practice of universal love qualify one for the journey on the Path leading to Liberation.
The ultimate, foremost and the only goal of human life is the attainment of Liberation.
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