Rajgeeta English Translation and Comentry on Atmasiddhi Shastra

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, Manu Doshi
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Mission

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all faults and is unoscillating, pure, immaculate, conscious, unique, unalterable, intangible, and innate”. In the Letter of Six Fundamentals (Appendix-II), the state of liberation has been described as under.
“The soul is described as being Kartä of material Karma and thus subject to the consequences. Those Karmas can, however, be terminated as well; because even if the prevailing defilement etc. are very acute, they can be reduced by discontinuing their practice, by staying away from their contact, and by calming them down. They are reducible and can be destroyed. The state of bondage thus being destructible, the pure nature of soul, devoid of the bondage, is the state of liberation.”
Of the three types of activities of the soul described in the third Fundamental, the second one associated with defiling instincts results in the bondage of Karma. The worldly soul is used to indulge in anger, arrogance, etc. whenever the circumstances arise. Such indulgence can be reduced, if one tries to calm down the defilement by cultivating the sense of forgiving, modesty, etc. Thus the defiling instincts can go down by averting the same and by avoiding the repetition.
What can be reduced can also be destroyed. If the soul stays perfectly vigilant, it can avoid new bondage. Since the old Karmas are automatically stripped off after extending their consequences, its bondage can come to an end. The soul acquires the embodiment in order to bear the consequences of its Karma. If there is no bondage of Karma, there would be no need for embodiment. Such a pure, unembodied state of the soul is liberation. In that state the soul ceases to be Kartä of any Karma, because being fully enlightened, it does not indulge in any sort of
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