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Means of Self-Realization knowledge in the path of self-realization and emancipation. Śrîmad, therefore, says that whatever knowledge can help the aspirant achieve essence and nature of soul (ātmatva), is right knowledge and that is the path to be followed by the aspirant.28
. Śrîmad has further said that stability in right conduct-must be supported by and based on right knowledge and the only way to acquire right knowledge is to study the preachings of the passionless (vītarāga) and the pious great saints, who can explain and preach what the vītarāga have preached. Of course, in his work entitled : Upadeśa-chāyā' Srimad has again made it clear that knowledge must be based on right faith, otherwise it is of no use for spiritual progress.29 Whatever knowledge is not useful for attaining liberation, is nothing but ignorance, from spiritual point of view. Without right faith one cannot properly and usefully appreciate and comprehend the philosophical preachings of the enlightened. It is equally true that one cannot acquire right knowledge without the help of a pious teacher and it is so because such a teacher has already acquired and experienced right knowledge. It is because of the association of such teacher's .. preachings that one can get good thoughts, which produce passionlessness and they both produce right
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