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The Self Realization
Who put forward the subject-cause, And leave the auxiliary one, In delusion they firmly pause, And can't attain the perfection. 136
If a disciple leaves these instrumental causes for the Soul's enlightenment and liberation, thinking that the material cause (Upadana karana) of enlightenment and liberation is there in him and it will manifest its nature to him at some time or other and that he should therefore neither think of the other enlightened Souls nor should he follow their advice, he will never attain Liberation and on the contrary he will entangle himself more and more in ingorance and Self delusion.
The scriptures do not describe the material cause (Upadana karana) of Liberation in order to negate the instrumental causes and by not invoking the Self, the material cause, even the securing of the correct instrumental causes is unavailing for liberation. Therefore on obtaining the correct instrumental causes of Liberation, the disciple should employ them in awakening the Self in him - the material cause of Liberation and he should never give up Self-effort for Liberation, This is the proper object of the scriptural description of the Material cause of Liberation.
Even in the presence of the instrumental causes one should be constantly open to the Substantial cause, the Self. The idea is that at no stage of the search for the Self one should be idle or careless. The seer strongly insists that the scrupulous adherence to the Guru's advice is absolutely useful at every stage of Self-realization. One who dispenses with his Guru and tries to attain Liberation purely by his own efforts never attains Liberation, because there is none to correct him in his mistakes. As a result he follows the wrong path
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