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Means of Self-Realization such preachings therefore, is that if one reduces one's worldly activities and possessions, such reduction will automatically reduce one's involvement with worldly affairs and help increase thinking about soul, which will help one acquire self-knowledge, which consequently will in turn help unfold one's real nature. Unfoldment of real nature which is equal to getting freed from all sufferings, amounts to liberation.65 Here again he says that he does not make any difference between puruśottama (God), satguru and saint. They are one and the same for him.66
7. Description of a Sadguru
Srimad, describes a satpuruşa as one whose mind is under his control, and does not fluctuate, one in whose mind roots of passionlessness have grown, one who is free from the cause of mental distress, one who forms opinions and viewpoints after considering and respecting all other viewpoints and aspects and whose mental state is very pure. He holds that it is such a person who is capable of becoming a sadguru.67 Śrīmad has also described an enlightened person or a satpuruşa as a person who is always with and brooding over his self. Though he has to suffer and bear fruits of his past life (prărabdha), such a person is, in fact, free or
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