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Śrīmad's Philosophy of Atmadharma self. It can be said that Śrīmad's Ātma-siddhi is a compendium of the science of self- realization, and Śrīmad's lucid exposition makes it very easy and simple for an aspirant who seeks self realization. It is to be remembered that it is not a learned and theoretical composition. It is based on his own experience as a practitioner (sādhaka) of self-realization. As we have stated earlier, he himself was totally a non-sectarian.2 One peculiarity of Atma-siddhi is that it does not involve any ritual, or japa or postures or such practices, except perhaps meditation, which is very much necessary for an aspirant to constantly or rather uninterruptedly remember the six tenents constituting the science of selfrealization preached by Śrimad in the said poem. It may also be stated that all systems of faith which believe in the existence of soul, and eternity of it, can believe and practise this science with great benefit.
Śrīmad composed the poem Atma-siddhi ' at the age of 29 years as already recorded, but he was brooding in his heart about the same much earlier. He has referred to the six tenets, which are the crux of the poem, in one of his letters written at the age of 23 years and advised an admirer always to remember and search them within and develop his soul-consciousness and reduce his body
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