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Appendix I Self-realisation
37. Determines thus and tries to find, The proximity of true Teachers; No ideal else that eats the mind, The soul alone for all soul-seekers. 38. See seekership in soul-compassion, Suppression of all passions four; The hope of only liberation,
Dejection of such rebirth-tour. 39. Unless one reaches such a state, No company of teachers good; Nor soul-suffering gets a gate,
Cannot attain the freedom-road. While one comes up to such a state,
The sermon of the saint awakes; The inner-thought that is good fate, Soul-seeker's sleep so deep it breaks. 41. With inner-thought, self-knowledge shines, That knowledge delusion roots out; The topmost state the seeker climbs, Thus gets the salvation, no doubt. Six facts I say in this Gospel,
A dialogue between the two; To stir the inner thought so well,
For bringing home the path so true. 43. The soul exists, see it eternal,
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Accepts bondage, receives the fruit; It can be free, take means devotional, Ignorance is the bondage-root. 44. Six subjects or six schools of thought, Are here described as seers great; In abstract scriptures strictly taught,
For understanding soul concrete. The pupil doubts the soul's existence,
Is out of sight, its form unknown; In any way no experience, No-where is soul, cannot be shown.
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