Book Title: Philosophy and Spirituality of Srimad Rajchandra
Author(s): U K Pungaliya
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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________________ Means of Self-Rcalization hold that therer is no mokṣa in this era.śrīmad's observation on the path of liberation is very significant when he says that the path of liberation is not outside, but it is within one's soul.12 We have seen that the path of self-realization consists of right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct , which together can be called “ liberation - Out of these three, right faith is the most important, though the real test of right faith is right knowledge. Of course, only right knowledge, without right faith can lead to re-birth, which means misery and suffering and hence the importance of right faith.Śrīmad has also pointed out that purer the right faith, greater and vigorous is the right conduct, which results in greater and greater stability in nature of the soul and such full fledged stability and total identification with the soul or its nature is nothing but bliss or a state of liberation. He further says that, purer right faith leads to greater right conduct, but for purer right faith and greater right conduct, right knowledge is equally essential and important and the source of right knowledge and its real preacher are the conquerors (or the Jinas or vitarāgins) and the pious preachers, who propagate the former's preachings. Right knowledge

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