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The Self Realization
No disease for the Soul is so deadly as its Self-delusion. The only expert physician who can cure it is the living enlightened Guru. The only restriction to observe for curing the disease is to act wholeheartedly according to the guidance of the expert physician, the enlightened living Guru, and the only medicine to cure the disease is thinking and meditation on the nature of the Self as advised by the Guru.
To realize the Self, to liberate one's Soul, one should combine thinking, meditation and knowledge of the Self with appropriate conduct in strict accordance with the Guru's guidance. With the removal of ignorance by knowledge one gets free from doubts and becomes fearless. But this is difficult of practice. Very few people have anxiety about their Self. Very few realize that they have to go a long way to remove their Self-delusion and ignorance and attain knowledge and experience of the eternal Self. Normally people are very anxious of their bodily health. They would undergo any sacrifice to cure their bodily diseases. But they have to be taught to realise that while bodily diseases may at best destroy their present life, the spiritual disease (Self-delusion and ignorance) is deadlier and with its destruction the anxiety of the body will be totally gone.
जो इच्छो परमार्थ तो, करो सत्य पुरुषार्थ । भवस्थिति आदि नाम लई, छेदो नहि आत्मार्थ ॥१३०॥ Jo icchho paramartha to, karo satya purushartha, Bhavasthiti adi nama lai, chhedo nahi atmartha. 130 If you hope for Soul-Reality, True self-effort you must begin, Depending on fate, destiny, Destroy not self-searching, I mean. 130
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