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Means of Self-Rcalization yields, one can realize its importance. In part 12 of ' Upadesa chāyā', he has described right knowledge in a very appropriate manner by saying that right knowledge is that which arrests one's mind from getting involved in emotions, passions or modifications of the mind (citta-víttī) pertaining to outer or worldly things (bāhyavrtti), reduces attachment to worldly life (sanisāra), and enables to identify right things as right and unfolds the qualities of soul. Of course, right knowledge cannot be acquired without destroying or at least reducing one's attachment, aversion and delusion.35 The more free one is from these emotions, the more right knowledge one acquires. If one is free from these emotions, one does not acquire karma- bondage as his conduct is as per preachings of the enlightened. 36 Śrīmad explains the steps or stages of evolution of an aspirant in the following way, “ There is no right knowledge without right thinking, without right knowledge, there cannot be right faith or intuition, without right faith, there cannot be right conduct and without right conduct there cannot be omniscience and liberation (i.e. supreme bliss ).":37
. In his 'Vyākhyānasāra Śrîmad says that right knowledge is always accompanied with passionlessness or detachment (vairāgya) and vice-versa." If the
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