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શ્લોક-૧ suffering is his lot. This verse stresses that 'right knowledge' is the only remedy. Right knowledge is attained in three stages :
(1) Right information, (2) right reflection and (3) self-experience. Of these, right information, which implies scriptural knowledge and right reflection, which involves mental activity are both indirect, Self-experience is the knowledge attained by the 'soul without the aid of either the senses or the mind, and is thus direct. 'Selfexperience' is vital because it lends the seeker the wisdom to distinguish non-living objects of the five special senses and the living soul from each other and also blesses him_with the extrasensory perception and knowledge of his previous births.
