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I am the Soul
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so many ways in which charanakarananuyoga has been descirbed.
Thus, by offering a beautiful collection of all four anuyogas in this Shastra, Srimadji has guided jivas with varying ability, on the true path. After offering the wonderful explanation to the doubts raised by the disciple, the Gurudev says the last words of welfare and settles into a state of samadhi -
निश्चय सर्वे ज्ञानीनो, आवी अत्र समाय;
धरी मौनता एम कही, सहज समाधि मांय
O Child! Whatever I said until now is not something of my own. I have only said what the great sages with infinite knowledge have said in the past, what the sages say at present and what the infinite omniscient supreme souls to be in future, will say. All sages offer the same path for attaining the soul, and none other. Nothing short or nothing more than this, and nothing opposite either. For एक होय त्रण काळमां परमारथनो पंथ the path for supreme attainment is the same at all times - past, present or future. No change comes into the path of supreme attainment due to changes in substance, region or time. It is the same as it is. It will remain the same. That is why Gurudev says in the gatha that this is the inference of all sages. There can be no difference ever in it.
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In practice too, it is said - सो ज्ञानीनो एक मत अने एक अज्ञानीनो सो मत - ' a hundred sages have the same one opinion, while one moron has a hundred different opinions'. All the sagacious people in any field, at any time have the same opinion about life, about practice, about ethical values, about principles, or for that matter about any subject that applies universally. That is to say there is no difference of opinion about vyashti dharmas or samashti dharmas. But one ignorant person will have many opinions on the same subject. What he says now, he will say the same with an altogether different sense, a little while later. But the sages never change their opinions.
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