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The Self Realization
2. Peace or Tranquility : Feeling compassion for one's Soul, the disciple retires from the worldly life and enters into the path of the Soul's Liberation. In his life as a spiritual aspirant he enjoys peace so long as he follows his Guru's advice since it saves one from threefold worldly miseries. The Guru's advice and teachings have a wonderful healing effect on a tormented Soul. Peace is the basis of every religion. Peace means feeling tired, trying for unqualified retirement from the worldly life. The enlightened Souls regard peace as the source of all goodness and benefactions. Peace summarises the teachings of all the scriptures. To be free from the worldly attachments and to live in the Self or to be Self-composed is peace. The thought and meditation of the Self removes the Soul's infatuation and its products-attachment and hatred. Those who have understood the Self have been one with it. To leave the worldly conflicts and to be open to the Self brings peace. One can purify and pacify his mind and conscience by the teachings of the Guru.
This way the mind becomes stable and firmly' fixed on the nature of the Self. 3. Equanimity : Equanimity is the nature of the Self. To be fixed in one's Self is to be equanimous. 4. Forgiveness : Even after equanimity, some casual excitants might excite the Soul but on such occasions he pacifies excitants by forgiveness. He will not be angry though there may be a cause for it. He will find happiness. One who knows the destructive effect of anger never resorts to it. Anger results from want of proper consideration. Have a balanced mind and it will not be angry and yet it will declare the truth boldly, correctly and fearlessly. One should control his mind as he controls his servants. Forgiveness is normally maintained by one who sees his Self and that of other Souls.
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