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The way of liberation are those that are the causes of bondage. Destroy them and that is the way to liberation--the end of earthly bondage.
rāg dves ajñan e mukhya karamno granth thāya nivytti jehthi te ja mokşno panth
Attachment, hatred and ignorance—these three are the principal knots of karma bondage. Cut them and that is the way to liberation
ātmā sat caitnyamaya sarvābhāșrahit jethi keval pämiye moks panth te rit
The Soul is ever-existent, pure consciousness and beyond controversy. Realise and that is the way to liberation.
Elsewhere he writes,
ātmabhrāntisama rog nahi sadguru vaidya sujān guruājñāsama pathya nahi ausadhi cintan dhyan
There is no disease like (Self-Signorance. And no physician, like a true teacher. No prescription like his express direction and the medicine is introspection and meditation.
In fine, need we add that Rajchandra was a real dehātita (free) who was encased in the deha (mortal frame) and at his hundredth birth anniversary we bow our head a million times in homage to him by uttering his own words :
deh chatā jeni daśā varte dehātit te jñāninā caranmā ho bandan aganit
I bow my head a million times at the feet of the wise who though encased in this body are really free.
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