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own whims and desires and second, worldly obligations. If one wants to avoid them, one has to follow the preachings of the enlightened.?? Śrīmad, while discussing the reasons, as to why an aspirant does not succeed in setting himself on the path of realization, says that it may happen that an aspirant had come in contact with a satpuruşa and still he did not succeed in adopting the path. The reason of such happening may be that he has exercised his valour, will power and vital force in following that path, but still he was subject to influences of some undersirable association or was contained within his own wrong notions and faith.
If one gets attached to woman and other material things even after coming in contact with an enlightened person, it means that he had not given up the above mentioned defects.80 Śrīmad has discussed the importance of satpurușa and his teaching in many ways. He says that because of the great virtues, pious acts, great knowledge, great peace, great quietude in an enlightened person, satpurușa, various inauspicious feelings vanish and auspicious virtuous feelings arise, which lead to the attainment of his nature. The preachings of the enlightened are themselves scriptures. In order to get such preachings embedded in the mind,
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