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Mcans of Self-Realization a soul itself is God, whether there is one universal soul, or each soul is a different unit, whether there are things like mokşa, heaven, hell etc., whether the universe is created and if it is, who has created the universe and why ? .:.
Srimad has tried to solve this problem of an aspirant by telling him that he has to remember that scriptures contain generally two types of thoughts. One type of thoughts are metaphysical or philosophical and other type of thoughts are related to preachings for aspirants. The former type of thoughts are called by him Siddhāntabodha and the other type of thoughts are called Upadeśabodha. It is necessary that an aspirant should first well digest Upadeśabodha in his life to be able to comprehend the Siddhāntabodha. The reason for this is that the thoughts or concepts in Siddhāntabodha are matters and things which are experienced by the enlightened and described by them in their own words, as it was possible for them to explain in words. According to śrīmad one cannot experience and decide the nature of such metaphysical things because of the obstruction of one's own perverse intelligence. which does try to understand nature of metaphysical things and explain them. However, such perverse intelligence is not capable of understanding and explaining things
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