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Introduction
bondage' and 'means and nature of liberation', 'stages of spiritual evolution' etc., with their counter-parts in other systems of Indian philosophy such as the Sankhya-Yoga, Nyaya-Vaiseṣika, Purvamimamisa,Vedanta and Buddhism, and shows the fundamental unity among them inspite of difference in expression. He puts Śrīmad's six tenets occurring in this work such as the soul's existence, eternity, agency and experience of karmas, liberation etc., in nutshell as ātmadṛṣṭi or ātmavāda which is essence of all systems of Indian Philosophy, except, of course, that of Cārvāka.
Prof. D. M. Patel in his introduction to the English translation of Brahmacari Govardhandāsa, observes, Ātmasiddhi Śāstra, a compact and profound composition in 142 verses of Śrimad Rajchandra in Gujarati, explains the fundamental philosophical truths about the human soul and the method of its liberation. There is no sectarianism in it. Its appeal is universal. It analyses the causes and effects of the soul's delusion and it suggests the way to dispel it and attain the state of Self-realization It is very difficult to complete one's say, in spiritual matters, in a composition, but the genius of Srimad Rajchandra has achieved it with mastery in his Ātmasiddhi.
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