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... Six faiths there are,
The pursuit of the three gems makes the atma pure and enlightened. The atma which had got stained from infinite time becomes clean. And that is the accomplishment - siddhi. There are no magical powers - labdhis to be acquired by attaining siddhi on the spiritual path. The fundamental true form of the atma is the goal to be reached.
Whatever we are today, is not the reality, it is the acquired unreal form. However well-to-do, powerful one may be, one may well carry the label of a Rich Lord, or may have attained a prestigious status in the society, it is all unreal. It is not your true form, it is not the real state. All this has been acquired several times. There is nothing new to it. What you have acquired, is also acquired by many other jivas in the universe. Whatever happiness or sorrow you found, whatever progress or decline you made, all that keeps happening and has happened in the sequence of the world. But whatever that could not be achieved in the state of the soul, doing that is called devoted practice - aradhana.
The analysis of the six padas done in 'Atmasiddhi Shastra' is only to explain the pertinence of this aradhana. This analysis is quite similar to the principles put forth by other faiths in India. Srimadji says -
षट्स्थानक संक्षेपमां, षट्दर्शन पण तेह,
H4tar 24717, SELİ SIHI TE.....88 All the postulates considered by the six faiths of Bharat, get accommodated under these six padas. Whatever is considered keeping atma as the centre, cannot be anything other than these six padas. Hence Srimadji says that in analysing these six padas, we will acquire the knowledge of the six darshanas - faiths.
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