Rajgeeta English Translation and Comentry on Atmasiddhi Shastra

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

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Sixth Fundamental-Path and Means of Liberation
Whichever are the causes of bondage, they constitute the road to bondage; the state that uproots those causes constitutes the path of liberation and the end of embodiment. (99)
Explanation & Discussion: If something is to be accomplished, one has to avert the factors that might be coming in the way. The bondage of Karma operates as an impediment to the attainment of liberation. It is therefore obvious that one needs to avert the factors that cause the bondage.
Wrong perception, absence of restraint, indolence, defiling instincts and undue exercising of body, mind, and speech are the five main factors that lead to bondage. Of those five factors, wrong perception is the first and foremost. It does not allow the worldly soul to look to its true nature. That wrong perception is removed with the emergence of right perception. It can arise by destruction of three subcategories of wrong perception and by overcoming four intense categories of anger, arrogance, deception, and greed, which are the infinitely lasting defilements. Since right perception cannot emerge so long as these seven categories prevail, one should try to get rid of the same in order to gain the right perception.
Thereafter one has to adopt restraints in order to overcome the other categories of defilement and avert indolence to the extent possible. That can also become helpful in regulating his physical, mental and verbal activities. All these factors can be brought under control by enlightenment and the endeavor in light thereof. As such, the enlightened state and the right endeavor constitute the path of liberation. That leads to the end of the cycle of birth and death.
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