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Means of Self-Realization right knowledge. Right faith helps acquire right knowledge and vice-versa. However, there cannot be right conduct without achieving the earlier two, because right conduct comes as a result or as an yield of right faith and right knowledge, as is already pointed out in Śrīmad's poem “Mūlamārga'. Srimad has defined right conduct as the practice in day-to-day living and in every act (mental, oral or physical) of the knowledge and faith that one's soul is not body, mind, intelligence etc., and living as if the soul in the body is free and independent unit (dehātītāvasthā) in the living body.
Though it is said that right faith, knowledge and conduct are the causes of liberation and the three are different things from practical stand point, from metaphysical point of view soul is nothing but an integration of these three. 40 He further says that right conduct means freedom from inauspicious emotions (aśubha bhāva) and adoption of auspicious emotions (śubha bhāva). However, right conduct of higher order postulates reducing and lessening of not only external worldly acts but also internal acts, (thoughts, emotions etc). Of course, this is expected of an enlightened person only. Right conduct. being the cause of liberation, can be achieved by an aspirant by meditation and for that purpose devoted practice of meditation with full vigour
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