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The Self Realization
can achieve liberation. A strong apathy towards the Soul's bondage is absolutely essential for the discovery of the path to liberation. The Soul's impatience for liberation is a welcome sign for its spiritual progress. One must strongly feel the loss of peace to obtain peace.
To firmly reside in one's own nature i.e. to behave as a Soul free from actions is not possible without a clear and firm conviction of the Soul's true nature. The bound Soul must realize that it is led by ignorance and actions, that it is in a state of misery and distress, that it is tormented by the cycle of birth and death. Only then such a soul will search out an enlightened Guru, and following his guidance in letter and spirit it will be enlightened to know its own nature. Then it clearly knows what is soul's liberation and the path to it. The guidance of the enlightened Guru, the disciple's implicit faith in it and his conscious effort at strict obedience to his Guru's advice definitely bring to the disciple a right understanding of the Soul's nature. In order to bring this about, the bound Soul must feel strongly uneasy at the ways of the world and it must strongly aspire for its liberation from them. The human Soul must realize the importance of the human birth as it is only in human birth that it can search out an enlightened Guru and by his help attain to liberation. Such an excellent and unique opportunity for the Soul should not be wasted away. What could not be done by the Soul in its endless past could be achieved in its human birth simply by consciously following the teaching of an enlightened Guru, who knows the path to Soul's liberation and therefore one who is capable of leading his disciple to success. Therefore once the enlightened Guru is accepted as a guide, one should devote all energies to his guidance and eventually free one's Soul.
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