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Chapter 1: Background
to further self-indulgence! It would be an attempt to overcome self-indulgence with the help of self-indulgence. That can never succeed. On the contrary, it would result in augmenting selfindulgence. It is therefore stated here that self-indulgence is likely to be doubled by resorting to other means.
સ્વચ્છંદ, મત આગ્રહ તજી, વર્તે સદ્ગુરુલક્ષ; સમકિત તેને ભાખિયું, કારણ ગણી પ્રત્યક્ષ.
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Swachchhand, Mat Agrah Taji, Varte Sadguru Laksha; Samakit Tene Bhäkhiyun, Käran Gani Pratyaksha.
Renouncing self-indulgence, personal viewpoints, and its insistence, if one acts as directed by a true Guru, that action is termed right perception, being the obvious cause thereof. -17
Explanation & Discussion:
Self-indulgence, holding one's own views and sticking to the opinions formed thereof, do not allow a person to seek right guidance. If one gives up all of them and seeks the shelter of a true Guru, such a Guru would show him the path that the worldly soul has never come across. One would then proceed on
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