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## Friend's Perspective: An Analogy of the Target of an Arrow
(161) It is like the target of an arrow! (3) Or if you have found a Sadguru, but your father does not have the same qualifications, then it is like not getting a peg. It is like what happens when you sleep through your wedding!
And another thing to understand is that the target of an arrow is one. If the arrow goes off-target, crooked, up or down, it does not hit the target, it goes astray, it goes amiss, or it hits multiple targets, like a widow with many husbands, but it does not hit the one desired target. Similarly, in the pursuit of liberation, there is only one target, one goal. And that is the attainment of the pure soul, or liberation, which is the only goal. Therefore, the yoga, the action, that leads to liberation is the only successful one, all others are unsuccessful. Or it misses the fruit of liberation and leads to many fruits, like wandering in the four states of existence. Thus, there is unity in the disease, action, and fruit that are certain, and there is multiplicity in the disease, action, and fruit that are uncertain.
One says, "The seeker performs various actions, but the fruits are not seen, the fruits are not seen, the seeker performs various actions, and he wanders in the four states of existence...like a sharp sword."
- Shri Anandghanji
Thus, the yoga that is in pursuit of the one goal, the action that is performed in pursuit of that goal, and the one fruit of liberation that is attained, these three are certain. But if there is no yoga in pursuit of the one goal, if there are various actions with multiple goals, and therefore various fruits, like wandering in the four states of existence, then these three are uncertain. And this awareness of the goal comes from the association of a Sadguru, a virtuous person. Therefore, recognizing the true Sadguru is the cause of the cause, and is certain. Serving the virtuous Sadguru, devotion, etc., is the action that is certain, and attaining liberation as a result of that is the fruit that is certain.
"When a being recognizes a wise person, it is like an endless chain of anger, pride, delusion, and attachment falling away, and it becomes like a person who is being tested. As the being recognizes the wise person, it begins to lose its attachment to opinions, stubbornness, etc., and its mind turns back to its fatherland. It feels indifferent to worldly things, or it feels disgusted. x x x The being..."
"Those who are foolish, great, heroic, and have not seen the truth, their actions are impure, their actions are unsuccessful. Those who are wise, great, heroic, and have seen the truth, their actions are pure, their actions are successful."
- Shri Suyagadaanga Sutra (For liberation - see - Shrimad Rajchandra, Letters, 391. Notes on teachings 32)