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Introduction
attributes. Those attributes take firmer roots when one attains self-realization, because they get the root in the form of realization. While conceiving of having gained realization, there blazes at your internal level the fire in the form of availing worldly pleasure, there repeatedly arises the longing for being worshipped or respected and the mind gets perturbed with the slightest discomfort. How does it not come to your notice that these are not the characteristics of having gained realization? Why don't you make out that your claim for gaining realization emanates out of the desire to get reverence? First cultivate the detachment and other means at the internal level so that you can get closer to realization.”
ત્યાગ વિરાગ ન ચિત્તમાં, થાય ન તેને જ્ઞાન; અટકે ત્યાગ વિરાગમાં, તો ભૂલે નિજભાન.
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Tyäg Virag Na Chittamän, Thäy Na Tene Jnän; Atake Tyag Viragamän, To Bhoole Nij Bhän.
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Enlightenment is unattainable without having renouncement and detachment at heart; if one gets stuck with them, he would miss the Self. (7)
Explanation & Discussion: The term “renouncement' is generally understood in the sense of giving up of worldly life. Such external renouncement is useful, but it does not necessarily indicate the true sense of internal renouncement. The internal renouncement consists of giving up of the internal impurities. That can happen only with the radical change in approach. If one understands the true nature of soul, his inclination for worldly objects will begin to go down. He would realize that the external objects cannot give him the lasting
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