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The Self Realization
All experience that passions bind, Their antidotes as forgiveness, Make one free from that bondage-kind, No doubt there is, it's common sense. 104
By anger etc. the soul is bound by actions. By forgiveness etc. the Soul is freed from the bondage of the very actions that is to say that anger is stopped or controlled by forgiveness, pride by humility, deceit by frankness, greed by contentment, likes and dislikes by a spirit of unconcernedness etc. This is the proper method of removing the binding effect of the actions. That way lies freedom and salvation, and this is or can be the matter of everybody's experience. Anger, infatuation, etc. can be controlled and removed. One who stops the binding effect of actions paves the way for a state of complete freedom from actions. This is or can be experienced here and now in this world. Then where is the ground for doubt regarding the way of Soul's Salvation ? In order to destroy the Kashaya and No-kashaya i.e. the Charitra Mohaniya Karma one should not indulge in anger, pride, deceit and greed. In short, one should develop a life burning with a spirit of non-attachment and indifference to all worldly pleasures. To some extent this practical method of Self-improvement is a matter of expreience of every human being. Once the right path is decided, one should start acting up to it, and not remain in an unhappy state of doubt and indecision.
छोडी मत दर्शन तणो, आग्रह तेम विकल्प ।
कह्यो मार्ग आ साधशे, जन्म तेहना अल्प ॥१०५।। . Chhodi mata darshana-tano, agraha tema vikalpa, Kahyo marga a sadhashe, janma tehana alpa. 105 If one gives up self-guiding whim, And blind religious persuit, creed,
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