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Pancindiyāņi koham māṇam, māyam taheva lohanica! Dujjayam ceva appānani savvamappā jie jiyani./127
The substance, the verse conveys, is : “One should conquer senses, anger, ego ,deceit,greed and other passions.And, if one conquers those, one conquers soul and thereby conquers everything." Śrīmad says that the purpose of preachings of all scriptures,rites, rituals,vratas, spiritual knowledge, yoga, bhakti, and meditation is to know or achieve one's real nature. He further says that the bliss or the self-realization may be achieved with the help of any darśana or by following any path. It does not matter that a darśana or path is different from another. Whatever can help a person achieve his goal, is the best for him. He says that, that is, in fact, the way the souls have achieved and will achieve self-realization.
As stated above, the essence of all philosophics or systems of faith, especially those believing in soul or self is ātma-dharma and their goal is realization of the self. The prophets of the world have, through älmadharma achieved that goal and experienced that they were souls and thus realized the sat or truth, and preached the same. That sai is called by different names such as paruma sai, parama jñāna, parama prūna, sul
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