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CHAPTER 9
NATURE OF LIBERATION PATH
दोहा : "शिव उपाय करते प्रथम, कारन मंगलरूप ।
विघन विनाशक सुखकरन, नमी शुद्ध शिवभूप ॥" (Meaning:While making effort for liberation, I first bow to the pure self-soul – the monarch of liberation who is the cause of benediction, destroyer of impediments and the cause of bliss.)
Now the nature of liberation path is being described. Firstly the nature of wrong faith, etc. which are contrary to liberation path have been explained. Knowing them irksome and cause of sorrow, one should give up them by treating them renounceable. And in the middle portion, the nature of preachings has been described; knowing it correctly, one should understand the true sense of preachings. Now the nature of right belief, etc., which constitute the path of liberation are being explained. Knowing them blissful and the cause of bliss, one should accept them by believing them to be worth adopting; because the weal of soul is liberation only; the duty of soul is to make effort for its evolution only. Therefore, the same is being preached here.
Soul's weal is liberation only. “The weal of the soul is attainment of liberation only and nothing else”- how does such ascertainment take place – the same is being described:
The soul is found in various states of attributes and modifications. Amongst these, whatever else be the state, no harm or benefit is caused to the soul; harm or benefit is caused to it only by the state of misery and happiness. Here no logic or example is required because it is clearly perceived.
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