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Means of Self-Realization no desire nor does he expect anything whatsoever.6
Elsewhere, Śrīmad has said that such satpuruşa is very very difficult to come across. For such satpuruşa, religion, that is, ātma-dharma is everything, it is his bone, skin, blood, sense, action, activity - sitting, getting up, studying, sleeping, awakening, eating, living and what not. Such a person is God in human form or a living God.69
We may find a jñāni indulging in some acts, but let us remember that his acts are the fruits of past karmas and he does not do anything of his own will or volition. as an ordinary man does and gets bound by karmabandha. 70
The whole purpose of the scriptural preachings is to teach a man to be free from attachment, aversion etc.. But it is very difficult to learn that, so long as one is associated only with the men of worldly activities and men of the worldly knowledge. Hence the enlightened have advised the importance of satsarga of a saipuruşa which helps one get disinterested in and unattached to the associations of the outward world and makes a man introvert to enable him to understand that he is not body. mind etc., but is soul and it is all powerful and capable
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