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The Self Realization
The path of freedom, find at once, If they fall off, leave no traces. 100
The fundamental knots of bondage and action are three-attachment, hatred and ignorance. That by which these three knots can be loosened and destroyed is the path to liberation.
Infatuated behaviour of the Soul due to its attachment and hatred and wrong understanding of the nature of the Soul or ignorance of the Soul's real nature are together the fundamental source of all actions. The chief cause of Soul's bondage is the Soul's feeling of oneness with its actions. Actions of the past life may fructify in the present life but if the soul develops attachment to them it gets further involved in the cycle of birth and death. If the Soul develops non-attachment and equanimity or indifference to them the knots of actions get gradually loose and it is freed from them. It is also freed from fresh actions as it is non-attached to all that is the not-self.
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सत् चैतन्यमय, सर्वाभास रहित 1 जेथी केवळ पामिये, मोक्षपंथ ते रीत 1190911 Atma sat chaitanyamaya, sarvabhasa rahita, Jethi kevala pamiye, mokshapantha te rita. 101 The soul that's living, conscious, beauty, Quite free from all deluding views, That leads to perfect purity, Serves for the means of freedom huge. 101
The Self or the Soul is an eternal indestructible substance, and its fundamental characteristic is sentience. It shines by its own light (knowledge) and illumines all other objects around it. The way by which this absolute pure nature of the Soul can be realized
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