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Life And Works Of Śrīmad Rajchandra firm in the nature of the self is the true path. To intensify one's desire and craving for a state of highest peace is the religion accepted by all and one is bound to achieve the same if one earnestly desires for the same.70
He has also declared in the same place that he does not belong to any sect (of Jain or any other religion ), but he is in his soul. He means to say that he is trying to realize his soul. His firm belief is that liberation is there in the soul or rather in inner state of pure soul. He advises to forget the different faiths and systems of the world and also everything about Jain religion and only to remember and pay attention to the lives and autobiographies of the great pious teachers, who were inspired by yoga (above mentioned sādhanās)". We find numerous reflections of such thinking in his early poems also. Such impartial, unbiased view and pure love for the Truth is disclosed in a very well-known verse of Acārya Haribhadrasūri. The verse reads :
“Pakṣapāto na me vīre,
na dveṣaḥ kapilādiṣu ¡
yuktimad vacanam yasya, tasya kāryaḥ parigrahaḥ”||||
The very reason why Śrimad advocated and preached the philosophy of the Jinas is his love for the
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