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The Self Realization
and yet may not act upto it or may be sluggish about it, then to that extent he keeps himself away from liberation. Attainment of the Self consists in one's active effort to destroy the binding effect of actions.
The qualities of a true self-seeker or the Spiritual aspirant for Liberation
कषायनी उपशांतता, मात्र मोक्ष अभिलाष ।
भवे खेद अंतर दया, ते कहीए जिज्ञास ॥१०८।। Kashayani upashnatata, matra moksha abhilasha,
Bhave kheda antaradaya, te kahiye jijnasa. 108 Mark knowledge-thirst: inner compassion, Suppression of all passions four, The hope of only Liberation, Dejection of such rebirth-tour. 108
One whose spiritual enemies such as anger etc. have been gradually disarmed and are nearing destruction, one whose only desire is his Soul's Salvation and consequently one who is indifferent to the worldly pleasures and is full of sincere compassion for all living beings is the true spiritual aspirant for Liberation. Such a spiritual aspirant realises the futility of worldly joys and sorrows and knows that the worldly life has no place for abiding spiritual happiness. On the other hand, he regards the world as a source of afflictions and tortures. He decides that his Soul is unhappy with the worldly life and that he must leave it for a better spiritual life and find out the most effective way to it. This is his burning passion. A step further, a spiritual aspirant desires that all his fellow beings should also try for Liberation, renouncing like him, all the worldly pleasures.
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