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ASPIRANT'S GUIDE
ORDINARY AND MIDDLING SUCCESS The ordinary person of the world leads his life, subjecting himself to birth, growth, continuation of the family, old age and death, the same way as an animal lives and ends its life. By following these stereotyped processes in life, one misses the golden opportunity to attain the eternal bliss and freedom, which is attainable only through human birth.
Some noble persons improve upon this conventional norm in that they do not think only of themselves, but they also care about how they can be useful and helpful in advancing the happiness and prosperity of other people. Being inspired by such a sublime motive, they make sincere efforts for progressive development with a view to really and successfully accomplish the goal of human life.
Thus they lead a simple, contented, meritorious, well-regulated and just life. They actively participate in noble tasks, charitable plans, and other similar humanitarian projects for the welfare of the other human beings and animals.
Today, such noble persons are rarely seen. This is indeed unfortunate.
If such persons intend to make their lives really successful, they should cultivate a sense of subtle discrimination. For the cultivation of this sense of discrimination, the chief means is a well-planned association and affiliation with the noble, the wise and the spiritually enlightened ones.
THE HIGHEST SUCCESS A person who desires the bliss of self-realization, is really a great and enlightened person. He desires nothing else. If he does desire anything, it is true happiness for all the other living beings of the universe. Such bliss of the self can be acquired only through self-knowledge.
The basic means of acquiring this self- knowledge is to be noble and virtuous and to listen attentively to the preachings of the enlightened saints. One should then make constant efforts to mould all the processes of one's routine life in such a way that a personality dawns in oneself which is divine, impressive, pleasant and self-sufficient. To accomplish success in this task is the greatest heroic deed indeed in this world. This is because
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