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CHAPTER-VI
ON THE PATH OF BLISS OF SELF-REALISATION
After immersing a man in the triple current of knowledge, perception and conduct, the third ladder of Equanimity-self realisation will lead him on the path of beatitude. Every worldly living being aspires to be happy. Every one at all the times wants to live pleasently, he also wishes that he may never face troubles, Even a wish of joy infuses merriment in a man's mind, then imagine how much hilarious and self engrossed shall be the experience of his pleasantry ?
But it is a regrettable position that in a very few persons is perceptible the mental inclination to scrutinize and test the reality of this happiness and know the mystery under lying there. Due to this very reason, a majority of people even aspiring for eternal beatitude are enticed away by transitory pleasures, and loiter in the lanes of adversities. It is not the thing that only the ignorant people ramble in these lanes. Even immensely learned and energetic workers go astray, who disdain self-realisation who in spite of having done everything, fail to realise 'I' in their own soul.
What is this Realization of 'I' ?
Whoever has raised the voice of-'I' alone am Brahma. I alone am Universe and I alone am everything, this voice was not of egoism, it was the voice of realization (exper
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