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The Self Realization
Panche uttarathi thai, atma vishe pratita,
Thashe mokshopayani, sahaja pratita e rita. 97 Convinced you are of five replies, The same way means you shall know soon, An answer comes, the doubt soon flies, The way to freedom is a boon. 97
May you be assured that you shall know from me the sure means to Soul's liberation and so your sixth and the last doubt will be easily dispelled as in the case of your first five doubts. The Self in you will as a rule realize and assent to what I say about the path of Souls liberation as it has so done in the case of your previous doubts.
कर्मभाव अज्ञान छे, मोक्षभाव निजवास ।
अंधकार अज्ञान सम, नाशे ज्ञानप्रकाश ॥९८॥ Karmabhava ajnana chhe, mokshabhava nijavasa, Andhakara ajnana sama, nashe jnana prakasha. 98 The bondage-cause is self-ignorance, Self-steadiness is freedom-cause, Ignorance is like darkness, trance, The knowledge-torch brings it to pause. 98
Ignorance of one's real nature is the cause of Soul's bondage and actions. The Self-equipoise of the Soul is the cause of its liberation. Ignorance is destroyed by knowledge as darkness is dispelled by light. The light of the real nature of the Soul will destroy the darkness of Soul's ignorance
The Soul must decide that its true nature is quite different from that of the body and the worldly objects, that ultimately it has to settle in its true nature finally renouncing all wanderings in the not-self. Knowledge is
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