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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
quarrel with each other. The king accused the scholar saying that he had not explained the text properly. The brahmin accused the King saying that the King had rot heard the Bhagavata with concentration and devotion. Fortunately, the divine sage Nārada came there just then. After finding out the cause of their quarrel, he took both of them into a garden. He tied each of them to a tree with a rope tightly ard then said to them, "You release each other." Both of them confessed that they could not release each other because both were bound. Then Narada gave them this exhortation, "Brahmajnäna is not an article, that can be sold and bought, it is a sacred one and it is a precious one. Just as one man who is bound to a tree cannot release another man who is also bound to a tree, a man who is bound by passions and desires to Samsara cannot enlighten and release another man who is also bound by passions and desires. I caused you this discomfort of being tied to trees only to enable you to realize this great truth." Narada released both of them and both expressed their heartfelt gratitude to him for having delivered them from bondage. A vital point in this story is that Narada could deliver them because he was not bound.
Oh you people! Come! Let us endeavour to get rid of the bondage of samsara. By praying to Lord Vitarāga thus, "Oh great Lord! You have attained deliverance and you can help others to attain deliverance. Being yourself free you can free others."
Thus glorifying Lord Vitarāgā let us act according to his precepts and attain moksha. The Lord said, "With the help of the light of knowledge, you should dispel the darkness of delusion, desire and passion. You can attain salvation by destroying your passions and desires. Salvation brings eternal, endless, ineffable felicity and there is no sorrow in that ideal state. There is only joy, the joy of the highest kind. There is only peace-peace of the highest kind. There is only felicity the quality of which is sublimity.
Let us walk forward on the golden steps that leads to salvation. If your aim is to attain salvation, you will attain it.
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