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Chapter 14: Guru's Explanation of Liberation
Explanation & Discussion:
The pupil had pointed out that as the worldly soul has been wandering since infinite time, it is not possible to visualize the end of that wandering. The Guru explains that infinite wandering has occurred, because during that entire time the soul has been living with a sense of good or bad. If it perceives some object or situation as good, it gets attached to that; and if it considers it as bad, it resents the same. This amounts to indulging in craving and aversion, and that has led to its wandering from birth to birth.
If the soul now realizes that attachment as well as resentment are not in tune with its true nature and are the causes of continuing birth and death, it would change its attitude. It would cultivate a sense of detachment. Than it would not react to any situation with attachment or resentment and would remain equanimous in every situation. Thus it would not incur new bondage. Such equanimity leads to the state of liberation.
દેહાદિક
સંયોગનો, આત્યંતિક વિયોગ; સિદ્ધ મોક્ષ શાશ્વત પદે, નિજ અનંત સુખભોગ.
Dehädic Sanyogano, Ätyantic Viyog; Siddha Moksha Shäshvat Pade, Nij Anant Sukh Bhog.
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