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ignorance, and leads on the path of self-realization. In the same context he has said that to be in constant touch of pious literature is also satsanga as it is as good as to be in company of a pious person (satpurușa).47 In one of his letters, he says that satsanga is invaluable and unparallel in this transient life.48 He says that liberation is in one's hand, but one has not achieved that stage only because in limitless past, one did not, either qualify himself for that or he did not come across a pious teacher.49 According to him an aspirant should, wholeheartedly, be the devotee of a teacher and remember his life and study and brood over his qualities. He should seriously study secrets of his acts, mental, oral or physical and follow him in all his activities. Whatever such teacher, who is a jñāni himself, has loved in his heart, and accepted as good and useful for achieving liberation, are real secrets and the aspirant must follow them and this is the advantage of getting a satguru: The importance of pious teacher is expounded in Suyagadanga as follows:
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Evam matta mahantaram, dhammaninama sahiya bahu jana guruno chandanuvattaga, viraya tinnamahoghmahiyam.51
It means the aspirants, knowing that good of the
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